The critics are notoriously hard to please - but these films succeeded.
Looking for the perfect film to watch this weekend? If you regularly look up films on Rotten Tomatoes to decide if they are worth investing your time into, you’ll know how hard it is to impress the critics. You get your hopes up after reading a synopsis of the movie, only to find it has been panned on the notorious Tomatometer. While it might seem impossible for anything to rack up a promising score, there are more than 100 films in the site’s ‘100% club’.
A Manhattan detective investigates the murder of a woman but soon finds himself growing obsessed with the case – and falling in love with the victim. What the critics say: ‘Masterpiece: with time, Preminger’s second film has become richer in texture and deeper, more ambiguous in meaning than most noirs of the 1940s.