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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. Metroland
    The movie is bittersweet, adult, with a fair eye toward men's eternal spirit of the infantile, and knowing. Possibly it's too slick, but in some awkward way it sums up the true essence of adult life, which is just sort of getting along without doing too much harm. [30 Apr 1999]
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  2. Cookie's Fortune
    Seems to go sideways as often as it goes forward. Altman can't help noticing things more interesting than the story.
  3. The Out-of-Towners
    There was absolutely no reason to make a new version of the 1970 comedy.
  4. 10 Things I Hate About You
    It's a celebration of young American women, finding them smarter, tougher, shrewder, more rigorous, more persistent and more honest than any movie in many a moon.
  5. The Matrix
    One big, fat, honking comic book of a sci-fi-martial-arts adventure flick.
  6. Edtv
    The movie's too slick and obvious about its intentions.
  7. The Mod Squad
    Here's what I really like about The Mod Squad: Nobody in it gives a damn.
  8. A Walk on the Moon
    It's just a simple, actorly drama about big, gaping emotional needs and the consequences a woman can face -- particularly during the 1960s -- for simply owning up to them.
  9. Forces of Nature
    Unhappily, the attractive twosome never give into the pull, just as this coquettish variant of "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" never arrives at its promised destination.
  10. Ravenous
    The film is one of those accursed self-styled "outrageous" comedies that play the horrific for broad laughs, with a comically inflated style of dialogue that's so hip one doubts it could have been conceived before 1997, much less 1847.
  11. The King and I
    An animated King and I? Now there's torture, especially in this wretched, lurid, absurd concoction which seems to have been conceived to annoy adults and bore children.
  12. True Crime
    The geological equivalent of an albatross around the neck. It's another of those Warner Bros. productions that are heavy on star iconography and production values but AWOL on story.
  13. Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    Cinematic sleeping pill.
  14. The Deep End of the Ocean
    The movie's a floating longboat that ought to be ignited and pushed out to sea, Viking style.
  15. The Rage: Carrie 2
    Only reason to watch this: the grisly reward Irving receives for being in this picture.
  16. Baby Geniuses
    The laughs are few, far between and pretty darn faint in this comedy.
  17. The Corruptor
    After a sensational beginning, the movie loses its way in the late going and somehow doesn't deliver. [12 Mar 1999]
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  18. Analyze This
    A pretty woeful affair...a sitcom disguised as a movie.
  19. Cruel Intentions
    The original was about social manipulation as blood sport. Amazing how easily it transports, themes intact, to our blighted decade, and to our children.
  20. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    A considerable kick, though it would have helped if one of the boys had wiped off the lens of the camera once in a while.
  21. 200 Cigarettes
    A twentysomething comedy with a brain-dead script, unflattering lighting and 16 performers in search of a scriptwriter...[It] feels like one-sixth of an idea stretched to the breaking point.
  22. The Other Sister
    The Other Sister is sanctimonious, sanitized fare primarily preoccupied with patting its own back and plucking our heartstrings.
  23. 8MM
    It's sickeningly violent!
  24. Office Space
    A knowing, somewhat slight, often hilarious sendup of cubicle culture.
  25. October Sky
    Paint-by-numbers feel-gooder, in which Homer and his friends decide to win a national science fair for their little town and, ultimately, for America.
  26. Jawbreaker
    Why sit through a lesser imitation, when you could just rent "Heathers" and those other movies for a far more enjoyable time? Drop-dead bitchery? Been there, done that.
  27. Blast from the Past
    A mediocre comic romance.
  28. Message in a Bottle
    There's only one thing to do with this "Bottle": Put a cork in it.
  29. My Favorite Martian
    My Favorite Martian never achieves anything that resembles farcical consistency, let alone farcical bliss, but it has enough playful nonsense scattered around a hit-and-miss scenario to rationalize a kiddie matinee excursion. [12 Feb 1999, p.C16]
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  30. Simply Irresistible
    The dialogue is fast but bad, the acting is loud but awful and the morality is chaste but unromantic. As for the food, it looks vulgar.
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