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. Add Showtime to the pile of Hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal.
  2. There’s an art to making action films, and that artistry is as AWOL here as it is in the first movie.
  3. If you stay and watch the endless end credits, there's a short scene that hints a sequel is coming. That's what I call real pain.
  4. With this last entry, we have officially hit the bottom of the barrel. Whips, chains, butt plugs and nipple clips are nothing compared to the sheer torture of watching this movie.
  5. It’s essentially the Snyder Cut of every science fiction and fantasy touchstone of the past 100 years — a jam-packed, ransacked greatest-hits reel posing as a saga.
  6. Ephron, try as she might, can't give her codified champagne spin to a Resnick script that all too quickly runs out of fizz.
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  7. Teenagers, even non-ninjas and non-turtles, have been eating up this cinematic waste product for weeks now. In one way, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a triumph for producer Michael Bay in that it is equally as godawful as his "Transformers: Age of Extinction" and a hit nonetheless.
  8. A dull, dumb and unforgivably dated thriller, free of thrills and any kind of perfection.
  9. Nothing works. Nothing.
  10. A trio of appealing actors is trapped in an action-spiked romcom death-sentenced by a lack of humor, heart and a coherent reason for being.
  11. Gives us good reason to believe that January really is the month Hollywood studios use to bury their cheesiest mistakes.
  12. The one light at the end of this long, slogged-through tunnel is, surprisingly, Willis.
  13. Hellboy wants to remind you that this Dark Horse Comics brute with a soul still deserves a place in the superhero-movie ecosphere. It ends up simply being a franchise reboot damned to be restaged as its own bloody hell. Some things are better left dead.
  14. What I can't figure is why anyone would want to release this tripe in theaters just when Fanning has nearly lived it down. They ain't no friends of mine, or any other moviegoer.
  15. Environmentalists are up in arms. "Where did the shit go?" they want to know. The answer is painfully obvious: into the screenplay.
  16. It's a hoot to watch Fonda cut loose and mix it up with J. Lo, even when the laughs turn mean-spirited.
  17. One adjective you don’t hear much anymore is “preposterous,” defined as “contrary to nature, reason or common sense.” Yet the word applies perfectly to Inheritance, a blithering botch job of a thriller that begs the question: “Come on, are you f**king kidding me?”
  18. It's too bad Martin already made “What's the Worst That Could Happen?” The title really fits this one.
  19. It's all stupefyingly unfunny. Hot Pursuit is one hot mess.
  20. If you're like me, diluted Smith is still better than no Smith at all.
  21. The Book of Henry starts well, begins flirting with absurdity in the middle – and ends in crashing disaster. But the feeling persists that director Colin Treverrow believes every word in the shambles of a 20-year-old screenplay by crime novelist Gregg Hurwitz.
  22. One idea, mixed with lame jokes, and stretched beyond coherence. Vampire Academy doesn't need a review. It needs a stake in the heart.
  23. The new Mummy is, how can I put it? Just freakin' awful.
  24. A shock ending may be the best hope for this film, a convoluted mystery that thinks it's way smarter than it is.
  25. The one thing this Corporate Animals has going for it — the reason you may wanna plunk down cash to see it regardless — is Demi Moore.
  26. Winter's Tale is preposterous twaddle.
  27. The best way to handle this relentlessly nice movie that deserved a touch of nasty, is to enjoy the few flashes of what have been before the sheer heaviness of the production stomps out all the fun.
  28. It doesn’t take long to realize that what was meant to be a franchise-starter is, unlike its hero, permanently DOA.
  29. The bloodsuckers in this thriller may not have much bite, but here's a movie that can -- it's guaranteed -- drain the life out of an audience in minutes.
  30. If you see one Minnesota movie this year, make it "Fargo." This botch job should be stamped direct to video.

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