New Orleans Times-Picayune's Scores

  • Movies
For 1,128 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Gleason
Lowest review score: 0 Double Dragon
Score distribution:
1128 movie reviews
  1. The movie is quietly affecting, as Rush offers a moving and rewarding yarn about the need to move on in the face of personal tragedy, and about the strength of human connections.
  2. It's a fun one to talk about -- if only for the opportunity to shake your head in amused disbelief at what you just saw.
  3. So what is Bridesmaids? A boozy wedding comedy? A touching character story? A paean to friendship? At turns, it's each -- making it a wedding movie with a commitment problem and giving Feig's scattered film a rudderless quality between the laugh lines.
  4. These characters are so likeable, and so well-portrayed, that it's easy to go along with it all.
  5. It is fluffy, yes, but it also is ugly and annoying and something you neither want nor need.
  6. An unapologetic B-movie, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night tries mightily to cover its flaws with a peppering of humor -- much of it supplied courtesy of Dylan's zombie sidekick, played by Sam Huntington -- and an at-times fun "Buffy the Vampire Hunter" vibe.
  7. It is a thoughtful film, a serious one, and one that is sneakily affecting.
  8. Red Riding Hood needs a better agent.
  9. A predictable but painless pastiche of high school drama clichés that will give its intended tween audience a lot to squeal about -- and leave their parents reminiscing quietly about how good films from '80s icon John Hughes were.
  10. It's a film for patient moviegoers. But for those moviegoers, it stands to be a rewarding experience.
  11. Despite the derivative nature and low production values of Super, there are laughs in the at-times ragged script.
  12. Potiche never becomes funny enough or interesting enough.
  13. If you're a mom or dad bringing your own little primates to the movie, that's a good thing.
  14. McNamara's relentlessly shiny, happy outlook crosses the line between believable and artificial by about the 10-minute mark.
  15. A textbook example of ye olde two-joke movie.
  16. The kind of indie gem that doesn't come around nearly often enough -- and, when they do, often not enough people go to see them.
  17. There are moments when the freak-show elements of the film threaten to overpower its message, but that message is such a fascinating one -- and the debate an important one as well -- that The Elephant in the Living Room manages to overcome them.
  18. It feels more like a poor man's "Poltergeist, " minus the static-filled TV.
  19. Complemented by striking, well-conceived visuals, in Fukunaga's hands Bronte's tale of love and woe becomes one well worth repeating.
  20. Hop
    A slick and sweet film all on its own, a harmless bit of fun that fills the Easter-movie void.
  21. Burger's film would have been better had he ended it about three minutes earlier than he does -- a move that would have given his movie at least a dash of profundity.
  22. The film -- lame of title but big on fun.
  23. This is a film custom-made for dog lovers.
  24. It's a decent comedy, mind you, one with its fair share of chuckles. But it's really more amusing than it is fall-out-of-your-seat funny.
  25. Not the deepest stuff, but thought-provoking all the same -- and entertaining to boot.
  26. The school freak, played by Mary-Kate Olsen, misses a chance to really have some fun as this story's wicked witch.
  27. A movie that wears its heart on its sleeve.
  28. A beautifully uncomplicated story, really -- about the love between daddies and their little girls.
  29. Slowly becomes a thoughtful and interesting deconstruction and demythologizing of American celebrity.
  30. That character flaw makes for some great shock-fueled laughs in Lewis' film -- Giamatti does full-on comic rage as well as anyone.

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