TV Guide's Scores

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For 5,160 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
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Lowest review score:
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Score distribution:
5,160 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 82
    • Critic Score 100
    Gus Van Sant's direction here is supremely confident, fusing witty camerawork, neat editing, and a jazz-oriented score to make Drugstore Cowboy an exhilaratingly bumpy ride.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 100
    Sure-footed thriller, beautifully photographed, with Ford's best performance thus far.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    Zoo
    Bold and unforgettable meditation on a truly bizarre incident that pokes at the very heart of one of our culture's biggest taboos.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 100
    Director Weir and cinematographer Russell Boyd's re-creation of the invasion and battle action is stunning, but what makes Gallipoli such an affecting film is its intimate presentation of the friendship between Archy and Frank (wonderfully essayed by Lee and Gibson).
  1. Kramer vs. Kramer is, essentially, a television movie that was raised into the feature category by the excellence of the execution.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Critic Score 100
    A beautiful, at times poetic exercise in excess from Brian De Palma.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 100
    Diner is an often hilarious, frequently touching film.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 100
    Powerful, haunting, and at times very moving, The Last Temptation of Christ presents its account of the events and conflicts of Christ's life with a depth of dramatized feeling and motivation that renders them freshly compelling.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Critic Score 100
    Mike Nichols, in his first venture into movies since "The Fortune," elicited superlative performances from the actors, particularly Streep and stage veteran Sudi Bond.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    In the end, Haar's powerful and terribly sad film speaks volumes, not just about life in contemporary Israel, but in the U.S. as well.
    • Metascore: 74
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    Sicilian-born filmmaker Emanuele Crialese takes a huge leap forward from his pretty but simplistic "Respiro" with this highly original, startlingly beautiful and emotionally resonant film.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 100
    The film has enough adventure and excitement to satisfy, and the faintly bittersweet note of the ending is made deliciously palatable by its artistic rightness.
    • Metascore: 76
    • Critic Score 100
    One of the great New York films, swathing the city in a layers of dewy love and glossy chic. [Review of re-release]
    • Metascore: 66
    • Critic Score 100
    Delicatessen is an ingeniously funny film with a surprisingly sweet romance at its center.
  2. The Graduate is a flawlessly acted and produced film. [Review of re-release]
    • Metascore: 86
    • Critic Score 100
    A finely observed film but insufficiently developed as a satire of middle America. [Review of re-release]
    • Metascore: 69
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    Of the long list of couples who have loved neither wisely nor particularly well, few have such power to disturb as Burton Pugach and the love of his life, Linda Riss.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Critic Score 100
    Hoffman is uncharacteristically charming in a demanding role; the supporting cast is uniformly excellent, particularly Chief Dan George as a befuddled patriarch who takes the supernatural as a matter of course.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 100
    Straightforward, energetic, updated Bard. 28-year-old star-director-adapter Kenneth Branagh's spellbinding version of Shakespeare's Henry isn't superior to Olivier's 1944 version - it's different, and complementary to it.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Critic Score 100
    This touching and beautifully photographed, if slightly overlong, tale of a boy and his horse follows the escapades of young Alec Ramsey (Reno), who is traveling across the ocean with his father.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    Burtynsky's keen sense of color, pattern and composition are obvious from his work, but equally acute are his thoughts on how he as an artist as well as an inhabitant of the planet fits into the larger scheme of things.
    • Metascore: 77
    • Critic Score 100
    The cast is wonderful--especially McGavin, Billingsley and Petrella--the laughs are nonstop if rarely subtle, and the whole thing deserves to become a Christmastime classic.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 100
    Chilling Fosse vision of Weimar Berlin, stylishly directed and choreographed, featuring a show-stopping musical performance by Minnelli, Grey's unforgettable emcee and thoughtful acting from Michael York.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    The real emotional impact of the film lies in the candid interviews with Crowhurst's wife, Clare, and his son, Simon, both of whom are clearly still haunted by Crowhurst and his fateful voyage.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    Against all odds, you'll leave this remarkable film caring quite a bit for the old coot -- surely a sign of a very good documentary.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    The final confrontation is a slow-motion, De Palma-esque massacre in a hotel lobby that begins and ends in the amount of time it takes for a high-flying can of Red Bull to hit the floor. Breathtaking.
  3. By turns awe-inspiring and deeply human.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    The result is a beguiling and often poignant pageant of outsider musicians, but the broken heart of this extraordinary film comes directly from Zobel's own personal experience.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    Lee has perfectly captured the details, textures, sights and sounds of a China caught between East and West, occupied by an ancient enemy and quaking on the eve of an earth-shaking revolution.
    • Metascore: 70
    • Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
      100
    With his carefully controlled pacing and superb use of sound, Sarkies draws the viewer deep into the experience of a town caught completely off-guard by a kind of violence they could never have expected, and won't soon forget.