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
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    If a movie smells like a dog and barks like a dog, well, then it must be a woofer.
  1. Brutal but somewhat endearing.
  2. A bad Altman impression of the L.A. rock scene.
  3. No other mainstream movie has so openly tackled the subject of female sexual experience.
  4. It could do without any kind of love story, let alone the one it got.
  5. The plot is formula all the way, but Lawrence has found a way to incorporate the physical techniques of the great silent stars with his standup comic's arsenal, and it's a pleasure to watch him at work.
  6. Offering often-hysterical testimony to Vilanch's talent.
  7. Feels less like history than a bad episode of "Mission: Impossible."
  8. Among the year's biggest disappointments.
  9. Both frustrating and instructive.
    • New York Daily News
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A fair amount of laughs and a spunky dose of charm from the three leads, which adds up to some meaningless, if perverted, fun.
  10. A tart, funny and tremendously sobering movie about the deepest recesses of personal unhappiness.
  11. There are absolutely no psychological insights into sick minds in The Minus Man, a poky, opaque drama with a good cast and not much going on upstairs.
  12. A solidly crafted, entertaining melodrama.
  13. Not just unromantic, it's unfunny, too.
  14. Sadly, a film about betrayal is ultimately betrayed by the film maker's own lack of conviction.
  15. The slapstick is broad to the point of overkill.
  16. By the time the credits roll and a disclaimer informs us that there may, in fact, be a lost gospel of Jesus and that it is being suppressed by the Church, all we can think to say is, "Ah, shaudup!"
  17. Hurt is slumming in an unchallenging role.
  18. It stands apart when it comes to its extravagant humor and non-judgmental '70s-era reality (smoking dope, hitching rides, playing Frisbee, hanging out).
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Most of the action revolves around Ulrich's character, and the center cannot hold our interest.
  19. Silly supernatural Viking epic.
  20. No second or third act... a one-joke premise and a hundred punchlines.
  21. Mostly pitched at a new crop of children who will detect the movie's mildly sarcastic, audience-winking tone with no problem.
  22. A well-acted and surprisingly thoughtful treatment of the same old, same old.
  23. Very much a freshman effort, lacking focus, edge.
  24. It strains to hard for laughs, with stale jokes about unweildy corpses.
  25. One of the reasons the move is so funny is that it is only a few degrees away from real life.
  26. One of Rohmer's more engaging slices of life. The acting is impeccable.
  27. Beneath the noisy, farcical surface of John Turturro's Illuminata is a thoughtful and unusually mature meditation on love.

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