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For 16,520 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,697 out of 16520
  2. Mixed: 5,806 out of 16520
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16520
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  1. La Dolce Vita
    A brilliantly conceived epic fable.
  2. Blast of Silence
    About 30 years ahead of its time, Blast of Silence follows a hit man (Baron) who heads to New York over the holidays and finds the Christmas spirit interfering with his killer instincts. [13 Apr 2008, p.E10]
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  3. 101 Dalmatians
    Cruella De Vil dominates the film: With her booming voice (provided by Betty Lou Gerson) and extravagant gestures, she leaves a trail of shattered glass and frazzled nerves wherever she passes. [12 July 1991, p.F12]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Where the Boys Are
    Despite an undercurrent of rebellion against adult attitudes, the point of view about sex is so conservative that the film could have been shown at PTA meetings without a murmur of protest. [25 Nov 1990, p.62]
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  5. Exodus
    Trumbo's dialogue has its corny moments, purple patches and inevitable preachy passages, and the cast is jarringly uneven...but on the whole Exodus is a formidable accomplishment embracing suspense, danger, passion, romance, politics, religion, intrigue, sacrifice and bravery in an entertaining fashion for 3 1/2 hours. [10 Sep 1998, p.F12]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Village of the Damned
    An eerie, atmospheric horror film. [08 Aug 2004, p.E14]
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  7. The Entertainer
    Tony Richardson’s 1960 The Entertainer, based on the John Osborne play, is a cultural event of the first importance.
  8. Bells Are Ringing
    The endearing Judy Holliday's last film, 1960's Bells are Ringing, may not be her best, but it's definitely worth tuning in. [29 Dec 1996, p.4]
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  9. The Apartment
    A scathing, ingeniously funny 1960 portrayal of corporate corruption and backstairs sex. [18 March 1988, p.C24]
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  10. Ben-Hur
    A movie like Ben-Hur, while almost never stirring or imaginative in the way that the true epics of Griffith or Gance or Kurosawa are, nevertheless has a basic appeal.
  11. Plan 9 from Outer Space
    Sitting through Plan 9 From Outer Space can be torture for film purists, whose cinematic souls well may be soiled by Edward D. Wood Jr.'s banzai extravaganza of bad taste, bad execution and bad results. [24 Sep 1992, p.12]
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  12. The Nun's Story
    The film has a marvelous first half. All of Zinnemann's best qualities -- tact, taste, integrity, quiet intellect and idealism -- shine through in the convent scenes, as does the acting. However, good as Peter Finch is (as an agnostic doctor), the second half seems hurried, over-reticent. [25 Mar 1988, p.22]
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  13. The Shaggy Dog
    A warm and largely amusing family film. [18 Oct 1987, p.5]
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  14. Some Came Running
    A rambling fat memoir about a soldier returning home to a Midwestern city, where his roughhouse, bravura ways tear the delicate social fabric apart, has lots of sleazy, low-life glamour on the screen. Scenarist John Patrick and director Vincente Minnelli made it work in this memorable 1959 film.
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Separate Tables
    The movie is sheer soap opera, but fine writing by Terence Rattigan (upon whose play it is based) gives the melodrama meaning. And a cast sure to make any movie lover swoon (David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth and Wendy Hiller) takes the poignancy to levels that are sometimes painful to watch. [07 Oct 1993, p.17]
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  16. My Uncle
    The Oscar-winning Mon Oncle, in which Tati returned as Hulot, finds the filmmaker in a no less humorous, yet more critical, mood. [02 Feb 1995, p.F4]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    Richard Brooks adapted and directed this superbly acted though watered-down -- all references to homosexuality were deleted -- 1958 version of Williams' popular 1955 play. [30 Apr 2006, p.E14]
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  18. Vertigo
    An audacious, brilliantly twisted movie, infused with touches of genius and of madness. A disturbing meditation on the interconnected nature of love and obsession disguised as a penny dreadful shocker. [13 Oct 1996, p.C5]
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  19. Thunder Road
    Long considered one of the ultimate drive-in movies, the granddaddy of both "The Last American Hero" and "Smokey and the Bandit," this black-and-white drama is still entertaining if you take it in the raffish, off-slant, what-the-hell spirit with which star-producer Robert Mitchum obviously intended it. [09 Dec 1988, p.24]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Run Silent Run Deep
    A taut, well-acted World War II sub drama starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster and directed by Robert Wise. [27 May 1999, p.F50]
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  21. Touch of Evil
    No amount of repeated viewings can dull the edge of its sinister ambience or soften the visual excitement Welles brought to this quintessentially cinematic film. [Director's Cut]
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Black Scorpion
    Cheesy but entertaining 1957 thriller. [29 Oct 2003, p.E5]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Man of a Thousand Faces
    This is one of those rare birds: a well-done biopic that does justice to its famous subject. [11 Mar 1994, p.F24]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    3:10 to Yuma
    A small western gem.
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An Affair to Remember
    The film, directed by Leo McCarey, is almost a shot-by-shot remake of his 1939 hit "Love Affair," with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, but this version sparkles thanks to Grant and Kerr's crackling chemistry. [15 Jan 2008, p.E11]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Love in the Afternoon
    Coop is too long in the tooth as the rich rogue, but Hepburn and the Parisian locales make this worth watching. [13 Feb 1997, p.F43]
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  27. Baby Doll
    A near-classic, balanced evenly between camp and carnality.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Written on the Wind
    Deliciously addictive. [12 Jul 2001, p.18]
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  29. Around the World in 80 Days
    Todd and Anderson's Around the World in 80 Days is an overstuffed, star-crammed affair, but it's also a sly charmer. [11 Jun 1992, p.14]
    • Los Angeles Times
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lust for Life
    Gorgeous landscapes and paintings provide respite from the film’s overwrought emotion.
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