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 leviathan bore, big, clunky and ponderously overplotted.
  2. Sylvia plays it safe, and in doing so it becomes little more than just another domestic melodrama devoid of life and, of all things, poetry.
  3. Tirelessly modish, hyper-glossy, super-superficial. It's also cacophonous. And, for all of its drum-beating for brain power, dumb.
  4. We're really celebrating Hollywood's freedom to create biographies of anyone, no matter how high or low on the social ladder, and still come up with the same banal characteristics, messages and conclusions. In this sense, The People vs. Larry Flynt doesn't champion, so much as squander, freedom of speech.
  5. A pretty woeful affair...a sitcom disguised as a movie.
  6. Well-intentioned but ludicrous tale.
  7. Ironically, the filmmakers don't seem to realize that their movie is even shallower and sillier than its targets.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Surprisingly amateurish attempt at cross-cultural comedy.
  8. One-dimensional archetypes, too much predictability and not enough comedy.
  9. It's just too lost in its own presumed self-enchantment.
  10. Gator never emerges as anything but a blatant and outspoken -- and virulently brutal -- jerk.
  11. Mark Childress, who wrote the screenplay based upon his book of the same name, would have been better off leaving this Southern Gothic between two covers.
  12. A slight, disingenuous script that robs the characters of their histories.
  13. There's nothing wrong with Uptown Girls that not seeing it won't fix.

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