Time's Scores

Select another publication »
For 2,973 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,806 out of 2973
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2973
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2973
2973 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. The Grey
    True to its grim prospectus, The Grey dwells in haunted machismo to the very end.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Little Big Man
    It also accomplishes that rarest achievement, the breathing of life into an ossified art form. The '70s has its first great epic.
  3. Rumble Fish
    Rumble Fish is the messiest, most provocative inkblot of the year.
  4. Secretary
    Writer-director Shainberg seems to be aiming for a dark comedy, but mostly his movie is coy without being funny, ugly without being truly transgressive, stupid when it needs to be smart.
  5. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Colombani has created uncommonly arresting entertainment.
  6. The Patriot
    It has everything you want in an epic: sweep, scope, wild reversals of fortune and plenty of bold, basic emotions.
  7. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    Not since "This is Spinal Tap" have I had such a good time watching amiable idiocy stumble on toward uncertain glory.
  8. The Guilty
    Gyllenhaal’s Baylor is a man on the edge of time, reckoning with a deed he can’t take back and a possible future built on lies. Few actors can put this kind of raw yet strangely companionable self-loathing onscreen—and make you glad you didn’t avert your eyes, no matter how much you wanted to.
  9. The Merchant of Venice
    Pacino seems to recall, from his early Michael Corleone days, the power of whispered menace.
  10. Kingdom of Heaven
    The battle skirmishes here mix sudden violence with slow-motion artistry. The attractive cast can sell an obsession or articulate a conundrum with equal fervor.
  11. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
    Though there are patches that are sad to watch, it is for the most part a delight, a biopic that brings its subject to life in a way that’s both respectful and open-hearted.
  12. Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
    There’s almost too much going on in Honk for Jesus. The film jumps from one thematic thread to another without exploring any of them thoroughly, and even so, some sequences go on longer than they should.
  13. Downton Abbey: A New Era
    Downton Abbey: A New Era goes down as easy as a Nice sunset.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Sound of Music
    Though Director Robert Wise (West Side Story) has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults. In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice.
  15. Atomic Blonde
    Glowering from beneath the bangs of her moonbeam-platinum bob, Theron’s Broughton is equal parts air, light and iron. We’re just the moths clustering around her flame.
  16. Anna Karenina
    Knightley embodies Anna as a girlish woman who has never felt erotic love; once smitten, she is raised to heavenly ecstasy before tumbling into the abyss of shame. It's a nervy performance, acutely attuned to the volcanic changes a naive creature must enjoy and endure on her first leap into mad passion. She helps make Anna Karenina an operatic romance worth singing about.
  17. Friends with Benefits
    The screenplay, with credits shared by Gluck, Keith Merryman and David A. Newman, is predictable, plotwise. But it is elevated by energetic dialogue, the sexual chemistry between the leads and the fact that the miscommunication that keeps bliss at bay - there's always one in a rom-com, and usually it is annoyingly unbelievable - is plausible.
  18. The Last Exorcism
    Cotton is that rarity in the horror genre: a genuinely intriguing character.
  19. Citizen Ruth
    Payne cannot shape or propel his own good material. He lets things dawdle when briskness would be a boon, and defeats the gung-ho efforts of Dern and other worthy actors. [9 December 1996, p.82]
    • Time
  20. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    It's worth considering precisely whom the movie is meant for. It's not labeled as such, but It's Kind of a Funny Story is squarely aimed at young adults.
  21. Gaga: Five Foot Two
    The documentary is a riveting piece of work.
  22. Les Miserables
    Sensitive souls in search of wrenching emotion can be guaranteed their Kleenex moments; you will get wet. But aside from that opening scene, you will not be cinematically edified. This is a bad movie.
  23. Hot Tub Time Machine
    The movie made me laugh as much as anything since "The Hangover" or the love scenes in "Avatar."
  24. Changeling
    In its purposeful accumulation of depravities, both individual and institutional, the director's non-style has an honorable payoff that's rare in modern Hollywood cinema: the story's weight could come close to burying you in despair.
  25. Knock at the Cabin
    Even by Shyamalan’s usual standard of reminding us that he’s a thinker of deep thoughts as well as an entertainer, the result is cumbersomely preachy.
  26. The World According to Garp
    What is missing from the movie is any attempt to discover a cinematic language that compares with the language of the novel. Where the book jumped, the movie plods; where the novelist came upon his themes in the course of rich exploration, the movie marches up and confronts them with all the subtlety of a morning-talk-show host. It is hard to recall any recent movie, of whatever literary lineage, that is as dully literal and unadventurous as this one.
  27. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    This is an original work in an antique mood. The actors and authors all have fun with the genre without making fun of it. Rather, they revive it.
  28. Green Zone
    An expensive flop and the latest Iraq movie to be shunned by the mass audience, Green Zone was still the year's most visceral, thrilling entertainment.
  29. Master Gardener
    There’s a fantasy element to Master Gardener that bolsters the movie’s convictions rather than weakening them.
  30. Octopussy
    When he had started playing this game of Save the Planet—when he was roguish Sean Connery and the world was so much younger—Bond had been a kind of role model for people of a certain class and ambition. Savoir-faire meant the aristocracy of style: which wine to decant, which brand of cigarette to smoke, which automatic weapon to carry under the armpit. Now that he was Roger Moore, 20 years later, Bond had degenerated into a male model, and something of a genial anachronism.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »