Los Angeles Times' Scores

Select another publication »
For 16,522 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: 8,697 out of 16522
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16522
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16522
16522 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Enough
    Lacking a real actress, director Michael Apted is called upon to fudge the facts and make Slim's ordeal as taut as possible. He gets the job done, but the suspense scenes have a generic fright-by-numbers feel that tell us he's wearing his professional hat and knows it.
  2. Serving Sara
    Crushingly unfunny.
  3. Whipped
    Way too bleak to be funny, even as a contemporary satire of the battle of the sexes.
  4. Bless the Child
    Lapses into an exercise in foolishness.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Two Tylenol and a pair of earplugs might be enough to get you through Pokemon 3The Movie.
  6. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    One of those movies that makes you want to throw up your hands in despair, disgust, or maybe both.
  7. Whatever It Takes
    It's guys like Floyd who make a movie like Whatever It Takes feel like high school. And the rest of the losers make it feel like a movie.
  8. Dead Man on Campus
    Under Alan Cohn's straight-on direction, the film, written by various hands, huffs and puffs mightily just to keep a strenuously labored plot going.
  9. My Mother Likes Women
    The attempt to find humor in mean-spiritedness is way beyond Paris and Fejerman's abilities, and their last-reel attempt to portray Sofia as an ultimately liberating force for her daughters is as contrived as My Mother Likes Women is repellent.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Lost & Found
    All of this points to the two major differences between "Mary" and "Lost": Ben Stiller's character in "Mary" was likable (if pathetic), and "Mary" was sporadically funny.
  11. Jason X
    Like a dinner-theater version of the "Alien" movies without the good grooming.
  12. Predator
    It's arguably one of the emptiest, feeblest, most derivative scripts ever made as a major studio movie. There's no need to do a Mad magazine movie parody of this; it's already on the screen.
  13. Daddy Day Care
    I laughed a couple of times, but mostly I was bored out of my mind and not a little depressed.
  14. Ready to Rumble
    A movie made for wrestling fans that makes fun of wrestling fans? That cuts a little too close to the vicarious masochism at the heart of pro wrestling's core constituency. Also, it's not funny.
  15. Detroit Rock City
    This aggressively stupid film is merely business as usual, a compendium of all the current obsessions and fixations that make so many of these films such unhappy experiences.
  16. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    The "crime" was that it was made in the first place and the "punishment" is having to watch it.
    • Los Angeles Times
  17. S1m0ne
    Such a tedious Hollywood farce, so unpleasantly glib and relentlessly shallow, that Pacino's excessive performance is not even the worst thing about it.
  18. Town & Country
    Seems merely tired and stale, the opposite of fresh, marked by ideas for jokes rather than things that are actually funny. Then, without warning, it goes from inept to complete disaster, sinking from indifferent to fiasco in the blink of an eye.
  19. Ghost Ship
    See evil. See evil run. Run, evil, run all the way to cable television purgatory.
  20. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    A one-gag movie and that one gag isn't funny. Taylor and Lasser are reduced to playing sex-starved Norma Desmonds, and while Friedle and Owen are certainly game, their plan is a waste of everyone's time, especially the audience's.
  21. Dragonfly
    Appalling, shamelessly manipulative and contrived, and totally lacking in conviction.
  22. Dudley Do-Right
    Tiresome, inept farce that's not even a fraction as clever or entertaining as it likes to imagine it is -- a complete waste of time.
  23. Mallrats
    A numbing and dispiriting experience aimed at the least discriminating parts of the teen-age audience.
  24. New Best Friend
    Struggles awkwardly to bring a twist or two to its hoary class-conscious story line, aiming for a subtlety in character development that's smothered by excessive kitsch and kink.
  25. Robot Stories
    Robot Stories isn't any good. I don't say this lightly. There's no pleasure in giving new directors bad reviews and it's especially unpleasant when what's wrong with their work isn't a clumsy performance or two, a sagging second act or a repugnant worldview, but a near-total absence of filmmaking talent.
  26. Hollow Man
    Despite a wealth of special effects...this movie is surprisingly inert, more dull than anything else, with little to recommend it on any level.
  27. The Master of Disguise
    But even Carvey's protean talent can't dent this ponderously unfunny and uninspired comedy. It's hard to imagine anyone older than 10 being diverted by its broad buffoonery, and kids deserve better than this in the first place.
  28. Stealing Harvard
    It's so bad that you have to wonder whether Tom Green was looking for a project to match last year's "Freddy Got Fingered" -- Green didn't direct this turkey, but it surely is a contender for the bottom of the barrel award for 2002.
  29. Kangaroo Jack
    88 minutes of desperate gyrations intended to simulate humor.
  30. FeardotCom
    The story leapfrogs abruptly from scene to scene, and it makes such a mockery of narrative logic and continuity that the cast tends to look either baffled (Dorff) or as if they're trying to remain unrecognized.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »