Los Angeles Times' Scores

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:
16522 movie reviews
  1. Moll, in only his second feature, evokes a sense of foreboding, playing the routine against the unnerving, the humorous against the sinister, with a wit and deftness that might have impressed Hitchcock.
  2. Even the movie finds itself asking when it'll end. Not soon enough.
  3. All this sadness becomes so depressing to watch, testing the limits of the patience of even a viewer prepared to take Wang's underlying concerns seriously.
  4. Lakeboat requires its audiences to embrace it as lovingly as Mamet and Mantegna embrace its men, but it's a lot to ask.
  5. Despite a premise that's provocative, to say the least, this one's a dud.
  6. Restrained yet powerful, devastating in its emotional effects.
  7. Cheerful, cheeky entertainment, a clever confection.
  8. Light and frothy though all this is, there is an off-putting element to "Josie," and it's what must be the film's world record number of product placements.
  9. This joyous film, which confronts pain, loss and transgression with love, wisdom and forgiveness amid inspired humor, has it all.
  10. A most ambitious first film. Dominik pulls it off impressively, assisted by a selfless cast, a driving score by Mick Harvey, and gifted cameramen Kevin Hayward and Geoffrey Hall.
  11. If you are in touch with your inner 14-year-old child, you could do worse.
  12. In her feature debut, Zeig, -- displays confidence and style aplenty.
  13. Drains the original story of its satire and juices up its shtick, schmaltz and special effects.
  14. Tedious and unfunny.
  15. Breathtaking reverie worthy of Fellini.
  16. A reasonably diverting albeit frequently improbable thriller.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Two Tylenol and a pair of earplugs might be enough to get you through Pokemon 3The Movie.
  17. Evokes the dawn of cinema in China with much charm, humor and subtlety.
  18. As somber as much of this deceptively simple yet consistently acute, subtle and observant film is, an effect heightened by a carefully controlled use of color, it is not without hope.
  19. This single cautionary tale of how drug innocence gives way to woeful, hung-over experience proves to be way too predictable to effectively caution or even involve anyone.
  20. It's a film of high energy, punctuated by rock music and a dark wit, yet it is capable of profound reflection and tragic irony.
  21. Benefits from delicious acting from co-stars Geoffrey Rush and Pierce Brosnan, a mordant script co-written by le Carre (along with Boorman and Andrew Davies), and the distinctive touch of its director.
  22. Smart, amiable and well-paced, and director Tony Goldwyn brings to it an all-too-rare buoyancy and breeziness.
  23. Lively, imaginative, with a playful sense of humor.
  24. Raucously energetic and replete with a barrage of graphic sexual humor.
  25. While all of the actors are excellent, we sat up whenever Gabrielle Union walked on screen. As the ever-sensible woman who disrupts Jackson's bachelorhood, she projects the pluck, gravitas and beauty of a younger Alfre Woodard.
  26. As Hollywood diversions go, this gleaming MGM release still leaves you wishing the filmmakers took as many risks as their grifters do.
  27. Ultimately a sweet movie, but one made by people who can't stoop to conquer without an almost audible strain on their own intelligence.
  28. Unfolds as a shaggy-dog story, full of hilarious and outrageous twists that suggest that weirdness lies just below the surface of daily life seemingly at its most ordinary.
  29. It's a pastiche of pulpy elements culled from all the "Dirty Harry" movies you can think of.

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