Washington Post's Scores

Select another publication »
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:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
11478 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. La bûche
    A confection that is ultimately better because of its bitterness.
  2. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    Viewers will leave Amandla! moved by the music, impressed by the musicians and dubious about the possibility of political and social healing.
  3. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    Like the best of poems, it doesn't lend itself to easy understanding. But, like the best of poems, it's extremely provocative, to both imagination and intellect.
  4. Fever Heat [re-release]
    Great picture? No. Cool picture? Oui. Not as good, I must say, as the sort of thing we moron yanks were doing on our own over here – "D.O.A." is much better.
  5. Chunhyangdyun
    Demonstrates that sometimes the simplest stories are the most profound, and certainly possess the most moral authority. It's a film that emphasizes loyalty and sacrifice, values that have become jokes in most other films these days.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Lady and the Duke
    Still, it is a decidedly fresh take. Rohmer has said he came upon a condensed version of Elliott's diary by chance, in a history magazine. His rendering of her story focuses not so much on the politics of the time -- though they are the basis of much of the dialogue -- but on the emotional thicket.
  7. The Backyard
    The movie is not for the squeamish, but for those who are unafraid to look at what is, perhaps, their own metaphorical "backyard," for those willing to stare into the long, dark night of the contemporary American soul, its bone-crunching message is worth hearing.
  8. Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
    An absorbing and inspiring portrait of two musicians whose unerring sense of what's right -- both artistically and ethically -- has not just held them in good stead but driven their particular brand of success.
  9. Late Marriage
    Late Marriage is a closely observed, somewhat funny, ultimately very sad movie.
  10. Stuart Little 2
    It's a pleasant experience. But that's what it is: a sequel that replays every aspect of the original movie.
  11. All Over the Guy
    The movie's entertaining for some wickedly funny situations and witticisms.
  12. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    May be morally tangled, pessimistic, lurid and foreboding, but it's also humanistic.
  13. Chaos
    One heck of a tale of deliciously unladylike payback.
  14. Stevie
    A heart-stirrer at times. More often, it's a heartbreaker.
  15. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
    Extraordinary documentary.
  16. The Princess and the Warrior
    You don't have any idea what's going to happen next. You're not caught in a movie, so much as a narrative stratagem.
  17. Affliction
    Like the bitter cold in which it's set, Affliction bites hard and true.
  18. The Ballad of Bering Strait
    It isn't wildly imaginative, but its subjects are novel enough in their own right. They're a little bit country and a little bit Rachmaninoff.
  19. Waking Ned Devine
    Writer-director Kirk Jones III keeps the movie resolutely brisk and light, twisting mildly this way and that but never detouring for long.
  20. Mondays in the Sun
    To the patient viewer, the rewards are many, especially Bardem's performance.
  21. The Circle
    In its brisk way, it's a devastating piece of work, and very brave too.
  22. The Endurance
    An engrossing chronicle.
  23. Ulee's Gold
    The film becomes a modest delight.
  24. Vertical Limit
    Possibly the most suspense-charged mountain-climbing movie ever made.
  25. Pleasantville
    I can't get over the nagging feeling that Pleasantville's beguiling spell was cast by a real magician, only to be carelessly broken by the same clumsy charlatan.
  26. Eight Legged Freaks
    This is postmodern folk art, a tricky transaction in which the work isn't just a story, it's a genre survey, a homage, a meditation, a parody and, oh yeah, while it's at it, still a pretty good story.
  27. Finding Forrester
    Manages to take the cerebral act of literary creation and make it exciting, sexy even.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Madame Satã
    Shot almost entirely on location with a hand-held camera, director Karim Ainouz's film draws you in close. The charisma and intensity of Lazaro Ramos as Joao holds you there.
  29. Bulworth
    It's daring, deliberately offensive and, for a comedy, it has far more ideas in it than actual laughs.
  30. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    When I say this movie's a charm, I'm really talking about Irwin.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »