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 doesn't help that Damon and Cruz fail to generate sparks or that the second half of the film, in which John and Lacey face hell in a Mexican prison, feels bluntly edited to fit a two-hour running time.
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  2. This putrid dish marks a new low for director Roland Joffe.
  3. The humor is slight, but the actors make the blarney go down easy.
  4. In uniting to honor Arenas, Bardem and Schnabel create something extraordinary.
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  5. The House of Mirth is not one of those teacup and doily movies; it's harsh and disturbing. Davies does superlatively right by Wharton. There's blood on the walls.
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  6. It's a wild, whacked-out wonder. Coenheads rejoice.
  7. Dracula may stay undead in the new millennium, but there's not a sign of life - oh, that bloodless acting - in this sorry mess.
  8. Starting to feel sick? Just you wait.
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  9. I'd rather be buried in a mound of Floridian chad than watch director Donald Petrie force Bullock to jump through another desperately unfunny comic hoop.
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  10. You may want to revisit this profanely hilarious Hollywood satire. . .just to catch the zingers the audience often drowns out with laughter. Hollywood corrupts absolutely, and Mamet turns the toxic process into the year's best and smartest comedy.
  11. The ending leans to soap opera, but Van Sant, revisiting the closet-genius theme of "Good Will Hunting" is too keen an observer of character to let this funny and touching film go soft.
  12. The Gift delivers the lurid goods as a scary, sexy, twist-a-minute whodunit.
  13. Ed Harris, who plays Pollock and makes his debut as a director - doing both jobs superbly, by the way - is angst incarnate.
  14. A sinfully scrumptious bonbon.
  15. Pulls off thrilling stunts that will leave you a sweaty-palmed mess. It's top-tier movie escapism.
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  16. Slim pickings.
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  17. Ang Lee, a world-class director working at the top of his elegant form, has done something thrilling. For all the leaping action, it's the film's spirit that soars.
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  18. A savage comedy of sexual extremes; the barbed laughs draw blood.
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  19. It's rare that a a movie leaves you pinned to your seat, wanting to see it again -- right now, this minute -- to work out the pieces of the puzzle. Unbreakable is one of those movies.
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  20. Offers action in the Arnold Schwarzenegger style. Well, not right away.
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  21. Where's Sandler in all this? Lost in gimmicks that smack of desperation. Damn it.
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  22. There may be bigger, costlier, weighter films this year. There's none lovelier.
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  23. Passes muster as an old-style biopic with its heart in the right place. There won't be a dry eye in the house.
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  24. Redford plays the game of filmmaking to reveal what he holds sacred: story, character, feeling, thoughtful pacing, and an alertness of nuances of honor and shame that most movies skip in the rush to the rush.
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  25. These kickass Barbies bring heart to a machine tooled genre.
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  26. Green has created a work of startling originality that will haunt you for a good, long time.
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  27. Ephron, try as she might, can't give her codified champagne spin to a Resnick script that all too quickly runs out of fizz.
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  28. While the first movie steadily tighened its vise, the second loosens its grip through strained acting and incoherent plotting.
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  29. Should have been a fun update on the 1967 Brit farce. Director/co-writer Ramis comes on too strong with the camper trickery.
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  30. A landmark musical tribute.

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