Chicago Tribune's Scores

For 7,613 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:
7613 movie reviews
  1. Gives you your money's worth and then some.
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  2. It stays in your memory, will not leave you in peace.
  3. Action junkies may enjoy this non-stop barrage, which barely pauses for anything but the most rudimentary (albeit complicated) plot exposition.
  4. Suggests a raunchier, cruder version of a Coen brothers comedy, but it's also a kind of honky-tonk "Rashomon."
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  5. Has the air of a film and actor (Beatty)reaching clumsily for a golden past that's gone.
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  6. Dances in circles until you tire of admiring it.
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  7. It's outrageously stereotypical and weirdly personal, so loonily exaggerated it keeps surprising you.
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  8. The actors and writing lend unexpected dimension to all of the characters, and Lopez's Harry is an indelible antagonist, one who manages to be genuinely big-hearted and evil.
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  9. The film is surprisingly easy to sit through, digest and even enjoy. Why? A lot has to do with Hogan's well-documented charisma as a performer.
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  10. You'll find heartbreakingly star-crossed lovers, a heartless villain (Wilson) and a dazzling backdrop of aristocratic life before and after the Russian Revolution.
  11. Lightweight but likable and blessedly free of the posing and pretensions that mark the Hollywood crop of twentysomething coming-of-age films.
  12. Bad decision after bad decision occurs over 93 minutes.
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  13. All Center of the World has is the double entendre of its title, some unremarkable dramatic and sex scenes, and some embarrassing moments for its very game co-stars.
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  14. Though this film shows flashes of the electric writer Mamet was to become, Lakeboat is mostly distant thunder over choppy waters.
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  15. Reminiscent of classic old Westerns.
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  16. The Zellweger-Firth-Grant triangle works as irresistibly as Hepburn-Grant-Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story."
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  17. Panahi's simplicity accentuates the movie's power: its sense of life caught unobserved.
  18. For all its promise of lively trailer-park humor, Joe Dirt digs, then lies in its own grave, killed by blah characters, lame jokes and cliches you can see coming a mile away.
  19. It’s a big, frothy, high-tech, cutesy-poo musical comedy.
  20. A hit and miss proposition, with an abundance of laughs and emotional highlights to help brighten the dimly lit corners of cliche-mongering.
  21. A point is being made about how a criminal creates his own myth, but the ways Read twists and embellishes the truth become progressively less interesting.
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  22. It's a real disappointment: too hasty, too scattered and superficial, and, in the end, disappointingly sappy and sentimental.
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  23. Freeman gives his overwrought, over-familiar scenes an unlikely shot of intelligence and dignity that cuts through the formulas and almost makes them work.
  24. That it is a pseudo-hip filmmaking fantasy doesn't make it any less pretentious, or any less a turnoff.
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  25. Announces the arrival of an undeniable talent (Meshkini) that has come of age.
  26. Recycled French farce isn't a bad thing, but do they really like all those pratfalls?
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  27. This predictable, uninspired third installment to the endless saga won't win over non-believers.
  28. Succeeds as a paean to movies and movie-watching.
  29. Farmanara, a gifted director, seems to be getting his artistic legs again, but he spends far too much time following his protagonist in and out of buildings as he smokes cigarettes and otherwise mopes about.
  30. Like a Bach toccata or a frosty drink on a sunlit veranda, a first-class movie spy thriller can offer one of life's cooler, more elegant treats. The Tailor of Panama fits that category.

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