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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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  1. You Only Live Twice
    Director Lewis Gilbert effortlessly marshals the intricacies of the plot (a nutty plan by SMERSH to ignite a world war), the exotic Japanese locations, and the extravagancies of having hundreds of ninja warriors abseiling into a huge enemy base unfathomably constructed in the belly of an extinct volcano (quite the engineering feat!).
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back
    Wonderfully revealing and mythologistic.
  3. For a Few Dollars More
    It has a wealth of marvellous Western imagery, grotesque-comic business (Van Cleef striking a match on seething baddie Klaus Kinski’s hunchback), Ennio Morricone’s baroque score, iconic stars and unforgettable supporting faces.
  4. Casino Royale
    Despite being not officially a Bond film this is good solid, entertaining action.
  5. Two for the Road
    Sharply scripted with a melancholic charm.
  6. Chimes at Midnight
    Orson Welles second tribute to Shakespeare is an often-ignored masterpiece. Check it out.
  7. Persona
    Wonderfully complex but warmly human, Bergman's drama is one of his very best.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Fistful of Dollars
    Leone makes the borders of the frame feel limitless, his camera moves striking out unpredictably as if he could barely tame his vision. Ennio Moriconne’s indelible score added a wild swagger to this oddball tale of a lone guman conniving plan to set two gangs of killers against one another.
  9. Blow-Up
    An absolute must.
  10. A Man for All Seasons
    Prestigious, well turned out piece of British historical drama with enough genuine intrigue and wit to persuade some audiences they aren't watching a history lesson.
  11. Django
    The story isn't as strong as either Leone or Corbucci's best work, but the iconic imagery and solid central performance from Nero make it easy to see why this became a worldwide success.
  12. Cul-de-sac
    Shades of Pinter and Beckett are affectionately retouched with dark humour, dynamic wordplay and a tension all Kubrick's.
  13. What's Up, Tiger Lily?
    Funny in places but not Allen's best writing...and its difficult to get beyond the conceit.
  14. The Fortune Cookie
    Rarely has screen satire been so bleak or so mercilessly funny.
  15. Au hasard Balthazar
    If you can see past the heavy-handed religious overtones you will encounter an inspired and deeply intelligent Bresson classic.
  16. Fantastic Voyage
    The effects may have dated, as have the Cold War themes, but the almost real time adventure still has some tension to offer.
  17. Alfie
    Terribly dated, but worth watching for Caine's performance.
  18. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    A time capsule now of all that was considered controversial and gutsy in 1966.
  19. Band of Outsiders
    Less audacious than A Bout de Souffle, this is, however, one of Godard's most accessible pictures. A good place to learn how much of a debt modern cinema owes him.
  20. Doctor Zhivago
    Stories about love in a world gone mad don't come any more gorgeous, or any more sweepingly epic, than this.
  21. Thunderball
    Connery [is] cruising by this point and the movie doesn't quite match the swagger of Goldfinger, but still effortlessly plies the glory Bond years, concluding with a stunning underwater battle.
  22. King & Country
    Courtenay is heartbreaking as a broken man crushed under the wheels of a callous system.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hill
    Atmospherically black-and-white photography provides suitable accompaniment to Sidney Lumet's unrelenting direction, with the two leads into it with plenty of relish.
  24. Help!
    The music, even after a quarter of a century, is the film's redemption.
  25. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
    With its driving jazz score, hilarious dialogue and overdrive melodramatics, this is the ultimate expression of the American cinema's greatest fetishes: big breasts, fast cars, tight jeans, and sudden death. This is, in its own way, one of the great films of the 60's.
  26. Darling
    Interesting portrait of the shallow nature of fame but overall this fails to engage on an emotional level.
  27. The Ipcress File
    Harry Palmer, charismatic but grounded in reality, is the perfect popular bridge between the spectacular escapades of Bond and the cold, harsh milieu of Deighton's embittered, betrayed spies.
  28. Cat Ballou
    Great performances and an innovative approach to a tired old story make this one to watch out for.
  29. The Sound of Music
    One of the greatest screen musicals ever.
  30. Goldfinger
    Larger than life, faintly ridiculous, completely cool, Goldfinger is the quintessential James Bond movie.
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