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. This movie is about the worst thing Chan has done in the United States.
  2. Put another movie on the barbie, mate; maybe it'll be better.
  3. It continually crashes and burns on its own banality.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Has the stink of man-musk all over it.
  4. No darn good.
  5. About as funny as digging your own grave in an unmarked part of New Jersey.
  6. A film that was made in China but has the soul of a '50s Hollywood melodrama.
  7. Doesn't anyone get sick of this same old routine?
  8. Dramatically and conceptually, the movie sits there, flat, naked and trying too hard with too little.
  9. There is something disturbing about yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions, in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble, teach and ultimately redeem their mentally "superior" (read: morally inferior) friends, family and acquaintances.
  10. One overly busy (not to mention shopworn) story, which regurgitates everything from H.G. Wells's "The Island of Dr. Moreau" to the herky-jerky monsters of Ray Harryhausen to James Bond to "The Mummy."
  11. A retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by Martin Scorsese.
  12. Really two movies in one, and there's not enough breathing room for both of them.
  13. Tries so hard to be cool that it forgets to be alive.
  14. Although filled with fey, flamboyant characters, the stereotype of the gay hairdresser seems to have been meticulously expunged.
  15. The movie itself may be a species of Montezuma's revenge.
  16. Attal, who resembles a young Robert De Niro, seems as addled as a director as his character is as a husband, throwing all manner of distractions onto the screen in order to divert the audience.
  17. A cold, protracted and unemotional affair.
  18. A 90-minute confessathon minus the bleeped-out cuss words and pixelated breasts.
  19. Unfortunately, the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making.
  20. It's part travelogue in Hell, part ineffectual weepie.
  21. It's just a gimmick, right down to its Washington release date.
  22. Everything in it is a cliche including the end.
  23. The result is a script so needlessly complicated that it defies comprehension.
  24. Between bad hair and tonal irregularity, the movie doesn't give you much to like.
  25. It's zany. Actually, it's so zany it's almost creepy.
  26. A longwinded, predictable scenario.
  27. Even by its own please-the-mob standards, this movie is lacking.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Anyone who's ever sat through a Neil LaBute film knows you can make a movie in which all the characters are unsympathetic, but this trio is uninteresting, to boot.
  28. There's a little too much over-the-top drama, as well as superfluous detail, in this Icelandic film.

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