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
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    Pacific Rim
    Laudable as its world-building is, the film drags not just in its interminable middle hour, but also during the redundant monster-on-mechawarrior smackdowns.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    A Girl and a Gun
    Director Cathryne Czubek’s well-researched, incredibly lively chronicle of the way guns are marketed to, coveted by, and portrayed with women is a vital glimpse into a cultural phenomenon.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    Absence
    What starts as a creepy, original conceit — mysterious Caesarean-section abductions during hospital stays — devolves quickly into standard talk-to-the-camera, jump-at-the-sounds, found-footage banality.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    Stuck in Love
    All those cliched literary trappings come together in Stuck in Love, but the final product feels more like a footnote than a finished work.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    The Lone Ranger
    This smart-looking but empty adventure — with a hero that looks more Tom Ford than John Ford — suffers from a shambling script, shifting tones and a surplus of villains. Clunky and drawn out, “Ranger” shoots blanks, even with the star power of Johnny Depp behind it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Joe Neumaier
    The Way, Way Back
    With his rapid-fire delivery and big heart, Rockwell makes Owen his version of “M*A*S*H”’s Hawkeye Pierce, but the film’s layers of well-observed truths go deeper than that.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    The Secret Disco Revolution
    Some may still be surprised at this fun, well-informed chronicle of what was happening in the U.S. as lighted floors, boogie shoes and Saturday night fevers were the rage.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    Petunia
    Even in shabbily put together dramedies, such as this one, there can be a glimmer of light. Here it’s Christine Lahti’s anguished, nuanced turn as a wife and mother excited to begin a new phase with her husband.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    White House Down
    Perhaps afraid that watching a symbol of liberty repeatedly go boom isn’t enough, Emmerich and screenwriter James Vanderbilt add family drama, an attack on Congress, a plane crash and the possible nuking of the Middle East. What isn’t tonally jarring ends up shatteringly inept.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 0 Joe Neumaier
    Maniac
    This poor man’s Norman Bates, though, doesn’t make us wonder what makes him tick; he makes us want to shut our eyes.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    The Attack
    A gripping, personal examination of a seemingly unresolvable conflict.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Downloaded
    A fascinating, alternate-universe look at the dawn of the music-sharing phenom — once a cause of concern in the industry, yet now a footnote to our all-digital music marketplace.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    World War Z
    It is no summer thriller. It’s an anemic actioner that fosters excitement like dead limbs as it lumbers toward a conclusion.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    Berberian Sound Studio
    Fans of Dario Argento and Mario Bava will appreciate the references. Even for newcomers, there are minor chords to enjoy. If only there were less screaming.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Joe Neumaier
    Hatchet III
    The crowd that likes these things will certainly be psyched. Everyone else, not so much.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    The Bling Ring
    Narratively static and morally banal. That may be par for the course, however, when half the movie is spent watching shallow kids try on other people’s clothes.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Man of Steel
    The serious-minded result has many super-cool moments. But when it gets clunky, it’s super-meh.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    The Internship
    Who let an unfunny, irritatingly acted two-hour commercial for Google onto multiplex screens?
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Joe Neumaier
    Free Samples
    Weixler is a delight, and director Tom Gammill captures the right level of deadpan to pull this off.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    Syrup
    This dark lark is like walking around Times Square looking at the flashy logos and lights and thinking you see the message behind the medium.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    Wish You Were Here
    Though much of the film is overcooked and overwrought, it’s well-played, and writer-director Kieran Darcy-Smith keeps us guessing, and watching.
    • 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.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    Violet & Daisy
    Gandolfini scoops up another chance to show off the gentleness he left at home during six seasons of “The Sopranos.”
    • 41 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    The Purge
    The movie even makes night-vision-goggle scares more irksome, a rare feat.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Neumaier
    The East
    As the cracklingly cool The East shows, they’re the real deal. It’s not easy to make a thriller where brains and guts are so clearly in cahoots.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 0 Joe Neumaier
    After Earth
    Summer 2013 has its first bomb, and sadly, it’s landed right on Will Smith.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Joe Neumaier
    Epic
    Even young would-be botanists will find this charmless animated adventure as exciting as watching grass grow.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Joe Neumaier
    Before Midnight
    Delpy and Hawke, who’ve invested this trilogy with the fine shadings of life lived, do extraordinary things with small moments.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 80 Joe Neumaier
    The Hangover Part III
    Galifianakis, though, is the key here. Able to smash a scene to smithereens with the simplest of lines, the hirsute comic is as unpredictable as ever, yet takes director Todd Phillips’ bait to up the stakes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 40 Joe Neumaier
    Frances Ha
    Aiming for lightness but landing with a thud, Frances Ha is a well-meaning blunder. Director Noah Baumbach’s ode to Brooklyn twentysomething life is a flibbertigibbet fable that, like a self-absorbed flirt you meet at a party, grates on the nerves despite being easy on the eyes.
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