Newsweek's Scores
- Movies
For 875 reviews, this publication has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 562 out of 875
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Mixed: 246 out of 875
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Negative: 67 out of 875
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movie reviews
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David Ansen 30
Everything in Rounders is right there on the surface. Watching it is about as exciting as playing poker with all the cards face up. [14 Sept 1998] -
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David Ansen 30
So bland and un-lived in you want to pour Tabasco all over the screen. -
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Critic Score 30
Rapidly veers towards tired 80's territory rather than offering anything new and fresh. -
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David Ansen 30
This is a farfetched premise, and the movie pays a price for it. -
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David Ansen 30
All shots and no scenes, which is nice for a picture book but deadly for drama. -
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Critic Score 30
Despite some funny lines and situations, this comedy falls short. -
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David Ansen 30
A lumbering, self-important three-hour melodrama that defies credibility at every turn. -
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David Ansen 30
Every role is miscast. Whose idea was it to have the boyishly British Bale play an illiterate Greek peasant, or the elegant Hurt a gruff-voiced country doctor? Cruz’s run of bad luck in American movies continues. -
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Critic Score 30
This echo of the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans is the only new gimmick in Edward Zwick's entry in the cliche- terrorist genre. -
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Critic Score 30
Neil LaBute’s Possession is bad, but not spectacularly bad, which is disappointing. -
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David Ansen 30
Flat, distressingly witless -- To put it bluntly -- the thrill is gone. Nobody did it better. But that was then. -
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David Ansen 30
Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair are asked to humiliate themselves many times over in The Sweetest Thing, and they do it with such game good spirits that they ought to get the actor’s equivalent of a Purple Heart. -
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David Ansen 30
You know a romantic comedy is in trouble when you root for the hero not to get the girl. -
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David Ansen 30
As adroit and charming as Witherspoon is--and she gives it her all--she cannot rise above the embarrassingly broad, witless material. -
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David Ansen 30
Irreversible takes an adolescent pride in its own ugliness. “I Stand Alone" told me something about the world; this one tells me more than I want to know about the calculating mind of its maker. -
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David Ansen 30
Sarah Thorp’s lazy script lurches from the lame to the ludicrous. -
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Critic Score 30
It's punishingly dull for fully half of its two hours and 45 minutes. -
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Critic Score 30
With the talent involved in Sphere -- director Barry Levinson, novelist Michael Crichton and actors Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson and Sharon Stone--how could it fail? Somehow, it does. -
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David Ansen 30
Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has written quips, not characters and Joel Schumacher still seems miscast as a Bat-action director: he stages the mayhem confusingly and the comedy too broadly. -
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David Ansen 30
Downright repetitive! [30 May 1983] -
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Critic Score 30
The film suffers dearly because of the two underwritten, emotionally unavailable characters at the film's center and when all is revealed at an amateur dance contest, the music — and the modicum of tension the movie has created — dies. -
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Critic Score 30
It's just a standard, mediocre horror flick that wants to be taken seriously. The creators missed the point entirely: even teenagers know that there's no audience for this type of film anymore. -
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David Ansen 30
The special effects are definitely the best thing about this curiously bland disasterthon. -
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Critic Score 30
If only the movie itself had so much spunkâFlubber bounces but it never flies. -
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Once the film devolves into teary hospital scenes and courtroom shtik, you might pine for Thelma and Louise's daring road to oblivion. [20 Feb 1995, Pg.72] -
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David Ansen 30
The superhero genre screams for a makeover, or at least a smart deconstruction, but Hancock isn't that movie. It just ups the foolishness ante. -
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David Ansen 30
Trying for a tone somewhere between an art film, an absurdist comedy, a horror movie and an old Saturday-matinee serial, he's made a handsome, cripplingly self-conscious thriller that's devoid of any real thrills. [3 Feb. 1992, p.65]Posted Feb 12, 2013 -
