The New York Times' Scores

Select another publication »
For 20,324 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: 9,408 out of 20324
  2. Mixed: 8,449 out of 20324
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20324
20324 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. The Lady and the Duke
    The director manages to evade both the stuffy antiquarianism and the pandering anachronism that subvert so many cinematic attempts at historical inquiry.
  2. Unfaithful
    Ms. Lane has the role of her career in Connie, and her indelible (and ultimately sympathetic) performance is both archetypal and minutely detailed.
  3. The New Guy
    A bad-taste comedy with a heart.
  4. Diamonds and Rust
    A film that chugs along as listlessly as the ship itself, discovering moments of value in a sea of ennui.
  5. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
    Lagaan may look naïve; it is anything but. This is a movie that knows its business — pleasing a broad, popular audience -- and goes about it with savvy professionalism and genuine flair.
  6. A Man's Gotta Do
    Really, it's all as funny as a hernia.
  7. The Mystic Masseur
    A subtle, humorous, illuminating study of politics, power and social mobility.
  8. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    Plays like a nutty psychological mystery.
  9. ABC Africa
    You come away from his film overwhelmed, hopeful and, perhaps paradoxically, illuminated.
  10. Hollywood Ending
    Probably the worst thing you can say about Hollywood Ending is that it has one: it turns out that Mr. Allen wasn't being ironic after all, he just made a comedy that feels ironclad.
  11. Fleeing by Night
    The kind of old-fashioned, grown-up weepie in which the hearts of men and women are cracked, and the shards flutter through the story. Its directness is the movie equivalent of hot, fresh popcorn.
  12. Spider-Man
    Spider-Man, while hardly immune to these vices, is, like Mr. Maguire, disarmingly likable, and touching in unexpected ways.
  13. Grin Without a Cat
    A Grin Without a Cat is a work of extraordinary journalism, but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry, visual (in the rhyming of gestures and shapes across images and sequences) as much as verbal.
  14. Spiral
    Perhaps the most gripping thing about the ultimately disappointing Japanese horror film Uzumaki is the patient way the picture develops mood.
  15. Circuit
    There is a real subject here, and it is handled with intelligence and care.
  16. Sade
    In its quiet, literate way, the film is almost as subversive as its central character.
  17. Sex with Strangers
    It's the element of condescension, as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch, that finally makes Sex With Strangers so distasteful.
  18. Vulgar
    Too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy, Vulgar is, truly and thankfully, a one-of-a-kind work.
  19. For da Love of Money
    A loose but often amusing collection of gags.
  20. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    As this taut, viscerally propulsive insider's history of the sport in its early years skids and leaps forward with a jaunty visual panache, it is impossible not to be seduced by its hard-edged vision of an endless teenage summer.
  21. Life or Something Like It
    The relentless upbeatness of Life or Something Like It wrecks the possibility of either real laughter or genuine pathos.
  22. Jason X
    Even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of Todd Farmer's screenplay.
  23. Night at the Golden Eagle
    The visual intensity and the relentless degradation visited on the characters begins to feel prurient and dishonest.
  24. Rain
    The visual beauty of the film, rather than distracting from the troubling story, makes it more troubling still.
  25. The Salton Sea
    Quickly curdles into a nasty variation of the one-last-score genre.
  26. Some Body
    A shaky, uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves.
  27. Facing the Music
    Often feels like two movies loosely sewn together. By far the most compelling of the two is its portrait of Ms. Boyd, a woman who for all her quirks and self-dramatizing flourishes, emerges as a noble spirit on the side of the angels.
  28. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    An amiable, offhanded comedy about ethnic identity and last-chance romance.
  29. Murderous Maids
    Ms. Testud's performance, which earned her a César, the French Oscar, for most promising actress, is the source of the movie's lingering, troubling power.
  30. Mutant Aliens
    Plympton fails to develop compelling personalities for any of his characters.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »