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 4.9 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
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    A rare treat for anyone interested in the American folk revival of early 1960s.
  1. The relentlessly self-congratulatory tone is oppressive.
  2. It's a compelling story, and very of its tumultuous time.
  3. The costumes are phenomenal, the set design ravishing and the sadistic inventiveness extraordinary.
  4. Fans won't want to miss this addition to the canon.
  5. Satanic silliness undermines this gloomy horror picture.
  6. Has a giddy silliness that's thoroughly endearing.
  7. A genial and instantly forgettable sports comedy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    This relentlessly name-dropping comedy lacks the teeth that could have made it really interesting.
  8. The plot isn't what makes this movie worth watching anyway -- it's the performances and the ambiance.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    This short, gentle film is surprisingly involving.
  9. None of it really amounts to anything, even as a nostalgic snapshot of a time and place.
  10. Weepy, overwrought love story.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    A bold, remarkable film.
  11. So adorable you don't ever mind that the story's so slight it's in danger of shriveling up and blowing away, or that it drags a little in the middle.
  12. Thoroughly dotty and surprisingly endearing.
  13. Preachy and predictable, an afterschool special in all but name.
  14. It's all terribly schematic, thematically obvious and not in the least bit funny.
  15. This unsubtle parody probably worked better on stage; its candy-colored artifice looks more than a little strained on film, and the actors are all trying really hard to be camp.
  16. If only this amiable shaggy dog story...didn't degenerate into an implausible, second-rate thriller after takeoff.
  17. The bar scenes are the only reason to sit through this jello shot of a movie.
  18. This mean-spirited invisible man movie tries to hide its poverty of fresh ideas behind a load of state-of-the-art special effects.
  19. This genial little picture, which has been kicking around for more than a year, doesn't have a mean bone in its body.
  20. An amazing technical accomplishment that never becomes a coherent movie.
  21. This rather obvious parable about soul mates benefits from luminous B&W cinematography, Paradis and Auteuil's luminous performances and the picturesque carny atmosphere.
  22. The material is familiar, and doesn't have anything new to say about the ways men and women wound each other.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Chock full of personality and irreverent detail.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    On the surface, nothing really happens, but to call it a nonevent would be to miss the point entirely.
  23. A welcome alternative to such hyperkinetic drivel as Pokémon.
  24. Balaban and Nairn are radiant, with none of the mannerisms that so often make Hollywood actresses look like Stepford teens.

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