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 1.9 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. Pawlikowski has made a romance that becomes a horror movie in which love, more than anything around it, is a delusionary fever to fear.
  2. A film of wonderful looseness and innovation. Set free to film fakes, the director is the real thing.
  3. Those Oompa-Loompas are the beat, and soul, of Burton's finest movie since "Ed Wood": a madhouse kiddie musical with a sweet-and-sour heart.
  4. It's a quiet dream of a movie, a vision of loneliness giving way to love, then to loneliness again; it's like "Vertigo" remade in a sedately haunted style of Japanese lyricism.
  5. Amy Adams in a performance as deep as it is delightful, is the film's heart and also its flaky, wonderstruck soul.
  6. A movie of uncommon sweetness and delight.
  7. Rapt, heady, and startling: the most profound documentary I've seen this decade.
  8. Bestows generous blessings on all that's good in Englishness, in moviedom, and, of course, in cheese.
  9. A doozy of a French gangster pic that, in its beautifully refurbished and pithily resubtitled re-release, turns out to be one of the highlights of the 2005 movie year.
  10. Down to the Bone achieves what only the best independent films have: making life, at its most unvarnished, a journey.
  11. One of the wonders of the holiday season.
  12. To call Match Point Woody Allen's comeback would be an understatement - it's the most vital return to form for any director since Robert Altman made "The Player."
  13. It's a fluid cinematic essay, rooted in painstakingly assembled evidence, that heightens and cleanses your perceptions.
  14. Munich, Steven Spielberg's spectacularly gripping and unsettling new movie, is a grave and haunted film, yet its power lies in its willingness to be a work of brutal excitement.
  15. The picture moves with stealth, enjoying its own thriller-ness as hints are laid and mislaid. There's a sense that Hitchcock is hovering in the background and cheering for Auteuil, who musters all his French superstardom to play a man having his mask of blandness torn off.
  16. Of the idiosyncratic ''little'' movies that Soderbergh has made to clear his head (Full Frontal, Schizopolis), this is the first that truly connects.
  17. The first great, mind-tickling treat of the new movie year.
  18. The enthralling spirit of Dave Chappelle's Block Party, its mood of exuberant democracy, extends to every rap and soul performance in the film.
  19. This beautiful, terrible story is not easily forgotten.
  20. Mr. Lazarescu is that rich and riveting a film of universal small human moments and big-system failure.
  21. The picture was made in 1969 and is only now being released in the U.S., in a beautiful restoration supervised by original cinematographer Pierre Lhomme.
  22. Russian Dolls captures how being a sexual cad has become an essential phase in the life of the modern male.
  23. Half Nelson offers an opportunity to marvel, once again, at the dazzling talent of Ryan Gosling for playing young men as believable as they are psychologically trip-wired.
  24. Maggie Gyllenhaal is such a miracle of an actress that she makes you respond to the innocence of Sherry's desperate, selfish destruction.
  25. It's in all the moments where little happens that Reichardt is most amazing, investing even a gas-station pit stop with perfect emotional pitch.
  26. 49 Up is a precious document, and must viewing.
  27. Brilliant and psychologically transfixing documentary.
  28. Sweet Land is a movie of extraordinary tenderness, in which Reaser and Guinee, using a language of looks, make you happy to think about what love once might have been.
  29. The calm poetry of the cinematography offsets the mess of the politics to stunning effect.
  30. The ensemble cast shared the best-actor award at the 2006 Cannes film festival -- and rightly so.

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