Rolling Stone's Scores

For 4,545 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:
4545 movie reviews
  1. Li is action poetry in motion. Damn them for spoiling our popcorn fun with salty tear-jerking.
  2. Listening to the kids talk is a treat in itself, but watching them strut their stuff in the final competition is enough to make you stand up and cheer.
  3. Funny, touching, vital.
  4. The acting is dynamite, notably by Dillon and Newton in their shocking second encounter. Despite its preachy moments, the film is a knockout.
  5. 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.
  6. Odd as it is to say, Kingdom of Heaven loses its momentum the more Balian gets religion.
  7. Director Vadim Jean is lucky that his low-octane comedy is long on Short.
  8. Go with the whimsical flow that includes a hilariously morose robot named Marvin, voiced by the great Alan Rickman with the weight of the galaxy resonating in every bored, cynical syllable. Adams would be pleased.
  9. The Interpreter bristles with the smart, steadily engrossing tension that marked such 1970s goodies as "All the President's Men," "The Parallax View" and Pollack's own "Three Days of the Condor."
  10. As the film stopped counting back in years and switched to months, I panicked that it would slog on to weeks, hours and seconds before reaching its inevitable end. I was wrong. About A Lot Like Love leaving you wanting a lot less, I am right.
  11. It's scarier than "The Amityville Horror," as scandalous as "Fahrenheit 9/11" and loaded with more conspiracies than "The Interpreter."
  12. Result? It's not scary, just busy.
  13. The film looks and feels authentic, but Duchovny has powered his undeniably personal journey with a counterfeit heart.
  14. Solondz likes to put the screws to moral hypocrisy. As always, he goes too far. As always, you don't want to look away.
  15. 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.
  16. The movie is so soggy and anonymous, I had to remind myself that the Farrelly brothers, Peter and Bobby, directed it. It's sad to watch the kingpins of gross-out try to dial down to cute. Swung at and missed.
  17. Does the plot spin out of control? You bet. But dumb fun this smart is a gift.
  18. The worst thing I can say about this savage, sexy and ferociously funny screen translation of three stories from Frank Miller's Sin City series of graphic novels is that it's too much of a good thing.
  19. It's the whooshing terror that fries your nerves to a frazzle. Antal's control never falters.
  20. This bonbon spiked with malice is a triumph for Jaoui, who takes witty and wounding measure of the small betrayals that leave bruises on us all.
  21. As always with Park Chanwook, you just hold on and let him rip.
  22. Guess what? It's almost bearable.
  23. You might think there's no downside to a movie that peeks up the skirts of babes in micro-minis, but writer-director Angela Robinson's dimwitted satire is libido-killing proof to the contrary.
  24. If "Sideways" made you curious about vino, this fierce, funny and challenging doc opens up a world worth debating.
  25. You have to admire Nakata's skill at letting the dead run free while hinting that we may have more to fear from the living. With a braver step in that direction, this middling movie would ring more than box-office bells.
  26. With Melinda and Melinda he's (Allen) not just going through the motions. He's saying the game isn't over before you laugh till it hurts.
  27. Take a tired formula...Stir with a director, Florent Siri, who has no shame about stealing every sadistic suspense trick from the Die Hard series. Serve to a gullible audience willing to pay top dollar for secondhand goods.
  28. A fiercely funny human comedy with jokes that sting and leave marks.
  29. It looks like a documentary...Don't let anyone tell you more.
  30. The film is a mesmerizing erotic odyssey given gravity and heart by Cruz.

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