Chicago Tribune's Scores

Select another publication »
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
7613 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Ball of Fire
    A classic comedy. [25 May 2007, p.C7]
    • Chicago Tribune
  2. They Died with Their Boots On
    Errol Flynn deifies Gen. George Armstrong Custer in a silly though well-directed biopic. [25 May 2001, p.C1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  3. Suspicion
    If Hitchcock had kept the book's annihilating original ending, though, "Suspicion" might have been one of his three or four best films. As it is, it's a model domestic thriller that manages to survive a ridiculous turnabout climax. [26 Nov 1999, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  4. Shadow of the Thin Man
    This fourth entry is still full of sophisticated charm and slick thrills. [01 Jul 2005, p.C7]
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. How Green Was My Valley
    Based on Richard Llewellyn's stirring memoir of his Welsh boyhood, this is one of the great John Ford films, a multiple Oscar winner (it beat out Citizen Kane) and a strong, lyrical, deeply moving family saga set during a time of labor turbulence and social change. [11 Sep 1998, p.K]
    • Chicago Tribune
  6. Here Comes Mr. Jordan
    This likable heavenly fantasy comedy was a big '40s crowd-pleaser. [14 Aug 1998, p.M]
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Meet John Doe
    The elements don't quite jell here, and the ending doesn't work, but they all have a racy charm anyway. [19 Dec 1999, p.34]
    • Chicago Tribune
  8. Road to Zanzibar
    The second, and some say best, of the "Road" series. Paramount's patty-caking pals, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, invade Lightest Africa for some songs, dances and snappy patter. [02 Apr 2000, p.38C]
    • Chicago Tribune
  9. The Strawberry Blonde
    The stars are at their best and most rambunctious and so is Walsh. If you have any taste for Warner Brothers Golden Age studio classics--and want to catch a gem you may have missed--this one hits the spot. [17 Nov 2006, p.C6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  10. The Letter
    Bette Davis gave one of her best and nastiest performances in Wyler's stylishly sordid 1940 romantic murder-mystery from W. Somerset Maugham's story. [02 May 2008, p.C5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  11. Strike Up the Band
    Energetic but unusually foolish "Hey, kids, let's put on a show!" high-school musical, redeemed by the exuberantly talented Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland combo, as a couple of kids preparing jaw-dropping numbers (choreographed by Berkeley) for a Paul Whiteman radio contest. [12 Dec 1997]
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. The Westerner
    Gregg Toland's cinematography here makes you yearn for what he might have done on a Ford Western. [17 Oct 1996, p.11]
    • Chicago Tribune
  13. They Drive by Night
    From A.I. Bezzerides' "The Long Haul," with George Raft and Bogie as tough trucking brothers and Ann Sheridan and Ida Lupino as the good woman and the bad.[06 Oct 2006, p.C8]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Pride and Prejudice
    Even if you think you've sampled all Jane Austen has to offer on screen, you still may jump at the chance to see Pride and Prejudice. [29 Aug 1996, p.7A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  15. Waterloo Bridge
    This one features the heartbreaking young Vivien Leigh with her flower-like face, flashing eyes and seductive fragility; Robert Taylor is a little stiff as the hero. (isn't he always?), but it's a nice lush MGM production. [31 Oct 1999, p.34]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Rebecca
    Despite Hitch's discomfort at the iron hand of producer David Selznick, it remains one of his best-loved works. [23 Dec 2011, p.C10]
    • Chicago Tribune
  17. The Grapes of Wrath
    One of the great American social films: strong, ribald, deeply compassionate. [30 Sep 2005, p.C6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  18. Pinocchio
    Perhaps the most perfect of the great Disney animated features-the most expressively animated, the least pretentious, the best balanced between horror and joy, adventure and comedy.
  19. His Girl Friday
    Ex-Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page" may be the greatest of all newspaper plays, but none of the other movie versions matches this snazzy remake. [04 May 2001, p.C1]
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. The Shop Around the Corner
    Lovingly designed, impeccably stylish and heartwarming.
  21. Another Thin Man
    This is an intoxicatingly amusing blend of cynical urbane comedy, slick detection and breezy romance. [24 Jun 2005, p.C6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  22. The Roaring Twenties
    Walsh and producer Mark Hellinger's classic ultra-tough gangster opus about World War I, Prohibition and good-hearted mobster Jimmy Cagney's breezy rise and grim fall. [18 Feb 2005, p.C6]
    • Chicago Tribune
  23. Jamaica Inn
    Hitchcock adapts another Daphne Du Maurier novel -- a tale of pirates and distressed damsels on the Cornish coast -- with less memorable results than either "Rebecca" or "The Birds." But Charles Laughton is a nicely nasty two-faced villain and Maureen O'Hara a staunch heroine. [18 Jun 2000, p.22]
    • Chicago Tribune
  24. The Wizard of Oz
    Like many Hollywood classics, Oz benefited from happy accidents: Happiest of all was the casting, as Dorothy, of MGM teenage songbird Garland, whose wide-eyed emoting and passionate singing make the movie. Behind her is a near-perfect supporting cast. [18 Jun 1999, p.I]
    • Chicago Tribune
  25. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
    Musical bio of the early 20th Century dance team; their weakest. [03 Nov 2006, p.C5]
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Midnight
    After "Ninotchka," this is the best Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett script filmed by somebody else: a terrific romantic swindle comedy set in Paris, starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore. [26 Sep 2003, p.C5]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Stagecoach
    Superb performances by John Wayne, Claire Trevor and Thomas Mitchell -- who won the Oscar for best supporting actor -- make for an authentic classic that has been copied but never equaled. [25 Feb 2008, p.C8]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Christmas Carol
    Reginald Owen stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, the Christmas-hating curmudgeon who finally gets the spirit in this 1938 adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. [05 Dec 2014, p.C2]
    • Chicago Tribune
  29. The Lady Vanishes
    Trains are perfect settings for murder mysteries and thrillers. The best of them -- surpassing Murder on the Orient Express, The Narrow Margin, Runaway Train and dozens of others -- is Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. [26 Nov 1999, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Jezebel
    A masterpiece. Davis' great naughty Southern belle role, co-starring Henry Fonda and Fay Bainter. [07 Jul 2006, p.C7]
    • Chicago Tribune
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »