Los Angeles Times' Scores

Select another publication »
For 16,539 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,706 out of 16539
  2. Mixed: 5,816 out of 16539
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16539
16539 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. The Hangover Part III
    Chow is actually an apt metaphor for the movie - indescribably irritating and only in it for the money.
  2. 3 Geezers!
    3 Geezers is painful.
  3. The Second Meeting
    This mission, well intended as it may be, proves a no-go from the get-go.
  4. Pieta
    Pieta, which won last year's Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, is disturbing, for sure, but its larger points save it from being a quick and dirty wallow.
  5. 33 Postcards
    The climactic collision of agendas is even more contrived than everything leading to it.
  6. Free the Mind
    There's something healing about simply watching Free the Mind, Danish filmmaker Phie Ambo's gentle, compassionate documentary.
  7. Erased
    Erased is eminently forgettable.
  8. State 194
    With a two-state solution still elusive, "State 194" may feel a bit like yesterday's news — literally and figuratively. But as an aid to better understanding this vital, complex dispute, the film is definitely worth a look.
  9. Augustine
    The film's dark beauty and the quiet intensity of the performances have a discomforting pull.
  10. Java Heat
    The film's anthropological interest in Indonesia is the smartest thing in an otherwise familiar scramble of kidnapped babes, expensive jewelry and millions of bullets.
  11. Black Rock
    [Aselton's] disregard for her male characters causes Black Rock to spiral into dudette "Deliverance."
  12. Frances Ha
    Effortless and effervescent, Frances Ha is a small miracle of a movie, honest and funny with an aim that's true.
  13. Valentino's Ghost
    It's a provocative, absorbing — and at times dicey — study.
  14. Deceptive Practices: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
    This documentary provides an elegant, enthralling peek behind the curtain and into the you-won't-trust-your-eyes world of this celebrated contemporary conjurer.
  15. Stories We Tell
    An invigorating powerhouse of a personal documentary, adventurous and absolutely fascinating.
  16. The English Teacher
    The English Teacher is a tragedy masquerading as a comedy and doing a disservice to both.
  17. What Maisie Knew
    This is a beautifully rendered film.
  18. Star Trek Into Darkness
    So many things are done right that even with the bombast, "Into Darkness" is the best of this summer's biggies thus far. It's a great deal of brash fun.
  19. Leviathan
    Though it's a decidedly arty piece, Leviathan, named after the biblical sea creature, also lacks much in the way of traditional beauty or splendor. However, the immersive shots of those swooping and circling sea gulls are quite something.
  20. The Typewriter (In the 21st Century)
    The death of the typewriter has been greatly exaggerated, at least according to the fun, compact love letter of a documentary The Typewriter (in the 21st Century).
  21. White Frog
    Like getting a half-dozen undercooked after-school specials at once, Quentin Lee's White Frog serves up a medley of messages and themes while generating no discernible dramatic heft.
  22. Desperate Acts of Magic
    While the plot is a non-starter, the margins of Gold and co-director Tammy Caplan's debut feature are scattered with other real-life magicians who make quarters vanish every time our attention does the same.
  23. How Sweet It Is
    Piscopo...isn't just too good for this film, he's too good to be giving it this much effort.
  24. No One Lives
    No One Lives is a cheap horror prank that's ultimately not clever or accomplished enough to sustain its eccentricities, and they are very bloody eccentricities indeed.
  25. The Source Family
    Baker's transformation from "spiritual father" to megalomaniac follows a familiar path of brainwashing and hedonism.
  26. Aftershock
    Lopez is a middling ringmaster of doom at best. But there's so little context to the litany of ugliness — some played for laughs, some meant to shock — that it's hard to discern where the entertainment value lies in any of this.
  27. Assault on Wall Street
    It's not the worst idea for a revenge fantasy, but Jim's payback is so lacking in logic and reality, not to mention tension, that it proves more laughable than cathartic.
  28. And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
    With the nimble Greenwood and a kinder, gentler-than-usual Posey in charge, "And Now" proves a thoroughly engaging lark.
  29. Venus and Serena
    This is a story as involving as you'd imagine it would be.
  30. Sightseers
    It is the almost accidental way Tina and Chris go about going bad that provides Sightseers with its twisted humor and its unexpected charm.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »