New York Magazine (Vulture)'s Scores

Select another publication »
For 3,956 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,217 out of 3956
  2. Mixed: 1,376 out of 3956
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3956
3956 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. The Anniversary Party
    A heavy dose of movie-colony narcissism posing as warts-and-all honesty.
  2. Bride of the Wind
    Beresford, can't bring this saga to life because Alma herself never fully comes to life; her contradictoriness, like the way she embraces Mahler only to rail against his "Jewish music," doesn't add up to a whole and complex human being.
  3. Rape Me
    Sordid Thelma & Louise-ish spree, which also has certain affinities with Breathless but would be better termed Affectless.
  4. The Road Home
    Predictable, not so much from his (Zhang Yimou) previous movies as from the work of the many sentimentalists who have already plowed this well-tilled turf.
  5. Pearl Harbor
    For all its agonizing true-life trappings, has the staying power of a grand-scale video game. Manhattan's sushi bars are in no danger of going dark.
  6. Our Song
    iIsn't really much more than a funny, touching little squiggle, but it has a bracing honesty and pays particular heed to the betweenness in people's lives, to how much goes on when nothing seems to be going on at all.
  7. Angel Eyes
    Together, Lopez and Caviezel make quite a pair. Sorrowful yet hip, they seem to be inventing a new mood: designer melancholia.
  8. Shrek
    The script, instead of being what we tolerate in order to savor the visuals, is a delight all by itself.
  9. Moulin Rouge!
    It's like being trapped inside a fever dream of Oscar-night production numbers.
  10. Startup.com
    There's something a bit condescending about how the movie devolves into a falling-out-between-friends scenario, as if the only way our attention could be held by this subculture were if it was presented to us sentimentally.
  11. Bread and Roses
    Loach has gotten hold of a marvelous subject -- the invisibility of the working poor in the environs of the rich -- that keeps you watching despite all the banner-waving.
  12. A Knight's Tale
    For all its hipness, the movie serves up some awfully old chestnuts.
  13. The Man Who Bought Mustique
    Glenconner is such a class-conscious caricature that he doesn't need the filmmakers to do him in; he does a sterling job all by himself.
  14. Eureka
    His (Aoyama) existential odyssey is so attenuated and aloof that he turns suffering into an art thing.
  15. Time and Tide
    It's an opulent, if instantly disposable, kinetic joyride.
  16. Under the Sand
    Creepily evocative.
  17. Town & Country
    Sets up a cast -- and then proceeds to knock them down like ducks in a shooting gallery.
  18. The Golden Bowl
    What makes Nolte so much stronger than the other performers is precisely this sense of mysteriousness and indirection, which doesn't really correspond to the Adam Verver of the novel but certainly jibes with James's overall method.
  19. Driven
    Driven is recommended only to those gentle souls who want to know what it looks like to crash into a wall at 200 mph.
  20. Harry Is Here to Help
    As murderous amusements go, the film is mildly diverting, but it's like a faint facsimile of a Claude Chabrol film.
  21. The Luzhin Defence
    The stage is set for a wonderful movie, and yet The Luzhin Defence, based on the Vladimir Nabokov novel The Defense, never courts greatness.
  22. The Center of the World
    The dance he (Wang) ended up with is on the wrong lap.
  23. Bridget Jones's Diary
    The filmmakers spend so much time milking gags they should have called it Bridget Jones's Dairy.
  24. The Circle
    In The Circle, which is banned in Iran, the enforced society of women is, in effect, a community of adults treated as children.
  25. Blow
    It downplays the effects of George's drug trafficking, not so much on himself and his cronies as on the wrecked lives of the generation of customers we never get to see.
  26. Along Came a Spider
    There's not much here for a great actor to sink his teeth into once, let alone twice.
  27. The Tailor of Panama
    The film starts out as a freewheeling farce and turns into a pitch-black burlesque with surprising depths of feeling.
  28. Amores Perros
    It's a truly prodigious piece of work, resembling a career summation far more than a maiden voyage.
  29. Heartbreakers
    What is the great Gene Hackman doing in the dingbat con-artist comedy Heartbreakers.
  30. Enemy at the Gates
    It's as if an obsessed movie nut had decided to collect every bad war-movie convention on one computer and program it to spit out a script.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »