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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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    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Guru
    A spirited rally in the final reel can't quite overcome the damage.
  2. Bulletproof Monk
    One of those motley movies that borrows from just about everywhere.
  3. In & Out
    The movie gradually peters out.
  4. A Beautiful Mind
    Instead of an originally conceived movie that reflects Nash's troubled but brilliant mind, we have one of those formulaically rendered Important Subject movies -- the kind that seem exclusively designed for Best Picture nominations.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Practical Magic
    It's not that the movie isn't fun in spots; it's just a TV-ready mix of camp and curdle.
  6. Trainspotting
    The story, such as it is, follows Renton's inconsistent attempts to kick his habit.
  7. Meet Joe Black
    Meet Joe Black, with Brad Pitt, is a near-death experience: Time seems to stop as we stiffen in our seats and the actors all whisper as if they're at a wake.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Snow Dogs
    A throwaway movie, but that doesn't mean it's bad. In fact, if you have a soft spot for man's best friend, it's a pretty good throwaway movie.
  9. Holy Man
    There just aren't many laughs in this slack dramedy, and what yuks there are are fairly low-wattage.
  10. Simon Birch
    The film does not jerk tears as much as it knocks you down and runs away with them.
  11. Ready to Rumble
    Bizarre yet popular.
  12. The Dancer Upstairs
    The only reason this dilemma has any import is thanks to Bardem, who almost single-handedly drags the film along.
  13. The Perfect Score
    The comedy about a coterie of high school seniors plotting to steal the answers to the dreaded standardized test talks a pretty good game, but in the end the numbers just don't add up to much.
  14. Bad Boys II
    Might be considered three action sequences and four comedy routines in search of a story.
  15. Soul Plane
    Only fitfully funny, and it makes up for what it lacks in genuine humor by overdosing viewers with outrageous sexuality and outsize stereotypes.
  16. Solaris
    Even by the art film standards it apes, Solaris lacks conviction. And although it's meant to be restrained and free of emotional hysteria, the result is a movie that pretty much lies dead on the screen for an hour and a half.
  17. The Princess Diaries
    The movie updates Disney's blueprint without altering it in any meaningful way.
  18. The Myth of Fingerprints
    The film has a kind of echo-filled emptiness to it that some will take as profundity and others as mere emptiness.
  19. Swiri
    The film actually gets to tackle some larger questions than one normally finds in the average fireball drama.
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  20. Storytelling
    The lower your expectations, the more you'll enjoy it.
  21. Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
    Those who are only mildly curious, I fear, will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals.
  22. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    This mid-level, pretty-but-not-hugely-funny Allen film slips into the top spot by regretful default. I enjoyed every single second of it, a little bit.
  23. Twentynine Palms
    It's alternately monotonous, hot and dramatic, which makes for a peculiar, not entirely unsatisfying atmosphere of neo -- or is that post? -- noir. What it all means, of course, I have no idea.
  24. Lucía, Lucía
    I love a good story, too, but I prefer one that actually goes somewhere (although, as joy rides to nowhere are concerned, this one is a beaut).
  25. Secret Window
    This Window ultimately feels like one most of us have climbed through before.
  26. The Big Kahuna
    The movie isn't about anything except acting, and although the acting it shows is brilliant, it makes exactly the point that is the opposite of the point it thought it was making: Acting isn't enough.
  27. Showgirls
    To take Showgirls that seriously (as either trash-art or appalling pornography) wouldn't be worth the exertion.
  28. View from the Top
    It's meant to be harmless fluff. It is.
  29. Evil Dead II
    The acting is straight out of '50s B movies. The exposition is clumsy, the sound track corny, the denouement silly. Then again, who said bad taste was easy? [13 Apr 1987, Style, p.b4]
  30. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
    Buffed and waxed to within an inch of its life, Stella registers as more of a sequence of slick commercials than an actual drama.
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