Baltimore Sun's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
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. A marvelous picture and a highly unusual journey in and around the Holocaust.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Designed to shock and rock the viewer with disturbing imagery, the film misses the point once too often.
  2. Giamatti provides those small moments of triumph that Duets pretends to celebrate but instead stifles with its sense of superiority.
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  3. Has the sentiment and sweetness of a good coming-of-age movie but lacks the drive and pulse that makes for a great rock and roll movie.
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  4. As ugly, excessive and vulgar as "The Usual Suspects" was stylish, subtle and suave.
  5. Aimless and unfocused.
  6. Unsparing and uplifting - a wickedly difficult combination to pull off, but one that gives the film an emotional weight that's impossible to dismiss.
  7. A story about unmotivated characters trapped in an ill-conceived plot.
  8. So understatedly good.
  9. Black and white has never looked more stark.
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  10. To his (Snipes) credit, there are few other stars who could breathe a degree of credibility into a film like The Art of War.
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Doesn't break any ground -- but it looks good in a tight sweater.
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  11. Little more than an electronic press kit for the band, produced for the benefit of its fans.
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  12. Fanaro's script never really hones in on the concept's potential.
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  13. These guys are funny.
  14. The Cell is eye candy - but it could give your brain a bad case of indigestion.
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gives aficionados what they want and is surprisingly kid-friendly.
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  15. Goes straight to hell, and in this case it is its own handbasket.
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  16. For movie fans who despair of the state of American cinema, the in-jokes are hilarious.
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  17. The story of the triumphant underdog is irresistible, even when every single plot point comes marching down Main Street.
  18. Playing a perpetual victim like Victor (Walken) might be easy, but making audiences want to watch him for 97 minutes isn't.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    A passionate, heart-wrenching film that is a must-see for any romantic.
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  19. There's no denying the raw emotional power of this heart-rending story.
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  20. A welcome anomaly - a shallow hero you root for.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It has enough humanity to let the humor tickle, and a subject that will evoke memories for anyone who has ever smoked a joint or just said no.
  21. Laura's histrionics sometimes seem forced, and Hines has to struggle to be the heel the screenplay sometimes asks him to be.
  22. Arrives as a balm to seared adult psyches that have endured all manner of assaults at the multiplex this season.
  23. Doesn't display a single deep thought, or even a middlingly profound one.
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  24. How can we make the entire movie disappear?
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  25. Character-rich, but plot-poor.

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