RogerEbert.com's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Select another publication »
For 7,549 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Ghost Elephants
Lowest review score: 0 Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,943 out of 7549
  2. Mixed: 1,248 out of 7549
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7549
7549 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. The Sun Is Also a Star
    The leads are so lovely and the city is so shimmery that it’s hard not to get caught up in its spell — for a while, at least, until its corny coda destroys whatever goodwill the film has generated.
  2. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    There are moments of unexpected humor that blindside you.
  3. The Biggest Little Farm
    All in all, this is a very likable, if sometimes a bit too polished and vague.
  4. Charlie Says
    Charlie Says loses much of its potency whenever it's not directly about the ordinary motives of the individual Manson clan members.
  5. All Is True
    Say what you want about his onscreen vices, but Branagh has always been a charitable director and it really shows here.
  6. My Son
    My Son finds its cinematic footing in a committed, steady, realism, and that creates a high-wire act of tension and suspense that’s refreshingly clean and consistently effective.
  7. Tolkien
    As an origin story, Tolkien, has its moments of clarity and emotion. Some of it is oversimplified, even misguided. But the film cares about its subject, and cares about finding ways to portray "things that are good and days that are good to spend."
  8. Pasolini
    A love letter from one iconoclastic Italian Catholic artist to another, Abel Ferrara's Pasolini stays far from the cliches of the Hollywood biopic, embracing a fragmented, intense, impressionistic approach.
  9. Poms
    This cast of old pros may not be up to flips and basket catches, but they keep things lively. Keaton is as radiant as ever and Weaver is clearly having a blast.
  10. The Professor and the Madman
    It’s the presence of Gibson and his co-star Sean Penn, who give the project a stuffy sanctimoniousness, as it so transparently yearns to be the definition of “powerhouse acting.”
  11. The Hustle
    It is the kind of movie you watch on an airplane — perhaps on the way to someplace luxurious and relaxing like the South of France, the film’s setting — while falling in and out of naps.
  12. Wine Country
    But because the talent amassed here is so impressive, I wish the film had been more focused.
  13. Pokémon Detective Pikachu
    For the incredibly low bar of the video game adaptation genre — which this technically is as it shares elements with a 2016 Nintendo DS game — this one comes out better than average, but it is unlikely to work unless you’re a loyal fan of everything that is Pokémon. (Related: My 4th grader loved it.)
  14. Ask Dr. Ruth
    The film does a great job of contextualizing the phenom of Dr. Ruth.
  15. Tell It to the Bees
    Then there’s a third act that’s so wildly out of left field, it shifts the tone completely. It’s an almost comical departure, but it’s certainly a disappointing one.
  16. El Chicano
    Working alongside veteran screenwriter Joe Carnahan, who’s made his name with this kind of brash, muscular storytelling in films like “Narc” and “The Grey,” Hernandez Bray tries to get his arms around a lot at once. Quite often, he’s successful.
  17. Meeting Gorbachev
    What makes Meeting Gorbachev most interesting is the way we see Herzog shape the narrative through his questions, narration, and filmmaking skills.
  18. Bolden
    The result is sometimes dizzying, enchanting or confounding, but it is certainly never boring.
  19. UglyDolls
    It’s not bad. It’s just not very good.
  20. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
    Refusing to explain Ted Bundy is the strongest possible choice Berlinger could have made because it destabilizes reality. The film itself gaslights us, and this is where Berlinger and Zac Efron — an inspired choice—are powerful co-creators.
  21. Shadow
    Once the action kicks in, though, Shadow is on rails. Zhang, co-screenwriter Li Wei, cinematographer Zhao Xiaoding, production designer Horace Ma, and costumer Chen Minzheng work in seemingly perfect harmony to create a visual scheme that the director has said is based on the brush techniques of Chinese painting and calligraphy.
  22. The Intruder
    At a scant 84 minutes, you’d think it would move fast enough to make you forget its massive lapses in logic in favor of chills and thrills. Alas, that’s not the case here.
  23. Non-Fiction
    This is a sexy, fun film filled with a lot of zingers, but it also feels a little less personal than many of Assayas’ movies, perhaps in part because it’s not stuffed to the gills with songs he loves.
  24. Knock Down the House
    Knock Down the House prevails with albeit straight-forward intentions: to amplify the women who are both mad as hell and doing something about it.
  25. Chasing Portraits
    This is a very personal documentary that occasionally has the intentional feel of a home movie.
  26. The White Crow
    It’s structurally awkward, jumping around in time needlessly and sometimes confusingly, rendering Nureyev’s story weirdly inert until the final 20-30 minutes.
  27. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
    While the documentary’s heart is in the right place, and loaded with many historical goodies for silent movie fans and those interested in championing women directors, the way “Be Natural” presents its findings feels unorganized — like walking through a busy museum exhibit with too many objects, not all of them especially necessary.
  28. Okko's Inn
    Okko has to learn how to get along without her ghosts. Seems like a lot of learning, but the narrative fits it in so organically, and the characters and action are so lively and colorful, that the medicine goes down as if it’s been spun entirely of sweet stuff.
  29. I Trapped the Devil
    Clever-but-frustrating.
  30. J.T. Leroy
    At a time when the long-overdue rallying cry for representation has inadvertently limited the type of stories artists have the permission to tell, depending largely on their outward identity, the success of LeRoy’s work—and the countless lives it mirrored—stands as undeniable proof that art should never be constrained by the boundaries of one’s experience.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »