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 5.4 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. The movie's a floating longboat that ought to be ignited and pushed out to sea, Viking style.
  2. A smutty, imbecilic farce.
  3. A gooey romantic comedy that sticks to everything except its principles.
  4. A big, fat clunker.
  5. Consider the title your best advice.
  6. This movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.
  7. The only quandary in this film is in where to begin despising it.
  8. Lazily written and hopelessly miscast.
  9. The mind will be starved for subtlety, wit and substance.
  10. Stinketh like the breath of a dyspeptic dragon.
  11. It's too bad we don't have red, glowing DELETE buttons next to those soda cup holders. I could have done the world a favor.
  12. Tries to put your tear ducts in a headlock with a litany of catastrophes.
  13. The rare film that is capable of offending both Trent Lott and Al Sharpton.
  14. For da love of God, spare me.
  15. Size vanquishes both substance and subtlety in the overhyped, half-cocked and humorless resurrection of dear old "Godzilla."
  16. It's stingy at heart. Burton, who collaborated with British screenwriter Jonathan Gems, brings nothing of "Edward Scissorhands's" magic or "Beetlejuice's" wacky fun to this sadly empty exercise. Aimlessly plotted and blandly written.
  17. It can't fake sincerity. It tries ever so hard, but it doesn't have a single believable second. Every word in it is a lie.
  18. Puerile bluster.
  19. The scariest thing about this hokey bombast is that it got made in the first place.
  20. Though R-rated, its real target audience is under 18 -- either in years or IQ points.
  21. Confusing as heck.
  22. Oh, please. Stop and smell the manure.
  23. A blundering cringefest, thanks to unintentionally laughable dialogue, hackneyed writing and uninspired direction.
  24. An unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production that has been re-edited, rescored and rewritten for American tots and padded out to feature length with a plotless short called "Pikachu's Vacation."
  25. Tries desperately to lower the bar for scatological gags, rank sexual humor and cheap physical shots.
  26. A classic like this deserves to be unearthed! After all, this picture is likely to command a pedestal of its own at the local video store. Just check for shelves marked either "Sharon Stone" or "Staff's Worst Picks of 1999."
  27. An insufferable piffle.
  28. Another cheesy, overdrawn and witless "Saturday Night Live" takeoff.
  29. Redundant, humorless and overlong screenplay.
  30. Isn't juvenile, it isn't even infantile. It's prenatal!

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