Rolling Stone's Scores

Select another publication »
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:
  1. Positive: 2,928 out of 4545
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4545
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4545
4545 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. House of Flying Daggers
    Forget "Hero" -- that cult hit was just Zhang Yimou's warm-up for this martial-arts fireball that throws in a lyrical love story, head-spinning fights and dazzling surprises.
  2. Closer
    Mike Nichols' haunting, hypnotic Closer vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.
  3. A Very Long Engagement
    An emotional powerhouse.
  4. Alexander
    Alexander breaks the key rule that makes movies move: Show, don't tell.
  5. National Treasure
    It's not just hard to believe any of this, it's impossible. And director Jon Turteltaub (Phenomenom) directs with robotic cheerlessness.
  6. Bad Education
    A rapturous masterwork.
  7. After the Sunset
    A movie utterly devoid of wit , excitement and any reason for being.
  8. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Is it the clumsy script or the switch in directors -- Beeban Kidron in for Sharon Maguire -- that has sucked out the charm of the original and replaced it with crude pratfalls and enough shag gags to stuff the next three Austin Powers movies?
  9. Kinsey
    Scrappy, funny, hot-to-trot biopic.
  10. Finding Neverland
    Glorious entertainment.
  11. The Polar Express
    The result is a failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong.
  12. Alfie
    The only touch of Caine's brutal sexiness is in the thrilling songs by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart that should win Sir Mick his first Oscar. The rest is marshmallow.
  13. The Incredibles
    Bird has crafted a film -- one of the year's best -- that doesn't ring cartoonish, it rings true.
  14. Enduring Love
    Spellbinding.
  15. Birth
    The best of what's onscreen is a mesmerizing mind-teaser.
  16. Saw
    It's gross as hell.
  17. Ray
    Jamie Foxx gets so far inside the man and his music that he and Ray Charles seem to breathe as one.
  18. Sideways
    Pure movie bliss.
  19. Undertow
    It's no go. Green and Gothic make for a clumsy fit.
  20. The Machinist
    Director Brad Anderson tightens the screws of suspense, but it's Bale's gripping, beyond-the-call-of-duty performance that holds you in thrall.
  21. P.S.
    P.S., adapted from Helen Schulman's novel, is Linney's show, and she makes it hilarious and haunting.
  22. Being Julia
    Hungarian director Istvan Szabo (Sunshine) overplays his hand and traps Bening in a role that's all emoting, no emotion.
  23. Shall We Dance
    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.
  24. Team America: World Police
    A ruthlessly clever musical, a punchy political parody and the hottest look ever at naked puppets -- the first film, porn included, in which a woody is actually made of wood.
  25. Vera Drake
    Using Staunton's face as his canvas, Leigh crafts a powerfully moving film that is unmissable and unforgettable.
  26. Stage Beauty
    Expertly directed by Richard Eyre (Iris) from Jeffrey Hatcher's play, the film is bawdy fun.
  27. Friday Night Lights
    Thornton gets inside the coach's skin. It's a subtle, soulful performance in a movie that otherwise goes for the jugular.
  28. Tarnation
    The result is a film that defies description. I'd call it some kind of miracle.
  29. Shark Tale
    It's stale, like something you wrap in yesterday's newspaper.
  30. I Heart Huckabees
    Best of all is Mark Wahlberg as Tommy, an angry post-9/11 firefighter so against Big Oil that he rides to fire scenes on his bike.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »