Village Voice's Scores

Select another publication »
For 11,162 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 7.6 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 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
11162 movie reviews
view
per page
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Siege
    An intramural debate masquerading as an action movie.
  2. American Movie
    Although I don't begrudge Borchardt his year of fame, what he doesn't seem to understand about his exploitation creeps me out.
  3. An Ideal Husband
    His film is hardly memorable, but it's amusing enough for two hours, and it never panders or cloys.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trekkies
    There's a great deal of love in Trekkies, Roger Nygard's warm and good-naturedly funny documentary about the world of Star Trek fandom.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Wood
    A diverting but uneven nostalgia trip.
  6. Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
    Code Unknown is Haneke's most expansive and, oddly, hopeful work -- not a gaze into the void, but a fierce attempt to scramble out of it.
  7. The Piano Teacher
    The Piano Teacher's study in lurid sexual pathology occasions a tour de force by Isabelle Huppert as the title character.
  8. Dirty Pretty Things
    Slick and sober, fiercely contemporary, and rigged by a fail-safe three-act structure, Dirty Pretty Things nimbly straddles the line between realism and popcorn pop, but it knows which side its bread is buttered on.
  9. Ça commence aujourd'hui
    Dynamic but preachy.
  10. The Quiet American
    In short, this new Quiet American is not only true to Greene's novel -- it has the effect of making the novel itself seem truer than it has ever been.
  11. The Rules of Attraction
    Roger Avary's crisp adaptation imbues the copious bad sex and general befuddlement of Bret Easton Ellis's solemn, echt '80s Bennington novel with a playfully obnoxious energy that is often funny and -- almost fun.
  12. Yossi & Jagger
    At 71 minutes, the movie is scarcely more than an anecdote. But vivid as it is in establishing a specific milieu, its economy is its strength.
  13. Amen.
    Costa-Gavras provides a post-war postscript to make clear that honesty is punished; cynicism survives.
  14. Out of Time
    In apparent atonement for whatever wayward thinking led him down the Freeman-Judd path, Franklin has transformed Out of Time into a highly felicitous comedy of infidelities and busted-up romances.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Nicely conveys a family trip abroad as seen from both the exhausted-parent and bewildered-infant points of view.
  16. Urbania
    Derails toward the end, becoming platitudinous, not to mention kitschy, but, given the Cheerios wholesomeness of most gay indies, its grief-stricken delirium is a welcome relief.
  17. Winged Migration
    Jacques Perrin's Winged Migration is merely about birds, and though you learn less about the various species Perrin circled the globe to document than you might from an afternoon with Animal Planet, you become intensely chummy with the process and labor of flying.
  18. In the Mirror of Maya Deren
    Annotating excerpts from the movies with oral history, Kudlacek's film is a well-wrought introduction not just to Deren but an under-leveraged chunk of the art world.
  19. Rock Star
    Raking over the same clichés as "Almost Famous," Rock Star is far less reverential -- it isn't burdened by generational nostalgia and doesn't take itself too seriously.
  20. Horns and Halos
    What emerges is not only an Underdog v. Simon Bar Sinister saga but a fascinating character study.
  21. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Not as skillful, subtle, or hilarious as "Some Like It Hot," but its anti-essentialism vis-à-vis gender roles is just as sharp and exhilarating.
  22. Joe Gould's Secret
    A quietly ambitious, well-wrought, and tastefully poignant treatment of two local literary legends.
  23. About Adam
    Hudson is ebullient, never cutesy, and her accent stays in tune.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Execution of Wanda Jean
    Achieves a torturous, race-against-time desperation.
  25. Left Luggage
    Krabbé alternates exaggeration with sentiment, but the main characters are relatively complex, and its surprise ending is genuinely affecting.
  26. Tupac: Resurrection
    Though the edits can be too living-room smooth, the passion and pathology on display transcend the Tabitha Soren overload.
  27. Summer of Sam
    A film in which many things seem to happen twice and others not at all.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ichi the Killer
    Underneath the spillage and flow of this gonzo activity, Miike layers a blood-stained commentary on a toxic world in which men offer protection to men but really end up dooming them to exist within a spasmodic, shambolic, and hypermasculine sphere of violence.
  29. Greendale
    A bargain-basement musical extravaganza.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Miracle
    Kurt Russell is terrific as coach Herb Brooks, psychological tactician out to redeem his being cut from the 1960 U.S. squad, the last one to beat the CCCP.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »