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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. The Bishop's Wife
    A Christmas perennial: a witty, polished, lushly sentimental and amusingly sexless romantic comedy in which suave angel Cary Grant mixes in the affairs of troubled bishop David Niven and his lovely wife Loretta Young. [24 Dec 2004, p.C10]
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  2. Good News
    Minor but irresistible MGM musical capturing '20s college life through the prism of the jivin' '40s era. [18 Jan 2008, p.C2]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fun & Fancy Free
    What makes this video really interesting and superb entertainment for viewers 5 and older is that it blends animation with live action and carries two separate, full animated features with separate human narrators. [07 Aug 1997, p.9B]
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  4. Song of the Thin Man
    It just doesn't swing (or bop), but the stars always click. [15 Jul 2005, p.C8]
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  5. Brute Force
    A socially conscious prison picture (written by Richard Brooks) that sometimes deliriously suggests a Brooklynesque mating of Jean Genet and Warner Bros. [20 Apr 2007, p.C8]
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  6. Miracle on 34th Street
    A Christmas season evergreen.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Great Expectations
    Lean's masterly film of the classic Charles Dickens novel of success, romance and their dark underpinnings. [18 Jun 2010, p.C3]
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  8. Odd Man Out
    Odd Man Out is the extraordinary thriller about a botched IRA bank robbery and the badly wounded and increasingly feverish rebel, Johnny (James Mason), who wanders Belfast with both his mates and the police on his trail. [29 Feb 2008, p.C8]
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  9. The Man I Love
    Typical tough '40s Walsh noir. [08 Aug 1997, p.M]
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  10. It's a Wonderful Life
    The most well-loved of all Christmas movies.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    The great "coming home" film of World War II. [28 Nov 2008, p.C7]
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  12. Notorious
    Scripted by Ben Hecht, and with Salvador Dali's notorious surreal dream sequence as a shocking interlude, this was one of Hitchcock's most romantic and popular '40s movies [26 Nov 1999, p.A]
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  13. The Big Sleep
    One of the all-time classic noirs. [06 Nov 1998]
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brief Encounter
    Noel Coward's much-loved thwarted romance. [14 Nov 2008, p.C7]
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  15. Spellbound
    Based on Francis Beeding's The House of Dr. Edwardes, scripted by Ben Hecht, and with Salvador Dali's notorious surreal dream sequence as a shocking interlude, this was one of Hitchcock's most romantic and popular '40s movies; it's also the source of most of Mel Brooks' parody High Anxiety. [26 Nov 1999, p.A]
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  16. Mildred Pierce
    Curtiz holds you in his master grip, creating one of those WW II-era California noirs that keeps swinging you from darkness to sunlight, love to hatred, happiness to the pits of despair and death. [18 Nov 2005, p.C6]
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  17. Isle of the Dead
    Among the finest hours of horror star Boris Karloff. [18 Oct 2005, p.C3]
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  18. Christmas in Connecticut
    A successful lifestyle journalist, Elizabeth (Barbara Stanwyck) is lauded by her readers as the sweetest, most efficient homemaker in the countryside. Problem is, she is a chain-smoking urbanite in a city apartment. [05 Dec 2014, p.C2]
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  19. The Horn Blows at Midnight
    It's not all that funny -- but fascinating in a weird, knockabout way. [28 Aug 1998, p.O]
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  20. The Picture of Dorian Gray
    It's the film for which Albright painted a series of progressively decaying portraits of Dorian, climaxing in a ghastly vision of venereal rot and putrescence. [27 Feb 1997, p.11B]
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  21. Objective, Burma!
    The British hated it (because their soldiers took Burma), but this is a rock-solid Walsh actioner, with Errol Flynn, James Brown and Henry Hull. [06 Apr 2007, p.C7]
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  22. The Body Snatcher
    Among the finest hours of horror star Boris Karloff. [18 Oct 2005, p.C3]
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  23. National Velvet
    Elizabeth Taylor, at 12 already a raging beauty, plays Velvet Brown -- the passionate girl who loves horses and wants to win the Grand National; it's perhaps her most perfect performance and one of her best-loved. [16 Nov 2001, p.C1]
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  24. To Have and Have Not
    The things that make me love the movie are the mood, the hardboiled but good-hearted morality, Hawks' consummately professional eye-level style and those wonderful characters. [28 Jul 2006, p.C7]
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