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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. Permanent Midnight
    Screenwriter David Veloz makes his debut behind the camera with this stale and stodgily paced depiction of Stahl's highs and lows. The story, which Veloz also wrote, unfolds via a series of momentum-draining flashbacks. [18 Sep 1998, p.C07]
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  2. Rounders
    And while it's intermittently engaging, the drama's flatter than a sucker's wallet.
  3. Simon Birch
    A magical child movie in which the child is magical, yes, but the movie is not.
  4. 54
    The movie is almost completely uninteresting on the story level but fascinating as a work of imagined reconstruction and anthropology and as a study of the theory and practice of Studio 54.
  5. Dead Man on Campus
    The bad news is that the opening credits, which make sick and darkly comic allusions to suicide, are the best thing about the film.
  6. Your Friends & Neighbors
    The performances are so monotonic that you understand depicting authentic humanity is not the writer-director's goal: Each character has been reduced to a single unpleasant primal trait from which deviation is not permitted.
  7. Next Stop Wonderland
    It's the individual characters, so carefully crafted, who count, as opposed to a tidy conclusion.
  8. Blade
    A vulgar attempt to revamp the undead genre by introducing computer-generated splatter and a casketful of themes from genetic tinkering to conspiracy theories.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. The Avengers
    In this movie, the sense of charm has been obliterated.
  12. Return to Paradise
    Unfortunately, the dramatic potential of such a moral quandary is left largely unmined in director Joseph Ruben's monotonous parlor game of will-he-won't-he. [14 Aug 1998, Pg. N.39]
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  13. Snake Eyes
    A glittery but dunderheaded murder mystery.
  14. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
    The 20th-anniversary sequel to the groundbreaking horror film-and the sixth in an increasingly awful series about the bulletproof murderer Michael Myers-is a styleless and predictable affair.
  15. BASEketball
    The film degenerates into sophomoric name calling and a brand of insult humor that would embarrass Don Rickles.
  16. Ever After
    In this modern retelling of the well-known fable, she is one princess-in-waiting who does not need rescuing by any knight in shining armor. [31 Jul 1998, Pg. N.47]
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  17. The Governess
    The slogging melodrama that emerged still more closely resembles the daily musings of an infatuated teenager than a well-crafted, thoughtful story. [14 Aug 1998]
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  18. The Negotiator
    A whodunit so bafflingly constructed that you can't even figure out what it is, so the whodun part is superfluous.
  19. The Parent Trap
    There is still a self-consciousness and a forced quality to much of the humor that this TPT redux just can't shake.
  20. Saving Private Ryan
    Its relatively minor imperfections seem more glaring when compared to the near flawlessness of the film's lyrical, scorching start.
  21. There's Something About Mary
    Fitfully amusing and ultimately kind of heartwarming in a twisted sort of way
  22. Pi
    In the end, it's primarily a brain teaser, obtuse and ultimately limited in its emotional impact.
  23. Lethal Weapon 4
    A stupid and violent delicacy, congealed nachos and Mountain Dew for the Beavis-and-Butt-head set.
  24. Armageddon
    So predictable it could have been written by a chimp who's watched too much TV, the huge movie is as dumb as it is loud, and it's way too loud.
  25. Out of Sight
    Jack is just one of a dozen enormously appealing personalities in Out of Sight.
  26. Smoke Signals
    A well-crafted story with a unique voice. But its literary gifts are outweighed by its pictorial prosaicness. Dimming the screen in every shot is the unmistakable shadow of the page.
  27. Buffalo '66
    Personal and private almost to the point of self-absorption, the film is ultimately saved from neurotic narcissism by the director's self-deprecating humor and unapologetic honesty about his own dysfunction.
  28. I Went Down
    The Irish independent feature I Went Down is an elusive leprechaun of a film that doggedly resists being pigeonholed. Once caught, however, it yields a small pot of gold in its droll performances and deadpan wit. [3 July 1998, p.N46]
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  29. The X Files
    The X-Files movie is really just a two-hour teaser for the series's sixth season. And little else. You will feel exactly like Mulder when he says, "How many times have we been right here before, Scully? So close to the truth?"
  30. Mulan
    Mulan may be exotic, but it's hardly a risky enterprise, what with its sentimental show tunes, wholesome morals and plucky teen heroine.
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