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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. B. Monkey
    B. Monkey is crawling with smart actors saying things they don't quite mean.
  2. Stigmata
    Despite exposition delivered so redundantly and witlessly you think you're in a Kaplan class, Stigmata manages to be incoherent.
  3. Best Laid Plans
    A creakily mechanical B-noir.
  4. Black Cat, White Cat
    Determined to twist every character into an ideogram for vulgar humanity.
  5. I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
    That this mime show works better than it should is, in a sense, the ultimate dis.
  6. Outside Providence
    Cross "Rushmore" with "Cheech and Chong" and you might get Outside Providence.
  7. The Muse
    As consistently funny as it is smartly tooled.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The 13th Warrior
    A well-marbled, albeit derivative, slab of action-movie man meat.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In Too Deep
    The film does have a canny appreciation for how ghetto realness is acted out.
  10. Mickey Blue Eyes
    The last half hour bogs down badly, with a cynical fake-out ending and a final scene that borders on non-sensical.
  11. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Yet another black comedy that misunderstands and misrepresents the genre.
  12. Brokedown Palace
    Part cautionary tale, part moral-uplift saga, Brokedown Palace is as dull as it's absurd.
  13. Bowfinger
    Never hits a note of high hilarity.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Detroit Rock City
    There's an awful lot of rocking out going on in Detroit Rock City, but then rocking out is this occasionally clever but lifeless movie's reason for being.
  15. Autumn Tale
    If the carefully planted romantic intrigue is serenely slow to ripen, the process is never less than intriguing.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mystery Men
    Mystery Men is wryly sentimental stuff, but it's also pretty sharp.
  17. The Thomas Crown Affair
    A sealskin-slick, cat-and-mouse romance-caper trifle with a hard-on for wealth that feels downright Trumpian.
  18. The Acid House
    There's so little leavening humor here, and so much physical and emotional violence visited upon the already abject, that the film seems as pointless as the wasted lives it purports to examine.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Illuminata
    For all its ambitions, Illuminata sheds only murky light on what separates theater from life.
  20. The Iron Giant
    Remarkably unassuming, genuinely playful, and superbly executed, The Iron Giant towers over the cartoon landscape.
  21. The Sixth Sense
    Complain all you want about Willis's posturing and the rabbit-in-the-hat ending (predicated as it is on a vast plothole), the film is still a rarity, a studio horror movie focused on a child's traumatic stress.
  22. Dick
    Most conveniently synopsized as Romy and Michelle's Watergate Adventure.
  23. Twin Falls Idaho
    Neither as weighty nor as weird as it would like to think.
  24. Runaway Bride
    Runaway Bride isn't as offensive as most studio romantic comedies—just pointless and dull.
  25. Deep Blue Sea
    One of those hellishly predictable digital-monster gauntlets that makes you pity the actors.
  26. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    Even sillier than it is cynical, Drop Dead Gorgeous is a tiresome tale.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Inspector Gadget
    Shot mostly in close-up, with nearly every action accompanied by a sound effect, the film itself is slightly hysterical.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Wood
    A diverting but uneven nostalgia trip.
  29. Eyes Wide Shut
    Feels like a rough draft at best.
  30. The Blair Witch Project
    Paranoid, hysterical, and programmatically subjective, the movie is in every sense a psychological thriller. Although the payoff is ambiguous, the experience remains in the mind. It's an absolutely restrained and truly frightening movie.
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