Entertainment Weekly's Scores

Select another publication »
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 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:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
7797 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Land of the Lost
    Land of the Lost has stray amusing tidbits, but overall it leaves you feeling splattered.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
    Parents who have had to sit through a myriad of mindless kids movies will appreciate a chance for their kids to be themselves at the theater and to be silly right alongside them. On the whole, it can serve as a good introduction to the movie-going experience.
  3. Sinister 2
    Sinister 2 doesn’t know what it wants to be, and doesn’t add up to much.
  4. Swordfish
    A good movie? Hardly. But more than enough to pass a dog day afternoon.
  5. Robin Hood
    On all fronts, it strives to twist the Robin Hood story into something more provocative, but ultimately it’s a garbled, hollow mess of attempts at relevancy.
  6. Price of Glory
    The movie, while heartfelt and vividly shot, takes too many rote genre turns.
  7. Alex & Emma
    It's hard to say what's more excruciating: Alex's novel, which is like ''The Great Gatsby'' rewritten by Lizzie McGuire, or his quarrelsome flirtation with Emma, who has no existence as a character apart from her drive to reshape Alex into a specimen of respectable tamed manhood.
  8. Godzilla
    There are some clever and exciting sequences, but this $120 million epic of reconstituted Atomic Age trash lumbers more than it thrills.
  9. Wrong Turn
    A blood-simple backwoods spatterfest that makes shameless use of the same old antirural moonshine Hollywood's been bootlegging for decades.
  10. Navajo Joe
    A dubbed Italian botch starring a lithe Burt Reynolds as a Native American.
  11. The Forger
    The art-heist plot is pretty by-the-numbers, but Travolta nearly saves it with his doomed air of paternal helplessness. He makes you feel the weight of being at the mercy of forces bigger than oneself. At 61, he still possesses something rare, even in rote material like this.
  12. The Perfect Holiday
    Why throw in a bizarre device involving Queen Latifah as a narrating angel and a creepy, sallow Terrence Howard as her adversary? Their A-list names may be a draw, but it's too bad no one thought the endearing performances in this charming (if cliché) family romance would be enough.
  13. Someone Like You...
    It was originally called ''Animal Husbandry,'' and while the producers were throwing away that title, they might have done well to chuck the movie along with it.
  14. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    A somber, draggy, deadweight, lugubrious, absurdly self serious version of ''American Beauty.''
  15. The Transporter Refueled
    It’s hard to deny the hedonistic joy in the way Delamarre plays with his various toys, and the goofball stunts—including the yacht-based finale, with a special appearance by a jet ski—are generally worth wandering through the dialogue desert.
  16. A Hole in My Heart
    To call Lukas Moodysson's A Hole in My Heart the feel-bad movie of the year would be an understatement -- it's the feel-sick movie of the millennium.
  17. Saint John of Las Vegas
    With stars like Steve Buscemi and Sarah Silverman and big-fish producers such as Spike Lee and Stanley Tucci on board, you'd think this indie would offer some glimmer of wit or originality. Think again.
  18. Untraceable
    Lane skillfully sells the tech-heavy script. But after a much-too-early reveal of the murderer's identity, the ''low battery'' signal starts to flash on this film by thriller specialist Gregory Hoblit, director of last year's far superior "Fracture."
  19. Tyler Perry's Acrimony
    The 20 or so minutes we get of Henson’s rage are not enough to warrant the title or the ticket price.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Aspen Extreme
    This overlong film, written and directed by Patrick Hasburgh, keeps changing tone unobtrusively. But the skiing footage — even when squeezed into the boot of a small screen — is extraordinary.
  21. Black Knight
    Lawrence, as always, exerts the appeal of a con man too lightweight to buy into his own con. He'd be funnier, though, if he didn't insist on being the only funny thing in the room.
  22. Showtime
    De Niro seems to be reacting to nothing so much as the lame movie he's stuck in.
  23. Games People Play: New York
    A bit of a tease itself. The movie keeps threatening to become amateur porn, like a risqué ''Candid Camera'' gone ''Dirty Debutantes,'' but it never quite gets there.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Unfinished Business
    The movie struggles to find its comedic footing by trying to bring out the family man in Dan Trunkman and underutilizing Franco, whose character clearly has much more to his disadvantage than a lack of prior business experience. Bottom line: Unfinished Business doesn’t deserve that handshake after all.
  25. Chernobyl Diaries
    If nowhere near as scary as the original Paranormal, the result is superior to many of the low-budget terror flicks that have arrived since (yes, The Devil Inside, we're talking about you) and benefits hugely from Dimitri Diatchenko's performance as moviedom's Worst. Tour. Guide. Ever.
  26. Repo Men
    A grisly one-note chase thriller.
  27. Boogeyman
    This is strictly substandard stuff, with imitative creepy noises, vertiginous camera angles, and long pauses.
  28. Fired Up!
    The teensploitation premise is like something a porn filmmaker from the '70s might have come up with. But Fired Up! has one added quirk: The script, credited to Freedom Jones, is a riot of tongue-twisting ironic sleaze -- it sounds like the first (and last) collaboration between Diablo Cody and Artie Lange.
  29. Max Payne
    It's just a grindingly inert death-wish thriller.
  30. An American Werewolf in Paris
    The cruddy, shot-in-a-warehouse settings are especially depressing, since the computer-generated special effects seem to be taking place in another movie entirely (a far livelier one). [9 Jan 1998, p. 47]
    • Entertainment Weekly
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »