Chicago Sun-Times' Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 8,156 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: 6,085 out of 8156
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Mixed: 1,243 out of 8156
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Negative: 828 out of 8156
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Beautiful. Even on the small screen. Yes, it’s a shame that American audiences won’t be able to see Niki Caro’s spectacular live-action epic “Mulan” in theaters, but the good news is this is such a great-looking film, with amazing set pieces and dazzling action and colors so vibrant they would dazzle a Crayola factory, it will still play well on your home monitor.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Sep 3, 2020
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The material is pretty thin and some of the jokes get repetitive, but Get Duked! is good stoner comedy fun, and quite the promising debut from a rookie filmmaker.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 29, 2020
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things is crazy good.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 29, 2020
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The result is just a bigger, louder, more special effects-laden extension of a franchise that skated on pretty thin ice the first two times around.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 27, 2020
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There’s no doubting Arquette’s sincere desire to learn the sport and craft of wrestling, to get into shape, to resuscitate his career, to make his family proud. We’re still rooting for the guy.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 27, 2020
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It offers some valuable insights into Trump’s behavior, and offers a compelling counterargument to some widely accepted notions about whether or not psychiatrists should even be allowed to comment on the mental health of individuals they have not personally treated.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 27, 2020
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In the flourishing genre of faith-based movies, this is one of the better efforts we’ve seen.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 27, 2020
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Take the “smart” out of “Booksmart,” the “super” out of “Superbad” and the edge out of “The Purge,” and you get the Hulu movie The Binge, one of the worst comedies of this or any other year, notable only because it features what might just be the most terrible performance in Vince Vaughn’s up-and-down career, and I say that with no glee because I’m a Vince Vaughn guy.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 27, 2020
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The 24th is an important reminder of a dark chapter in American history.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 26, 2020
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Tenet reaches for cinematic greatness and, though it doesn’t quite reach that lofty goal, it’s the kind of film that reminds us of the magic of the moviegoing experience.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 26, 2020
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Armando Iannucci (creator of HBO’s “Veep”) transforms Charles Dickens’ masterful but often dour and cumbersome 624-page Victorian novel into a brilliant piece of entertainment that often plays like “Alice in Wonderland” as interpreted by Monty Python.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 26, 2020
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I found it to be a fantastically creative, fourth-wall-breaking, pop-art waking dream.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 20, 2020
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There are times the family-friendly slapstick comedy and heavy messaging about the heartbreak of animals in tight, dark, cold captivity don’t exactly mesh. But the visuals are truly impressive and the story has an uplifting arc, and oh do these actors have fun hamming it up.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 20, 2020
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Words on Bathroom Walls has its moments and its heart is in the right place, but the missteps are too many and too big for the story to carry the day.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 20, 2020
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You feel a hurricane of emotions watching Barbara Kopple’s brilliant and searing documentary Desert One.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 20, 2020
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The young and attractive cast does a fine job of selling the ridiculous plot developments; it’s probably great fun to make a drive-in horror film complete with gallons of fake blood and one character after another biting the dust in creative fashion. Plus, Danny Trejo!- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 18, 2020
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Russell Crowe is an A-list star in a B-movie, but to his credit it never feels as if he’s slumming it.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 18, 2020
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Cut Throat City ends on a note that’s too clever by half, but that doesn’t undercut all the vibrant, rough-edged, impressive storytelling that led to that moment.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 18, 2020
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The overwrought score and the Orwellian themes announce “Barbarians” as a prestige project brimming with Big Ideas, but it’s ultimately stilted and didactic, and more than a bit nasty.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 13, 2020
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For every moment of inspiration and hope in the teen-political documentary Boys State, when you find yourself thinking, By gosh, the kids are all right, there are at least two jaw-dropping instances of 16- and 17-year-olds compromising their values with such cynicism you weep for our future.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 13, 2020
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Every frame of the film is bursting with sensory overload information, from the shaky, hand-held camera angles to the constant scrolling of viewer messages to the occasional use of split screens.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 13, 2020
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A vibrant and crazy and thought-provoking and immensely entertaining film that could have been even more resonant had it not settled for a relatively conventional final act we’ve seen in dozens of thrillers.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 13, 2020
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The Tax Collector is an underachieving, exceedingly violent urban gangster film with a meandering storyline and a contrived final twist.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 6, 2020
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She Dies Tomorrow is a well-crafted, beautifully acted, minimalist gem for our times.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 6, 2020
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Spinster isn’t a particularly visually arresting film, nor is it bursting with memorable and colorful supporting players. It’s simply an effective vehicle for Chelsea Peretti to expand upon her smart/cynical persona to include some genuine heart and likability as well.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 6, 2020
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This is no piece of pretentious fluff. It’s a grim and nasty but wickedly entertaining bit of business, seasoned with sharp little plot turns before an admittedly ludicrous but dramatically satisfying twist-on-top-of-a-twist ending.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 6, 2020
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There’s little in the way of originality in Work It, but there’s a fresh, upbeat, infectious vibe to the silliness, thanks in large part to the talented and likable cast of young actors.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 6, 2020
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Rogen does a remarkably fine job in creating two distinct characters.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Aug 5, 2020
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[An] uplifting and inspirational and just plain cool documentary.- Chicago Sun-Times
- Posted Jul 30, 2020
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- Posted Jul 30, 2020
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