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. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    The movie suffers by taking itself a little too seriously. It's not just that it's a lot less funny than the book. It's also a lot less fun.
  2. From Paris with Love
    It's a hyper-violent buddy comedy. If you like that sort of thing -- think "Training Day," with laughs -- you'll love this.
  3. Dear John
    Dear Nicholas Sparks, There's no easy way to say this. But with Dear John, the latest of the five films made so far from your sentimental, best-selling novels, I think our relationship is in trouble.
  4. Extraordinary Measures
    For real sparks keep a look out for Jared Harris in a supporting role that injects a mildly diverting note of corporate intrigue into an otherwise unsurprising procedural.
  5. Youth in Revolt
    A movie that feels written rather than lived; from "The Catcher in the Rye" to "Rushmore," it's a story we've seen in better versions before.
  6. Inglourious Basterds
    Isn't about history or war, or people and their problems, or anything of substance or meaning. It's a movie about other movies. For all its visual bravura and occasional bursts of antic inspiration, it feels trivial, the work of a kid who can't stop grabbing his favorite shiny plaything.
  7. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    Call it a Christmas miracle, albeit a minor one: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel isn't entirely awful.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Moon
    Storywise, Moon fails to live up to the promise of its premise. There's plenty of atmosphere, but little gravity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Zombieland
    Zombieland is sometimes funny. But those of us who have teeny coronaries every time something goes bump in Zombieland might have a hard time relaxing for long enough to really enjoy ourselves.
  10. Antichrist
    Antichrist finally embodies the contradiction of von Trier: He's a gifted, even visionary, artist mired in his own pulp pretentiousness.
  11. No Country for Old Men
    I appreciate No Country for Old Men for the skill in the film craft. I understand No Country for Old Men for its penetrating disquisition on narrative conventions and its heroic will in subverting them. I admire No Country for Old Men for the way it tightens its grip as it progresses, taking us deeper and deeper into a hellish world. I just don't like it very much.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Public Enemies
    It's also a double-barreled bummer. There's no excitement in the bank-robbing, no thrill of the chase, no emotion over justice served or thwarted. Depp's Dillinger is neither charming nor despicable, nor does he occupy that delicious gray area between the two. His spree unspools dispassionately, cold as a Colt .380.
  13. Watchmen
    Watchmen is a bore. Sad to say, after a wait of more than two decades, the much-anticipated adaptation of the world's most celebrated graphic novel is long, dull and subject to what might be called the "Lord of the Rings" problem: It sinks under the weight of its reverence for the original.
  14. Astro Boy
    It will put some viewers in mind of yet another story with the same theme: "Pinocchio."
  15. Iron Man
    It succeeds only fitfully. Toggling between Stark's impish goatee and Iron Man's full-metal body condom, and amid so many generic fireballs, kill shots and earsplitting thumps, bumps and crunches, the film finally collapses under its own weight.
  16. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    Has its moments of fun, many of them having to do with Reilly's deadpan comic style. But the movie lacks the original edge of its better predecessors.
  17. Revolutionary Road
    The result is that Revolutionary Road is a hard movie to love. Plenty of people will appreciate the hopelessness, but they might wish for a little less emptiness.
  18. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    Often astonishingly beautiful, but in a way that's the problem: You wonder what visionaries such as Tim Burton or Michel Gondry might have done with the material. As it is, "Benjamin Button" is little more than "Gump" by way of "Dorian Gray." It plays too safe when it should be letting its freak flag fly.
  19. Happy Gilmore
    A genial and surprisingly self-contained performance by Adam Sandler.
  20. Zodiac
    That's exactly the problem with this movie: It's not about a killer, or his victims, or the manhunt or the cops. They're all in it, of course, more or less. But it's about a writer.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Burn After Reading
    Oh, the high-octane cast works hard. But there's nothing to suggest anybody off camera tried that hard, which is fatal to a Coen outing.
  22. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    It's simultaneously arty, arcane and nasty.
  23. The Boys Are Back
    What power the movie has comes from its stars, especially the two boys, who give very different but very convincing performances.
  24. P.S. I Love You
    If P.S. I Love You proves anything, it's that Hilary Swank may be a great actress, but she can't do cute.
  25. Inland Empire
    If anything, it's worth watching as yet another example of Lynch's extraordinary collaboration with Dern. It may be overstating things to call her performance heroic, but it's nothing if not brave, as she dares to embody Lynch's most brutal impressions of Hollywood -- not as a dream factory, but as the place where dreams come to die.
  26. Death at a Funeral
    Still, if for the most part Death at a Funeral is as tame as the tasteful parlor where most of its action takes place, it manages to explode one taboo, in casting mostly black actors in roles originally played by whites.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Chorus
    Might have gone down as an endearing fable, if only the route to its finale had been less cliched.
  28. Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    An overture to the subject rather than a profound study.
  29. Assault on Precinct 13
    It's good for a silly laugh, this stuff. And maybe this movie will draw renewed attention to Carpenter's eminently better movie.
  30. Hide and Seek
    Jigh class briefly gives way to high camp, which then itself dissipates to an anticlimactic thud.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »