Village Voice's Scores

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 7.7 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:
11162 movie reviews
  1. An unusually rich music doc.
  2. Inept as a thriller, Place Vendôme nevertheless intrigues.
  3. Not nearly the mindfuck it wants to be.
  4. Offers some interesting twists for connoisseurs.
  5. At once simple-mindedly didactic and utterly chaotic, Steal This Movie! is interspersed with fake headlines and botched history.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Simultaneously hilarious and reprehensible.
  6. Filled with vivid and likable characters, The Opportunists could be the basis for a TV series as captivating as "The Sopranos."
  7. Smartly written, unevenly executed.
  8. Relies on the hefty talents of its two leading ladies.
  9. This sweet, pensive gabfest is neither conventionally romantic nor pornographic.
  10. A callous piece of work that exploits images of children in pain or jeopardy.
  11. Has the grace to send the audience out with a piece of Waters-written rap.
  12. Lame even by triumph-of-the-underdog sports-comedy standards.
  13. Can any American filmmaker other than the Farrellys make a rom-com in which the principals engage in activities apart from the tiresomely tireless dissection of rom?
  14. A sympathetic but conventional disease-of-the-week movie.
  15. Constipated English whimsy for the easily tickled.
  16. The viewer is left to ponder the number of levels on which this counts as a pointless exercise -- a parody of parodic movies, a deconstruction of transparent genres, a self-negatingly knowing example of camp.
  17. I'd rather eat ball bearings.
  18. Gleefully confrontational in its ludicrous, pulpy tawdriness.
  19. An entertainingly raffish action-comedy.
  20. A progressive but not very funny comedy of manners.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Suffers from a serious case of sophomore slump.
  21. As documentary filmmaking, it's cheap and suspect. As advocacy, it's necessary.
  22. Painless -- not particularly funny and not even remotely moving.
  23. There's not a false note among the performances: Henderson, Hart, Shepherd, Markham, and in particular McKee add unspoken complexities to their portrayals.
  24. To my mind, the greatest film by Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami.
  25. A tender and hilarious vision of female adolescence.
  26. Cannot help but be merely another debacle that Tammy Faye will survive, eyelashes and integrity intact.
  27. Its awkward mix of polemic and melodramatics probably won't travel very well.
  28. As ethereal, moving, and uncompromising as its subject.

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