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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Autumn Tale
    A movie that dares you to slow down and enjoy the subtleties of life.
  2. Mystery Men
    A live-action cartoon without dramatic focus, a solid structure or discernible theme.
  3. The Thomas Crown Affair
    A full-throttle fantasy, about as heady a movie experience as it gets.
  4. The Iron Giant
    Still, the movie -- as beautifully drawn, as sleek and engaging as it is -- has the annoyance of incredible smugness.
  5. The Sixth Sense
    It's like an enema to the soul as it probes the ways of death ? some especially grotesque in a family setting. You leave slightly asquirm. You know it will linger.
  6. Twin Falls Idaho
    Entrancing, uncommonly compassionate film.
  7. Runaway Bride
    [Gere] seemed to be improvising his way from beginning to end, like he was disgusted with the actual script.
  8. Deep Blue Sea
    You have a movie in which sharks with triple-digit IQs hunt humans with double-digit IQs. It’s no contest.
  9. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    Screenwriter Lona Williams and director Michael Patrick Jann spare no attempt to show characters at their zaniest, wackiest or most grotesque. The effect is disconcerting. Is this light comedy or dark satire? It ends up being neither.
  10. Inspector Gadget
    The movie, based on the TV cartoon series, is exceptionally pleasant, and there's just enough humor to make it enjoyable for adults.
  11. The Haunting
    Eugenio Zanetti's set design is wonderful. But the movie isn't enough to make people check the shadows when they leave the theater.
  12. Lake Placid
    It's laughably stupid, only fitfully scary and relatively harmless summer fun – if you're 12 years old, in which case you probably aren't supposed to be going to movies like this anyway.
  13. The Wood
    Despite the unforced humor and honesty in the performances of its young and talented cast, The Wood spends too much time wallowing in arrested adolescence to make you feel you've traveled anywhere.
  14. Eyes Wide Shut
    It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat.
  15. The Blair Witch Project
    Low-tech inventiveness at its best.
  16. Arlington Road
    Although the film starts out with well-mounted menace, Arlington Road becomes increasingly overwrought and predictable.
  17. Summer of Sam
    If there's any moral to this sorry story, perhaps Lee's stealth-message is it: Even when it's not about race, it is.
  18. Wild Wild West
    A rambling wreck from computer tech and a helluva souvenir –- that is, for those interested in artifacts representing the American movie at its worst.
  19. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Sharp, wildly funny social satire behind the profanity and potty jokes.
  20. Big Daddy
    Dismal. Lame. Not funny.
  21. Tarzan
    Speaking of Jane, Minnie Driver gets the big banana for top off-screen performance. She brims over with prissiness and pep, tenderness and visionary appreciation.
  22. An Ideal Husband
    We are amused. We are not sputtering into our teacups, but we are chortling lightly.
  23. Run Lola Run
    Kind of like watching a John Waters film on fast forward with all the good parts cut out. It's empty of charm and meaning, but it certainly kills time, for those who wish it dead.
  24. The General's Daughter
    A prosaic, sexually perverse thriller masquerading as a critical look at military injustice.
  25. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    With its outrageous double-entendre, gonzo performances and appalling lack of restraint, the sequel is more than a guilty pleasure.
  26. Instinct
    A sloppily structured, snoozily paced psychodrama about living in harmony with nature and all the rest of that tree-hugging hooey.
  27. The Thirteenth Floor
    Rusnak, who was the second-unit director of "Godzilla," brings plenty of style to this ambitious yet utterly anticlimactic thumb-sucker.
  28. Notting Hill
    So the film has this weird postmodernist taint: It has a self-aware script that cleverly plays off the reality of its own cast and their famous real-life contretemps. It's smart and knowing.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    Figgis depends on his considerable ability to evoke mood in a symphony of image, montage and music. But these scenes, watchable as some of them are (and I don't mean the Fall of Man Follies), don't accumulate into much more than abstract mush. [25 Jun 1999]
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  30. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    The Empire strikes out.
  31. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Hoffman introduces a memorable sensuality to the movie.
  32. Tea with Mussolini
    Tea With Mussolini is really about the first women in the Italian director's life. It's drawn from a single chapter of his book but suffers from a lack of focus. None of these great ladies is willing to give up center stage; nor, for that matter, are the grande dames who bring them so vividly to life.
  33. After Life
    After Life is really a celebration of before-death: It's a complete rarity, for movies in general, for Washington in specific--pure sweetness of spirt. [8 Sept 1999, p.C9]
    • Washington Post
  34. The Mummy
    Fast and furious, shallow, empty, casually racist, merry, jaunty, silly and utterly weightless.
  35. Idle Hands
    Let's talk about it quickly, because the thumbs of both my hands have gone similarly crazy. They're pointing downward and refuse to budge until I finish this review.
  36. The Winslow Boy
    The case is tried off-screen. Thank goodness for the maid (Sarah Flind), who runs home from her chores with tidings from the outside world -- we hear from the maid that Sir Bobby gave a helluva final argument. The jurors wept, the crowd went wild. Too bad we missed it.
  37. Entrapment
    Even the most ardent fans of the natural-born Bond are more apt to be shaken than stirred by the 68-year-old's implausible feats in this inert romantic adventure.
  38. Pushing Tin
    A fast-paced, twisty-turny, high-fiving, but ultimately spiraling disaster of a movie about air traffic controllers, gets lost in this hyperbolic cloud cover, never to be found again.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Lost & Found
    Spade is no actor. He's a quipper. And his acerbic asides aren't anywhere near funny enough to carry a movie.
  40. eXistenZ
    Crazy? Crazy is too mild a word by far to describe the twisted worm at play inside the skull of the Canadian director David Cronenberg -- And that craziness is given full vent in the vomitorium called eXistenZ.
  41. Election
    A wonderful, piercing and hilarious examination of high school politics and how bitter and ruinous it can become.
  42. Life
    Feels as if it's inspired by the old "Road" comedies of Crosby and Hope. Except that it's "On the Road to Hell."
  43. SLC Punk!
    Ultimately, SLC Punk! doesn't have enough dimension to maintain dramatic interest.
  44. Go
    The latest furiously paced, perversely entertaining "Pulp Fiction" for puppies.
  45. Never Been Kissed
    Predictable, slightly painful and as embarrassing as all get-out.
  46. Metroland
    It's a thoughtfully constructed story, with nuanced performances all around and even a mild surprise thrown in, but the whole thing feels ever so slightly enervated, like a game of chess between codgers in the park.
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