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. The choice made by Kevin Spacey in taking on the role of Quoyle in the film adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Shipping News nearly sinks it. But not quite.
  2. A thoroughly entertaining animated comedy that's sweet enough for the youngest moviegoers, and smart enough for the most cynical chaperone.
  3. Dylan's stoner comedy barely manages to string together a story, but lucky for him, his two stars radiate charisma even when they're hidden behind clouds of smoke.
  4. Sven Wollter and Viveka Seldahl give superb performances as the couple, a once-vigorous conductor and his orchestra's concertmistress. But soon ... well, you know the drill.
  5. This is another brilliant performance by Crowe, who is to body language what Meryl Streep is to accents.
  6. Has sentimental goo oozing from its opening frame, and the gunk gets so thick so fast, it's a wonder the projector doesn't freeze before the molasses-strapped finale.
  7. An unimaginative schoolyard-bully comedy.
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  8. Must be the smartest -- and most disturbing -- movie about parenthood in ages.
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  9. For Hobbitués and adventure fans of all other ages, it's the year's best thrill ride -- maybe the best film.
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  10. A delicately upbeat, even humorous celebration of love and sacrifice.
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  11. In addition to the strong script, the ensemble performances are topnotch, with no one hogging the limelight.
  12. The performances are all terrific, but Gene Hackman is close to a career best as the family patriarch Royal, the most useless man you can't help loving.
  13. Among the unforgettable images is that of artificial limbs floating to earth on parachutes, while below, one-legged men on crutches race each other to the prizes.
  14. Occasionally funny but ultimately desperate comedy.
  15. The title doesn't hint at the unsavory mess the film actually is.
  16. The story, which was inspired by an Albanian novel and the Greek tragedies of Aeschylus, ends with a literary patness. But it's still a potent tale of fraternal love and the loss of innocence.
  17. It's always admirable when a director decides to make a risky film. On the other hand, it's not quite as commendable to also make a boring one.
  18. The cat-and-mouse game between the patient and doctor and the coy is-he-or-isn't-he? game being played on us by the filmmakers becomes tiring.
  19. So sudsy it should have been rinsed off before being allowed into theaters.
  20. Yet another deceptively simple, supremely moving film from Iran.
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  21. An evocative melancholy hangs over Princesa, Henrique Goldman's intermittently affecting tale.
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  22. It is remarkably, unsentimentally dramatized by Fred Schepisi, courtesy of the pitch-perfect performances of its ensemble British cast.
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  23. Writer-director Danis Tanovic, a Bosnian who spent years documenting his homeland's turmoil, makes a bold feature-film debut with this funny, sobering message movie.
  24. The movie tells you right up front you're going to get what you came for: big stars, winking inside jokes and a spin on something so familiar it doesn't matter that you don't buy it for one minute. You're not meant to.
  25. Everything you might want in a road movie: an off-the-cuff sense of adventure, a winningly scruffy charm and a whip-smart sense of humor.
  26. It may take a half-hour to get one's bearings, but there's a payoff in the subsequent charm of this nearly wordless, surreal comedy set in a decrepit bathhouse in Bulgaria.
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  27. A claustrophobic psychodrama.
  28. The salvaging operations, and the scavenging of B-52 parts for retail recycling and junk art that seem to consume most of the film take it to tedium, and beyond.
  29. This sob story is a tough sell.
  30. There aren't many better examples of how commercial intuition sabotages story integrity in today's Hollywood.

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