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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. Billy Liar (re-release)
    Often seems less a British new wave front-runner than a charming nouvelle vague tagalong,
  2. Sasayaki
    This dreamy, languorous farce offers a manageable strawberry-flavored alternative, a mildly kinky Hello Kitty sadomasochism.
  3. One Day in September
    It could be described as the most gripping political thriller to hit the big screen in many years, although given the events it depicts through interviews, photographs, and news footage, the words "gripping" and "thriller" have inappropriately frivolous and commercial associations.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Nicely conveys a family trip abroad as seen from both the exhausted-parent and bewildered-infant points of view.
  5. The 6th Day
    Offers director Roger Spottiswoode a chance to have the worst actor in Beverly Hills play scenes with himself.
  6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    The movie rises to another level whenever its star has a chance to cut loose -- leading the ensemble in a conga line, winning a sack race in slow motion, torching the Whos' Christmas tree while screaming, "Burn baby burn."
  7. Rebels with a Cause
    Garvy has worked hard to weave the interviews into an exciting narrative, but the focus is perhaps too narrow for the film to be as politically effective as it could have been.
  8. Restless
    Relying on rote culture-clash pratfalls, Gilfillan belabors the symmetries.
  9. Non-Stop
    Exceedingly slow setup and even more tediously static sequence that effectively terminates the movie well before its official running time.
  10. Red Planet
    A pale, patchy amalgam of the year's two unfairly reviled interplanetary adventures, "Supernova" and "Mission to Mars," the lunkheaded Red Planet distinguishes itself with a touching pretense of scientific veracity.
  11. Men of Honor
    The filmmakers at once coarsen and dilute a fascinating life into a lumpy puddle of punishing inspirational hokum.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Looking for an Echo
    The stream of sentimentality is endless and often sickly, and the warm afterglow is decidedly manufactured.
  13. Little Nicky
    Certainly Sandler's most ambitious work. It's not just a bid for respectability but a genuine allegory.
  14. You Can Count on Me
    Seems like a TV movie. A well-written, sympathetically acted TV movie, to be sure, but so timid and clumsy in its deployment of picture, sound, and editing that you have to wonder if executive producer Martin Scorsese bothered to give notes.
  15. Suzhou River
    A ghost story that's shot as though it were a documentary -- and a documentary that feels like a dream. Almost too fashionable for its own good.
  16. Boesman and Lena
    Stilted as a beach house, the movie crawls from one harangue to another.
  17. Blue Moon
    A real midlife crisis might be more enjoyable.
  18. The Weekend
    Bloodless, lip-biting psycho-carnage.
  19. Me & Isaac Newton
    It's a TV show and a facile one at that.
  20. Kippur
    At once shockingly vivid and overwhelmingly antiheroic.
  21. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    More mushy than mystical.
  22. Charlie's Angels
    The cheesy disco action scenes are topped only by the movie's ripe double entendres and continual cheesecake.
  23. Once in the Life
    While the line-readings are often dead-on, Fishburne's movie suffers from the usual one-room claustrophobia and Mametian repetitions.
  24. Loving Jezebel
    An oafish wish-fulfillment wankfest.
  25. A Room for Romeo Brass
    So low-key it could be mistaken for a throwaway. But Meadows's understanding of childhood fears and fantasies and the yearning, heartfelt performances he draws from his two young actors should not be underestimated.
  26. A Time for Drunken Horses
    Single-minded, sometimes harrowing.
  27. Vénus beauté (institut)
    Thanks to some brilliant casting, Venus Beauty Institute provokes ideas about women, movies, sexuality, and age that extend beyond its frothy fiction.
  28. Stardom
    With a few exceptions, most of the laughs in Stardom are cheap...and worse, the ideas beyond platitudinous.
  29. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Filled with all manner of tawdry tricks.
  30. Lucky Numbers
    From the auteur who assaulted us with "Sleepless in Seattle" comes a more punishing film.
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