NPR's Scores
- Movies
For 812 reviews, this publication has graded:
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59% higher than the average critic
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38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.6 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 503 out of 812
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Mixed: 255 out of 812
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Negative: 54 out of 812
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Ian Buckwalter 39
When he divides the screen into quadrants for his big finish, the effect is just laughable -- but then by that point, the movie is too. -
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Bob Mondello 35
There's no chemistry between Zellweger and Connick, and there's not a moment in which anything anyone does feels remotely plausible. -
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Ella Taylor 35
The Ugly Truth serves up yet another tightly wound career woman, ripe for chopping up, tenderizing and ravishing by an alpha male who knows what's good for her. -
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Ella Taylor 35
Lumbering comedy, adapted by Larry Doyle from his own novel. -
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Mark Jenkins 35
First-time feature director Peter Billingsley could have enlivened the action with more vigorous editing. Everything takes too long, and the slapstick sequences are particularly lethargic. -
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Mark Jenkins 35
Indeed, despite occasional attempts at plot and character, this is basically a roast with scenery. -
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Scott Tobias 35
Produced in partnership with YouTube and distributed by National Geographic Films, the documentary Life in a Day is offspring with the worst genetic traits of both: narcissism on a global scale, speckled with pretty pictures. In a world without books or magazines, this is the movie people would watch in the waiting room at the dentist's office.- Posted Jul 29, 2011
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Jeannette Catsoulis 35
Whichever side of the aisle you inhabit, you will leave The Iron Lady feeling disgusted; you will also feel cheated - of information, insight or even an identifiable point of view.- Posted Dec 30, 2011
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Ian Buckwalter 35
Without much actual character to latch on to, most of the actors seem lost and awkward, even the usually dependable Hall.- Posted Mar 23, 2012
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Mark Jenkins 35
The movie maintains its sense of style throughout, but that hardly matters as the story just gets stupider and stupider.- Posted Feb 8, 2013
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Ian Buckwalter 35
With 26 films, one for each letter of the alphabet, one might expect enough gems in the mix to make up for any stinkers. That's sadly not the case.- Posted Mar 8, 2013
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Ian Buckwalter 35
Feels from start to finish like a throwback to the action cinema and military thrillers of decades past.- Posted Mar 21, 2013
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Ian Buckwalter 34
The overused homages and a tacked-on twist ending are just failed attempts to save Repo Men from its own shallow blood lust. -
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Bob Mondello 30
What possessed Liv Tyler to take a role in this sadistic, unmotivated home-invasion flick. -
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Bob Mondello 30
Alas, there's scarcely a moment of ingenuity or surprise in this tale of the supremely smug, unmarried-but-made-for-each-other Brad and Kate. -
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Bob Mondello 30
Dunno about the Earth, but time certainly stands still for a goodly portion of Scott Derrickson's expensively produced but utterly boneheaded remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. -
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Bob Mondello 30
Hard to say what's dumber, the premise or the characters in William Olsson's trashily preposterous An American Affair. -
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Jeannette Catsoulis 30
McAdams glows, as always, but Bana looks drained: I guess all that time-shifting leaves its mark on the complexion as well as the soul. -
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Ella Taylor 30
If it's about anything at all, the lame new comedy All About Steve is mostly about Mary, a logorrheic crossword compiler with too much arcane information in her head -- and the social skills of an excitable 6-year-old boy. -
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Scott Tobias 30
This Arthur cravenly turns Susan into a monstrous status-seeker, making her less of a human being and thus much easier for Arthur to trample over in securing a meaningful adult relationship.- Posted Apr 7, 2011
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Ian Buckwalter 30
Without the humor, the stereotypes that define these characters aren't satirical; they're just mean-spirited and dull.- Posted Jul 15, 2011
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Critic Score 30
None of it is inherently funny - as evidenced by how many scenes depend for a punchline on Hill swearing at one child or another.- Posted Dec 9, 2011
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Ella Taylor 30
The movie uses the mutt's disappearance as a frame on which to hang a well-worn package of fatally mild domestic disorder, then resolve it in what feels like real time. Let's just say that the dog gets the best lines.- Posted Apr 19, 2012
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Mark Jenkins 30
Jesse's nobility is one of the primary reasons Liberal Arts is so hard to take.- Posted Sep 14, 2012
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Ella Taylor 30
For all its strenuous feints at fair play, though, Won't Back Down is something less honorable - a propaganda piece with blame on its mind.- Posted Sep 28, 2012
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Critic Score 30
Tragically unfunny, Frankie is occasionally elevated by some of its gifted and game cast, but the film's nasty, comedically incoherent script limits its potential.- Posted Oct 11, 2012
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Mark Jenkins 30
The new Red Dawn's body count is as high as its predecessor's. But the fatalism in all of Milius' projects - even the silliest ones - has weight. That's not the case with the remake, whose portrayal of violence derives more from video games than from history.- Posted Nov 23, 2012
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Mark Jenkins 30
Style can be a risky thing in a movie like this, which aspires above all to inoffensiveness. Originally titled "Playing the Field," which was deemed too racy, this rom-com would have been more aptly renamed "Running Out the Clock."- Posted Dec 7, 2012
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Scott Tobias 30
Stevens wants to honor the living legends who have miraculously agreed to appear in his movie, but after spending a full hour treating their characters like cartoons, the about-face into heartfelt slop lacks the necessary gravitas.- Posted Jan 31, 2013
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