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 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. While candy-colored graphics should dazzle kids, Space Chimps has little draw for audiences spoiled by the Pixar-given knowledge that CGI can entertain -- and not just stupefy -- moviegoers of any age.
  2. It's not much fun to see these two reduced to "Mad TV" parodies of themselves.
  3. It's just a grindingly inert death-wish thriller.
  4. While George Lopez, Cheech Marin, and Paul Rodriguez are funny men, it's amazing how boring these Latin-shtick cutups can be when none of them gets a single good line.
  5. Randall Miller (Bottle Shock), appears to be trying to cross a bad Elmore Leonard thriller with a bad indie-festival family-angst comedy. He gives us the worst of both worlds.
  6. An unintentionally ludicrous drama of repentance.
  7. It's a dispirited, galumphing mess.
  8. It all makes you want to see a Bollywood movie, all right -- a good one.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    This predictable film wouldn't be effective anywhere outside a DARE program.
  9. A painfully miscast Parker nervously flips her hair and waves her hands, sitcom-style, as a do-gooding dean of students.
  10. A stillborn rendering of Michael Chabon's first novel.
  11. If the movie doesn't even care about its characters, then how can we?
  12. Isn't it time Steve Zahn grew up? Ever since the '90s, this walking quirk of an actor has pushed his dazed solipsistic zaniness (he's like Michael J. Fox’s hillbilly cousin), but he's 41 now, and it no longer looks cute on him.
  13. The result is a sub-"Saw" knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The tedious flick offers little more than a few scares, and plenty of boobs. And we're not just talking about the cast.
  14. Whenever an actress takes on a gritty working-class role, the audience does a gut check of authenticity. Either the actress gets it, like Melissa Leo did in "Frozen River," or she doesn't, like Michelle Monaghan as the spoilin'-for-a-fight truck-driver heroine of the inert indie dud Trucker
  15. It's no insult to Melville to say that he wrote, in effect, the original ''Dilbert.'' This movie, unfortunately, makes ''Dilbert'' look like Melville.
  16. Isn't a movie, it's Gorgonzola, a crumbly summertime stinker veined with pop-cultural fungus.
  17. Kollek is a fringe auteur who makes independent films the old fashioned way: no budget, static camera, a script that telegraphs its tiny, paste gem ironies.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    There's not much else for viewers to do but give themselves over to the whims of the bad-movie gods.
  18. Would like to be a Halloween treat, but it's more like a nightmare of blandness.
  19. A distasteful zeitgeist cocktail tracking the booze-fueled sexcapades of eight repellent L.A. singles.
  20. De Niro seems to be reacting to nothing so much as the lame movie he's stuck in.
  21. Torturously whimsical gumshoe caper.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The plot twists fall about as weightily as the fake snow.
  22. Stumbling adaptation of a Sam Shepard play about men, horses, chance, and lies.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    More than just dumb, the picture is embarrassingly dorky.
  23. Has a topsy-turvy sense of injustice.
  24. Each man's shtick swells into a frenzy of overacting.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Musketeer's fight scenes are underlit, overmiked, and appallingly edited, with none of the spacious grace that even routine Asian action flicks get right. Worse, the narrative scenes make less sense.

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