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. The most lethal weapon of all turns out to be the script.
  2. Like a wounded yeti, Batman & Robin drags itself through icicle-heavy sets, dry-ice fog and choking jungle vines, before dying in a frozen heap. Unfortunately, that demise occurs about 20 minutes into the movie, which leaves you in the cold for approximately 106 minutes.
  3. Watching it is like being forced to listen to bad heavy metal music turned up to 11 while fat guys in Bermuda shorts compete in a puking contest in the john.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Merely airheaded where it should be lighthearted, Hudson Hawk offers a klutzy, charmless hero, and wallows dully in limp slapstick and lowest common denominator crudeness.
  4. The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.
  5. I wouldn't want you to consider even renting this thing. It would only encourage another prequel, this time featuring two dumb toddlers who keep walking into doors and become great pals. Call it "Duh and Duh."
  6. You know a movie is in trouble when its biggest laughs come not from its lead players but from a dog and a car
  7. The film degenerates into sophomoric name calling and a brand of insult humor that would embarrass Don Rickles.
  8. Feckless and crude without any particularly funny redeeming value. If there's anything more to this poor excuse of a movie than immediately meets the eye, I'll get back to you.
  9. Let's cut to the chase: We're talking "Ishtar of the Apes."
  10. Bewildering, tediously violent.
  11. The episodes are too convoluted to get into.
  12. True to the film's name, there is one thing I couldn't hardly wait for, and that's the closing credits.
  13. So resoundingly awful, there may be grounds to sue for mental suffering.
  14. The whole thing is coarse and vulgar, as it hides its low fascinations behind a scrim of Holocaust piety until it becomes pure kitsch.
  15. It is horrible. Time curls up and dies while this Hilary Duff vehicle wheels its weary, conventional way along.
  16. Overblown and idiotic, this new "erotic thriller" is neither erotic nor thrilling; it's long, boring and self-indulgent.
  17. In this vile contribution to the animated holiday genre, Sandler proves himself once again determined to get rich by setting the bar just a little bit lower each time out.
  18. The movie is simply not professional. It's not, even by the lowest standards of Republic B-westerns in the '30s or bad, cheap horror films in the '50s, releasable.
  19. It's uncompromisingly bad, single-mindedly off-target.
  20. We should be asking ourselves why so noble a nation would produce swill like Joe Dirt.
  21. Another tediously sanctimonious message movie from Alan Parker.
  22. Whatever the title of the next installment, this movie is certainly One best forgotten.
  23. Should never have been released, not even on video. It should have been placed in a hazardous waste container, encased in concrete and dumped into the Farrelly brothers' septic tank.
  24. This time, the jokes about dead animals, gunk in the hair, incest and all other taboos are flatter than the road kill Gilly finds himself picking up for a living.
  25. So smug and so proud of itself, and you can tell that everybody involved conceives of it as a civics lesson instead of a story, that they squeeze all the life out of it.
  26. What a bummer! Certainly the meanest-spirited film ever associated with the Disney hallmark.
  27. The film turns out to have nothing going for it at all, except a small charge for soul-deep Madonna haters.
  28. Don't even rent the DVD, it'll only encourage them.
  29. A plodding, aggressive film that is neither engaging, disturbing nor funny.

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