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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. The Man Who Came to Dinner
    A deliciously wicked character portrait and a helter-skelter satire.
  8. Woman of the Year
    It's as warming as a Manhattan cocktail and as juicy as a porterhouse steak.
  9. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Shadow of the Thin Man
    William Powell and Myrna Loy may not have invented star chemistry but they perfected it.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. The Maltese Falcon
    It's the slickest exercise in cerebration that has hit the screen in many months, and it is also one of the most compelling nervous-laughter provokers yet.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Honky Tonk
    Mostly, "Honky Tonk" is a crowd-catching midway exhibit in which Miss Turner gives a competent, if limited, performance and Mr. Gable again shows off his muscles.
  18. Hold Back the Dawn
    An amazingly poignant picture, rich in humor, heart and subtle ironies.
  19. Citizen Kane
    In spite of some disconcerting lapses and strange ambiguities in the creation of the principal character, Citizen Kane is far and away the most surprising and cinematically exciting motion picture to be seen here in many a moon. As a matter of fact, it comes close to being the most sensational film ever made in Hollywood.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here Comes Mr. Jordan
    However you look at it, "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" is rollicking entertainment.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Woman's Face
    As melodrama, sheer and simple, the story behind Anna Holm's murder trial is often superbly effective, but when it attempts to become a study of emotional anguish it merely betrays the essential hokum of which the film is constructed.
  22. Major Barbara
    This is something more than just a brilliant and adult translation of a stimulating play, something more than a captivating compound of ironic humor and pity. This is a lasting memorial to the devotion of artists working under fire, a permanent proof for posterity that it takes more than bombs to squelch the English wit.
  23. Meet John Doe
    With an excellent script by Mr. Riskin—overwritten in many spots, it is true—Mr. Capra has produced a film which is eloquent with affection for gentle people, for the plain, unimpressive little people who want reassurance and faith.
  24. Road to Zanzibar
    Farce of this sort very seldom comes off with complete effect, but this time it does, and we promise that there's fun on the Road to Zanzibar.
  25. The Lady Eve
    With The Lady Eve, which arrived yesterday at the Paramount, Mr. Sturges is indisputably established as one of the top one or two writers and directors of comedy working in Hollywood today. A more charming or distinguished gem of nonsense has not occurred since It Happened One Night.
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