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For 17,760 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: 9,121 out of 17760
  2. Mixed: 7,003 out of 17760
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17760
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  1. Double Jeopardy
    Despite fine casting...familiarity sets in and lack of surprises directly lessen what could have been emotionally gripping.
  2. One Man's Hero
    Suffers greatly from both a visibly constrained budget and an extraordinarily dated feeling.
  3. Mumford
    Kasdan's direction here is even less energized than his writing.
  4. Jakob the Liar
    A markedly better picture than Roberto Benigni's far more sentimental Oscar collector.
  5. Simon Sez
    A frenetically junky action adventure that will quickly dribble off to vid stores after a token fast break in theatrical release.
  6. Guinevere
    Wonderfully acted and slickly mad. Acutely written with an eye to the motivations and ambiguities involved on both sides in such a relationship.
  7. 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.
  8. Blue Streak
    A dull afterthought and a sorry vehicle for the comic expression of Martin Lawrence.
  9. For Love of the Game
    Costner is as uneven as the storytelling itself, stone cold at moments, shimmeringly real in others.
  10. Crane World
    The pic is made up of small events and incidents, well observed and naturalistically performed.
  11. 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.
  13. Love Stinks
    Lacks the comic style or abandon to make its cynical turn on male-female relationships anything more than a short-lived stunt.
  14. Stigmata
    A fiery, convoluted finale fails to deliver any satisfying payoff.
  15. Outside Providence
    A disappointingly rote entry in the '70s teen nostalgia sweepstakes.
  16. 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.
  17. The Astronaut's Wife
    Aggressively stylish but dramatically flaccid.
  18. A Dog of Flanders
    This Dog won't hunt. Although well crafted and handsomely mounted, pic lacks sufficient sizzle.
  19. The 13th Warrior
    Bloody but anemic story.
  20. Dudley Do-Right
    One of the summer's more pleasant surprises. A silly bit of tiptop tomfoolery with cross-generational appeal.
  21. In Too Deep
    Formulaic but effectively gritty inner-city crime drama.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mickey Blue Eyes
    An engaging, often very funny fish-out-of-water story that provides Hugh Grant with his best part to date.
  23. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    A pat, hollow exercises with few tricks (or treats) up its sleeve.
  24. Universal Soldier: The Return
    Lightning fails to strike twice -- an underwhelming follow-up to one of the career-stalled action star's better efforts.
  25. Perfect Blue
    Forsaking the usual anime fantasy terrain for a straight suspense plot that might easily have been executed in live-action form, director Satoshi Kon's debut pic, "Perfect Blue," is a psychological thriller that intrigues without quite hitting the bull's-eye.
  26. Brokedown Palace
    It's close to a no-win situation dramatically, culturally and politically, and Kaplan deals with it plausibly enough by concentrating on the performances and the interior conflicts they reveal.
  27. Bowfinger
    So lunatic that it creates as much puzzled disbelief as it does carefree delight.
  28. Detroit Rock City
    It's crude, sexist, ear-splittingly loud and a helluva lotta fun for anyone suffering from past or present testosterone overload.
  29. Better Than Chocolate
    A terrifically entertaining romantic comedy, Better Than Chocolate tackles the age-old theme of the universal need for love with exuberance and gusto.
  30. Autumn Tale
    A typically deftly layered meditation on men, women, friendship and the prospect of romance.
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