Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
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. Oddly fresh and naively chipper.
  2. It's a sorry specimen if ever there was one, and could even stand as an argument for how the movies have deteriorated in recent years.
  3. A one-joke, one-note turkey.
  4. A fairly depressing experience.
  5. It's a sporadically thrilling visual epic and a gruesome reminder that war is hell.
  6. A delicious one-time treat.
  7. Works well as a metaphor for a more innocent time.
  8. Something doesn't quite gel in the end.
  9. There's still enough of Doyle's hilariously foul dialogue and outrageous, culture-shocked Irish characters for the film to be a good bit of fun.
  10. For all it's warmth and wonder, it carries little more power than a storybook fable.
  11. A fairly hypocritical exercise -- and one that's so flamboyant and overbearing that it comes perilously close to being a classic awful.
  12. Varda sees herself as a gleaner as she searches for the people and cultural activities missed by the rest of the media.
  13. Never quite shakes itself free of the tired cliche that street people are quirky, sometimes cute, and somehow privy to a spiritual purity lost to us social folk.
  14. A satisfyingly nasty piece of work so black and cruel it's often more sick than funny.
  15. Develops its own unique charm.
  16. It's hard to believe that five different writers took credit for this feeble story and script. Who says failure is an orphan?
  17. Predictable and agonizingly politically correct.
  18. Together, the two of them (Pitt, Roberts) are cute as a bug.
  19. So violent and junky it seems to have been designed as evidence for the growing congressional movement to censor Hollywood.
  20. Selick proves a clumsy director of live-action scenes and never overcomes the muddled, half-baked script or the scatological gags.
  21. The new movie year's poignant love story to beat.
  22. Ppaque and not hugely satisfying.
  23. This journey is clunkily rendered, clouded by an avalanche of murky symbolism.
  24. Rock, who seems to have studied every nuance of Beatty's Oscar-nominated comic performance -- is surprisingly appealing in what is often a straight role.
  25. At its best, Company Man hums from one piece to the next, a harmless, good-natured, often silly spoof with a few cutting barbs and a comic showman's love of the well-executed gag.
  26. Pretty silly stuff, designed to appeal more to older kids and adults than the toddler brigade.
  27. Anyone in the market for a bittersweet romantic comedy could do worse.
  28. It's a nicely crafted little ensemble piece, but -- like so many films that have become the rage in France in recent years -- it's surprisingly light and forgettable.
  29. Though Signs & Wonders loses its bubbles and runs flat in its anticlimactic final moments, it's far more inventive and demanding than any movie of recent memory.
  30. The film is a shapeless mess and about as convincing as a cartoon, the usual mix of slapstick, doofus humor and raunchy sex jokes lacking even the bite or attitude to make it adventurous.

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