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For 6,818 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,006 out of 6818
  2. Mixed: 3,654 out of 6818
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6818
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wuthering Heights
    Less melodramatic and earthier than the classic 1939 version with Olivier, Robert Fuest’s take still heaves with passion thanks to Dalton’s fiery chemistry with Anna Calder-Marshall’s Cathy. John Coquillon’s cinematography expertly captures the drabness of the Moors setting, while Michel Legrand offers a haunting score.
  2. Rio Lobo
    Fairly routine western makes a disappointing swansong for Hawks. Still good fun though, if you like this kind of thing.
  3. El Topo
    Violent, visionary, vital.
  4. Husbands
    If Cassavetes' hipster cine-language has lost a little of its age and the innovative improv style won't be for everyone, the themes he tackles, riffed by a masterful group of actors, remain enthralling.
  5. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
    A true evocation of the spirit of the Strand Magazine, this is the best Holmes movie ever made and sorely underrated in the Wilder canon.
  6. Five Easy Pieces
    A key turn-of-the-decade film, with Nicholson railing against waitresses and barking at noisy dogs as Rafelson observes seedily picturesque roadside America.
  7. The Wild Child
    A typical older male mentore story...told with sensitivity and perceptiveness.
  8. Take the Money and Run
    The life and crimes of Virgil Starkwell, a petty hoodlum who finds love with a laundress, Louise, in between botched blags and stints on a chain gang.
  9. Kelly's Heroes
    It’s instilled with the bite and bark of Bilko’s capitalist fervour, and has a fun line in cool, snappy dialogue, although never intending to be quite so broadly a comedy.
  10. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
    Not a sequel to the bland film of Jacqueline Susann’s trashy best-seller, this is more like a demented remake, alternating modish psychedelia with deliberately square moralising.
  11. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
    Those with the patience to sit through a slow first half will be rewarded with another gutsy ending.
  12. A Man Called Horse
    Straining for significance at every moment, this is one of a wave of late '60s/early '70s Westerns that represent Hollywood's idea of the counterculture in love beads, feathers and picturesque gore.
  13. Bloody Mama
    A lurid gothic gangster psychodrama from Roger Corman, this is Shelley Winters’ finest hour-and-a-half, cast as Arizona Clark ‘Ma’ Barker, a role it would be impossible to overplay.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Patton
    Scott is simply awesome as the one-of-a-kind General George Patton, the brilliant campaigner and man among men renowned for the rage he directed at the berks in authority and the adulation he inspired in his men.
  15. The Honeymoon Killers
    Shot in a grainy grey and white helps to give the film an amateurish and at the same time realistic feel, particularly as it's based on true events. With standout performances from Lo Bianco and Stoler, this is a forgotten gem that's waiting to be rediscovered.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Molly Maguires
    Dour script but sterling performances from the two male leads, this is basically watchable if you're interested in the subject.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MASH
    Bitterly funny with perfect set-piece after perfect set-piece.
  18. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    This is the Bond flick blessed with the best plot, a genuine sense of emotion and a spirit closest to Ian Fleming’s novels.
  19. Hello, Dolly!
    Emphasis has been placed on extravaganza, when it should really have been placed on getting good performances out of a talented cast.
  20. Marooned
    Like the stranded astronauts, we are forced to sit around for too long in stale air, waiting for something to happen. An overly-long, vacuous foray into space.
  21. Z
    Costa-Gravas at his hypocrisy and oppression-fighting best.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    Note-perfect performances, a screenplay steeped in both nostalgia and a timely sense of insight, and anti-heroes you can't help but love.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Battle of Britain
    It's a long way from Top Gun, but it's still stirring stuff.
  24. Paint Your Wagon
    Mind you, Eastwood went on the star with an orang-utan, twice, so this is only his third maddest film. Although, it could be his dullest. Which was one thing no one would of expected of this madcap enterprise, born of a what-the-heck attitude from its macho stars — that it would struggle so hard to be fun.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
    Once the pop sensibilities are out of the way, this clever foursome becomes more than the sum of its part.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Italian Job
    As a metaphor for England at the dawn of the 70s, The Italian Job is a hard one to top.
  27. Easy Rider
    While you cannot dismiss its place in history, its power is in what it represented rather than what it did.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Wild Bunch
    From The Godfather to Heat, the stamp of The Wild Bunch is self-evident. Italian director Carlo Carlei summed up the debt owed to the film and its director when he said, "There is a chain of inspiration like The Bible... Everything comes from Peckinpah."
  29. True Grit
    Although some say Wayne's Oscar was given out of sympathy instead of his performance, he still acts well as the sheriff who's past his peak. Proving he wasn't always a serious as he was made out to be, he plays the role with aplomb, even pastiching himself in other films.
  30. Midnight Cowboy
    Superb performances and a compelling script have made this film a strange mix of Oscar-winner and Cult Classic.
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