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. A knock-kneed but likable just-for-girls drama set in 1963 that promotes single-sex institutions as the best breeding ground for future female senators and filmmakers.
  2. Enough to anesthetize the living.
  3. It's slow and pretentious, full of craggy Bavarian snowscapes and dour "mystical" portents that seem to circle back to nothing but themselves.
  4. Doesn't take advantage of its own possibilities, either as a hard-boiled gangland battle or as a soft-boiled, interracial Shakespearean love story.
  5. Roberts, in her most forceful dramatic performance, allows us to take in every moment through fresh, impassioned eyes.
  6. An unexpectedly alert teen-scream disaster chiller.
  7. Often has the rambling feeling of a home movie Blaustein made for his buddies.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The plot twists fall about as weightily as the fake snow.
  8. In the presence of profound questions, the filmmaker goes profoundly shallow.
  9. A film not even a star as foxed and foxy as Johnny Depp himself could save.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This vision of creativity as blind, instinctive ''process'' is exhilarating.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    (Madonna is) clearly full of good intentions; too bad she's lacking discernible emotions.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The result has the dingy grace of pigeons flying across an urban wasteland.
  10. The actors more eager to goof around in schlumpfy costumes on a low-budget lark than to play their trashy characters with the seriousness such farce requires.
  11. Nothing more than a sort of dumb, sort of clever fish out of water comedy.
  12. Empty jokes hang heavy.
  13. Haunting and hopeful.
  14. As loose and restful as pajamas.
  15. Displays no ambition to be anything more than a synthetic sense-jolt conveyor of the week.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Featherweight tale of Guinness-guzzling bachelors.
  16. Sweet, flaky, and more than a little aimless.
  17. A sprightly, lovingly researched, rather misty-eyed sports documentary that's steeped in ethnic pride.
  18. There's a bravura recklessness to Beautiful People that perfectly fits its subject.
  19. Younger, in his debut feature, is as canny as he is derivative.
  20. There is not one honest moment, not ONE, in Hanging Up.
  21. A convoluted ''dweeb meets the Mob'' farce in which everyone is trying to kill everyone else, but it's the movie that's the real corpse -- albeit a busy, twitching one.
  22. So jaunty, so limber, and so visually self-assured that art peeks through where crap has traditionally made its home.
  23. Does all it can not to dehumanize Chong.
  24. Even Snow Day's winter wonderland looks fake.
  25. A conflicted entertainment, compromised by trying too hard to impress the restless, self-referential adults in the audience.

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