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. At it’s core, however, The Order is really a horror film, made all the more frightening because the monsters who live on these Everytown, USA, Maple Streets seem way too prevalent at the present moment.
  2. The sorrow inherent in this tale would be unbearable without the film’s flashes of humor and performances by a cast of nonprofessionals that are moving beyond measure. Capernaum suffers from being overly long and chaotic in structure, but there’s no mistaking its cumulative effect as an emotional powerhouse.
  3. It's Olsen, as a damaged soul clinging to shifting ground, who makes this spellbinder impossible to shake.
  4. Still, the moments that hit hardest concern Leo’s relationship with Ahd (a very fine Eric Bernard), another male hustler who claims he’s only “gay 4 pay.”
  5. In this painfully funny and touching look at the vanities and insecurities that a mother (Brenda Blethyn) can pass on to her daughters in the name of love, writer-director Nicole Holofcener ("Walking and Talking") does a chick flick right.
  6. If you're looking to have your nerves fried and your pulse pounded, this is your ticket to ride.
  7. Kudos to Coogan and Reilly, not just for their gifts of impersonation, but for detailing the bedrock connection at work and play between the two men.
  8. It's hot, fierce, funny, vicious and ready to bite, baby.
  9. DiCaprio's swaggering, swinging-dick performance is the wildest damn thing he's ever put onscreen.
  10. Want to see a master class in acting? Watch Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins show how it’s done in The Two Popes, a fiercely moving and surprisingly funny provocation that pivots on speculative conversations between the German John Ratzinger, a.k.a. Pope Benedict XVI (Hopkins), and Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pryce), the future Pope Francis.
  11. Notturno is not journalism. Yet from its very outset it raises the same questions about itself and its own making, about the film’s ability to show what it shows, because what it shows is often so immediately intimate — private to the point of making a viewer want to avert their eyes.
  12. This movie wins you over, head and heart, without cheating. It's just about perfect.
  13. McTeer and Brown make magic ina film that is wonderfully funny, touching and vital.
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  14. Taut, tense and enthralling, as smart and surprising as it protagonist.
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  15. Paradis sizzles in a star-making role that gleams like one of Gabor's blades. She's a spellbinder.
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  16. You leave this movie knowing exactly why it never should have happened in the first place.
  17. The Crucible, despite some damaging cuts to the text, is a seductively exciting film that crackles with visual energy, passionate provocation and incendiary acting.
  18. Even when the film doesn’t entirely work, there is, simply, joy in watching Anderson work.
  19. Fulton and Pepe have created an extraordinary document. Hilarious and heartbreaking.
  20. Throbs with action, suspense and a seductive rhythm all its own.
  21. No use trying to describe Bernie. It's a one-of-a-kind inspiration. You will never feel closer to a convicted killer.
  22. Kristen Wiig is an indisputable goddess of comedy. And this rowdy fem-friendship movie she stars in and wrote with Annie Mumolo is infused with the Wiig brand of wicked mischief.
  23. Davis gives an absolutely electrifying performance that lends the movie a kick of outrageous originality. This Canadian actress, so good in Halt and Catch Fire and one of the best episodes ever of Black Mirror ("San Junipero") takes it to the next level, suggesting even more exciting things to come.
  24. The film belongs to Blanchett -- this hellcat Virgin Queen is something to see.
  25. The Muppets slaps a smile on your face you won't want to wipe off.
  26. Gere, who has shockingly never been nominated for an Oscar, gives the performance of his career, intuitive and indelible.
  27. Gary Oldman is one of the greatest actors on the planet – and he proves it again as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.
  28. Gore keeps us riveted by being charming, literate and profoundly persuasive on a topic that's scarier than anything in a dozen Japanese horror flicks. Vote Gore on this one.
  29. Gilliam, along with the gifted cinematographer Roger Pratt and production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, fashions a disturbing and dazzling lost world.
  30. Not since Julie Andrews rode an umbrella to glory in Mary Poppins has Disney given us such a real-life doll (Amy Adams).

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