Time Out's Scores

  • Movies
For 6,419 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
6419 movie reviews
    • 86 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Saks takes Neil Simon's play pretty much as it comes, but with Lemmon and Matthau to watch, and a generous quota of one-liners, who needs direction?
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Quite a few very funny moments, but one doesn't laugh so much as admire the ingenuity.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The enigma of the planet's history, juggled through Heston's humiliating experience of being studied as an interesting laboratory specimen by his ape captors, right down to his final startling rediscovery of civilisation, is quite beautifully sustained.
  1. It remains as intelligent and provocative as ever, bearing years of conceptual dreaming.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A typically larky Disney film, heavily over-directed and under-written.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Bricusse songs (including If I Could Talk to the Animals) have their charms, and the pre-CGI spectacle of some 1,500 live animals often works its magic on very young viewers, but you're mainly left with sympathy for Fleischer and his crew, since the whole thing was evidently a nightmare to shoot.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The film is regarded in some quarters as a marvellous piece of camp.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good fun sometimes but a little too sketchy, with a plot that is almost as threadbare as the outfit worn by the voluptuous Raquel Welch in her cameo role as one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With all its faults, an engaging oddity.
  2. Classic opening gunfight and first-rate performances from Garner, and from Robards as the tubercular, laconically resigned Doc Holliday. A determinedly old-style Western, made two years before Peckinpah shook things up with The Wild Bunch.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Great knockabout visual gags, mercifully little cutey-poo sentiment, and reasonable songs, including The Bare Necessities. The animation has only the bare necessities, too, and the storyline is weak, but it doesn't seem to matter much.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All in all, a superbly controlled exercise in the malevolent torments of despair.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At times, it feels a touch self-conscious – a box of directorial tricks employed to compensate for an occasional lack of real substance elsewhere.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    With its weird landscape of dusty, derelict towns and verdant highways, stunningly shot by Burnett Guffey in muted tones of green and gold, it has the true quality of folk legend.
  3. This is a brisk, well-oiled thriller with blistering performances and a crackling, memorable script.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Aldrich appears to be against everything: anti-military, anti-Establishment, anti-women, anti-religion, anti-culture, anti-life. Overriding such nihilism is the super-crudity of Aldrich's energy and his humour, sufficiently cynical to suggest that the whole thing is a game anyway, a spectacle that demands an audience.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A British Blackboard Jungle that bears no resemblance to school life as we know it.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's a witty, exciting and deeply moving masterpiece.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The whole project, in fact, with its violence and love interest (Nicholson fighting for the leader's 'momma') is schizophrenic, cutting from psychedelia and group sex to private angst and night-time stompings. Rush said that he found the whole bike phenomenon 'distasteful', and it shows in the uneven treatment.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No masterpiece, but very engaging.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sprightly dialogue, nice performances.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The cast - Douglas as a frantically visionary senator, Mitchum as the veteran trail scout, Widmark as the leader of the settlers - is fine, and William Clothier's location photography impressive. But the script meanders badly, even taking time off for a bit of teenage romance involving nymphet Sally Field in her film debut, while McLaglen's direction is simply lacklustre.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The abiding memories of Don't Look Back are lack of privacy, dull cliques, stumble-drunkenness, very insecure British artists (Price, Donovan), and Dylan's bored, amused sparring with anyone trying to point him in the direction of Damascus.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Not as stylish as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but a significant step forward from A Fistful of Dollars, with the usual terrific compositions, Morricone score, and taciturn performances, not to mention the ubiquitous flashback disease.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Arid, crowd-pleasing stuff, in which the soul-searchings take place very conveniently on annual holidays in France and in a variety of luxuriously furnished interiors.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Most of all, Chimes at Midnight is gorgeously, heartbreakingly sad, shot through with romantic surrender and the ache of loss.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Not an easy film, but an infinitely rewarding one.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a simple story about lovers from different tribes, and Welch grunts beautifully clad only in a few bits of bunny fur, but the real stars are Ray Harryhausen's superbly animated dinosaurs.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Probably the best of the formula motor racing films, though that isn't saying much. Too long, and the bits in-between are the usual soapy off-track drama.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    As often with Antonioni, a film riddled with moments of brilliance and scuppered by infuriating pretensions; full of longueurs, it works neither as a portrait of Swinging London, nor as a bona fide thriller.

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