Baltimore Sun's Scores

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For 2,175 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Odd Man Out
Lowest review score: 0 Double Team
Score distribution:
2175 movie reviews
  1. One of the unique virtues of the cinema is its ability to bring history to life with engrossing detail and gripping immediacy; East-West does this.
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  2. An absorbing glimpse not only at the phenomenon of punk rock but also at British social history and the rock star mystique.
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  3. This military courtroom drama is full of questions, but woefully short of answers.
  4. The real strength of Return to Me is Hunt, who knows just when to retreat from the film's overriding sweetness and inject a cynical moment or two.
  5. The less said the better.
  6. The one thing most sorely missing is movie magic.
  7. The movie is, to borrow Rob's phrase, unassailably cool.
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    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The script is drippy, humor-free and old-fashioned:
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gordon deserves credit for at least attempting to deal with political themes, and the tension isn't bad either.
  8. A film that immerses its audience in the Indian culture while telling a universally appealing story of grace under pressure.
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    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    There's a movie opening today that is so indistinctive I can barely remember its name.
  9. Characters are manipulated and lives made whole in ways both satisfying and unexpected.
  10. Just don't think about what's going on, and you should be OK.
  11. The kind of movie that gives mainstream Hollywood star vehicles a good name.
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    What the film does, brilliantly, is provoke the intelligent fan to wonder if there's a limit to how far the proceedings can go.
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  12. Fitfully thrilling.
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  13. Plot-wise, this is strictly paint-by-numbers stuff.
  14. A film that really has no idea what it wants to be, so it tries a little of everything, and does nothing very well.
  15. A carefully conceived and earnest movie that announces its many points just a bit too carefully and earnestly.
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  16. A bawdy, brainy sex comedy geared toward smart people with a sophomoric streak.
  17. A thoroughly absorbing, even transfixing, journey to a future that may already be upon us.
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  18. A murder caper that could have been written by Agatha Christie during a pub-crawl.
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  19. Of Madonna's considerable talents, making the camera love her isn't one: The screen seems to go dead every time she's on it.
  20. With a wistful look at the wages of ambition and the failure of promise, Wonder Boys finally celebrates self-awareness, ending on a muted, quietly moving note of triumph.
  21. The out-of-control plot doesn't unfold gracefully or organically; it simply speeds along with no regard for anything other then getting to the next plot twist.
  22. Possesses moments of fleeting grace, pathos and beauty, even if it ultimately doesn't amount to much.
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A gigantic mess.
  23. Ends up being more about her hair (Meg Ryan's) than anything else.
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  24. Filled with delightful sequences.
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  25. (Perry and Willis) are blown off the screen by Amanda Peet and Natasha Henstridge.

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