Philadelphia Inquirer's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
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70% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
| Highest review score: | Hell or High Water | |
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| Lowest review score: | The Mangler |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
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Mixed: 682 out of 4176
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Negative: 349 out of 4176
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Steven Rea
Shows glimmers of great drama, but jettisons too much essential cargo (character development, relationships, plot, common sense) in an effort to be lean and clean.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Steven Rea
Mostly about delivering thrills, and chills, and this it does with moderate success and a bunch of fast, no-nonsense edits.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
Spurlock's intermittently entertaining travelogue ultimately reveals that people in disparate countries of different religions and wildly divergent ideologies are more alike than not.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
A touchy daughter and her feely mom form the emotional axis of Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, a touching, feeling, touchy-feely series of emotional encounters that generate much warmth in Bruce Beresford's balloon-light family comedy. If it were any lighter, it would float away.- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Posted Jun 7, 2012
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Carrie Rickey
Brosnan, who finds the truth in his character, is quite affecting. And Mulligan, gamely defining a surprisingly undefined young woman, is like a sunbeam piercing the gloom.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Tirdad Derakhshani
Colombiana isn't the last word in action movies, but it's a fun ride. And so wrong.- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Posted Aug 29, 2011
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Steven Rea
The closest FF:ROTSS gets to wit is when Johnny convinces a reluctant Reed to attend a bachelor party, after promising the uptight groom-to-be that there won't be any "exotic dancers."- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
Worthy of mention is Carolina Herrera's design for Bella's wedding dress, sophisticated and demure in the front and Pippa Middleton sexy, and proper, in the back.- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Carrie Rickey
If, like me, you were hoping for "Scarface" as a hip-hopera, I am sad to report that Get Rich or Die Tryin' has heat, but not sweep.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Steven Rea
For a while, Firewall whips up the accordant dollops of suspense and dread, but it's not long before the timely issue of identity theft takes a backseat to old-fashioned Hollywood villainy, unnecessary (and nonsensical) red herrings, and STUFF THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Tirdad Derakhshani
An extremely delicate, quiet, and stunningly understated chamber piece.- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Posted Aug 4, 2016
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Carrie Rickey
Not only is there no magnetism between Fiennes and Lopez, he's a lead balloon and she's helium-filled. Happily, their odd chemistry doesn't sink this fairy tale.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Steven Rea
Elevated beyond its cutesy contrivances and mawkishness by some extraordinarily good performances.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Desmond Ryan
The obstacles are many, most notably Rookery, a local vampire hunter who looks like a rejected extra from "Mad Max."- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Steven Rea
An unfortunate collision of earnest coming-of-age cliches and off-key acting, Evergreen almost, and certainly unintentionally, presents itself as parody.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
The only likable characters are ebullient Omer (Sam Golzari), a show-tune-loving reluctant Iraqi suicide bomber who comes to the O.C., and earnest William (Chris Klein), an American GI wounded in Iraq, who are mirror images.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Tirdad Derakhshani
The Possession has none of the suspense that made Bornedal's morgue thriller "Deathwatch" such shuddering good fun. And despite the absurdly overwrought Bernard Herrmann-esque score, it has very few genuine shocks.- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Posted Aug 30, 2012
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Steven Rea
Frankly, the wow factor isn't that great.- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Posted May 19, 2011
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- Posted Oct 11, 2012
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Steven Rea
If the moral of Click is a stop-and-smell-the-roses bromide about how family comes first, the real message of this sappy, potty-mouthed seriocomedy is that a steady diet of Drakes and Hostesses will do you no good.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Steven Rea
Murky and grainy, and showing human beings at their grimmest - thievery, rape, betrayal, murder - Blindness is no barrel of laughs. But it IS a barrel of pretentious metaphorical musings.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
Blanchett commands the screen as she commands the royal navy. Her unforced majesty makes a so-so film worth watching.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
If you can tolerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in, Sweet Home Alabama is diverting in the manner of Jeff Foxworthy's stand-up act.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Steven Rea
The moral of Taken 2? If you're going on a family vacation, be sure that the human-trafficking ring you put out of business in that far more satisfying and suspenseful thriller from a few years ago doesn't know how to find you.- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Posted Oct 4, 2012
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Steven Rea
Aimed at teens and tweens, the almost-squeaky-clean Step Up 3-D shamelessly piles on the corn, stacking it so high that it's bound to tilt over and collapse.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
Most gaspworthy is that this raunchy, transgressive comedy about would-be adulterers turns out to be a hot, wet reaffirmation of marriage.- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Posted Feb 24, 2011
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