The Hollywood Reporter's Scores

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For 12,889 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
12889 movie reviews
  1. A road picture mired by unsteady camera work, lackadaisical pacing and cumbersome speechmaking, Free Zone is an excruciating cinematic trek. Israeli director Amos Gitai's narrative, both visually and conversationally, is a disappointing dud.
  2. Narrated by Troy Garity, whose mother, Jane Fonda, candidly discusses her involvement in the movement that seems to have faded from the collective conscience in the intervening years, the film does a commendable job in providing enlightenment.
  3. Finally, there is an answer to the old question, "What's more boring than watching golf on television?" As the new docu 95 Miles to Go reveals, watching Ray Romano watching golf on television is much more boring.
  4. Morrissey gives a stiff, awkward performance, while Stone moves dangerously close to overplaying the femme fatale. There is little if any intrigue in the story or the characters. Even the murders don't even seem to matter much.
  5. ATL
    Several good ideas for a movie rumble around inside ATL, but they never coalesce.
  6. Raucously fun, fluid follow-up with ecological message.
  7. Gunn maintains the ideal glib pitch for most of the picture, flirting with camp but never hanging around it long enough to water down the squirm-inducing stuff.
  8. The mean streets don't get any nastier than the high school parking lots in this cool-crafted mystery.
  9. Awesome will please fans of the band, but expect little crossover to nonfans. No new ground is broken here. From a cinematic point of view, Awesome represents simply a monumental postproduction salvaging effort.
  10. Ultimately Adam & Steve mainly goes to prove that indie gay romantic comedies can be just as witless, vulgar and over the top as their straight, major studio counterparts.
  11. Whatever one's opinion of Johnston's art, this is documentary filmmaking at its finest.
  12. The film is an elegiac journey to a sweeter, more civilized place in the heart. Predictable and decidedly old-fashioned in its sensibility, the film is likely to win over audiences if not critics.
  13. Stalwart Iranian actor Ali Nasirian plays Nemat with a thoughtful hubris, uniting the various plot strands by force of character.
  14. Will intrigue art house audiences unfamiliar with modern Chinese history. But sinophiles and followers of Chinese cinema will be shocked by the lack of historical detail and context.
  15. Visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney's follow-up to his acclaimed "Cremaster" film series continues this provocateur's penchant for outrageous imagery and numbing non-narratives.
  16. This is the mother lode all action/suspense directors search for and Lee, who usually doesn't work in that genre, has hit it.
  17. A passable horror-thriller for the young crowd, assuming a movie can lure them away from PlayStations.
  18. This quirky documentary about a group of American hairdressers who establish exactly that shows that the power of hair salons should never be underestimated.
  19. Under Buscemi's overall smart direction, the acting is terrific.
  20. The film clearly wishes to explore the topic of children having children, but it only inspires a great desire to smack them both.
  21. A highly informative if rather hagiographic portrait of the notable playwright and performer, The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch should prove quite enticing for the legions of fans who have followed him throughout his career.
  22. A disappointingly dreary affair.
  23. Toilet humor, jokes about paraplegics and serious overacting make this lowbrow comedy an irritating watch.
  24. A painfully earnest but dramatically inert film.
  25. Viewers expecting a thrill ride might be disappointed. V engages in a couple of satisfying crime-fighting set pieces, but the story is more occupied with mystery and intrigue. Happily, it almost is entirely free of the hollow pomposity that marred the Wachowskis' last two "Matrix" films.
  26. All the acting is solid including a knock-'em-dead single scene by Annabella Sciorra as Jackie's ex-wife.
  27. Fails to exploit the myriad comedic possibilities, settling instead for broad, unconvincing slapstick aimed at 12-year-olds and gags Shakespeare would have rejected as ancient.
  28. The movie is amusing and clever but only skin deep. It lacks the acidity and rage of a satire such as "Network."
  29. Few films have ever ended on such a low, anti-climatic note as The Zodiac.
  30. This tale of domestic abuse breaks little new stylistic or psychological ground, but it is a searing, well-acted drama that should strike universal chords.

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