Los Angeles Times' Scores

Select another publication »
For 16,524 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 2.3 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
16524 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Dust
    Dust is a bust, a big bad movie of the scope, ambition and bravura that could be made only by a talented filmmaker run amok.
  2. Hotel Room
    Begins on a mildly entertaining note, with each successive vignette the film grows increasingly tedious.
  3. Camera Obscura
    An L.A. neo-noir raised to an insufferable degree of artiness.
  4. Rollerball
    It's too bad this Rollerball veered off-track so swiftly, derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking.
  5. Highlander: Endgame
    Looks sensational, moves like lightning. But its script (by Joel Soisson) makes no pretense about being logical or even comprehensible.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Snow Day
    Isn't for teens, it's for the kids who aspire to be teens.
  7. Down to You
    The best the makers of Down to You can hope for is that girls in their early teens--clearly the film's target audience--will be so carried away by its charismatic stars that they'll overlook the film's various flaws.
    • Los Angeles Times
  8. Alex & Emma
    A painfully contrived and artificial exercise in futility.
  9. The Shipping News
    It's a portrayal so unconvincing it makes it close to impossible for the rest of the film to function as intended.
  10. Colors
    Without complexity to its characters, with little balance and without a hint of the personal, family or community issues involved, Colors becomes a movie that never has to ask "Why?"--a vivid, noisy shell of a film filled with eager young actors rattling along on the surface of a lethally important subject. [15 Apr 1988]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Hackers
    All the sound and fury in the world can't disguise the fact that yowling music, typing montages and computer animation do not a gripping finale make. This movie megabytes.
  12. The Order
    Cast adrift with vague, improbable characters and a plot that's at once under-and overcooked, the actors struggle to find a steady tone, lurching from somber to silly as the director tries to figure out what he's doing.
  13. 102 Dalmatians
    You can't help but feel that Disney has delivered a turkey for Thanksgiving.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dog Park
    Peel away the layers of contrivances, however, and the leftover plot barely fills a doggy bag.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Pootie Tang
    Too often is as garbled as Pootie's own jargon.
  16. Buffalo Soldiers
    Even Phoenix, an actor who can make an incestuous-minded Roman emperor seem sensitive, can't smooth over political nihilism this unsavory.
  17. Hard Rain
    This documentary-like realism, alas, only underlines the preposterousness of its plot with its torrent of contrived, credibility-defying cliffhangers.
  18. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Buried under the miscalculations, the shamelessness, the off-putting and inappropriate broadness are sporadically visible souvenirs of a good project gone bad, hints of the unusual, bittersweet story that got away.
  19. Chill Factor
    Melts swiftly...don't expect a shred of credibility.
  20. Abandon
    A trite psychological thriller -- all buildup and no payoff, a mystery that essentially offers only two alternative solutions, which diminishes the element of surprise and strings the viewer along way past caring which possibility proves to be true.
  21. Love Stinks
    Low comedy doesn't get any lower than Love Stinks.
  22. Inspector Gadget
    Gadget instead ends up as another mindless, noisy thrill ride that gorges its audience on bright effects and leaves it queasy from overconsumption.
  23. Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite
    Far from great, and this off-putting French romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of "Amélie."
  24. Off the Lip
    There's some technical dexterity in melding the various formats and capturing some impressive surf footage, but the shaggy dog nature of the story proves exhausting.
  25. Here on Earth
    Just the ticket for girls in their early teens.
  26. My Baby's Daddy
    A tedious comedy... It's not the worst premise for humor dashed with a little wisdom, but the script, written by the film's star Eddie Griffin and others, is less than inspired and tends to blur the line between immaturity and just plain stupidity.
  27. Bully
    Whatever his intentions, Clark, in his third outing as a director, has come up with a film that is seriously flawed.
  28. No Turning Back
    More a 99-minute public service announcement about the plight of illegal immigrants than a fully formed drama, the film finds itself in a no-win situation not unlike that of its protagonist.
  29. Club Dread
    Pretty dreadful.
  30. Titus
    More travesty than tragedy.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »