Film.com's Scores

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For 1,505 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 48% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Before Night Falls
Lowest review score: 0 Movie 43
Score distribution:
1505 movie reviews
  1. The result is a film that grows worse with each passing minute, as the vibrant and complex Diana is reduced down to a daft, dumbstruck love addict, a biopic that tries desperately to humanize an already beloved and relatable human being and makes her look comically idiotic and empty in the process.
  2. Simplistic on one level, indecipherable on another, it's a most peculiar muddle.
  3. Wants to be many things, but ends up being not much of anything.
  4. She's not a real person, in any way, shape or form -- which makes watching Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the first in a projected series of live-action films based around her exploits, a visually spectacular yet oddly cheerless experience.
  5. Until it backs itself into a narrative corner, Lisa Krueger's Committed is a delightfully unpredictable experience.
  6. What keeps Stardom watchable is Arcand's droll humor.
  7. The brainchild of English director Ben Hopkins, who takes his time getting going. Too much time, really, as the first hour passes rather antsily, without quite achieving forward motion.
  8. The whole point is nothing more than the revelation that the terrain of suburbia is populated with damaged people inflicting damage on others. This is still news?
  9. As flat as the brim of a Mountie hat.
  10. This impeccable ghost story is utterly old-fashioned, a straightforward suspenser with no twists.
  11. It's not bad; it's just completely inconsequential.
  12. Just another lame slacker comedy.
  13. We should expect more of summer fare than that it merely be a visual junk-food snack as we cool off in the chill of a darkened theater.
  14. In the tradition of "Sunrise" and "Eyes Wide Shut," crises set the characters on a kind of dreamy, nocturnal journey through chaos and fear.
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  15. A weirdly stillborn experience.
  16. Shining above it all, like a kewpie-doll saint, is Drew Barrymore -- whose sweet innocence and sexy romanticism have survived movies as bad as this before
  17. That it’s not totally dialed in throughout makes it a victim of the same thing most bad movies fall prey to: having the spark of a great idea rested awkwardly on top of a spinning mess of execution.
  18. Not a waste of time, but not quite in control of its destination.
  19. Fails as a movie, it works OK as a long-form video.
  20. Beautiful is a mess, but not without interest.
  21. This film, a remake of a hapless 1974 cheapie of the same title, can't even get the big chase right.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This meeting of two giants of European cinema only briefly comes to life.
  22. When Phillips is out of the zone, however, Road Trip slows down, awaiting another redemption.
  23. Neeson might as well have phoned this one in.
  24. For Stallone, and his original script for Driven reflects a more mature, self-effacing perspective.
  25. Serves up the usual homilies, but it lacks the quirky density and cinematic snap.
  26. The problem is, director Robert Lee King has a hard time sustaining the aimed-for camp tone, and while there are a few well-spaced giggles to be had, the movie sputters more than it soars for most of its 95 minutes.
  27. But the movie is so confused about where it wants to go, it suffers from the same identity crisis as its protagonist.
  28. In many ways the indie equivalent of your average multiplex action picture: fun and forgettable.
  29. It doesn't really hang together. And waaay too much style. Pity.
  30. Renders the net result fairly squarely unenjoyable, on almost any level.
  31. Exemplifies the subpar state of movies today.
  32. A few startling touches.
  33. Flat and thoroughly predictable piece of filmmaking.
  34. This fantasy-tinged romance leaves a distinctly bitter aftertaste.
  35. Though it starts out as amusing satire, the jokes become as neurotic as Dallas' female population, and the film spins out of control in every way.
  36. It's "The Hustler with poker and without soul...For all its flash and occasional sizzle, "Rounders" is a disappointment.
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  37. Mandy Nelson's sugar-high bright-'n'-cheerful script takes a series of easy ways out, avoiding completely the prospective pitfalls of having to see any of these characters as complicated, contradictory, not entirely nice or identifiable-with -- actual human beings, in other words.
  38. There's something about The Woman Chaser that isn't quite thought through, in a basic way.
  39. I'll be damned if I can figure out how its various ingredients are supposed to blend together.
  40. She (Lopez) wipes away the unpleasant memories of "The Cell," and serves notice to Julia and Sandra that there's another girl out there who can do romantic comedy-even of the half-baked variety.
  41. Doesn't have a lot to offer that hasn't been done better -- and worse -- in hundreds of ghetto-sink shoot-em-ups.
  42. A fireworks show with plenty of "oohs" but not a lot of "aah" -- the story is needlessly convoluted in places and storybook-simple in others, and the characters never make the leap from drawn figures to flesh-and-blood people.
  43. This could be the year's most pretentious Hollywood film.
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  44. Rung with numb inarticulateness.
  45. Stranded in superficiality, the film is a lifestyle commercial.
  46. Slick, polished to perfection, derivative and stripped of any of the real quirks or idiosyncrasies that make a romantic comedy fly.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Call it baseball interruptus, or just call it a missed opportunity.
  47. In this case, I have to say, the sense of boredom.
  48. Not terribly enjoyable to watch.
  49. Wargnier is also a lousy storyteller who seems not to understand how to shape a narrative.
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  50. Hogan's rough-and-ready charm remains intact, but it's not enough to salvage this instantly forgettable movie.
  51. What makes The Cell worth viewing at all is the carefully sculpted imagery.
  52. Isn't a bad action movie -- it's just an utterly forgettable one.
  53. When your characters are only skin deep, so is your message.
  54. He spent 28 years in prison and this is what he gets?
  55. A constant video rental for a community that aches to see itself as banal and generic.
  56. Not even Goldberg's near-flawless central performance can polish Kingdom Come beyond mere soap opera pap.
  57. As the movie plods on, the jokes start to fall flat...Worst of all is a centerpiece scene, when Ben has to pretend to be a mafioso (but sounds more like a cross between Martin and Lewis), when Crystal is so unfunny that you almost feel sorry for him.
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  58. Has its dull spots, and is unintentionally laugh-out-loud funny at times -- but isn't that what we expect?
  59. Moss -- in her first big role since "The Matrix" -- is the main reason to see Red Planet, a badly written and visually scenic space opus.
  60. It's hollow, forced and false.

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