Chicago Tribune's Scores

Select another publication »
For 7,599 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 1.5 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:
  1. Positive: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
7599 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. 50 First Dates
    The movie's sole selling point turns out to be its sweetness. Sandler, Segal and writer George Wing obviously like all of the characters despite the constant ribbing, and Sandler and Barrymore are as cuddly as a pair of love-struck walruses. But only a sucker would get too close.
  2. The Seagull's Laughter
    Solid acting anchors "Laughter," but it's Margret Vilhjalmsdottir and Ugla Egilsdottir as Freya and Agga who carry the load.
  3. Love Object
    While some pedestrian camerawork and spotty acting from supporting players deflate Love Object, it has enough juice - and a surprising twist - to keep fans of the slow-burn horror genre enthralled.
  4. Osama
    You watch the movie with an ongoing feeling of dread, and it's not a feeling that ever dissipates.
  5. An Amazing Couple
    A wry romantic comedy set among Bruno's targets, the Grenoble bourgeois.
  6. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    This time around, the razors are a little duller, the clicks not as slick, the patter not as snappy.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Catch That Kid
    It's a juicy premise, but the enactment is so dumbed-down -- by turns preposterous and predictable -- that you couldn't possibly fault your jaded children for yawning and rolling their eyes.
  8. Miracle
    While the movie's heroes lay everything on the line, Miracle is too content to skate along the surface.
  9. The Dreamers
    Ablaze with poetry and danger, and suffused with an odd kind of intellectual kitsch.
  10. The Return
    The Russian film The Return is a stunning contemporary fable about a divided family in the wilderness - a simple, riveting film that almost achieves greatness.
  11. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    Like all B-movies (or in this case, pseudo B-movies), "Skeleton" contains sparkling moments of promise and camp performance.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blind Shaft
    The lead actors, Li Yixiang and Wang Shuangbao, are completely believable, sucking us into their casually cruel world.
  13. The Perfect Score
    In addition to being a good-looking movie with a pumping Foo Fighters anthem, "Score" is actually a philosophical argument against our culture of tests.
  14. Latter Days
    An odd mix itself, of contemporary sexual realism and unabashed romantic fantasy. If "Days" works, it's mostly on a sheer fantasy level.
  15. On the Run
    The sheer stark speed and measured violence of On the Run catch us up quickly--and the film becomes a searing portrait of a killer-idealist lost out of time.
  16. The Big Bounce
    Like the frosty tropical drinks the people keep sipping here, it's refreshing and icy-cool, a sinful pleasure mixed by experts.
  17. You Got Served
    When a movie keeps repeating its title, you know it's a stinker.
  18. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    Should please its core audience, which includes anyone who might actually want to win a date with Tad Hamilton. Others may opt to wait for another date with Kate Bosworth -- or Nathan Lane.
  19. The Butterfly Effect
    Kutcher delivers a credibly serious performance as Evan, and he's surrounded by a skilled supporting cast.
  20. Piccadilly [re-release]
    German emigre Dupont directs all this with the style, flair and tension he brought to his 1925 Emil Jannings classic, "Variety." But it is Wong, shimmering with charisma, who gives Piccadilly its unforgettable center.
  21. Touching the Void
    So well cast and well captured is Touching the Void that it suspends disbelief, making us feel as if we're actually watching Simpson's own icy version of Dante's "Inferno."
  22. Along Came Polly
    Some movies run out of gas. This one could use an alternate fuel source.
  23. Torque
    It may entertain you if you don't mind senseless stories and screaming soundtracks.
  24. Tokyo Godfathers
    A spellbinding piece of Japanese anime from one of the form's new masters, director-writer Satoshi Kon.
  25. Teacher's Pet
    First-time director Timothy Bjorklund, who also shepherded Teacher's Pet on television, conducts some inventive, devilish sequences.
  26. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    Though one can question the movie's quality as a documentary -- Broomfield is a dogged but often annoying interviewer, and Churchill's photography is sometimes slapdash -- Aileen raises such troubling issues that it stays, hellishly, in your mind.
  27. Chasing Liberty
    As it turns out, "Liberty," a likable, light-as-air road comedy, is a much better movie than its sour-pun title.
  28. Secret Things
    Trashy porno pretending to be deep.
  29. Japanese Story
    A movie with surprises, some of which you should discover for yourself. But its main surprises may be the power of Collette's performance and the beautifully controlled mood and atmosphere Brooks creates.
  30. Cold Mountain
    This Civil War epic romance is exquisitely shot, lovingly designed and populated with talented name actors. In terms of pedigree and sheer, lush filmmaking, the movie has class written all over it. And that's part of the problem.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »