Premiere's Scores
- Movies
For 1,070 reviews, this publication has graded:
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2% same as the average critic
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40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 709 out of 1070
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Mixed: 172 out of 1070
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Negative: 189 out of 1070
1,070
movie reviews
- By critic score
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Peter Debruge 88
Reveals more about the German people through sentimental comedy than such overtly political films as "The Nasty Girl" or "The Marriage of Maria Braun." -
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Critic Score 88
A model of economic storytelling....It raised the bar for movie action to a bionic level. [1 Dec 2003, p.13] -
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Critic Score 88
Duvall delivers a bravura, Oscar-quality performance....The Apostle is a profoundly humane movie that crackles with the joy and sorrow of an old blues record. -
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Glenn Kenny 88
Beautiful, lyrical, but not in the least bit wimpy. [May 2004, p. 18] -
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Peter Debruge 88
Think of how M. Night Shyamalan redefined the ghost story (The Sixth Sense), the superhero creation myth (Unbreakable), and the alien-invasion epic (Signs)--and you may get a sense of the genius behind this fascinating new horror film. -
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Glenn Kenny 88
By the end the movie has pretty much ceased taking itself at all seriously, devolving into a nonchalant giggliness of the stoned variety that's completely apropos. -
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Aaron Hillis 88
The mood never droops, however, saved by Mario’s well-studied ability to channel his father, a performance as delicately nuanced and polished as the film is frenetic and raw. -
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Peter Debruge 88
Take it from someone who can still feel the hollow rubber tang! of old dodgeball scars: It feels great to be blindsided by a little movie like this. -
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Peter Debruge 88
In his first feature, director Joshua Marston passes no judgments. He doesn't condemn drugs. He merely depicts the system that has arisen to support this illicit trade. -
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Aaron Hillis 88
Open Water may not be a pristine or complex suspense thriller, but you'd be hard-pressed to find anything else as terrifyingly potent in such a tiny package. -
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Peter Debruge 88
Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a pastiche of everything from "King Kong" to "The Wizard of Oz," a movie that escalates to a breathless cliff-hanger every 20 minutes or so and reinvents itself with every reel. -
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Aaron Hillis 88
Whatever you want to label this quick-paced crowd-pleaser, it is definitely one of the year's must-sees. -
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Aaron Hillis 88
Refusing to dumb down for a mass market, Primer is "Mullholland Dr." for math geeks, "Memento" for mad geniuses, or simply one of the most inventive films ever made for pennies on the Hollywood dollar. -
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Kevin Allison 88
There are moments so beautifully composed and so resonant in Jonathan Glazer's (Sexy Beast) sophomore effort, I can at least propose it's a "near-great." -
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Glenn Kenny 88
Those who aren't inclined to lambaste will surely have some stimulating conversations after the film is over. -
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Aaron Hillis 88
An enchantingly cryptic, ethereally photographed slice of somber surrealism that should definitely appeal to fans of David Lynch and Luis Buñuel. -
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Glenn Kenny 88
An epic treatment of epic themes that doesn't soft-soap its audience, but at the same time provides a terrifically satisfying entertainment. -
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Aaron Hillis 88
Preaches post-9/11 family values to conservatives while appeasing liberals with ideas of tolerance and social activism. -
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Glenn Kenny 88
By turns harrowing and stirring, it’s a shame-inducing history lesson that never feels like a lecture. -
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Aaron Hillis 88
The brilliant subtleties of this absorbing, must-see drama are best seen through Penn, who transforms a strongly nuanced script into the greatest performance of the year. -
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Peter Debruge 88
Most likely chosen for its shaggy-dog looks, Winn-Dixie is actually a great deal more special than you'd expect, a fitting analogy for a film no parent should be too quick to dismiss. -
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Glenn Kenny 88
Once the picture gets into Hollywood's bloodstream, it could well prove to be as influential as John Woo's 1989 crime thriller, "The Killer." -
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Aaron Hillis 88
A rough-and-tumble magnum opus of digital filmmaking that thrillingly basks in the sick, slick, sexy and quick-witted excesses of its imaginatively mutant stylizations. -
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Aaron Hillis 88
Guaranteed to deliver more innovative eye candy and smarter fun-per-second than most of this summer's fare, and that one-two punch ought to knock you off your seat. -
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Glenn Kenny 88
Once Palpatine's machinations set the cogs in motion for the creation of Vader, and the Clone Wars start getting bloody, Sith commences to cook in a way that no Star Wars movie has since "Empire." -
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Peter Debruge 88
Murderball asks you to put all your assumptions about quadriplegics aside and start over. -
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Peter Debruge 88
That rare kind of movie that contrasts "cultured" big-city characters with devout, "simple" folk without being condescending or judgmental of either camp. -
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Glenn Kenny 88
This is not a perfect picture, but it’s a soulful one that offers a lot of pleasure and even a kind of wisdom. -
