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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. Keeper of the Flame
    A courageous and timely drama which touches frankly upon a phase of American life that is most serious and pertinent today. And in it Mr. Tracy and Miss Hepburn perform with a taut solemnity that is in decided contrast to their previous collaborative roles.
  2. Road to Morocco
    A lampoon of all pictures having to do with exotic romance, played by a couple of wise guys who can make a gag do everything but lay eggs.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Now, Voyager
    For all its emotional hair-splitting, it fails to resolve its problems as truthfully as it pretends. In fact, a little more truth would have made the film a good deal shorter.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing is a tremendously exciting melodrama. Its motors never miss a beat.
  5. The Major and the Minor
    A bountiful comedy-romance.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Holiday Inn
    Mark Sandrich, director and producer, has taken the inevitable melange of plot and production numbers and so deftly pulled them together that one hardly knows where the story ends and a song begins—a neat trick if you can do it.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bambi
    In his search for perfection Mr. Disney has come perilously close to tossing away his whole world of cartoon fantasy. Meanwhile, of course, Bambi is going to please a great many people, for all our churlish exceptions.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    All in all, The Magnificent Ambersons is an exceptionally well-made film, dealing with a subject scarcely worth the attention which has been lavished upon it.
  9. Yankee Doodle Dandy
    As warm and delightful a musical picture as has hit the screen in years, a corking good entertainment and as affectionate, if not as accurate, a film biography as has ever—yes, ever—been made.
  10. Mrs. Miniver
    Certainly it is the finest film yet made about the present war, and a most exalting tribute to the British, who have taken it gallantly.
  11. Tortilla Flat
    Tortilla Flatt is really a little idyll which turns its back on a workaday world. But it is filled with solid humor and compassion—and that is pleasant, even for folks who have to work.
  12. Saboteur
    To put it mildly, Mr. Hitchcock and his writers have really let themselves go. Melodramatic action is their forte, but they scoff at speed limits this trip.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kid Glove Killer
    On its own modest level, "Kid Glove Killer" is a first-rate job all round.
  14. My Favorite Blonde
    Bob is the hub of the picture, and Director Sidney Lanfield has kept the confusion spinning around him. That is entirely gratifying, for, in these times, we can't have too much Hope.
  15. To Be or Not to Be
    In a spirit of levity, contused by frequent doses of shock, Mr. Lubitsch has set his actors to performing a spy-thriller of fantastic design amid the ruins and frightful oppressions of Nazi-in-vaded Warsaw. To say it is callous and macabre is understating the case.
  16. Sullivan's Travels
    A beautifully trenchant satire upon "social significance" in pictures, a stinging slap at those fellows who howl for realism on the screen and a deftly sardonic apologia for Hollywood make-believe.
  17. The Man Who Came to Dinner
    A deliciously wicked character portrait and a helter-skelter satire.
  18. Woman of the Year
    It's as warming as a Manhattan cocktail and as juicy as a porterhouse steak.
  19. Ball of Fire
    Mr. Goldwyn has turned out a very nice comedy, indeed.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    They Died with Their Boots On
    Dismiss factual inaccuracies liberally sprinkled throughout the film's more than two-hour length and you have an adventure tale of frontier days which for sheer scope, if not dramatic impact, it would be hard to equal.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Wolf Man
    The wolf man is left without a paw to stand on; without any build-up either by the scriptwriter or director, he is sent onstage, where he, looks a lot less terrifying and not nearly as funny as Mr. Disney's big, bad wolf.
  22. Suspicion
    One must remark that the ending is not up to Mr. Hitchcock's usual style, and the general atmosphere of the picture is far less genuine than he previously has wrought. But still he has managed to bring through a tense and exciting tale, a psychological thriller which is packed with lively suspense and a picture that entertains you from beginning to—well, almost the end.
  23. Shadow of the Thin Man
    William Powell and Myrna Loy may not have invented star chemistry but they perfected it.
  24. Dumbo
    The most genial, the most endearing, the most completely precious cartoon feature film ever to emerge from the magical brushes of Walt Disney's wonder-working artists!...A film you will never forget.
  25. How Green Was My Valley
    Darryl Zanuck, John Ford and their associates at Twentieth Century-Fox have fashioned a motion picture of great poetic charm and dignity, a picture rich in visual fabrication and in the vigor of its imagery, and one which may truly be regarded as an outstanding film of the year.
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