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. A fresh, well-written comedy that doesn't lag, casts its actors against type and has a real love for its characters.
  2. Disney seems intent upon overdosing audiences with the little guy proving himself against a seemingly superior force.
  3. There's not an original idea rattling around in the empty-headed but gorgeous-to-behold period film.
  4. So badly plotted and written that it rarely makes much sense, even with the elementary story line.
  5. As entertaining as it is a viable, political message destined to make viewers rethink their stance on war.
  6. Loaded down with credibility problems.
  7. Isn't so emotionally powerful as the Oscar-winning "When We Were Kings" but which -- in its more intimate way -- still packs a punch.
  8. Low-voltage and forgettable.
  9. Williams' self-conscious and rather bland performance never comes close to bringing his character to life.
  10. An enigmatic but gorgeous film.
  11. A shapeless comedy that is enjoyable to watch and often clever with its barbs -- and doesn't have very much to say.
  12. Goes down like a cool glass of lemonade on a hot day.
  13. In the end, the comedian makes the movie seem better than it really is.
  14. Gorgeous re-creation of another time.
  15. A delight and a surprise.
  16. A dynamite comedy-drama that, unless it stiffs big-time at the box office, should be up for multi-Oscar nominations come February.
  17. The film ultimately has no contrast and we can't figure out whom to like or dislike.
  18. An awful, misanthropic, deadly unfunny and badly acted war-of-the-sexes travesty.
  19. There's not an authentically scary moment in it.
  20. It's a movie brimming with good intentions, solid production values and searing performances. However, it never quite clicks into place with any real satisfaction.
  21. Outside of a smart performance by Shawn Hatosy as Tim Dunphy, there just isn't much that's enlightening or new in this intimate recollection.
  22. Neither (Gooding nor Ulrich) has the distincitve spark of an action hero, and their Butch and Sundance repartee falls so consistently flat that you end up feeling a little embarrassed for them.
  23. A straightforward, no-nonsense, agreeably old-fashioned historical action movie.
  24. Somehow the elements do not add up to by anything especially memorable.
  25. Clever, often hilarious, inside-Hollywood farce that makes the most of... a delightfully absurd premise.
  26. A big dud.
  27. A mess of incohesiveness and fragmented storytelling.
  28. Not surprisingly, the best thing on the screen is Mirren.
  29. Has a slight bite.
  30. Brokedown Palace does have some plot implausibilities but Kaplan, manages to turn some hashed story lines into something substantial and emotionally affecting.

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