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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. With All Deliberate Speed
    Gets most of its juice from listening to groups of people who were students and activists in segregated Clarendon County, S.C., and Prince Edward County, Va., during the years leading up to the case.
  2. A Few Good Men
    About as understated as a 21-gun salute... What's missing is anything of Reiner himself.
  3. Trembling Before G-d
    Short but emotionally effective movie.
  4. Divan
    A charming and astute first-person documentary.
  5. Enigma
    First-class in all departments except clarity.
  6. The Jungle Book 2
    A cute sequel to the 1967 Disney classic, is likely to provide 72 minutes of enjoyment and a few scary thrills to tykes, as well as a pleasant diversion for parents.
  7. Spy Kids
    As a piece of almost dadaist filmmaking, Spy Kids is great fun with its continual spirit of invention.
  8. On the Line
    Harmless romantic and musical high jinks abound, and sentimentality prevails.
  9. Frailty
    May leave you more cold and stunned than enlightened.
  10. Twelve Monkeys
    A densely plotted, visually dynamic post-apocalyptic thriller.
  11. Men in Black
    Sonnenfeld, who demonstrated a knack for Gothic comedy in "The Addams Family," brings the same mischievous gleefulness to this deliriously macabre enterprise.
  12. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Hoffman introduces a memorable sensuality to the movie.
  13. Below
    An ingenious hybrid of submarine movie and ghost story. And there's a wee bit of "Macbeth" in there too.
  14. Better Luck Tomorrow
    Although this movie shows Lin's promising moviemaking sensibilities, its point of view feels coldly amoral and dismissive.
  15. K-PAX
    Primarily, it's a warm, fuzzy and funny duet between Spacey and Bridges, one that brings to mind the interplay between Spock and Kirk.
  16. Confidence
    It's great to watch the cat-and-mouse of it all -- even when the movie might not be firing on all points.
  17. Die, Mommie, Die!
    It succeeds, with a big, false-eyelashed wink.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pi
    Pi may be the most engrossing piece of cyberpunk cinema yet.
  19. The Siege
    What a shame, therefore, that in its puritanical treatment of the only strong female character, the otherwise politically correct police story is blithely unaware of its own closet misogyny.
  20. Stepmom
    It's not without moments of wit and powerful emotion, but somehow Stepmom never feels either real enough to move us deeply or bubbly enough to make us forget our woes.
  21. A Walk on the Moon
    It believes, in the end, in the decency of most people.
  22. An Ideal Husband
    We are amused. We are not sputtering into our teacups, but we are chortling lightly.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Varsity Blues
    This flick has modest ambitions, but it delivers the goods in a fresh manner.
  24. From Hell
    It's not a great movie by any means, but it grips tighter than a chokehold and it cuts as deep as a knife.
  25. S.W.A.T.
    Offers up the kind of pleasures that only a summer movie can...The cast is good-looking, the soundtrack is loud, the plot is stupid.
  26. Office Space
    A knowing, somewhat slight, often hilarious sendup of cubicle culture.
  27. Teacher's Pet
    The writing (by Bill and Cherie Steinkellner) has a non-sentimental appeal for that young preteen (and early teen) crowd that fancies itself too cool for kiddie stuff.
  28. The Rules of Attraction
    Oddly compelling.
  29. The Fifth Element
    There’s so much high-voltage fun running throughout this comic sci-fantasy -- engineered gleefully by director Luc Besson -- you’re hard-pressed to be unaffected.
  30. One True Thing
    Admirably restrained melodrama.
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