Village Voice's Scores

Select another publication »
For 11,163 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11163
  2. Mixed: 4,554 out of 11163
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11163
11163 movie reviews
view
per page
    • 19 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    36 Saints
    The real problem with this film is that its voiceover at the beginning is its only real attempt at storytelling; there is no central character or quest to latch onto. There is only the senseless curse and its slow but sure fulfillment.
  2. The Prince
    Screenwriters Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore fail to conjure a single witty line. Nor is there any finesse to be found in director Brian A. Miller’s inept staging of car chases and shoot-outs.
  3. Kite
    In a film that pits the heroine directly against the sexualization of young women, the camera's gaze itself feels awfully exploitative.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Downloading Nancy
    The jump cuts and nonlinear narrative are gratuitously stylish, and when you peel away this film's complex performances, at the core of its drawn-out suicide spectacle is pain so extreme, so alienating, and, in the end, so pointless.
  5. Surviving Christmas
    This ghastly comedy emits the subliminal whine of a sucking chest wound.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Into the Fire
    If there's an element of Into the Fire that isn't rank and offensive, I've failed to find it.
  7. Supernova
    Apparently fallen victim to the transparent damage-control tactics of studios in possession of perceived stinkers.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    BloodRayne
    Our blood-smacking antiheroine, Rayne (Kristanna Loken), isn't a vampire; she's a dhampir, a half-human, half-vampire cross-fiend who's as anguished, strange, and sloppy as mercenaries, or movies, get.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Stripped Down
    It's a thriller, it's a strip-club soap opera, it's an inner-child reclamation inspirational - it's really unpleasant to look at.
  10. Swearnet: The Movie
    Canadian comedy hits rock bottom in this abhorrent meta-infomercial.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Ultraviolet
    Seems this is yet another puddle of futuristic sludge for us to blame on John Cassavetes.
  12. Company Man
    Bracingly unfunny.
  13. Gigli
    Gigli berates, insults, dismisses, throttles, and bellows at Bartha's meticulously aped retard, and then turns sensitive and warm—it's hard to decide which attitude is more insulting.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Cupid's Mistake
    Made with $980 and about as many brain cells, Cupid's Mistake is more cute than clever.
  15. Swept Away
    Merely an indulgent vehicle for Mrs. Ritchie -- and Madonna is so spectacularly convincing as a hateful, self-absorbed, nouveau riche ogress that her character's third-act transformation is as preposterous as her overmuscled physique.
  16. The Vanishing Of Sidney Hall
    The Vanishing of Sidney Hall fails to give its characters depth, leaving viewers with little more than a shallow white guy troubled by his fame.
  17. Movie 43
    It's the kind of thing you feel you should laugh at through a phlegmy, hacking cough-and it does get laughs, if inconsistently, predictable given the circumstances of production.
  18. Boat Trip
    The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame.
  19. Momentum
    Longtime camera operator Stephen S. Campanelli's directorial debut is frustratingly by-the-book, with all the trappings of a movie marketed to rowdy fifteen-year-old boys.
  20. The Nutcracker
    The wildest thing about this movie is its faith that what kids (and parents) really want for Christmas is a Nutcracker version of the Final Solution.
  21. The Apparition
    The Apparition is not a great or even good haunted-house movie, but it does have the advantage of a memorable setting.
  22. Turn It Up
    The staging and performances are awkward, the frequent shoot-outs a snore.
  23. Mother's Day
    By far the highest concentration of actual humor comes during the blooper reel over the end credits; free of the script’s saccharine constraints, the performers immediately demonstrate their chops.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Miriam
    So bad it doesn't ever approach being good, doesn't even go from bad to good and back to bad again--just bad bad bad, all the way through.
  25. I Hate Valentine's Day
    Vardalos calls her film "the ultimate indie experiment," and if that's what is meant by ham-fisted pacing, writing, and acting, this is as ultimate and as indie as it gets.
  26. Vice
    The film unspools with a momentum that mitigates its artless brutality, kinda, but it's a high-pressure firehose of stupid.
  27. 88 Minutes
    We may have to sit through worse films to come this year, but with any luck, there'll be none as guilelessly, idiotically misogynist as this one.
  28. Best Night Ever
    At best a fascinating sociological document of what happens when an all-male writing and production team portrays a girls' night out, Best Night Ever seems marketed to women but made for frat house consumption.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Extreme Ops
    The mountain would probably recommend that you save your money.
  30. I Will Follow You Into the Dark
    The scare tactics are rather ho-hum—suffocation nightmares, disappearing necklaces, loud noises—and the ending is incongruously sentimental. You'll be more frightened walking through a graveyard at dusk.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »