New York Daily News' Scores

Select another publication »
For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
6911 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Returner
    Overwrought and overlong, Returner might been a rousing B-movie -- had it not been hamstrung by Yamazaki's bigger pretensions.
  2. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Queen Latifah, as the proprietor of the ­lady's salon next door to Calvin's, brightens things up in the brief appearances that serve as symbiotic promotion for the producers' coming spin-off movie, "Beauty­ Shop."
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    King Arthur
    This version has action, yes, but the love triangle among Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot is diluted, and there's nothing exuberant about a dutiful slog through the muck.
  4. Sex Is Comedy
    A strange creature, a narcissistic mock documentary.
  5. The Caveman's Valentine
    Offers a dazzling showcase for Samuel L. Jackson.
  6. Irina Palm
    Plays like a throwback to gritty-but-softhearted English dramas of the 1980s like "Mona Lisa" and "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid."
  7. Bootmen
    What sets Bootmen apart from the vast competition is its exuberant, sexy tap-dancing, but that's mostly relegated to the grand finale.
  8. The Rising Place
    As earnest as its artless young characters, Tom Rice's intermittently affecting debut walks a well-trod path without finding anything very new.
  9. ...So Goes the Nation
    George Bush supporters may think this dissection of the President's narrow and decisive 2004 election victory in Ohio is better than sex. But Democrats and Bush voters who have come to rue the day are more likely to compare it to losing the World Series on a seventh-game walkoff home run.
  10. Baby Boy
    Despite the audience pandering -- not just in its violence, but in its wall-to-wall sexual vulgarity -- there are terrific elements in Baby Boy.
  11. The Producers
    If you have seen the play, especially if you've seen it with the original cast, treasure the memory and protect it. The movie will attack it like a virus.
  12. Skins
    Eyre offers a merciless, affecting portrait of reservation life, but his relevant themes eventually wash away in a sea of unnecessary sentimentality.
  13. Resurrecting the Champ
    The film itself is a tedious melodrama whose sole saving grace is the performance of Samuel L. Jackson as Tommy Kincaid.
  14. Great World of Sound
    The joke is that the salesmen believe they're actually trying to discover talent and - like the people they're encouraging - are victims.
  15. House of D
    Sappy and improbable.
  16. Windtalkers
    The strength of Windtalkers is in its occasional, all-too-short respites from battle, when Enders is struggling with his demons and Yahzee is trying to understand his aloofness.
    • New York Daily News
  17. Kids in America
    Overall, though, you get the exhausting feeling that Stolberg is desperately trying to prove how cool he is. And didn't you see enough of that in high school?
  18. Rush Hour 3
    This may be the best-looking film in the series; certainly, the Paris setting, with a climactic battle among the girders of the Eiffel Tower, keeps the visuals interesting. Better you buy a postcard.
  19. The Princess Diaries
    Prepubescent girls might get a few safe giggles while others around them are yawning.
  20. Adorenarin doraibu
    Feels like any number of forgettable American teen comedies in which the nerd gets the girl and/or the money.
  21. God, Sex & Apple Pie
    The production values are impressively slick and a few performances are polished, but it's not much more than "The Big Chill" on a little budget.
  22. The Minus Man
    There are absolutely no psychological insights into sick minds in The Minus Man, a poky, opaque drama with a good cast and not much going on upstairs.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bobby G. Can't Swim
    Manages to distinguish itself with a strong central performance and a mostly low-key approach to the subject matter.
  24. Secret Society
    On my list of favorite sports, I rank sumo wrestling just ahead of the truck pull, so I'm not a prime candidate for a "Full Monty" wanna-be about female sumo wrestlers.
    • New York Daily News
  25. Firewall
    Ford, soon to be eligible for Medicare, gives his entire performance without losing his breath or changing his expression, and Bettany, a British actor whose pasty complexion won him the role of Silas the Albino in the coming "The Da Vinci Code," is an apt tormentor cum foil of his prey.
  26. Are We Done Yet?
    After allowing sadistic violence and whining children to invade his movie like a horde of termites, Carr tries to put one over on us by tacking on a sentimental ending. But as any homeowner could have told him, you can't disguise a weak foundation with a cheap finish.
  27. Strayed
    Beautifully shot, and graced with another winning performance from the lovely Beart, Strayed nevertheless fails because the relationship between Odile and Yvan never makes us feel the sexual passion it implies.
  28. Sleepover
    A lazy attempt to snare some preadolescent allowance money, Sleepover earns little more than a few bored yawns.
  29. 25th Hour
    To say Spike Lee is repeating himself is itself repetitious -- he is getting B-O-R-I-N-G!
  30. Luther
    But for that one bright, incongruous yuk-fest in the classroom, Luther is deadly material, full of self-righteousness and devoid of balance.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »