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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. 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]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 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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  3. 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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  4. The Set-Up
    To cop a phrase, it's a knockout. [05 Sep 1999, p.32C]
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  5. 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]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Act of Violence
    A superlative 1948 thriller, "Act of Violence" was one of the first films to deal with the effects of World War II on returning GIs, as well as to examine ethics during wartime. [10 Aug 2007, p.C9]
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  7. 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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  8. Rope
    One of the cinema's supreme, most outrageously eccentric and audacious technical experiments: the legendary single shot movie.
  9. Red River
    The best of all cattle-drive westerns. [11 Oct 1998, p.16C]
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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]
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. Romance on the High Seas
    A charming confection, set on an ocean liner. [13 Apr 2007, p.C5]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 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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  15. 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]
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. Good News
    Minor but irresistible MGM musical capturing '20s college life through the prism of the jivin' '40s era. [18 Jan 2008, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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]
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. 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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  23. The Man I Love
    Typical tough '40s Walsh noir. [08 Aug 1997, p.M]
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  24. It's a Wonderful Life
    The most well-loved of all Christmas movies.
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