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 2.1 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 like a series of cliches exploding in your face.
  2. Be wary of any movie in which the hero is monosyllabic and a stutterer at the same time.
  3. Politics is almost an afterthought in this balky, attenuated film.
  4. A fairly harmless fertility rite with a skewed if not downright ugly view of women.
  5. A sentimental epic that forgets to include the sentiment
  6. A turgid muddle of romance, espionage, and geek valor, despite intimations that it might have turned into ''A Reasonably Dapper-Looking Mind.''
  7. An inert screwball cartoon, a celebration of monogamy as fashion statement.
  8. The problem with the movie isn't that it sells out Rocky and Bullwinkle -- it's that it can't keep up with them.
  9. The trouble with the movie is that there's nothing to Muriel but her false dreams: We never quite glimpse the woman they're hiding.
  10. Her setups here are so witless and pedestrian that there's no imagination to the crude slapstick punchlines; we're just watching a bland jester pantomime sensory overload.
  11. Runs into construction problems, maybe from too many foremen. DeVito favors pushy slapstick; Stiller prefers hotshot sarcasm. Barrymore's comic talents are wasted; she's there for decoration.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Older and younger movie star snipe and glare at each other with little subtlety, and little chemistry either. The two characters appear to be skirmishing only because they're supposed to by convention.
  12. Enjoyable only if you're under the age of 7 -- or the influence of psychedelic drugs.
  13. Scored to a disarmingly quaint array of fiddle-and-banjo tunes, The Newton Boys has so little in the way of blood or rancor that before long, you begin to notice that there's no real drama in it, either.
  14. Here's a romance without a spark of excitement.
  15. In the presence of profound questions, the filmmaker goes profoundly shallow.
  16. If any actor could reveal the squirmy soul of a war criminal, it's Caine, so it feels like a cheat when The Statement gives him nothing to portray but self-condemnation.
  17. Borderline-incoherent.
  18. It's not the homosexuality that's dubious here, it's the chicken.
  19. One of those desultory F/X and no script potboilers that seems to restart itself with every new scene.
  20. Populated by ersatz versions of stars who, in this case, are fairly vanilla to begin with.
  21. Just when you thought it was safe to go to the movies without sitting through another imitation of early Quentin Tarantino, along comes Suicide Kings.
  22. A movie overtly designed to win attention (and not to do much else).
  23. Seems populated yet uninhabited; the only real star is the gloom.
  24. As a satire of new-style collegiate types, this MTV production actually evinces a few germs of rancid wit.
  25. Cotton candy story with an acrid aftertaste.
  26. Strands Cedric the Entertainer behind the wheel and forces him to motor a collection of laugh-and-learn wacky situations by sheer force of his outsize charm.
  27. A cumbersome dud, grows draggier with each new revelation.
  28. For Woody, it's looking more and more like the end of his days of whine and neurosis.
  29. In the history of rock-star indulgence on film, I would rank it somewhere between Bob Dylan's epic carnival of pretension ''Renaldo & Clara'' and the overblown messianic doldrums of 1982's ''Pink Floyd The Wall.''

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