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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bombshell
    Although there are moments when the comedy is too rambunctious and scenes which are not precisely convincing, it is for the most part a merry, fast-paced diversion.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Cavalcade
    It is unfurled with such marked good taste and restraint that many an eye will be misty after witnessing this production.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    King Kong
    A fantastic film.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    42nd Street
    The liveliest and one of the most tuneful screen musical comedies that has come out of Hollywood.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No Man of Her Own
    Well acted and clearly photographed little drama of musical hall life in Paris.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Three on a Match
    Three on a Match...is both tedious and distasteful.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Red Dust
    The atmosphere of this tale is more interesting than its story, especially the glimpses of the men at work.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Way Passage
    In its uncouth, brusque and implausible fashion "One Way Passage," a pictorial comedy drama which arrived at the Warners' Strand last night, offers quite a satisfactory entertainment.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Grand Hotel
    In all, the picture adheres faithfully to the original and while it undoubtedly lacks the life and depth and color of the play, by means of excellent characterizations it keeps the audience on the qui vive.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Horse Feathers
    Some of the fun is even more reprehensible than the doings of these clowns in previous films, but there is no denying that their antics and their patter are helped along by originality and ready wit.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Scarface
    It is a stirring picture, efficiently directed and capably acted, but as was once said of The Covered Wagon, that it was all very well if you liked wagons, so this is an excellent diversion for those who like to take an afternoon or an evening off to study the activities of cowardly thugs.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Freaks
    Freaks is not a picture to be easily forgotten.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shanghai Express
    It is by all odds the best picture Josef von Sternberg has directed.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Fredric March is the stellar performer in this blood-curdling shadow venture.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mata Hari
    George Fitzmaurice, the director, has told his story in an intelligent and restrained fashion.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Safe in Hell
    Safe in Hell is a little reminiscent of "The Unholy Garden," with its tropic sanctuary where rogues of various nationalities live out their days in happy oblivion, safe from the long arm of extradition. The theme is a good deal sadder, a sort of meldodramatization of all those sad songs about the women who will die rapturously for their men.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Frankenstein
    It is naturally a morbid, gruesome affair, but it is something to keep the spectator awake, for during its most spine-chilling periods it exacts attention.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Monkey Business
    Whether it is really as funny as Animal Crackers is a matter of opinion. Suffice it to say that few persons will be able to go... and keep a straight face.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Skin Game
    Mr. Galsworthy's narrative is bound to enlist one's attention, but Mr. Hitchcock, who is responsible for the adaptation as well as the direction, cannot be said to have accomplished either task in a fashion the subject deserves, for in undergoing the studio operation the original work has been sapped of its persuasive drama.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Public Enemy
    It is just another gangster film...weaker than most in its story, stronger than most in its acting, and like most maintaining a certain level of interest through the last burst of machine-gun fire.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Front Page
    Front Page displays a giddy bitterness that is rare in any films except those of Mr. Wilder. It is also, much of the time, extremely funny.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    City Lights
    It was a joyous evening. Mr. Chaplin's shadow has grown no less.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dracula
    With Mr. Browning's imaginative direction and Mr. Lugosi's makeup and weird gestures, this picture succeeds to some extent in its grand guignol intentions.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cimarron
    It gives a wonderfully impressive idea of the early days in the territory, from the time the hordes of persons on horseback, in wagons and on foot make the dash to lay out their claims on the signal of a pistol shot, to the gradual improvements that come to Osage as years go by.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Murder!
    Although the final scenes in Murder...do not live up to many that have gone before and there is a strange absence of true psychology in these closing stretches, there are episodes in this picture that are possessed of considerable merit.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hell's Angels
    In every instance so soon as the producer forgets Helen, the flaxen-haired creature, and takes to the war, his film is absorbing and exciting. But while she is the centre of attraction the picture is a most mediocre piece of work.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Animal Crackers
    A further example of amusing nonsense.
  28. All Quiet on the Western Front
    Lewis Milestone's unsparing direction of the senseless slaughter more than makes up for the soft spots and does justice to Erich Maria Remarque's novel of a generation destroyed by war.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Big House
    It is a film that sweeps swiftly along, with some conspicuously fine episodes and others where the humor is not a little forced.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Farmer's Wife
    It is a lethargic affair with ingenuous fun. It has been nicely directed with a keen eye for the sunlight and shadows over the winding country roads, and the indoor scenes are always correct as to furnishings.
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