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For 7,613 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. El Dorado
    El Dorado is essentially a darker remake of Rio Bravo, with Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Hunnicutt and James Caan as the now archetypal quartet. But, though the situation is the same, the mood is crisper, tenser, with a heightened sense of pain, loss and death underlying the humor and action.
  2. Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back
    Both a great concert movie and an amazing documentary of mid-'60s cutting-edge pop culture, this cinema verite record of Bob Dylan's pre-electric, pre-Band 1965 British tour was such a candid and unsparing look at stardom's inner sanctums and Dylan's caustic personality, audiences were shocked. [29 Oct 1999, p.M]
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  3. Chimes at Midnight
    Chimes at Midnight is one of Welles' peak achievements. Its depth of feeling seems very real, very deep indeed.
  4. Persona
    One of the screen's supreme works and perhaps Ingmar Bergman's finest film, "Persona" is also his most radical in form and technique.
  5. The Professionals
    Exciting, beautifully shot '60s political western. [10 Apr 1998, p.M]
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  6. Masculine Feminine
    One of the quintessential '60s foreign art films, a bizarre melange of pop music, revolution, sex, movie allusions and poetry. It's a masterpiece of sorts by one of the most important European filmmakers of that era. But it's also a movie that can drive you crazy.
  7. Au hasard Balthazar
    1966 French masterpiece -- the finest, most deeply personal work of a filmmaker who has been compared, justifiably, to both Dostoyevsky and Bach.
  8. Alfie
    Michael Caine became a front rank star -- and actor -- when he played the title role in this smart, salty, subtly moving adaptation of Bill Naughton's play about a Cockney Casanova on the loose in Swinging London. [30 Jan 2000, p.41C]
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  9. Band of Outsiders
    Blends a love of semi-trashy pop entertainment with a love of poetry, art and high moral seriousness. It's a young person's movie (Godard was 34 and Karina 24 in 1964) that retains its mysterious pull even as the film and we get older.
  10. Juliet of the Spirits
    A mad, resplendent peacock of a film, a cinematographic riot of color and sensuality that evokes its era -- the swinging mid-'60s -- as much as any movie made during those giddy years.
  11. The Train
    The sociopolitical issues are lost in the action, but it's quite some action. [11 Jan 2002, p.C1]
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  12. My Fair Lady
    Audrey Hepburn is a physical wonder; Rex Harrison defines his role; and production designer Gene Allen is the hidden star. A big screen production for the entire family.
  13. A Hard Day's Night
    One of the most excitingly contemporary musicals ever made.
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  14. Harakiri
    Kobayashi's great, laceratingly exciting 1962 Japanese samurai revenge saga, once voted by Japanese critics their country's all-time best film. [03 Mar 2006, p.C5]
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  15. Marnie
    Hitchcock's most disturbing film. [26 Nov 1999, p.A]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Viva Las Vegas
    The story is dumb --Elvis is a race-car driver bellhopping and entering talent contests in Vegas to raise money for his car -- but the songs are hot. And you can't beat that chemistry with the Queen of '60s shimmy, Ann-Margret. [14 Aug 1997, p.7]
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    An Autumn Afternoon
    A late classic that revisits old territory with masterly serenity and acceptance. [29 May 2009, p.C4]
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  18. The Naked Kiss
    Fuller amusingly mixes up his usual hard-knuckled muck-raking melodrama with a sort of soap opera, all done in raw, awesome black-and-white images. In its day, this was the locus classicus B-Movie American auteur thriller. [12 Feb 1999, p.R]
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  19. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    This landmark movie's madcap humor and terrifying suspense remain undiminished by time.
  20. America America
    One of the great movie family sagas, a fascinating revelation of both the dark and bright sides of the American dream. [05 Mar 2000, p.24C]
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  21. High and Low
    Superb crime thriller. [07 Sep 1998, p.1N]
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  22. Knife in the Water
    The Polish thriller that made Polanski world-famous, a taut psychological drama in which a bourgeois married couple invite a hitchhiking student for a weekend of sailing. The sea becomes an arena for desire, menace and deadly games. [19 Jan 2007, p.C3]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Great Escape
    Rousing, stirring, with a great cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, James Coburn. McQueen's performance as "Cooler King" Hilts is undoubtedly his most archetypal. [10 May 2013, p.C6]
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  24. 8½
    Thirty years after its premiere, despite being in black and white and despite the irritating lip-flap from the Italian penchant for post-dubbing dialogue, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 is a remarkably fresh film, a landmark of cinema that seems to defy dating. [07 May 1993, p.H]
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  25. Jason and the Argonauts
    One of the best-loved of all the Ray Harryhausen stop-motion animation special effects extravaganzas, this kitschy version of the mythic tale of Jason's quest for the golden fleece stars Todd Armstrong as Medea's eventual betrayer and is graced with a nerve-rending Bernard Herrmann score, plus such classic visual tricks as the dueling skeletons. [01 Oct 1999, p.J]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Donovan's Reef
    Big, bright, corny, muscular, beautifully photographed. [12 Nov 2000, p.27]
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  27. Irma la Douce
    A lavish and sometimes lusty version of the French hit musical, minus the songs but with lots of Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon. [17 Jan 2000, p.Q]
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  28. Sanjuro
    The thrilling sequel-return of Mifune's hip samurai from Yojimbo. [01 Nov 2002, p.C9]
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  29. Days of Wine and Roses
    Withering study of white-collar alcoholics.
  30. To Kill a Mockingbird
    Few films have caught the special feel and rhythms of childhood so well, with such uncondescending warmth and humor. And few bring out more powerfully the themes of anti-racism and the virtues and joys of community and family. [20 Apr 2007, p.C5]
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