Classic Movie Reviews Sorted by Quality Rating

This list contains of my classic movie reviews sorted by the numerical rating I’ve provided for each film.

Not all reviews are included on this page as this feature only became available to me in June 2014 (though I’ve tried to retroactively rate some of my older reviews). Each movie is rated on a scale of 1-100. How do I rate them? Basically, by gut. The same rating is used that I give on IMDb, only over here it’s in increments of 5 (rather than 10) points.

My rating is displayed on this page as the number following each linked article title below. Articles are sorted from highest rating to lowest rating.

• King Kong (1933) in New York, March 1933
  100

• Moments of Horror as Boris Karloff Stars as The Mummy (1932)
  95
• Lust for Life (1956) – Van Gogh from Irving Stone to Kirk Douglas
  85
• Majestic’s The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) Starring Zita Johann
  85
• Young Bride (1932) Starring Helen Twelvetrees and Eric Linden
  85
• Wild Boys of the Road (1933) Meets “Boy And Girl Tramps of America”
  85
• Paramount’s The Night of June 13th (1932), Street Scene of the Suburbs
  85
• Captains Courageous (1937) Starring Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy
  85
• Three on a Match (1932), A Second Look: Bogart, Action, Warren William
  85
• Big City Blues (1932), Pre-Code Party in Depression-Era New York
  80
• ‘One Sunday Afternoon’ With Cagney & Co. in ‘The Strawberry Blonde’
  80
• Red-Headed Woman (1932) Reveals New Jean Harlow
  80
• The Cat and the Canary (1927) – Old Dark House Classic Starring Laura La Plante
  80
• Turn Back the Clock (1933) Starring Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke
  80
• H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) – King Vidor Brings John P. Marquand Bestseller to Life
  80
• Bad Company (1931) Starring Ricardo Cortez
  80
• The Good Fairy (1935) Starring Margaret Sullavan and Herbert Marshall
  80
• The Mind Reader (1933) Starring Warren William
  80
• Ace of Aces (1933) Starring Richard Dix and Elizabeth Allan
  80
• Blood Money (1933) Starring George Bancroft, Frances Dee
  80
• Manhattan Melodrama (1934) Starring Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
  80
• The Wedding Night (1935) Starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten
  80
• The Story of Temple Drake (1933) – Paramount Adapts Faulkner’s Sanctuary
  80
• Penthouse (1933) Starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
  80
• Jewel Robbery (1932) – Kay Francis and William Powell for a Sixth Time
  80
• The Criminal Code (1931) Starring Walter Huston with Boris Karloff
  80
• RKO’s Hell’s Highway (1932) Beats Other Chain Gang Movie to Theaters
  80
• The Wolf Man (1941), Lon Chaney Jr., and the Universal Horror Legacy
  80
• The Mouthpiece (1932) – Warren William Becomes a Star; 1932 William J. Fallon Cycle Begins
  80
• The Last Flight (1931) – John Monk Saunders Hijacks Hemingway’s Lost Generation
  80
• Are These Our Children? (1931) Starring Eric Linden and Arline Judge
  75
• Test Pilot (1938) Starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy
  75
• Show Them No Mercy (1935) Starring Rochelle Hudson and Cesar Romero
  75
• James Cagney is Jimmy the Gent (1934)
  75
• A House Divided (1931) – Walter Huston Stars in Early Talkie from William Wyler
  75
• Blonde Crazy (1931) Starring James Cagney and Joan Blondell
  75
• Lady and Gent (1932) Starring George Bancroft and Wynne Gibson
  75
• My Woman (1933) Starring Helen Twelvetrees, Wallace Ford
  75
• Man Made Monster (1941) Introduces Lon Chaney Jr to Universal Horror
  75
• Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld (1927) Starring George Bancroft
  75
• Arsène Lupin (1932) Starring John and Lionel Barrymore
  75
• Dark Hazard (1934) Starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin
  75
• Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), Universal Horror With Bela Lugosi
  75
• Panama Flo (1932) With Brief Biography of Star Helen Twelvetrees
  75
• Men Against the Sky (1940) – Richard Dix’s Ace of Aces Goes Modern
  75
• Change of Heart (1934) Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell One Last Time
  70
• Now I’ll Tell (1934) Starring Spencer Tracy and Helen Twelvetrees
  70
• Success at Any Price (1934) Starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
  70
• Remember the Night (1940) Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray
  70
• There Goes My Heart (1938) Starring Fredric March, Virginia Bruce
  70
• A Bedtime Story (1933) Starring Maurice Chevalier, Helen Twelvetrees
  70
• Special Investigator (1936) – Richard Dix Stars in Erle Stanley Gardner Story
  70
• Rebecca (1940) and My Du Maurier Kick
  70
• Black Fury (1935) – Paul Muni Stars in Another Ripped from the Headlines Story
  70
• The Murder Man (1935) Starring Spencer Tracy
  70
• Child of Manhattan (1933) Starring Nancy Carroll, John Boles
  70
• Henry Hull is the Werewolf of London (1935)
  70
• Blessed Event (1932) – Lee Tracy as Early Version of Winchell
  70
• Downstairs (1932) Starring John Gilbert, From a Story by John Gilbert
  70
• J. Edgar Hoover’s Persons in Hiding (1939) With Patricia Morison
  70
• White Woman (1933) Starring Charles Laughton and Carole Lombard
  70
• The Patent Leather Kid (1927) Starring Richard Barthelmess and Molly O’Day
  65
• Pick-Up (1933) Starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft
  65
• No Man of Her Own (1932) Starring Clark Gable and Carole Lombard
  65
• Gladys George Is Madame X (1937), Plus Brief Biography
  65
• She Had to Say Yes (1933) Starring Loretta Young
  65
• One Night at Susie’s (1930) – Movie Compared to Short Story, Plus Helen Ware Biography
  65
• Born to Be Bad (1934) Starring Loretta Young, Cary Grant
  65
• A Yank at Eton (1942) Starring Mickey Rooney with Freddie Bartholomew
  65
• Secret of the Chateau (1934) Universal Murder Mystery Starring Claire Dodd
  65
• Symphony of Six Million (1932) starring Ricardo Cortez
  65
• They Gave Him a Gun (1937) Starring Spencer Tracy, Gladys George, Franchot Tone
  65
• Good Dame (1934) Starring Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March
  65
• Five and Ten (1931) Starring Marion Davies and Leslie Howard
  60
• The Man Who Played God (1932) Starring Mr. George Arliss
  60
• Terror Aboard (1933) – Grand Hotel of Murder on the High Seas
  60
• Hot Saturday (1932) with Cary Grant and Nancy Carroll
  60
• Lady by Choice (1934) Starring Carole Lombard and May Robson
  60
• Flash Review: Music Is Magic (1935) Starring Alice Faye, Bebe Daniels
  60
• Frank Capra’s Broadway Bill (1934) Starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
  60
• The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942), Universal Horror With Lionel Atwill
  55
• The Woman Accused (1933) Starring Nancy Carroll and Cary Grant
  55
• Secret Service (1931) – William Gillette’s Civil War Melodrama Comes to RKO
  55