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. The ethos of the Chelsea Hotel may shape Hawke's artistic aspirations, but he hasn't yet coordinated his own DV poetry with the Beat he hears in his soul.
  2. Peter Bogdanovich taps deep into the Hearst mystique, entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal.
  3. The movie is too cute to take itself too seriously, but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned college students.
  4. Against all odds in heaven and hell, it creeped me out just fine.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Slick, fact-based, missionary-themed drama.
  5. Teasing drama whose relentless good-deed/bad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting, less symmetrical, less obviously cross-shaped creation.
  6. Dudsville.
  7. A movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn ''empowerment.''
  8. Every porridgy inmate in this instantly forgettable romp warbles in the prison's amateur musical, and one of them demonstrates a rather extreme devotion to the tomatoes he grows in the on-site greenhouse.
  9. Pictorial but oddly muffled three-hour saga of romance and capitalism, not necessarily in that order.
  10. This is very much a ''woman's picture,'' driven by a twin rudder of anxiety and empowerment.
  11. There are stretches of big fun in Big Trouble, and little pleasures too.
  12. Reflect the robust status of Yiddish theater in the early 20th century, and its post-Holocaust decline.
  13. Studded with Lampoon/John Hughes anachronisms.
  14. For women who smoke and drink like fiends, the trio of pre-owned babes in this weirdly rotten femme-porn romance have awfully good, unwrinkled complexions.
  15. Something particularly clean shines in this American fairy tale, a quality of simplicity that's almost as hard to achieve in such movies as a middle-aged man's boyhood dreams.
  16. The audience for this grimly disquieting film is, or ought to be, self-selecting.
  17. There's piercing sadness, and fury, too, in this Everyman's isolation, and Cantet is singularly skilled at evoking the universal condition of such tragic ordinariness.
  18. Tells a moldy-oldie, not-nearly-as-nasty-as-it-thinks-it-is joke. Over and over again.
  19. Soon enough a pointed ode to New York City nerve-rack and survival skills dissolves into a far more average, less compelling, and sometimes just slapdash-vicious cat-and-mouse game.
  20. Hartley is trapped between sincerity and mock sincerity, and that all but dooms a filmmaker to slipping through the cracks.
  21. Stops time, all right -- it stretches 94 minutes into something that begins to feel like infinity.
  22. There are moments of real funniness in this smarter-than-anticipated goof-fest.
  23. Has an appealing modesty, but director Juan José Campanella works so hard to keep everything soft and winsome and charming that he cushions the understatement into blandness.
  24. From what we can tell, Brown was a dancer, all right, in life as well as on the field -- a dancer with a powerful forearm, one that Lee covers in protective padding.
  25. Del Toro lays on the operatic head-trip gore, but his heavy-handed embrace of the ''Blade'' mythology allows Wesley Snipes to give more of a performance than he did in the first film.
  26. A chintzy melodrama gussied up as hair-trigger combat ''reality,'' but there's no denying the vividness with which the French cowriter-director Elie Chouraqui has visualized the chaos of Croatia.
  27. De Niro seems to be reacting to nothing so much as the lame movie he's stuck in.
  28. Sad, funny, sexy, and altogether marvelous.
  29. Superb, Oscar-nominated documentary.

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