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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. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Relentlessly offensive.
  2. The Kid
    So rich in processed sugar, canned sentiment and schmaltz, I thought I was going to throw up.
  3. Scary Movie
    The only thing that's truly scary about the movie is the escalating vulgarity of the latest in a string of skanky comedies by filmmakers determined to out-gross the other.
  4. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Never asks its target audience of self-referential baby boomers and their littles bundles of joy to take it more seriously than it takes itself.
  5. The Perfect Storm
    As a movie, this is exciting stuff.
  6. Trixie
    Although the hallmarks of Rudolph movies can be found everywhere -- they don't add up to the usual magic this time.
  7. The Patriot
    Mostly, the movie is riveting, well-done fare -- the stuff of Hollywood epic adventure.
  8. Me, Myself & Irene
    If you choose to see this puerile tripe, check your dignity at the door.
  9. Chicken Run
    The visual comedy is brilliant.
  10. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    It's the sort of movie that can make normally well-read and intelligent viewers feel stupid.
  11. Titan A.E.
    It continually crashes and burns on its own banality.
  12. Shaft
    Shaft? Not in this splashy-but-empty remake he isn't.
  13. Boys and Girls
    An adolescent romance that isn't smart enough to mirror "When Harry Met Sally" or crudely amusing enough to get close to "American Pie."
  14. Butterfly Tongues
    The film's climax was only one of several moments that left me utterly verklempt, without ever knowing that my buttons were being pushed.
  15. Jesus' Son
    Crudup gives a performance that is by turns scary, heartbreaking, grotesque and funny as hell.
  16. Love's Labour's Lost
    KEN, KEN, KEN, not another Shakespeare, pleeeeeeez.
  17. Groove
    The best thing about this movie? It's short.
  18. Sunshine
    It's a brilliant, profound movie, but it's almost no fun at all.
  19. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    There were moments when I thought Gone in 60 Seconds might be a passably entertaining movie. I figure those moments, strung end-to-end, would total 30 or 40 seconds.
  20. Big Momma's House
    If you're not rolling in the aisles, you're definitely in the wrong theater.
  21. Grass
    It has as much of an ax to grind as the humorless and misguided bureaucrats it mocks.
  22. Passion of Mind
    You won't feel enlightened, just let down
  23. 8 ½ Women
    Intentionally defies categorization and explication.
  24. Shanghai Noon
    Childishly simple, but extremely funny.
  25. Kikujirô no natsu
    The episodes are too convoluted to get into.
  26. Mission: Impossible II
    Such a feast of outlandish pleasures it'll send you home steam-cleaned and shrink-wrapped.
  27. Small Time Crooks
    Diverting and provides a satisfying alternative to teen-oriented summer comedy.
  28. Road Trip
    It satisfies your appetite for totally tasteless but deliciously flaky boy movies.
  29. Dinosaur
    The occasional big moments are stunning, and kids from the ages of, say, 6 years to 6 years and 3 days will love it. Anyone younger will be scared; anyone older, bored.
  30. Center Stage
    All dancing and hugging and no good.
  31. Hamlet
    A darkly interesting distraction but not much more.
  32. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.
  33. Gladiator
    Friends, Washingtonians, countrymen, I come not to praise Gladiator but to bury it.
  34. I Dreamed of Africa
    The story the film tells ruins the movie.
  35. Up at the Villa
    Moderately pleasing adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novella.
  36. Adorenarin doraibu
    A pleasure because of zany developments like this, and a healthy dose of amusing characters.
  37. Human Traffic
    I'd rather sit in bumper-to-bumper hell on I-495 for two hours than get caught in Traffic again.
  38. Frequency
    It's like a chick flick for men--and the women who love them, sniff-sniff.
  39. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    It's zany. Actually, it's so zany it's almost creepy.
  40. Bossa Nova
    Unromantic, nonsexual and hellaciously dull.
  41. Where the Heart Is
    Tries to put your tear ducts in a headlock with a litany of catastrophes.
  42. Timecode
    A brain-cramping and eye-straining experiment in digital filmmaking.
  43. Committed
    Should have never made it up the distribution aisle.
  44. 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.
  45. The Last September
    More interesting for the world it evokes rather than the drama that unfolds.
  46. U-571
    The real star of U-571 is its sheer visceral atmosphere.
  47. Croupier
    Demonstrates that a movie need not be good to be cool.
  48. The Virgin Suicides
    While not exactly a cop-out, Virgin may leave some viewers who crave traditional closure with the same hollow ache described by the narrator as follows: "What lingered after them was not life but the most trivial list of mundane facts."
  49. Love & Basketball
    This one has crossover hit written all over it.
  50. Where the Money Is
    The bad news? The story, which rumbles along like an unattended wheelchair on a gently sloping sidewalk.
  51. Keeping the Faith
    May be the most ruggedly decent film to come along in a couple of decades.
  52. East Is East
    An edgy, irreverent, thoroughly winning comedy.
  53. American Psycho
    There's nothing beyond the bloodshed and gallows humor, just intellectually secondhand implications about materialism, conformity and misogyny.
  54. Return to Me
    So phony it makes your gums ache.
  55. Southpaw
    If Southpaw leaves you hungry, this much is also true: The "food" was good in the first place.
  56. Rules of Engagement
    It is the verdict of this court that it be led to a stockade reserved exclusively for cheap, pandering movies and duly shot.
  57. Est - Ouest
    The two-hour film never feels a minute too long.
  58. Joe Gould's Secret
    A brainy, superbly acted buddy movie.
  59. Ready to Rumble
    Bizarre yet popular.
  60. Price of Glory
    Smits can't wrench free of this tangle of cliches.
  61. The Road to El Dorado
    The movie itself may be a species of Montezuma's revenge.
  62. High Fidelity
    A guaranteed pleasure for anyone who ever loved pop music, owned a record collection or suffered in love
  63. The Color of Paradise
    A heartbreaker, plain and simple.
  64. Here on Earth
    A moldy teenage tear-jerker.
  65. Whatever It Takes
    It's still got some panache.
  66. Such a Long Journey
    There's a refreshingly unusual spirit at work.
  67. Waking the Dead
    This wonderfully acted romance brings the touching fantasy "Truly, Madly, Deeply" to mind.
  68. Romeo Must Die
    Based on "Romeo and Juliet" the way a martini is "based" on vermouth.
  69. Erin Brockovich
    It is a rabble-rousing cheerfest, based on a true story.
  70. Final Destination
    Your own final destination just might be the box office, to demand your money back.
  71. Beyond the Mat
    You don't have to love WWF scrapping to appreciate this movie.
  72. Deterrence
    A surprisingly gripping experience.
  73. Mission to Mars
    I'm not sure if it was that or the cloying script, but after a couple of hours of spinning around listening to this drivel I felt like I was going to barf.
  74. The Ninth Gate
    Polanski, generally, has fallen farther than Lucifer, and into a more profoundly depressing hell, the hell of utter banality.
  75. The Next Best Thing
    Really two movies in one, and there's not enough breathing room for both of them.
  76. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    It's too bloody to be funny and too silly to be dramatic and too self-indulgent to be anything other than what it is, one more bad movie.
  77. Drowning Mona
    I watched Mona. I felt like drowning.
  78. What Planet Are You From?
    Has its sinfully funny moments. Funny, that is, if you appreciate a certain cynical clamminess -- or Buck Henry seediness -- to your comedy.
  79. Judy Berlin
    Something to get excited about.
  80. Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
    Extraordinarily poetic, suspenseful film.
  81. Reindeer Games
    Here's a film that so merrily thumbs its nose at propriety in exchange for visceral thrills, and at probability in exchange for the really cool plot twist, that it checks in as the guiltiest pleasure since "The 13th Warrior."
  82. The Closer You Get
    Derivative dumpling of a romantic comedy about Irish sexuality.
  83. Wonder Boys
    The sad truth is that Wonder Boys is little more than a sentimentalized encomium to the disheveled, childish life it ascribes to writers.
  84. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
    A portrait of a hero.
  85. Beautiful People
    The movie's devil-may-care freneticism is edgily amusing, almost liberating.
  86. Boiler Room
    As a piece of journalism then, Boiler Room is first class.
  87. Hanging Up
    Essentially an extended cutesy session.
  88. The Whole Nine Yards
    This Matt Perry vehicle is funnier than anyone could hope to expect.
  89. Not One Less
    At first, the picture is moving. . And suddenly charm turns to quasi-commie didacticism.
  90. Pitch Black
    You are allowed to come up with a monster we haven't seen before.
  91. Cotton Mary
    Serves as a fascinating exploration of racial and social prejudice; and an indictment of cultural miscegenation.
  92. Snow Day
    There's little here to offend anyone, and even less here to excite anyone.
  93. The Tigger Movie
    Feels more like an overblown TV special than a grand theatrical release.
  94. The Beach
    Relentlessly beautiful and wholly annoying.
  95. Scream 3
    It's plenty entertaining, but the ending is disappointing, given the buildup.
  96. The Cup
    A chalice of unpretentious delight, flowing over with goodwill, a cheeky love for soccer and, uh, Buddhist humor.
  97. Isn't She Great
    If it were the last videotape available in the only video store in the remotest corner of Alaska, I'd take one last slug of Jack Daniels and start walking directly into the howling snows.
  98. Down to You
    Neither character seems especially insightful, and their intense focus on the self and the terrific delicacy of their feelings comes to feel narcissistic and annoying.
  99. My Dog Skip
    I had to beg my 8-year-old to stop laughing.
  100. Next Friday
    Hilarious.
  101. Fantasia 2000
    Then as now, visually pleasant and (of course) musically wonderful but, all-in-all, a mixed bag.
  102. The Hurricane
    Brilliantly played by Denzel Washington
  103. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Extraordinary documentary.
  104. The Third Miracle
    I'd give this movie about half a miracle.
  105. Play It to the Bone
    As dull as the decor in a Motel 6.
  106. Titus
    There's something hideously pretentious about the whole thing.
  107. Galaxy Quest
    Funny without being flip.
  108. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Enter the world of the sociopathic killer and enjoy.
  109. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Never transports you to another place and time, as it intends to.
  110. Angela's Ashes
    In the translation from page to film, the life seems to have gone out of the story
  111. Any Given Sunday
    It's about as deep as electronic white noise.
  112. Man on the Moon
    All credit to Carrey, whose one-man performance is almost enough to redeem the movie.
  113. Girl, Interrupted
    Tired conventions, hoary themes and obvious conclusions.
  114. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    A stunner -- as big and messy as a war, as small and perfect as a diamond.
  115. Bicentennial Man
    A cold, protracted and unemotional affair.
  116. Stuart Little
    The tale is propelled by its characters and buoyed by the film's warm and loving spirit.
  117. Topsy-Turvy
    A 160 minute work of sustained brilliance and delicacy.
  118. Anna and the King
    Fails as the big-screen romance it wants to be. The main problem: There's only one heart between the principals, and it beats solely in Chow's chest.
  119. Magnolia
    As intoxicating as the flower it's named for, and its characters, most of them as flawed and fascinating as the film itself, seem intoxicated by the overpowering scent.
  120. The Cider House Rules
    The movie is pure pro-choice agitprop, as it tracks Homer's conversion to the cause of choice and posits the heroism of the abortionist. Pro-lifers will hate it on that point alone.
  121. Cradle Will Rock
    Cradle Will Rock is left in mid-rock, as it were, its energy squandered, its sense of history confused, its sound and fury ultimately signifying nothing.
  122. Miss Julie
    Overwritten, overextended and clunkily symbolic
  123. Stir of Echoes
    There's visceral horror, too, including a grisly image -- a horror-in-miniature involving a fingernail -- that located an open nerve in my jaded ability to endure screen violence.
  124. The Green Mile
    From its deceptively easygoing beginning to the heart-wrenching finale, The Green Mile keeps you wonderfully high above the cynical ground.
  125. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    A considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other 'SNL' alums.
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  126. Agnes Browne
    A generally well-made tale of humor and hard luck.
  127. Holy Smoke
    There's so much wrong with this movie.
  128. The End of the Affair
    Fails to capture the spiritual hallelujah of the novel.
  129. Sweet and Lowdown
    Penn's performance is the movie's ultimate grace note. As funny and ingenious as Allen's films can get, they are rarely known for depth of character.
  130. Flawless
    A coy seriocomedy distantly related to--but missing the sting of--"Kiss of the Spider Woman."
  131. Tumbleweeds
    Janet McTeer doesn't imitate Mary Jo Walker, and she doesn't act her. She becomes her. It's almost spooky.
  132. End of Days
    All fire-and-brimstone bunk, a tired compendium of involuntary crucifixions, grim messages carved into human flesh, fly buzzings, ominous choral chants on the soundtrack and at least one head twisting.
  133. Ride with the Devil
    In its quiet way, Ride With the Devil is terrific.
  134. Toy Story 2
    A sequel that eclipses the original. The toys are back with even more hilarious vengeance. The story's twice as inventive as its predecessor.
  135. The World Is Not Enough
    The new Bond movie is pure nonsense art of the dadaist school; it follows the rules of the ridiculous as it turns narrative convention, thriller formula and special-effects set pieces into a manifesto of the purest gibberish.
  136. All About My Mother
    It's enough to make your head spin, but Almodovar, whose mastery of the medium has never been more assured, gives you plenty to think about, ultimately grounding the dizzy whirl of his idiosyncratic fictional world in a story that feels not just true but universal.
  137. Sleepy Hollow
    In Burton's hands, Washington Irving's spooky classic is reincarnated as an overripe, grisly Goth cartoon.
  138. Mansfield Park
    It isn't Austen, but it's delicious fun.
  139. Liberty Heights
    Demonstrates what writer-director Levinson does best: evoke the sights, smells and atmosphere of his youth with intelligence, humor and a keen sense of social perspective.
  140. Anywhere But Here
    So closely observed, so funny and so true to the junk that is everybody's real--as opposed to movie--life that it comes to feel like some kind of a miracle.
  141. Felicia's Journey
    So elegantly layered and emotionally restrained, it makes the horror at its center all the more disturbing.
  142. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Never was the case for psychotropic medication more acute than in Jovovich's performance.
  143. Dogma
    For a while, the film is screamingly funny, but the further it goes, the more muddled the narrative becomes.
  144. Light It Up
    Benefits from affecting performances from a gifted cast headed by R&B heartthrob Usher Raymond.
  145. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    An unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production that has been re-edited, rescored and rewritten for American tots and padded out to feature length with a plotless short called "Pikachu's Vacation."
  146. The Bachelor
    Cutesy in the television sitcom sense.
  147. Train of Life
    Less-than-scintillating spin on "Life Is Beautiful."
  148. American Movie
    As quintessential a story of American ambition as Welles' own "Citizen Kane."
  149. The Bone Collector
    You may have as much fun tearing it apart in its aftermath as you do watching it, but the fun is still genuine.
  150. The Insider
    A well-orchestrated nightmare that keeps you on edge until the very end.
  151. Last Night
    An end-of-the-world movie like no other.
  152. Music of the Heart
    Another sentimental mushfest disguised as a movie.
  153. The Legend of 1900
    An enchanting, staggeringly beautiful epic at sea, is poetry in motion.
  154. 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.
  155. 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.
  157. Three to Tango
    The movie's half over before it really starts to whack at the funny bone.
  158. Bats
    Hopeless rip-off of Hitchcock's "The Birds."
  159. Body Shots
    Tries so hard to be cool that it forgets to be alive.
  160. 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.
  161. Bringing Out the Dead
    Doesn't pack the punch of Schrader and Scorsese's career-best collaborations ("Raging Bull," "Taxi Driver").
  162. Julien Donkey-Boy
    The stranger and more unusual the characters, and the less they're explained, the better.
  163. 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.
  164. Joe the King
    Leads you through a miserable childhood without sentimentality or relief. The effect is torturous.
  165. The Straight Story
    Cuts a path directly to the heart.
  166. Fight Club
    A provocative experience that lights you up even as it brutalizes you. And I don't even like Brad Pitt very much.
  167. Random Hearts
    Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.
  168. 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.
  169. Superstar
    Endearing if slight, Superstar at least knows what it's doing the whole way.
  170. 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.
  171. Plunkett & Macleane
    No darn good.
  172. 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.
  173. 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.
  174. Happy, Texas
    Along with a lot of 10-gallon laughs, Happy, Texas rustles up plenty of goodwill for its larcenous, sexually ambiguous leading men.
  175. Three Kings
    Enormously entertaining.
  176. Drive Me Crazy
    Enough to make any thinking person want to shoot a hole in the screen.
  177. 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.
  178. Mumford
    A sort of thinking-person's cornball movie.
  179. 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.
  180. Jakob the Liar
    But the best thing about Jakob the Liar is that it's not "Patch Adams at Auschwitz."
  181. Guinevere
    Affecting, gloriously acted.
  182. Sugar Town
    May not rock the joint. But then, it isn't trying to.
  183. Blue Streak
    A pooped, poorly executed buddy-cop comedy with more cliches than expletives.
  184. For Love of the Game
    The baseball half of the story just slightly works. ... Nothing in [the other] half of the film works.
  185. American Beauty
    Hilarious, painful and brutally frank.
  186. Love Stinks
    This movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.
  187. Stigmata
    A vicious anti-Catholic diatribe disguised as an audition tape for MTV.
  188. Outside Providence
    Fitfully amusing but nothing remarkable
  189. Chill Factor
    An irredeemably transparent... DIRECT RIPPING OFF OF "SPEED."
  190. The Muse
    The list of great moments is virtually endless.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Dog of Flanders
    A beautiful, sad, spiritual story with joy and delicacy, visual chops and emotional depth.
  192. The 13th Warrior
    Too lightweight and streamlined to be memorable.
  193. Dudley Do-Right
    Performances feel too manufactured to be charming.
  194. In Too Deep
    Has a gritty authenticity to it … captures the spectacularly crazed quality of urban violence.
  195. Mickey Blue Eyes
    About as funny as digging your own grave in an unmarked part of New Jersey.
  196. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Lazily written and hopelessly miscast.
  197. Brokedown Palace
    This is not a fantastic movie. But there's more to it than just an MTV-slickified "Midnight Express" starring two young, photogenic stars.
  198. Bowfinger
    Lacks emotional depth and intellectual sincerity.
  199. Detroit Rock City
    Well, it could have been good. But this goofy homage to Kiss fans gets dry mouth pretty fast.
  200. Better Than Chocolate
    You'd think indie filmmakers would have learned by now that people tend to put on a sober face when addressed from the pulpit.
  201. Autumn Tale
    A movie that dares you to slow down and enjoy the subtleties of life.
  202. Mystery Men
    A live-action cartoon without dramatic focus, a solid structure or discernible theme.
  203. The Thomas Crown Affair
    A full-throttle fantasy, about as heady a movie experience as it gets.
  204. The Iron Giant
    Still, the movie -- as beautifully drawn, as sleek and engaging as it is -- has the annoyance of incredible smugness.
  205. The Sixth Sense
    It's like an enema to the soul as it probes the ways of death ? some especially grotesque in a family setting. You leave slightly asquirm. You know it will linger.
  206. Twin Falls Idaho
    Entrancing, uncommonly compassionate film.
  207. Runaway Bride
    [Gere] seemed to be improvising his way from beginning to end, like he was disgusted with the actual script.
  208. Deep Blue Sea
    You have a movie in which sharks with triple-digit IQs hunt humans with double-digit IQs. It’s no contest.
  209. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    Screenwriter Lona Williams and director Michael Patrick Jann spare no attempt to show characters at their zaniest, wackiest or most grotesque. The effect is disconcerting. Is this light comedy or dark satire? It ends up being neither.
  210. Inspector Gadget
    The movie, based on the TV cartoon series, is exceptionally pleasant, and there's just enough humor to make it enjoyable for adults.
  211. The Haunting
    Eugenio Zanetti's set design is wonderful. But the movie isn't enough to make people check the shadows when they leave the theater.
  212. Lake Placid
    It's laughably stupid, only fitfully scary and relatively harmless summer fun – if you're 12 years old, in which case you probably aren't supposed to be going to movies like this anyway.
  213. The Wood
    Despite the unforced humor and honesty in the performances of its young and talented cast, The Wood spends too much time wallowing in arrested adolescence to make you feel you've traveled anywhere.
  214. Eyes Wide Shut
    It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat.
  215. The Blair Witch Project
    Low-tech inventiveness at its best.
  216. Arlington Road
    Although the film starts out with well-mounted menace, Arlington Road becomes increasingly overwrought and predictable.
  217. Summer of Sam
    If there's any moral to this sorry story, perhaps Lee's stealth-message is it: Even when it's not about race, it is.
  218. Wild Wild West
    A rambling wreck from computer tech and a helluva souvenir –- that is, for those interested in artifacts representing the American movie at its worst.
  219. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Sharp, wildly funny social satire behind the profanity and potty jokes.
  220. Big Daddy
    Dismal. Lame. Not funny.
  221. Tarzan
    Speaking of Jane, Minnie Driver gets the big banana for top off-screen performance. She brims over with prissiness and pep, tenderness and visionary appreciation.
  222. An Ideal Husband
    We are amused. We are not sputtering into our teacups, but we are chortling lightly.
  223. Run Lola Run
    Kind of like watching a John Waters film on fast forward with all the good parts cut out. It's empty of charm and meaning, but it certainly kills time, for those who wish it dead.
  224. The General's Daughter
    A prosaic, sexually perverse thriller masquerading as a critical look at military injustice.
  225. 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.
  226. Instinct
    A sloppily structured, snoozily paced psychodrama about living in harmony with nature and all the rest of that tree-hugging hooey.
  227. The Thirteenth Floor
    Rusnak, who was the second-unit director of "Godzilla," brings plenty of style to this ambitious yet utterly anticlimactic thumb-sucker.
  228. Notting Hill
    So the film has this weird postmodernist taint: It has a self-aware script that cleverly plays off the reality of its own cast and their famous real-life contretemps. It's smart and knowing.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    Figgis depends on his considerable ability to evoke mood in a symphony of image, montage and music. But these scenes, watchable as some of them are (and I don't mean the Fall of Man Follies), don't accumulate into much more than abstract mush. [25 Jun 1999]
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  230. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
    The Empire strikes out.
  231. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Hoffman introduces a memorable sensuality to the movie.
  232. Tea with Mussolini
    Tea With Mussolini is really about the first women in the Italian director's life. It's drawn from a single chapter of his book but suffers from a lack of focus. None of these great ladies is willing to give up center stage; nor, for that matter, are the grande dames who bring them so vividly to life.
  233. After Life
    After Life is really a celebration of before-death: It's a complete rarity, for movies in general, for Washington in specific--pure sweetness of spirt. [8 Sept 1999, p.C9]
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  234. The Mummy
    Fast and furious, shallow, empty, casually racist, merry, jaunty, silly and utterly weightless.
  235. Idle Hands
    Let's talk about it quickly, because the thumbs of both my hands have gone similarly crazy. They're pointing downward and refuse to budge until I finish this review.
  236. The Winslow Boy
    The case is tried off-screen. Thank goodness for the maid (Sarah Flind), who runs home from her chores with tidings from the outside world -- we hear from the maid that Sir Bobby gave a helluva final argument. The jurors wept, the crowd went wild. Too bad we missed it.
  237. Entrapment
    Even the most ardent fans of the natural-born Bond are more apt to be shaken than stirred by the 68-year-old's implausible feats in this inert romantic adventure.
  238. Pushing Tin
    A fast-paced, twisty-turny, high-fiving, but ultimately spiraling disaster of a movie about air traffic controllers, gets lost in this hyperbolic cloud cover, never to be found again.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
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    Spade is no actor. He's a quipper. And his acerbic asides aren't anywhere near funny enough to carry a movie.
  240. eXistenZ
    Crazy? Crazy is too mild a word by far to describe the twisted worm at play inside the skull of the Canadian director David Cronenberg -- And that craziness is given full vent in the vomitorium called eXistenZ.
  241. Election
    A wonderful, piercing and hilarious examination of high school politics and how bitter and ruinous it can become.
  242. Life
    Feels as if it's inspired by the old "Road" comedies of Crosby and Hope. Except that it's "On the Road to Hell."
  243. SLC Punk!
    Ultimately, SLC Punk! doesn't have enough dimension to maintain dramatic interest.
  244. Go
    The latest furiously paced, perversely entertaining "Pulp Fiction" for puppies.
  245. Never Been Kissed
    Predictable, slightly painful and as embarrassing as all get-out.
  246. Metroland
    It's a thoughtfully constructed story, with nuanced performances all around and even a mild surprise thrown in, but the whole thing feels ever so slightly enervated, like a game of chess between codgers in the park.
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