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. If this retro crime comedy had been a Broadway play, it would have closed out of town.
  2. It has everything you want in an epic: sweep, scope, wild reversals of fortune and plenty of bold, basic emotions.
  3. You are hereby absolved of all guilt when you laugh your ass off in the first half of the film.
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  4. When it shifts into action mode, the movie can be a spectacular rush.
  5. This is not necessarily an improvement, but it's not a total disaster either.
  6. It's best to see this as a drug buffet. Graze through the vignettes... and you'll find three or four tasty bits to snack on.
  7. This is a serious filmgoer's treat: intelligence cloaked in elegance.
  8. Don't ask us why this minimalist drama won prizes last year at Cannes or why it is getting raves in its U.S. release.
  9. A savory cocktail with a bitter twist.
  10. Sunshine is a trifle schematic. But it also makes you feel, quite poignantly, the crushing tides of history: heedless, inhuman--and tragic.
  11. But this is a sloppy job, both in little goofs...and in the cast's gung-ho amateurism. It's like Shakespeare done by the "Fame" kids.
  12. Loutishness without self-awareness remains loutishness--and it is finally depressing.
  13. In this film we learn that it takes 8,000 lbs. of pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script.
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  14. He's (Wilson) a terrific sidekick to Chan's funny, earnest, often victimized righteousness. This kid could be a star.
  15. Maybe kids will like the movie; their lust for dinolore appears to be insatiable. But the rest of us will yearn for Robin Williams' giddy goofing in "Aladdin."
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  16. A film worthy of being displayed on a screen eight stories high.
  17. The worst movie in living memory.
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  18. This film, based on a true story, transcends its handsomeness to present a subtle portrait of a woman's growing consciousness.
  19. An adoring tone and the familiar slo-mo, wide-angle baskebatics.
  20. Quite a good movie--a big, fat, rousing, intelligent, daring, retro, many-adjective-requiring entertainment.
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  21. This spectacle of strenuous improvising is more stunt than true experiment.
  22. Flouting all rules of the sea but honoring every war-epic cliche about guts under pressure.
  23. But the carnage, like the sex scenes, is shot so pristinely that it becomes a nouvelle-cuisine feast; this is a splatter film Martha Stewart could love.
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  24. The actor (Puri) and the film make something fine, winning and memorable.
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  25. This complex, heartbreaking film recounts the brutal struggle of one couple to survive.
  26. There's a great story here, but Tucci's literate, civilized, wistful movie lacks savage impulse and refuses to show how mutual exploitation led to minor tragedy.
  27. This miniature epic is a film that, like its young hero, will enrich those who peer into its poignant heart.
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  28. Doesn't touch (Li's Hong Kong movies). But it is trying something clever.
  29. Erin Brockovich is slick, grating and false. We bet it makes a bundle.
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  30. This isn't "2001," by a long shot, but for 2000, it'll do nicely.

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