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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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  1. The Yearling
    A cheerful and inspiring film about the coming to manhood of a youngster.
  2. The Egg and I
    The nearest this watered-down rewrite gets to the solid soil is the dirt on the farm sets constructed on a studio soundstage. And the nearest it comes to realizing any of the diary's observation and wit is in a few farcified re-creations of some of its milder episodes.
  3. Odd Man Out
    A most intriguing film.
  4. It Happened on Fifth Avenue
    They took that dog-earred story of the hard-hearted millionaire given a lesson in human relations by a kindly disposed vagabond and they dressed it up in such trimmings as to make it look almost fresh. And they found themselves fortunately supported by a charming performance from Victor Moore.
  5. The Man I Love
    The Man I Love is both silly and depressing, not to mention dull.
  6. It's a Wonderful Life
    Indeed, the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer's point of view, is the sentimentality of it—its illusory concept of life. Mr. Capra's nice people are charming, his small town is a quite beguiling place and his pattern for solving problems is most optimistic and facile. But somehow they all resemble theatrical attitudes rather than average realities. And Mr. Capra's "turkey dinners" philosophy, while emotionally gratifying, doesn't fill the hungry paunch.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dead Reckoning
    For those with a taste for rough stuff "Dead Reckoning" is almost certain to satisfy.
  8. The Best Years of Our Lives
    It is seldom that there comes a motion picture which can be wholly and enthusiastically endorsed not only as superlative entertainment but as food for quiet and humanizing thought.
  9. Song of the South
    Apparently the Disney wonder-workers are just a lot of conventional hacks when it comes to telling a story with actors instead of cartoons.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I Know Where I'm Going!
    This simple story line is developed with considerable imagination, wit and emotional insight into a thoroughly en-joyable and exhilarating romantic experience.
  11. Angel on My Shoulder
    The story is so imitative—and is repeated so dutifully—that it's hard to feel any more towards it than a mildly nostalgic regard.
  12. Notorious
    One of the more remarkable things about Notorious is that it hasn't seemed to age; if anything, it grows more timely. [26 Oct 1980, p.17]
    • The New York Times
  13. The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep is one of those pictures in which so many cryptic things occur amid so much involved and devious plotting that the mind becomes utterly confused. And, to make it more aggravating, the brilliant detective in the case is continuously making shrewd deductions which he stubbornly keeps to himself.
  14. Brief Encounter
    An uncommonly good little picture.
  15. Make Mine Music
    Vivid, motley, ornamental and just-a-bit questionable in spots.
  16. The Stranger
    The whole thing becomes a routine and mechanical cat-and-rat chase, with the outcome completely apparent, despite a few bright and clever twists.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Till the End of Time
    Only intermittently compelling as an entertainment, notwithstanding the freshness and urgency of its subject.
  18. The Postman Always Rings Twice
    The picture achieves its distinction through the smart way in which it has been made and through the quality of its representation of two passion-torn characters.
  19. Road to Utopia
    A blizzard of fractious sport and clowning, a whirlwind of gags and travesty, a snowdrift of suffocating nonsense.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    To Each His Own
    To Each His Own spins dangerously on the brink of bathos but it seldom spills over into that treacherous chasm for more than a fleeting scene or two, thanks to a screen play which artfully dodges complete morbidity.
  21. The Harvey Girls
    It may be a rather lofty tribute to Fred Harvey's girls, but it's a show.
  22. They Were Expendable
    It is nostalgic, warm with sentiment and full of fight in every foot. It is hard to commend any actor above the rest. Each plays his part well.
  23. Spellbound
    Not to be speechless about it, David O. Selznick has a rare film in Spellbound.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mildred Pierce
    Mildred Pierce lacks the driving force of stimulating drama, and its denouement hardly comes as a surprise, but it is cut from a pattern that has been hugely successful in the past and it probably will be this time too.
  25. Rhapsody in Blue
    The performers are quite naturally restricted by the limitations of the script—and by the purely pedestrian direction that Irving Rapper has given them.
  26. Lady on a Train
    It's an empty and careless little fable, intended to be a mystery farce, about the wholly incredible mix-up of a debutante in a murder plot.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Christmas in Connecticut
    Peter Godfrey, the director, has a good deal to learn about the art of telling a boudoir joke in the parlor and getting away with it.
  28. Anchors Aweigh
    For a popular entertainment, Anchors Aweigh is hard to beat. The proof is that it pleases both the pro and con Sinatra-ites.
  29. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1945)
    Colonel Blimp is as unmistakably a British product as Yorkshire pudding and, like the latter, it has a delectable savor all its own.
  30. Without Love
    Miss Hepburn gives a mischievous performance as the girl who really wants to be chased, and Mr. Tracy is charmingly acerbic when confronted with her cool or coy wiles.
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