Entertainment Weekly's Scores

For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
7797 movie reviews
  1. ''Documentary'' is too impersonal a word and ''visual poem'' is too mushy a phrase to describe Of Time and the City, a short, beautiful, characteristically sublime memory piece by the great British auteur Terence Davies.
  2. It all makes you want to see a Bollywood movie, all right -- a good one.
  3. There's a grace to it all, and moments of oddball poetry.
  4. There are still cuddly pups and piddle jokes aplenty.
  5. What really leaps out at you about My Bloody Valentine 3-D is its lack of imagination.
  6. Notorious makes the death of Biggie Smalls look like a tragic mistake, instead of the outgrowth of a culture devoted to selling the fantasy of who's the biggest man.
  7. Has a few surprises in store. The biggest is James, an unexpectedly nimble master of the face-plant, the failed jump, and the lopsided tumble.
  8. Bride Wars pretends to be a satire of wedding mania, but since there's virtually nothing else to the movie, the satire comes depressingly close to endorsement.
  9. Laughter through tears is director Bill Duke's M.O., and he hits the bull's-eye of that modest target.
  10. Indeed, Goyer has penned many scripts superior to this one (he co-wrote cult gem Dark City), but he does make sure you're never far away from a big "Boo!"
  11. The stab at sublimity-by-proxy doesn't take.
  12. Zwick offers excitingly staged moments, but once you get past the novelty of WWII Jews acting this heroically macho, Defiance bogs down in a not very well-developed script.
  13. Good has a stagy fustiness, but it's worth seeing for Mortensen, who makes this study of a "good German" look creepily contemporary.
  14. The best thing about Revolutionary Road, a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn't end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie. It only begins there.
  15. Waltz With Bashir has transcended the definitions of ''cartoon'' or ''war documentary'' to be classified as its own brilliant invention.
  16. A curious case indeed: an extravagantly ambitious movie that's easy to admire but a challenge to love.
  17. As the vamps, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson might be posing for a fashion spread with just one note to play -- gorgeous high-bitch mockery.
  18. It's a dispirited, galumphing mess.
  19. Hoffman and Thompson are each good enough to bring out a glow in the other.
  20. Wilson has a scene near the end with Marley that's the most wrenchingly tender acting of his career.
  21. The mechanics of the actual plot are pretty amazing. Singer has assembled a top-notch international cast.
  22. The title embraces the richness of Kechiche's beautiful film, which captures the rhythms of displacement and hardship, the bond of family meals, and even the daily routines of the magnificent women who are part of Slimane's life.
  23. Too bad the story's such a mess.
  24. In a class by itself.
  25. An unintentionally ludicrous drama of repentance.
  26. This is basically a nerd-loosening-his-tie romantic comedy done in the manic-compulsive mode of "Liar Liar."
  27. The Wrestler is like "Rocky" made by the Scorsese of "Mean Streets." It's the rare movie fairy tale that's also a bravura work of art.
  28. Lurie hits closer to the bone here than he did in his ham-handed "The Contender" (2000).
  29. Walker forged an out-of-time mystique that is vividly captured here.
  30. A movie at once understated and radical, deceptively unremarkable in presentation and ballsy in its earnestness. Don't let the star's overly familiar squint fool you: This is subtle, perceptive stuff.

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