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 8.1 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. Chevy Chase looks tired, Pam Grier looks embarrassed, and pop star Iggy Pop gives a performance that -- if you can believe it -- is even sillier than his name.
  2. Never gets at what makes Quek tick.
    • New York Daily News
  3. There's only so much meaningful interplay you can get out of a beachful of slackers and some tanning oil.
  4. Blakeney's script contains more hackneyed dialogue and misfired jokes per minute than would seem possible, and the result embarrasses every actor in it.
  5. For the initiated, the third time's a charm. For everyone else, it's just a scream.
  6. To be avoided by anyone considering a vacation to anything wilder than a zoo.
  7. One of those bright ideas for a TV sketch that convinces someone it's too good to waste on the small screen. It's not.
  8. Could well end up on the coming Oscar ballot for best foreign language film.
  9. Intermittently funny.
  10. Truly weird and unworkable thriller.
  11. Just another cutesy, rather toothless comedy about the pitfalls of first love.
  12. It just goes to prove that in space, no one can hear you scream when the studio massacres your movie.
  13. Certainly there are people who will welcome this kind of "wholesome" family entertainment, but it feels false.
  14. Whether it's any good depends on your expectations.
  15. Washington can bank on an Oscar nomination for the most forceful work of his career.
  16. It tries to be more existential than gumshoe but falls way short.
  17. Ron Shelton's boxing pic is long on road work but strictly a flyweight.
  18. Julie Taymor's beautifully stylized but nauseatingly violent adaptation of Shakespeare's first play.
  19. No masterpiece, but in a season dominated by films as heavy -- and about as time-consuming -- as brain surgery, a little brain candy is sweet.
  20. Matt Damon's performance isn't bad, but it pales in comparison with Law's.
  21. While the football sequences are carefully constructed, the sensation we get from the blizzard of images and teeth-jarring sound effects is of having our head used as the football.
  22. The question is not whether the movie exactly duplicates the experience of the book, but whether the movie stands on its own. Angela's Ashes clearly does.
  23. Carrey gives an otherworldly, possessed performance as Kaufman.
  24. A prettily photographed yet morbidly gloomy movie.
  25. Unusual in that it spotlights a common but largely unsung variety of teenage female angst.
  26. A hive of broad, brilliant performances.
  27. If you're seeking transcendent love this season, skip the morose "End of the Affair" and go with Anna and the King.
  28. Makes you appreciate opera, or NoDoz.
  29. Parents, who are more apt to be bored by the simple story line, are going to be amazed nevertheless by the smooth, convincing animation that lends Stuart his lifelike physicality and expressive facial gestures.
  30. Star-packed fiasco.

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