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. Cringingly earnest, totally unremarkable fable.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Aims for pure joy and achieves it.
  5. I could puke.
  6. 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.
  7. Broken Lizard does it with a shit-faced integrity that's worth a salute.
  8. John Q. is as fake as that tear, an exploitative mess trying to pass as social activism.
  9. Walken is so funny, he almost makes you forget this flick is one joke stretched thinner than Calista Flockhart.
  10. Say this for the soundtrack, it drowns out the lousy dialogue.
  11. Abort! Abort! It's that time of year when Hollywood releases movies it should never have made in the first place.
  12. Keep your eye on Kidman, whose kinky, kittenish performance turns unexpected emotional corners that pull you up short.
  13. A shit stain on the genre.
  14. Veering on the maudlin, the film ultimately succeeds by striking a universal chord on the subject of inconsolable loss. It's a stirring, humane testament from a surprising source.
  15. This mumbo-jumbo plays like The X Files on Prozac. No wonder the actors look narcotized.
  16. A movie that advances the career of a demonstrably gifted filmmaker, a fearlessly funny movie whose laughs draw blood, a bracingly provocative movie that won't apologize for its bad temper.
  17. The new Count moves with the smooth, plastic efficiency of a TV miniseries. Inspiration and originality may be in short supply, but the movie gets the job done.
  18. These melancholy Danes create something sweetly sexy, funny and touching.
  19. This new take on horror is more of the bloody same.
  20. It's the new year's first happy surprise.
  21. The result is a film of surprise and wonder, lyrically attuned to the ticking intensity of romance.
  22. Director Gary Fleder ("Don't Say a Word") pushes the same old cliches in "Blade Runner" packaging.
  23. Director Gillian Armstrong turns Sebastian Faulks' pungent novel about World War II into a soporific.
  24. Contrived, manipulative and shamelessly sentimental, this film is notable for the courageous reach of Sean Penn, who gives a bold, heartfelt performance.
  25. A personal best for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, a triumph for Scott and a war film of prodigious power. You will be shaken.
  26. Gosford Park abounds in scenes to savor. It's a feast, and one of Altman's best.
  27. The actors make it unique and unforgettable.
  28. The language is leaden, the pace glacial and the characters indecipherable. It's easier to read the actors -- they all seem eager to win an Oscar. Fat chance.
  29. Ali
    Ali is a bruiser, unwieldy in length and ambition. But Mann and Smith deliver this powerhouse with the urgency of a champ's left hook.
  30. Director and co-writer James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted) is supplying comfort food for bruised romantics.

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