Entertainment Weekly's Scores

For 5,222 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 (500) Days of Summer
Lowest review score: 0 Transylmania
Score distribution:
5,222 movie reviews
  1. The storytelling is the series' best, with a zingy balance of drama, humor, and Deep Thoughts (in a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, directed with confident exuberance by Irvin Kershner). [Special Edition]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Steven Spielberg overcame the lumpy plotting of Peter Benchley's novel to create an efficient, graceful fright machine in Jaws.
  3. The new film, which unfolds in real time over the course of 80 minutes, is a deeper, darker, altogether more memorable experience. It doesn't extend the characters so much as fulfill them.
  4. One of the most revelatory rock portraits ever made.
  5. Unfolds with a simplicity that's as breathtaking as its inevitability is harrowing.
  6. A conventionally heightened series of escapes and clashes and hide-and-seek gambits, yet the way the film has been made, nothing that happens seems inevitable -- which is to say, anything seems possible. There's a word for that sensation. It's called excitement.
  8. The film is at times harrowing to watch, yet it's also wry and delicate and absorbing. It's infused with the messy excitement of imperfect passion.
  9. Potent and eye-opening documentary.
  10. Stunning and compassionate period drama.
  11. The result: This great work of art has the potential to change the world.
  13. A gripping documentary that uses voluminous period evidence &#151; unedited news footage, tape recordings of SLA leader Cinque's rants &#151; to brilliantly reconstruct the entire freak event.
  14. Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful.
  15. Still the grandest of all science-fiction movies.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  16. The most resonant and haunting movie I've seen this year.
  17. Beautifully edited, Go Tigers! is an enthralling look at the drama that can transpire in the autumn of one small town on any given Friday.
  18. Almereyda excises big chunks of plot to shape his vision, but retains Shakespeare's language and pays such rigorous attention to meaning and subtext that what's missing isn't missed.
  19. Tsai builds this shimmering story with deft, deadpan wit and a warm, understated love of the absurd, both in life and afterlife.
  20. Yagira's performance is so extraordinary, it won him the best actor prize at the 2004 Cannes film festival.
  21. As riveting as its title.
  23. Nimble, engrossing, and journalistically eye-opening, a movie that pulls into focus 30 years of porn in America. It also pulls no punches.
  26. The wry filmmaker has created an urbane society of family and friends as ridiculously pretentious and hypocritical as they are cultured, accomplished, and posh.
  27. It's been a while since a movie made the game of love this winning.
  28. A deeply straightforward yet beautifully crafted documentary.
  29. Fast, convulsive, and densely exciting new British gangster thriller.

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