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. Unfinished Business
    While by no means a masterpiece, the comedy, by Canadian director Ken Scott, is a careful calibration of crass gags and genuine sentiment that succeeds more often than it fails.
  2. Human Capital
    Human Capital is a well made but ultimately rather facile tragedy for the globalized age of vertiginous wealth disparities. It’s suffused with beauty, guilt, regret and impunity that only the most obscenely overprivileged and dimly self-aware can hope to attain.
  3. Woman in Gold
    Stirring at times, soggy and overly sentimental at others, the film moves surprisingly slow, even though its action, which takes place over many years of legal maneuvering, has been condensed for narrative expediency.
  4. A LEGO Brickumentary
    Overall the movie is a fun peek at the birth of Lego bricks and their ever-evolving place in the world.
  5. The Visit
    The cast of mostly unfamiliar actors also serves The Visit well. Shyamalan has a gift for eliciting strong performances, even when his material is lacking.
  6. Kidnap
    Kidnap is a solid and economical piece of filmmaking. It just goes to show: A big budget isn’t necessary to make a big impression.
  7. The Salt of the Earth
    The Salt of the Earth remains worshipful when it should be more probing, especially around questions of ethics, privacy and consent.
  8. The Greatest Showman
    Don’t overthink it, in other words. All “Showman” asks of you is that you give yourself over to the holiday-cheer machine, if you can. Like the circus, it’s an experience that’s been engineered for this precise moment in time, and not one minute longer.
  9. The Mountain Between Us
    Helped by director Hany Abu-Assad and spectacular cinematography by Mandy Walker, who makes the most of the film’s British Columbia locations, Elba and Winslet generate chemistry that is convincing in direct proportion to the story’s outlandishness.
  10. Effie Gray
    Laxton knows how to get the audience down but hasn’t quite mastered the art of lifting them back up.
  11. Concussion
    As Omalu, Smith gives an emotional performance, bolstered by capable supporting players. Albert Brooks is especially good as Omalu’s wry boss and chief advocate, Cyril Wecht, lightening the film’s otherwise gloomy mood.
  12. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
    Me and Earl and the Dying Girl succumbs to the same cloying too-cuteness and solipsism that often plague its glib and sentimental genre. But those limitations are leavened by the film’s lively, ultimately affecting flourishes and sprightly voice.
  13. Mississippi Grind
    Mississippi Grind winds up being an improbably satisfying, even heartwarming character study.
  14. The Overnight
    In a way, The Overnight ends just as it’s beginning. But for a brief time, even in the midst of preposterous digressions and full (and not so full) Montys, it offers a compassionate glimpse of people at their most naked, honest and undefended.
  15. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    The film can be appreciated, if only as a showcase for its assured, emotional attuned performances, as a convincing time capsule and period piece, and as a chance to reconsider one of the more well-known and still-influential studies of its era.
  16. Digging for Fire
    Digging for Fire is a pleasant escape — an attractively shot, gracefully edited and, finally, emotionally satisfying mystery about the nature of marriage itself.
  17. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
    Douglas Tirola’s documentary is brisk and entertaining, if not especially thoughtful.
  18. Take Me to the River
    The menace never becomes palpable, whether because of illogical plot lines or questionable casting. The stakes are so high, but the suspense never rises to the occasion.
  19. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    In the end, the plot is the least interesting part of the movie. One-upmanship gets old fast, but evolved, of-the-moment comedy helps make a stale story fresh.
  20. Man from Reno
    If you can hang on for close to two hours with almost no resolution, it’s worth the ride.
  21. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
    Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is uproarious and flamboyantly raunchy, utterly stupid yet also occasionally winning
  22. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
    By no stretch is this a disaster on a par with Lucas’s misbegotten prequel trilogy. Still, at least until its final section, Rogue One lacks the zip, zing and exhilarating sense of return to form that “The Force Awakens” conveyed so lightly.
  23. Trumbo
    After a somewhat tedious and overly episodic first half...Trumbo becomes a far more successful movie.
  24. Central Intelligence
    Central Intelligence won’t win any points for originality, but that doesn’t make it any less funny.
  25. Adult Beginners
    There’s never any question where this is all headed: a huge blowup argument and a tidy resolution. That being said, the cast is excellent.
  26. The Founder
    In the end, The Founder is little more than a deflating reminder, as if we needed one, that the winner takes all, and integrity isn’t always the key to success.
  27. Burnt
    It’s not pretty, but it captures something that few cooking movies do: reality.
  28. Krisha
    It’s slightly fussy, in-your-face filmmaking, but it’s viscerally effective.
  29. Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
    The film’s most profound subject matter may simply be the passage of time.
  30. I'll See You in My Dreams
    There’s something refreshingly realistic about the director’s approach. The movie has an unhurried pace, letting the camera linger over long conversations.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »