Salon's Scores

For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
3130 movie reviews
  1. It's sunny and cheerful without coming off as too saccharine.
  2. Turns a hysterical night of African-American humor into the hottest little picture of the summer.
  3. The disgrace of Steal This Movie isn't just that it fails to do justice to its subject, but that, as a movie, it's barely competent.
  4. If The Cell were six minutes long it would blow your mind. At two hours, it's a disordered muddle of hellacious highs and pedestrian lows.
  5. This is a sweet-spirited movie about a nice bunch of kids having good clean fun.
  6. The worst movie of the new millennium.
  7. Has the rare distinction of being slight and tragic at the same time.
  8. Who cares about old guys and young girls? This handsome romantic slop finds other problems.
  9. A consistently engrossing piece of work.
  10. It's a breezy and entertaining little charmer.
  11. Although his (Eastwood's) intentions are good, he simply isn't capable of the wry, wistful blend of humor and sadness this story desperately needs.
  12. A weaselly little thing.
  13. I haven't had a worse time at the movies this summer.
  14. This is a parlor trick, but it's a hell of a good one.
  15. Shot in sumptuous black-and-white by Dreujou, Girl on the Bridge might just be the most beautiful-looking movie of the year.
  16. By the end of Wonderland, I might have felt completely pistol-whipped if not for the gracefulness of some of the movie's actors.
  17. The bitterness of her new comedy, Loser, comes as a shock. It's not a mean-spirited movie.
  18. It isn't an entirely successful or satisfying film, but it's far from dismissible.
  19. You feel you've been both a little creeped out and vigorously entertained. Its showmanship comes through in the clutch.
  20. Summer's most shameless piece of trash since "Wild Things."
  21. A distinctively absorbing entertainment, offering just enough popcorn thrills for mass audiences and just enough chewiness for hardcore sci-fi fans.
  22. Perfectly acceptable entertainment in the Mouse Factory's most familiar vein.
  23. Even with the outlandish characters, gaudy colors and gay satire, this smug John Waters knockoff can't stand up to the real thing.
  24. I walked out of Scary Movie feeling as if I'd been whacked around with a two-by-four for an hour and a half.
  25. Its spectacular special effects threaten to swallow characters whole, and there are times when overwrought and clumsy dialogue... nearly pitch you right out of the movie's mood.
  26. This clunky TV remake is stiffer than an iron curtain.
  27. Classic Rudolph: a tone of sweet-edged, slightly kooky melancholy, a terrific cast mostly left to its own devices and a few intriguing moments. Not, I'm sorry to say, a movie.
  28. This bloody celebration finally gives the American Revolution the epic it deserves.
  29. Leaving the theater, I couldn't quell those waves of disappointment: It just should have been funnier.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This movie's cornucopia of humorous riffs and stunts never fails to amuse or enthrall because it never ceases to be unexpected.

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