New York Daily News' Scores

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:
6911 movie reviews
  1. Judging by the audience reaction -- there is apparently something funny about the idea of a man trying to hump a goat in heat.
  2. Mostly a lazy string of setups and sight gags, of tongue-in-cheek confrontations between the two stars that barely amount to sketches.
  3. The sex may be real, but the violence and acting are comically phony, resulting in something that, while intended to shock, merely revolts.
  4. Director Bezucha's eyes are as starry as Montana's sky, but it's pretty hard to resist such a determinedly utopian vision of love.
  5. If it weren't based on a true story, you might suspect Sydney McCartney's A Love Divided was created by a panel of militant Irish Protestants.
  6. The plot is woven from minutely observed details that beautifully evoke a rarely seen world.
  7. With so many cynical Hollywood romances cluttering theaters, Zhang Yimou's unabashed simplicity is most welcome.
  8. The 2,400 Americans who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor deserve a nobler memorial than this sentimental hogwash that reduces heroism to "Top Gun" antics and pretty cinematography.
  9. The result is a movie that talks big, even walks big, but has no scale whatsoever.
  10. That it all seems improvised on the spot (it was not) is testament to the power of a film that trusts its characters, its actors and its ultimate goal.
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  11. As usual, Thomson steers right into the heart of vulnerability, with a painfully true performance as a guarded, confused soul.
    • New York Daily News
  12. This rather limp Australian comedy shares "Bridget's" theme, but none of its panache.
  13. Crushingly realistic.
  14. A movie about healing that makes us want to scream out, ""Hollywood, heal thyself!"
  15. An adorable, infectious work of true sophistication.
  16. An audacious, snappy visual and emotional feast of dishes both familiar and fresh. It's the first really good movie of 2001.
  17. Some of the simplest shots give you the full picture of the price these guys paid for their dreams.
  18. It's an excellent fusion of subject and style.
    • New York Daily News
  19. With its cheerful hailstorm of anachronisms and classic-rock soundtrack, there's nothing medieval about it.
  20. Funny, yet appalling.
  21. With few laughs and no real poignancy, the movie's success rests squarely on Adam's oft-naked shoulders.
  22. Stanze is to be congratulated on raising the bar for horror avant-garde filmmaking on a shoestring.
  23. Introduces American audiences to Luo Yan, a charismatic Chinese-born actress now living in Los Angeles. She single-handedly nurtured this project to fruition, serving as producer, co-writer and star.
  24. Wrenching performances and painstaking visual and thematic compositions.
  25. A fascinating movie that explores grief from an emotionally truthful angle rarely seen in movies.
  26. A fine example of how a character-based story can be so compelling you don't miss the frills.
  27. The movie resembles a video game in which each victory whisks you to the next level, with slightly different antagonists and a faster pace.
  28. Deuces Wild is the worst thing to have happened to Brooklyn since the Ice Age severed it from the mainland.
  29. The Buis seem not to have complete confidence in their unique, imprecise style, which is too bad.
    • New York Daily News
  30. Vampire movies aren't what they used to be. How about a little mist, some shadows, some pale gray faces set off by stark red lips? Maestro, a little Transylvanian mood music, if you please.

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