Rolling Stone's Scores
- Movies
- Music
For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
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38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
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Positive: 1,395 out of 2132
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Mixed: 371 out of 2132
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Negative: 366 out of 2132
2,132
movie reviews
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Peter Travers 100
Some movies are too good to miss. Judy Berlin is one of them...It works like magic. -
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Peter Travers 100
Clint Eastwood pours everything he knows about directing into Mystic River. His film sneaks up, messes with your head and then floors you. You can't shake it. It's that haunting, that hypnotic. -
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Peter Travers 100
A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white. [14 Dec 1989, p.23] -
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Peter Travers 100
Gilliam, along with the gifted cinematographer Roger Pratt and production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, fashions a disturbing and dazzling lost world. -
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Peter Travers 100
Beach and Adams give remarkable performances that grow in feeling and intensity. -
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Peter Travers 100
A sharply observant and witty film that plumbs unexpected depths of feeling. -
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Peter Travers 100
In this risky, riveting film, our most prolific and provocative moviemaker uses his wit to touch a nerve. Crimes and Misdemeansors is so funny it hurts. -
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Peter Travers 100
Duvall is a blazing wonder in a film that ranks with the year's best. -
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Peter Travers 100
You'll thrill to the action, savor the tasty dialogue and laugh like bloody hell. -
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Peter Travers 100
The pleasure of this unique film comes in watching superb actors dine on Mamet's pungent language like the feast it is. -
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Peter Travers 100
The performances are uncommonly fine...Lone Star isn't built to ride trends. It's built to last. -
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Peter Travers 100
This emotional climax of the film, with its warring glints of despair and hope, typifies the stunning achievement of The Ice Storm and confirms Lee as a director of the first rank. -
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Peter Travers 100
What can I tell you? It works. Private Parts is a comic firecracker with a surprising human touch. -
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Peter Travers 100
That the performances are uniformly outstanding is a tribute to Rob Reiner, who directs with masterly assurance, fusing suspense and character to create a movie that literally vibrates with energy. -
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Peter Travers 100
To Die For, sparked by a volcanically sexy and richly comic performance by Kidman that deserves to make her an Oscar favorite, is prime social satire and outrageous fun. -
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Peter Travers 100
Exciting and then some, Face/Off blends the director's supercharged images of balletic brutality and spiritual catharsis with an off-the-wall humor that allows John Travolta and Nicolas Cage to really let it rip. -
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Peter Travers 100
Other films this year will have to sweat bullets to match the explosive power and subversive wit of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence. It slams you like a body punch and then starts messing with your head. -
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Peter Travers 100
Most movies stress the agony of art (think of Kirk Douglas' Van Gogh in "Lust for Life"). Schnabel's exceptional film honors his friend by showing the act of creation as a natural high. -
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Peter Travers 100
Takes off with the lightning speed of a thriller, the gonzo force of frontline journalism and the emotional wallop of a drama that puts a human face on shocking statistics. -
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Peter Travers 100
Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable Brokeback Mountain hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. -
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Peter Travers 100
Here is the jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping movie epic we've been waiting for all year. -
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Peter Travers 100
Ephron homes in on what's been missing in movies and in life: ardor, longing and smart talk about the screwed-up notions that pass for love. -
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Peter Travers 100
Far from being exploitive, the effect is inspiring: This is the best of us. -
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Peter Travers 100
From the first sight of German soldiers goose-stepping past the Arc de Triomphe to a postscript that spells out the fate of characters whose moral confusion is all too real, Army of Shadows is a movie of its time -- and ours. -
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Peter Travers 100
A new American crime classic from the legendary Martin Scorsese, whose talent shines here on its highest beams. -
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Peter Travers 100
Amid the clamor from outraged purists and Shakespeare spinning in his Stratford-on-Avon, England, grave, you should notice that Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence. -
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Peter Travers 100
Writer and director Carl Franklin ("One False Move") scores a triumph in using the brooding atmosphere and racial tension of the sun-kissed, seedy City of Angels to reveal character and reclaim a neglected past that ace cinematographer Tak Fujimoto brings to vivid life. -
