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. We're left with virtually no insight into the appeal of a movement that lasted 30 years.
  2. The story is a mess, some of the images offensive, the acting under par and the dialogue silly.
  3. Don't see The Inheritance if you're already depressed. This airless downer from Danish director Per Fly is about an heir who makes one wrong decision from which even lousier decisions effortlessly flow.
  4. This, the 10th and worst-written entry in the series, would have been better if it had followed Dreyfuss instead of Clouseau, or if Kline had been cast as Clouseau instead of Martin.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Ain't exactly the Bahama Mama of all horror pics. [13 November 1998, p. 56]
    • New York Daily News
  5. Crude and giggly.
  6. Ishii instills this unpleasantness with some Hitchcockian black humor.
  7. Whether he's the victim of poor directing or misguided ambition, Bass is almost entirely charisma-free.
  8. A desperately unfunny comedy that wastes a brand-name cast.
  9. An abysmal comedy that should have been strangled in its crib.
  10. The individual scenes are just random, uninspired riffs by Carvey or awkwardly flat cameos by the likes of Jesse Ventura and Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson.
  11. Mystifyingly bad given the talent involved, Southlander is an in-jokey, hipster escapade that appears to have been made on a drunken weekend because there was nothing better to do.
  12. This particular script is deplorable. It's a pure cribbing of Ron Bass' screenplay for "Sleeping With the Enemy," which was no prize itself.
    • New York Daily News
  13. In his new concert film, a train wreck of self-regard, self-pity and not-so-humble pie, Martin Lawrence doth protest too much.
  14. If you approach this movie in the right frame of mind -- that is, with total contempt -- you can still enjoy it as a comedy.
  15. Even diehard fans will get more out of watching a four-minute music video than they'll find in this mixed-up mess.
  16. "On Deadly Ground," "Out for Justice," "Marked for Death" these are the last times Seagal gave us nothing. With Fire Down Below, he outdoes himself. [6 Sept 1997, p.32]
    • New York Daily News
  17. Jackie Chan finally has met his match, an opponent so deadly that none of his considerable talent or charm can fight it -- a bad movie
  18. The movie is paint-by-numbers with several numbers skipped.
  19. Adam Rifkin's dank, relentless drama puts you savagely through the wringer without bothering to enlighten or entertain.
  20. There isn't a genuine laugh or a character who isn't a stereotype in The Cookout, a lifeless comedy featuring a cast of familiar faces who must have needed the paycheck.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The family's all here and surely, with all their accumulated years of wisdom, they should have been able to distinguish a cloying script when one fell into their hands.
  21. A mindless, cliche-riddled action-cartoon, a blur of metal and fire and screeching tires, with bad dialogue, cardboard characters and a volume set so high, it makes the Indianapolis 500 sound like chamber music.
  22. A story of miserable people leading miserable lives, Iowa is a sour vanity project: trash posing as a socially relevant "cautionary tale."
  23. It's a humiliating comedown for Ford, and he looks creaky and grumpy, obviously aware that he is miscast and dreading every scene.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Patch Adams is either a brilliantly sly, straight-faced parody of the standard Robin Williams tearjerker or the soggiest movie of the season. [24 December 1998, p. 29]
    • New York Daily News
  24. It's hard to say what's most disappointing about She Hate Me, Spike Lee's absurdly - and arrogantly overlong comedic drama. But there are plenty of options to choose from.
  25. It is not the worst movie ever made, as some critics claim, but it does a passing imitation.
  26. Unfocused and shrill.
  27. While there is a great deal of laughter among the quartet, there's scarcely a giggle in it for the audience.

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