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 2.1 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. Undisputed is a shrewd and splendidly volatile B movie structured around a highly original gambit of suspense.
  2. A majority oriented movie that assumes sophisticated familiarity with a sexual minority.
  3. Her memories lack the quality of revelation -- that is, up until the remarkable final section, in which she describes the last weeks in the bunker with Hitler and Eva Braun.
  4. It's made with deftly unsettling genre flair.
  5. It's a good bet the average American moviegoer, however familiar with the rhythms of cinematic global culture, has never experienced such a handsomely self contained world.
  6. Great, restrained performances of Beatty and Schreiber, delicately framed by the filmmaker's taste for visual compositions.
  7. Imamura's delight in the infinite oddity of men and women is goofy; it's also, at heart, reverent.
  8. The technique is impressive. But it would count for little if the human story -- of a magnetic, resourceful, and, in the way of all Rohmer heroines, articulate woman who was mistress to the Duke of Orleans -- weren't engrossing on its own dramatic terms.
  9. It may be the first movie that mirrors, in its very syntax, the ''snap crackle and pop'' narcotic superficiality of the E! channel. I mean that as a compliment.
  10. The rare case in which a filmmaker's unadulterated worship of his subjects adds force and resonance--and not just luster--to the way that we see them.
  11. Huppert has never been this cheerful, or lethal, and the movie itself is like Hitchcock's ''Rebecca'' reshot for House & Garden, with all the ghosts pulled out of the closet.
  12. Gripping in its intimacy.
  13. Washington immerses himself, even more than he did in "Malcolm X," in a stare of unforgiving outrage.
  14. Funny and ebullient look at a man in full confusion.
  15. At best, a half-finished puzzle, but Broomfield leaves you with questions that few investigators have even dared to ask.
  16. The performances are relaxed. The open-ended, vignette-like structure of the filmmaking sometimes imitates the movement of weary, life-worn men nursing liquor.
  17. Herzog's fascinating, rambling, love-hate documentary about their friendship and creative partnership, and in its discursive, anecdotal way it gets at the essence of one of cinema's indelible crackpots.
  18. Like a dowser who can divine hidden sources of water, Atom Egoyan has a talent for locating the dream-state perversity that runs just under the surface of everyday life;
  19. At a little over two hours, this is a pared-down but no less essential Dickensian feast.
  20. Roberts, in her most forceful dramatic performance, allows us to take in every moment through fresh, impassioned eyes.
  21. Every signifier in this quintessentially American domestic thriller is in satisfying running order.
  22. In a world full of off the rack thrillers, it's fine boutique quality.
  23. The mad genius of this cheerily bonkers feature is the integration of a documentary-style safari into an outlandish fiction involving a fancy-pants CIA pursuit of a downed spy satellite, and a shotgun-wielding outback widow.
  24. Conveys the heaving passion of Puccini's famous love-jealousy-murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation.
  25. Noyce honors the story best by standing back (and getting Kenneth Branagh, as a supercilious official, to stand back, too): Noyce lets the landscape and the untrained young actresses own the screen, particularly the naturally magnetic Everlyn Sampi.
  26. One of the happiest movies around.
  27. Shine beams with warmth, sensitivity, and fine taste.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  28. Genre-hoppers like Steven Soderbergh ought to love this neat triple doozy. [Note: From a review of the entire trilogy.]
  29. Genre-hoppers like Steven Soderbergh ought to love this neat triple doozy. [Note: From a review of the entire trilogy.]
  30. Genre-hoppers like Steven Soderbergh ought to love this neat triple doozy. [Note: From a review of the entire trilogy.]

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