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For 17,782 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 2.4 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: 9,136 out of 17782
  2. Mixed: 7,010 out of 17782
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17782
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  1. House on Haunted Hill
    Still nothing but a gussied-up B movie.
  2. The Best Man
    Overall, this smooth, glossy, enjoyable film showcases an impressive new authorial voice.
  3. Three to Tango
    A smart and sassy comedy with a playful sensibility and subtle sensitivity.
  4. Bats
    Smoothly maneuvering within the limitations of genre conventions, Bats emerges as a vigorously paced and surprisingly satisfying piece of work.
  5. Body Shots
    Fires nothing but blanks.
  6. Crazy in Alabama
    The opposition of the two dramas winds up in gratifyingly moral and philosophical territory.
  7. Bringing Out the Dead
    Achieves a poetic, quasi-religious tone.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  11. Fight Club
    Bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie.
  12. 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
  13. Whiteboyz
    Too many scenes play like actors acting rather than life being lived as pic lurches around with ragged variations in tone.
  14. Random Hearts
    An ideal rainy day matinee attraction for well-to-do ladies of a certain age.
  15. The Limey
    One has no problem praising the bravura acting of the entire ensemble.
  16. Superstar
    A pleasant surprise...more directorial personality here than most "SNL"-derived features get...the cheerily absurd, color-saturated atmosphere recalls John Waters' "Hairspray."
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Boys Don't Cry
    The poignant and candid Boys Don't Cry can be seen as a "Rebel Without a Cause" for these culturally diverse and complex times, with the two misfit girls enacting a version of the James Dean/Natalie Wood romance with utmost conviction.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Molly
    A shamelessly sentimental story.
  19. Mystery, Alaska
    Relies on ensemble allure, with mixed results.
  20. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Too tepid to interest anyone old enough to operate a TV remote control.
  21. Happy, Texas
    Steve Zahn shines throughout Mark Illsley's feature debut, Happy, Texas, elevating this eccentric small-town comedy a notch or two above its level of writing.
  22. Three Kings
    An impudently comic, stylistically aggressive and, finally, very thoughtful manner.
  23. Drive Me Crazy
    Sloppy and dull in equal measures.
  24. Double Jeopardy
    Despite fine casting...familiarity sets in and lack of surprises directly lessen what could have been emotionally gripping.
  25. One Man's Hero
    Suffers greatly from both a visibly constrained budget and an extraordinarily dated feeling.
  26. Mumford
    Kasdan's direction here is even less energized than his writing.
  27. Jakob the Liar
    A markedly better picture than Roberto Benigni's far more sentimental Oscar collector.
  28. Simon Sez
    A frenetically junky action adventure that will quickly dribble off to vid stores after a token fast break in theatrical release.
  29. Guinevere
    Wonderfully acted and slickly mad. Acutely written with an eye to the motivations and ambiguities involved on both sides in such a relationship.
  30. Breakfast of Champions
    Has some fine individual moments but fails to cohere into a grander, more substantial statement on the themes it aspires to tackle.
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