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. Fierce, funny and finally devastating, Tanovic's superb film offers a timely look at the roots of civil war and acts of terrorism on both sides that can be exploited by political and media hypocrites alike.
  2. Forget Oscar, Ocean's Eleven is the coolest damned thing around.
  3. In this funny, touching and haunting film, Patel cuts through stereotypes to show the hard truths of straddling two cultures.
  4. An uncommonly good movie - a thriller that transcends thrills to become a heartfelt and heart-stopping personal drama.
  5. Slack direction fails to touch a nerve. Martin was scarier and funnier extracting Bill Murray's molars without Novocaine in "Little Shop of Horrors." Now that was one crazy dentist.
  6. Is the movie any good? At the dawn of the twenty-first century, when art is defined by commerce, this question is beside the point.
  7. Mamet -- crafts tangy, well-seasoned dialogue that a good cast can feast on. And this cast is prime.
  8. For the first time, the Farrellys seem to be embarrassed by their own crudeness. For the first time, they should be.
  9. It's the Pixar animators who keep grown-ups as riveted as the kids with visual marvels that dazzle and delight.
  10. Steadily engrossing and devilishly funny, and, o brother, does it look sharp.
  11. Christensen is the only jolt of excitement in this turgid soap opera.
  12. No denying the relevance of the tale.
  13. It isn't the sex that shocks here, it's the chilling core of loneliness. Intimacy dares to cut deep, and its daring gets to you.
  14. The Hughes boys blow it by burying a fine cast -- Robbie Coltrane as a cop and Ian Holm as a royal sawbones are standouts -- in stock scares, sappy romance and cliches that really are from hell.
  15. That Linklater pulls off the innovative feat with hypnotic assurance is nothing short of amazing.
  16. What started as cute becomes cloying and bloated. Charm should never feel like it weighs a ton.
  17. The challenge is exhilarating. You can discover a lot about yourself by getting lost in Mulholland Drive. It grips you like a dream that won't let go.
  18. An absolute stunner of a movie.
  19. If you're looking to have your nerves fried and your pulse pounded, this is your ticket to ride.
  20. Does romantic comedy have to come off as sugared stupidity? It does here.
  21. But this is Washington's show, his Scarface, if you will, and his smiling, seductive monster is a thrilling creation that gives Training Day all the bite it needs.
  22. Abounds in pleasures.
  23. What a shame, though, that the movie isn't a livelier business.
  24. The funny and touching result is worth cheering for.
  25. A ragtag charmer. You will laugh.
  26. The film takes a true story and drags it through a swamp of hyped-up Hollywood cliches.
  27. It's a powerful and provocative achievement from a first-time filmmaker of enormous promise.
  28. Setting it against the backdrop of a wanton city under siege, Schroeder crafts a film of whiplash urgency.
  29. Launches the fall season with a crashing thud.
  30. Filming this mess in North Carolina (strike three).

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