USA Today's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
For 4,677 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
4677 movie reviews
  1. Mostly, it's just wicked fun.
  2. By adhering to the romantic-comedy formula, The Invention of Lying stops short of being truly inventive. But enough sequences are fresh and inspired to make this a comedy honestly worth catching.
  3. To paraphrase Devo: Whip It, not so good.
  4. A wonderfully odd, bleakly comic and thoroughly engrossing film.
  5. While More Than a Game is a terrific exhibition of talent, exuberance and skill, it is above all a moving tribute to enduring friendship.
  6. Fame offers slick entertainment with some exuberance, but it's devoid of soul or heart.
  7. Not an expansive biopic but a fascinating snapshot of a pivotal chapter for Chanel, her formative fashionista years.
  8. Half a howler but not nearly funny enough.
  9. In less capable hands, the movie could have been maudlin. Instead, Hicks and Owen have created an intimate drama told with humor and emotion.
  10. An insightful, sharply written and unsettlingly amusing exploration of the darker elements of masculinity.
  11. This unfunny, über-misogynistic adaptation of Tucker Max's audacious best-seller of the same name is unlikely to please anyone.
  12. No-frills chills are what Paranormal Activity offers in unrelenting supply.
  13. Impassioned, informative and entertaining, if sometimes repetitive.
  14. A surprisingly savory treat, though it doesn't bear much resemblance to the charming classic children's book on which it's based.
  15. Soderbergh takes a deadly serious news story and amplifies and colors it to the point of outrageousness. The results aren't always consistent, but they are undeniably compelling.
  16. Love Happens is an oddly upbeat title for a movie that is surprisingly sad.
  17. Jennifer's Body is not as hot as you hope it would be.
  18. What the film does best is remind us of the brilliance of Keats flame and how it was extinguished far too early.
  19. Lacks tension or mystery. Even the courtroom scenes feel artificial.
  20. The biggest mystery in this wannabe thriller is why such topnotch actors would sign on for such a dreary movie that amounts to a mediocre soap opera.
  21. 9
    Long on imaginative design but less substantial in narrative, this dreary story of fighting the power is more numbing than thought-provoking.
  22. While Walt & El Grupo could use trimming, it also is visually stunning.
  23. Affleck ought to do more quirky character roles rather than leading-man parts in action films. Bateman plays his low-key straight man/protagonist to perfection.
  24. Manages to be both toothless and tasteless in its satire of TV news sensationalism.
  25. This slice of American life, as seen through the eyes of Palestinian immigrants, is nuanced, engaging and authentically observed.
  26. While it doesn't scratch much below the surface, The September Issue is an entertainingly voyeuristic glimpse into the fashion world.
  27. This is Woodstock from another perspective -- one without Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin.
  28. Fast-paced, imaginative and often cute, Shorts is slight but enjoyable family fare.
  29. Post Grad is a collection of unfunny, insipid and predictable vignettes in search of a movie.
  30. Tarantino exercises both his obsession with vengeance and his fascination with the movies.

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