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. As a book, The Beach offers the option of diving deep. As a movie, it sticks too close to the shoreline.
  2. A half hour in and still, the plot, tone, and setting are incomprehensible.
  3. About the only thing the movie kills with any decisiveness is your time.
  4. Little more than a plodding celebration of global television trumping everything in its midst.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    There's not much else for viewers to do but give themselves over to the whims of the bad-movie gods.
  5. As bumbling and mindless, as naively misconceived, as that clapping-through-tears moniker.
  6. More a sampling of previous crowd-pleasers...than a fashion statement all its own.
  7. For the audience, it's like watching the dreckiest of teen puppy courtships trying to pass itself off as ''Annie Hall.'' La-de-blah.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Director Walter Hill won't take credit for Supernova... Can you blame him?
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A serviceable time-passer for kids, grandparents, and poochophiles.
  8. Starts high, gradually bogs down, then dies.
  9. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
  10. Washington immerses himself, even more than he did in "Malcolm X," in a stare of unforgiving outrage.
  11. Fred Leuchter is just one deluded figure, but by the end of this great and chilling sick-joke documentary he stands as a living icon of the banality of evil.
  12. Suggests that finding one good priest is a feasibility, but it takes a miracle to meet one as hubba-hubba as Ed Harris.
  13. A boxing film with no conflictual punch.
  14. Remains a sampling of stagy scenes barreling to a gruesome climax, parts greater than the sum of the whole.
  15. A fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them.
  16. Minghella makes an enticing, intelligent, well-shaped picture about the extreme perils of class envy and sexual panic.
  17. Exceedingly blurred rendering of a simply told, artful novel.
  18. Seems populated yet uninhabited; the only real star is the gloom.
  19. The film's cumulative effect is as exhausting as it is exciting.
  20. Jim Carrey's performance is an impersonation on the level of genius.
  21. Shrewd, tough, and lively -- a junior-league "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
  22. A historical drama as static as it is stately.
  23. Tatyana, the embodiment of a heroine whose still waters run deep, requires more maturity than Tyler as yet possesses.
  24. Director Chris Columbus...seals this comedy in an impenetrable bubble of hollow humanism.
  25. Stumbling adaptation of a Sam Shepard play about men, horses, chance, and lies.
  26. A Little goes a long way.
  27. Topsy-Turvy reminds us that, in any age, creative expression is at once the most personal and most communal of enterprises.

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