movie_title string | publisher_name string | critic_name string | review_content string | review_score string | grade_type string | orig_num float32 | orig_denom float32 | includes_zero bool | label uint8 | scale_points uint8 | multiplier uint8 | group_id uint32 |
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Crazy Heart | Movies.com | Dave White | Everything you see and hear has a modest, gentle quality that insinuates itself into your good graces. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Crazy on the Outside | Movies.com | Dave White | This vanity project has the feel of an extended sitcom pilot. | D- | long_letter | null | null | false | 6 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
District 9 | Movies.com | Dave White | The low budget makes everything look grimy, gutter-tech and real, and that suddenly seems striking and visually fresh compared to the slickly digital effects we're all used to being bombarded by now. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Eastern Promises | Movies.com | Dave White | A gangster movie is not exactly a gangster movie when director David Cronenberg gets his hands on it. | A | long_letter | null | null | false | 16 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Extraordinary Measures | Movies.com | Dave White | Movies like this love to trade on their good intentions and make it seem like it's your problem when you feel trapped in your theater seat, fidgeting and pretending not to be checking your email, praying for the end credits to roll. | D+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 8 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Movies.com | Dave White | Boring is the deal. | C- | long_letter | null | null | false | 9 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Fish Tank | Movies.com | Dave White | While it's not exactly fun watching this unloved young girl inflict suffering on herself and others, it is totally compelling. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
FrackNation | Movies.com | Christopher Campbell | Its strongest and most interesting case against Gasland is not so much with refute of its claims as with address of its impact and what this says about modern journalism. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Hairspray | Movies.com | Dave White | In the world of movies based on Broadway musicals that are in turn based on earlier non-musicals, this one is the best. | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
The Hitcher | Movies.com | Dave White | Its flaws don't outweigh the fun. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
I Am Legend | Movies.com | Dave White | It moves fast, it's exciting, it's suspenseful, stuff blows up, and, best of all, Smith isn't smirking and showboating. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
I Love You, Man | Movies.com | Dave White | It's a solid entry in the we're-guys-who-are-kinda-sorta-maybe-growing-up-but-maybe-not genre, but when tedium threatens to take over the cast steps in and keeps it consistently funny from start to finish. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Invictus | Movies.com | Dave White | Like The Bad News Bears but with much higher stakes. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Miami Vice | Movies.com | Dave White | I like a good bloodbath as much as the next moviegoer. But what's really powerful here is that the violence is reserved for the moments when it really deserves to be in the movie. And it's delivered with a major punch. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
My Bloody Valentine 3-D | Movies.com | Dave White | Using the latest in 3D technology as a gimmick was exactly the right decision. It's a blast and they don't waste any time getting to the mayhem and the super-gore. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Notes on a Scandal | Movies.com | Dave White | It's very worth the ticket price. | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Nothing But the Truth | Movies.com | Dave White | It's junk with a serious-faced, point-making agenda. | C- | long_letter | null | null | false | 9 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Persepolis | Movies.com | Dave White | A moving, intimate, complex, visually beautiful black-and-white story. | A | long_letter | null | null | false | 16 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) | Movies.com | Dave White | Boring, sanitized slobs vs. snobs comedy. | C | long_letter | null | null | false | 10 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End | Movies.com | Dave White | As far as meaningless summer entertainments go, it does exactly what you want it to. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
The Queen | Movies.com | Dave White | Here's how great Mirren is as HM Queen Elizabeth II: I have less than zero interest in the Academy Awards... But after watching this, I felt as though I was seeing her win that statue with every passing minute. | A | long_letter | null | null | false | 16 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Resident Evil: Extinction | Movies.com | Dave White | Just routine undeadliness that puts the "stink" in "extinction." | D+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 8 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Role Models | Movies.com | Dave White | A formulaic movie can be lifted out of its built-in rut by making it look like it invented the formula. Almost everything works here. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Sherlock Holmes | Movies.com | Dave White | If you can get with a funny, jumpy, modern re-invention of these characters then you're going to have a great time. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
The Simpsons Movie | Movies.com | Dave White | It goes to character, visual and thematic places that the show's never gone to before. Making it bigger really works. | A | long_letter | null | null | false | 16 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Starter for 10 | Movies.com | Dave White | Even though it doesn't have an original bone in its body, it's got that dorky goodness you want from a movie about people in their late teens. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Tetro | Movies.com | Dave White | Incidents take a back seat to the main event, which is Francis Ford Coppola swooshing ideas and feelings about fathers, sons, blood ties and artistic accomplishment around in a big wine glass. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Waitress | Movies.com | Dave White | It's actually really sweet and moving. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Waltz with Bashir | Movies.com | Dave White | Definite points for originality. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
We Own the Night | Movies.com | Dave White | Director-writer James Gray makes it all seem more urgent than it has any right to feel, because he knows how to make tense, violent dramas that are soaking in mood. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Whip It | Movies.com | Dawn Taylor | Juliette Lewis and her crazy eyes pretty much make any movie better. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
X-Men Origins - Wolverine | Movies.com | Dave White | You're going to be really underwhelmed. | C- | long_letter | null | null | false | 9 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
X-Men: The Last Stand | Movies.com | Dave White | It's the first halfway decent summer movie so far. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 1,886 |
Babies | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | Were it not for all the wonderful cultural and physical details filling the film's peripheries, Babies might have felt too slight to recommend. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
Furry Vengeance | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | an experience in collective embarrassment — embarrassment for yourself, your fellow audience and the actors onscreen forced to take part in the movie's wildly inept, bottom-of-the-barrel shenanigans. | 0/4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | true | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop (San qiang pai an jing qi) (A Simple Noodle Story) (The First Gun) | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | The stars of the show, ultimately, are Zhao Xiaoding's gorgeous cinematography, Tao Jing's evocative sound design and Yimou's choice of otherworldly locations. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
Animal Kingdom | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | more a trip to the petting zoo than a foray into the treacherous savannah of high and low crime | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | true | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
Best Worst Movie | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | enjoyable, sometimes fascinating | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | true | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | not the plot nor the action nor most of the jokes offer the joy or delight to make Kitty Galore worth the trip to the multiplex | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | true | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
Countdown to Zero | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | it's impossible not to share Countdown to Zero's sense of urgency -- the facts simply demand it -- and, for that reason, the film deserves to be seen | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
The Disappearance of Alice Creed | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | Thanks to a trio of terrific performances...the script's weaknesses are smoothed over. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | a conscientious, but surprisingly dull affair | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
Soul Kitchen | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | hasn't a clue how to take its characters through the requisite beats of what is allegedly a story about a man's search for self - just as Soul Kitchen is allegedly an attempt at bright, witty comedy | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | true | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
The Living Wake | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | we get the sense that O'Connell is having all the fun, leaving the rest of us to suffer through the indulgences of this aggressively awful comedy | 1/4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | true | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
Machete | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | hack-and-slash nonsense | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | true | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | In its smoothest moments, Jeunet's set pieces have the feel of Tati, and, as the well-meaning hero, Boon has a pleasing facility of physical comedy that would be right at home in Monsieur Hulot's world. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
Peepli Live | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | Its comical, sharply observant caricatures of India's political and media jackals offers a much-needed reality check in a country where celluloid escapism is too often the rule. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
The Switch | Moving Pictures Magazine | Jay Antani | so unimaginative and formula-driven...that it seems entirely to have been hashed out by executives over a long lunch. | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | true | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,887 |
The Way of the Gun | Moviola | Jorge Avila Andrade | Buen intento que se queda en el camino | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,888 |
102 Dalmatians | Mr. Showbiz | Lawrence Terenzi | A film without mirth or magic. | 35/100 | 100 | 35 | 100 | false | 34 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Dinosaur | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | Pure Disney formula. | 42/100 | 100 | 42 | 100 | false | 41 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The Contender | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | However neatly packaged, The Contender is double-dealing baloney. | 55/100 | 100 | 55 | 100 | false | 54 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Bedazzled | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | A positively divine comedy. | 80/100 | 100 | 80 | 100 | false | 79 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The Gift | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | An acceptably suspenseful, watchable Southern Gothic whodunit. | 78/100 | 100 | 78 | 100 | false | 77 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Traffic | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | A riveting, semi-documentary drama, and yet calling it that is a disservice to just how suspenseful and stylish an entertainment it is. | 94/100 | 100 | 94 | 100 | false | 93 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The Pledge | Mr. Showbiz | Lawrence Terenzi | Jack Nicholson passes on the ham, delivering a subtle, weighted performance that neatly complements Sean Penn's growing confidence as a director. | 75/100 | 100 | 75 | 100 | false | 74 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Hannibal | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | Hannibal is Godfather III-level slumming. | 50/100 | 100 | 50 | 100 | false | 49 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Down to Earth | Mr. Showbiz | Lawrence Terenzi | Rock can't really be expected to pull off the love scenes, but for a man trying to reach the largest possible audience, his comedy is surprisingly uninspired. | 30/100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | false | 29 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Sweet November | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | What keeps it (barely) from being completely intolerable is Keanu Reeves' hilariously awful lead performance. | 30/100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | false | 29 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
15 Minutes | Mr. Showbiz | Lawrence Terenzi | Boasts a fine cast and makes enough cogent points that it rises above standard cop fare. | 70/100 | 100 | 70 | 100 | false | 69 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
3000 Miles to Graceland | Mr. Showbiz | Lawrence Terenzi | Nonsense from its first frame to its last, stupid beyond even the conventions of its genre, it begs the question of responsibility. | 15/100 | 100 | 15 | 100 | false | 14 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Antitrust | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | Scripted with a subtlety befitting Tinkertoys, directed in a manner that would shame the small-screen union hacks who rap out Xena: Warrior Princess, and acted with the sleepy glumness of a therapy session. | 10/100 | 100 | 10 | 100 | false | 9 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Billy Elliot | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | Movies that are labeled 'feel-good' often sound as inviting as a Sally Field Oscar acceptance speech, but Billy Elliot, a U.K. import, comes by its sentiment honestly. | 80/100 | 100 | 80 | 100 | false | 79 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Bounce | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | Roos combines a sharp script with excellent performances and comfortably lived-in sets to produce a cornucopia of poignantly human interludes. | 86/100 | 100 | 86 | 100 | false | 85 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Calle 54 | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | A must-see for avid fans and a welcome primer for nascent hip-shakers everywhere. | 85/100 | 100 | 85 | 100 | false | 84 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Cast Away | Mr. Showbiz | Lawrence Terenzi | Hanks turns in an Oscar-worthy performance yet again. | 84/100 | 100 | 84 | 100 | false | 83 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Charlie's Angels | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | Jokey homage? Hong Kong action blowout? What's going on here? | 50/100 | 100 | 50 | 100 | false | 49 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Chocolat | Mr. Showbiz | Kristy Martin | It's so easy to be mesmerized by Chocolat's brilliant indulgences that one abandons reason altogether. | 78/100 | 100 | 78 | 100 | false | 77 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | Whenever Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon resorts to flying fists or soaring sword battles, the Force is definitely with it. | 75/100 | 100 | 75 | 100 | false | 74 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The Emperor's New Groove | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | The humor will appeal equally to the Mouseketeer generation, the Disney's Blast crowd, and everyone in between. | 91/100 | 100 | 91 | 100 | false | 90 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Finding Forrester | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | Like its protagonist, Finding Forrester got game. | 87/100 | 100 | 87 | 100 | false | 86 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | You've got a stinker that deserves to be locked away in the yuletide bomb shelter along with Scrooged and Santa Claus: The Movie. | 9/100 | 100 | 9 | 100 | false | 8 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The Invisible Circus | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | Ends up having all the heft of a Nancy Drew mystery decked out in a tie-dyed T-shirt and peasant skirt. | 59/100 | 100 | 59 | 100 | false | 58 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Left Behind: The Movie | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | Solid, unexceptional mix of thrills and human drama. | 66/100 | 100 | 66 | 100 | false | 65 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The Legend of Bagger Vance | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | For all the wood-paneled Southern opulence, manicured fairways, and glowingly golden sunsets on display, there's nary a whiff of anything that will stick to your ribs. | 48/100 | 100 | 48 | 100 | false | 47 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Little Nicky | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | Heaven knows how many years in purgatory I may rack up for admitting this, but the movie is actually pretty funny. | 62/100 | 100 | 62 | 100 | false | 61 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Me You Them | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | A peculiar masculine fantasy. | 41/100 | 100 | 41 | 100 | false | 40 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The Mexican | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | J.H. Wyman's clever script takes chances and includes some truly satisfying payoffs. | 82/100 | 100 | 82 | 100 | false | 81 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The Million Dollar Hotel | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | An exercise in whimsy. | 60/100 | 100 | 60 | 100 | false | 59 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | For all its originality, O Brother doesn't seem to have a point, or enough spark to distract us from the lack thereof. | 64/100 | 100 | 64 | 100 | false | 63 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The Original Kings of Comedy | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | All these men ... have their mirthful moments. | 65/100 | 100 | 65 | 100 | false | 64 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Pollock | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | A passionate, shrewd, and well-cast biopic of 20th-century America's favorite tortured painter. | 63/100 | 100 | 63 | 100 | false | 62 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Quills | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | A literate, dialogue-driven treat delivered by a cast that truly savors the script's wicked wit. | 80/100 | 100 | 80 | 100 | false | 79 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Recess: School's Out | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | The deadly combo of leaden animation, sorry scriptwriting, and limp pacing throttle every attempt at humor. | 31/100 | 100 | 31 | 100 | false | 30 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Red Planet | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | A programmatic wash, suitable for the bottom half of a double bill, perhaps, if only we had such things anymore. | 38/100 | 100 | 38 | 100 | false | 37 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Rugrats in Paris - The Movie | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | For grown-ups, the jokes are often flat tires, largely thanks to their context. | 64/100 | 100 | 64 | 100 | false | 63 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Save the Last Dance | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | Stiles and Thomas are engaging young performers. | 71/100 | 100 | 71 | 100 | false | 70 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Saving Silverman | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | Not even a giddy wrap-up featuring Diamond himself can atone for the dreck that's come before it. | 35/100 | 100 | 35 | 100 | false | 34 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
See Spot Run | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | There's nothing about it quite so hilarious as the writing credits, which list no fewer than five writers and which, it is rumored, disguise the participation of up to five more. | 31/100 | 100 | 31 | 100 | false | 30 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Shadow of the Vampire | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | Shadow of the Vampire might be the most original film of the year. | 84/100 | 100 | 84 | 100 | false | 83 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The 6th Day | Mr. Showbiz | Lawrence Terenzi | File this one somewhere in the upper echelon of Arnold films -- it won't make you forget The Terminator, but it's much more endurable than the likes of Eraser. | 70/100 | 100 | 70 | 100 | false | 69 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Snatch | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | In fondly revisiting (carbon copying, it often seems) his first film, he's proved merely what we already knew: that he can unleash comic mayhem par excellence. Enough of the little boys with big guns. It's time for Guy to grow up. | 68/100 | 100 | 68 | 100 | false | 67 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Sugar & Spice | Mr. Showbiz | Cody Clark | A surprising amount of the humor stems from well-drawn caricatures and cleverly seeded payoffs. | 77/100 | 100 | 77 | 100 | false | 76 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Thirteen Days | Mr. Showbiz | Michael Atkinson | If the Cuban Missile Crisis was America's premier postwar nail-biter, then Thirteen Days undersells it -- somehow, the filmmakers made it kinda dull. | 65/100 | 100 | 65 | 100 | false | 64 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Unbreakable | Mr. Showbiz | Lawrence Terenzi | During a conversation between an astonished doctor and a miraculously unscathed Dunne ... it's a measure of Shyamalan's restraint and his uncanny knack for storytelling. | 74/100 | 100 | 74 | 100 | false | 73 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
The Wedding Planner | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | The film's greatest flaw is its miscast leads, who conjure up zero dewy-eyed, wish-fulfillment magic. | 35/100 | 100 | 35 | 100 | false | 34 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
What Women Want | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | Meyers' women have precious little on their minds. | 55/100 | 100 | 55 | 100 | false | 54 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
You Can Count On Me | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | What's most important to Lonergan is that we care what happens to his characters -- and we do, very much. | 85/100 | 100 | 85 | 100 | false | 84 | 100 | 1 | 1,889 |
Time and Tide (Shun liu Ni liu) | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | Makes for compulsive viewing even though its noirish plot doesn't make a lick of sense. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1,890 |
Aberdeen | Mr. Showbiz | Kevin Maynard | [A] frank father-daughter drama. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,890 |
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