Washington Post's Scores

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:
11478 movie reviews
  1. A definite improvement. However, whatever gains this adaptation makes are due entirely to the inspired goofiness of its star, Steve Martin, and not to anything that director Jonathan Lynn or screenwriter Andy Breckman may have contributed.
  2. A romper that doesn't shy away from sexual frankness or Mediterranean laissez faire.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Take the cast of 1978's "Animal House" and 1984's "Revenge of the Nerds," toss them on a desert island, watch them breed and enroll their raucous, kvetching offspring at a college for rejects. A fluffy teen comedy, Accepted gets annoying fast.
  3. The cumulative effect is closer to a didactic after-school special for troubled parents.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A hodgepodge in the raj -- a predictable patchwork of forbidden romance, English arrogance, a gun given as a gift, suicide, corruption, deception, rising Indian nationalism and a short-lived chase through the jungle.
  4. The fat cats of Hollywood have coughed up a hairball.
  5. Gibson and the overexposed Hunt don't exactly burn up the screen, not that it much matters. The charm isn't in the relationship, it's in Gibson's puckish appeal.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A spirited rally in the final reel can't quite overcome the damage.
  6. Bewildering, tediously violent.
  7. It's a monumental biopic that cheapens the hero's successes by glossing over the failures that surely also shaped the man.
  8. Although Ryan is cannily cast against type, she doesn't bring much more than muttery incoherence and nudity to the role.
  9. The film’s execution isn’t entirely convincing. It’s not the actors’ fault.
  10. In the end, “Sonic” is quippy without being mean, and sweet without being sappy, making this a trip that’s well worth taking.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This is billed as a romantic comedy, but it's much more boring than funny.
  11. It may not be the most spellbinding of the prequels so far, but it does advance this saga in an entertaining, if less than fantastic way.
  12. It would be cornier if it weren't so well acted by Nunn, Bening and 12-year-old Allen.
  13. Falls as flat as a bottle of corked Bordeaux.
  14. The bigger surprise is just how clunky and unsatisfying this follow-up feels.
  15. This Matt Perry vehicle is funnier than anyone could hope to expect.
  16. The movie is one of the best American films in months and months and the best comedy since I don't know when. It even makes you sorta kinda like Matthew McConaughey.
  17. An ambitious, experimental mess of a movie in search of something more profound.
  18. Nothing in this film makes any sense, and Stuart Blumberg, David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg's script merely gets more preposterous as it elaborates on its implausible premise.
  19. The aptly subtitled Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is a blast of dead air and mummified humor.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    After more than two hours, what we're left with feels like a Robert Altman movie on Botox. It has some real substance and heft, but it also might be a bit too glossy.
  20. The Wachowski brothers have rendered their chronicles into banality, as if trying to imitate the qualitative tailspin of the "Star Wars" series.
  21. The movie refuses to descend into the cute smarminess of a mutual recovery drama, thanks to originally conceived characters. We're always wondering -- and wonderfully surprised -- by their choices.

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