For 1,640 reviews, this publication has graded:
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3% same as the average critic
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51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics.
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Average Movie review score: 68
| Highest review score: | Enys Men | |
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| Lowest review score: | Book Club: The Next Chapter |
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Positive: 893 out of 1640
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Mixed: 714 out of 1640
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Negative: 33 out of 1640
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Bogart and Bacall's exchanges are wittily playful, and the only femme fatale is a minor though crucial figure who destroys that perennial noir fall-guy, Elisha Cook Jr. But it's unmissable, irresistible.- The Observer (UK)
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Overshadowed at the time and ever since by the similar but altogether bigger The Best Years of Our Lives (which the same studio, RKO, released a couple of months later), this is a very decent contribution to a cycle of movies about ex-servicemen adjusting to civilian life. [29 Aug 2004, p.71]- The Observer (UK)
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More film gris than film noir, it offers a biting moral conundrum at every turn. [17 Oct 2010, p.4]- The Observer (UK)
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Beautifully photographed in black and white by Commander Joseph August, this moving picture has images and sequences that show Ford at his poetic and humanistic best. [13 Aug 2006, p.20]- The Observer (UK)
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Trail-blazing tale of murder at an American mental hospital that helped make the sympathetic Freudian shrink a Hollywood standby. [24 Aug 2011, p.56]- The Observer (UK)
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A great actress at her sado-masochistic best in a noir melodrama worthy of her talents. [28 Mar 2001, p.9]- The Observer (UK)
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Arguably the finest British film made during the second world war.- The Observer (UK)
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Although this is a wartime flagwaver and Flynn pulls out a grenade pin with his teeth, it is still a thoughtful and gritty depiction of platoon life and jungle warfare that uses actual combat footage shot by the US army signal corps. [07 Jul 2013, p.43]- The Observer (UK)
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A children's classic and among the best family movies of all time. [19 Feb 2006, p.2]- The Observer (UK)
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Casablanca is its model, and though a minor classic, it isn't in the same league. [30 Jul 2000, p.10]- The Observer (UK)
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It's a film whose four parts cover the seasons from summer to spring but is truly a film for all seasons and all time.- The Observer (UK)
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Best-known for his westerns, screenwriter Daves made a considerable impression with this patriotic World War II movie about the hazardous mission by a submarine to gather information inside Tokyo Bay to prepare the way for the first US air-raid on Japan. Cary Grant gives an authoritative performance as the cool commander. [05 Mar 2000, p.10]- The Observer (UK)
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Handsome, ponderous, politically toned-down treatment of Hemingway's passionately committed novel about an idealistic American (Gary Cooper) fighting with the anti-Franco loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. The casting of Cooper, Ingrid Bergman (his peasant lover) and Oscar-winning Katina Paxinou (gypsy guerrilla leader) couldn't be bettered. [25 May 2003, p.8]- The Observer (UK)
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This chilling, weirdly plausible tale centres on a New York dress designer (French star Simone Simon) obsessed with the notion that she's living under an ancient Serbian curse. It achieves its effects obliquely. [11 Dec 2005, p.123]- The Observer (UK)
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A witty, light hearted movie in which Bing sings 'Moonlight Becomes You' to a suitably enchanted Dorothy Lamour. [25 May 2003, p.8]- The Observer (UK)
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One of the best World War Two morale-boosting adventure movies. [07 Feb 1999, p.10]- The Observer (UK)
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The blonde in this funny, lively Bob Hope thriller is one of Hitchcock's favourite blondes, Madeleine Carroll. The picture evokes her most famous Hitchcock film, The 39 Steps, and uncannily anticipates North by Northwest. [12 Dec 2004, p.95]- The Observer (UK)
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Vigorous traditional western starring Errol Flynn at his most dashing as a conventionally heroic, glory-seeking George Armstrong Custer, whose career the film traces (without too much concern for historical accuracy) from West Point through the Civil War to the catastrophe at the Little Big Horn. [14 May 2006, p.2]- The Observer (UK)
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Hitchcock's fourth Hollywood movie is a subtle thriller set in a very Hollywoodian England populated by leading members of the Tinseltown cricket club. [19 Jan 2003, p.8]- The Observer (UK)
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It is a delightful film, both comic and touching, with a wonderfully camp performance from Edward Everett Horton as one of God's bureaucrats. [06 Sep 2009, p.30]- The Observer (UK)
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Hitchcock's second Hollywood movie is a hugely enjoyable espionage thriller. [05 Jan 1997, p.12]- The Observer (UK)
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Vintage tear-jerker set in MGM's never-never England where an ageing Guards officer (Robert Taylor) indulges in a lengthy flashback from the Second World War to his ill-fated affair with a ballet dancer (the entrancing Vivien Leigh) who took to the streets when he was reported missing in the First World War. [21 Aug 2005, p.91]- The Observer (UK)
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It's funny, touching and beautifully paced with numerous examples of the celebrated "Lubitsch touch".- The Observer (UK)
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The movie has an epic sweep that anticipated and influenced the best gangster movies of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola of which it is fully the equal. [18 Aug 2010]- The Observer (UK)
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Somehow, for all the dollar-book Freud brought to bear on it, the picture comes up fresh, innocent and enchanting whenever you see it.- The Observer (UK)
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This classic adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel is actually only the first half of the book and the Goldwyn Studio's notion of 19th-century Yorkshire is distinctly odd. But it's an intense, atmospheric work, and the performances are first rate. [11 Aug 2013]- The Observer (UK)
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Astaire and Rogers in their last pre-war monochrome musical, a touching cinebiography of the celebrated American dancers of the pre-First World War era whose partnership ended with his death as a pilot in the war. The dance routines are more numerous, though less spectacular, than in the previous movies. [04 Jan 2004, p.8]- The Observer (UK)
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It's the greatest-ever comedy-thriller, the greatest film set on a train, a faultlessly cast mirror held up to the nation in the year of Munich.- The Observer (UK)
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Lightweight and immensely enjoyable Hitchcock thriller. [22 Oct 2000, p.11]- The Observer (UK)
