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
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A superior western that mixes fine cinematography, terrific performances, and a script of higher caliber than most to produce a film still fondly remembered today.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    One of Hitchcock's greatest entertainments, Foreign Correspondent is also a stirring propaganda piece which clearly indicts the Nazi regime.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A remarkable example of Hollywood's not choking on the prestige adorning the filming of a classic, Pride and Prejudice is an unusually successful adaptation of Jane Austen's most famous novel.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Leigh is stunning in this second cinematic version of author Sherwood's hit play.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Though there are a few chuckles, the presentation is predictable slapstick and takes much longer than need be to get to the main point.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Depending on your own feelings, you will find Fontaine either endearing or totally maddening. Whichever, she's right in the part; and Hitchcock's relentless camera seems to luxuriate in her emotional masochism.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Luckily the atmospheric photography and fine sets (Universal claimed it built an exact duplicate of the original Salem house) pull the sometimes melodramatic performances through.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A feeble attempt at comedy in the Damon Runyon mold (although based on a Louis Bromfield opus), this is a hit-and-miss affair with some offbeat casting.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This is the one that started it all and it is also one of the weakest of the "Road" pictures.
    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ford's visualization of Steinbeck's novel is so emotionally gripping that viewers have little time to collect themselves from one powerful scene to the next.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This was Disney's second full-length animated feature and it may well the greatest of the studio's cartoon classics.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Though technically efficient, convincingly acted, and having a number of subtle messages, Swiss Family Robinson was still a hefty loss to RKO.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    You'd have to be a grump not to like this funny, sentimental blend of pathos, drama and zaniness.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    To quote Olivia de Havilland, "Everytime I see it, I find something fresh, some shade of meaning I hadn't noticed before."
    • 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.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though grim and offbeat, Of Mice And Men is a noble morality tale that can be appreciated for its simplicity. The acting is faultless and Copland's score is magnificent.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Under the sure directorial hand of genre veteran Marshall, Destry Rides Again is a well-paced western that seamlessly combines humor, romance, suspense and action.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    More mystery than comedy dominates this sometimes draggy production, whose script is less inspired than in previous THIN MAN efforts. The atmosphere and sets, along with stellar performances by the principals, can't offset a weak story.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A fitting finale to a decade of memorable gangster films. This slick, whirlwind-paced crime melodrama is another tour de force for James Cagney, making it a companion piece to ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    While MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON is the most moral of films, it is so artfully filled with real emotion that it never becomes heavy-handed.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    JAMAICA INN had many interesting incidents associated with it. Unfortunately, very little of that interest reached the screen.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    There's no place like home, and there will never be another movie like this one, a dazzling fantasy musical so beautifully directed and acted that it deserves its classic status.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gary Cooper enacts the title role with quiet magnificence in this superb adventure tale loaded with drama, action, and mystery.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A superb motion picture, and one in which Ford's obsession with Americana and the forces and emotions that made this country what it is are plainly in view.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Only Angels Have Wings is a powerful character study, and director Hawks and his fine, predominantly male cast carefully develop the personalities of an interesting collection of characters. Though much of the dialogue is predictable, the story is strong, the acting is outstanding, and Hawks's cameras move with fluid grace through the confining sets.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A superb romance, the film deftly mixes humor with pathos and passion, and takes us on an emotional voyage that never fails to please.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    An extremely witty, well-paced comedy which plays beautifully today.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The classic western, Stagecoach is one of John Ford's greatest frontier epics.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Appealingly Continental in look and style, Intermezzo continually verges on soap, but is redeemed by carefully calibrated performances and Ratoff's loving direction.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A great and eternally heart-warming film that can stand an appreciative viewing every year through every decade.

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