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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. U.S. Marshals
    Although this film doesn't have the classy quality of The Fugitive, it certainly goes down like an action milkshake. And Jones, one of the most enjoyable actors on the screen, plays himself to the hilt.
  2. High Crimes
    Satisfies a hunger for the basics: a decent mystery to chew on, a bit of juicy suspense, maybe a plot twist as garnish. The fare is all on the standard menu, but it goes down well just the same.
  3. Out of Time
    Until that sugar coating at the end, Out of Time is clever, believable and gripping, and seems to be headed to a wondrous, bad place as it carefully modulates classic '40s themes.
  4. The Prince of Egypt
    If nothing else it's a wonderful essay on the meaning of freedom and the courage it takes to wrestle it from despots. In that sense, it feels more political and cultural than religious.
  5. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Your children are almost certain to have a great time.
  6. Rock Star
    The most unlikely of undertakings: an energetic feel-good movie about sex, drugs and other rock-related depravities.
  7. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    A parody of B-movies stupid enough -- and yet with just enough brains -- to appeal to the most discriminating fans of the genre.
  8. Happiness
    It lacks Altman's wisdom, but its sense of humor is corrosive, if dispiriting, and its willingness to show the human animal at his most disgusting has a kind of anti-grandeur to it.
  9. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    Another Kevin Williamson triumph, a smart, sharply drawn genre film with a moral center and a solid cast of young actors to hold it.
  10. Summer School
    Proud to be junk food, but it still tackles the serious subjects of illiteracy, teen-age pregnancy and young adult alcoholism. [22 July 1987]
  11. Girlhood
    Sobering yet faintly optimistic documentary.
  12. The Negotiator
    Fortunately, Jackson and Spacey have enough sassy wit and crackling intensity between them to keep The Negotiator from becoming hostage to its own inanity.
  13. Let's Get Frank
    The outspoken congressman is just as entertaining as his liberal fans already know him to be.
  14. Horns and Halos
    A thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people, seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause.
  15. The Bread, My Sweet
    Enriched by a strong and unforced supporting cast, "Bread" nourishes the heart, even if its fairy-tale ending feels tacked on and unnecessary.
  16. 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.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    We may not need as many Austin Powers movies as there are James Bond pictures, but one or two more might be nice.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    G.I. Jane
    Guts-and-green-beret saga.
  19. Human Resources
    Far from an amusing romp.
  20. Solomon & Gaenor
    It doesn't lack for emotional intensity or persuasive, three-dimensional characters.
  21. Wild Things
    The movie is as tawdry as someone else's lingerie, yet not without a certain prurient watchability.
  22. Mighty Aphrodite
    It's a mixed bag--deftly and hilariously philosophical in some places, deeply disengaged and prosaic in others.
  23. Crimes and Misdemeanors
    Whiny, quirky and urbane.
  24. Small Time Crooks
    Diverting and provides a satisfying alternative to teen-oriented summer comedy.
  25. Hollywood Ending
    It's a brilliant concept, one of Allen's finest. Love the concept, baby. But the execution is, well, average.
  26. Bamboozled
    What the movie lacks in clarity, it makes up for in honesty, toughness, relentlessness and passion.
  27. Beloved
    Powerful, depressing and very, very long. At close to three hours, it virtually enslaves an audience, which may be part of the point.
  28. The Full Monty
    Beaufoy and Cattaneo handle this potentially racy material with an engaging balance of good taste and outright slapstick.
  29. 8 Women
    A gorgeous, if disjointed, spectacle, made endurable – if not entirely comprehensible – by its eye-popping cast.
  30. Greendale
    To watch Greendale is to understand everything about Neil Young. Like him, it's grungy, honest, disarming and unapologetically original.
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