USA Today's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 3,062 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,876 out of 3062
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Mixed: 742 out of 3062
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Negative: 444 out of 3062
3,062
movie reviews
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Mike Clark 100
The rawest, most sustained screen portrayal of 20th century combat. -
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Claudia Puig 63
A compelling piece of naturalistic filmmaking, claustrophobic and thought-provoking. -
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Claudia Puig 100
Every so often a film gets under our skin with its haunting authenticity, reinforcing our faith in the wonderfully transporting power of cinematic storytelling. Winter's Bone is unquestionably that film. -
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Mike Clark 88
This sleek adaptation of James Ellroy's dauntingly complex novel has the black-and-white tabloid soul of an old "Confidential" magazine. -
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Mike Clark 100
The film now seems both mellowed and --thanks in part to the most vibrant-looking prints in its 22-year history -- revitalized. -
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Claudia Puig 88
The most gorgeous of all the Pixar films — which include "Toy Story" 1 and 2, "A Bug's Life" and "Monsters, Inc." —Nemo treats family audiences to a sweet, resonant story and breathtaking visuals. -
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Mike Clark 100
One of the year's best movies and certainly its most delightful screen surprise. -
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Mike Clark 63
The story keeps reinventing itself (some of the later plot twists are among the funniest), but a little goes a long way at 112 minutes - maybe 25 minutes more than this sporadically pointed conceit really needs. -
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Mike Clark 100
A movie this diminutive can be easily oversold, but we might see it on some year-end best lists. It eats at you, just like renewed love. -
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Claudia Puig 75
One of the year's most clever and visually arresting computer-animated films, enlivened by a well-developed and credible cast of characters who just happen to be superheroes. -
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Mike Clark 100
Produced by HBO but too good not to play theaters, this soon-to-be minor classic is the best movie about society's untrendiest since "Ghost World" exactly two years ago. -
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Mike Clark 100
The movie is so fun that it wouldn't need the mystery to be top-notch entertainment. -
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Claudia Puig 100
An unflinching, powerfully visceral and haunting portrait of the tragic events aboard one of the terrorist-commandeered flights on the fateful morning of Sept. 11, 2001. -
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Mike Clark 88
Funny... and the payoff is the most provocative Hollywood concoction in a while. -
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Mike Clark 100
Not since "Memento" has a movie served up such a provocative mind-bender, and the Sundance winner by first-time filmmaker Andrew Jarecki has the advantage of being true. -
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Claudia Puig 100
Cinematic poetry in black and white. It also is a deeply affecting tale of the power of resilience and an unflagging sense of humor through the worst of situations -
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Mike Clark 88
Romantic comedies with two low-key leads can be asking for trouble, but one senses that the actors must have clicked on some fundamental level. -
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Claudia Puig 100
A thoroughly compelling political thriller, at once intellectually challenging and profoundly emotional. -
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Mike Clark 100
This subject demands consummate screen treatment and now has absolutely gotten it from director/producer Spike Lee. [10 Jul 1997, Pg.02.D] -
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Claudia Puig 88
Borat is most gloriously funny moving picture for to make people see their stupidness. -
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Claudia Puig 100
Drama, comedy, action and romance are intertwined in this gorgeously photographed and brilliantly directed film. Lead performances are thoroughly engaging despite - or perhaps because of - being wordless.- Posted Dec 22, 2011
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Mike Clark 100
Campion's script is very well received, but the film finally makes it on cinematics: bleakly beautiful photography, haunting score, and good acting. [12 Nov 1993] -
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Mike Clark 100
Great cinema - and also a whopping good time. [19 September 1990, Life, p.1D] -
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Claudia Puig 88
It is by turns comic, dark and surprisingly tender. If one must reduce it to simple description, call it a love story with a twist. Or a twisted love story. -
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Claudia Puig 100
It takes a filmmaker possessed of a rare, almost alchemic, blend of maturity, wisdom and artistic finesse to create such an intimate, moving and spare war film as Clint Eastwood has done in Letters From Iwo Jima. -
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Claudia Puig 88
Once is a film for anyone who has ever been transported by the power and passion of music. -
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Claudia Puig 100
In Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman's brilliant transformation into the mannered writer takes your breath away. -
