Time's Scores

For 2,984 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:
2984 movie reviews
  1. This film, based on a true story, transcends its handsomeness to present a subtle portrait of a woman's growing consciousness.
  2. An adoring tone and the familiar slo-mo, wide-angle baskebatics.
  3. Quite a good movie--a big, fat, rousing, intelligent, daring, retro, many-adjective-requiring entertainment.
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  4. This spectacle of strenuous improvising is more stunt than true experiment.
  5. Flouting all rules of the sea but honoring every war-epic cliche about guts under pressure.
  6. 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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  7. The actor (Puri) and the film make something fine, winning and memorable.
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  8. This complex, heartbreaking film recounts the brutal struggle of one couple to survive.
  9. 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.
  10. This miniature epic is a film that, like its young hero, will enrich those who peer into its poignant heart.
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  11. Doesn't touch (Li's Hong Kong movies). But it is trying something clever.
  12. Erin Brockovich is slick, grating and false. We bet it makes a bundle.
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  13. This isn't "2001," by a long shot, but for 2000, it'll do nicely.
  14. At once smug and lazy, qualities fatal to comedy.
  15. Niftily quirky.
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  16. There's a definite limit to the number of moron jokes we can absorb in 100 minutes, and their movie exceeds it.
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  17. The pulse of Curtis Hanson's direction is lethargic; the comic bits are so slack and deadpan you could mistake the film for an earnest drama--an Afterschool Special for troubled kids and their pooped parents.
  18. The film is one-note; misery is the only game in town.
  19. The best movie of this very young millennium.
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  20. Sharing its subject's virtues, it is a lovely addition to the annals of the Greatest Generation.
  21. You're entitled to ask for more than that in a comedy, but these days you're often obliged to settle for a lot less.
  22. To Western eyes, this meandering parable registers as a perplexity and a disappointment.
  23. Curiously intense, alertly principled, refreshingly uncynical movie.
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  24. Not so good is the absence of hip cross-references to the classic horror tropes.
  25. One of the worst messes in years.
  26. If the stories sometimes use Creative Writing 101 devices (like a quasi-prophetic homeless woman), the total effect is as spare and haunting as the film's arid, beautifully shot setting.
  27. In Washington's finely shaded performance he's a low-pressure system, illuminated by distant flashes of lightning.
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  28. The fascinating film equivalent of a humane execution.
  29. Never achieves more than feckless amiability.
  30. Vivid, relevant and of elevating scariness.

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