The New York Times' Scores

Select another publication »
For 20,335 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
20335 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Brown Sugar
    Sustains the charm of an early 60's New York romance.
  2. Family Fundamentals
    An earnest study in despair.
  3. The Business of Fancydancing
    Although the film is initially clumsy and a little hard to follow, Mr. Alexie takes his time in setting his characters in play, and the visual clunkiness becomes secondary to the eloquent emotional desolation.
  4. Interview with the Assassin
    Mr. Burger has a performer who can dart between stentorian self-assurance and cringing pathos, maintaining his character's ambiguity until the final sequence of this resourceful and ingenious entertainment.
  5. Kaaterskill Falls
    Establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly, and if the suspense never rises to a higher level, it is nevertheless maintained throughout.
  6. Himalaya
    Somehow, in spite of the stunning vistas and some witty and affecting moments, the story seems to unfold at a distance; the human drama is diminished by the setting rather than amplified by it.
  7. Breakfast of Champions
    The movie looks and feels like a frantic, live-action psychedelic cartoon.
  8. Les amants criminels
    Such an amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories that it never develops a life of its own.
  9. Claire Dolan
    Cartlidge's beautifully still performance, mournful one moment, defiant the next, lets you see into Claire's soul without editorializing or begging for our empathy.
  10. The Caveman's Valentine
    Works as everything but a mystery, yet it is intriguing in a number of ways. And the ending is as resolute as you might have hoped for. It lets Romulus and the movie retain their integrity.
  11. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    An engaging and colorful but somewhat overbalanced documentary.
  12. L'ennui
    Overly schematic, not always believable in its crude sexual mechanics and ultimately unsensual. But it lays out the laws of erotic attraction with a brutal directness that is downright scary.
  13. Tuvalu
    Helmer's wildly whimsical debut film, Tuvalu, is the kind of movie that might one day find itself in the hall of fame of surreal movie weirdness alongside cult favorites like "Eraserhead," "Delicatessen" and the avant-garde frolics of Guy Maddin.
  14. The Turandot Project
    The sheer scale of the production, and the size of the venue, make the film interesting to watch.
  15. The Sticky Fingers of Time
    Works, in its deliberately low-key way.
  16. Luminous Motion
    It's a bit like "The Sixth Sense," but without the melodramatic comfort of the supernatural.
  17. The Operator
    If The Operator, which is Mr. Dichter's directorial debut, has a clever concept, it clasps it much too fiercely to its chest.
  18. Focus
    The movie's surreal style, with its film-noir camerawork and ominous lighting, turns the story into a fable about fear and nonconformism, and Mr. Macy's and Ms. Dern's carefully shaded caricatures match the mood.
  19. Final
    Though its story is fuzzy, the acting and direction in Final give it an air of quiet, dignified ambition.
  20. Duets
    Every so often a movie comes along that's bad in such original and unexpected ways that it inspires an almost admiring fascination
  21. Maelstrom
    Probably the first romantic drama ever narrated by a smelly dead fish.
  22. Undisputed
    Lacks more than subtext: it barely has text. At times, the picture seems to have been edited with a blowtorch. But it gets the job done efficiently and swiftly.
  23. Mad Love
    An often watchable, though goofy and lurid, blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century.
  24. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    Emerges as an engaging if occasionally hokey inspirational melodrama about the importance of community in the face of life's disappointments.
  25. The Basket
    Avoids succumbing to the preachiness that is the bane of so many family films, and for a movie like this, that's no small feat.
  26. All the Little Animals
    Would seem hokey if it didn't have powerful, extraordinary central performances and cinematography that lends the English landscape around Cornwall a mythical cast.
  27. Naqoyqatsi
    By far the grimmest of these nonnarrative, nonverbal cinematic tone poems with epic ambitions. Although none of the three could be described as cheery, Naqoyqatsi, whose title is the Hopi Indian term for war as a way of life, reeks of doomsday.
  28. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    The access the filmmakers gained to Junge is remarkable, and it compensates for a lack of cinematic flair; it's concrete, cold and hard, with Junge speaking about being a few feet away from arguably the worst tyrant of the 20th century.
  29. Rosetta
    Instead of feeling universal, the movie feels claustrophobic.
  30. The House of Mirth
    Almost in spite of itself, The House of Mirth is powerful, at times even moving.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »