Rolling Stone's Scores

For 4,544 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:
4544 movie reviews
  1. 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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  2. Where's Sandler in all this? Lost in gimmicks that smack of desperation. Damn it.
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  3. There may be bigger, costlier, weighter films this year. There's none lovelier.
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  4. 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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  5. These kickass Barbies bring heart to a machine tooled genre.
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  6. While the first movie steadily tighened its vise, the second loosens its grip through strained acting and incoherent plotting.
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  7. 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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  8. Green has created a work of startling originality that will haunt you for a good, long time.
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  9. Self-importance sinks this one like a stone.
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  10. A landmark musical tribute.
  11. Crass manipulation can clean up at the box office, so do your part: Nail this flick as a bottom feeder and pay the bad word forward to three others.
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  12. 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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  13. There's not that much that's new in screenwriter Marshall Karp's sitcom-ish memoir, but Alexander keeps the laughs coming.
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  14. If the devil made them all do it, he's one dull bastard.
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  15. Altman orchestrates Dr. T's odyssey with the precision, heart and lively wit of a virtuoso.
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  16. Until The Contender slips into partisan politics and platitudinous piety, it's a lively, entertaining ride.
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  17. Bell explodes onscreen in a performance that cuts to the heart without sham tearjerking. Look for Billy to blast off.
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  18. Writer-director Raymond De Felitta creates something wonderfully funny and touching.
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  19. A frustratingly uneven satire with undeniably sharp teeth, isn't afraid to shoot comic darts at its targets until blood is drawn.
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  20. A marvel of delicacy and humor.
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  21. A hilarious hodgepodge, in which De Niro gives his best comic performance to date.
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  22. No one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.
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  23. A strong, stinging film, alive with conflicts that defy glib resolutions.
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  24. Distressingly shallow.
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  25. Waggish fun like this is too good to miss.
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  26. Shot five years ago by director Michael Ritchie. No release until now. Uh-oh. Disaster? Pretty much.
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  27. Hackman and Freeman will pin you to your seat.
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  28. Cruz is a dish, but her movie is as soggy and indigestible as Styrofoam.
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  29. Despite melodramatic lapses -- the gripping action recalls Walter Hill's 1981 "Southern Comfort" -- this is Schumacher's most ambitions film since "Falling Down" in 1993, and it plays to his strengths with young actors.
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  30. For all its fancy pedigree, the spellbinding Dancer in the Dark aims right for the heart and aces its target.
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