Philadelphia Inquirer's Scores
- Movies
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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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Carrie Rickey
What is lacking in this version, with its hasty third act and abrupt denouement, is the surprise that their union may be the deepest love either will ever know.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
Roughly an hour in, Transformers 2 morphs from teen adventure into lumbering war movie. Bay and his screenwriters squander their human capital in order to show us scenes of 20-ton toys crushing 10-ton toys.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
What's a fish-lover to do? For starters, know where your fish comes from. Don't consume endangered species. After watching this film, you may never want to eat fish again.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Steven Rea
Easily one of the loosest, most satisfying comedies to hail from the prolific writer/director in a while.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Washington offers another of his rock-steady performances, playing a career civil servant with a couple of secrets of his own, but confident, diligent, ready to go the distance for the city he loves.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
While Imagine That falls short of its feel-good aim, its feel-nice vibe is a good Father's Day diversion for Dads and their spawn.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Moon is a deceptively simple study of alienation, paranoia, and loneliness.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
The result is visually inventive, narratively edgy, and unlike anything else.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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The Hangover pushes the boundaries of good taste, good sense, and good will toward man. And you'll feel good about it all.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
Summery and scenic, Ruins is this season's "Mamma Mia!," a diversion that dispenses the wisdom: Let go, let live, and let love. Not bad advice, and not a bad movie, exactly.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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The unassuming performances by Krasinski and Rudolph help make this the first Mendes movie that feels lived-in rather than staged.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Not exactly a hundred million dollars' worth of classic comedy.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
Tennessee is drenched in melancholy, a trip through a tunnel of pain illuminated by a lone ray of light at the end.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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The exhilarating film pays tribute to Buster Keaton's "The Balloonatic" by way of its slapstick, and to Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle" by way of its watercolor palette and traveling domicile.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Yojiro Takita's movie simultaneously tickles tears of mourning as it wrings laughs about the meaning of life.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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A heart-grabbing, awe-inspiring work that needs no embellishment.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Carrie Rickey
The more pertinent question: Can the audience stick with this flick that showed most of its funny bits in the trailer? For the most part, yeah.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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The problem with NATM:BOTS is that Stiller, Adams, and company seem to be pretending that they're having fun, too.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Moderately compelling and clinical. This isn't "Breakfast at Tiffany's"; this isn't even "Klute."- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Full of forced jocularity and drawing-room hissy fits, with its cast parading around in vintage threads and antique cars, Easy Virtue is a close-to-insufferable souffle based on the 1925 Noel Coward play.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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A dark-and-stormy sci-fi shoot-'em-up directed by McG, T4 has enough hardware and havoc to satisfy the crowd of action junkies and gamers who sped to "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" on opening weekend. (Terminator Salvation is a couple of liquid metal drops' more satisfying, but only a couple.)- Philadelphia Inquirer
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A far sight nimbler than its plodding predecessor, where the Holy Grail turns out to be a Holy Girl. The sequel is a little like CSI: Vatican City.- Philadelphia Inquirer
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