Joe Neumaier

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New York Daily News
For 1,351 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 27% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 70% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 16.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Joe Neumaier's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 49
Highest review score: 100 Radio Unnameable
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 249 out of 1351
  2. Mixed: 796 out of 1351
  3. Negative: 306 out of 1351
1351 movie reviews
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Neumaier
    Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    Parents, take note: For all its heart, this is a tougher, more morally complex movie than its predecessors. Young kids carrying their miniversions of Cap’s famous shield may be in for a jolt.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    A Thousand Words
    If only this Eddie Murphy flick had taken its own advice and spent a little more time being reflective instead of hyperactive, it might have overcome a trite script and awful, obvious excuses for comedy.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    Off Jackson Avenue
    While Montias' actors do their best, even good intentions have limits. Still, it never feels false. And remember, even Martin Scorsese (born in Queens) had to start somewhere.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    Heartbeats
    The emotions veer from bawdy to sweet and then to obvious, though the film is stylish, and Dolan's artfulness helps when the movie loses focus.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    The Skin I Live In
    Almodovar makes some missteps in his icky mélange of melodrama and mischief, but the end result is playfully devious.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Neumaier
    A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story
    She's inexhaustible, seemingly everywhere at once and, throughout director Sara Hirsh Bordo's unblinking, well-directed film, she is absolutely and fearlessly herself. Which is exactly as it should be -- the world needs Lizzie Velasquez.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Joe Neumaier
    Doubt
    Directing the film of Doubt, Shanley is able to put an even finer point on his Tony-and Pulitzer-winning play about suspicion and guilt at a Bronx Catholic grade school in 1964.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    My One and Only
    The movie is filled with fun '50s Americana.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    Big Game
    There are parts of “Escape From New York,” “Air Force One,” “Cliffhanger” and countless Luc Besson movies strewn about. Big Game doesn’t stomp on their memory, but like an overenthusiastic fan, it does smother them with amateurish zeal.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Neumaier
    I Am Divine
    More than just a one-name star of pop culture’s alternative history, Divine’s story — terrorized by bullies, embraced by the outré, where he finds a home — stands for “all the outsiders,” as Waters says (between hilarious anecdotes).
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Neumaier
    Merchants of Doubt
    What the film doesn’t show enough of is how these people got their positions of power. We get much more of the other side, the legitimate scientists, and too much of a magician who pops up to describe cons and double-talk. But he shows how a bunko artist is a bunko artist, whether on a corner or on CNN.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Queen to Play
    Kline, who has done a lot of chewy character roles after several stage ­triumphs, is as sly and leonine as ever. His performance here obliterates that phony accent he used in "French Kiss."
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Rampart
    Harrelson though, is in every scene, and seeing him burn up Rampart is positively arresting.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Our Idiot Brother
    Despite a pleasantly laid-back demeanor, you wish it would just get focused.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    Last Ride
    Becomes too melodramatic and bleakly obvious. Weaving, though, as always, is never less than magnetic.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    Would You Rather
    With a bit less grisliness, it could have been a mystery dinner-theater performance.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    Contagion
    There's a sense of dread in Contagion, but it never spreads to us. When Day 1 is finally shown, it makes you want to eat better, which isn't the same as saying this is a great movie.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Waking Sleeping Beauty
    Watch for a cameo by young animator Tim Burton.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Warlords
    The scope of director Peter Chan's military drama is impressive, though this sometimes-rousing depiction of strategy and loyalty in mid-1800s China pales next to recent, similar historical epics like "Red Cliff" and "Mongol."
    • 70 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    At the Edge of the World
    A documentary with too much dead time between the arduous tasks at hand, never grabs a viewer because -- sad to say -- it's too dull.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
    As a look at how we got from there to here, “Evocateur” is one for the time capsule.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    The film is an exasperating bore.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Brave
    Gorgeously animated and featuring a tapestry of real-looking wonders, Brave is certainly a thing of beauty. But its emotional layers don't yield the same depth.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Dung che sai duk
    Only in its final scenes do the usual WKW themes emerge in full bloom, but purists shouldn't miss it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Neumaier
    Revolutionary Road
    As a whole, Sam Mendes' film of Revolutionary Road comes close but falls short of capturing Richard Yates' terrific novel.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Carnage
    It's a shame neither actress can truly "go for the jugular," as Alan says at one point. This is a work that would allow for it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    The Last Lions
    Riveting, especially since these animals' population has horrifyingly dropped from 450,000 to 20,000 in a half-century.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Neumaier
    Duplicity
    This is a role that the Julia Roberts of 1999 couldn't have played, and that's fine. The one we have here is much better.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Peepli Live
    Peepli Live may not consistently hit the mark, but it's savvy and humane, which goes a long way.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Digging for Fire
    The cool cast includes casual drop-ins from Sam Rockwell, Melanie Lynskey and Sam Elliott. The actors give off the feeling that we’ve wandered into the middle of a conversation among friends. This being a Swanberg movie, that’s kind of what is happening, complete with tiny epiphanies and people you want to hear keep talking.
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