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. What saves this movie from hopeless sentimentality is Meryl Streep's subtle performance.
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  2. Weird, beguiling premise.
  3. This agitated comedy could be called "The Big Chillin'" if it had a smidge of the 1983 film's wit and charm.
  4. Like its title -- blunt, thruthful, uncompromising. It is hard on an audience, even harrowing. But that's exactly what Martin Scorsese was put on earth to do.
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  5. Mostly the movie is like the marriage: good casting, golden promise, yet somehow a grating ordeal.
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  6. Alvin's tragic memories give perspective to the triumph of his trek, even as Farnsworth's weathered brilliance makes this movie a G as in gem.
  7. Both actors are excellent--but there's something conventionally gimmicky about the way it plays its reality/unreality game.
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    • 14 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Given its budget, the quality of its writing, acting and production is remarkably high--about miniseries level.
  8. A grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal.
  9. Soderbergh slices, dices and Cuisinarts the script into flashbacks, scene shifts, stop motion and other distracting foolery.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The movie lets down the material. It's to cool: all attitude, no sizzle.
  10. An easy charm, a cleverly unforced sense of humor and a benignity toward all its genially oddball characters. If moviegoers skip this one, they'll be missing a real treat.
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  11. A brilliant exercise in popular but palpable surrealism.
  12. It's mostly an ordeal--for actress and audience.
  13. You will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning.
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  14. Not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing.
  15. Fond, zippy new documentary about the Bruce who, on the Hollywood circuit, is the real Boss.
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  16. Kevin Spacey (gives) a truly great performance.
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  17. It's too empty to applaud, too insignificant to deplore.
  18. Director Kelly Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce.
  19. Perhaps the funniest movie for grownups so far this year.
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  20. A smart live-and-let-live parable.
  21. Unfolds with a patient intelligence. The Sixth Sense might not scare you out of your wits, but it could reward them.
  22. Sells out real satirical possibilities to its marketing potential as teen fluff. Everyone loses -- except Hedaya, who keeps faith with his character's nutsiness.
  23. Bringing Gonzo to his senses gives the Muppets briskly economical opportunities to satirize government, media excesses and cult sci-fi's more tiresome tropes.
  24. Here's another warning: you may laugh yourself sick--as sick as this ruthlessly funny movie is.
  25. Invigorating and annoying, Lola could use a dose of Ritalin. Best to take this 76-minute riff on alternate destinies as an antidote to Europe's minimalist art-house cinema and to enjoy Potente's sweaty radiance.
  26. An ideal play is degraded into an indolent film
  27. These stories, alas, are utterly predictable. Still, Samuel L. Jackson breaks through the crust of cliches as an expert called in to verify the instrument's provenance, and violinist Joshua Bell plays and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts John Corigliano's score ravishingly.
  28. AP2 starts out bright and clever--shagnificent, we might almost say--before sinking into a swamp of shagnation.
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