TV Guide Magazine's Scores

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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
7979 movie reviews
    • 31 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Routine military melodrama leads to a satisfactorily explosive climax. But what makes Birds truly riveting entertainment is not the conflict between good and bad guys, but the clash between the film's apparent intent and the loony subversiveness of its performances.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Among those who are on hand to offer their own feelings about the man known as Peter Berlin and his art are fellow porn legend Jack Wrangler, groundbreaking gay writer Armistead Maupin, pornographer Wakefield Poole and director John Waters, who remembers Peter from his days in San Francisco, and still doesn't quite get what he's all about.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    It will certainly appeal to its target audience, and Bynes is charming enough to carry the whole film on her shoulders, which is a good thing considering that she's in just about every scene and leading man Tatum is a stiff.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    This hysterically funny parody of Cold War tensions sees a Russian submarine get stuck in a sandbar off the coast of New England after its commander, Bikel, ventures too close to shore in order to get a good look at America.
  1. Jeremy Gosch's documentary about the origins of professional surfing shines a light on four wave riders – three Australians and a South African – who helped transform a counter-culture life style into a billion-dollar industry.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    A sweet, unassuming surprise.
  2. Driver and Renner deliver haunting performances in this story of crime and punishment.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Many have called this film a brilliant mood piece of a dying Old West; that doesn't make it a masterpiece, but the ghosts of its cast do still haunt one's viewing experience.
  3. Conventional to the core but gets a blast of pure, hard-driving energy from Joaquin Phoenix's and Reese Witherspoon's vividly realized performances.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Ambling but never less than endearing.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Sebastien Pentecouteau's startlingly beautiful cinematography lends the film a dreamlike quality and perfectly suits Kounen's mystical subject matter.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    To a post-Vietnam War generation put off by militarism, David Puttnam's inspiring account of the final and most-harrowing WWII mission of the B-17 bomber The Memphis Belle may seem hopelessly dated, but older viewers are likely to find much to enjoy in the film.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Fortunately, no amount of optical wizardry and quick-change trickery can disguise the fundamental power of Harper's performance, a revelatory turn that's truly transformative in every sense of the term.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Raw, uncompromising and surprisingly explicit.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Seltzer's characters are real; and Haim, Green, and Sheen play them wonderfully. As a result LUCAS is not just a film for teenagers but for anyone who has ever been a teenager.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Feature debuts don't come much better than director Robert Harmon and screenwriter Eric Red's sleek, dream-like thriller about a naïve college boy who crosses paths with devil in the flesh after taking a wrong turn on some lost highway.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Conrad's script surprises at nearly every turn.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    An engrossing study of imagery and one's perception of the image.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Wind And The Lion is certainly jingoistic to a fault, and its portrayal of the various factions is little above the cartoon level, but thanks to marvelous performances by Keith and Connery, the film works as a maker of myths.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    An exuberant and supremely unselfconscious first film about five Melbourne college students and the various crises that befall them during one momentous day. The movie is in the best sense of the word artless (there's not an hommage insight), and its occasional missteps -- like a ham-fisted parody of partisan film students -- do little to undermine its charms.
  4. Special kudos to Adams, who nails the distinctive body language of Disney's spunky good girls and manages to make Giselle's relentless optimism seem charming rather than a sign of mental deficiency.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Happily, many of the figures spoken about throughout the film are still with us -- Neville is even able to reproduce Patricia Foure's famous group photo with most of its original subjects.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A solid, surprisingly modest spy thriller, enlivened by Sean Connery's screen charisma and occasional hints of the extravagance to come.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Francis Ford Coppola's first mainstream feature (after a few unremarkable skin flicks) is a little gem of gothic horror, stylishly helmed on a shoestring budget.
  5. It's a deeply provocative piece of filmmaking.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Wilby's father and the neighbor's dog get all the credit, but younger viewers will delight at knowing who really performed the heroics.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    With 20/20 9/11 hindsight, it's clear that covertly arming the Mujahedeen wasn’t such a good idea after all, but neither Nichols nor Sorkin wants to spoil the fun.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A very good musical that should have been a great musical. Bob Fosse, making his film directorial debut, couldn't convey the verve he injected into the play to the movie version.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    INTERVISTA play as an enjoyable, lightweight entertainment, filled with the usual Felliniesque characters, faces, and situations.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Richard Pryor's assured tragicomic performance is so engaging that this otherwise forgettable film is not only worth watching, but often compelling.

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