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. The Cell is foremost about singular imagery, a succession of still pictures strung together frame by frame.
  2. Lands on an imaginative fault line somewhere between tackiness and awe.
  3. Scrappy and rambling and overly earnest.
  4. The routines are charged, even between jokes, with anticipatory hilarity.
  5. Skillfully made, yet the film would have been better if it had tapped a bit of that Walken madness.
  6. Färberböck's sensual adaptation is a matter of fact embrace of the unconventional and dangerous during a terrible time.
  7. Fonteyne edges closer than most to capturing the mysterious rhythms of liaisons -- pornographique, romantique, and otherwise.
  8. Tastefully embarrassing.
  9. Abysmally stupid drama.
  10. Has a few viciously funny moments.
  11. The incisive, close up photography by ''The Sixth Sense'''s Tak Fujimoto outclasses the story by yards.
  12. It's a tiny, sunny character study about a fat guy who's an unlikely chick magnet. And as such it's a pip.
  13. Badly lit and at times, awkwardly inspirational, yet there's real feeling in it, especially when the movie suggests that Tourette's syndrome is every bit as pure an expression of the spirit as it is a ''disorder.''
  14. Wrings laughs from the antics of affable, eccentric villagers who cheerily break the law.
  15. Welcome to the brave new world of slut-chic cosmetic feminism.
  16. An eminently watchable B-movie nightmare.
  17. Poorly engineered: lurchingly paced, the dramatic conflicts duct taped together.
  18. Messy and scattershot, with a plot that's little more than a dirty version of ''Flubber.''
  19. Leconte (''Ridicule'') gives his heart to the luck of romance, to the dream state visual style of Fellini, and, most lyrically, to the passion of the dagger point swoon.
  20. The energy is sapped by clinging condescension in the guise of compassionate liberalism.
  21. Has the look of a great fairy tale -- all that's missing is the tale.
  22. Does the movie, with its sock-puppet intros and narration by RuPaul Charles, mock Tammy Faye, sanctify her, or turn her into a flamboyant image of distressed womanly martyrdom -- the Judy Garland of televangelism? All of the above.
  23. This remains the one and only fusion of ''Deliverance'' and ''Hansel and Gretel'' that I ever hope to see.
  24. It becomes as savage as ''Reservoir Dogs,'' ''The Killing,'' or any of the other dozens of films over which it still casts a shadow.
  25. It's as if, in exploring the scars that shape these personalities, Téchiné has forgotten to color in the flesh.
  26. Well-meaning but hopelessly lost little comedy.
  27. Any grown men and women who pay to see the movie face a harrowing ordeal.
  28. Bears the weight of too many genres jostling for screen time.
  29. Isn't a movie, it's Gorgonzola, a crumbly summertime stinker veined with pop-cultural fungus.
  30. Peculiarly bloodless.

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