Washington Post's Scores

Select another publication »
For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
11478 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Gozu
    It somehow feels richly, hilariously real, even -- at its most bizarre -- familiar.
  2. Save the Last Dance
    This is a spirited, dirty dance between the polished inauthenticity of Hollywood romance-musicals and hip-hop's central tenet: keeping it real. It's an intriguing combination, if nothing else.
  3. Jurassic Park
    A dumbed-down adaptation of Michael Crichton's techno-novel on the dangers of dinosaur cloning, it's not Spielberg at the top of his game, but it's dino-mite just the same.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Prince and Me
    Nothing is new about the movie's premise, but it is entertaining all the same.
  5. Series 7: The Contenders
    The suspense may be fraudulently manufactured but it captivates us nevertheless, and by the end we're reduced to the bloodlusting anonymity of the true culprits in all this jaded junk, and that is the TV audience.
  6. American History X
    Trenchant and visceral, American History X may not be perfect, but it's a darn sight better than good.
  7. Stage Beauty
    Ultimately this is a celebration of the theater, a big, wet kiss to the craft of acting and the artists who inhabited London's early stages.
  8. A Knight's Tale
    The action scenes are beautifully mounted and photographed and offer a sense of the rigors of the sport.
  9. After Midnight
    A movie that longs for a return to a cinema that, rather than marketing, merchandise and corporate synergy, is about the mysteries that flicker to life after the lights go down.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust
    Thoughtful documentary.
  11. Happy Times
    A tender, tragic allegory in which grave human emotions play out against a small, simple backdrop.
  12. Girlfight
    A scrappy independent film that packs the same emotional punch as "Rocky."
  13. Being Julia
    May lack originality but makes up for it in sheer bravado and really nice clothes
  14. The Devil's Advocate
    The story (adapted from Andrew Neiderman's novel by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy) is surprisingly well-handled, given its rather crazy premise.
  15. The Fighting Temptations
    May not be great cinema, but it's a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.
  16. Kiss the Girls
    A solid second film from director Gary Fleder ("Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead"), it's sure to set pulses racing and spines tingling. Too bad it's at the expense of the dignity of young women everywhere.
  17. Pulp Fiction
    The experience overall is like laughing down a gun barrel, a little bit tiring, a lot sick and maybe far too perverse for less jaded moviegoers.
  18. The Saddest Music in the World
    Any film where a beer baroness's glass leg (filled with beer) shatters when a high note is struck is okay by me.
  19. Seven
    A decidedly medieval enterprise, darker in text and tone than a Gothic cathedral by the light of the moon.
  20. Titanic
    Cameron captures the majesty, the tragedy, the fury and the futility of the event in a way that supersedes his trivial attempts to melodramatize it.
  21. The Take
    It's also genuinely moving to see disenfranchised individuals discovering self-determination from the hard ground up.
  22. Love & Basketball
    This one has crossover hit written all over it.
  23. Schindler's List
    This heavy-hitting fist lands with calculated deliberation. Despite Spielberg's obviously genuine commitment, "Schindler's List" feels strangely controlled -- more than impassioned. It's officially artistic, an engineered project of pride, Little Stevie's growing-up project, rather than an organically brilliant masterpiece.
  24. Scream 3
    It's plenty entertaining, but the ending is disappointing, given the buildup.
  25. Danny Deckchair
    It is piffle done well. A (literally) lighter-than-air story, full of goofs and creeps and fools and silliness, it manages to delight without simpering, make points without lecturing and break hearts and mend them again without turning you weepy.
  26. King Arthur
    By going back to its origins and dusting itself off, the King Arthur story has proved itself to have a very contemporary resonance.
  27. Bedazzled
    Fraser is one funny, mixed-up guy
  28. Control Room
    Enlightening, if structurally relaxed documentary.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Friday Night Lights
    Give credit to Berg for keeping Bissinger's all-too-true ending intact. It's a doozy.
  30. Max Keeble's Big Move
    It's a clever plot with a minimum of the already tired standard kids-on-computers sequence and a maximum of silly face-to-face deflation.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »