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For 20,271 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: 9,377 out of 20271
  2. Mixed: 8,430 out of 20271
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20271
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    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sunset Boulevard
    Sunset Boulevard is that rare blend of pungent writing, expert acting, masterly direction and unobtrusively artistic photography which quickly casts a spell over an audience and holds it enthralled to a shattering climax.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Treasure Island
    A grand and glorious entertainment. Six or 60, the spectator is bound to be caught up in the magic of this thrilling quest for fabulous wealth.
  3. Winchester '73
    It is far from the mature outdoor drama that might be brilliantly filmed around a gun. It's just a frisky, fast-moving, funny Western in which a rifle is the apple of a cowboy's eye.
  4. The Gunfighter
    One of the tautest and most stimulating Westerns of the year.
  5. Father of the Bride
    The film, while it packs all the satire of our modern tribal matrimonial rite that was richly contained in the original, also possesses all the warmth and poignancy and understanding that makes the Streeter treatise much beloved.
  6. The Damned Don't Cry
    Vincent Sherman's direction is as specious as the script.
  7. The Asphalt Jungle
    Mr. Huston has filmed a straight crime story about as cleverly and graphically as it could be filmed.
  8. Stage Fright
    Stage Fright is dazzlingly stagy but it is far from frightening.
  9. The Rules of the Game
    The Rules of the Game is among the most perfectly balanced of films: a movie about discretion that is in every way a model of it.
  10. Cinderella
    Whoever engineered the sequence of the pumpkin transformation in this film—the magical change to coach and horses—deserves an approving hand. And the scene in which Cinderella blows soap bubbles—opalescent globes full of fragile reflections and rainbow colors—is one of the cleverest animations yet seen. To the fellows who dreamed up these fancies we are heartily grateful, indeed. They have sprinkled into Cinderella—along with sugar and wit—some vagrant art.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sands of Iwo Jima
    Sands of Iwo Jima so easily could have been a great war film instead of just a good one.
  12. Young Man with a Horn
    If you have a sneaking affection for 1950-ish, made-to-measure movies, there are pleasures to be found in Young Man With a Horn.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gun Crazy
    Pretty cheap stuff.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
    The credits outweigh the debits and Mr. Disney has included enough elements of entertainment to make his newest film package a solid entertainment.
  15. On the Town
    Gaiety, rhythm, humor and a good, wholesome dash of light romance have been artfully blended together in this bright Technicolored comedy.
  16. Holiday Affair
    An amiable little romance in which a boy meets a girl at Christmas-time, and the sentiments are quite as artificial and conveniently sprinkled as the snow is provided—for those who like such things—in RKO's Holiday Affair.
  17. Adam's Rib
    Of Adam's Rib we might say, in short, that it isn't solid food but it certainly is meaty and juicy and comically nourishing.
  18. They Live by Night
    They Live by Night has the failing of waxing sentimental over crime, but it manages to generate interest with its crisp dramatic movement and clear-cut types.
  19. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
    In this big Technicolored Western Mr. Ford has superbly achieved a vast and composite illustration of all the legends of the frontier cavalryman.
  20. Under Capricorn
    It is an overlong, overlabored essay on the torments of conscience and love which Mr. Hitchcock has beautifully filmed in Technicolor but pointed in glaring blacks and whites.
  21. The Third Man
    Mr. Reed has brilliantly packaged the whole bad of his cinematic tricks, his whole range of inventive genius for making the camera expound. His eminent gifts for compressing a wealth of suggestion in single shots, for building up agonized tension and popping surprises are fully exercised. His devilishly mischievous humor also runs lightly through the film, touching the darker depressions with little glints of the gay or macabre. [3 Feb 1950, p.29]
  22. White Heat
    The Warners have pulled all the stops in making this picture the acme of the gangster-prison film. They have crammed it with criminal complications—some of them old, some of them glittering new—pictured to technical perfection in a crisp documentary style. And Mr. Cagney has played it in a brilliantly graphic way, matching the pictorial vigor of his famous "Public Enemy" job.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mighty Joe Young
    The wonder of Mighty Joe Young is the mobility of the mechanical star, but even that novelty wears thin after a while.
  24. Neptune's Daughter
    It has some quite clever popular music, Ricardo Montalban to make Latin love—and it has, above all, Red Skelton and Betty Garrett to play the buffoons.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Window
    The striking force and terrifying impact of this RKO melodrama is chiefly due to Bobby's brilliant acting, for the whole effect would have been lost were there any suspicion of doubt about the credibility of this pivotal character.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Set-Up
    The Set-Up is a real dilly for those who go for muscular entertainment.
  27. Little Women
    If anything, it has hauled back much too briskly on the strings of the heart and has strained a few muscles in the process.
  28. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
    For all its high spots, however, the show lacks consistent style and pace, and the stars are forced to clown and grimace much more than becomes their speed. Actually, the plotted humor is conspicuously bush-league stuff. Don't be surprised if you see people getting up for a seventh-inning stretch.
  29. Force of Evil
    A dynamic crime-and-punishment drama, brilliantly and broadly realized.
  30. 3 Godfathers
    It is Mr. Ford's wonderful style in picturing a frontier fable that has the classic mould. His unsurpassed talent for bringing upon the motion-picture screen the nature and the drama of the great West is in itself an art.
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