TV Guide Magazine's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
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
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK is directed with a quick pace by Baker, the Taradash script is as tight as a sardine can, and all the principals do well with their roles, especially lovely Marilyn Monroe.
  1. Eerie, surreal and a welcome respite from Disney-style animation, this French sci-fi allegory may not offer any mind-blowing insights (genocide is bad isn't exactly a new thought), but it's a trip.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    This well-done Hammer horror film features a thoughtful screenplay that finally injects some compassion and intelligence into the monster. One of director Fisher's best.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The narrative is highly episodic and only intermittently engaging, but Gilliam's wildly inventive mise en scene, ably assisted by production designer Dante Ferretti, is extraordinary.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Filled with unique special effects and delightful music.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The result is very much worth the wait, bringing to life the mysticism of Mexico with a superb script by Guy Gallo, exquisite photography, and the unparalleled performance by Finney.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Harry and Tonto is a sweet, sentimental road movie that draws force and relevance from Carney's touching and subtle performance.
  2. An impressive parade of scientists, meteorologists and grassroots activists assert that humanity is capable of adapting to a changing climate, building sustainable communities without sacrificing modern-day comforts and even reversing some of the damage already done.
  3. It's a hugely entertaining slice of sunbaked Gothic.
  4. Beautifully acted and emotionally devastating.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cook and Moore brilliantly shift from character to character with just a change of voice (not unlike Peter Sellers), and the movie never flags.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The vestiges of Woo's achingly romantic style play badly in this can-do context, while the mayhem is never more -- and occasionally less -- than competent.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Al Pacino gives an urgent, bravura performance as the title character.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Based on one of the best of Ian Fleming's Bond novels, On Her Majesty's Secret Service benefited from an extremely well-written script that finally revealed a bit more of Bond's character. Lazenby, however, had no previous acting experience, and his lackadaisical performance limits the whole production, yet it still manages to remain one of the more entertaining Bond films.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    This is one of the most charming low-budget films in years, a freewheeling, light-hearted farce that gives some new twists to old plot devices.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Aside from the overbearing soundtrack, the film is mercifully unsentimental and Ami himself can be quite droll.
  5. Brutally gorgeous and seething with incendiary images.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Crtainly worthy of serious attention and filled with revealing moments.
  6. Although it tends to rely heavily on slapstick in the second half, the movie provides plenty of laughs and is one of director Landis's best efforts.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A thrilling pseudo-expose on the corrupt inner workings of covert organizations.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Like most Trek movies, it's a bit talky and a bit thin, unless you come to it with an extensive background gleaned from the series. But then, who but a fan would be going anyway?
  7. For all its contrivances, the film is cheerfully rude and surprisingly generous to the mothers, most of whom find sizzling new romances at an age when their American counterparts are reduced to sexless dithering or played as humiliating punch lines to jokes about horny old hags.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Peculiar but oddly winsome fable.
  8. Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman imbue screenwriter Angela Pell's characters with a quiet authenticity that's surprisingly moving.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Where this film towers above the first one is in the music, written by Disney stalwarts Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The entire cast give standout performances, but Herbie steals the show in this well-directed, funny picture.
  9. Though silly and predictable, this animated comedy has stunning visuals, a catchy soundtrack and charming characters that are family-friendly crowd-pleasers.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A relatively minor work in the Disney oeuvre, but it's still quite entertaining, and it also marks the last time that Walt Disney himself would provide the voice of Mickey Mouse.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Andrew Neel's fascinating but troubling documentary about his famous grandmother is more than a mere biography of an important 20th-century artist: It's also an intimate portrait of a family member that questions whether or not "great artist" and "good parent" can ever be combined in the same person.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    An example of how star power can compensate plot, this is the least electric of the Bogart-Bacall pairings; luckily, there's Agnes Moorehead, the screen's best hornet, to intervene whenever the going gets too lackadasical.

Top Trailers