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For 6,628 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 London Road
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,512 out of 6628
  2. Mixed: 3,796 out of 6628
  3. Negative: 320 out of 6628
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shanghai Express
    This melodrama the director weakens by mistaking postponement of event for suspense. But the film has compensating strength in the star, who photographs more beautifully than before and, though she is acted off the screen by Anna May Wong, shows herself unique in Hollywood by being majestically beautiful.
  2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    A classic, not to be missed.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mata Hari
    Garbo is deliciously watchable in this fictionalised but nonetheless well-researched biopic.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Public Enemy
    The deepest appeal of this 74-minute study in insolence is that Cagney is cock of the walk.
  5. All Quiet on the Western Front
    An ambitious epic of tremendous sweep and scope, with trench-warfare battle scenes comparable to Kubrick's Paths of Glory.
  6. Man with a Movie Camera
    The combustion engine gave humanity the new experience of speed; now the movie camera gave us a dizzying new speed of perception and creation.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Passion of Joan of Arc
    The last silent film by Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer, it largely eschewed traditional master shots for a dazzling range of expressive, character-probing close-ups: no historical biopic has ever felt quite so unnervingly intimate.
  8. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
    Hitchcock's 1926 silent melodrama offers a gripping prehistory not just of his own work, but the Hollywood thriller itself.
  9. Sunrise
    FW Murnau's classic 1927 silent is one of the first movies with a really substantial feature-length narrative: an exuberant pioneer picture conceived on a big canvas, blazing an inspirational trail for just about everything Hollywood has done since. [06 Feb 2004, p.15]
    • The Guardian
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Ring
    The Ring is a showcase for the young Hitchcock's editing panache: the experimental, Soviet-influenced montage that would surface so violently in Psycho. [04 Jul 2012]
    • The Guardian
  11. Battleship Potemkin
    Eisenstein's film still has a hypnotic urgency.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
    A Woman of Paris is a remarkable film, an historic film, a film to see and consider. But, it is wintry, and not everyone will find it to his liking.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Intolerance
    A powerful humane statement and a towering work of art.
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