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 7.7 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:
  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
  1. Godspeed: The Story of Page Jones
    While his story is moving, Godspeed would perhaps have been more powerful if Barry spent more time balancing Jones's relative good fortune with the monumental hurdles faced by the less fortunate with similar injuries, instead of touching upon the issue in the film's final minutes.
  2. Pan
    Jackman occasionally wins a laugh, when he manages to impose himself over the movie's restless clamor.
  3. Steve Jobs
    This is a swift and searing attempt to pull back the curtain on Jobs and, in the process, investigate the relationship between the myth and the man.
  4. Narcopolis
    There's simply too much going on to establish characters.
  5. Movement and Location
    Despite its sci-fi hook, Movement and Location turns out to be a surprisingly resonant film about how impossible it is for most people — no matter their cosmic time zone — to carve out a life that's emotionally honest.
  6. Deathgasm
    Cawthorne's performance underpins the resulting power fantasy with genuine emotion.
  7. Gravy
    The fast-paced Gravy is kind of like a Rob Zombie film by way of Bobcat Goldthwait's Shakes the Clown... and succeeds where so many other horror-comedies fail by remembering to be funny first and shocking second.
  8. Northern Soul
    This debut feature by Elaine Constantine has no shortage of style, but ultimately relies a lot on cliché.
  9. Freeheld
    Beneath the clichés of prestige filmmaking beat the hearts of a couple it's a privilege to get to know.
  10. The Creeping Garden
    Heady and rigorous, The Creeping Garden is an illuminating science documentary that tickles the imagination.
  11. This Changes Everything
    This Changes Everything isn't a game-changer, but it is jarring enough to be scary.
  12. A Christmas Horror Story
    The anthology is a mixed stocking; if you reach inside, something's likely to grab you.
  13. Shanghai
    Cusack's low-simmering performance keeps the drama at a tediously low boil.
  14. Partisan
    Cassel is never less than transfixing as a savior with a semi-sinister smile, but Partisan's lack of interest in providing necessary context — especially about the ill-defined larger society that Gregori rejects — leaves it operating on a hazy psychological level.
  15. Labyrinth of Lies
    It's to the film's credit that truth-telling here looks as hard as it does noble, and that the Holocaust is not treated just as a suspense story's macguffin.
  16. Jafar Panahi's Taxi
    There's something wonderful in how these scenes, so breezy and funny, reveal so much.
  17. The Walk
    The Walk, in its last half at least, is a dazzling piece of work, particularly in 3-D; even so, its most luminous effect is an actor.
  18. Western
    The film, a hard jewel of beauty and reportage, demands and rewards that second viewing.
  19. Brand: A Second Coming
    Though it includes parts of a live comedy performance, the film is a documentary with an attention span about as long as its subject's.
  20. Stonewall
    Stonewall aspires to be a sweeping tale of social change and hardscrabble street life, but at every moment it feels like a musical whose numbers have been cut.
  21. The Anomaly
    The thread holding it all together is endless, repetitive, interminable fight scenes whose limp choreography is spiced up with Matrix-style slow motion -- in 2015. For all that -- fists flying, bullets dodged, gratuitous female nudity -- the film is oddly inert.
  22. Radicalized
    It's almost unbelievable how much people talk, in Slovick's two hours, without saying very much at all.
  23. Jeremy Scott: The People's Designer
    Yudin's surface-level portrait looks for deeper truths, but finds them in unexpected ways.
  24. Forever
    The film twists tension in the viewer's gut as the clock ticks toward a day of reckoning. But the script could be tougher-minded.
  25. Shah Bob
    Shah Bob may be languid, interrupted by Rockford-style freeze-frames, but it's also intimate and captivating, and it calls to mind indie films from before Sundance made them mostly another Hollywood commodity.
  26. The Martian
    The Martian is only partly a story about a man in peril; it's mostly a story about men (and a few women) taking control of the uncontrollable. It's confident, swaggering sci-fi, not the despairing kind. That may be why, as elaborate and expensive-looking as The Martian is, it's almost totally lacking in poetry.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mission to Lars
    But the biggest frustration is that the film's abrupt ending fails to show whether Kate and William really did rebuild their relationship with Tom on the Ulrich quest, and, either way, what that outcome means for the rest of us.
  28. Wildlike
    Greenwood brings his usual A-game, generating great chemistry with Purnell in their ad hoc paternal relationship, but she's the revelation.
  29. Misunderstood
    Both Aria and the film as a whole are very much in their own head, which is a nice place to visit but probably not the healthiest environment to grow up in.
  30. Mississippi Grind
    Bitterly funny gambling comedy Mississippi Grind transcends its generic lovable-losers-on-a-bender plot by foregrounding exceptionally well-developed skid-row protagonists and weirdly charming dive-bar ambiance.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »