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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. Last Night
    An end-of-the-world movie like no other.
  2. Music of the Heart
    Another sentimental mushfest disguised as a movie.
  3. The Legend of 1900
    An enchanting, staggeringly beautiful epic at sea, is poetry in motion.
  4. Princess Mononoke
    As spectacular as it is dense and as dense as it is colorful and as colorful as it is meaningless and as meaningless as it is long.
  5. Being John Malkovich
    So full of creativity, so subversive, so alive.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Best Man
    Tapping into the Zeitgeist of young black professionals starving to see themselves on film, it hits all the right cultural touchstones.
  7. Three to Tango
    The movie's half over before it really starts to whack at the funny bone.
  8. Bats
    Hopeless rip-off of Hitchcock's "The Birds."
  9. Body Shots
    Tries so hard to be cool that it forgets to be alive.
  10. Crazy in Alabama
    Mark Childress, who wrote the screenplay based upon his book of the same name, would have been better off leaving this Southern Gothic between two covers.
  11. Bringing Out the Dead
    Doesn't pack the punch of Schrader and Scorsese's career-best collaborations ("Raging Bull," "Taxi Driver").
  12. Julien Donkey-Boy
    The stranger and more unusual the characters, and the less they're explained, the better.
  13. The Story of Us
    Folks, I really feel that seeing this one for you is the movie critic's equivalent of jumping on the grenade to save your lives. Send me medals.
  14. Joe the King
    Leads you through a miserable childhood without sentimentality or relief. The effect is torturous.
  15. The Straight Story
    Cuts a path directly to the heart.
  16. Fight Club
    A provocative experience that lights you up even as it brutalizes you. And I don't even like Brad Pitt very much.
  17. Random Hearts
    Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.
  18. The Limey
    (Stamp and Fonda's) polar-opposition in acting styles and temperament, their cultural differences and their pop-cultural synergy come together with almost delicious cacophony.
  19. Superstar
    Endearing if slight, Superstar at least knows what it's doing the whole way.
  20. Boys Don't Cry
    The longest, hardest sit of the season -- you are stuck there, a single tube of puckered muscle, waiting for the extremely ugly violence to occur -- but it is driven by performances of such luminous humanity that they break your heart.
  21. Plunkett & Macleane
    No darn good.
  22. Mystery, Alaska
    We know the story will conclude with a crescendo of frozen-north hallelujahs. Cheering is endemic to Disney. They can't help themselves.
  23. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    This sweet little tale is as informative as it is entertaining for its target audience, the very youngest of the Muppet franchise's fans.
  24. Happy, Texas
    Along with a lot of 10-gallon laughs, Happy, Texas rustles up plenty of goodwill for its larcenous, sexually ambiguous leading men.
  25. Three Kings
    Enormously entertaining.
  26. Drive Me Crazy
    Enough to make any thinking person want to shoot a hole in the screen.
  27. Double Jeopardy
    Beginning with an intriguing premise, which it manages to squander in record time, it turns out to be a thinly imagined, thinly acted, silly exercise in car crashes, chases and nasty outbursts of generic violence.
  28. Mumford
    A sort of thinking-person's cornball movie.
  29. Fever Pitch
    If you don't operate on the premise that soccer is the most important thing in the universe, you might not go along with everything in Fever Pitch.
  30. Jakob the Liar
    But the best thing about Jakob the Liar is that it's not "Patch Adams at Auschwitz."
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