New York Daily News' Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 5,355 reviews, this publication has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,380 out of 5355
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Mixed: 2,019 out of 5355
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Negative: 956 out of 5355
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Elizabeth Weitzman 100
Every scene has its highlights, from amusing observations about sex to poignant truths about parenting and partnerships. But what you'll remember most is the exquisitely lovely final scene, in which Cholodenko reminds us that all we need is a single moment of perfection -in a family, or even in a film - to believe that somehow, things will always be all right. -
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Joe Neumaier 100
Mary's search drives The Tillman Story, and throughout this taut, true epic, we see a smart, sometimes angry, always loving family find their destiny: to speak truth to power, to call wartime myths what they are and to show how the American character is not about blind obedience. -
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Joe Neumaier 100
Among an excellent cast, Douglas truly is the nexus; he and Stone make this sequel pay off big-time. -
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Joe Neumaier 100
A work deeper than its nickname, "The Facebook Movie," hints at - coils around your brain. Weeks after seeing it, moments from it will haunt you. -
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Elizabeth Weitzman 100
Director Matt Reeves (who also made the much rawer "Cloverfield") so deeply understands the nature of childhood terror that Let Me In burns with a white-hot clarity. -
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Joe Neumaier 100
Despite being about a royal family at a critical moment in history, The King's Speech doesn't shout about its many strengths. Rather, it urges you to lean in close, where its intelligence and heart come through loud and clear.- Posted Dec 11, 2010
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Joe Neumaier 100
Halfway into Blue Valentine, a work so beautifully acted and emotionally honest it is my choice for best movie of the year, there's an amazing flashback scene you hope never ends.- Posted Dec 29, 2010
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Joe Neumaier 100
Director Werner Herzog's latest cinematic mind trip blows you away with its beauty.- Posted Apr 29, 2011
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- Posted Aug 4, 2011
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Joe Neumaier 100
This heartbreaking and essential look into the lives of those who put so much into educating other people's children ought to be seen by anyone concerned about the fate of the public school system, and the nation as a whole.- Posted Sep 30, 2011
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Elizabeth Weitzman 100
All the actors are wonderful, including Sacha Baron Cohen as a villainous Inspector.- Posted Nov 22, 2011
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Joe Neumaier 100
As tough-spirited as fans would hope for - and exciting and thought-provoking in a way few adventure dramas ever are.- Posted Mar 20, 2012
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- Posted Apr 19, 2012
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Joe Neumaier 100
Most impressive of all, The Avengers makes superhero movies new again - a colossal task indeed.- Posted Apr 30, 2012
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Elizabeth Weitzman 100
Kore-eda does extraordinary work with his young cast, who deliver gentle, natural performances in a beautifully told story of heartbreak and hope. Deceptively modest and utterly lovely, it's one of the most magical films about childhood I have ever seen.- Posted May 10, 2012
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Joe Neumaier 100
Rarely has any film, fictional or documentary, captured the hypnotic effect of voices on the airwaves like this chronicle of Bob Fass.- Posted Sep 20, 2012
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Joe Neumaier 100
Argo is movie magic. Ben Affleck's third directorial outing, is an entertaining, real-life, race-the-clock thriller that nabs you at the start and never makes a wrong move.- Posted Oct 11, 2012
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Critic Score 100
Each episode of director Leos Carax's film perfectly masters the exact tone of a different genre, finding precisely the saddest moment in each of its vignettes.- Posted Oct 18, 2012
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Joe Neumaier 100
This amazingly beautiful, and amazingly frightening, documentary captures the immediacy of what climate change is doing to the Arctic landscape.- Posted Nov 8, 2012
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Joe Neumaier 100
Small victories that turn into defeats, long walks to gain little ground, little wounds that get deeper every day - growing old is a war, and movies rarely go there. Michael Haneke's amazing, dignified Amour is the exception.- Posted Dec 18, 2012
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Joe Neumaier 100
It shows that life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. And how, in case we forget, every age can predict the next.- Posted Jan 3, 2013
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Elizabeth Weitzman 100
Every moment feels human and true, from the naive optimism of the trip's sendoff to its unsparingly realistic conclusion, which trades reckless hope for quiet honor.- Posted Jan 24, 2013
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Joe Neumaier 100
As important and eye-opening a documentary as you’ll see this year, A Place at the Table makes it impossible to think of hunger as merely another symptom of a shredded social safety net.- Posted Feb 28, 2013
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Joe Neumaier 100
Boseman is watchful, winning and confident, but never saintly. Yet he keeps Robinson’s moral spine aligned with his skill and self-respect, showing how he needed all of those to succeed.- Posted Apr 11, 2013
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Joe Neumaier 100
The result is a stunningly nervy sequel that vaporizes any worries that Abrams’ terrific 2009 reboot was a fluke.- Posted May 14, 2013
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Elizabeth Weitzman 88
Bar-Lev has created a film remarkable in its ability to capture both the worst and best of human nature. -
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Dave Kehr 88
A small miracle of comic social portraiture, a sometimes affectionate, sometimes ironic study of a specific group at a specific moment. His work is deeply evocative and enjoyable. -
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Critic Score 88
As wide-ranging, and yet as sharply focused, as Mikal Gilmore's book. -
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Jami Bernard 88
A delightful and endearing romantic comedy with the shape and resonance of a Jane Austen novel. -
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Jami Bernard 88
The sniper's life is a lonely one, full of shallow breathing and delayed gratification. Solitary as it is, Jude Law manages to get a little action in the bunkers of wartime Stalingrad in the ambitious but sometimes inadvertently silly Enemy at the Gates. -
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Jami Bernard 88
Each man winds up owing the other -- and the enormity of the sacrifices they make on one another's behalf are quite moving and have not been duplicated in the movies since. -
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Jack Mathews 88
A love story told from the point of impact, at the heart, and no conventional resolution could be more profound. -
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Jami Bernard 88
Feels like an old-fashioned movie in the way it deals with bold sacrifices made in the name of love, while its setting and chary view of the era's political machinations mark it as distinctly modern. -
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Jack Mathews 88
There is a little of all of us in their awkwardness, fears and neuroses, and we root for their success in the mundane as if they were ascending Everest. Elling is still in the running for 2002's most uplifting movie. -
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Jack Mathews 88
Showing as much courage and talent behind the camera as he has while acting in front of it, Roth has crafted for his first film one of the most bluntly graphic and disturbing movies ever done on the subject. -
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Critic Score 88
"I write 19th-century stories; they're supposed to affect you emotionally," says Irving, explaining why Tinseltown keeps knocking at his door. -
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Jami Bernard 88
It's not just a movie about an underdog who fights the odds, it's about following one's heart -- despite the obstacles. -
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Jami Bernard 88
Its simple, straightforward storytelling makes mincemeat of the idea that, gee, if these people just worked a little harder and got motivated, they, too, could get a piece of the American Dream. -
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Jami Bernard 88
Moll clearly has looked to Hitchcock and Clouzot for inspiration. There are sexual undercurrents between characters, psychological quirks and a murky veneer like the surface of the pool in "Diabolique." -
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Elizabeth Weitzman 88
Some of the artists appear ecstatically transported as they play. Others are just having one hell of a good time. Believe me, it's contagious. -
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Elizabeth Weitzman 88
Overwhelmingly powerful. -
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Jami Bernard 88
Another perfect little gem from Iran in which the simplest story unleashes a torrent of emotion. -
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Jami Bernard 88
An immensely uplifting movie whose final, unforgettable frames come as close as anything to answering the big questions about why we bother in a dog-eat-dog world. -
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Jack Mathews 88
Parents, who are more apt to be bored by the simple story line, are going to be amazed nevertheless by the smooth, convincing animation that lends Stuart his lifelike physicality and expressive facial gestures. -
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Jami Bernard 88
A pleasure, chock full of creatively choreographed fight scenes. -
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Jack Mathews 88
Harris brings into focus a nearly forgotten success story, filling in another blank in the ultimate mosaic of the 20th century's greatest tragedy. -
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Jack Mathews 88
Kempner demonstrates how the star's success and dignified bearing inspired a generation of Jews to fight through the ethnic barriers in all fields. -
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Jami Bernard 88
In Wide Blue Road, his (Montand) character and the wages of desperation are much more complex. Here is the real lost Atlantis. -
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Jami Bernard 88
This powerful, compact trilogy speaks volumes about women in Iran. -
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Jack Mathews 88
Maybe you have to have experienced one of these anti-weather urban cocoons to appreciate the concept of the film, and the prickly people who populate it. -
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Jack Mathews 88
For the initiated, the third time's a charm. For everyone else, it's just a scream. -
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Jack Mathews 88
Stamp, whose ability to make Wilson simultaneously coarse and charismatic is irresistibly entertaining. -
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Jami Bernard 88
An excellent movie about a real-life nail-biter, forcefully acted, true to its period and directed with clarity. -
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Jami Bernard 88
A brilliant if slow-paced movie about one man's unwitting journey into adulthood. -
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Jack Mathews 88
Sensational...as authentic as news footage, and far more intimate. -
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Jack Mathews 88
It's a slice of life, with all the trimmings, and one of the strongest films of the year. -
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Jack Mathews 88
Even if The Mummy is imitation Spielberg, it offers more bang for the buck than we're used to getting. -
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Jami Bernard 88
The movie elevated the basic gangster picture into what became known as the niche genre of poetic realism. And, aside from Garbo, never have key lights on a star's face caused so much swooning among fans. -
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Elizabeth Weitzman 88
It has the most beautiful ending of any American film in years, a coda of reconciliation and remembrance set in a gentle L.A. rain. -
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Elizabeth Weitzman 88
It's not so much good material as divinely inspired delivery. -
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Jami Bernard 88
It's an amazing slice-of-life story that will make you want to rush home and hug the kids. -
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Jami Bernard 88
Written, acted and directed so intelligently that it stands out from the pack, and is guaranteed to give you the warm glow of holiday movies past -- the kind that celebrated faith in human potential and the value of hard work. -
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Elizabeth Weitzman 88
Working from his own original screenplay, Crowe builds a story line full of unexpected twists and digressions. -
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Elizabeth Weitzman 88
Wrenching performances and painstaking visual and thematic compositions. -
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Jack Mathews 88
One of the most inventive, funny and ultimately tragic coming-of-age movies in years. -
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Jami Bernard 88
Harris convincingly creates one "Pollock" after another over the course of the movie. -
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Jack Mathews 88
The whole system was sadistic and indefensible, and the church, looking the other way as long as profits rolled in from the laundries, deserves the scorn that Mullan and his fine cast heap on it. -
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Jack Mathews 88
As inventive as "Being John Malkovich," as psychologically quirky as "Ghost World" and as honest as the day is long. -
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Jack Mathews 88
What we need to remember, what Black Hawk Down reminds us, is that there are no safe missions when you're chasing bad guys. Especially when you have to chase them down a hole. -
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Jack Mathews 88
The performances are all terrific, but Gene Hackman is close to a career best as the family patriarch Royal, the most useless man you can't help loving. -
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Jack Mathews 88
The Trials of Henry Kissinger serves as both a prosecution brief on the above charges and an unauthorized biography. -
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Jami Bernard 88
An amazingly self-assured movie, it percolates with themes and ideas, all held together by the gift of the bull's parts. -
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Jami Bernard 88
One of the most honest and harrowing depictions of female adolescence ever put to film. -
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Jack Mathews 88
The actors are solid at every position, but Broderick, who seems to get better with each performance, is especially good at playing the impulsively self-destructive yet sympathetic loser. -
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Jami Bernard 88
The power of the arts to transcend cultural differences is presumably what moves the German to spare Szpilman, and, perhaps, is the key to Polanski's salvation as well. -
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Jack Mathews 88
The clear powerhouse in the new film is a scene where Kurtz, speaking with the twisted coherence of the true paranoid-schizophrenic, uses Time magazine articles and other references to justify his actions. -
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Jack Mathews 88
A powerful, deeply moving tale, immeasurably facilitated by the performance of relatively unknown Hilary Swank as Brandon...smartly shot and edited, and the performances are dead-on. -
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Jami Bernard 88
Linklater's ravishing new movie represents a bold leap into the possibilities of technology. -
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Jack Mathews 88
A sweetly hilarious romantic comedy about a soccer fan whose favorite pro team's unexpected success threatens to push him over the edge. -
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Elizabeth Weitzman 88
The story is compelling, but Metropolis is such a visual masterpiece, it's easy to get lost within its seemingly endless layers of graphic complexity. -
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