Los Angeles Times' Scores

Select another publication »
For 16,526 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: 8,699 out of 16526
  2. Mixed: 5,810 out of 16526
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16526
16526 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
    At the film's heart is a fitful conversation that unfolds like a string of koans, epigrams, jokes and silences.
  2. And While We Were Here
    It's to Coiro's credit that no one emerges as a villain — and that, however painful, on the other side lies hope.
  3. You Will Be My Son
    A strongly acted, character-driven melodrama, concerned with the dynamics of family in general and father-son issues in particular, it presents situations so emotionally supercharged that the whole story could have come straight out of Balzac.
  4. Populaire
    The less seriously the genial French comedy Populaire takes itself, the more amusing it is. Fortunately, with small exceptions, this film doesn't take itself very seriously at all.
  5. TV Man: The Search for the Last Independent Dealer
    The real treasure in "TV Man" is Kosareff's impressive collection of old print and television ads, archival footage and big- and small-screen clips illustrating TV-set culture.
  6. Mission Park
    Though writer-director Bryan Anthony Ramirez keeps things moving apace, he trots out so many familiar tropes that it's often like watching a highlights reel from a lifetime's worth of urban crime dramas.
  7. Tio Papi
    Ray Ray's belated journey into manhood never feels sentimental or precious. But it also never strikes an emotional tone that's more than blandly agreeable.
  8. Salinger
    Salerno, as if he's unsure of what he's got, goes to great lengths to heighten the drama with crisp editing, a strong score, frequent sound effects and snappy visuals.
  9. Adore
    It's a challenging film, but maybe not as challenging as it should be.
  10. American Milkshake
    The script is short on details and insight, and when asked to comment on this condition — or the script's sketch of a culture on the cusp of the Internet revolution — the film, like its dirtbag protagonist, just shrugs.
  11. Things Never Said
    The earnest mash-up of spoken-word performance, domestic drama and soapy romance in Things Never Said is unwieldy, to be sure, and would have sunk a less charismatic cast.
  12. Best Kept Secret
    This is no sappy portrait of a saint: Mino is tenacious, critical and defensive, and in one memorable scene, a colleague tries to get her to face reality about what the real world holds for their students after graduation.
  13. Winnie Mandela
    Like many a biopic before it, Winnie Mandela shoehorns an exceptional life into the standard template of a highlights reel, lurching from one Important Moment to the next.
  14. My Father and The Man In Black
    In the end, despite the clunky mix of narrative formats, My Father and the Man in Black makes for an illuminating alternate history of sorts to the Hollywoodized version of Cash's ascendancy in "Walk the Line."
  15. 36 Saints
    The bloodletting is blandly demure and the identity of the malefactor telegraphed too early.
  16. American Made Movie
    An involving primer on the realities of homegrown versus global industrialization.
  17. 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
    This gripping, innovatively constructed flashback commands attention.
  18. Good Ol' Freda
    White's film is a love letter not just to Kelly and the Beatles, but also to postwar working-class Liverpool.
  19. Dead Before Dawn 3D
    There are zero thrills — 3-D or otherwise — and, for all the nutty mayhem, the pacing drags.
  20. Bounty Killer
    Flat jokes, uneven performances, and a predictable romance help make Bounty Killer a lot less fun than it should be — a killer shame, given its boldly gonzo premise.
  21. A Teacher
    A flimsy episodic feature.
  22. Hell Baby
    Its modest (if occasionally gross-out) stabs at genre parody rarely insult our intelligence and even allow for the kind of retro deadpan silliness Mel Brooks used to underline his louder punch lines.
  23. Instructions Not Included
    There's a lot of movie here with unexpected developments, held together by the irresistible chemistry between Derbez and his adorable pint-sized co-star.
  24. Passion
    Passion will only rekindle your love affair with De Palma to the extent that his luridly artisan chiller classics are readily available afterward for another viewing.
  25. Drinking Buddies
    Swanberg achieves an occasionally heady aura of improvisational flirtatiousness mixed with a churning will-they-or-won't-they suspense.
  26. The Lifeguard
    The Lifeguard is a watchable, emotionally redolent trip down one woman's memory lane.
  27. Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride
    Documentarian Amy Nicholson puts a human face on the deterioration of the iconic New York amusement park by focusing on the fate of her favorite ride.
  28. Getaway
    But unless you're a demolition-derby fetishist or a connoisseur of vehicular mayhem, none of that will buy you a thrill in this video game posing as a movie.
  29. I Declare War
    An entertaining and insightful portrait of boyhood.
  30. Afternoon Delight
    Aiming to discomfort, the film ends up retreating.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »