Bosley Crowther

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The New York Times
For 414 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bosley Crowther's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Forbidden Games
Lowest review score: 20 King Kong vs. Godzilla
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 245 out of 414
  2. Mixed: 150 out of 414
  3. Negative: 19 out of 414
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Bosley Crowther
    Around the World in 80 Days
    It makes like a wild adventure picture and, with some forty famous actors in "bit" roles, it also takes on the characteristic of a running recognition game. It is noisy with sound effects and music. It is overwhelmingly large in the process known as Todd-AO. It runs for two hours fifty-five minutes (not counting an intermission). And it is, undeniably, quite a show.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Bosley Crowther
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    In spite of its almost interminable and physically exhausting length—it takes two hours and fifty minutes to cover less than four days in a group of people's lives—and in spite of some basic detruncations of the novel's two leading characters, it vibrates throughout with vitality and is topped off with a climax that's a whiz.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Bosley Crowther
    Dark Passage
    Indeed, it is in the bizarre contacts of Mr. Bogart with shady characters such as those played by these well-directed actors that Dark Passage achieves tension and drive. Perhaps he should be given more time with them.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Bosley Crowther
    I Confess
    Even though moments in the picture do have some tension and power, and the whole thing is scrupulously acted by a tightly professional cast, the consequence is an entertainment that tends to drag, sag and generally grow dull. It is not the sort of entertaiment that one hopefully expects of "Hitch."
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Bosley Crowther
    Hour of the Gun
    The wonder is that John Sturges, a top director, has made such an obvious, slow film with this cast, and that Mr. Garner should be such a nobody as the legendary Mr. Earp.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Bosley Crowther
    Some Came Running
    It is all very complex and confused. Indeed, it is so oddly garbled that John Patrick and Arthur Sheekman, who did the script, have to go for a melodramatic shooting to bring it all to a tolerable end.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Bosley Crowther
    Alice in Wonderland
    If you are not too particular about the images of Carroll and Tenniel, if you are high on Disney whimsey and if you'll take a somewhat slow, uneven pace, you should find this picture entertaining.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Bosley Crowther
    Watch on the Rhine
    Its sense resides firmly in its facing one of civilization's most tragic ironies, its power derives from the sureness with which it tells a mordant tale and its beauty lies in its disclosures of human courage and dignity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Bosley Crowther
    Separate Tables
    The characters here are all misfits—people who have not quite been able to adjust their own inadequacies and terrors to the hard realities of life. And it is in the revelation of these people to a more or less brilliant extent that the fascination and satisfaction of this picture lie.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Bosley Crowther
    The Americanization of Emily
    Here is a film that not only gives the charming Miss Andrews a chance to prove herself irresistible in a straight romantic comedy but also gets off some of the wildest brashest and funniest situations and cracks at the lunacy of warfare that have popped from the screen in quite some time.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Bosley Crowther
    House of Wax
    The major causes for anxiety presented by this film are in the savagery of its conception and the intolerable artlessness of its sound. It is thrown and howled at the audience as though the only purpose was to overwhelm the naturally curious patron with an excess of brutal stimuli.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Bosley Crowther
    Lust for Life
    Both the script and the performance of this picture have a striking integrity in putting forth the salient details and the surface aspects of the life of van Gogh.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Bosley Crowther
    The Wild One
    Although the reality of it goes soft and then collapses at the end, it is a tough and engrossing motion picture, weird and cruel, while it stays on the beam.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Bosley Crowther
    Lord of the Flies
    A curiously flat and fragmentary visualization of the original.
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