Entertainment Weekly was more positive, giving the film a " B -" rating, and Owen Gleiberman praised the Pearl Harbor attack sequence: " Bay's staging is spectacular but also honorable in its scary, hurtling exactitude ...

Entertainment Weekly gave the film an " A " rating, and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " Yet if Linklater captures the comic goofiness of the time, he also evokes its liberating spirit.

" However, Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that " Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka may be a stone freak, but he is also one of Burton's classic crackpot conjurers, like Beetlejuice or Ed Wood.

" Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " The movie is full of jaunty, Grand Guignol touches ( the main gangster enjoys snapping and collecting fingers ), but Raimi's images also have a spectral, kinetic beauty ".

" Likewise, Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B -" grade and said, " The Mummy would like to make you shudder, but it tries to do so without ever letting go of its jocular inconsequentiality.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly rated the movie B and said, " Branagh, in his most forceful non-Shakespeare screen performance, grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wit.

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " The Way of the Gun plays like an unusually ritzy festival circuit audition film, though McQuarrie, it must be said, aces the audition ".

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly said that " Schrader's film is a notch better than Harlin's, but when you boil out the demon feathers, it's the same damn movie.

Though DiCaprio's performance was generally well-received, with Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman writing that " the shockingly androgynous DiCaprio looks barely old enough to be playing anyone with hormones, but he's a fluid and instinctive actor, with the face of a mischievous angel ," he was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year.

Entertainment Weekly gave the film an " A " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " It's a pleasure to be in the hands of an action filmmaker who respects the audience.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C, saying it " works hard to be exciting, but the movie scarcely lives up to its title.

Owen Gleiberman, of Entertainment Weekly reviewed the film negatively, stating, " To say that Houston and Costner fail to strike sparks would be putting it mildly.

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " C " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " I'm disappointed to report that Hudson and Watts have no chemistry as sisters, perhaps because Watts never seems like the expatriate artiste she's supposed to be playing ".

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " D " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " What's most grating about Hackers, however, is the way the movie buys in to the computer-kid-as-elite-rebel mystique currently being peddled by magazines like Wired ".

" Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that " the propulsive, at times borderline preposterous popcorn-thriller storylines ; the slice-and-dice editing and the images that somehow managed to glow with grit ; the fireball violence, often glimpsed in smeary-techno telephoto shots ; the way he had of making actors seem volatile and dynamic and, at the same time, lacking almost any subtext " were qualities of Scott's films that both " excited audiences about his work " and " kept him locked outside the gates of critical respectability.

In his review for Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman gave the film a " B +" rating and wrote, " It's a delight to watch Roberts, with her flirtatious sparkle and undertow of melancholy, ricochet off Finney's wonderfully jaded, dry-as-beef-jerky performance as the beleaguered career attorney who knows too much about the loopholes of his profession to have much faith left in it ".

" Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " Hopper still hasn't learned how to pace a movie, but working from Charles Williams ' 1952 novel Hell Hath No Fury he comes up with a reasonably diverting hothouse yarn.

Owen Gleiberman, film critic for Entertainment Weekly, wrote " I'm not generally in the habit of praising documentaries for being good for you, but Food, Inc. is more than a terrific movie — it's an important movie, one that nourishes your knowledge of how the world works ( or, in this case, has started not to work ).

" According to Owen Gleiberman, " Hodges ... still knows how to unspool a mystery with a hypnotic pace of sadistic intrigue.

Entertainment Weekly film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote in his review, " How bad is From Justin to Kelly?

Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman stated that " Lane, in the most urgent performance of her career, is a revelation.

Owen Gleiberman gave the film a grade of " B ", saying " the movie is full of absurdist fripperies we're meant to find magically funny ; mostly they're just cute ( Sam cooking up grilled cheese sandwiches with an iron, a poker game in which a snorkel mask and baseball tickets are used as stakes ).

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B +" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " This is Clooney ’ s wiliest, most complex star turn yet.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly called Swank a " revelation " and noted that " by the end, her Brandon / Teena is beyond male or female.

" Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " D " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " What isn't in evidence is the sort of overheated lunacy that made the William Hurt speed-freak trip movie Altered States ( 1980 ) such delectable trash.

" Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly gave it a positive review, stating, " Menace II Society is bleak, brilliant, and unsparing.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave a positive review with B +, he stated, " From the get-go, The Recruit is one of those thrillers that delights in pulling the rug out from under you, only to find another rug below that.

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " Norton, cast in what might have once been the Sean Penn role ( hideous shirts, screw-you attitude ), gives Worm a shifty, amphetamine soul and a pleasing alacrity ... Norton's performance never really goes anywhere, but that's okay, since the story is just an excuse to lead the characters from one poker table to the next ".

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B -" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " Stallone does a solid, occasionally winning job of going through the motions of shedding his stardom, but the wattage of his personality is turned way down — at times, it's turned down to neutral.

" Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman awarded the film an " A -" grade and praised Lane for delivering " the most urgent performance of her career ", writing that she " is a revelation.

However, Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " C -" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " The Ref is crushingly blunt-witted and monotonous in its celebration of domestic sadism ".

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that, " what makes Crimson Tide a riveting pop drama is the way the conflict comes to the fore in the battle between two men.

" Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote, " The Mambo Kings is most fun when it practically dares you to swoon.

When The Red Balloon was re-released in the United States in late 2006 by Janus Films, Entertainment Weekly magazine film critic Owen Gleiberman, praised the film's direction and simple story line that reminded him of his youth, and wrote, " More than any other children's film, The Red Balloon turns me into a kid again whenever I see it ... see The Red Balloon is to laugh, and cry, at the impossible joy of being a child again.

Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “ In the end, The Paper offers splashy entertainment that's a lot like a daily newspaper itself -- hot news cools fast .” Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B " rating and Owen Gleiberman praised Michael Keaton's performance: " Keaton is at his most urgent and winning here.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly chided the film for its "... solemn zeitgeist chic ," and called it "... way too self-conscious ," but ultimately decided that " Grand Canyon is finally a very classy soap opera, one that holds a generous mirror up to its audience's anxieties.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a D, stating that the film " starts out as a neo-Pygmalion comedy " and with " its tough-hooker heroine, it can work as a feminist version of an upscale princess fantasy.

The film generated broadly mixed reviews, with Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly describing Gyllenhaal's subplot as " over-the-top ".

" Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly praised it mostly for its great acting performance saying " The actors are terrific, especially Weaving, who plays bottoming out as a tragedy spiked with gallows humor, and Blanchett, who digs deep into the booby-trapped nature of recovery.

Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman gave him a negative review, describing his performance as overacting.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly remarked on Dunst's ability to " lend even the smallest line a tickle of flirtatious music.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote: " It has the purity, the ecstatic freedom of imagination, that's the hallmark of the greatest children's films.

Entertainment Weekly magazine's Owen Gleiberman ranked Speed as the eighth best film of 1994.

" On the movie's twentieth anniversary, Gleiberman wrote another article explaining his review, ultimately saying that although he felt he was right, he'd have given it a B today.

Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman gave the film a " C +", stating " A watchable bad movie, but it's far from your typical cookie-cutter blockbuster.

Owen Gleiberman, writing for Entertainment Weekly, complimented Sandra Bullock's performance, saying " Bullock pulls you into the movie.

" Other top critic Peter Rainer commented " Dazzlingly singular movies aren't often this much fun " in his review, and Owen Gleiberman boldly stated that he felt it was " The most excitingly original movie of the year.

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " Rodriguez and Tarantino have taken the let -' em-eat-trash cynicism of modern corporate moviemaking and repackaged it as junk-conscious ' attitude.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly, rated the film C, calling it a " glib comedy " and adding, " Hedges shoves his characters into sitcom slots and seals them there.

" Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " C +" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote " Point Break makes those of us who don't spend our lives searching for the ultimate physical rush feel like second-class citizens.

Entertainment Weekly gave it a " B -" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " Most of the characters are too goofy to register.