L.A. Weekly's Scores

Select another publication »
For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
3750 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Blow Dry
    There are gruelingly unfunny gags, an unspeakable soundtrack featuring BTO and Billy Ocean, and Victoria's Secret mannequin Heidi Klum as a model who demands that her pussy hair be styled into a bushy red heart.
  2. Empire
    Reyes' fast-paced tale soars on the pedigree of its cast, all of whom are clearly having a ball -- Both poignant and wickedly amusing, Empire sets high standards for a subgenre that's rarely had any.
  3. The Jungle Book 2
    Bounces through the bush in search of good will and comes up with recycled charm as it reintroduces most of the original's major characters.
  4. Bad Boys II
    The bigger-than-big, rambunctious spectacle is way too much of a questionably good thing.
  5. An American Haunting
    Despite their appeal to patriotic horror fans, the makers of An American Haunting end up doing more harm than good to domestic fright production.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Balls of Fury
    1. Balls of Fury is a movie about: a. A former table-tennis prodigy enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate the underground pingpong tournament of a legendary Chinese criminal. b. Suppository jokes.c. Little worth discussing and even less worth seeing.
  7. Just Visiting
    A happy vulgarity still reigns.
  8. Radio
    Harris tries his best to make something more out of his one-dimensional white-knight character, while Gooding plays his vaudeville Rainman routine to the rafters.
  9. Never Die Alone
    An electrifying modern-dress noir, directed by Ernest Dickerson with a tough, terse, unapologetically brutal attitude that evokes the heyday of Sam Fuller and Robert Aldrich.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Last Time
    The Last Time seems even more hapless than the Midwestern rube it's skewering.
  11. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    The bloom is off the rose due to cynical rehash.
  12. The Other Side of Heaven
    A fine specimen of clean-cut Mormon family entertainment, but it may also be a step in the wrong direction for the fledgling production company.
  13. Raising Helen
    Raising Helen is the kind of movie you watch on a plane while muttering “utter crap” under your breath -- and then burst into tears.
  14. Paparazzi
    In producer Mel Gibson's second crackpot persecution-complex film of 2004 -- heat-blast directed by first-timer Paul Abascal -- it's obvious who Bo is supposed to represent.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    From its less-than-special effects to its rushed ending, this whole endeavor is a lazy, wasted emasculation of a beloved series deserving of more thoughtful treatment. Guess they have four more books left to get it right. Oh, joy.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Death and Texas
    In DiNovis’ butterfingery hands, the movie tumbles into a pedantic anti-death-penalty rant that's about as funny as a firing squad.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    12 Rounds
    This is the kind of amiable time-killer that belongs on a basic-cable weekend afternoon.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    DOA: Dead or Alive
    Praise be to director Corey Yuen (The Transporter) for delivering one of the year's purest entertainments -- the best butt-kicking PG-13 bikini jiggle fest since the first Charlie's Angels flick.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    In the age of creationism, a sympathetic mix of science and religion sounds like a promising premise. But in this genre-blending cocktail of drama, documentary and computer-graphic animation, quantum physics is so subordinated to the service of an anything-goes mysticism that little remains of the science except the terminology.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    BASEketball
    Some of the most heavy-handed, laughless, uninspired attempts at comedy since prime time. But I still dig “South Park.” Let’s forget this ever happened.
  21. One Night with the King
    Those viewers who found anti-Semitism lurking under every stone in The Passion of the Christ may rejoice in this celebration of Jewish heroism; all others should rest assured that falling asleep in the cinema is not a mortal sin.
  22. The Astronaut's Wife
    This hypersleek film is surprisingly lax for its first half... The ending is dumb.
  23. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    This shaggy-dog sequel is ultimately satisfying for the most low-tech of reasons: The competitive bond between the two central characters.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Dog of Flanders
    Brodie assembles a grab bag of themes formulaic to films about poverty.
  25. The Medallion
    While the premise does lead to a few moments of inspired physical comedy -- the movie repeatedly falls back on poorly staged, choppily edited fight scenes between Chan and a gloomy, power-mad villain.
  26. Don't Say a Word
    Director Gary Fleder can only fling the camera about and indulge in some familiar screen sadism (and no wonder -- his last feature was "Kiss the Girls") as he tries to squeeze a few thrills from material as desiccated as his leading man.
  27. Death to Smoochy
    A broad, braying yuk fest that revels in coarse jokes, lacks the courage of its own cynicism (things keep wavering into sentimentality) and refuses to develop its own premise.
  28. Rugrats Go Wild
    Paramount Pictures proudly informs us that the PG rating is for “mild, crude humor.” Too mild, too crude by far. If I were you, I’d take the wee ones and run for the vastly superior “Finding Nemo.”
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Pink Panther
    With the exception of one scene with an accent coach, his (Martin) Clouseau is flabby and obvious, like your dad doing an impression at the dinner table.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Yours, Mine and Ours
    Likable (if not especially funny).
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »