Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Scores

  • Movies
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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. In Wonderland, Winterbottom has found a script worthy of his passion.
  2. A celebration of the human spirit nothing short of sublime.
  3. The film is inoffensive, and Baldwin is fun and engaging.
  4. Never comes alive.
  5. Fascinating and mostly sympathetic.
  6. Techine has a delicate touch and these lovely moments flow with a life that Martin's heavy, stumbling psychodrama can't match.
  7. Truly, this is a bad script.
  8. The granddaddy of all caper/heist movies. The work that defined the genre for the subsequent four decades of filmmakers, none of whom was able to surpass it for style or suspense.
  9. It's a passionate vision thick with eroticism, but the musky atmosphere gets a little thick and murky.
  10. A decidedly mixed bag.
  11. If you can forgive some plot artifice and gloss, there's a seductively intuitive and resonant theme resting at the core of Jeremy Podeswa's haunting new film.
  12. The lapses in logic make a weak subplot about a serial killer on the loose just plain silly instead of provocative.
  13. Singer deftly crafts a sleek, unusually tight film that balances comic-book adventure, pulp opera and the fear of being different.
  14. Dark farce, a four-handed game of sexual trumps.
  15. (Arteta's) yanked an eerily accomplished performance out of his lead actor.
  16. Willis and Breslin are stuck in a charmless, predictable picture they can't escape.
  17. The funniest thing I've seen this summer.
  18. It's a beautifully crafted, almost perfectly sustained little drama that skillfully makes a subtle, bittersweet point.
  19. Disarmingly funny in its own naive way.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    There are a number of funny and unexpected moments in the film, but they are ultimately swamped by the mean-spirited tone and increasingly over-the-top raunch and drug humor.
  20. Not terrible, but distinctly disappointing, not nearly as engaging or thrilling as its premise seems to promise.
  21. It's often surprisingly clever, dripping with respect for its model, and done with considerable wit and style.
  22. In a summer of cardboard figures in splashy spectacles, that makes for a refreshing change, an intriguing, entertaining and altogether sweetly mystifying misfire. In other words, another quintessentially Alan Rudolph picture.
  23. Has a flag-waving dumbness at its core.
  24. It's by far the worst comedy either he (Carrey) or the Farrelly Brothers have ever made.
  25. People who have seen it seem to be crazy about it.
  26. It moves so fast you almost forget it leaves the characters in its wake.
  27. Essentially works, even though the script is a mess and John Singleton's direction is often clumsy and heavy-handed to an annoying degree.
  28. Meanders as aimlessly as its drugged-out characters.
  29. Densely layered, demanding and beautiful, Ruiz has found the perfect venue for his passions and created the most cinematically breathtaking film of the new millennium.

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