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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. The Big Tease
    A sub-sitcom stretched to an interminable 85 minutes.
  2. Wirey Spindell
    Brimming with fatuous "clever" dialogue and gorgeous women swooning over Schaeffer-played boors, the like-sounding titles denoted a vain, smarmy Woody Allen acolyte drowning in his own reflection.
  3. Supernova
    Apparently fallen victim to the transparent damage-control tactics of studios in possession of perceived stinkers.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Next Friday
    A calculated teen gross-out flick that owes more to "American Pie" than its own progenitor.
  5. Fantasia 2000
    Arriving just after the best year for animated film in recent memory, Fantasia 2000 doesn't play like a celebration. In its sentimental yearning for a golden age when another one's upon us, it feels a little like a rebuke.
  6. Close-Up
    Like nearly every other Kiarostami film, Close-Up takes questions about movies and makes them feel like questions of life and death.
  7. The Hurricane
    Far too tepid.
  8. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Morris, who more or less invented the ironic documentary, seems to struggle here for an appropriate tone even as he allows Leuchter more than enough rope to hang himself.
  9. The Third Miracle
    The first half has a nifty B-movie feel--it's a canny little movie with a big, big theme.
  10. Play It to the Bone
    The journey is a yawn -- an outpouring of backstory, punctuated by cute episodic diversions and ill-advised running gags.
  11. Titus
    A nonstop carnival of murder, rape, and mutilation .
  12. Galaxy Quest
    The many eight-to-11-year-olds in the audience seemed completely enthralled.
  13. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    It's a sign of how watered-down the movie is that only the supporting actors have any bite.
  14. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Trying to act in this movie is like trying to stand upright in a blizzard.
  15. Angela's Ashes
    Lacks development and dramatic coherence.
  16. Any Given Sunday
    Like a visual concussion.
  17. Man on the Moon
    The filmmakers don't even attempt to give Kaufman an inner life.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Girl, Interrupted
    Contains some nicely restrained turns, like Clea Duval as Kaysen's Oz-obsessed roommate, but mainly it's a showcase for Ryder's winsome victim
  19. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    Solid middlebrow entertainment, a vast period epic with an almost DeMillean taste for excess.
  20. Onegin
    Unable to capture either its wit, psychological acuity, or formal rigor, the movie essentially reduces the schematic, seesaw narrative to doomy clichés.
  21. Bicentennial Man
    Amid the complacent self-congratulation...is a bizarre reactionary bent.
  22. Simpatico
    A decked-out mediocrity with a high-octane cast.
  23. Stuart Little
    The story is little more than overdetermined trials and triumphs. Kids won't care, but they won't fall for it either; unsurprisingly, it doesn't stand a chance of providing them with the memories the book provided their parents.
  24. Topsy-Turvy
    Not only Mike Leigh's strongest film since "Naked" but a true show-making epic.
  25. Anna and the King
    Dusted off for one more run-through, and for those who applauded "Titanic's" old-is-new ethos, the moth-eaten, barely breathing Anna and the King will serve as a slap in the face.
  26. Magnolia
    Highly audacious, hugely enjoyable, exceptionally well-written, brilliantly edited, and exuberantly actor-driven extravaganza.
  27. The Cider House Rules
    This adaptation of John Irving's novel--- is as paternalistic, puffed-up, and dull as a congressional debate about abortion rights.
  28. Cradle Will Rock
    Historical forces and famous ghosts jostle past each other in this evocation of mid-1930s New York like harried commuters at Grand Central Station.
  29. Miss Julie
    Figgis's frenetic and grossly self-aggrandizing adaption of Strindberg's worse-for-wear two-hander about the battle between the sexes and the classes.
  30. The War Zone
    We may not want another film about incest, but there's a necessity about this one that won't be denied.
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