Chicago Tribune's Scores

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:
7599 movie reviews
  1. Has the potential to be much more than it is, especially with the collection of able actors on hand.
  2. Scott treats the material as if it were grist for a 30-second spot or a rowdy music video.
  3. An innocuous teen film.
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  4. A genre movie with an agenda that's too packed. Inevitably, some of the many balls it's juggling get dropped -- (but it's) one of the most entertaining and original actioners in several years.
  5. A highly provocative documentary.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    So nonsensical you don't understand why anyone would actually make it.
  6. On a direct line with the whimsical small-town comedies of the '40s and '50s.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I never lost awareness that I was watching actors speaking lines, not real people --a problem I didn't have in the more unreal "Life Is Beautiful."
  7. A shy and depressed college graduate falls in love with a Bohemian artist, as in Woody Allen's "Manhattan."
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  8. Just because it's true to life doesn't mean it can sing.
  9. A singularly cheerless trip, explicit but sterile, racy but dull.
  10. Much of this movie seems a crock.
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  11. Offers two or three worthwhile laughs.
  12. This one's worth the ticket price only if you are a showbiz-aholic.
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  13. This is one not to be missed.
  14. I've got to admit it's a stunner.
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  15. Minimalism be damned; even a postmodern noir needs more than Minus Man gives us. So do the actors.
  16. Stewart's insistently ironic delivery of every line becomes an irritant in a movie that is already monstrously irritating.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    An extraordinary movie on many levels.
  17. The plot thickens and thickens and thickens until it chokes on a tangled mess of double-crosses.
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  18. Astonishing, crazily delightful.
  19. Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage should be ashamed to have written such nonsense.
  20. Beautifully produced: a moving film with a fascinating story and exemplary acting.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Like Richard Linklater's "Dazed and Confused," Outside Providence reminisces vividly, recalling the era fondly but not with too much sugar.
  21. It's one of those movies that are unfortunately so technically well done, it's hard to tune out on the senseless story.
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  22. Has a remote feel. It sometimes impresses but never soars.
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  23. It was the adult in me that wept when the movie ended. Take the kid and have a good time.
  24. A real gem: a deadpan fantasy that turns into one of the best pictures ever about the post-"Star Wars" studio moviemaking era.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Like an obnoxious uncle desparately trying to amuse the young'uns with poo-poo humor and dum-dum pratfalls.
  25. An oft-told tale.
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