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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. Henry Fool
    Henry Fool, the fascinating and often infuriating new film from the idiosyncratic Hal Hartley. [24 Jul 1998]
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  2. Edge of Seventeen
    Obviously, this movie isn't for everyone. But if anyone can take a crossover audience through the gay terrain, it's Stafford. As Eric, his utter heart-stopping anticipation when he sits alone in a car with Rod, is palpable. Through his eyes, you can feel so much at stake here, not the least of which is his innocence.
  3. Six Days Seven Nights
    When the danger subsides and the sparkless romance returns to the foreground, the vehicle comes sputtering back to earth with a thud, weighed down by the inertia of its leaden leading lady.
  4. Can't Hardly Wait
    True to the film's name, there is one thing I couldn't hardly wait for, and that's the closing credits.
  5. A Perfect Murder
    The trouble is, we don't really much care about this philandering billionaire glamour puss, who seems perfectly capable of taking care of herself. We don't care about her husband or lover either.
  6. The Truman Show
    One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.
  7. The Last Days of Disco
    Eavesdropping on the glib conversations of witty urbanites can be a pleasant diversion, but after so much volubility, you might find yourself wishing that they would all just shut up and dance.
  8. Hope Floats
    Despite its hopeful title and a warm inland location, this dawdling family dramedy proves as sodden as a bed-wetter's mattress.
  9. The Opposite of Sex
    Very much like sex. On second thought, make that bad sex. Actually, sexual assault is more like it. It will leave you feeling used, bruised, violated, mistrustful and unclean.
  10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    Watching it is like being forced to listen to bad heavy metal music turned up to 11 while fat guys in Bermuda shorts compete in a puking contest in the john.
  11. Bulworth
    This is a great liberal movie, which is to say, it will be loved most passionately by great liberals, and despised by the conservatives it contemptuously fails to notice.
  12. Godzilla
    Size vanquishes both substance and subtlety in the overhyped, half-cocked and humorless resurrection of dear old "Godzilla."
  13. The Horse Whisperer
    The movie is not only a better version of the book, it's a work unto itself.
  14. Quest for Camelot
    Quest for Camelot, the first feature-length, fully animated film from the Warner Bros. studio, is a quasi-feminist Arthurian adventure about a young woman who wants to become a knight of the Round Table. It is also, unfortunately, a derivative rip-off.
  15. Deep Impact
    For a suspense drama, Impact is a slack, oddly enervated and mawkish soup of largely lethargic performances.
  16. He Got Game
    The problem, sadly, is that the whole amounts to less than the sum of its parts.
  17. Sliding Doors
    Sliding Doors is frothy stuff, far more complicated in structure than in content.
  18. The Big Hit
    Though R-rated, its real target audience is under 18 -- either in years or IQ points.
  19. Two Girls and a Guy
    Cerebral, frenetic and funny, this chamber piece from filmmaker James Toback provides a timely if inconclusive comment on monogamy.
  20. The Object of My Affection
    Wendy Wasserstein brings a dull pen to this literary adaptation, which shows none of the bite or savvy of Stephen McCauley's novel.
  21. Suicide Kings
    The mixture of tension, yuks and horrific violence at times reminds one of nothing more than a poor man's "Pulp Fiction."
  22. Nightwatch
    Tasteless and without redeeming social value, and also dank with the stench of decomposition masked by not enough formaldehyde, Nightwatch is the best kind of movie pleasure, a completely guilty one. [17 Apr 1998]
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  23. City of Angels
    Needless to say, in the age of inferior remakes, this would-be homage -- a sort of Wim Wenders Lite -- is a mawkish debasement of its source material.
  24. The Spanish Prisoner
    The movie's surface of bright, brittle patter, initially off-putting, comes finally to serve as camouflage for the sinister movement of large and powerful forces.
  25. Lost in Space
    A galactic slump of a movie that stuffs its travel bag with special effects but forgets to pack the charm.
  26. Mercury Rising
    In Mercury Rising, the mercury may rise but pulses never do. A promising thriller with tough guy Bruce Willis wearing an ever-more radiant tapestry of bruises on his face, the film ultimately surrenders to the entropy of stale plotting and familiar formula.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Barney's Great Adventure
    Better than the ubiquitous PBS show in some places, not as good in others. [03 Apr 1998, p.N53]
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  28. The Newton Boys
    It trickles and moseys about on its old good time, punctuated by guffaws and thigh-slapping and the occasional eyeball-blasting jolt from the white lightning, but never really manages to achieve the formal status of "story."
  29. Wild Things
    The movie is as tawdry as someone else's lingerie, yet not without a certain prurient watchability.
  30. Primary Colors
    Its palette isn't primary at all: It's full of secondary shadings.
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