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For 17,765 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 IMAX: Hubble 3D
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,125 out of 17765
  2. Mixed: 7,004 out of 17765
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17765
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  1. Mansfield Park
    But there's little sense of a longer dramatic arc stretching across the characters: Rozema can't seem to hold a single tone for more than a few minutes, and she has too many other axes to grind besides just getting the story up on the screen.
  2. Liberty Heights
    Barry Levinson goes deep with Liberty Heights, and the result is a grand slam.
  3. Anywhere But Here
    With half a dozen roles to her credit, Portman is a natural performer who brings rough edges to any role she plays -- the movie is inconceivable without her.
  4. Felicia's Journey
    Mounted as an art film and is likely to divide both critics and the helmer's fans.
  5. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    The lack of a plausible leading lady is enough to sink what is otherwise an eye-catching, although heavily '90s-style, telling of one of history's most frequently filmed stories.
  6. Dogma
    A very vulgar pro-faith comedy rather than a sacrilegious goof, Dogma is an extraordinarily uneven film.
  7. Light It Up
    Never quite catches fire in its too-deliberate attempt to appeal to all ages and all tastes.
  8. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    Girls -- a big part of the Pokemon crowd and what makes it such a humongous commercial success -- will feel left out in the cold.
  9. The Bachelor
    A remarkably mirthless and inept romantic comedy.
  10. The Bone Collector
    Entertaining but never fully engrossing.
  11. The Insider
    A borderline pretentious, overly inflated picture.
  12. The Suburbans
    A mediocre ensemble comedy-drama that's not particularly funny, involving or even nostalgic.
  13. Beefcake
    As a mix of nonfiction and wafer-thin drama, however, it's a genial mess in which both elements emerge undercooked
  14. Music of the Heart
    A gloriously sentimental true-life drama
  15. The Legend of 1900
    The material is at heart an intimate allegorical fairy tale about rarefied philosophical concerns.
  16. Princess Mononoke
    Exceedingly imaginative, beautifully realized animated epic adventure.
  17. Being John Malkovich
    Devilishly inventive and so far out there it's almost off the scale.
  18. House on Haunted Hill
    Still nothing but a gussied-up B movie.
  19. The Best Man
    Overall, this smooth, glossy, enjoyable film showcases an impressive new authorial voice.
  20. Three to Tango
    A smart and sassy comedy with a playful sensibility and subtle sensitivity.
  21. Bats
    Smoothly maneuvering within the limitations of genre conventions, Bats emerges as a vigorously paced and surprisingly satisfying piece of work.
  22. Body Shots
    Fires nothing but blanks.
  23. Crazy in Alabama
    The opposition of the two dramas winds up in gratifyingly moral and philosophical territory.
  24. Bringing Out the Dead
    Achieves a poetic, quasi-religious tone.
  25. The Story of Us
    The stylistic devices used, which recall early Woody Allen and Paul Mazursky, get increasingly tedious, disrupting not only the sequence of events but also squelching audience sympathy for the protagonists.
  26. The Omega Code
    By turns laughably simplistic and confoundingly muddled as it charts the "final battle" between good and evil.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Straight Story
    Lynch has directed his most satisfyingly disciplined movie.
  28. Fight Club
    Bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie.
  29. The Protagonists
    Newcomer Luca Guadagnino deserves credit for his choice of an unconventional model, by Italian standards, for his English-language debut feature, but it's a model in which approach and material are at odds. [22 Nov 1999, p.87]
    • Variety
  30. Whiteboyz
    Too many scenes play like actors acting rather than life being lived as pic lurches around with ragged variations in tone.
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