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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. Whiteboyz
    Too many scenes play like actors acting rather than life being lived as pic lurches around with ragged variations in tone.
  2. Random Hearts
    An ideal rainy day matinee attraction for well-to-do ladies of a certain age.
  3. The Limey
    One has no problem praising the bravura acting of the entire ensemble.
  4. 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.
  7. Mystery, Alaska
    Relies on ensemble allure, with mixed results.
  8. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    Too tepid to interest anyone old enough to operate a TV remote control.
  9. 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.
  10. Three Kings
    An impudently comic, stylistically aggressive and, finally, very thoughtful manner.
  11. Drive Me Crazy
    Sloppy and dull in equal measures.
  12. Double Jeopardy
    Despite fine casting...familiarity sets in and lack of surprises directly lessen what could have been emotionally gripping.
  13. One Man's Hero
    Suffers greatly from both a visibly constrained budget and an extraordinarily dated feeling.
  14. Mumford
    Kasdan's direction here is even less energized than his writing.
  15. Jakob the Liar
    A markedly better picture than Roberto Benigni's far more sentimental Oscar collector.
  16. Simon Sez
    A frenetically junky action adventure that will quickly dribble off to vid stores after a token fast break in theatrical release.
  17. Guinevere
    Wonderfully acted and slickly mad. Acutely written with an eye to the motivations and ambiguities involved on both sides in such a relationship.
  18. 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.
  19. Blue Streak
    A dull afterthought and a sorry vehicle for the comic expression of Martin Lawrence.
  20. For Love of the Game
    Costner is as uneven as the storytelling itself, stone cold at moments, shimmeringly real in others.
  21. Crane World
    The pic is made up of small events and incidents, well observed and naturalistically performed.
  22. American Beauty
    A script as fresh and distinctive as any produced in the States in recent memory.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Minus Man
    The kind of muted, anything-but-obvious psychological thriller Hitchcock would have loved.
  24. Love Stinks
    Lacks the comic style or abandon to make its cynical turn on male-female relationships anything more than a short-lived stunt.
  25. Stigmata
    A fiery, convoluted finale fails to deliver any satisfying payoff.
  26. Outside Providence
    A disappointingly rote entry in the '70s teen nostalgia sweepstakes.
  27. Chill Factor
    Utterly lacking the drive and roller-coaster energy expected of top action pics, this latest try at repackaging "Speed" is a Kmart version of a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
  28. The Astronaut's Wife
    Aggressively stylish but dramatically flaccid.
  29. A Dog of Flanders
    This Dog won't hunt. Although well crafted and handsomely mounted, pic lacks sufficient sizzle.
  30. The 13th Warrior
    Bloody but anemic story.
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