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
    • 53 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Whatever fun this funked-up Wizard of Oz had on Broadway is erased by miscasting and a hideous design (Oz as a New York slum).
  1. Vapid, cutesy, knockabout Western.
  2. Bottom-of-the-garbage-barrel comedy.
  3. Graffiti Bridge is a sad fiasco — and except for Shake! the music (at least to my ears) is Prince at his most joyless, a collection of glorified rhythm tracks. For the first time, the revolutionary funkster seems to be preaching to a world that has left him behind.
  4. The movie wants you to giggle and say, ”Yup, we sure are saps, aren’t we?”
  5. With its waxy color scheme and nonexistent pace, the movie is like an homage to Hitchcock’s worst period.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 16 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    At this late date, the rules of the adolescent slice-‘n’-dice genre have codified into ritual (teens + sex = death), suggesting that those who rent this may have bigger problems than just bad taste.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Lie down with dogs like Look Who’s Talking Now! and you’ll end up with fleas.
  6. In Metro, he’s been replaced by a slick, businesslike machine of an actor, playing an uninspired variation on the Axel Foley character he’s done for over a decade now, since starring in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. Only this time he’s not even funny.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Icky doesn’t begin to describe it.
  7. Norm Macdonald proves himself to be the new Chevy Chase by following up his ”Weekend Update” stint with Dirty Work, a smug, unfunny feature flop.
  8. Writer-director John Herzfeld blends violence and top-heavy absurdism, creating a self-conscious muddle of indie-style hackery. Strip away the goofball nihilism, though, and what’s left is as formulaic as any straight-to-tape opus with a title like "Dangerous Instinct."
  9. If you had never encountered Bullock’s patented brand of appealingly unglamorous, warm-eyed gal before this dispiriting production, you might think the star of Speed and The Net was nothing more than a Marisa Tomei knockoff.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    It's Pat is not only one of the most ill-conceived premises to get the big-screen treatment, it's also genuinely unpleasant to watch.
  10. Bad movies come and go, but Hurry Up Tomorrow presents the Weeknd as so needy and so irritating that it may have lasting effects. The next time one of his songs comes up on a playlist, I may hit fast-forward. I've spent enough time with this guy.
  11. How you feel about Valentine's Day may depend on how you feel when someone really, really cute -- and someone you're really, really fond of -- gives you a nasty box of cheap chocolate on Valentine's Day, picked up at the corner Rite Aid and delivered with the price tag still attached.
  12. Exhausted as the premise already is -- hapless boomer learns that real manhood is a function of committed fatherhood -- Old Dogs nevertheless finds ways to make the lesson even less tolerable.
  13. A magical-realist sitcom war farce that ends up being about nothing but its own slovenly smugness.
  14. It's tempting to say ''avoid at all costs,'' but truthfully, everyone should see something this bad at least once, if only to help us better appreciate the comparatively brainy merits of works like "Eurotrip," "Freddy Got Fingered," and the modern-day plague of movies with titles ending in "Movie."
  15. Far be it from me to dismiss a man's effort (Uwe Boll) in a sentence, but the film on your teeth after a three-day drunk possesses more cinematic value.
  16. Parts of the film play like the world's slowest and most insensitive reality show (Who Wants to Be an Octogenarian?).
  17. A huge pile of horsefeathers is being peddled as fairy dust in Bigger Than the Sky.
  18. The movie has no wit, no charm, no cleverness, no traction. Simply put, it is no fun.
  19. What sin did Heather Locklear commit to deserve her role in The Perfect Man?
  20. On the level of a no-budget student film in which the shots barely match up into sequences. It's about as much fun as watching blood dry.
  21. Stupefyingly tedious and annoying.
  22. So perfect in its awfulness, it makes one seriously consider a theory of unintelligent design.
  23. The Libertine is such a torturous mess that it winds up doing something I hadn't thought possible: It renders Johnny Depp charmless.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Ghastly-bad.
  24. Manderlay is turgid and hollow.

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