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 got a good beat, you can dance to it.
  2. Nobody's got a clue. Enquiring minds don't even want to know.
  3. Keeps teasing you with intimations of the libidinous animal within.
  4. Lacks confidence in its own much bigger, potentially fascinating story -- an American tale of pageantry and history.
  5. The film isn't just bad; it's a barely coherent, inert mess -- a heart-tugger for voidoids.
  6. It's eye candy that detonates.
  7. Its tone is stilted and mannered -- and most of it seems a bit loony.
  8. For all its wispy fun, Small Time Crooks still tilts, with little-guy stubbornness, at windmills in Allen's mind.
  9. Slick, reasonably amusing, never asking its audience to swallow anything too wild for consumption.
  10. Doesn't offer anything to adult viewers as thrilling, as shivery, as satisfyingly primal as Steven Spielberg's intricate predator choreography in the original ''Jurassic Park.''
  11. In the end, even Foxx is drowned out by the parade of one-note supporting characters.
  12. As a Balanchine-like martinet, Peter Gallagher is a hoot, whispering to his minions about good and bad feet.
  13. Almereyda excises big chunks of plot to shape his vision, but retains Shakespeare's language and pays such rigorous attention to meaning and subtext that what's missing isn't missed.
  14. It's a shrill, stupid, brickbat-blatant piece of hackwork that practically sweats to be ''commercial.''
  15. Just a lumbering, poorly photographed piece of derivative sci-fi drivel, full of grunting extras scampering around in animal pelts and more dank, trash-strewn sets than I ever care to see again.
  16. What matters for today's hero is the good fight, and Gladiator KOs us with a doozy.
  17. A recitation of woes doesn't constitute a plot, and panoramic shots of migrating wildlife don't convey enough African flavor.
  18. Politics is almost an afterthought in this balky, attenuated film.
  19. Clever, laid-back.
  20. The movie is too cute to lose its head in the music. It never generates its own ecstasy.
  21. A highly conventional 2-D infomercial.
  22. A highly calculated act of mischief that sounds like a stunt cooked up for Howard Stern's radio show.
  23. May be the first time travel fantasy to move grown fellows with 401(k) accounts to tears.
  24. With no headliners to raise hopes, this negligible entertainment has its own boneheaded charms.
  25. The air smells sweet and there's a thrumming beat in Bossa Nova.
  26. Simply put, it may be the lamest movie ever made about poor white... Southern characters.
  27. A voyeur's delight.
  28. An inert screwball cartoon, a celebration of monogamy as fashion statement.
  29. That The Big Kahuna is hardly more than a sketch or curtain-raiser is not the fault of the play in itself -- it's short-film size, not feature-worthy.
  30. There's something Slavic about Warner's storytelling.

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