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For 588 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Dune: Part One
Lowest review score: 20 Snow White
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 287 out of 588
  2. Mixed: 275 out of 588
  3. Negative: 26 out of 588
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    • 96 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Breathless
    First seen in 1960, Godard's debut feature feels as fresh as a warm baguette, and its insolent, intimate, off-the-cuff style is still copied everywhere in cinema.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Witness for the Prosecution
    The combination of Christie and Wilder ensures the story is impeccably told and the dialogue is unsurpassable from start to finish.
  3. Touch of Evil
    Amazingly, Welles gets away with it. Citizen Kane may be the more weighty, rounded work, but Touch of Evil is a heap more fun.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jailhouse Rock
    Elvis's best film, in which he quite convincingly plays an unsavoury character sent to jail for killing a man in a bar brawl, but is reformed after he's introduced to the music business by his country-singing cellmate and becomes a big star. [18 Oct 2008, p.48]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Three Faces of Eve
    This 1950s Hollywood examination of mental illness won an Oscar for Joanne Woodward, who plays a frumpy housewife, a sultry seductress and an urban sophisticate, giving a virtuoso performance which manages to compensate for Nunnally Johnson's flat direction. [25 Jun 1999, p.21]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Land of the Pharaohs
    This lavish historical epic has plenty of campy treasure in it. [07 Aug 2013]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Shane
    Beloved adaptation of Jack Schaefer’s wonderful novel, with Alan Ladd perfect as the buckskinned gunfighter trying to hang up his six shooter but finding that “There’s no living with a killing”. [10 Dec 2022]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Quo Vadis
    Robert Taylor plays the Roman general and Deborah Kerr the Christian slave he's attracted to, but it's Peter Ustinov, hamming it up a treat as the Emperor Nero, who steals the show in this long and lavish epic. [05 May 2007, p.48]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Lavender Hill Mob
    The Lavender Hill Mob, along with Passport to Pimlico and Genevieve, is one of British cinema's most evocative films.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stage Fright
    There are all kinds of deception being practised in this whodunit, then, not least by Alfred Hitchcock. [28 Feb 2009, p.48]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Set-Up
    Only 72 minutes, in black and white, this is a small classic, directed by Robert Wise. [02 Jul 2000, p.17]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep is as fresh and perverse as ever, and remains one of Hollywood's most entrancingly strange bedtime stories.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1945)
    Though it was out of step with contemporary sensibilities, Powell and Pressburger's Technicolor epic increasingly seems the Citizen Kane of English war movies. [19 Mar 2011, p.26]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Cat People
    Recruited by RKO to knock out some cheapo horrors and recoup the losses the studio had incurred on Citizen Kane, the producer Val Newton instead made a cycle of indefinably creepy and mysteriously poetic films, of which Cat People was the most successful. [24 Dec 2011, p.26]
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  15. Man with a Movie Camera
    It is more a film poem, an ode to modernity and a symphony of a city.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
    Many of [Hitchcock]'s signature motifs were established with this film, including a memorable climax with Novello almost killed by a bloodthirsty mob, and Hitchcock’s first trademark cameo appearance.
  17. California Schemin'
    As light as McAvoy’s touch might be – this is a film, after all, that features a James Corden cameo – there’s more to do here than simply cheer the boys on and hope they get one over on the Oxbridge elite. There are bigger questions to ask, and California Schemin’ is willing to ask them.
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