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 2.2 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
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Jackson is the best thing here.
  1. Diverting enough, but it's also the kind of high-concept studio concoction Ricky Gervais might have ridiculed in his great backstage-showbiz sitcom "Extras."
  2. The visuals are a kick; the groan-inducing dialogue isn't.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The actors (especially Alec Baldwin, as Tank's horndog dad) elevate the material slightly, but such piffle will just fill you with longing...for a better movie.
  3. The movie is overplowed, even if Brad Pitt's debut as a Coen comedy player is eye-catching.
  4. As it becomes clear that Ball, in essence, has just restaged American Beauty with a socially conscious paint job, the sensationalism of Towelhead looks more and more like a dramatic tic.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    All over the place:It's a boardroom/family/couples/road-trip story.
  5. It's not much fun to see these two reduced to "Mad TV" parodies of themselves.
  6. The movie is a feminist lesson instead of what it should have been (and once was): a tough, synthetic, high-gloss entertainment that wears its heart on its lacquered fingernails.
  7. Even the championship showdown feels polite.
  8. Even those of us who find anti-homosexual ''deprogramming'' to be hideously intolerant and naive may find ourselves oddly relieved that Mark is there (in a Christian rehab center).
  9. The filmmakers even manage to turn seamy Bangkok into the least exotic setting imaginable.
  10. The filmmaker's decision to shoot the past in color and the present in murky black and white is an inspired visual translation of psychological truth.
  11. The filmmaker of August Evening creates a succession of quiet, elliptical scenes that accrue into an affecting big picture of family ties and immigrant experience.
  12. Smith transfers an Iowa-based short story by Randy Russell to India's western Goa region -- and works in Hindi, primarily with novice actors. The result is a story both authentically specific and profoundly global.
  13. When martial arts star Michelle Yeoh shows up as a pious, butt-kicking nun, you have to wonder if Kassovitz isn't accidentally cribbing from Mel Brooks, too.
  14. This is a dark story as well as a frothy one. But the bubble of absurdist self-absorption in which Menzel places this specimen of man-child is exquisite.
  15. Friendly yet toothless, College musters little energy even as anarchic-party-movie nostalgia.
  16. The movie is merciless sending up "Juno's" self-satisfied hipster gobbledygook, and it's quite funny to see Hannah Montana still promoting her tie-in products as she lies crushed and dying under a meteor.
  17. A slippery entertainment that's all feints and few punches thrown at a fight card of indistinguishable terrorists, Muslim and otherwise.
  18. Soft sexual and racial jabs replace the more daring political commentary of the original, a crude classic from the Roger Corman factory.
  19. The movie flaunts its comedy roots like a messy bleach job.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Hopelessly clichéd.
  20. As a movie, Hamlet 2 is lively, energetically daft, and very, very scrappy -- a broader, more loony-tunes knockoff of "Waiting for Guffman."
  21. Essential, unique viewing.
  22. If they handed out an Academy Award for Most Gripping Graphs and Charts, this film would take it.
  23. Beautiful, wise, and poker-faced comedy of discombobulation.
  24. The only brazen thing about the film is how shamelessly it rips off "School of Rock."
  25. George Lucas is turning into the enemy of fun.
  26. The writing is zippy, the story spins like a top, and Bardem turns out to be the wittiest of leading men.

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