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For 20,278 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,380 out of 20278
  2. Mixed: 8,434 out of 20278
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20278
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    We're No Angels
    Generally a slow, talky affair of elephantine roguishness and a few genuine chuckles.
  2. Not as a Stranger
    It is loaded with hospital lore, coldly realistic and compelling, but also it is creeping with ponderous characters. With so much dissecting in his picture—and so much of it being good—it is too bad that Mr. Kramer couldn't have done a little on his characters.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ain't Misbehavin'
    The music is tired and the dances are flaccid repetitions of hundreds of other movie dances. But when the summer nights afflict you like wet wool, and the theatres beckon with their super-cooled zephyrs, Ain't Misbehavin' will fill the double bill. At worst it's a soporific.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Land of the Pharaohs
    While it is impressively sweeping in its eye-filling pageantry, this saga of the building of a colossal pyramid 5,000 years ago is staged on the creaky foundation of a tale of palace intrigue that must have been banal even in the First Dynasty.
  5. Lady and the Tramp
    Not the best he has done in this line. It is a coyly romantic story, done with animals. The sentimentality is mighty, and the use of the CinemaScope size does not make for any less awareness of the thickness of the goo.
  6. Marty
    Marty makes a warm and winning film, full of the sort of candid comment on plain, drab people that seldom reaches the screen.
  7. East of Eden
    In short, there is energy and intensity but little clarity and emotion in this film. It is like a great, green iceberg: mammoth and imposing but very cold.
  8. Blackboard Jungle
    As a straight melodrama of juvenile violence this is a vivid and hair-raising film.
  9. The Racers
    It is something for racing fans to see. But the business that passes for a story in between and among the racing scenes is depressingly unoriginal and banal.
  10. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    The Disney people naturally have made it as elaborate as it was made by Verne. And they have likewise developed all the other intriguing potentials of the yarn with a joyful exaggeration that is expected in science-fiction films.
  11. The Last Time I Saw Paris
    What is to be said of such a picture? The story is trite. The motivations are thin. The writing is glossy and pedestrian. The acting is pretty much forced.
  12. Carmen Jones
    There is nothing wrong with the music—except that it does not fit the people or the words. But that did not seem to make much difference to Mr. Hammerstein or Mr. Preminger. They were carried away by their precocity. The present consequence is a crazy mixed-up film.
  13. A Star Is Born
    Those who have blissful recollections of David O. Selznick's A Star Is Born as probably the most affecting movie ever made about Hollywood may get themselves set for a new experience that should put the former one in the shade when they see Warner Brothers' and George Cukor's remake of the seventeen-year-old film.
  14. White Christmas
    Everyone works hard at the business of singing, dancing and cracking jokes, but the stuff that they work with is minor.
  15. The Barefoot Contessa
    The story that's told against this background is a curiously empty tabloid tale, and the title performer, Ava Gardner, fails to give it plausibility or appeal.
  16. Sabrina
    In our wistful estimation, the most delightful comedy-romance in years.
  17. Brigadoon
    Vincente Minnelli's direction lacks his usual vitality and flow. Brigadoon on the screen, we must say, is pretty weak synthetic Scotch.
  18. Rear Window
    Mr. Stewart does a first-class job, playing the whole thing from a wheel chair and making points with his expressions and eyes. His handling of a lens-hound's paraphernalia in scanning the action across the way is very important to the color and fascination of the film.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Magnificent Obsession
    Playing his first major role, the strapping, manly Mr. Hudson gives a fine, direct account of himself, in the film's only real surprise. Otherwise, Universal has delivered the goods—or good—exactly as prescribed by the doctor.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
    A fast, funny and sprightly rustic romp well worth seeing.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On the Waterfront
    Moviemaking of a rare and high order. (Review of Original Release)
  22. The Caine Mutiny
    The Caine Mutiny, though somewhat garbled, is a vibrant film.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Them!
    Suffice it to say that the combination of three writers, director Gordon Douglas, producer David Weisbart and a cooperative cast have helped make the proceedings tense, absorbing and, surprisingly enough, somewhat convincing.
  24. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
    Perhaps "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" extends a bit longer than it should. As such things do, it inclines to repetition. But most of it is good, fast, wholesome fun.
  25. Dial M for Murder
    The thrills come in following a succession of dawnings in people's minds.But Mr. Hitchcock has presented this mental material on the screen with remarkable visual definition of developing intrigue and mood.
  26. Salt of the Earth
    The hard-focus, realistic quality of the picture's photography and style completes its characterization as a calculated social document.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Crime Wave
    Mr. de Toth's tour is a brisk, pictorial one, honeycombing the shadowy metropolitan fringes and byways where vigilant police sift a gallery of chameleonic habitués. But this canvas narrows considerably, at times unconvincingly, in appraising the plight of Mr. Nelson.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Creature from the Black Lagoon
    It's a fishing expedition that is necessary only if a viewer has lost all of his comic books.
  29. The Wild One
    Although the reality of it goes soft and then collapses at the end, it is a tough and engrossing motion picture, weird and cruel, while it stays on the beam.
  30. Knights of the Round Table
    Don't look for something in the mood of Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" or Malory's "Morte d'Arthur" in this extraordinarily eye-filling film. The poetic eloquence and grandeur of those distinctly literary works have been replaced by a sweep of graphic action and romantic symbols that is straight Hollywood.
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