The New York Times' Scores

Select another publication »
For 20,312 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: 9,400 out of 20312
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20312
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20312
20312 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Body Shots
    More focused on surface than true revelation.
  2. La Ciudad (The City)
    Indelible, deeply disquieting film.
  3. Men Cry Bullets
    A muddled film with John Waters aspirations.
  4. Crazy in Alabama
    Banderas directs capably enough to keep the film lively.
  5. Show Me Love
    The film has some charm and a winning simplicity but not an iota of depth.
  6. Bringing Out the Dead
    An intense, volatile film full of sorrow and wild, mordant humor.
  7. That's the Way I Like It
    Amounts to recycling rather than reinvention.
  8. Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
    Oddly charming.
  9. Julien Donkey-Boy
    The territory where the circus sideshow meets the avant-garde...visually arresting, dramatically blurry.
  10. The Story of Us
    Though it sets out to explain why this marriage is worth saving, The Story of Us could prompt even single members of the audience to file for divorce.
  11. 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.
  12. The Source
    A stirring, kaleidescopic documentary.
  13. Joe the King
    Dramatically Joe the King feels unglued, as if crucial sequences had been left on the cutting-room floor.
  14. The Straight Story
    Switching gears radically, bravely defying conventional wisdom about what it takes to excite moviegoers, Lynch presents the flip side of "Blue Velvet" and turns it into a supremely improbable triumph.
  15. Defying Gravity
    Plods along, never catching dramatic fire, sometimes suffering from amateurish acting and often relying on its intrusive and treacly music to impart mood and rhythm.
  16. Fight Club
    The sardonic, testosterone-fueled science fiction of Fight Club touches a raw nerve.
  17. New Rose Hotel
    Affirms that soft-core porn is alive and well in cyberpunk.
  18. Whiteboyz
    Deceptively silly, ultimately intelligent.
  19. The Sticky Fingers of Time
    Works, in its deliberately low-key way.
  20. Random Hearts
    The film confines them to an affair that is the sexual equivalent of Easy Listening.
  21. The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
    A one-joke mockumentary.
  22. The Grandfather
    Brims with understanding of the complexities of relationships, the frailties of humankind and the possibilities of joy.
  23. Beyond the Clouds
    The impact of these stories is not in the words but in the way the mood, texture and the acting build each situation into a visually intense parable about the similarity of spiritual, erotic and aesthetic aspiration.
  24. The Limey
    Among Soderbergh's widely varied films ("sex, lies and videotape," "Kafka," "The Underneath," "Schizopolis," "Out of Sight"), this one actually has the best chance of becoming anyone's sentimental favorite.
  25. Superstar
    A comedy with several good laughs but no convincing cohesion.
  26. Boys Don't Cry
    Stunning...a film much tougher and more transfixing than its wan title.
  27. Molly
    (Shue's) sweetly likable performance is the only coherent element in a film that has the impersonal feel of a television drama slapped together in a rush.
  28. Plunkett & Macleane
    None of it adds up to terribly much beyond a rip-roaring adventure that shows off Carlyle and Miller as cynical British city cousins of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
  29. Love, etc.
    Artfully treading a fine line between operatic tragedy and romantic comedy.
  30. Mystery, Alaska
    An upbeat meat-and-potatoes movie.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »