Time's Scores

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:
2973 movie reviews
  1. It stands, soars on its own. It moves to a seductive rhythm and vision.
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  2. Occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling.
  3. Few movies have spread their fibs or facts as clumsily as this one. There's not an emotionally plausible moment in the picture.
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  4. The skitcom format soon becomes tiresome.
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  5. So muted it disappears from your view even before it recedes from your memory.
  6. As rigged as a casino slot machine, preying on people's hopes but paying off only for the house.
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  7. The film's blithe misogyny soon becomes wearying; it refuses to see women as more than the sum of their private parts.
  8. The better class of moviegoers will love Billy Elliot. And I loved hating it.
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  9. Writer-director Ramsay neither sentimentalizes nor garishes up the lost children in this observant and poetic drama.
  10. Gives its fine actors room to breathe and behave--and in Michelle Rodriguez's case, glow.
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  11. You don't quite believe that a smart woman would spend so much time on such a dumb mission.
  12. This moving tribute to a handful of candles flickering in the darkness has the power to summon us--one prays--to our better selves.
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  13. So Almost Famous is almost fabulous. Oh, all right. The movie's so clever and endearing, you can forget the almost.
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  14. What aims at being terrifying is just loud and goofy.
  15. All in all, Nurse Betty is a wonderful movie, unpredictably alive to the fact that the American citizenry is a lot stranger than we like to admit.
  16. Cecil B. proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good fun.
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  17. This wee, discreet little movie has a certain rueful intelligence about the ways we rather carelessly talk ourselves into love--and out of it as well.
  18. Grace is not as tightly wound as the best of its breed, but it is a genial way to pass the time.
  19. It blends tension and emotion, computer wizardry and dramatic skill in a vigorous climax--and the most impressive, haunting final shot of the movie year.
  20. Too many special effects, many of them stomach churning; too much pornographically arranged death.
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  21. A tangy frappe of a movie--preposterously comic, deliriously romantic, outrageously stylish in black-and-white.
  22. The rhythm of rural life has rarely seemed so lucid and luminous.
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  23. Maybe this documentary is a bit too enthralled by her, but she emerges from it a game girl, a gay activist and a curiously sympathetic figure.
  24. Manages to make its point--that we are all impaired, short on that rarest quality, common sense--without being imprisoned by its complex format.
  25. From its first shot, of a mangled car high up in the branches of a tree, this cool, handsome thriller proceeds with an elliptical elegance.
  26. Crude and inept.
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  27. It's a modest little fantasy. But it's also well made, unpretentious and refreshing.
  28. Take this Shower and feel refreshed; it's a cool dip on a hot day.
  29. What's true about The Perfect Storm is true of many effects epics: it's not a bad movie, except for the people.
  30. It's great to have the Moose back, but it would be greater still to see him in a humorous context fully worth of him.
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