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. It's doubtful that even a real actress could have triumphed over the rusty tinsel of Glitter, a hapless, retro-'80s ''Star Is Born.''
    • 34 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    As the supporting cast gets winnowed away, though, we're left with a cat-and-mouse game between girl and murderous faux-dad that's simply boilerplate.
  2. The movie is so littered with clichés of genre, as well as clichés of artifice in Reeves' pained performance, that any semblance of social reality goes foul.
  3. Along comes Two Can Play That Game to demonstrate that antifeminist silliness is color-blind.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Musketeer's fight scenes are underlit, overmiked, and appallingly edited, with none of the spacious grace that even routine Asian action flicks get right. Worse, the narrative scenes make less sense.
  4. You know you're in the hands of a born filmmaker when he floods a scene with danger and excitement and, at the same time, tempers it with something more delicate -- a languor of the everyday.
  5. The only possible reason to see this otherwise average afternoon waster is Sagemiller.
  6. This movie is as packed with flashy bogusness as a lead singer's tight leather trousers. On the other hand, there's nothing bogus about the charisma and tough sweetness of Wahlberg.
  7. O
    To an astonishing degree, O gets the tragic Shakespeare mood, that somber stentorian passion born of hidden slivers of ambition and betrayal.
  8. Turns into a grab-bag freak show as desperate as it is arbitrary.
  9. At times, the movie smacks of a standard-issue Hollywood chick flick, especially in the obligatory scene where the women bond by singing and dancing in a kitchen (to Doris Day's ''Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps'').
  10. Freddie Prinze Jr. has a look in his eye that is equal parts self-infatuation and boyish flash of fear.
  11. This is the rare movie that gets you to fall in love with characters you don't even like.
  12. Borderline-incoherent.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It feels wrong; the entire machinery of the movie seems to be rotating around Woody Allen's vanity. He remains a canny (if, in this case, hollow) film craftsman, but by now we know him far too well to be asked to find him adorable.
  13. A hit-or-miss affair that starts out wobbly and then gathers comic momentum.
  14. After enduring only a few minutes of this shrill debacle, you'll feel more trapped in the theater than Jimmy is by his bubble.
  15. It's not every comedy that can make you laugh with ridicule and cringe in empathetic horror at the same time.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Bogusly wholesome six-gun dud.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A movie that reduces history, as well as eros, to a postcard.
  16. The easygoing silliness with which this late-summer movie surprise scuttles from mayhem to mayhem and the verve with which the cast throws itself into the fray are so cheering and liberating.
  17. Even though they're now college dudes, fulfillment for fellas is still predicated on copping a feel and downing a brewski.
  18. A marvel of vérité nightmare atmosphere.
  19. The gimmicks, in the end, are too arbitrary to tie together in a memorably haunting fashion, though they do culminate in a Big Twist, a nifty one that almost -- but not quite -- makes you want to see the movie again.
  20. Oscillates between streaky black comedy and sanitary instruction.
  21. Displays a promise it doesn't, in the end, live up to. See it for Swinton's embodiment of unadulterated maternal will.
  22. Aspires to blasphemy but achieves only banality.
  23. The movie, after a while, drifts into an all too literal parable of the limits of never leaving the house.
  24. This charming, if unnecessarily coronation-length production gets the duckling-to-swan ambivalence just right.
  25. Coarser, more hectic, more cheaply written sequel.

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