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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 5.4 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. Twelve Monkeys
    A densely plotted, visually dynamic post-apocalyptic thriller.
  2. Dead Man Walking
    What this intelligent, balanced, devastating movie puts before us is nothing less than a contest between good and evil.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Grumpier Old Men
    Despite his occasional witticisms, the old grump is no great catch, and neither is this movie.
  4. Cutthroat Island
    There's not much adventure on these high seas. This buccaneering boondoggle is more like a slow voyage aboard the PMS Pinafore. [22 Dec 1995, p.C06]
    • Washington Post
  5. Shanghai Triad
    But this whore-and-the-innocent friendship, set in Shanghai during the 1930s, is too trite to pull us in. And the gangster scenario around it (Bi Feiyu wrote the script) is similarly unconvincing.
  6. Nixon
    Nixon is an audacious biography rich in imagination and originality, with a provocative, often subversive sense of character and history. Dense and challenging, it is also undermined in places by Stone's obsessions just as dramatically as Richard Nixon was undermined by his.
  7. Heat
    Ultimately, though, the movie never transcends the limitations of its Hemingwayesque, men-with-men attitudes.
  8. Jumanji
    The script boasts more writers than the computerized menagerie's got megabytes, but they haven't come up with much variety or humor in what is essentially a string of catastrophes.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    Alan Paton's haunting novel is brought rather splendidly to life in this moving production.
  10. Sabrina
    The remake, alas, must mask its failings with Julia Ormond's toothsomeness, Pollack's poky pacing and the uninspired scribblings of writers Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel.
  11. Sense and Sensibility
    Lee, who made the upbeat "Eat Drink Man Woman," plays this double love story as brightly as possible. There's peppy social satire in the smallest of gestures.
  12. Father of the Bride Part II
    Father of the Bride, Part II is a virtual avalanche of cheap emotion. Short on comedy but long on maudlin sentiment, this sequel stumps so hard for the traditional values of home, hearth and family that any possible entertainment value is canceled out.
  13. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
    Ought to be the subject of an obituary, not a review. A creepy film noir modeled on Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs," it was a stinking stiff on arrival.
  14. Wild Bill
    Like the opium dreams that its eponymous hero becomes addicted to, this fragmented, trigger-happy account of Wild Bill Hickok's final years feels like a bad trip through every cheap western knockoff you ever had to sit through.
  15. Toy Story
    Though computer-animated rather than hand-drawn, this wry, rippingly paced buddy movie is as delightful in its own way as any of Walt Disney's traditional fairy tales.
  16. Casino
    Roll past this casino.
  17. The American President
    Like Shepherd's speech, The American President touches on all manner of issues but illumines none of them. And while there are some engaging glimpses of the president's staff in action...the film's principal pleasures lie in the president's pursuit of a first lady.
  18. GoldenEye
    New Bond man Brosnan can't be faulted for much. He's always been generically sexy, a sort of programmed cover boy. In this new venture, he's appropriately handsome, British-accented and suave.
  19. The Crossing Guard
    Penn, who also wrote the script, burdens the story with so many self-indulgent side developments that he loses emotional drive and Freddy's desperate obsession gets lost in the shuffle.
  20. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
    In short, Carrey's got nothing to bounce all that energy off of, not even a solid story line.
  21. Mighty Aphrodite
    In this loser-and-the-whore story line, Allen's sensibilities have taken a turn for the nasty.
  22. Home for the Holidays
    The movie faithfully records the rivalries among the various members of a fractious Baltimore family, but it never really attempts to resolve any of the internecine conflicts. In that sense, it's less ambitious than many a TV series.
  23. Fair Game
    The movie is fast, slick and dumb as a post.
  24. Total Eclipse
    Presumably, there's a poignant story to be told about the love between 19th-century poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. But Agnieszka Holland's Total Eclipse, a pretentious, flat affair, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Rimbaud and David Thewlis as Verlaine, is not the film to pull it off.
  25. Leaving Las Vegas
    Doesn't go down smooth, but it doesn't promise to.
  26. Copycat
    Jon Amiel, who previously directed "Sommersby," delivers a taut, gripping thriller and, with the help of his accomplished leads, succeeds in camouflaging some of the mammoth holes in Ann Biderman and David Madsen's otherwise intelligent and inventive screenplay.
  27. Vampire in Brooklyn
    Murphy has said that he wanted the picture to work both as a comedy and a horror movie, but he has succeeded at neither. Director Craven manages to wedge in some of his signature bits, but can't keep the comic elements in balance with the horror, and as a result there's no tension or dramatic pull.
  28. The Doom Generation
    In short, it's about as charming as a gob of spit.
  29. Get Shorty
    Barry Sonnenfeld's irresistibly charming lampoon of Hollywood.
  30. Mallrats
    I'm guessing even die-hard "Clerks" fans will find this only-in-America stuff only partially satisfying, like something they gorged on at the Eatery, then wished they hadn't.
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