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. You'll end up entertained if you forgive the cliches and let Petersen grab you with the visuals.
  2. Grand Canyon is most gripping when Kasdan shows people waking up to the world and finding that they need more than bromides.
  3. Terminator Genisys fires on all action cylinders when director Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) follows the model James Cameron set in the first two films, still the glory of the series.
  4. The latest film franchise culled from Marvel's comic-book universe packs a ton of fun into a teeny package. Its low-key charm helps glide us over trouble spots in tone and pacing.
  5. The heart of Jackass - the adolescent drive to bash body and soul into the symbolic brick wall of maturity - remains pure.
  6. Just know that Famuyiwa keeps the action spinning with vibrant speed and rare sensitivity. He's made a comedy of social expectation that plays like an exhilarating gift.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The All-American imagery, coexisting with occasional shots of swastikas and socially-sanctioned cruelty, give it the feel of a surreal, funny fever dream about national purpose gone horribly awry.
  7. It's Sagnier, a young Bardot, who lifts the movie, and Rampling, 58, who gives it nuance, not to mention a nude scene that shows off a body Demi Moore would envy. These two make it seductive fun to be fooled.
  8. This riveting film qualifies as the anti-crowd-pleaser -- but Penn makes it unthinkable to turn away.
  9. Brice, who made an impressive thriller debut with 2014's "Creep," has a knack for getting the most out of four people talking.
  10. Battle of the Sexes is not an overtly political movie; it's a blast about two tennis champions going over the top to make a point.
  11. Based on a play by Athol Fugard, Tsotsi is South Africa's entry in this year's Oscar race for Best Foreign-Language Film. This remarkable movie means to shake you, and boy does it ever.
  12. Near the end of this smart, speedy romantic farce, the comic engine hits a wall and sputters. Until then, this Coen brothers film -- easily their silliest -- is fueled by a screwball fizz that keeps the laughs popping.
  13. Guilty-pleasure movies should not be underestimated. I had a scary-fun-house blast at Zombieland, in which studly Woody Harrelson, nerdy Jesse Eisenberg, sexy Emma Stone and sunshiny Abigail Breslin roam a near-dead world kicking zombie ass.
  14. Branching out in a bold new direction, Stallone is quietly devastating. James Mangold has directed Cop Land from his own ardent, audacious script, and despite some draggy, overdeliberate moments, it's the strongest piece of material to come Stallone's way since he invented himself as Rocky 21 years ago.
  15. A warmly hilarious movie about family members and their secret hearts.
  16. The new Seven isn't aiming for cinema immortality. It's two hours of hardcore, shoot-em-up pow and it's entertaining as hell.
  17. It's a kick to watch Denzel Washington do a movie just for the hot, sexy fun of it.
  18. Goat means to shake you, and does it ever.
  19. Sally Hawkins is just plain irresistible in this funny, touching and vital salute to women in the work force.
  20. For anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it.
  21. Green Room is way more than crass exploitation. It's a B movie with an art-house core.
  22. In his uniquely funny and unexpectedly tender movie, Stiller takes us on a personal journey of lingering resonance.
  23. Stoker is Park's darkly funny, deliciously depraved riff on Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt."
  24. Jarmusch makes it a feast that plays like a haunting concept album.
  25. The movie stays alert to the dreams and disappointments of four average people on an emotional roller coaster. It's a sublimely acted movie, hilarious and heartfelt.
  26. It's a revamped Cinderella story with power as the aphrodisiac, and Douglas and Bening play it to the classy hilt. The courtship scenes in the film's lighter, more deft first half have the bounce of a moonstruck fable.
  27. What this Robin Hood lacks in fun it makes up for in epic sweep.
  28. When Boseman shows us Brown doing his thing onstage, the movie comes alive.
  29. Kent will have you climbing the walls simply by plumbing the violence of the mind. Brace yourself.

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