New York Daily News' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
For 5,355 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
5,355 movie reviews
  1. 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.
  2. As inventive as "Being John Malkovich," as psychologically quirky as "Ghost World" and as honest as the day is long.
  3. 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.
  4. The action is tightly focused and well-paced.
  5. 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.
  6. The Trials of Henry Kissinger serves as both a prosecution brief on the above charges and an unauthorized biography.
  7. An amazingly self-assured movie, it percolates with themes and ideas, all held together by the gift of the bull's parts.
  8. One of the most honest and harrowing depictions of female adolescence ever put to film.
  9. A shocking and hilarious triumph.
  10. Haneke has made a masterly, disturbing movie.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Linklater's ravishing new movie represents a bold leap into the possibilities of technology.
  16. A sweetly hilarious romantic comedy about a soccer fan whose favorite pro team's unexpected success threatens to push him over the edge.
  17. Funny gem.
  18. 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.
  19. Dunst and Williams...turn ditsiness into a frenetic comic duet.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Critic Score 88
    Funny, even thrilling.
  20. The movie is an actors' paradise, and absolutely no one disappoints.
  21. The movie doesn't stoop to cheap psychoanalysis and must be commended for a bravely ambiguous ending. But most of the credit goes to Lane, who is simply extraordinary as a woman whose body is at war with her conscience.
  22. Based on the true story of the first emperor of unified China, could be downsized and told as an American Western.
  23. It's the rare film, Dogma or otherwise, that keeps you smiling long after the lights come up.
  24. The movie is over in a breezy 112 minutes, but it may be another half-hour before your sides quit aching.
  25. Inordinately clever, sprightly romantic comedy.
  26. "Chocolat" was just a warmup for the stunning display of the male form against National Geographic settings in her new Beau Travail.
  27. If there is any justice in the world, Farnsworth will be remembered at Oscar time.
  28. Life-affirming story of love, kinship and sacrifice.
  29. Like watching an American teen-sex comedy through a glass darkly.