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For 7,599 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 1.5 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: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. A Streetcar Named Desire
    It's full of cinematic invention, rich verbal and visual poetry, packed with raw life and nonpareil acting. [Dirctor's Cut]
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  2. A Place in the Sun
    They're a witheringly beautiful couple; ex-cinematographer Stevens lavishes all his gifts of composition, lighting and texture on their closeups. [05 Apr 2007, p.C10]
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  3. On Moonlight Bay
    Weird attempt to turn Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories into a mini-Meet Me in St. Louis, co-starring Gordon MacRae and Leon Ames. [13 Apr 2007, p.C5]
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  4. Harvey
    Jimmy Stewart's signature role as amiably soused Elwood P. Dowd, who navigates his way through a contentious and mercenary world with the aid of his best friend, the invisible 6-foot-3-inch rabbit Harvey. [27 Jun 2008, p.C2]
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  5. Sunset Boulevard
    Sunset Blvd. remains one of the best, truest, funniest, saddest and scariest of all movies about Hollywood. [09 Jun 2006, p.C8]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Winchester '73
    The first of Mann's great Jimmy Stewart cycle -- and one of his best. [30 Apr 2010, p.C3]
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  7. Father of the Bride
    One of the finest, funniest and most civilized of all Hollywood domestic comedies. [01 Sep 2006, p.C5]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Damned Don't Cry
    Vincent Sherman's tangy 1950 gangster crime-romance. [19 Jun 2005, p.C3]
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  9. The Asphalt Jungle
    One of the great film noirs and a quintessential heist movie, a classic of American hard-boiled storytelling that, though endlessly copied, hasn't been bettered. [27 May 2005, p.C6]
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  10. Stage Fright
    So-so. [23 Jan 1997, p.9B]
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  11. The Rules of the Game
    No other film has a final effect quite like "Rules." One walks away from it drained and exhilarated, after experiencing a whole world and seemingly every possible emotion in a few swift golden hours.
  12. Cinderella
    Enchanting film.
  13. Sands of Iwo Jima
    John Wayne as the gutsiest sarge and top kick on Iwo Jima, in one of his most prototypical war yarns. Vintage Duke. [09 Jul 2000, p.23C]
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  14. Gun Crazy
    A fascinating study of sexual heat fueled by guns and ammo. [19 Oct 2001, p.C8]
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  15. Adam's Rib
    This is the best of all the Tracy-Hepburn comedies--and one whose unabashedly feminist screenplay seems more incisive with each passing year. [10 Mar 2006, p.C7]
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  16. They Live by Night
    It's permeated with a sweetness and vulnerability unusual for any crime movie. [29 May 1998, p.N]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    The second, and finest, of Ford's cavalry trilogy. [17 Aug 2007, p.C7]
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  18. The Third Man
    The Third Man is a film where everything works: script, direction, the performances of Welles, Cotten, Trevor Howard (the cynical police major) and Alida Valli (the enigmatic traveler), Robert Krasker's flamboyantly tilted black-and-white cinematography and the unforgettably spare and haunting zither score by Anton Karas. [5 Sept 1996, p.6]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    White Heat
    Perhaps the roughest of the classic gangster movies, with a climax that almost blows the theater down. [24 Jul 2009, p.C3]
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  20. The Window
    It's "Rear Window" with kids, and it's gorgeously shot with long, looming, twisted perspectives on actual New York locations, by cinematographer-turned-director Tetzlaff ("Notorious"). [27 Feb 2000, p.27C]
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  21. The Set-Up
    To cop a phrase, it's a knockout. [05 Sep 1999, p.32C]
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  22. 3 Godfathers
    The great Christmas western with Duke Wayne, Pedro Armendariz and Harry Carey Jr. as three fugitive outlaws, who, by caring for an abandoned baby, unwittingly become sagebrush equivalents for the Three Wise Men. [04 May 2001, p.C1]
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  23. Hamlet
    It's as impressive for the near-flawless performances of its deep cast of British film and theatrical stars (including Jean Simmons as Ophelia, Eileen Herlie as Gertrude and John Gielgud as the voice of Hamlet's father's ghost) as it is for its director's surprisingly rich and baroque visual style. [04 Aug 2006, p.C8]
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  24. Rope
    One of the cinema's supreme, most outrageously eccentric and audacious technical experiments: the legendary single shot movie.
  25. Red River
    The best of all cattle-drive westerns. [11 Oct 1998, p.16C]
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  26. A Foreign Affair
    That great ex-Berliner Wilder's cynical, darkly funny look at postwar Berlin--a hive of bombed-out buildings, desperate citizens and black-market morality, run by the U.S. military with a slightly blind eye. [02 Jun 2006, p.C4]
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  27. Key Largo
    Maxwell Anderson's poetic-political play about crime and fascism, set in a "Petrified Forest"-style ensemble during a Key West hurricane, was turned by Huston and co-writer Richard Brooks into a crackling thriller. [27 Nov 1998, p.Q]
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  28. The Paradine Case
    A Selznick-produced Hitchcock: a courtroom melodrama of murder and romantic degradation for which Hitch wanted Laurence Olivier, Greta Garbo and Robert Newton, but had to settle for Gregory Peck, Alida Valli and Louis Jourdan. [26 Nov 1999, p.A]
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  29. Romance on the High Seas
    A charming confection, set on an ocean liner. [13 Apr 2007, p.C5]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Melody Time
    Melody Time delivers on its promise of rhythm and romance, reason and rhyme, something ridiculous, something sublime. [11 Jun 1998, p.10C]
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