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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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    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Moby Dick
    The term classic gets tossed around a lot, but few films ever actually fall within its definition. John Huston's 1956 production of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, coolly received by critics when it first came out, now falls within the parameters -- a model of its kind. [03 Sep 1993, p.F23]
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  2. Ikiru
    Like “Stray Dog” and “Drunken Angel,” it illuminates a reeling society while telling a story of deep human emotion.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    It's not hard to see why this paranoid fable on the dangers of conformity would prove irresistible to generations of storytellers, given its capacity for alternative interpretations and double meanings, its ability to reflect a larger cultural and political relevance no matter the period.
  4. The Burmese Harp
    A haunting, elegaic reverie of a movie; its opening battle scenes recalling John Ford’s cavalry westerns.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Guys and Dolls
    The music is memorable, Michael Kidd's choreography is energetic and the cast is game. But there's a certain spark missing that would have transformed it from good to great. [25 Apr 2006, p.E2]
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  6. El
    It is one of the simplest of Bunuel's films but is also among his most powerful and subtle. [17 Sep 1995, p.6]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oklahoma!
    Zinnemann doesn't seem to know he is directing a Great Broadway Musical. The result is a well-staged drama that just happens to have great songs in it. [16 Dec 1994, p.F26]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mister Roberts
    A brilliant mixture of laughter and pathos with delightful performances from Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell (in his last role) and Jack Lemmon, who received an Oscar as the enterprising Ensign Pulver. [24 Dec 1998, p.F12]
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Night of the Hunter
    A powerfully cinematic modern allegory of love and fear. [20 Oct 1987, p.3]
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  10. Lady and the Tramp
    Capturing the pain and humor of genuine childhood feelings requires far more subtlety and skill, and this emotional depth makes Lady and the Tramp a timeless film that audiences will still enjoy 31 years from now.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Marty
    Marty is a must-see picture. [11 Jan 1956, p.6]
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  12. East of Eden
    Not only one of Kazan's richest films and Dean's first significant role, it is also arguably the actor's best performance. [10 June 2005, p.E12]
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  13. White Christmas
    The draggiest of the Crosby holiday vehicles. Even the usually manic Danny Kaye is reduced to a kind of nagging Man Friday. There are some good tunes, though (Berlin was in on this one, too). [19 Dec 1991, p.12]
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  14. The Barefoot Contessa
    Ava Gardner in the role of her career (Humphrey Bogart isn't bad either) and writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz at the top of his form. [03 Dec 2006, p.18]
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  15. On the Waterfront
    As unspoiled in its key elements as the day it was made, "On the Waterfront" is indisputably one of the great American films, its power undiminished. Even more today than half a century ago, it demands to be seen.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Them!
    It's an ingeious thriller, all right, in the science-fiction tradition of "War of the Worlds" and "It Came From Outer Space" -- with a bit of "The Naked Jungle" thrown in. [19 Jun 1954, p.12]
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  17. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
    With its inspired sight gags and comic mishaps, the deceptively artless-seeming "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" is as blissful as a sunny day at the beach. [02 Feb 1995, p.F4]
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  18. Crime Wave
    De Toth never makes a false move, never lets up a breakneck pace and gets sensational performances from one of those amazing casts we once took for granted in Hollywood pictures. [13 Aug 1998, p.F16]
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  19. Creature from the Black Lagoon
    A drive-in classic that is one of the most cherished horror pictures of the '50s. [30 Oct 1997, p.F17]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Living Desert
    Disney's evergreen, Oscar-winning documentary from 1953, is crawling with the scaly, feathery and furry critters who call the desert home. [12 Aug 1994, p.F27]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    From Here to Eternity
    This film is sensationalism gone rampant with sex, cruelty, and all the ruddy elements which make for what is known as rough, rugged, brutal appeal. It has to do with soldiering, but it dallies preeminently with sex, and is only in minor degree concerned with war.
  22. The War of the Worlds
    The War of the Worlds is one of those movies that many who grew up in the '50s remember fondly as a mix of science-fiction melodrama and crashingly good mayhem. Nostalgia goes a long way toward appreciating it today. [13 Aug 1992, p.15]
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  23. The Caddy
    Norman Taurog's The Caddy is a sometimes subpar 1953 Martin & Lewis golfing comedy enlivened by a Dean and Jerry duet on "That's Amore" and a snatch of their great stage act. [22 Jul 1988, p.23]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It Came from Outer Space
    The film was originally shot to be shown in 3-D and its low-key use of the technology makes it one of the most effective 3-D films of the era. [24 Dec 1993, p.F12]
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  25. Niagara
    Directed by Henry Hathaway and co-written by Charles Brackett, the picture, about a femme fatale who wants to kill her husband, could be seen as a "House of Gucci" predecessor -- starring Marilyn Monroe as she was coming into herself as a performer and star, and featuring Joseph Cotten with his blend of the suave and the sleazy. [25 Nov 2021, p.E1]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Bad and the Beautiful
    This slice of (Hollywood) life is among the director's greatest works -- and among the best incisive-yet-affectionate examinations of the movie industry's dark side. [18 Nov 1988, p.25]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Quiet Man
    Scenes of the Irish countryside are dazzling and Ford’s version of Ireland is all homey and warm-hearted, with a distinct Hollywood glaze.
  28. The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
    Made by Disney, this version starring Richard Todd and a youthful Peter Finch isn't quite up to its predecessor, but zippy nonetheless. Action dominates, sometimes at the expense of the characters. [02 Sep 1993, p.18]
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  29. The Tales of Hoffmann
    The triumph of aesthetics, of artistic filmmaking of a high order, is the victory to be celebrated here, and it is something you are not going to see every day. [13 Mar 2015, p.E7]
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  30. Miracle in Milan
    The strangest and most delightful of the many collaborations of those joint exemplars of neo-realism, Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini: a Chaplinesque fable about a purely innocent and good young orphan who leads the inhabitants of a Roman shantytown in angelic revolt against their cruel evictors. [10 Nov 1996, p.4]
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