Rolling Stone's Scores

For 2,146 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:
2,146 movie reviews
  1. Except for a rare scene of shaggy charm, nothing works. Nothing.
  2. The movie ultimately reveals itself as a pretender with no balls. Creatively, it's all wet.
  3. To shine in a turd like this shows Brody has the stuff that -- damn the Oscar jinx -- makes an actor last.
  4. Stinks worse than dino dung. Sure, the creatures look good.
  5. Has no vital signs at all, just crushing dull repetition that makes one noisy, violent scene play exactly like the last one.
  6. How do I hate Armageddon? Let me count the ways.
  7. "Your incompetence is most taxing," says the chief vampire (Bill Nighy). A line that pretty much nails this rusty Blade.
  8. Transformers: Dark of the Moon - high on any list of the worst blockbusters ever - is a movie bereft of wit, wonder, imagination, and any genuine reason for being. Watching it makes you die a little inside.
  9. The money shots of the living tableau are padded with jokes that feel embalmed before the actors get them out of their mouths.
  10. The movie deserves a stake through the heart.
  11. Audiences with a brain cell left have only one choice: Look for the first exit on the right.
  12. With that cast, we rightfully expect fireworks. What we get is the film equivalent of a wet blanket.
  13. Larry Crowne is more than a missed opportunity. It's alarmingly, depressingly out of touch.
  14. Awful.
  15. Morning sickness afflicts most of the potential mommies. For me, the movie itself triggered the vomiting.
  16. Way to go, Battleship: Take the crassest of cynical junk, slather it in jingoism and sell it as rah-rah fun for right-wingers.
  17. Cruz is a dish, but her movie is as soggy and indigestible as Styrofoam.
  18. Could 1960s-style sex, drugs and rock & roll really have been this dull?
  19. An appallingly clumsy and stupid take on drugs, kidnapping and suicide in suburbia.
  20. Purists, be warned: This scare-flick quickie has as much relation to the 1953 Vincent Price classic with the same title as Paris Hilton does to acting.
  21. The self-congratulatory histrionics of Williams, lower lip trembling as he triumphs over torture in the name of the human spirit, represents a trend in Hollywood to make accessible melodrama out of unspeakable tragedy.
  22. This movie made my ears hurt. Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and James Ellroy could have turned this pulp into insinuating jazz. What's here is a cartoonish bore.
  23. By the end, Vantage Point is such a unholy mess of drooling sentiment and sloppy loose ends that you’ll hate yourself for being suckered in.
  24. I don't know what to make of Act of Valor. It's like reviewing a recruiting poster.
  25. There's a strong movie in this life, but writer-director Leon Ichaso ("Sugar Hill") hasn't found it.
  26. Judd is slumming again in ths lame suspense yarn that could barely pass as a TV quickie without the bankable names of Judd, Tommy Lee Jones and director Bruce Beresford.
  27. The brooding RPatz doesn’t bite. But his movie does.
  28. Crass manipulation can clean up at the box office, so do your part: Nail this flick as a bottom feeder and pay the bad word forward to three others.
  29. This spark-free film has no place to go on their resumes except under the heading of "Cringing Embarrassment."
  30. The shopworn script by Pablo F. Fenjves, who ghost-wrote the unpublished O.J. Simpson book, If I Did It: The Confessions of the Killer, gets no help from director Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cite Soleil).