Christian Science Monitor's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 4,492 reviews, this publication has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
| Highest review score: | 'Round Midnight | |
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| Lowest review score: | Couples Retreat |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,780 out of 4492
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Mixed: 1,361 out of 4492
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Negative: 351 out of 4492
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Peter Rainer
The irony of Afterimage is that it champions an avant-garde artist, warts and all, and yet Wajda’s stylistics here are conventional and understated.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 27, 2017
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Peter Rainer
Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg work up a stormy sea-parting finale that is better than anything in “The Ten Commandments.” Again, the trick to enjoying this film is to expect nothing.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 27, 2017
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Peter Rainer
Make no mistake: The Michelsons have a lot more going for them than their marital longevity. As the documentary makes clear, both Harold and Lillian made integral contributions to some of the most iconic movies in Hollywood history.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Peter Rainer
Dyrholm’s extraordinary performance is conspicuously better than Thomsen’s. She’s the best – the only – reason to check out The Commune.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 19, 2017
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We’re still essentially in the Land of Retread: An outer space voyage turns grisly-ghastly as gloppy, befanged creatures invade the crew’s innards and pop out – gotcha! – right on cue.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Peter Rainer
It may not matter to audiences that this film...is junk. But shouldn’t it matter at least to Hawn and Schumer?- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 12, 2017
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Peter Rainer
Ritchie is so adept that the film is compulsively watchable, but it’s watchable in the same way as a massive train wreck or the slow-motion demolition of a high-rise.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 12, 2017
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A comprehensive and compelling film that does justice to the anguished history of Cambodia.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 12, 2017
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Peter Rainer
The reason The Wedding Plan rises above its flippancies is not only because of the novelty of its Israeli trappings but also because Michal is such an ingratiating whirlwind.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 12, 2017
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Peter Rainer
Chemla has an expressive face and she’s photographed lovingly, in a way that would probably have caught the attentions of the great French Impressionists, but ultimately she is more of a sculptural presence than a fully fleshed-out protagonist.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Peter Rainer
Director Azazel Jacobs knows what he has in Winger, but her intensity is too much for this goofy grab bag of a movie.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Peter Rainer
The Emily of this movie seems to survive primarily to take everyone in her orbit to task. Davies is holding her up as the indomitable spirit of genius – a woman who suffers fools not at all.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Apr 28, 2017
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What also comes through is a quietly scathing portrait of a society in which every move, overtly or covertly, is monitored.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Apr 28, 2017
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- Posted Apr 21, 2017
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Gloria Goodale
Coltrane’s final phase of “free jazz” is also amply documented, with stunning concert and music clips throughout.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Apr 21, 2017
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Peter Rainer
The Lost City of Z cannot compare in intensity with Herzog’s film, with its magisterial delirium. But, in his own way, Gray is as unremittingly obsessed as Herzog.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Apr 14, 2017
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Peter Rainer
Connery (an actor as well, and the son of Sean Connery) keeps the performers honest, and a few of the father-son tussles, with their admixture of love and envy, are powerful.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Apr 14, 2017
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Even with Gere’s standout work, a little of Norman goes a long way, and this film offers up a lot of Norman.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Apr 14, 2017
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In its own coy way, the film celebrates “the slop” it pretends to deride.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Apr 7, 2017
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Peter Rainer
That may enough to pique your curiosity. It did mine, for a while, until it didn’t. To paraphrase what Brahms once told a young composer, what’s original in the film isn’t very good, and what’s good in it isn’t very original.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Apr 7, 2017
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Peter Rainer
It’s a clunky, over-the-hill gang escapade enlivened only by the presence of the three Oscar winners, all of whom are so far beyond the movie’s meager demands that to say the actors are overqualified would be the grossest of understatements.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Apr 7, 2017
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Peter Rainer
This is the second documentary he has made about tragic jazz artists who died young – the first was “My Name Is Albert Ayler” – and he clearly has an abiding fascination with them. But what draws him most of all is the music, and that’s as it should be.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Mar 31, 2017
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Peter Rainer
This story is powerful enough without our being heavily coaxed all the time how to feel.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Mar 31, 2017
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Peter Rainer
It’s unfortunate, if predictable, that Hollywood found it necessary to almost entirely eliminate deep think in favor of deep action. As for Johansson, I have no big problem with cross-racial casting, but she’s so glum and seemingly uncomfortable here that you wonder if maybe she didn’t harbor the same misgivings as her detractors.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Mar 31, 2017
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At a time when many of us look to comedy to keep us sane, the question is especially pertinent, although the answers here aren’t especially penetrating.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Mar 24, 2017
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The sources of this happiness become far more complex when Adrien’s revelation is imparted (only to Anna). At this point the movie’s moral compass spins.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Mar 24, 2017
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- Posted Mar 24, 2017
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Peter Rainer
Given the fact that Life was co-written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who co-wrote the wacked-out “Zombieland” and “Deadpool,” the film’s glum earnestness is doubly disappointing.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Mar 24, 2017
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There are times in this lovely, complacent movie about uncomplacent circumstance when I wanted to be shaken up, and wasn’t.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Mar 17, 2017
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Peter Rainer
Seeing it will probably send you back to the original animated movie for refreshment.- Christian Science Monitor
- Posted Mar 17, 2017
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