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. A fractious fiasco: whiplash camera movement set to raging blasts of death metal, a story so incoherent it made me wish I was watching, instead, the collected outtakes from Van Helsing.
  2. An animated movie designed with very young children in mind. And very young children should be very angry about that. Where is it written that 4-year-olds don't deserve a good story, decent characters, and a modicum of coherence?
  3. As the killer, who plucks out his victims' eyeballs, Kane, the seven-foot bald WWE wrestler who's like a modern Tor Johnson, is so inept he's more cuddly than terrifying.
  4. It doesn't take long to figure out that Shadowboxer 's Helen Mirren, as a cancer-ridden hitwoman, and Cuba Gooding Jr., as her doting stepson, are the most unconvincing team of hired assassins in movie history.
  5. Dour, absurdist, gruesomely awful.
  6. Fragmentation can be an artful method; it can also be the last refuge for someone who scarcely knows how to make a film. In the no-budget fantasia Wild Tigers I Have Known, the fragments are like a borrowed collage of gay coming-of-age tropes.
  7. Combines hugs and ''pain'' and dialogue so fakey-cute it makes your ears hurt.
  8. A grisly piece of torture porn.
  9. A joke of a title in search of a movie with a single good joke.
  10. Can we finally just admit that Dane Cook isn't funny? In a comedy so lame its plot could've been swiped from a Bazooka Joe wrapper.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs -- worse than "Daddy Day Camp," "Baby Geniuses 2," and "BloodRayne."
  11. Mr. Magorium, who is 243 years old (so are his jokes), is a cross between Willy Wonka and Geppetto, but Hoffman plays him with little more than a goofy dumb lisp, achieved by tucking his lower lip under his upper teeth, so that he looks just as rabbity-stoopid as he sounds.
  12. The movie is one soporific, depressed, deadeningly vague scene after another.
  13. Is there anything more dull than an ineptly cynical fairy tale?
  14. A soporific dud, which should have been tossed out of Sundance.
  15. A stinker, the more so for the thespian excesses of the accomplished cast.
  16. George Lucas is turning into the enemy of fun.
  17. The filmmakers even manage to turn seamy Bangkok into the least exotic setting imaginable.
  18. Fanning is remarkably collected and even dignified. As for the rest of the gang, they ought to be returned to sender.
  19. This remake is merely vile (and dull).
  20. It's like a pastry that's been sitting on the shelf for 60 years.
  21. As an actor, Raymond is whiny and annoying, but not nearly so much as the film.
  22. I didn't think Matthew Perry could find a romantic comedy more inert or inane than the 1997 fiasco ''Fools Rush In.''
  23. As bumbling and mindless, as naively misconceived, as that clapping-through-tears moniker.
  24. This may be the first talking-animal movie in which the critter hero seems to have been body-snatched by a commentator from C-SPAN.
  25. This ill-fitting movie was mail-ordered from an out-of-date catalog of teen-com stereotypes.
  26. A movie so unhinged it practically dares you not to hate it.
  27. Just... bad. As in BAD bad.
  28. Zucker directs this mess like a substitute teacher soldiering through a day's work for a day's pay at a decertified school.
  29. A half hour in and still, the plot, tone, and setting are incomprehensible.

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