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For 20,268 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 4.3 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 20268
  2. Mixed: 8,427 out of 20268
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20268
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Endless Summer
    Happily, the viewer is not asked to ponder profundities very often—just to have fun.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming
    Mr. Arkin and Mr. Reiner meet and the comedy takes off in wild flight.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Alphabet Murders
    Unfortunately, neither Mr. Randall's Poirot nor the gags, chases and red herrings offered are inventive, comical or charming enough to make this more than a routine run through of clichés and clues.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A New World
    Feeble in concept and conventionally (if smoothly) executed.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arabesque
    Producer-director, Stanley Donen, apparently goes on the theory that in a chase movie the plot should only be used as a framework, for visual entertainments. Arabesque provides those, all right—Op photography, lush décor, gimmicky locations and hairraising pursuits. And, of course, Sophia Loren, a stunning bit of animated scenery who is not called upon to act but to Dior.
  6. Harper
    The action is swift and the mystery fetching in this handsomely made color film. But eventually it seems a bit too obvious, imitative, old-fashioned and, worst of all, stale.
  7. The Singing Nun
    It takes a soft heart and a strong stomach to absorb the amount of saccharine that is studiedly and shamelessly dished up in Henry Koster's The Singing Nun.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Naked Prey
    A poor and tasteless motion-picture entertainment, redeemed somewhat by its authentic African setting and its effective use of tribal drums and native music as the accompaniment for a primitive jungle chase.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Band of Outsiders
    "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun," Godard famously asserted, and Band of Outsiders, his seventh feature, is his demonstration of how to concoct a film out of the materials at hand.
  10. Doctor Zhivago
    And this is the weakness of the film. Mr. Bolt has reduced the vast upheaval of the Russian Revolution to the banalities of a doomed romance.
  11. Thunderball
    [Bond] also has a much better sense of humor than he has shown in his previous films. And this is the secret ingredient that makes Thunderball the best of the lot.
  12. That Darn Cat!
    The color is good and Bobby Darin warbles a song at the start that may be amusing to humans but would probably fill Felix with disgust. Anyhow, it's an entertaining picture.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    King & Country
    King and Country is an uncompromising film. Some of its scenes are so strong they shock. Those who can take it will find it a shattering experience.
  14. Juliet of the Spirits
    Invites you to contemplate the symbolic vibration of every hue in its teeming, overcrowded canvas.
  15. Alphaville
    What it comes to is simply that the dazzle of Mr. Godard's cinematic style is not matched by the hackneyed idea of a robot society that is expounded in the script.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Cincinnati Kid
    A respectably packaged drama of a young card sharp, played by Steve McQueen, with a capable enough cast, that pungently projects the machinations and back-room temperatures of the side-street professional gambling world and little else.
  17. Bunny Lake Is Missing
    The movie has its share of logical inconsistencies, although to dwell on them is to ignore its deliberate ambiguities and considerable panache.
  18. Help!
    The boys themselves are exuberant and uninhibited in their own genial way. They just become awfully redundant and—dare I say it?—dull.
  19. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
    Although crudely acted, with laughably inept action sequences and a story that makes little sense, it has the feverish pulse of a classic B movie, boldly angular cinematography and a blaringly cheesy jazz soundtrack.
  20. Darling
    As a slashing social satire and also a devastating spoof of the synthetic, stomach-turning output of the television-advertising age--it is loaded with startling expositions and lacerating wit.
  21. The Ipcress File
    The Ipcress File is as classy a spy film as you could ask to see.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These Are the Damned
    Mr. Losey, proceeding with grim logic toward his apocalyptic climax, has made a strong comment about the nuclear age—while arrestingly demonstrating just how much a gifted filmmaker can accomplish with limited means.
  23. The Great Race
    Natalie Wood is on hand as a cheroot-smoking suffragist (with a phenomenal wardrobe), but the movie is largely powered by Lemmon’s energy, roaring like Jackie Gleason as the bombastic Professor Fate and later appearing as his double, the klutzy crown prince of a Ruritanian kingdom.
  24. Cat Ballou
    Cat Ballou does have flashes of good satiric wit. But, under Elliot Silverstein's direction, it is mostly just juvenile lampoon.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Sons of Katie Elder
    A good, tough, unpretentious and gory little Western with a professional stamp and a laconic bite.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Variety Lights
    As a straightforward comedy-drama about the vicissitudes of the principals in a small-time tab show or traveling vaudeville troupe, this is wholesome corn. But it is highly palatable fare, which, in its story line, hews more to the type of films subsequently made by Mr. Lattuada.
  27. The Pawnbroker
    Remarkable...[a] most uncommon film, which projects a disagreeable subject with power and cogency.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Girl Happy
    The saving grace is the steady stream of tunes, as rhythmical as they are unoriginal, belted out by the star and the other youngsters.
  29. Operation Crossbow
    It is a grandly engrossing and exciting melodrama of wartime espionage, done with stunning documentary touches in a tight, tense, heroic story line.
  30. The Train
    It is a vivid melodrama through which Mr. Lancaster bolts with all that straight, strong, American sporting instinct and physical agility for which he is famous.
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