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
    • 75 Critic Score
    It's handled well by veteran director J. Lee Thompson, with strong cast support and excellent production values that make it all lavish, rich, and often breathtaking.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hayley Mills plays twins in this innocent, fast-paced comedy, a favorite of countless youngsters in the 1960s. An enjoyable, corny Disney picture with a memorable soundtrack featuring tunes sung by Tommy Sands and Annette Funicello.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Since much of the action takes place in the tiny apartment, director Petrie had to pull out all the stops to keep it from being stage-bound, and, with the help of cinematographer Lawton, he succeeded.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    After nearly three hours Fellini's relentlessly enigmatic, non-committal approach leaves you wishing for something more than poignant imagery and moody, self-obsessed characters. (Review of original release)
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    There's lots to recommend this shoestring picture, not the least of which is Baron's acting ability.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    This is a zanily inventive piece of work, with delightful special effects, which set the style for a long series of live-action Disney films.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    What Stravinsky's "La Sacre du Printemps" is to 20th-century music or Joyce's Ulysses is to the 20th-century novel, Godard's first feature, BREATHLESS, is to film.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Played for comedy, the film never quite works, and Curtis can't quite handle his role.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The story, a romance with an interesting detective twist, is combined with exquisite caricatures of both humans and dogs.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    WHERE THE BOYS ARE is plenty moralistic, yet the film is not without a naive sense of charm.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Director Donen takes us for a few romps in the green countryside to ease the claustrophobia, but this gratuitous meandering only serves to make us realize how hidebound the story is.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It's a tongue-in-cheek movie that avoids the sappy sentiment of so many "family" films and concentrates on sheer entertainment instead.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though the film is overlong, the story is movingly told, the production values are high, and Ernest Gold's Oscar-nominated score is considered a classic.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Big, funny, tender and humane all at the same time, The Sundowners is a true "family" film, without any of the cloying connotations of that term.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A very frightening adaptation of the John Wyndham novel about a small English village that becomes the victim of unfriendly aliens.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Glossy trash with the star at full throttle, it's the quintessential La Liz movie.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Very nearly a classic, this Americanization of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai does a good job of mirroring the major themes and attitudes of the original while re-creating that monumental film in an occidental setting.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Spartacus is still a remarkable epic--one of the greatest tales of the ancient world ever to hit the screen. It's especially strong, and more typical of Kubrick, in the first half--before satire gives way to sentiment.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While nothing to rival Hitchcock, the film's look and direction make it a worthwhile effort. Doris Day makes the switch from light comedy to suspense fairly well, creating a believable victim, while Harrison, his usual debonair self, adopts a sinister air.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Akira Kurosawa's THE HIDDEN FORTRESS is a paradigm of the modern adventure epic--a marvelously entertaining blend of a simple but strong plot, exhilarating action scenes, tongue-in-cheek humor, and a solid philosophical underpinning.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Richardson's direction of this unhappy little gem gives off the appropriate dull glimmer while being economical and inventive.
    • 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.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's got a jet black sense of humor that becomes increasingly apparent upon repeated viewings and there's no doubt that it is masterful filmmaking. Hitchcock himself approached it almost as a technical joke...The film is a textbook example of audience manipulation, as Hitchcock shifts our identification from character to character with the alacrity of a magician.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chilling special effects highlight a rather gory production.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A free-wheeling, uninhibited all-star romp, Ocean's Eleven set the pace for the "caper" films of the 1960s and 1970s.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This smashing science-fiction adaptation of H.G. Wells's famous novel has more creativity in every frame than most latter-day rip-offs have in their entirety.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Inherit The Wind acutely captures the farcical Monkey Trial and offers the awesome talents of two double-Oscar winners, Tracy and March, in their only film together.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    At best, this is a kiddie movie with a few laughs for the easily pleased adult.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gimmick or no, the film is really rather silly and not particularly scary.

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