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
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A bit more violent than the average spaghetti western.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    An extraordinarily well-made film about anachronistic outlaws in the early 20th century, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch feels like it should have been the final western.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The plot is full of huge holes, and the film fails to live up to its terrific opening credit sequence.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    An enormously entertaining adventure that is as much about John Wayne's image as it is about a girl seeking revenge for her father's murder.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Although it lacks the intensity and sophistication that could have made it a classic, the film still has a definite charm and appeal.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Talented Englishman Schlesinger had an unerring eye for capturing the grimy reality of New York, even if his directorial style is more jittery than is really necessary.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The footage in the Indy race is of the awesome 17-car crackup that began the 1968 festivities. Its insertion lends the picture even greater authenticity.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Overlong, overblown, and badly scripted.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Siegel develops some interesting themes that he would later explore in John Wayne's outstanding final film, The Shootist.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A subtler and less bombastic companion piece to Arthur Miller's most famous play, Salesman is an exemplar of nonfictional material shaped and illuminated by sophisticated filmmakers who have absorbed the devices of fictional storytelling.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beneath all of the superficially fierce fighting sequences lies just another routine western plot.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    This entertaining spoof of western movie cliches features Garner as a stranger who stops off at a small town en route to Australia, a running joke that works well through the rest of the film.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Great cast plays the whole thing with tongue in cheek.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Waters fans and those with a taste for '60s indulgence will want to have a look, but keep that fast-forward button handy!
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The entire cast give standout performances, but Herbie steals the show in this well-directed, funny picture.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    An exciting picture with much derring-do and adventure, Where Eagles Dare is also a lengthy film, though there is more than enough action to keep it moving along.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The fourth of nine Dracula films by Hammer, with the violence and eroticism more up front this time around.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Compared to D.A. Pennebaker's previous feature DON'T LOOK BACK (1967), the warts-and-all portrait of Bob Dylan, MONTEREY POP seems very much an authorized presentation of its subject.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    This fun film is filled with loads of laughs, atmosphere, and nostalgia.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mifune is as great here as he ever has been.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Based on an Ian Fleming book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was made in Britain for American consumption, but its magic works on kids and adults of any nationality.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oliver! is better than most screen musicals of the 1960s, a period when oversized, poorly rendered songfests virtually killed the genre.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though it is sometimes a tedious viewing experience, its improvisational and documentary techniques are rewarding.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A zesty, satisfying celebration of animation, fantasy, love, and the Beatles that pleases the eyes as much as the ears.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Even the excellent supporting cast could not help this exploitative picture, a lame attempt at replicating the classic film noir pieces of the 1930s and 1940s.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Intrigue comes in epic proportions in this US versus Russia arctic battle.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What really makes Vixen work is the performance of Erica Gavin in the title role. Equally popular with both male and female viewers, Vixen is a take-charge woman who gets what she wants. She's something rare in American movies, a woman in whom strong sexuality isn't paired with evil or some other major character weakness.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Expert chase film, breathless and modern, that sent McQueen to the top of the box office heap. Bullitt is a return to the old, tough crime movies so expertly played by Bogart and Robinson, but made modern here by great technical advances and McQueen's taciturn, antihero stance. Yates's superb direction presents a fluid, always moving camera. All the performers are top-notch.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    An unnerving film that chips away at the sensibilities, effectively shot in a semidocumentary style, but a movie that refuses to pander to the perverse.

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