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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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  1. An American in Paris
    It is the wondrously youthful Miss Caron and that grandly pictorial ballet that place the marks of distinction upon this lush Technicolored escapade.
  2. Detective Story
    Detective Story is a hard-grained entertainment, not revealing but bruisingly real.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Angels in the Outfield
    Clarence Brown, who produced and directed, and Dorothy Kingsley and George Wells, the scenarists, were, it is apparent, not interested in facts. But they make convincing and thoroughly charming the legends they wish to purvey.
  4. The Lavender Hill Mob
    Except for a couple of places, there is no hilarity in The Lavender Hill Mob. But its humors are so ingenious and persistent that it is one big chuckle from beginning to end.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tomorrow Is Another Day
    Its tensions are manufactured and apparent. List "Tomorrow Is Another Day" as just another picture.
  6. La Ronde
    The performers are as seductive as the script. It's quite an affaire.
  7. The Day the Earth Stood Still
    It is comforting, of course, to have it made plain that our planetary neighbors are much wiser and more peaceful than are we, but this makes for a tepid entertainment in what is anamolously labeled the science-fiction field.
  8. A Streetcar Named Desire
    Elia Kazan and a simply superlative cast have fashioned a motion picture that throbs with passion and poignancy.
  9. Alice in Wonderland
    If you are not too particular about the images of Carroll and Tenniel, if you are high on Disney whimsey and if you'll take a somewhat slow, uneven pace, you should find this picture entertaining.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Flying Leathernecks
    With Mr. Wayne, Mr. Ryan and their charges in the cockpits against the crackling magnificence of Mr. Ray's battletorn sky, the picture is all it should be.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Place in the Sun
    Despite the fact that this version of Dreiser's tragedy may be criticized—academically, we think—for its length or deviations from the author's pattern, A Place in the Sun is a distinguished work, a tribute, above all, to its producer-director and an effort now placed among the ranks of the finest films to have come from Hollywood in several years.
  12. The Tall Target
    Unless the three authors of this picture have access to some new and startling source, there is no basis other than legend for the silly murder plot unfolded here.
  13. Oliver Twist
    A superb piece of motion picture art and, beyond doubt, one of the finest screen translations of a literary classic ever made.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    On Moonlight Bay
    Although it strives to develop a genuine nostalgic mood, all that On Moonlight Bay seems to create, sadly enough, is the feeling that this film format is old hat.
  15. Strangers on a Train
    Mr. Hitchcock again is tossing a crazy murder story in the air and trying to con us into thinking that it will stand up without support.
  16. Father's Little Dividend
    It is not very often that the sequel to a successful film turns out to be even half as successful or rewarding as the original picture was. But we've got to hand it to Metro: its sequel to "Father of the Bride" is so close that we'll willingly concede it to the humor and charm of that former film.
  17. Lightning Strikes Twice
    Lightning Strikes Twice, in short, is not explosive fare, but it does crackle on occasion.
  18. Harvey
    If you're for warm and gentle whimsey, for a charmingly fanciful farce and for a little touch of pathos anent the fateful evanescence of man's dreams, then the movie version of "Harvey" is definitely for you.
  19. King Solomon's Mines
    There is more than a trace of outright hokum in this thriller...but there is also an ample abundance of scenic novelty and beauty to compensate.
  20. All About Eve
    Mr. Kaufman and Mr. Hart might even find themselves outclassed by the dazzling and devastating mockery that is brilliantly packed into this film.
    • 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.
  23. 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.
  24. The Gunfighter
    One of the tautest and most stimulating Westerns of the year.
  25. 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.
  26. The Damned Don't Cry
    Vincent Sherman's direction is as specious as the script.
  27. The Asphalt Jungle
    Mr. Huston has filmed a straight crime story about as cleverly and graphically as it could be filmed.
  28. Stage Fright
    Stage Fright is dazzlingly stagy but it is far from frightening.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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