Rolling Stone's Scores

For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 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
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
2,132 movie reviews
  1. The year's most beguilling and touching surprise. Bravo.
  2. Green has created a work of startling originality that will haunt you for a good, long time.
  3. Wilson is flat-out hilarious, playing this cowboy like a surfer dude zapped back in time.
  4. Delivers frisky fun for bruised romantics regardless of age, sex or nationality.
  5. The first commandment of Dogma: Thou shalt not stop laughing.
  6. Under the astute direction of Danny DeVito, who does a sly turn as Oliver's attorney, this acid-dipped epic of revenge is killingly funny and dramatically daring.
  7. A movie that advances the career of a demonstrably gifted filmmaker, a fearlessly funny movie whose laughs draw blood, a bracingly provocative movie that won't apologize for its bad temper.
  8. The acting is top-notch, and LaPaglia, who makes the cop's torment palpable, gives the performance of his career.
  9. The film is alive with delicacy and feeling...It's a beauty.
  10. Inspired funny business that allows Martin to hilariously torpedo Hollywood's corrupt heart.
  11. McTeer and Brown make magic ina film that is wonderfully funny, touching and vital.
  12. A savage comedy of sexual extremes; the barbed laughs draw blood.
  13. Bell explodes onscreen in a performance that cuts to the heart without sham tearjerking. Look for Billy to blast off.
  14. A mesmerizing film spinning from hilarity to heartbreak.
  15. A marvel of delicacy and humor.
  16. For all its fancy pedigree, the spellbinding Dancer in the Dark aims right for the heart and aces its target.
  17. A kickass documentary.
  18. Setting it against the backdrop of a wanton city under siege, Schroeder crafts a film of whiplash urgency.
  19. It's a haunting, hypnotic film that exerts an escalating grip on the heart and the conscience.
  20. Nunez finds a striking lyricism in simple lives that inspires an uncommonly fine cast and ranks him as a world-class filmmaker.
  21. If you're looking to have your nerves fried and your pulse pounded, this is your ticket to ride.
  22. Cage, who gives a blazing, imposive performance, uses his haunted eyes to reveal the emotional scars that Frank can't heal.
  23. Elegantly witty and haunting . . . McKellen gives the performance of his career . . . and Brendan Fraser excels.
  24. A tornado of laughs based on the black experience as lived by these four insightful jokers, instead of as filtered through the Hollywood formula.
  25. A funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a British cast to rival Gosford Park's.
  26. A bright burst of action and comedy with a cast that makes for rousing good company.
  27. Whether or not Casino meets your expectations, it delivers the rush you only get from an audacious gamble.
  28. "Waves" is a spellbinder.
  29. Incisively witty, provocative and acted to perfection, this sublime entertainment is a career peak for producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
  30. Detractors will see the usual parade of repressed feelings in a Masterpiece Theatre setting. Those who look closer will find one of the best films of the year.