Chicago Tribune's Scores

For 7,603 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
7603 movie reviews
  1. No matter how many heists you've seen, how many gangs you've watched fall apart or how many aging crooks you've seen walk up a mean street to a violent destiny, Rififi never loses its ruthless grace and force.
  2. Mind-numbing sequel to "Pokemon the First Movie."
    • 14 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Insipid, ineffective, inept and insulting to our intelligence.
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  3. Pseudo art can be fun, though, even if it doesn't quite awaken all your senses.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 26 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    About as interesting as watching paint dry.
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  4. Superhero comic book movie with a script so feeble it might have been written with crayons.
  5. As much a curiosity piece as anything else.
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  6. You wouldn't think the darn thing would have such lingering power.
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  7. Falls flat on its face.
  8. The trajectory of the film -- despite its excellent cast and intelligent mounting -- is too preordained.
  9. If only the film had been a more visually satisfying experience.
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  10. The beauties of Shower lie in its human observation, in its funny interplay, candor, lusty acting and hearty simplicity - and also in its warm imagery and the fascinating symbolic use it makes of water.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Certainly no comedic masterpiece, but it does offer a few fine moments of biting satire.
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Usually what you're laughing at is ugliness, and that leaves a foul taste long before the 85 minutes have expired.
  11. Unabashedly designed to blow its audience away.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Stuffed with smart Internet gags, silly movie references and a happy energy that makes you forgive the sequences that don't work.
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  12. A cranky failure with brilliant moments.
  13. As a whole, though, the movie is much less magnetic or believable than its star.
  14. The movie is dedicated, in a nice touch, to early Farrelly fan Gene Siskel. And Gene was right: The Farrellys are often very funny filmmakers. .
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  15. A bizarre, thrilling, warmly funny spoof of the WWII Steve McQueen prison camp thriller, "The Great Escape" remade for a near all-chicken cast.
  16. A modern digitized lollapalooza concocted out of old-fashioned slam-bang space opera elements.
  17. The new movie, like its predecessor, is a crime thriller with a moral viewpoint, an eye and ear for street color and a taste for macho movie fantasy.
  18. A story of faith and redemption, as viewed through the blurry and bloodshot eyes of a young man.
  19. If its jolts were as strong as its chuckles, The Woman Chaser might really have turned into the cheap-thrill classic it pretends to be.
  20. A harsh, spellbinding tale.
  21. May be a bit sentimental for some, but I found its patient examination of how the forces of optimism can be overwhelmed by a wave of cruelty to be both moving and wise.
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    • 29 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Starts with such promising quirkiness that it's easy to forget for the moment that you are watching a teen comedy.
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  22. If you require fine writing, sharp plotting and consistently good acting, you will be in for a long 86 minutes.
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  23. The ultimate shallowness of this film is reflected in the fact that their key bonding moment occurs when they bungee-jump off a bridge together.
  24. An incredibly ambitious film and one of the most highly accomplished of the year.

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