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. It appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the filmmakers could dredge up.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The effects are laughably primitive, the dialogue hilariously atrocious -- and those are the good parts.
  2. Even Snow Day's winter wonderland looks fake.
  3. For the audience, it's like watching the dreckiest of teen puppy courtships trying to pass itself off as ''Annie Hall.'' La-de-blah.
  4. Benigni's Pinocchio is meant to be adorable, but he comes off as less an enchanted puppet than as a harmlessly deranged middle-aged man prancing about in the kind of froufrou cream-colored pantsuit that Dinah Shore retired to her back closet in 1977.
  5. The picture is so lethargic that I began to think of watching it as a form of atonement.
  6. The comedy is nonexistent.
  7. Aims for dark farce but ends up playing more like Weekend at Bernie's Part VIII. [25 Apr 1997, p. 50]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  8. Had the ghost of Paul Lynde swanned by in a caftan-clad cameo, you couldn't find a more outdated, miscalculated collection of stale, queen-size stereotypes than those trotted out on this ship of fools.
  9. There is not one honest moment, not ONE, in Hanging Up.
  10. Rancid, misogynist comedy.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Debased swill.
  11. The only thing shocking about it, however, is the degree to which self-congratulatory gutter exhibitionism has become the degraded ash end of indie ''edge.''
  12. It's a shrill, stupid, brickbat-blatant piece of hackwork that practically sweats to be ''commercial.''
  13. Personally, I'd say that it was about time Arquette was leashed.
  14. An inept low-budget thriller.
  15. The trouble with Whipped isn't that its characters are dirty mouthed horndog jerks -- it's that they're phony dirty mouthed horndog jerks.
  16. Abysmally stupid drama.
  17. If you look hard, you can make out a story in Femme Fatale, but it has nothing to do with the senseless pileup of jewel thievery, shutterbug voyeurism, and leggy sex bombs so shallow and bad they seem to have come out of a 1978 copy of Hustler magazine.
  18. Poisonously smug, one-joke indie comedy.
  19. A somber, draggy, deadweight, lugubrious, absurdly self serious version of ''American Beauty.''
  20. Why would filmmakers with this much talent work this hard to thumb their noses at everything they put on screen?
  21. Ryan radiates neither desire nor terror. She's freeze-dried in a world of lifelessly abstract feminine fear, and so is the movie.
  22. Viewers will never be molly-fied by this tripe.
  23. It might be courting hyperbole to call Corky Romano the single worst movie ever to feature an ''SNL'' cast member (Dan Aykroyd hit some pretty arid valleys), but I'm willing to go out on a critical limb and rank it among the all-time bottom dozen.
  24. Halloween: Resurrection comes closer to comatainment.
  25. She Hate Me manages to be at once racist, homophobic, utterly fake, and unbearably tedious. This time, it's Spike Lee who's doing the bamboozling.
  26. In one rotten production -- all involved have managed to create the most unlikable, man hating, woman hating, unfunny idiots since ''Whipped'' ended up on worst movie lists last year.
  27. In every way dreadful.
  28. To properly convey the jaw-dropping shoddiness of this videogame-based ''horror'' ''movie,'' one must approach what scientists call Absolute Stupid, a state previously thought to exist only under highly controlled laboratory conditions or at the highest levels of government.

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