The Seattle Times' Scores
- Movies
For 1,951 reviews, this publication has graded:
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63% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
| Highest review score: | Gladiator | |
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| Lowest review score: | It's Pat: The Movie |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,401 out of 1951
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Mixed: 293 out of 1951
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Negative: 257 out of 1951
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Moira Macdonald
Having, presumably, run out of surfaces on the ground, the mad driving crew of Furious 7 resort to backing their cars off a plane and clutching their steering wheels while driving, er, falling through thin air. Why do they do this? Because it’s fun … to watch, that is.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 16, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
If “Fast Six” is as much guilty-pleasure fun as this edition, directed within an inch of its life by Justin Lin (even the occasional subtitles are excitable), it’ll do just fine.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 15, 2017
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Soren Andersen
What the movie makes clear is that that deeply spiritual moment represented a triumph of management.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 12, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
Cézanne et Moi sounds more fascinating than it actually is; essentially, it’s just under two hours of exquisitely art-directed conversation, little of which is especially compelling.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 12, 2017
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John Hartl
The plot tries too hard to incorporate elements that drift toward melodrama.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 12, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
It’s impossible to watch this film without a tapping toe and a smile.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 12, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
The movie zips along quickly, full of popcorn-worthy moments.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 12, 2017
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- Posted Apr 6, 2017
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Tom Keogh
That’s a lot for a viewer to take in, and as pleasing as some aspects of Your Name can be, there’s no question Shinkai’s overstuffed movie often trips over itself.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 6, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
It’s an agreeably generic mishmash of every old-guys-pull-one-last-heist movie you’ve ever seen.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Apr 6, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
It’s a simple, moving story about love, loss and storytelling itself.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 30, 2017
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Soren Andersen
It’s somehow only fitting that with Scarlett Johansson in the lead role, Ghost in the Shell leaves you with the feeling that something has been lost in translation.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 30, 2017
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Tom Keogh
For Here or to Go? offers an insightful group portrait but lacks imagination in a romantic subplot and (except for a requisite Bollywood-style dance number) is visually dreary.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 30, 2017
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- Posted Mar 30, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
A coming-of-age tale like you’ve never seen, Julia Ducournau’s Raw left me intrigued, mildly nauseated and extremely curious about what passes for recreation at French veterinary schools.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 30, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
It’s a remarkable story, told in a movie that doesn’t always quite live up to it; except for a few crucial scenes, The Zookeeper’s Wife feels a bit too soft-focus for the devastating story it tells.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 29, 2017
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Katie Walsh
Power Rangers maintains the essence of its origins in that it’s rather pleasantly bonkers. It errs on the side of goofy rather than gritty, and that’s to its favor.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 23, 2017
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John Hartl
Zandvliet is a relatively young and inexperienced director, but his spare use of music and widescreen images is assured and even inspired.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 23, 2017
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Soren Andersen
T2 is a sequel that is at least the equal of the revered original.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 23, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
A character, even when he’s played by Woody Harrelson, is not a movie.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 23, 2017
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- Posted Mar 23, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
Batra has assembled a strong cast, a thoughtful screenplay (by Nick Payne), a meticulous attention to detail — all of which make The Sense of an Ending a pleasure to watch. But the book ever-so-subtly slams you in the heart; the movie, just as subtly, only walks near it.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 15, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
Are we alone, or is there more than we know? Personal Shopper is less interested in the answer than in, hauntingly, posing the question.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 15, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
This Beauty and the Beast had me leaving the theater feeling utterly happy; like I’d spent time with old friends who’d grown and changed, and yet remained the same at heart.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 14, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
I’ll admit to a weakness for this sort of thing (which Merchant-Ivory, a couple of decades back, made into elegant art), but even I couldn’t muster up much enthusiasm for this one, a tepid love triangle set in the Ottoman Empire in the early days of World War I.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 9, 2017
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Soren Andersen
Along with the kids’ sorrow, Barras works uplift and lightness into the story, and there are moments of great joy. In the end, it’s positivity that prevails.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 9, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
Kong: Skull Island won’t win any points for the brilliance of its writing (or for the way it reduces a terrific actor like Larson to a personality-free camera-clicker) — but oh, that ape- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 9, 2017
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John Hartl
What’s most memorable about Kedi are the individual, self-contained moments.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 2, 2017
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Moira Macdonald
Even Deutch’s charming radiance (she never entirely sells Sam’s nasty side) can’t quite get us through the slog of this plot.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Mar 2, 2017
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Soren Andersen
Jackman and Stewart give perhaps the most heartfelt performances that they’re ever brought to an “X-Men” movie. Though the tone of the movie is pervasively downbeat, they’re both going out on a very high note.- The Seattle Times
- Posted Feb 28, 2017
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