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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 5.3 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. The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    Pleasant enough and its ecological, pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome.
  2. Big Night
    Big Night, a scrumptious tale of great food and grand passions, belongs on the menu with such mouth-watering movie fare as "Babette's Feast" and "Like Water for Chocolate."
  3. Stolen Summer
    The performances take the movie to a higher level.
  4. Cotton Mary
    Serves as a fascinating exploration of racial and social prejudice; and an indictment of cultural miscegenation.
  5. Tortilla Soup
    It's not as good as "Eat Drink Man Woman," for no imitation ever surpasses its original; but it's so brimful of life you can't say no.
  6. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Fluidly edited, subtle.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Best Man
    Tapping into the Zeitgeist of young black professionals starving to see themselves on film, it hits all the right cultural touchstones.
  8. Return to Never Land
    Even if you tap only a little of the magic of "Peter Pan," you'll come away with some pixie dust.
  9. Shanghai Ghetto
    Despite the film's shortcomings, the stories are quietly moving.
  10. Piglet's Big Movie
    Sure it's slight, but also as cute as the curly tail on its tender protagonist.
  11. The Little Vampire
    Very funny in a way reminiscent of "Babe: Pig in the City."
  12. The Brothers McMullen
    This knowing, low-budget comedy will appeal to men, who'll recognize their behavior, but also to women, who'll see it as goosing the gander.
  13. A Room for Romeo Brass
    Proceeds with an episodic pace, full of narrative twists and turns that clearly are not pretested by a Hollywood committee. Things feel sort of strange and original all at once.
  14. Made
    There are laughs -- lots of them, too -- but at some point the source of the laughs -- Vaughan's Ricky, a yammering loose cannon -- goes from entertaining to obnoxious.
  15. Innocence
    A sweet but labored love story.
  16. Vampire Hunter D
    If you appreciate fine animation and edgy material, this blood's for you.
  17. The Last September
    More interesting for the world it evokes rather than the drama that unfolds.
  18. Brown Sugar
    May not be the most nutritious movie on the table, but it lives up to its sweet promise.
  19. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    The unexpected drama captured puts I Am Trying to Break Your Heart in the good company, if not quite the league, of "Let It Be" and "Gimme Shelter."
  20. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    The film is a testament to art, life and survival like the similar but superior "Buena Vista Social Club."
  21. Harrison's Flowers
    The movie's still a solid "B," a workmanlike drama.
  22. The Trials of Henry Kissinger
    Damning legal brief against the former secretary of state.
  23. Aimee & Jaguar
    A surprisingly lush, well-produced film.
  24. Deterrence
    A surprisingly gripping experience.
  25. Last Resort
    Compelling, if sometimes grittily depressing, viewing.
  26. The Caveman's Valentine
    If anyone can sell the idea of ... some psycho "Sherlock Holmes," it's Samuel L. Jackson.
  27. The Five Senses
    Narratively club-footed but directorially assured.
  28. Lucky Break
    It's what the Brits themselves might call fair to middling.
  29. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    This sweet little tale is as informative as it is entertaining for its target audience, the very youngest of the Muppet franchise's fans.
  30. Mad Love
    A bodice-ripper for intellectuals.
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