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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. The Sea Wolf
    At least a good half of the effect in a sea-picture comes from the sea, and when that element is lacking the whole thing seems flat and synthetic. This, we regret to say, is a major fault in The Sea Wolf.
  2. The Strawberry Blonde
    Its amiable, infectious quality lies in the seriocomic way it re-creates the Eighteen Nineties culture of New York — horse-and-buggy courtships, dancing at beer gardens, Sunday afternoon street music and maybe an occasional brawl.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    A chucklesome comedy that fails to mount into a coruscating wave of laughter.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Invisible Woman
    The script is as creaky as a two-wheeled cart and were it not for the fact that John Barrymore is taking a ride in it we hate to think what "The Invisible Woman" might have turned out to be.
  5. Kitty Foyle
    The sharpness and contemporary significance of Mr. Morley's commentary are missing.
  6. The Philadelphia Story
    Provided you have a little patience for the lavishly rich, which these folks are, you should have great fun at The Philadelphia Story. For Metro and Director George Cukor have graciously made it apparent, in the words of a character, that one of the "prettiest sights in this pretty world is the privileged classes enjoying their privileges." And so, in this instance, you will too.
  7. The Letter
    It is an evil tale, plotted with an eye to its torturing effects. And Mr. Wyler has directed the film along those lines. With infinite care, he has created the dark, humid atmosphere of the rubber country. At a slow, inexorable pace, he has accumulated the details.
  8. Fantasia
    Fantasia is simply terrific—as terrific as anything that has ever happened on a screen.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strike Up the Band
    When they take the rugs off the floor and the youngsters begin moving, Strike Up the Band is spanking good entertainment.
  10. The Westerner
    If some one could just have decided who should carry the ball, instead of letting it pass from one to the other, The Westerner might have been a bang-up, dandy film. And that, we are sorry to say, it isn't. The trouble, as indicated, is that the picture has no core.
  11. Foreign Correspondent
    Director Alfred Hitchcock, whose unmistakable stamp the picture bears, has packed about as much romantic action, melodramatic hullabaloo, comical diversion and illusion of momentous consequence as the liveliest imagination could conceive.
  12. They Drive by Night
    For fanciers of hard-boiled cinema, They Drive By Night still offers an entertaining ride.
  13. Pride and Prejudice
    Hunt Stromberg and his associates have managed to turn out a film which catches the spirit and humor of Miss Austen's novel down to the last impudent flounce of a petticoat, the last contented sigh of a conquering coquette.
  14. Waterloo Bridge
    Miss Leigh shapes the role of the girl with such superb comprehension, progresses from the innocent, fragile dancer to an empty, bedizened street-walker with such surety of characterization and creates a person of such appealing naturalness that the picture gains considerable substance as a result.
  15. Turnabout
    So far as we're concerned, this self-conscious fantasy of a husband and wife who reverse their biological status is a tired and tiresome jape, as subtle as a five-cent stogie and just as aromatic.
  16. My Favorite Wife
    A frankly fanciful farce, a rondo of refined ribaldries and an altogether delightful picture with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne chasing each other around most charmingly in it.
  17. Rebecca
    An altogether brilliant film, haunting, suspenseful, handsome and handsomely played.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The House of the Seven Gables
    Dreary and slightly stale fare.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It All Came True
    Neither comedy, strictly speaking, nor good red gangsterism, nor an altogether creditable combination of both.
  20. Road to Singapore
    The Road to Singapore is cobbled with good intentions, is blessed intermittently with smooth-running strips of amiable nonsense, but is altogether too uneven for regular use.
  21. The Grapes of Wrath
    In the vast library where the celluloid literature of the screen is stored there is one small, uncrowded shelf devoted to the cinema's masterworks, to those films which by dignity of theme and excellence of treatment seem to be of enduring artistry, seem destined to be recalled not merely at the end of their particular year but whenever great motion pictures are mentioned. To that shelf of screen classics Twentieth Century-Fox yesterday added its version of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
  22. Pinocchio
    It still is the best thing Mr. Disney has done and therefore the best cartoon ever made.
  23. Swiss Family Robinson
    The uniformly competent performance of the cast make it a moderately entertaining, if rather somnolently paced, story-book film.
  24. His Girl Friday
    His Girl Friday is a bold-faced reprint of what was once—and still remains—the maddest newspaper comedy of our times.
  25. Gone with the Wind
    Is it the greatest motion picture ever made? Probably not, although it is the greatest motion mural we have seen and the most ambitious film-making venture in Hollywood's spectacular history.
  26. The Shop Around the Corner
    A pretty kettle of bubbling brew it makes under Mr. Lubitsch's deft and tender management and with a genial company to play it gently, well this side of farce and well that side of utter seriousness.
  27. Of Mice and Men
    Lewis Milestone, who directed it; Eugene Solow, who adapted it, and Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr., Betty Field and the others who have performed it, have done more than well in simply realizing the drama's established values.
  28. The Invisible Man Returns
    The Invisible Man Returns is a mite on the ghostly side, too, although neither so horrendous nor so humorous as the first one was.
  29. Destry Rides Again
    A bit of the old West with a good bit of the old Dietrich in it; a tightly written, capitally directed show, with perfectly grand supporting performances.
  30. Another Thin Man
    This third of the trademarked Thin Men takes its murders as jauntily as ever, confirms our impression that matrimony need not be too serious a business and provides as light an entertainment as any holiday-amusement seeker is likely to find.
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