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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 Sea Is Watching
    A mostly unsentimental little gem.
  2. Confidence
    Yes, it's a hyped, hip "Sting" for our times, with goatees, mousse and attitude as part of the update package. It's also Burns's best film since "Saving Private Ryan."
  3. Croupier
    A smoothly executed jab in your solar plexus, a lean, smart film noir that pokes at you with quintessentially English disdain and sarcasm.
  4. The Ignorant Fairies
    A movie that grows better by the minute.
  5. Babe
    A captivating comic allegory about daring to be different in the face of conformity.
  6. Hilary and Jackie
    The movie is exquisitely directed by Anand Tucker in an anti-documentary style that sometimes fractures the time sequence, sometimes re-creates moments impressionistically instead of objectively and is vivid in style.
  7. Slums of Beverly Hills
    Like its Southern California setting, the sunny semi-autobiography is tempered with just the right touch of Jenkins's smoggy cynicism.
  8. Stepmom
    If emotional catharsis is what you seek, Stepmom delivers the goods.
  9. An Ideal Husband
    Parker stays with and even streamlines Wilde's clever manipulations of betrayals and lies and plots and counterplots. Yet the film never feels stagy.
  10. American Pie 2
    The funniest scenes involve Jim and his father, thanks to the brilliant, improvisational skills of Eugene Levy.
  11. Amistad
    Hounsou, a West African model with beauty and presence but no acting experience, carries much of the movie on his broad shoulders with surprising skill and strength.
  12. The Grifters
    [Huston] brings a vital conviction to her scenes; they're scorchingly immediate, and her ability to get in sync with what Lily's feeling is what gives the movie weight. She may be the best we have.
  13. The Fifth Element
    An entertaining tangle of pop aesthetic and comic book myth that occasionally bogs down, but manages to be ingratiating for all its defects.
  14. Yossi & Jagger
    Short but powerful drama.
  15. One True Thing
    An uplifting, superbly acted and intelligent family drama.
  16. The X Files
    Like the TV show, The X-Files movie is stylish, scary, sardonically funny and at times just plain gross.
  17. Bread and Tulips
    Nicely done, sweet, delicately comic and a complete delight.
  18. Edward Scissorhands
    Amusing and inventive.
  19. The Legend of Drunken Master
    You have to see this to believe it.
  20. The Transporter
    A poke in the adrenal gland -- obeys the first law of action movie-making by quickening the heart and dazzling the eye.
  21. Amen.
    It's not every day that movies present a Teutonic character in SS uniform as an unambiguously moral hero, so enjoy this rarity. And the film.
  22. Osama
    In its small, achingly beautiful way, this is the lesson that Osama teaches us: When one human being suffers, it is all of us who share her pain.
  23. Out of Time
    A bleakly comic, palm-sweaty hoot.
  24. Kissing Jessica Stein
    The performers bring freshness to what could have been cliched roles.
  25. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    Riveting, gracefully constructed film.
  26. Hearts in Atlantis
    Yes, it's corny and reemerging cynics need not apply. But it is blissfully heartwarming.
  27. Son of the Bride
    Sweet without being saccharine, sad without being maudlin and funny without being forced.
  28. There's Something About Mary
    This one is dumbest. And funniest, as if that matters even a little bit!
  29. Urbania
    There's no denying its surreal, hypnotic effect.
  30. The Eye
    Although almost nothing about The Eye is surprising, the movie is nevertheless engrossing, as it mutates from horror movie to ghost story to psychological drama to disaster flick (a late, stunning twist). It casts a spell strong enough that viewers won't want to look away.
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