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. Hannibal lacks the rounded emotional elegance of ''The Silence of the Lambs'' (that was a great film; this one is merely good).
  2. Jonathan Nossiter's second feature (after the intricate and haunting ''Sunday'') strikes unnerving chords of mystery and dismay as it fuses the sinister, jump cut dislocations of a metaphysical thriller like ''Don't Look Now'' with a pain soaked meditation on love, guilt, marriage, and adultery.
  3. In one rotten production -- all involved have managed to create the most unlikable, man hating, woman hating, unfunny idiots since ''Whipped'' ended up on worst movie lists last year.
  4. Jaoui handles her crowd of vivid characters so naturally, and shoots her scenes so unobtrusively, that the diagrammatic cleverness of the plot never overwhelms the intelligence of the observations.
  5. If any of these characters were half as resonant as Wenders appears to think they are, the film might have seemed charming instead of merely stranded.
  6. Doesn't contain a single scary or imaginative moment.
  7. Bland to dismal.
  8. Although In the Mood for Love isn't in the mood for action, it dazzles with everything but.
  9. A domestic tragedy of lacerating vision.
  10. Fun in its raunchy unwieldiness.
  11. An out of date 1950s movie.
  12. Penn is a true talent, but there's just enough languid pretension to The Pledge to make you wonder if he's ultimately more interested in parading his promise as a director than in fulfilling it.
  13. Guy Ritchie's second feature, is a faux tough caper modeled lock, stock, kit, and caboodle on his earlier film ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.''
  14. While Robbins has a good time playing the boyish devil, the rest of the principals transmit on an awfully low baud rate.
  15. Another racial cartoon buddy movie that eagerly flogs its best laugh -- indeed, its only laugh -- in the trailer.
  16. This wan, formulaic teen movie from ''Metro'' director Thomas Carter is afraid to pump up the volume on its own interracial, hip hop Romeo and Juliet story, lest it challenge even one sedated viewer or disturb the peace.
  17. 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.
  18. There's something almost too controlled, cerebral, and overdetermined about Winterbottom's Western notions.
  19. Kicky, elaborately constructed fantasy.
  20. The rare Hollywood epic that dares to entertain an audience by engaging the world.
  21. McCarthy's rawhide has become movie Naugahyde, a substance unknown in literature or in nature.
  22. A big, square, rousing political thriller docudrama.
  23. In every way dreadful.
  24. You wish that Malena's inner life had been given as much accent as her outer charms.
  25. Arenas' life zigzags before us in a manner as heady and unpredictable as it must have felt to the man who lived it.
  26. This stunning movie -- one of the very best of the year -- makes a much read American classic feel new and freshly devastating.
  27. One of those desultory F/X and no script potboilers that seems to restart itself with every new scene.
  28. Delectably caustic comedy.
  29. Why would filmmakers with this much talent work this hard to thumb their noses at everything they put on screen?
  30. Hanks towers as a near naked, near biblical man. Zemeckis tells his story -- the screenplay is by William Broyles -- with a control magnificent in what isn't shown as much as in what is.

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