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
  1. By far, the most shocking carnage is Tilly carving up her persona. What a doll.
  2. A fun-in-the-sun heist caper that director Brett Ratner stages as if he were the activities director of a cruise ship.
  3. A triumph of performance, production, and adaptation over the empty-calorie dither of its source material.
  4. Kinsey is patient and educational and never (darn it) rude or shocking.
  5. Depp portrays a fellow who is openly gentle to the core, and the actor just about wraps the movie around his lilting delivery and quiescent gaze.
  6. I do wish that Overnight caught in more precise detail what Duffy, who finally made his film on the cheap at an obscure studio, did to tick off the Miramax powers. Imagining it, though, is half the fun.
  7. The screenplay, by Zemeckis and William Broyles Jr., plumps Van Allsburg's simple fable about the purity of childhood faith in what can't be seen with all sorts of wholly invented characters, complications, and declarations.
  8. The man has the right to retire, but what will he do with all the words in his head?
  9. First-time writer-director Rodney Evans makes a ballsy leap into historical fantasia, with heartfelt fervor outrunning stray moments of artistic gawkiness.
  10. The new Alfie is so irresistible that he hardly requires contempt. Without it, the movie is little more than a feature-length roll in the hay.
  11. Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    The experiment didn't work. The English-language production is a jumble of poorly delineated notions about love, celebrity, the look of romantic movies, and the sound of American-style dialogue - and it's been sitting on the shelf for over a year.
  12. What blows us away is the power of Ifans' moist puppy eyes and chilling smile as a true believer undeterred by reality.
  13. When Kidman slithers into a bathtub with her young ''husband,'' the scene, in its soft-pedaled way, is the definition of exploitation: It appears to have been cooked up for no other purpose than to conjure creepy child-porn overtones.
  14. Saw
    Saw is a gristle-cut B psycho thriller that would like to tap the sickest corners of your imagination. It has a few moments of nightmare creepiness, but it's also derivative and messy and too nonsensical for its own good.
  15. Ray
    As a musical biography, Ray is driven by the primal excitement of rock-and-soul at the moment of its discovery.
  16. It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this -- and there's a particular giddiness to be had in thinking about what movies can (but don't often) do for one's soul after imbibing such a fine vintage.
  17. The truth is that Undertow is like a conventional Hollywood movie operating on half its cylinders.
  18. The film evokes how homicide became the ultimate orgasm for kids who had turned themselves into zombies of flesh.
  19. The music's sensational, but you keep waiting for the pledge number to flash up.
  20. Bale exists all too large under the circumstances, a well-fed actor playing at emaciation for the sake of a fiction about a character whose torment is as unreadable as his vertebrae are countable.
  21. A horror film that consists of virtually nothing but don't-go-in-the-attic suspense scenes strung together with a reasonable degree of brooding mood and a minimum of logic.
  22. There are no survivors here.
  23. Shows a beguiling aptitude for self-mockery in the pursuit of polemic.
  24. The movie implodes, with each actor less vivid than he or she ought to be and each character less connected to the others than necessary for such an arbitrary plot.
  25. Falls short of its source.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Quiet and sleepy.
  26. The result: This great work of art has the potential to change the world.
  27. The cast itself is weirdly overqualified.
  28. Being Julia flirts too heavily with soap opera clichés, but it has enough surprises to keep you guessing, and for Annette Bening it's the liveliest of comebacks.

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