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
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Matewan is beautifully shot, and there is not a weak performance in the film. Jones is a tower of dignity; Cooper is the epitome of quiet strength; and Oldham glows with the passion of a zealot, first for God, then for the union.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A smashing follow-up to SALUDOS AMIGOS, this is one of the most dazzling achievements of the cartoon genre.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The bleakest of Hitchcock's films, this stark, deliberate probing of a man wrongfully accused is almost wholly based on fact, creating its drama from a celebrated New York City case.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This may be the best romantic comedy ever made. The great Ernst Lubitsch handles his "small" theme brilliantly, bringing the lives of everyday people to the screen as he had never done before.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Aladdin is a fairy tale with an edge--a popular children's story that will have even the most media-savvy parents straining to keep up with Williams's machine-gun delivery of quips, allusions and imitations.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    An odd, unsettling film which suggests the dangers of both emotional restraint and unchecked passion, Black Narcissus is also one of the most visually beautiful films ever made in color.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Zieger's thoroughly researched film is a vital reminder that beginning in the mid-'60s, a few conscience-stricken military individuals -- including dermatologist Dr. Howard Levy, sickened by cynical attempts to win Vietnamese "hearts and minds" through medical treatment, and Navy nurse Susan Schnall, who wore her uniform to a civilian antiwar demonstration -- actively and openly voiced peace sentiments.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A masterpiece of visual story-telling.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The picture is filled with one sight gag after another, many familiar to anyone old enough to remember the glory days of silent comedy.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ralph Bellamy is superb as Roosevelt, capturing every nuance of a man who was the most photographed and listened-to politician of his generation. Surpassing Bellamy, though, is Garson, who doesn't play Eleanor Roosevelt, she becomes her.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A wonderful movie.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hoffman is uncharacteristically charming in a demanding role; the supporting cast is uniformly excellent, particularly Chief Dan George as a befuddled patriarch who takes the supernatural as a matter of course.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A delicately rendered and exceptionally moving reminiscence of a boyhood friendship cut short by war.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The film that revived public interest in musicals after many early talkie bombs sabotaged the genre, 42nd Street was the first real glimpse of the surreal artistry of choreographer Busby Berkeley.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Beautifully acted, structurally sophisticated heart-tugger.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A wonderful, sentimental western about a bad man who redeems himself.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Valuable as a fine performance of an important and delightful play, MAJOR BARBARA makes for bracingly intelligent cinema.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Director Weir and cinematographer Russell Boyd's re-creation of the invasion and battle action is stunning, but what makes Gallipoli such an affecting film is its intimate presentation of the friendship between Archy and Frank (wonderfully essayed by Lee and Gibson).
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Set in 1879 in Natal, this magnificently staged, brilliantly acted film tells the story of the heroic defense by overwhelmingly outnumbered British troops of the tiny outpost Rorke's Drift.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    THE LONG RIDERS is one of the last great westerns made in America, directed tautly by Walter Hill from an excellent, well-researched script. The cinematography by Ric Waite is magnificent, the period is beautifully captured, and Ry Cooder's outstanding score nicely incorporates folk music of the era. The whole feeling of this film is one of antiquity, an atmosphere marvelously created by Hill and enhanced by a superb cast.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This dark stunner, based on Walter Tevis's novel, boasts Paul Newman in the role that made him an overnight superstar.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The fourth pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and the first with a screenplay written specifically for them, Top Hat is the quintessential Astaire-Rogers musical, complete with a silly plot, romance, dapper outfits, art deco sets, and plenty of wonderful songs and dance numbers.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A wonderfully brooding, suspenseful revisitation of the land of film noir, Chinatown is not only one of the greatest detective films, but one of the most perfectly constructed of all films.
  1. Delightful, off-the-wall, and ultimately moving.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Also unforgettable is Steiger's towering performance as the volatile survivor, a powder keg of hateful remembrances.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    GRAND HOTEL remains a classic of its kind.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Filmed at considerable danger to cast and crew, MOBY DICK, under Huston's strong direction, is one of the most historically authentic, visually stunning, and powerful adventures ever made.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hope and Glory is a wonderful film, an intelligent, heartfelt, personal, and marvelously entertaining look at what it was like to grow up in wartorn England.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    As in the best Hitchcock movies, suspense, rather than actual mayhem, drives the film.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Hailed as one of Hitchcock's masterpieces by some and despised by others, The Birds is certainly among the director's more complex and fascinating works.

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