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. Evans fumbles through painfully extended homophobic jokes, weak double entendres and agonizingly contorted double-takes.
  2. It's a movie that should have been called on account of boredom.
  3. Silly supernatural Viking epic.
  4. The question is, how did the producers get the amiable, talented Jason Lee to Boogie Board down the toilet with (Green)?
  5. Ben Affleck's goose is cooked with Surviving Christmas, a movie that makes "Gigli" look like one of the crowning moments in his career.
  6. A depressingly hollow vehicle.
  7. You've got to admire Hilton's complete conviction in herself as the center of all that is beautiful and good. And maybe such unwavering self-regard is actually kind of hot. Or not.
  8. Overall the tone is dark and nasty, exemplified by the inelegant signature kung-fu move of the good guys -- a backward kick to the groin.
  9. A shell of a romantic fantasy festooned with characters inspired by and resembling those in the bar scene in "Star Wars," the waiting room in "Beetlejuice" and the circus in "A Bug's Life."
  10. Less a movie than an 80-minute promo for a self-help program for the seriously desperate.
  11. The screenwriters claim they got the idea for this dreary thing by glimpsing a besieged Chelsea Clinton in the stands at a basketball game.
  12. It all makes Nat Lamp's recent "Van Wilder" look like an instant classic.
  13. Earnest but practically unwatchable movie. I haven't spent an hour and a half with worse company since high school detention.
  14. The fog also does something genuinely eerie: It causes everyone in the cast to deliver dreadful performances and display inappropriate reactions when their friends are drowned, burned, stabbed or thrown into glass display cases.
  15. What really makes the jaw drop is the presence of so many talented actors in what seems like traditional TV treacle. Saddest of all is Debra Winger, reduced to playing the wife-as-wallpaper role. For this she came back to Hollywood?
  16. A postseason basketball comedy that shoots and misses at a rate that would embarrass even the Los Angeles Clippers.
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  17. A deadly script.
  18. An almost comically unsuitable title. There's absolutely nothing singular or special about this slapdash sci-fi film featuring martial-arts megastar Jet Li.
  19. Ultraviolet, unscreened for critics, is unfit for consumption.
  20. It's hard to know who is the intended audience for this misguided mess.
  21. Not only achingly dull, it has no respect for its origins.
  22. A stinker of epic proportions.
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  23. The movie's a botch, but at least it'll make you feel good about your own daily drudgery.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Working a lisping Southern accent that sounds like Truman Capote on Seconal, Sandler plays Bobby Boucher, a swamp-dwelling Cajun. [6 November 1998, p. 56]
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  24. Derivative to the point of distraction.
  25. Too superficial to shock or surprise.
  26. A cheaply voyeuristic story whose "twist" is hardly worth the wait.
  27. Apparently, the show’s appeal is due to the good-heartedness of its undereducated anti-heroes, but their kind of dumb grows old fast.
  28. A mediocre movie that will be wiped from its stars' résumés with head-spinning speed.
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  29. A failed experiment in magical realism that makes you wonder where the magic went.

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