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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 Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Hovers frustratingly somewhere between charming and only mildly amusing.
  2. Barb Wire
    Lee elevates herself from the lower echelon of mere international super-babedom to the loftier realm of pulp myth. She is "It" with an exclamation mark.
  3. The Birdcage
    A spirited remake of the French drag farce, has everything in place, from eyeliner to one-liner.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sleepers
    It features a pleasing mix of good-guy gumshoeing, smart-alecky dialogue and courtroom surprises.
  5. Tin Cup
    Tin Cup works for viewers of any handicap.
  6. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
    Takes the spirit of their late night TV show and flies with it.
  7. The Chamber
    Delivers the entertaining goods without fuss or frills.
  8. Beautiful Girls
    The movie is wry, touching and fun to sit through, thanks to Rosenberg's amusing script, Ted Demme's vital direction and zesty performances from everyone.
  9. Clear and Present Danger
    An absorbing, if overlong adaptation of Tom Clancy's bestseller.
  10. Bean
    The movie feels stretched out and thin.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Booty Call
    The name is enough to clue you in that this is not highbrow humor. In fact, it will appeal mostly to those who can appreciate basic juvenile humor.
  12. Breakdown
    Jonathon Mostow, who wrote the script and then directed the movie, travels mostly familiar backroads and crosses bridges when he comes to them, actually managing a pretty good cliff-hanging denouement on the latter.
  13. Dante's Peak
    While the plot is thin and there's little action till the big blow some 60 minutes into the film, a volcano offers a greater variety of thrills than your basic cyclone ever could.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Flubber
    Flubber, the substance, has more personality than many Hollywood actors. And if Flubber, the movie, isn't quite a slam dunk, at least it's a relatively bouncy way to spend an hour and a half.
  15. Scent of a Woman
    This is a great performance from Pacino, who has the good luck here to work with Goldman's mostly wonderful, edgy script, but it might not become a beloved one because the man he plays is such a bitter pill.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rosewood
    But because the filmmakers stray from the facts, presumably in hopes of gaining a wider audience, there is a cheapness at the core of the film that comes perilously close to undermining it.
  17. Welcome to Sarajevo
    But if the modestly budgeted film (loosely based on journalist Michael Nicholson's factual narrative, "Natasha's Story") lopes along a formulaic, often heavy-handed track, its pictures and subtext make a powerful statement. [9Jan1998 Pg. N.41]
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  18. The Nutty Professor
    Murphy owes much of his success to the amazing special-effects makeup by Rick Baker ("An American Werewolf in London"), but he brings a tenderness and dignity to the performance that he has never shown before.
  19. Ransom
    Though the film gleams with Howard's customary spit polish, there's no denying that the story is pitted with plot holes.
  20. Crimson Tide
    The scenario may be dumb and predictable, with a wimpy ending to boot, but it's also sort of fun.
  21. Die Hard: With a Vengeance
    Cutting to the chase: In terms of summer movie thrills, director John McTiernan's return to the "Die Hard" genre (he made the first one) is a triumph.
  22. GoldenEye
    New Bond man Brosnan can't be faulted for much. He's always been generically sexy, a sort of programmed cover boy. In this new venture, he's appropriately handsome, British-accented and suave.
  23. Basquiat
    But the film, written and directed by fellow artist Julian Schnabel, is so tender in its affections, these omissions and poetic licenses seem like the embellishments of a good friend.
  24. Bound
    Bound, a diabolically clever caper, isn't nearly so deep as the genre it kids.
  25. Eraser
    The hero's feats are implausible even by action standards, but screenwriters Tony Puryear and Walon Green have concocted one of the summer's most spectacular action sequences.
  26. Evita
    Evita is a busy movie with an often noisy soundtrack that can get tedious and monotonous (particularly in the second half), but it's just as likely to sweep one away with its musical, emotional and historical momentum.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Star Trek: First Contact
    The excitement comes from Frakes's direction -- his liveliness, and his pleasure in looking at, and showing us, events and images.
  28. Guarding Tess
    What counts is the comic tension between MacLaine and Cage. It's so well done, it doesn't matter how dumb things get.
  29. The Santa Clause
    The personable star of the TV series "Home Improvement" turns this Walt Disney film around. He may not be as effervescent as, say, Robin Williams, but he's full of understated, ticklish charm.
  30. Monument Ave.
    Monument Ave. is a cinematic dead-end street that is not without its gloomy, gritty thrills -- assuming, that is, that you're not in the market for a hero or even the slightest feather of that thing called hope. [09 Oct 1998, Pg.N.49]
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