 At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 75, based on 20 reviews.Album of the Year assessed the critical consensus as 84 out of 100, based on six reviews.Alex Needham of "NME" hailed "The Eminem Show" as a "fantastic third album" that "is bigger, bolder and far more consistent than its predecessors".