Entertainment Weekly's Scores

For 4,810 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 3.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
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Score distribution:
4,810 movie reviews
  1. The most beautiful movie ever made about a man who could only move one eyelid -- almost dangerously beautiful.
  2. In a class by itself.
    • Metascore: 92
    • Critic Score 100
    Another harsh character study, with poignant echoes of "Taxi Driver."
  3. For bleakness, the movie can't be beat -- nor for brilliance.
  4. The first animated feature produced entirely on computer is a magically witty and humane entertainment, a hellzapoppin fairy tale about a roomful of suburban toys who come to life when humans aren't around.
  5. Vibrantly, intricately alive on its own terms. This is what magic the movies can conjure with an inspired fellowship in charge, and unlimited pots of gold.
  6. Toy Story 3 is a salute to the magic of making believe.
  7. The result: This great work of art has the potential to change the world.
  8. Stunning, fully formed masterpiece.
  9. The antidote to every square tough-guy caper you've ever seen, and the inspiration for many great ones. It is an existential imperative to seek out a showing and burn rubber to get there, preferably in an excellent car.
  10. If ''Finding Nemo'' is an awesome Pixar superpower, The Triplets of Belleville is a charming, idiosyncratic, self-governing duchy with huge tourism potential on the other side of the animated-movie planet.
  11. Helen Mirren's allure lies not in finding what's regal in every woman she plays, but in finding what's womanly in every royal.
  12. (Denis's) visual style is hypnotic, rapturous, and she makes barren landscapes look gorgeous, hard men look vulnerable.
  13. Waltz With Bashir has transcended the definitions of ''cartoon'' or ''war documentary'' to be classified as its own brilliant invention.
  14. A crowd-pleaser, all right, but, for all its appeal, a naggingly sanctimonious one.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Critic Score 75
    George C. Scott's Oscar-winning portrait of the megalomaniacal warrior general is still the glue holding together this blunt study of war as the ultimate human (and dehumanizing) game.
  15. The breath of cinematic life, though, the sensibility, the energy, belong to Joel and Ethan Coen, and this is their stirring success.
  16. The film, by seasoned cinematographer Dror Moreh, is a feat — of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.
  17. By the time The Crying Game is over, you'll never look at beauty in quite the same way.
  18. A movie of staggering virtuosity and raw lyric power, a masterpiece of terror, chaos, blood, and courage.
  19. There's also no romanticizing on the part of the director, who proceeds with calm, unshowy attentiveness (even in the midst of scenes of violence), creating a stunning portrait of an innately smart survivor for whom prison turns out to be a twisted opportunity for self-definition.
  20. One of the unshowiest and most true-blooded epics of Americana you're ever likely to see.
  21. Voluptuously engrossing.
  22. Remains a majestic explosion of pure cinema. It's a hallucinatory poem of fear, projecting, in its scale and spirit, a messianic vision of human warfare stretched to the flashpoint of technological and moral breakdown.
  23. It's a mad cycle of arrogance and despair, and Bloody Sunday etches it onto your nervous system.
  24. Leaves you shaken and ecstatic at the same time, transported by the vision of a major film artist.
  25. You could trawl the seven seas and not net a funnier, more beautiful, and more original work of art and comedy than Finding Nemo.
  26. This is a great film, and a triumph of creativity and courage over repression.
  27. Topsy-Turvy reminds us that, in any age, creative expression is at once the most personal and most communal of enterprises.
  28. The most excitingly original movie of the year.