Rolling Stone's Scores

For 4,546 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:
4546 movie reviews
  1. So cheers to a movie as gloriously entertaining and bluntly honest as the lady herself. Everybody rise.
  2. This movie, with its flashbacks to past sins and traumas, rests squarely on Berry, a mesmerizer who makes every moment count.
  3. It's a big story, and in this landmark film Miyazaki is up to every demand. Sit back and behold.
  4. Brazilian director José Padilha (Elite Squad, Bus 174) soldiers on stolidly, but lacks the Dutch Verheoeven's abiding sense of mischief.
  5. Winter's Tale is preposterous twaddle.
  6. This Endless Love is a photo shoot, not a movie. It'd play better as a slideshow of jpgs. Even nine-year-old girls ought to cry foul on this movie's endless blandness.
  7. Hart is a comic fireball. Don't leave till after the final credits when he and Hall bust a few more hilarious improv moves.
  8. A wickedly smart and funny free-for-all, and sassy enough to shoot well-aimed darts at corporate branding.
  9. One idea, mixed with lame jokes, and stretched beyond coherence. Vampire Academy doesn't need a review. It needs a stake in the heart.
  10. A stimulating detective story that holds you in thrall.
  11. The compensation comes in the three lead actors, all way too good for the material dished out by writer-director Tom Gormican.
  12. The pie looks delicious, but Labor Day feels stale.
  13. Who knew? The work of the Monuments Men is fresh territory for film, and Clooney builds the story with intriguing detail and scope.
  14. Like his characters, Guiraudie is walking a tightrope, finding the point where sex and death exude a similar allure. You won't be able to look away.
  15. Propaganda is a bitch to act. And this misguided movie leaves Hudgens buried in it.
  16. A collection of moldy gags that director Tim Story tries to polish. Not with these turds, pal.
  17. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit has no personality of its own. It's a product constructed out of spare parts and assembled with computerized precision. It's hard to care when Jack turns operational and becomes a CIA robocop. The movie feels untouched by human hands.
  18. Like the best war movies, Lone Survivor laces action with moral questions that haunt and provoke.
  19. In his uniquely funny and unexpectedly tender movie, Stiller takes us on a personal journey of lingering resonance.
  20. Watching De Niro and Stallone piss all over their most iconic roles provides no pleasure. It made me feel – Sad. Sad. Sad.
  21. The acting styles of Streep and Roberts, both Golden Globe nominees, don’t exactly mesh, but they’re a hoot.
  22. Bejo (The Artist) digs deep into the secrets and lies that have afflicted all her relationships, in a wonderfully affecting film that haunts you long after it ends.
  23. Her
    Jonze is a visionary whose lyrical, soulful meditation on relationships of the future cuts to the heart of the way we live now.
  24. When is a movie fall-down funny even when some scenes fall flat on their fat ones? When it's Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
  25. DiCaprio's swaggering, swinging-dick performance is the wildest damn thing he's ever put onscreen.
  26. A tasty swig of holiday cheer.
  27. For some, the silver linings in Russell’s movies represent a failure to embrace darkness. I see them as a humanist’s act of resistance. That’s why American Hustle ranks with the year’s best movies. It gets under your skin.
  28. But, oh, that dragon. I'd endure another slog through Middle-Earth just to spend more time with Smaug.
  29. One thing's for sure about this raw provocation from the Coens: Like the music, the pain runs deep and true. You'll laugh till it hurts.
  30. It's the bruised history of these brothers that gives Out of the Furnace its beating heart and the power to grip you hard.

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