Chicago Sun-Times' Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 8,157 reviews, this publication has graded:
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73% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 71
| Highest review score: | Falling from Grace | |
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| Lowest review score: | Jupiter Ascending |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6,086 out of 8157
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Mixed: 1,243 out of 8157
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Negative: 828 out of 8157
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Richard Roeper
For the first hour or so, The Mountain Between Us is a tedious and corny survival story, but at least it’s bearable, thanks mainly to the all-in performances from Kate Winslet and Idris Elba.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Oct 5, 2017
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Roger Ebert
The Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Nov 11, 2011
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Scream, Blacula, Scream is just an interim exploitation effort, and a warm-up for the better vampires in Marshall's future.- Chicago Sun-Times
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Roger Ebert
Mad Money is astonishingly casual for a movie about three service workers who steal millions from a Federal Reserve Bank. There is little suspense, no true danger; their plan is simple, the complications are few, and they don't get excited much beyond some high-fives and hugs and giggles.- Chicago Sun-Times
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The standards for comic book superhero movies have been established by "Superman," "The Dark Knight," "Spider-Man 2" and "Iron Man." In that company "Thor" is pitiful. Consider even the comparable villains (Lex Luthor, the Joker, Doc Ock and Obadiah Stane). Memories of all four come instantly to mind. Will you be thinking of Loki six minutes after this movie is over?- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Jul 29, 2011
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Richard Roeper
Kick-Ass 2 is an uninspired retread. All too often it plays like a Comic-Con gone insane, with costumed do-gooders taking on costumed criminals in gratuitously vicious battles.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 15, 2013
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Richard Roeper
It’s always a shame when a group of talented humans get together and deliver something that comes across as a halfhearted effort, even if they poured their blood, sweat and tears into it.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Apr 9, 2021
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This plays like a live-action cartoon where you root for nobody. Everyone seems to think that yelling their lines will make the dialogue funnier. It doesn’t.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted May 1, 2014
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It's a shaky-cam meander through an unconvincing relationship, with detours considering the process of making the film. At 91 minutes, it seems very long.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Jul 14, 2011
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The first All Talking Killer picture. After the setup, it consists mostly of characters explaining their actions to one another.- Chicago Sun-Times
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The kind of movie Mad magazine prays for. It is so earnest, so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied.- Chicago Sun-Times
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Richard Roeper
Sasquatch Sunset is the kind of film that seems almost pre-ordained to reach some level of cult status. Godspeed to those who will embrace its epic-level gross-out factor. I guess I’m just more of a Bucky Badger guy.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Apr 17, 2024
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The characters are bitter and hateful, the images are nauseating, and the ending is bleak enough that when the screen fades to black it's a relief.. Videodrome, whatever its qualities, has got to be one of the least entertaining films of all time.- Chicago Sun-Times
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That Awkward Moment strives to straddle the line between breezy, bromantic comedy and “Hangover”-esque guy humor. It fails miserably on both counts.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Jan 30, 2014
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Stroker Ace is another in a series of essentially identical movies he has made with director Hal Needham, and although it's allegedly based on a novel, it's really based on their previous box-office hits like Smokey and the Bandit and The Cannonball Run.- Chicago Sun-Times
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The movie doesn't know how odd it seems to cut from the bloodshed in the ring to the dialogue of the supporting players, who still think they're in a comedy.- Chicago Sun-Times
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It’s a memorable performance in a film that wants to dazzle us with its trick bag of visuals but is rotten at its core.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Sep 26, 2022
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Bill Stamets
Grudge Match does not work on any level. The story is unconvincing. The comedy elements are weak... And, worst of all, the acting in most scenes — particularly those involving Sylvester Stallone and Kim Basinger — is atrocious.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Dec 23, 2013
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Richard Roeper
Cruz is a deadpan treasure, never cracking the hint of a smile even as he delivers some well-timed one-liners. Wish we could have had an entire movie about this guy. Instead, we were cursed with the annoying and shrieking but not even close to terrifying La Llorona.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Apr 18, 2019
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Central Intelligence is one of those slick, gunplay-riddled, stupidly plotted, aggressively loud buddy movies — so formulaic and dumb, even if you see it you’ll probably forget you’ve seen it by the end of the year...And if that’s the case, consider yourself fortunate.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Jun 15, 2016
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How could director Lawrence Kasdan and writer William Goldman be responsible for a film that goes so awesomely wrong?- Chicago Sun-Times
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You want to see guys with muscles shooting machineguns at guys without muscles? These are the movies for you. You have more than muscles between your ears? Try something else.- Chicago Sun-Times
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A forgettable movie with a forgettable title about forgettable characters I’d just as soon as forget.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Jul 19, 2013
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Wildcats is clearly an attempt by Hawn to repeat a formula that was wonderfully successful in "Private Benjamin": Wide-eyed Goldie copes with the real world. It was less successful in "Protocol," and now it's worn out altogether.- Chicago Sun-Times
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Here is a film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of the will to keep me in the theater.- Chicago Sun-Times
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Caveman seems more in the tradition of Alley Oop, crossed with Mel Brooks's Two Thousand Year Old Man. But the only artistic cross-reference it can manage is from the opening scene of Stanley Kubrick's 2000.- Chicago Sun-Times
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There's nothing wrong with Fast Food Fast Women that a casting director and a rewrite couldn't have fixed.- Chicago Sun-Times
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- Posted Feb 5, 2019
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