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. Morning sickness afflicts most of the potential mommies. For me, the movie itself triggered the vomiting.
  2. Viewed as a light star vehicle with a lot of VFX — a soft Rock movie — it’s simply ho-hum. The issue is with everything else happening onscreen around him. Even by the DCEU’s dodgy standards, it’s a mess in a cape.
  3. Director Mike Barber springs a twist ending that makes you sit up and stifle those yawns.
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  4. Way to go, Battleship: Take the crassest of cynical junk, slather it in jingoism and sell it as rah-rah fun for right-wingers.
  5. It's slick girlie stuff, but the cast makes it go down easy.
  6. A patently bogus romcom in which every note rings false.
  7. Why does this Last Dance feel so impersonal, so rote, so step-by-step predictable?
  8. In his screenwriting debut, Glee's gifted Chris Colfer, 22, proves he can lace a line with sass and soul. The downside of Struck by Lightning, besides the fact that Colfer's character, Carson Phillips, is struck dead in the first scene, is that Colfer hands himself all the best lines.
  9. DeMonaco shows a sure hand at building tension. Too bad the film devolves into a series of home-invasion clichés. The Purge was almost on to something.
  10. Some actors don't need top-shelf material. Just the pleasure of their company is enough. And so Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin turn the insubstantial Stand Up Guys into solid entertainment.
  11. May be only loosely true, but it is thoroughly Hollywood.
  12. For those who mistake Love Wedding Repeat for a comedy with actual laughs, consider yourselves warned.
  13. A collection of moldy gags that director Tim Story tries to polish. Not with these turds, pal.
  14. Offers dumb fun without apology.
  15. A promise unfulfilled.
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  16. Turitz keeps it comic and romantic in just the right doses. Looking for a fun date flick? You found it.
  17. Cruz is a dish, but her movie is as soggy and indigestible as Styrofoam.
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  18. Recommending that someone actually subject themselves to Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi neo-disaster flick, however, is a little like shoving three-month old milk under an unsuspecting person’s nose and inquiring, Does this smell ok? You already know the answer; you just need to share the pain.
  19. Some people find this twisty and twisted psychological thriller arty and pretentious. I find it arty and provocative.
  20. The dialogue starts at risible and descends from there.
  21. Could 1960s-style sex, drugs and rock & roll really have been this dull?
  22. You go in with high expectations about what this collection of talent can do with this bats**t pulp fiction. You leave feeling like you owe Brian De Palma a thousand apologies.
  23. Director Vadim Jean is lucky that his low-octane comedy is long on Short.
  24. McConaughey, despite alarmingly orange makeup, does justice to the role, a hard-drinking, shipwreck- hunting senator's son with a 007 way with the ladies.
  25. Even the great ones hit snags. With The Limits of Control, Jim Jarmsuch gets tangled up in his own deadpan.
  26. This comedy is packed with p---- jokes, the cruder the better.
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  27. A ham-handed melodrama that trivializes an important topic: the role of the teacher in a violent classroom.
  28. The spectacle feels lifeless and what could have been a challenging moral provocation dissolves into sappy, feel-good pandering. Lawrence and Pratt deserve better. So do audiences.
  29. It's Vincent D'Onofrio as Pooh-Bear, a drug lord who's snorted so much meth his nose had to be replaced by a plastic one, who kicks ass.
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  30. Judd is slumming again in ths lame suspense yarn that could barely pass as a TV quickie without the bankable names of Judd, Tommy Lee Jones and director Bruce Beresford.
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