Philadelphia Inquirer's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
4176 movie reviews
  1. The Lady Vanishes brings out Hitchcock's macabre wit and sardonic view of mankind in a light mystery starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave.[10 May 2003, p.E01]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The most amazing thing about 1936's After the Thin Man is not that it remains a sparkling, engaging entertainment almost 70 years after its release, but that it is nearly as good as 1934's The Thin Man, the first movie based on Dashiell Hammett's husband-and-wife detective team of Nick and Nora Charles. [06 Aug 2005, p.D07]
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  2. One of the better Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire outings. [14 Jun 2004, p.D01]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Grand, glorious, gigantic and gorgeous. [13 Apr 1936, p.6]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    However moved or indifferent one may be to the joys and heartaches of the very British Marryots, Bridges, their butler, and Ellen, his wife: Cavalcade is a necessary addition to one's cinematic education as an example of screen technique at its best. [15 Apr 1933, p.22]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The story -- which has originality and compelling interest to recommend it -- is forgotten as the spectator, clenching his hands, relives those great victories lost and won "on the wing." [03 Dec 1927, p.11]
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