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 5.2 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. "Welcome to the Rileys"? Thanks, but no thanks.
  2. Hafstrom largely ignores the progress made by his demon-banishing predecessors and delivers a palatable PG-13 thriller that's safe, soft and sinfully cliched.
  3. There really is no other movie on Earth quite like it. And that's including "The Human Centipede: First Sequence," the 2009 horror film on which this dismal, nauseating and yet bizarrely artful sequel is based.
  4. That's My Boy is radical only in its extreme laziness.
  5. Insipid, unfunny and cliche-ridden.
  6. The only reason you'll feel any wrath is because you shelled out 12 bucks for this steaming bucket of half-baked plot, cliched dialogue and disappointing 3-D special effects.
  7. It's hard to know who exactly Parental Guidance was made for.
  8. As it is, The Divide is simply noxious for noxiousness's sake. French director Xavier Gens and writers Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean almost seem to take a kind of perverse pride in seeing how far they can go.
  9. The whole movie becomes such a pileup of detritus, whether it’s cop cars or plot points, that even something as important as rationale becomes an afterthought.
  10. How on earth is it possible for one film to be so tiresome? Spring Breakers isn’t deadly dull despite all the nudity and violence, but because of it.
  11. A more accurate title would be “Inept, Inadequate and Insipid Comedy.”
  12. Despite its plentiful and playful sexuality, this dose of Spanish fly is anything but exciting.
  13. The only thing epic about The Legend of Hercules is what a failure it is.
  14. It’s all so plodding and grim, echoed by the blandly percussive score by Ramin Djawadi.
  15. As directed by Perry, The Single Moms Club goes for a mix of escapism and reality-based drama and winds up with a movie that can only be enjoyed via the running, snarky commentary that will inevitably scroll through most audience members’ heads as they watch.
  16. Blackhat is also one of the most visually unattractive movies I’ve ever seen.
  17. Piven is so in the pocket as the smarmy, aggressive, inappropriate Ari that, when the movie he’s in does little more than double down on the bro-ing out, the whiffed opportunities become all the more obvious.
  18. The film is amateurish on almost every level.
  19. London Has Fallen is remarkable only because of how much worse it is than its inane predecessor.
  20. Teen Wolf Too is nothing a jar of Nair wouldn't cure.
  21. There’s a fundamental problem here. The movie relies on the instinctual human fear of death, but its message is that dying is a promotion.
  22. For the most part, Vacation is a sad, cynical rip-off of writer John Hughes’s source material. No one expects originality, but the new movie may end up making history: It’s already looking like the worst movie of the year.
  23. There isn’t one joke, sight gag or piece of slapstick tomfoolery that lands with any success or originality in Hot Pursuit.
  24. I would call the movie a trainwreck, except it’s really four or five separate trainwrecks.
  25. Unsullied is wholly underwhelming, with atrocious performances and plot twists so implausible that they would be funny in a film less tedious than this.
  26. It’s hard to know which of the film’s many flaws to cite first, so here’s one thing it does fairly well: scare the bejesus out of you. That’s assuming you have read nothing about the subject of vaccines and autism, and are of a generally lax and incurious mind when it comes to the rigors of scientific inquiry.
  27. Absent any self-awareness by its protagonists, the best thing about Sundown is that it’s too dumb to be offensive.
  28. Director Mark Pellington (“I Melt With You”) at least recognizes that the setup is little more than a freakish showcase for Mac­Laine do her blunt-spoken-battle-ax thing.
  29. A straightforward, B-movie horror flick — “The Snake Pit” without the prestige — complete with intentional overdosing, electroshock torture and patients threatening each other with a sharpened spoons, when they’re not either screaming or catatonic. It also is very, very bad.
  30. A largely laugh-free exercise in cliche.

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