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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 Insider
    May be pumped-up, but it's rarely boring
  2. Last Night
    A witty, trenchant script, lots of complicated characters, and a few actors who turn human frailty into something nearly sublime.
  3. Some Fish Can Fly
    Some dogs can bark.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beefcake
    Beefcake's messiness has real charm, and its tribute to Mizer is both appropriately complicated and poignantly sexy.
  5. Music of the Heart
    Solid raw material, but the execution is overcooked.
  6. The Legend of 1900
    Good-natured but labored, the film clings to its lone gimmick with increasing desperation.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Speaking in Strings
    A clumsy labor of love with unforgivable lapses...key footage is missing, and it fails to show why Salerno-Sonnenberg's controversial interpretations are so original and valid.
  8. Princess Mononoke
    Complex, superbly rendered, and wildly eccentric anime-even by Miyazaki's own standards.
  9. Being John Malkovich
    The most offbeat studio comedy since "Rushmore."
  10. Man of the Century
    Good-natured but labored, the film clings to its lone gimmick with increasing desperation.
  11. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    The last scene reads like an admission of defeat.
  12. The Best Man
    Everything about the film is familiar except that the twentysomethings are all African American.
  13. Body Shots
    Vomitous.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Men Cry Bullets
    This amateurish no-budget effort has earnest charm, and a sensitivity to the tragic dimension of amour fou that saves it from lapsing into shtick.
  15. Show Me Love
    Easily the best teen movie of the year.
  16. Bringing Out the Dead
    The mood is less angst-ridden than hypercaffeinated, as Scorsese keeps cranking the velocity-bloodbath in the reggae inferno, exploding skyline pietà, climactic white light of redemption.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    That's the Way I Like It
    Writer- director Glen Goei, a London stage actor, ably guides his likable cast through this by-the-numbers story, but he is hobbled by the film's lifeless soundtrack.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
    As full of flickering warmth as it is bereft of larger insight.
  19. Julien Donkey-Boy
    A handheld and grainy exercise in cine-stupefaction...too spastic to connect...the movie just flails the air.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Story of Us
    Maudlin, irritating marital drama.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    L'ennui
    The plump, Rubenesque Guillemin steals the show. Her understated simplicity is her strength -- this is one of the major movie debuts of recent years.
  22. Joe the King
    The film belongs to Fleiss, and he makes Joe's inner life so transparent that it's heartbreaking to watch the boy dig himself into a hole.
  23. The Straight Story
    Sunny as The Straight Story appears, Lynch is still defamiliarizing the normal.
  24. Defying Gravity
    Denying Reality, more like. John Keitel's first feature is impossibly naive, even as smoothed-over coming-out tales go.
  25. Fight Club
    This malevolently gleeful satire...is extremely funny, surprisingly well- acted, and boldly designed...at least until its steel-and-chrome soufflé falls apart.
  26. New Rose Hotel
    What's on the screen is so dreadful that it inspires the ontological question "What are films and why is this not one of them?"
  27. Whiteboyz
    Not a movie that can afford to take itself seriously.
  28. The Sticky Fingers of Time
    Psychologically resonant despite the intermittently clunky performances...one of the only Amerindies in recent years to match intellectual with formal ambitions.
  29. Random Hearts
    Everyone in the film is a walking cliché.
  30. The Grandfather
    Not only is the dialogue endless...it's like driving behind a 15 mph geezer on a one-way street.
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