USA Today's Scores
- Movies
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For 3,062 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% higher than 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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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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Claudia Puig 88
It is an unsettling tale told simply and chillingly by director Peter Mullan, with stand-out performances, an evocative soundtrack and spare, haunting visuals. -
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Critic Score 88
Henry V emerges a first-class epic film, so entertaining that it needs no apologies for being based on a 400-year-old play. [10 Nov 1989] -
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Claudia Puig 88
Mesmerizing and highly entertaining. -
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Mike Clark 88
A movie that rudely flings feces at the breakfast table isn't for everyone. -
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Susan Wloszczyna 88
When it comes to eloquently telling it like it is, Election puts the nation's political pundits to shame. -
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Scott Bowles 50
Alas, if you're someone who enjoys movies as, say, a two-hour escape, you may find this documentary on the death of film at digital's hands a bit too inside baseball.- Posted Sep 1, 2012
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Claudia Puig 75
Peter O'Toole's tour-de-force performance makes Venus a movie not to be missed. -
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Mike Clark 88
It's the actor/director's best movie - and the best Western by anybody in over 20 years. [7 Aug 1992] -
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Claudia Puig 100
Only a truly visionary filmmaker could take a story largely set in a cramped canyon and give it a sense of openness and hope.- Posted Nov 6, 2010
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Claudia Puig 75
The film's most climactic moments involve the chilling audiotapes of avaricious Enron traders as they toy with California's energy crisis, wringing millions in profits from the misfortune of an entire state. -
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Mike Clark 75
Deliberately downbeat, it's best as a two-person character study, stumbling a bit whenever it extends its parameters. -
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Claudia Puig 88
This is precisely the kind of film that parents clamor for and rarely get: a substantive, stirring, Huck Finn-style saga that doesn't insult anyone's intelligence or mindlessly entertain with crass humor. -
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Claudia Puig 100
A masterwork of suspense, romance and political intrigue. -
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Mike Clark 50
The borderline Parenthood is either an iffy comedy with lots of compensations, or a good comedy with more irritating flaws than most movies manage to survive. Whichever, the "feel good'' infantry of summer-film escapists will probably love it. [2 Aug 1989, p.5D] -
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Claudia Puig 100
Sugar is that sweetest of films: A sensitive and memorable story that surprises at every turn. -
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Andy Seiler 88
It could be argued that this movie's callousness toward human life is nihilistic and nasty. But Woo takes everything so absurdly far that audiences laugh at what horrified them moments before. [27Jun1997 Pg01.D] -
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Claudia Puig 100
This Pride & Prejudice is a stellar adaptation, bewitching the viewer completely and incandescently with an exquisite blend of emotion and wit. -
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Claudia Puig 88
The young actors' performances are particularly haunting. -
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Mike Clark 88
It plays even more like a bent version of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" for the new millennium. Slinging a line of bull but displaying genuine affection for the youngsters he's bamboozling. -
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Mike Clark 100
More than any other example in recent memory, Chicago shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today's movies. -
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Claudia Puig 88
An engaging and moving film with a universal story about the bonds of family as told through two generations of a Bengali family. -
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Mike Clark 88
Who, though, would assume rambunctious humor would be served up as well? Dickens meets the Beverly Hillbillies, and the movie is handsome, too. [10 May 1996, p.4D] -
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Claudia Puig 88
Neil Young once said: It's better to burn out than it is to rust. But moviegoers are lucky Anvil didn't take Young's advice. Who knew heavy metal could seem like fine art when it rusts? -
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Claudia Puig 88
Who would think Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban could be an art film? Thanks to director Alfonso Cuaron, a dazzling storyteller with a keen eye for whimsical detail, the third film in the Potter franchise is a visual delight. -
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Mike Clark 88
Doesn't sound like a very prepossessing title, but prepare to be taken aback by "what's in a name." [6 July 1994, Life, p.1D] -
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Claudia Puig 100
It's a rare film that can challenge our minds and rattle our nerves so profoundly. This is unequivocally a thriller for adults. A deftly written, tautly suspenseful and intellectually demanding morality tale. -
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Scott Bowles 88
Sprinkled with riffs, concert footage and home videos, the family-authorized documentary does what the artist usually did: When in doubt, return to the beat.- Posted Apr 22, 2012
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Claudia Puig 63
An artful examination of a small town and small-mindedness and the potential for full-blown, large-scale evil. But it's strangely bloodless. -
