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. So willfully bleak and profanity-filled, it could only have been written and directed by an actor.
  2. Lynch's first movie since ''Blue Velvet'' that truly envelops you in its spell. It's a piece of celestial Americana -- his journey to the light side of the moon.
  3. If, as Fincher has said, this movie is supposed to be funny, then the joke's on us.
  4. Dopey, not dope.
  5. Might best be described as bereavement porn.
  6. A small cubist masterpiece about crime and punishment set in that most split-level of environments, Los Angeles.
  7. It barely boasts enough funny material to fill four minutes.
  8. It's Swank, however, who's the revelation. By the end, her Brandon/Teena is beyond male or female. It's as if we were simply glimpsing the character's soul, in all its yearning and conflicted beauty.
  9. Viewers will never be molly-fied by this tripe.
  10. Watchable in a facile, trashy way. Unfortunately, most of the movie is mired in sludge, slime, mud, blood, and studiously dank cinematography.
  11. The enterprise might also be called ''Picket Fences on Ice."
  12. A gaily busy kid flick.
  13. A comedy of '90s sexual inclusiveness as effervescent as a cold sody pop -- and about as intoxicating.
  14. So overstuffed with random fireworks that despite its politics, it's easy to imagine the film getting a four-star rave from Bush or Saddam.
  15. Amusing in its very shallowness.
  16. This toothless thriller...feels like a strained reworking of ''The Fugitive.''
  17. Turns the tricks of psychology into duplicitous high play.
  18. Of course, there's still the Williams schmaltz factor.
  19. This shambling romantic comedy...clings to a sensibility that's imperviously, uncompromisingly Canadian.
  20. The movie, a shoddy mess, is a bargain-basement rip-off of ''Ronin."
  21. This patient, perceptive, nonjudgmental love story about age difference is the first to convincingly explain the temporal physics of May-December romances.
  22. It gradually loses wattage. Robertson, however, is a real sparkler.
  23. That durable, sexy powerhouse Beverly D'Angelo steals every scene she's in.
  24. A movie so unhinged it practically dares you not to hate it.
  25. Manages to take great characters and a great plot and leach them of all blood, terror, and excitement.
  26. An affectionate puff profile.
  27. How lame have high-concept, no-brain comedies gotten?
  28. Costner's determination to avoid change keeps this baseball movie at a low line drive when it might have knocked one into the bleachers.
  29. The movie is a footnote as well, a minor reference back to the days when people yearned for a cinema that was serious and erotic at the same time.
  30. You know you're in the hands of a true filmmaker when you feel invited, at every turn, to share his sense of entrancement. I got that feeling in just about every frame of American Beauty.

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