Time Out's Scores

  • Movies
For 6,377 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
6377 movie reviews
  1. This pubescent navel-gazer has only its star Holland (Brian De Palma’s stepdaughter) to recommend it, not for her acting but only for her undeniable corn-fed–Emmanuelle Béart looks.
  2. This one’s unforgettable indeed, just not for the right reasons.
  3. A tiresome mess that's completely bereft of a quiet moment in speech or manner, The Tempest aches for the wisdom of discipline.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Unbelievable tosh.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Amid all the tension, the volcano blows its stack. 'Is anything wrong?' someone asks. 'No, nothing's wrong' says someone else. Something is very wrong.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    There's more than a hint of amateur theatricals about it, with Tilda and pals dressing up in wigs to stage the court scenes in her back garden, totally gratuitous female nudity, and a yawning gap between intention and result.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    As the film totters to its predictable finale, the closing moments set up a sequel, a prospect far more terrifying than anything we've just seen.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Unendurable.
  4. No Escape takes pains to pause for some unconvincing speechifying about Western meddling abroad, but its showbiz racism gets an infuriating pass.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    You know it’s bad when a caper comedy makes you long for the Goldie Hawn–Chevy Chase showcases of yore.
  5. Performances barely meet a junior-collegiate theater-troupe level, the narration hits maxi-fromage heights, and just when you think it can't get any more derivative, out comes a glowing suitcase à la "Pulp Fiction." Rock bottom has now been firmly established.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This crass moral pantomime is plain embarrassing.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This movie is dire, soul-crushing stuff.
  6. Despite a plucky soundtrack and frantic editing, the movie shows otherwise wan interest in the gaggle of faux-transgressive bad girls who bare their dulled claws at England’s establishment ethos, as though that notion alone were somehow fresh and cheeky.
  7. Such pitiable incompetence isn't charming, it's embarrassing - and simply inexcusable.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Wrong, wrong and wrong again; this Loaded Weapon fires only dumb-dumb bullets.
  8. Dropping on top of the heap is Lucky McKee's barely competent domestic thriller, bound to make you groan more than think.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Why, pray tell, do we not get a four-year break between generic, charmless and sexist rom-coms like this on our side of the pond?
  9. Even on its own limited terms, the jokes are sub–"Friday" sequel, and a last-act grab for "Boyz n the Hood" pathos is seriously reaching.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Clearly we are not meant to care when the eldest boy (Magner), who has been contacted by a demon on his Walkman and is gradually acquiring the rotten teeth and gooseberry eyes of the possessed, wastes the entire family. Awful.
  10. Only Kinnear manages to give his role some shades beyond the broadly farcical, though even he ultimately succumbs to his leading lady's toothy grin and Oprah-sanctioned bromides.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    An American wrestling champ with two or three films under his belt, Hogan has an unusual combination of assets: brawn and an authentic American accent. He doesn't take himself too seriously either, which could prove his downfall - that and excruciating movies like this.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Flashes of genuine intelligence and wit in the writing only render the moral nihilism of the whole high-tack enterprise all the more inexcusable.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Primarily a TV director, Torres lacks the chops to delineate Dorff's claustrophobic quarters, and the actor spends most of the movie confusing tough-guy stoicism with simple inertness, despite the occasional Jack Bauer–style yell.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The director's smugness effortlessly trumps Robby Müller's camera-work and the good performances (notably from Denholm Elliott). Hard to imagine how anyone could make less of such a promising subject.
  11. All Apollo 18 has to offer is endless radio crackle and visual incoherence. And what's out there, tormenting the astronauts? The answer is dumber than a box of moon rocks.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Adults forced to accompany three-year-olds to the movie would have had a little moment of satisfaction when the time came to shovel the Care Bear toys out of the house into landfill sites.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Estevez and Nelson are as unappealing here as in The Breakfast Club, though in fairness they're hampered by a script that seems to despise its characters. So, by the end, will you.
  12. Smitten to a fault with high-art predecessors, Eric Atlan’s excruciatingly bad drama takes place in an abstract Buñuelian hotel room, glows luminously like Last Year at Marienbad and concludes with a Bergmanesque card game on which the fate of souls rests.
  13. Displaying a weird lack of memorable or endearing characters, this animated effort feels more like a direct-to-video job from the 1990s than a fully fledged John Lasseter–exec-produced theatrical release.

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