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. Stupefyingly stupid thriller.
  2. What a bold notion for a movie, and what a bust in terms of execution.
  3. Forget fever – this floral-scented fiasco is so lifeless you can barely feel a pulse.
  4. A few primo bits sneak through.... But mostly we’re watching the bawdy life being drained out of a once subversive franchise. Action Point is the first Jackass-related movie to play it safe. Now that is truly painful.
  5. Could 1960s-style sex, drugs and rock & roll really have been this dull?
  6. The new Mummy is, how can I put it? Just freakin' awful.
  7. An appallingly clumsy and stupid take on drugs, kidnapping and suicide in suburbia.
  8. The F&F franchise ran out of gas half way into the 2001 original.
  9. Bad things can happen to talented people. Take Tom McCarthy, who wrote and directed "The Station Agent," "The Visitor" and "Win Win." All gems. His fourth film, The Cobbler, is a failure on every level.
  10. It's getting harder to sustain a rooting interest in the career of Johnny Knoxville.
  11. Talk about disappointing. Director Doug Liman exuded style and cool in "Swingers," "Go" and "The Bourne Identity." He lost his way in the star bloat of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," and now his mojo is buried in this amped-up sci-fi chase flick.
  12. Purists, be warned: This scare-flick quickie has as much relation to the 1953 Vincent Price classic with the same title as Paris Hilton does to acting.
  13. It's a no-go. View From the Top boasts a first-class cast, but they're all traveling coach.
  14. I like Longoria Parker on "Desperate Housewives" and truly believe she could have a career on the big screen if she promises to never again work with writer-director Jeff Lowell, who perpetrated this offense of a ghost comedy on her and on her otherwise gifted co-stars Paul Rudd and Lake Bell.
  15. What the filmmakers fail to recognize is that history on the page is quite different from what it needs to be onscreen, namely alive and visceral.
  16. The last of the summer's movie epics is a digitalized eyesore hobbled in every department by staggering incompetence.
  17. Whitney Houston deserved better than to go out onscreen with this botch job remake of a 1976 soap opera that never deserved another thought.
  18. What Murphy's doing isn't acting; it's masturbation.
  19. What's left is a lot of strenuous playacting when what's called for is the finesse of the Japanese original. Skip this stub-toed substitute.
  20. Breathlessly boring.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    You don't want to see this bilge. Director Milcho Manchevski, who was fired in midproduction, is the only one with cause to celebrate.
  21. The brooding RPatz doesn’t bite. But his movie does.
  22. A cheerless and unappetizing plate of piffle that deserves to be smashed against a wall or at least sent back to the kitchen.
  23. I don't know what to make of Act of Valor. It's like reviewing a recruiting poster.
  24. The shopworn script by Pablo F. Fenjves, who ghost-wrote the unpublished O.J. Simpson book, If I Did It: The Confessions of the Killer, gets no help from director Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cite Soleil).
  25. Is it the worst of the seven screen Sparks so far? Nope. My vote still goes to 2009's "The Last Song" with Miley Cyrus mothering those unhatched turtle eggs. But it's still pretty damn insufferable.
  26. Preposterous can be defined in many, many ways. But for now, let's use the plot details of The Accountant as Exhibit A.
  27. CQ
    Writer-director Roman Coppola is trying to capture a time he's too young to remember, when the French New Wave reinvigorated film art.
  28. Overheated, underdone farce. Race for the exit.
  29. Say the word, girl (Lopez), the next time you're offered one of these barrel scrapers: Enough!

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