Chicago Reader's Scores
- Movies
For 6,312 reviews, this publication has graded:
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42% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
| Highest review score: | I Stand Alone | |
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| Lowest review score: | Old Dogs |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,983 out of 6312
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Mixed: 2,456 out of 6312
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Negative: 873 out of 6312
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More interested in standard thriller effects than in giving us human beings to contend with. The audience I saw this with seemed to want to feel insulted, and this piece of crap delivered.- Chicago Reader
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
If you haven't lived until you've heard Geena Davis say "Suck my dick," New Line probably deserves your money.- Chicago Reader
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Pat Graham
Away, away with all of you and your sorry master, director Alan Johnson, whose every prospect for future employment in this darkling realm of TV pilot failure must be waning by the hour.- Chicago Reader
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J.R. Jones
More than anything Chuck and Larry shows just how flaccid American movie comedy has become now that "Saturday Night Live" has replaced vaudeville as our comedy college.- Chicago Reader
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Lisa Alspector
This derivative concept movie is tiresomely slick as well as shamefully sloppy, and someone should issue a restraining order requiring writer-director Darren Stein to stay at least 100 yards away from irony.- Chicago Reader
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J.R. Jones
I can't remember when I last hated an art-house movie as much as this one...Other reviewers have praised the film's alleged quirky humor, but I was repelled by the two heartless creeps who set the story in motion and baffled by the protagonist's fascination with them.- Chicago Reader
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
In what I saw, Madonna in the title role tries bravely not to buckle under the weight of Stone and Parker's sense of Stalinist monumentality and fails honorably, while the Lloyd Webber music goes on being nonmusical.- Chicago Reader
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Cliff Doerksen
To judge from this agonizing documentary, sniveling man-child Joaquin Phoenix was put on earth to make us appreciate Crispin Glover for the level-headed fellow he is.- Chicago Reader
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
The ethnic humor that gave May's movie its charge is replaced by crass mean-spiritedness. If I were in movie hell, I'd rather see "Good Luck Chuck" again than return to this atrocity.- Chicago Reader
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J.R. Jones
Glowna presents this smoky German feature as an elegy for lost youth, but it's so tumescent with male self-pity that I couldn't wait for it to end.- Chicago Reader
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By now the hypocrisy of simultaneously condemning and exploiting the audience's sadism has become so commonplace in American movies it hardly seems noteworthy.- Chicago Reader
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This ends on an uplifting and philosophical note, equating moral blindness with the literal sort, which you'll probably appreciate if you haven't already slit your wrists.- Chicago Reader
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Hank Sartin
Nothing's quite so painful as failed comedy, and this atrocity is equivalent to a compound fracture.- Chicago Reader
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J.R. Jones
With its pathetic characters, questionable logic, and wall-to-wall Beethoven, the movie is a serious contender for this year's Golden Turkey award.- Chicago Reader
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This comedy is a bilge pump of tacky jokes, fake sentiment, and hollow performances, accompanied on the soundtrack by lite rock and hokey music cues. It should never have been made, though it's probably guaranteed a long life at bad-film festivals.- Chicago Reader
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This putrid action flick crawls along for two and a half hours before expiring in a septic field of bad one-liners, halfhearted catchphrases, obliterated cars, vicious slow-motion bullet penetration, graphic corpse mutilations played for laughs, and shamefully hollow bonding scenes between its two dyspeptic megastars.- Chicago Reader
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Cliff Doerksen
Screenwriters David Johnson and Alex Mace deliver one of the stupidest "twist endings" in the history of storytelling.- Chicago Reader
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This might have had some potential as a German exercise in self-examination, but as a tony BBC Films production, with the actors all speaking British-accented English (including Jersey girl Farmiga), it reeks of self-righteousness.- Chicago Reader
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As romantic comedies go, this is the worst drivel I've seen since Nia Vardalos's "I Hate Valentine's Day."- Chicago Reader
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Lisa Alspector
Horrendous dialogue and horrific directing dominate this thriller.- Chicago Reader
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