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Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 La Gradiva
Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,617 out of 5233
  2. Mixed: 1,348 out of 5233
  3. Negative: 268 out of 5233
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Naked Kiss
    The kind of film you feel you need to shower after seeing, it just might have been Fuller’s finest hour.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Sword in the Stone
    At first glance, you might have expected the film to be a grand epic with some comedy. Instead, it’s largely a comedy with some serious moments.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    8½
    One of the best films ever made about filmmaking, it’s simultaneously critical of its director’s self-importance and childishness and celebratory of the possibilities of the medium.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Babes in Toyland
    While this film definitely does not gain points for female empowerment, it can still be fun for kids with toy soldiers coming to life, a shrinking machine and a multitude of Mother Goose characters, including Little Bo-Peep and Willie Winkie.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Sundowners
    A remarkably effective and absorbing picture (if a little too long), with another sterling performance from Mitchum.
  6. The Hidden Fortress
    The Hidden Fortress is a bracing adventure in its own right — not a frivolous outlier from one of cinema’s most formative oeuvres, but rather a Cervantes-inflected delight that complicates and enriches Kurosawa’s signature humanism by exploring the value of morality in an amoral world.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Wild Strawberries
    The story now sounds like fodder for a rote “old codger learns to like people” narrative, but Wild Strawberries is more about a man’s gradual coming to terms with who he was, who he is, and what he’s leaving behind.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Witness for the Prosecution
    Billy Wilder’s trademark sardonicism lends welcome bite and wit to this twisting, turning murder mystery from Agatha Christie.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's Always Fair Weather
    One of the most unique and honest musicals of the 20th Century.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Band Wagon
    Arthur Freed and Comden & Greene’s timeless classic is the musical for people who don’t like musicals: so clever, so witty and so brilliantly executed that the usual objections to musical numbers “stopping the story” don’t apply.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    On Dangerous Ground
    The Bernard Hermann score adds another dimension.
  12. Gun Crazy
    It’s a B-film with a heart of gold, even if that heart was probably stolen.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Adam's Rib
    Despite Cukor’s rocky start with the couple, Hepburn and Tracy are in top form in Cukor’s sophomore collaboration, the 1949 courtroom comedy Adam’s Rib.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Red River
    In Red River, the destination of life’s long cattle drive is never more specific than “somewheres.” The lines marked on the map are just stops along the way.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Fun & Fancy Free
    A modest, nicely executed diversion, with a slim, not especially memorable story.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Brute Force
    As it successfully delves into the baser instincts of men from all sides, imprisoned either by their thirst for power or their unwillingness to give up, few films can compare.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Man I Love
    Walsh sends about a half-dozen plot lines, styles, and themes into the air and keeps them all whizzing along like a master plate spinner, but he makes it look effortless — you never feel the director straining for his effects, all seamlessly integrated into 96 smooth minutes.
  18. Brief Encounter
    David Lean’s Brief Encounter captures love at its most ephemeral.
  19. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    One of the most demented studio comedies of the 1940s.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Keeper of the Flame
    Watching the couple embroiled in a drama that’s less romp and more mystery is a worthy treat for any Hepburn/Tracy fans.
  21. Mrs. Miniver
    An increasingly loud world may have made the quiet truths of "Mrs. Miniver" seem small - tune out the noise and hear what this film is saying. It's a roadmap for how dignity and freedom can survive.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    To Be or Not to Be
    [A] magnificent film.
  23. Sullivan's Travels
    A satire that chastises Hollywood for its blinkered moralizing yet espouses on the value of escapism, Preston Sturges’ “Sullivan’s Travels” may seem like a film rife with contradictions, but not only is it cohesive, it never once feels muddled or, worse, didactic.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Woman of the Year
    The film is an exuberant, endearing triumph, setting a standard for wit and energy that defined Hepburn and Tracy’s partnership for a quarter of a century to come.
  25. Suspicion
    The ending has often been maligned. But if it’s not especially well-executed, it’s a tantalizing wellspring of ideas that reframes the entire movie that came before it and makes us realize the difficulty all of us face in piecing together our reality.
  26. Hold Back the Dawn
    [Wilder] delivered one of the finest critiques of a pre-war, isolationist U.S. committed to “America First.”
  27. The Sea Wolf
    Curtiz was a master of all genres but The Sea Wolf is his best. Darkly flirting with the noir genre that would capture the decade, there's so much tension and hostility, secrets and lies that permeate the ship. Ida Lupino has never been more beautiful as the criminal attempting to rewrite her past.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    What makes the film compelling is the fact that even though Norman Krasna’s script contains no friction between the needs of the genre and the impulses of the characters, Hitchcock creates it anyway.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Foreign Correspondent
    Foreign Correspondent hasn’t been as well remembered as some, but those who seek it out will discover a fun and highly entertaining picture awaiting them.
  30. The Grapes of Wrath
    There is a magnificence to The Grapes of Wrath in the breadth of its ambition, which still makes it the definitive cinematic take on one of America’s most defining epochs.
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