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. Self/less
    A depressingly slick and empty house of cards that collapses under the weight of its muddled intentions.
  2. Cartel Land
    If the key to price in real estate is "location, location, location," the key to success in vérité-style documentaries is "access, access, access." Which is what Cartel Land has in compelling amounts.
  3. Minions
    Minions' all-silliness all-the-time philosophy will put a smile on faces and keep it there, like a fizzy beverage on a hot afternoon.
  4. A Poem Is a Naked Person
    Its oddball colors and willful wanderings betray a sweet, savory, uncompromising air that showcases Russell's uniquely fused brand of American harmony with rascally ebullience.
  5. Stung
    Unfortunately, the human relationships depicted here are less credible than the solid special effects.
  6. A Borrowed Identity
    At its best, A Borrowed Identity concerns itself with the malleability of self, with who we are and how society and culture can force identity choices on us.
  7. A Murder in the Park
    Whatever your feelings on capital punishment, A Murder in the Park has a gripping story to tell about, oddly enough, the corrosive effects of storytelling on the justice system when it gets the best of reasoned minds.
  8. Closer to God
    With admirable economy, writer-director Billy Senese has crafted an eerie piece that's as much an effective cautionary tale as it is a stirring film of ideas — and ideals.
  9. In Stereo
    The luminous Garrett shines as Brenda, emerging from her shell. Hauptman manages to sand down David's spiky edges. The supporting characters, unfortunately, are two-dimensional and less charismatic.
  10. Jackie & Ryan
    The heartland drama Jackie & Ryan may prove too low-key and deliberately paced for less patient viewers, but distinct pleasures are to be had from this compactly shot film's easy rhythms, affecting tone and nicely modulated performances.
  11. Jimmy's Hall
    A story that might have been alive with messy complexity is instead genial and polite.
  12. Amy
    It is the achievement of Amy, Asif Kapadia's accomplished, quietly devastating documentary, that it makes the story of this troubled and troubling individual surprisingly one of a kind by allowing us to, in a sense, live her life along with her.
  13. Faith of Our Fathers
    This evangelical "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" by way of "The Dukes of Hazzard" takes a mighty ridiculous route to righteousness.
  14. Terminator Genisys
    Terminator Genisys could be Exhibit A in why the current line of thinking in Hollywood regarding sequels/reboots/remakes often leads to terrible decisions and worse films.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fresh Dressed
    The movie is as entertaining as it is educational.
  16. The Strongest Man
    Although Beef and Conan are far from stereotypical, the quirkiness and eccentricities ascribed to them by writer-director Kenny Riches harp on their otherness all the same.
  17. Gone Doggy Gone
    The film's oddball assortment of broadly played characters feel like sketch comedy escapees stretched beyond their limits, an attempt to fill the demands of a feature-length canvas.
  18. Saugatuck Cures
    Laughter can break down barriers, but don't count on director Matthew Ladensack to help bridge differences.
  19. Into the Grizzly Maze
    Rarely do you sense that any key performer was ever in the vicinity of a real animal.
  20. 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
    A documentary that shouldn't have to be made, about a law that needn't exist, explored via a crime that could have been avoided: 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets is a thought-provoking, mournful experience, perhaps more so in the wake of the killings in Charleston, S.C.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    La Sapienza
    The pace can feel plodding, but the observations on human frailty and redemption more than make up for it. Despite forays into the head, it's the movie's heart that makes it special.
  22. Gabriel
    Culkin's performance is never exploitative. His eyes often say everything, appearing simultaneously laser-focused and distant — he can't reconcile his brain with the world.
  23. The Tribe
    Slaboshpytskiy has made one of the most unusual and disturbing films about criminality of the new century.
  24. Batkid Begins
    As to truly exploring the phenomenon of a live-tweeted collective fiction, the documentary makes a couple of intriguing observations but doesn't look far beyond the metrics, content to exult in the wow factor of it all, which admittedly is considerable.
  25. Escobar: Paradise Lost
    When the plot circles back to those opening moments, the movie finds a momentum that ends spectacularly. And again: Benicio Del Toro is playing Pablo Escobar. What more do you need?
  26. Glass Chin
    Punchy dialogue, sharply drawn characters and excellent performances fuel Glass Chin.
  27. 7 Minutes
    Although stylish and intriguingly told, the twisty crime drama "7 Minutes" never quite jumps out of the pack.
  28. What Happened, Miss Simone?
    [An] impressive and deeply felt documentary.
  29. Max
    Max is a big slice of patriotic, down-the-middle genre fare, but it manages to work — and jerk a few tears along the way.
  30. Bound to Vengeance
    Even jaded viewers who have gathered vague ideas from clues planted by screenwriters Rock Shaink and Keith Kjornes about how things will ultimately play out might find a genuine surprise or two in store.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »