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For 4,677 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,969 out of 4677
  2. Mixed: 1,022 out of 4677
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4677
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  1. Touch of Evil
    This re-edited version turns one of Orson Welles' most memorable yet flawed films into a masterpiece. [Director's Cut; 18 Sept 1998, p.11E]
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  2. Time Limit
    A decent Korean War/collaborator court-martial drama, directed by Karl Malden (his only directing effort), and starring Richard Widmark. [15 May 2009, p.3D]
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  3. The Black Scorpion
    More Mexican mayhem with a you-know-what in 1957's The Black Scorpion, with effects by Harryhausen's mentor, Willis O'Brien. [24 Oct 2003]
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  4. The Incredible Shrinking Man
    Sci- fi classic. [20 Dec 1991, p.3D]
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  5. Baby Doll
    A small jewel. [05 May 2006, p.4E]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Written on the Wind
    Oil derricks, booze, sports cars and nymphomania spelled huge box office. [10 Feb 2004]
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  7. Giant
    Still the definitive 20th-century Texas movie. [13 June 2003, p.8E]
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  8. The Harder They Fall
    Humphrey Bogart went out with one of the best swan songs a major star ever had in this anti-boxing screed, from a novel by On the Waterfront scripter Budd Schulberg. [12 Jul 2004]
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  9. Richard III
    [Olivier's] greatest Shakespearean movie. [27 Feb 2004]
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  10. To Catch a Thief
    Conceived as froth with an edge and a smash on both counts. [11 May 2007, p.4D]
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  11. We're No Angels
    Clunkily stagebound but gorgeous to look at in VistaVision and Technicolor. [07 Oct 2005]
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  12. Land of the Pharaohs
    A flop in its day despite France's rhapsodic reaction, but a movie I've always loved even before its knockout finale, which even detractors admit redeems a lot. [29 Jun 2007, p.10E]
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  13. Blackboard Jungle
    Consistently fun, and even sporadically powerful. [08 Dec 1989, p.3D]
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  14. Mogambo
    The movie, a Technicolor remake of Gable's own 1932 smash Red Dust...is among Gable's best, and it also has underrated Gardner's best performance. [23 Jun 2006, p.8E]
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  15. The Band Wagon
    With songs Triplets, Dancing in the Dark and Shine on Your Shoes, it's my fave musical. [18 Mar 2005, p.6E]
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  16. Stalag 17
    One of the greatest mixes ever of gritty war drama and roll-on-the-floor hilarity. [29 Mar 2002, p.2A]
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  17. House of Wax
    A much better version and one of the most popular 3-D movies. [03 May 2005]
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  18. I Confess
    It's probably the weakest Alfred Hitchcock of the '50s. But that may be the greatest decade any director ever had, so this isn't the slam it seems. [28 Sep 2004]
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  19. Peter Pan
    It has always been around and easy to take for granted. But its lack of pretension weathers years nicely. [09 Mar 2007, p.12D]
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  20. The Greatest Show on Earth
    With enough plot to take in a mercy killing and massive train wreck, Cecil B. DeMille's extravaganza is often cited as the worst movie to have taken the Oscar, as if a lot of lackluster picks (from Cimarron to Crash) were half as entertaining. [07 Apr 2008, p.10A]
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  21. On Dangerous Ground
    Bernard Herrmann's great score punches up a brutal urban crime pic suddenly turned tender romance between a tough cop (Robert Ryan) and a blind woman (Ida Lupino). [21 Jul 2006, p.14D]
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  22. Detective Story
    Filmed during that great early period of his career when he played heels better than anyone ever had, Kirk Douglas is the morally tortured 21st Precinct New York cop who lets unbridled hatred for street scum poison his marriage. [28 Oct 2005]
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  23. The Damned Don't Cry
    Dealing tangentially with Las Vegas gambling's formative years (lots of matte work here of mountains in the desert), this crackling melodrama was inspired by Bugsy Siegel's relationship with Virginia Hill. [17 Jul 2005]
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  24. The Rules of the Game
    Humor, poignancy and social criticism converge for an even better movie than the recent one it brings to mind: Gosford Park. [23 Jan 2004]
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  25. Cinderella
    A timeless story. [07 Oct 2005, p.8E]
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  26. Holiday Affair
    You have to love any movie in which Robert Mitchum sells trains in a toy store and Janet Leigh looks the greatest she ever did on screen this side of Jet Pilot. [19 Dec 2008, p.6E]
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  27. Under Capricorn
    Under Capricorn is still stigmatized by its terrible reviews and whopping financial losses, but with one of Ingrid Bergman's best performances, a grabber setting (1831 Sydney) and Technicolor cinematography by the era's greatest color specialist (The Red Shoes' Jack Cardiff), a lot of current movies should be as lacking. [27 Jun 2003]
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  28. Force of Evil
    Pearson's scenes with Garfield are among the most supercharged ever. [28 May 2004, p.6E]
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  29. Melody Time
    Modest yet pleasing musical pastiches that typified post-war Disney. [05 Jun 1998, p.6E]
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  30. The Search
    The first movie Montgomery Clift made (but second released) was Howard Hawks' all-time Western Red River. In the interim, director Fred Zinnemann stole some thunder by showcasing the actor in this semi-documentary about European children left homeless and without parents after World War II, filmed on location in the then-U.S. Occupied Zone of Germany. [23 Oct 2009, p.3D]
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