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For 643 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Under the Skin
Lowest review score: 10 Bright
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 429 out of 643
  2. Mixed: 171 out of 643
  3. Negative: 43 out of 643
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  1. Testament
    The charge that this film has the humble patina of a “TV movie”—an insult levied by critics and others at the time—is in fact perfectly apt. It explains the smallness of this production; it isn’t a stretch to say that the lack of crash-bang disaster theatrics might have something to do with the film’s budget. As it happens, Testament is all the better for this smallness. And, for me, all the more devastating.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rachel, Rachel
    From the comical Estelle Parsons, to the charming James Olson, Rachel, Rachel is superbly outfitted by a range of talent, all of whom ground the occasionally melodramatic film. Still, it’s clear that Rachel, Rachel’s critical success is largely owed to its lead.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Girl Happy
    The funniest of the Presley travelogues finds Elvis and his rock combo dispatched to Fort Lauderdale by a Chicago mobster during spring break to keep watch over his girls-just-wanna-have-fun daughter (Shelley Fabares).
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Gigi
    Gigi remains MGM’s most elegant musical—and maybe its most unlikely.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A Face in the Crowd
    Half a century after Elia Kazan made A Face in the Crowd, the performances–by Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, and Anthony Franciosa–are still pungent, the dark tale of media manipulation still resonates, and even fans can't quite define its power.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Don't Bother to Knock
    The film offered [Monroe] the chance to deliciously unravel as a mentally disturbed babysitter, and she also gained real-world survival skills that she’d put to use nearly a decade later.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Special Agent
    The film contains the best answer yet recorded to the type of gangster who swears he can never be caught—namely, that "Dillinger didn't die of old age!"
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Little Miss Marker
    No matter how you may think you feel about child actors, the Temple infant will get you.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Alice in Wonderland
    It was hoped that the picture would have a large appeal for children, but the consensus of opinion seems to have been that even the Little Ones had rather see Jean Harlow any day, or else stay home in the nursery and play Tick-Tack-Toe.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Invisible Man
    This thriller falters between grim humor and silly comedy. Adapted from the II. C. Wells novel, it has an amusing and legitimate British feeling in its early scenes.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bombshell
    One of the funniest pictures of the year: a farce with Frank Morgan, Lee Tracy, Ted Healy and particularly Jean Harlow, concerning the life and times of a Hollywood star, complete with a Marquis and three dogs.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cavalcade
    In picture form, Cavalcade is a superlative newsreel, forcibly strengthened by factual scenes, good music, and wonderful photography. It is marred by pat and obvious dramatic climaxes, and by a conclusion which is anti-climactical and meaningless.
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