Features
The book uses a four star rating system. The lowest rating is "BOMB," followed by one and a half stars, rising in half-star increments to a maximum of four stars. The sole exception to this is Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, which was rated with two and one third stars out of four. Made-for-television films are also included, however Maltin uses a different system for rating them - Below Average, Average and Above Average, with one review, for The Day After, rated with the variant "Way Above Average."
Another notable feature is that each review includes a reference to the source material for the film if it is based on previously published material. Films are listed alphabetically letter-by-letter, with articles ignored and transposed to the end of the title.
The Guide is notable for containing what the Guinness Book of World Records calls the world's shortest movie review. His 2 out of 4 star review of the 1948 musical Isn't It Romantic? consists of the word "No". Another very short review concerns the film Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed where he writes, "It is what it is."
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“However much we may differ in the choice of the measures which should guide the administration of the government, there can be but little doubt in the minds of those who are really friendly to the republican features of our system that one of its most important securities consists in the separation of the legislative and executive powers at the same time that each is acknowledged to be supreme, in the will of the people constitutionally expressed.”
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The features of the mother’s face,
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