Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Scores

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For 2,931 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Peter Pan
Lowest review score: 0 Mindhunters
Score distribution:
2931 movie reviews
  1. The biggest tragedy about Milos Forman's foray into the life and times of Spanish artist Francisco De Goya is the waste of so much great raw material.
  2. Broad and funny, its sensibility is very campy and it's out to be loved by everyone.
  3. It's kind of like "Tootsie," only without the drag. Or the class. Or the laughs.
  4. A bare outline of the plot reads like a space-adventure thriller with end-of-the-world stakes and a hint of celestial spirituality, and the haunted spaceship twist in the third act is pure B-movie madness.
  5. Buscemi gets a fine performance from Miller and plays his part with a murky mix of self-pity, opportunism and arrogance. A few scenes crackle with their intensity. The rest of it wallows in glib acrimony and cynicism.
  6. Patrice Leconte's new film, My Best Friend, is probably his lightest and sweetest to date. Fans of his serious historical dramas ("Ridicule") or raucous farces ("Les Bronzes") may be disappointed, but others should find it a reasonably enjoyable feel-good comedy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Hughes' push for Greene to succeed confronts the nettlesome issues of racial identity that most films vigorously avoid. The worthiness of Talk to Me will be proved if it gets us talking to each other.
  7. Yet, as good as it is in so many ways, there's no getting around the fact that this briefest Harry and first directed by an unknown filmmaker (David Yates) is the least substantial of the bunch.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Director George Ratliff plays pitch-perfect on the tautly wound strings of our innermost fears that nothing -- not love, wealth or intelligence -- can protect us from the monsters we harbor.
  8. Director Cherie Nowlan creates vivid personalities for the entire family and exposes the raw nerves of the biting humor.
  9. It's a well-acted but rote and strictly by the book "war movie."
  10. It's all about the sheer visceral rush of mega action.
  11. Bland and boring.
  12. With less lampooning and satirical asides, Sicko may be less "entertaining" than Moore's previous films, but it's also more affecting and effective.
  13. Long for an animated feature and too demanding for very young children, but it's also filled with delights.
  14. Evening is so distanced from the emotions of the story that it never breathes on its own.
  15. The film ultimately swindles its own story.
  16. Director Len Wiseman, confidently stepping up from the smallish budget "Underworld" films to mega-budget Hollywood mainstream.
  17. Cusack, who is beginning to look disturbingly like Dustin Hoffman, is not only the film's center, but its orbit as well.
  18. You'd hope God would think bigger for His divine intervention in American politics.
  19. Visceral, alive and very scary.
  20. There's not a lot of story here and the dialogue lacks the snap one usually gets in New York stories of affluent young adults, but the characters have an authenticity.
  21. These are mortal souls and unglamorous bodies and Ferran explores their affair in its earthy, physical and fleshy reality.
  22. A deviously delightful entertainment.
  23. Diverting, at times even visually impressive, but has neither the spirit or style of "Spider-Man" nor the ambition of "X-Men."
  24. The teen parties and sidekick silliness are time filler, and not very good filler either -- why even Bruce Willis shows up in a scene that has nothing to do with the story.
  25. Despite Clement's best efforts to make Jarrod a deadpan oddball nerd, it becomes apparent early on that excessive teenage eccentricity and terminal self-delusion isn't quite as cute in the adult male and absent father.
  26. The echoes of Douglas Sirk melodramas and Lassie movies just add to the fun.
  27. Although the film is entertaining, its cleverness is not enough to cover its shortcomings.
  28. All told, this thing has to be one of the dullest caper movies ever made.

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