Rolling Stone's Scores

For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
4534 movie reviews
  1. Deliver it does, big time.
  2. The show belongs to Geoffrey Rush in a note-perfect performance as Harry Pendel, the tailor.
  3. The film is a distinct pleasure.
  4. Laced with such rampant misogyny that the laughs stick in your throat.
  5. It's not a pretty picture, but it is a pretty funny one when Gene Hackman shows up as William B. Tensy, a Palm Beach tobacco tycoon.
  6. A script by Peter Gaulke and Gerry Swallow that is minus a shred of Farrelly wit.
  7. Like the best filmmakers at Sundance 2001, Nolan leaps into the wild blue and dares us to leap with him. Go for it.
  8. Any flaws in execution pale against those moments when the film brings history to vital life.
  9. Westfeldt and Juergensen are smart, sexy knockouts, finding just the right mix of fun and tenderness in their writing and performances.
  10. Big, loud and lurid, but no less entertaining for that.
  11. Promises a road movie of blissful comic romance and delivers a series of dramatic dead ends.
  12. Minahan wants us to see ourselves in the dark mirror of this outrageously funny satire. He's built the laughs wisely so they stick in our throats.
  13. The call on this one is: dead on arrival.
  14. Beware all male viewers who enter here, you are in chick-movie hell.
  15. It's unmissable, flaws and all, because riveting suspense spiced with diabolical laughs and garnished with a sprig of kinky romance add up to the tastiest dish around.
  16. Peet is always worth watching, but the role does her no favors, and the script, involving a kidnapping and a surprise cameo by Neil Diamond - you heard me - smacks of desperation beyond saving.
  17. The script hits rough patches, especially when Phoebe and Wolf get it on, but the sisters cut to the heart.
  18. The script that Nicholas Klein has conjured from Bono's idea is a quicksand that sucks down a solid cast.
  19. The film is alive with delicacy and feeling...It's a beauty.
  20. A mesmerizing deconstruction of the brute nature of love.
  21. Turitz keeps it comic and romantic in just the right doses. Looking for a fun date flick? You found it.
  22. Give the girls a cheer, but remember: "Bring It On" is still the poo, Missy. Take a big whiff.
  23. In crafting a fierce, fragmented, downbeat film about a character who makes the wrong decision as a man by being right as a cop, Penn flies in the face of what sells in Hollywood. Godspeed.
  24. Ritchie's got something all his own: a go-for-broke energy that cuts through the cliches of the crime genre.
  25. A black-comedy gem.
  26. Gives us good reason to believe that January really is the month Hollywood studios use to bury their cheesiest mistakes.
  27. Carter can't sidestep the script's cliches, so he wisely cuts to the fancy footwork whenever possible.
  28. Draws an electric performance from Peter Mullan.
  29. It's a mesmerizing spectacle.
  30. It doesn't help that Damon and Cruz fail to generate sparks or that the second half of the film, in which John and Lacey face hell in a Mexican prison, feels bluntly edited to fit a two-hour running time.
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