USA Today's Scores
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For 4,677 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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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: | Fruitvale Station | |
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| Lowest review score: | Amos & Andrew |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,969 out of 4677
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Mixed: 1,022 out of 4677
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Negative: 686 out of 4677
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Claudia Puig
Those with a taste for irreverent humor and clear-eyed analysis will find it funny, enlightening and disturbing.- USA Today
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Scott Bowles
Gets muddled in slapstick and crude humor.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Though the movie rambles in the middle, it gets back on track when Nick and Norah have a sweet encounter in an unexpected place. The soundtrack is an excellent counterpoint to the film's quirky scenarios.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Alpo is served with a burrito chaser in Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Disney's fish-out-of-water comedy in which the fish is … well, read the title.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
The courtroom scenes emphasize the movie's potency as a David and Goliath saga. But the film's strength lies in its fact-based story of a wronged man turned crusader, played with vigor by Kinnear.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
At its best in scenes featuring Hathaway's mercurial character. It's a triumphant and darkly nuanced role for her and a departure from the more lighthearted comedic performances she has given.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
A terrorist thriller that isn't so much suspenseful as overbearing. Though it aspires to be an intriguing political cautionary tale, the movie is mostly about the feverish and jarringly choreographed chase scenes.- USA Today
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It's tough to make it through Nights in Rodanthe without wincing at its sticky-sweet sentimentality.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Aspires to be epic, but mostly it's just unfocused, sprawling and badly in need of editing.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Yes, it's not for the squeamish or easily offended, but its sordidness is more superficially shocking than wickedly satirical.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Though the lead performances are uniformly good, the film seems hazy in its focus from the start. Many of the scenes seem to simply meander.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
A good-natured and engaging fantasy/romantic comedy in the tradition of "Heaven Can Wait" or even "Topper."- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
If Mel Brooks were to team up with Tim Burton, the result might be something like the loony and colorfully tantalizing animated film Igor.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
The movie is raunchier than expected, and above all clichéd, formulaic and thoroughly sexist. Worst, it's just not very funny.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Anyone who has ever had an annoying neighbor will see their worst nightmares fulfilled in the overheated but entertaining Lakeview Terrace.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Harris is a major asset in a film that is entertaining but somewhat unfocused and occasionally badly cast.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Princess Diana's antecedent, both genetically and figuratively, was a beautiful and glamorous duchess named Georgiana Spencer. Like her descendant, her charm and vivacity captivated England.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
It's consistently funny -- with witty dialogue and offbeat banter that stays in your head for days.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Defanged and drippy, the remake of 1939's The Women seems to have been made for the dullard granddaughters of the sassy, sharp society matrons in George Cukor's campy original.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
By the time the movie reaches its protracted conclusion, it feels like a slog. Pacino has a few funny lines, as does Leguizamo, but not nearly enough to save the film from collapsing under the weight of its own self-righteous tedium.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
The potency of the acting is also undercut by leaden pacing and a sense of claustrophobia.- USA Today
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Though better than most of Perry's broad comedies, The Family That Preys still suffers from excessive predictability and mawkish sentiment, which detracts from the story's believability.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Not a movie to cozy up to. The twisted tale is only mildly intriguing, worth seeing mainly for the striking performance of Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) as Hallam Foe, a creepy teenage voyeur beset with an Oedipal complex.- USA Today
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Can't seem to decide whether it wants to be an edge-of-the-seat action thriller or a more contemplative and intellectual drama about religion and terrorism. Somehow, in trying to have it both ways, it doesn't completely succeed at either.- USA Today
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Bunny is fashioned as a bawdy comedy with heart, but its reliance on formula undercuts the amusing moments.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
The saga is an undeniably heartwarming one about perseverance, hard work, and pride in community. And who could criticize that?- USA Today
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Elisabeth Shue has a strange role as a version of herself who has given up acting for nursing.- USA Today
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Claudia Puig
Don't expect the seventh Star Wars film here. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is more like a long Saturday morning cartoon.- USA Today
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