According to film scholar Gerald Peary, few newspapers adopted this practice until the French film magazine "Cahiers du cinéma" "started polling critics in the 1950s and boiling their judgment down to a star rating, with a bullet reserved for movies that the magazine didn't like." The highest rating any film earned was five stars. The British film magazine "Sight and Sound" also rated films on a scale of one to four stars. Some critics use a "half-star" option in between basic star ratings. Leonard Maltin goes one further and gives "" a 2⅓ star rating.