Entertainment Weekly's Scores

Select another publication »
For 7,798 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:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
7798 movie reviews
view
per page
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Breakfast Club
    From the neon-sign opening titles to the derivative angst of the dialogue, it's a touchstone of '80s pop culture, and a schizophrenic one, too.
  2. The Girl Who Played with Fire
    I found The Girl Who Played With Fire more gripping than "Dragon Tattoo," because this one doesn't just play with thriller conventions -- it puts them to work.
  3. Darfur Now
    The film gets a little ''We can fix this!'' inspirational for a chronicle of such staggering darkness.
  4. The Trip to Spain
    How many times can you watch two middle-aged men impersonate Michael Caine? Your answer to that question will determine whether you should tag along with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on their third and latest fictionalized (and largely improvised) eating tour of Europe.
  5. The Wind
    The moments that work the best are the ones where Tammi lets the pace and pulse slow down, lets the ominous wind whistle and groan, and it isn’t trying to turn The Wind into Meek’s Cutoff as interpreted by the director of Insidious.
  6. Son of Rambow
    The team who made "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" display plenty of whirligig energy, if not much control or lightness of touch.
  7. In Good Company
    The denouement of the movie is as preposterously happy as a children's fairy tale. But the moral is ageless.
  8. Cop Car
    Cop Car feels like a great short stretched into a mediocre feature.
  9. On the Outs
    On the Outs parses the hopes and terrors of blasted lives with an empathy that never cheapens into pity. The movie wounds as much as it heals, and that's its true power.
  10. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    With him (Schwarzenegger), we return to a franchise we never knew we missed, surprisingly grateful for the star's generosity -- and evident pleasure -- in strapping on the old sunglasses and blasting adversaries to hell.
  11. Julie & Julia
    It hooks you up, happily, to your inner top chef.
  12. Emma
    Perhaps the highest praise that can be given Paltrow is that there are no appreciable performance gaps between her green talents and the rest of the truly top-drawer cast.
  13. Avengers: Age of Ultron
    Still, my real beef with these movies — and this one in particular — is how same-y they’ve started to feel. Each time out, everything is at stake and nothing is at stake.
  14. Captain America: The First Avenger
    Stolidly corny, old-fashioned pulp fun.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Three... Extremes
    Another pulpy Creepshow movie would be more welcome than a second installment of this stiff stuff.
  16. City Island
    Andy Garcia reminds you of what a cunning, likable actor he can be.
  17. Missing
    Directors Nick Johnson and Will Merrick sometimes strain the credulity of what shooting in-screen can do — June's laptop camera does a lot of heavy lifting — but the movie rarely feels forced or claustrophobic; it's just a whizzing, cannily of-the-moment spin on a familiar genre, reupped for the Genius Bar age.
  18. Something's Gotta Give
    Every moment spent in the company of Keaton... is such a joy that the whole is more delightful than the sum of the formulaic ingredients. Keaton makes Nicholson bounce the way Shirley MacLaine once did in ''Terms of Endearment.''
  19. The Girlfriend Experience
    The Girlfriend Experience is one of Steven Soderbergh's bite-size, semi-improvised, shot-on-DV doodles (like Bubble or Full Frontal), and it's the best one he's made.
  20. Sausage Party
    Conceived by the conjoined comedic minds of Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Evan Goldberg and baked (in more ways than one) for more than eight years, the movie looks like Pixar but plays like "Pineapple Express" unleashed among actual pineapples.
  21. The Life Ahead
    It's the smaller moments shared by the movie's flawed, humble characters — Loren twirling to old samba records in magic-hour sunlight; Karimi's Hamil teaching Momo how to reweave a rug — and its immersive Italian setting that make Life worth its sweet, meandering time.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    When Boys Leave Home
    Downhill is a serviceable film, with an admirably minimal use of title cards, and it effectively shows how difficult life can become for the working class. The ending, however, is so upbeat that it substantially detracts from the sobering pessimism of the preceding movie.
  23. Diary of the Dead
    Diary of the Dead isn't bad; it's a kicky B movie hiding inside a draggy, self-conscious-work-of-auteurist-horror one.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    White Hunter Black Heart
    White Hunter, Black Heart wants to show us a specific heart of darkness — a man who, by striving to kill one of nature’s grandest creatures, hoped to annihilate part of himself — but the theme gets lost in shades of gray.
  25. Alan Partridge
    Like so many reunions, this one starts off all smiles and quickly grows tiresome.
  26. Afterschool
    Campos (who was 24 when he made this jolting pic) captures the numbing psychic scramble that just might cause the YouTube generation to go morally haywire. Or become filmmakers.
  27. Me You Them
    Casé, with her sturdy, elemental body and shining eyes, is the reason phrases like ''inner beauty'' were invented, and she's also the reason this idealistic, naturalistic film by Rio de Janeiro born Andrucha Waddington has been such a success at festivals around the world.
  28. Stuart Little 2
    Very much a kiddie ride, Stuart Little 2 is lively without being hyperactive -- it's a bouncy mouse caper with a wee bit of soul.
  29. Auto Focus
    The performances are vividly alive.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Miller's Crossing
    If, however, you're looking for compelling characters, all the lights are blazing here but nobody's at home.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »