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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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    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Diamonds
    With its superficial script, toneless direction, and unadmirable intentions...Diamonds is inappropriate for audiences of all ages.
  2. The Green Mile
    Irritatingly repetitious and piled high with long-foreseen conclusions.
  3. Agnes Browne
    Soft-boiled blarney so sluttish with Hollywood clichés it could've been made in Burbank.
  4. Holy Smoke
    Filled with flashy sight gags, overwrought performances, and madly overlapping dialogue.
  5. The End of the Affair
    About halfway through I began to imagine it as it might have been directed by Douglas Sirk as a vehicle for Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson.
  6. Sweet and Lowdown
    It's the prettiest movie of the year, maybe of Allen's career.
  7. A Map of the World
    Scott Elliott's palsied directorial debut, from a mine shaft-ridden script, is a sick joke, and Weaver's part in it screams of temporary insanity.
  8. Flawless
    Flawless never approaches the rancid bluster of "8MM," but it's an equally dishonest piece of manipulative hackwork.
  9. Tumbleweeds
    One of the refreshing aspects of the slight, flawed Tumbleweeds is that it creates a world inhabited by recognizable people.
  10. End of Days
    85 percent explosions and editing idiocy (a window can't break without director Peter Hyams cutting between five different angles) and 15 percent Arnold trying to grow a third dimension. Seeing him try for "sad" is like watching a dog try to talk.
  11. Ride with the Devil
    The movie is not unintelligent but it is insipid
  12. Toy Story 2
    The kitsch is back in full bloom.
  13. The World Is Not Enough
    Makes the strongest case for retirement since late-period Roger Moore.
  14. All About My Mother
    As straightforward and plot-driven as any movie about life imitating art imitating life could possibly be.
  15. Sleepy Hollow
    There isn't a bankable Hollywood director with a flintier sense of aesthetic integrity.
  16. 42: Forty Two Up
    The 7Up series is thus one of the rare documentaries to have had a positive practical effect on the life of at least one of its subjects.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mansfield Park
    In trying so hard to entertain, ends up sabotaging itself.
  18. Liberty Heights
    Buoyant with quiet smiles and unpretentious fondness.
  19. Felicia's Journey
    Egoyan, whose sophisticated eye is connected to a brain that seems, for the moment, to have gone dead.
  20. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Inexplicable as it is, the Joan of Arc story encourages contemplation of ourselves as a species. The Messenger is more apt to prompt meditation on the nature of show business.
  21. Dogma
    A tediously childish exhibition.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Light It Up
    Unexpectedly satisfying feel-good agitprop.
  23. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    Possibly the most deranged, pointlessly complex, automatic-writing-like cultural manifestation outside the cosmologies of the more creative psychotics.
  24. A Moment of Innocence
    A meditation-brilliant, humorous, and moving-on history and memory.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Portraits chinois
    The performances are uniformly strong.
  26. Rosetta
    Pummeling, jagged, and extremely well-edited film.
  27. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    A first-person doc assembled largely from footage taken in the course of the five features they made, being madmen together.
  28. Train of Life
    It's entertainment that never lets us off the hook.
  29. American Movie
    Although I don't begrudge Borchardt his year of fame, what he doesn't seem to understand about his exploitation creeps me out.
  30. The Bone Collector
    So formulaic and predictable that you're bored even when you're scared.
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