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. It's Vincent D'Onofrio as Pooh-Bear, a drug lord who's snorted so much meth his nose had to be replaced by a plastic one, who kicks ass.
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  2. A riveting and surprisingly romantic ride.
  3. Like Vardalos and Corbett, who play their roles with vibrant charm, the film, directed by Joel Zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can't fake. It's a keeper.
  4. A sappy big-screen version of TV's "CSI."
  5. Leaves you feeling tense and terrific. It's fun to be fooled.
  6. What we're watching, however charming, is a fancifully costumed theater piece that cuts off the oxygen needed to make a play breathe onscreen.
  7. What these guys do for revenge during one hellish day in the Big Apple makes the panic room look like Barney's toy box. The film itself goes off the deep end way before the end credits.
  8. Elegant, funny and unexpectedly touching, this whodunit about a murder aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst represents a bracing comeback for Peter Bogdanovich.
  9. Though the material isn't up to Mr. Show's high standards, some great laughs abound.
  10. The big problem with Big Trouble, despite a fine cast and director (Sonnenfeld made "Get Shorty" and "Men in Black"), is that the damn thing isn't funny.
  11. Painfully flat gross-out comedy.
  12. Scores a solid hit.
  13. Does he (Hartley) succeed? Not with a movie this plodding, peevish and gimmicky. Is it fun to watch him try? Me, I'll take failed ambition over hack efficiency any day.
  14. Recoing gives a performance that won't soon be forgotten. Neither will Time Out. It's a great movie.
  15. Watching Haneke's film is, aptly enough, a challenge and a punishment. But watching Huppert, a great actress tearing into a landmark role, is riveting.
  16. This black-comic assault on family entertainment is going to set a lot of teeth on edge -- If only his (De Vito's) material were better this time.
  17. Panic Room is Fincher's high-style testament to the cool things movies can do to make us jump out of our seats in the dark.
  18. Cuaron's hot-blooded, haunting and wildly erotic film revels in the pleasures of the flesh without losing touch with thought and feeling.
  19. Add Showtime to the pile of Hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal.
  20. Director Elie Chouraqui, who co-wrote the script, catches the chaotic horror of war, but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera?
  21. The battle, expertly shot by Dean Semler, captures the chaos of guerrilla warfare paralleled in "Black Hawk Down" and gives the film a scarring documentary realism.
  22. Yup, director Michael Lehmann, far from the glory days of "Heathers," has made a movie about a hard-on, in which he relentlessly pounds a flaccid premise.
  23. Cringingly earnest, totally unremarkable fable.
  24. Aims for pure joy and achieves it.
  25. I could puke.
  26. Director Gregory Hoblit ("Primal Fear") is merely arranging cliches in new patterns until the surprise ending blows enough pro-military fervor up the audience's ass to make Colin Powell call a halt.
  27. Broken Lizard does it with a shit-faced integrity that's worth a salute.
  28. John Q. is as fake as that tear, an exploitative mess trying to pass as social activism.
  29. Abort! Abort! It's that time of year when Hollywood releases movies it should never have made in the first place.
  30. Walken is so funny, he almost makes you forget this flick is one joke stretched thinner than Calista Flockhart.

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