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Highest review score: 100 13th
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  1. Little Women
    A graceful, unsentimental, well-made movie.
  2. Zero Dark Thirty
    Once in a long while, a fresh-from-the-headlines movie - like "All the President's Men" or "United 93" - fuses journalism, procedural high drama, and the oxygenated atmosphere of a thriller into a new version of history written with lightning. Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's meticulous and electrifying re-creation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is that kind of movie.
  3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Nicholson’s live-wire performance turns what could have been a standard movie malcontent into a martyr.
  4. Ponyo
    Don't tell Walt Disney, but Hayao Miyazaki really holds the keys to the magic kingdom.
  5. The Social Network
    The power of The Social Network is that Zuckerberg is a weasel with a mission that can never be dismissed. The movie suggests that he may have built his ambivalence about human connection into Facebook's very DNA. That's what makes him a jerk-hero for our time.
  6. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
    The Voyage Home is pure, joyful cinema.
  7. Memento
    Memento, which may be the ultimate existential thriller, has a spooky repetitive urgency that takes on the clarity of a dream.
  8. Malcolm X
    With Malcolm X, Lee has created a galvanizing political tragedy, the story of a leader who, through his very perception and daring, recognized that death — and only death — would be his final evolution.
  9. Short Term 12
    Brie Larson, as the caring but tormented Grace (who's pregnant and doesn't know if she has the faith to have her baby), and John Gallagher Jr., as her gentle-dweeb fellow worker Mason (who fears his love can't save her), show you what emotionally naked acting is all about.
  10. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
    E.T. is ultimately a tale of love, and the film becomes a cathartic leap into pure feeling. [2002 re-release]
  11. Hostiles
    Westerns can be a tough nut to crack, but Hostiles may be the finest example of the genre since "Unforgiven."
  12. Battle for Haditha
    Searing, powerful, and morally entangled.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Broadway Danny Rose
    Although the laughs are tempered with a seedy undercurrent and a lump-in-the-throat ending, Allen has rarely been funnier.
  14. The Wrestler
    The Wrestler is like "Rocky" made by the Scorsese of "Mean Streets." It's the rare movie fairy tale that's also a bravura work of art.
  15. Traffic
    The rare Hollywood epic that dares to entertain an audience by engaging the world.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Little Buddha
    This adventure, interwoven with the spectacular tale of Siddhartha’s journey toward enlightenment, makes for magical, mind-broadening entertainment.
  17. Hoop Dreams
    Hoop Dreams is an astonishing emotional experience — it has highs, lows, and everything in between.
  18. Chi-Raq
    Erupting like a scalding geyser from the ground right beneath our feet, Spike Lee’s daring, dizzying, sympathetic, symphonic, vital, vehement Chi-Raq is the most urgently 2015 movie of 2015.
  19. Requiem for a Dream
    May be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves.
  20. Selma
    DuVernay has done a great service with Selma. Not only has she made one of the most powerful films of the year, she's given us a necessary reminder of what King did for this country...and how much is left to be done.
  21. Capturing the Friedmans
    An extraordinary film; it may be the most haunting documentary since ''Crumb.''
  22. I Shot Andy Warhol
    As riveting as its title.
  23. Inside Out
    There’s enough slapstick and silliness to keep kids entertained.... But the film also has a bittersweet streak about the loss of innocence and the fleetingness of childhood.
  24. Tracks
    What's on screen will leave you in a state of wonder. The sweeping cinematography surveys the cracked earth and Davidson's chapped skin with equal intensity, as if to remind us how vulnerable we puny mortals are.
  25. Crumb
    Extraordinary new documentary that turns Robert Crumb's twisted life story into a disturbing, exhilarating work of biographical art.
  26. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    The nervy style of this newfangled Western, with its eerie, insinuating score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, is so effective that long after Pitt and Affleck have left the screen, emotional disturbance lingers like gun smoke.
  27. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    Mesmerizing.
  28. Bridesmaids
    She's an Everywoman you can believe in, showcased in the kind of deft comedy of feminine passion - where deep despair meets Wilson Phillips - that a great many people have been waiting for. Now that Wiig and company have built it, will they come?
  29. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
    Damien Chazelle's extraordinary black-and-white retro dream of a feature debut.
  30. Shower
    Without ever dipping into indignity among wet, half-naked men, Shower sparkles with joy.
  31. You Can Count on Me
    Beautiful, compassionate, articulate domestic drama.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A Boy and His Dog
    Though the film may not have one decent character, A Boy and His Dog (rereleased after a six-year moratorium) manages to be a likable celebration of friendship among the ruins.
  33. Up the Yangtze
    Filmmaker Yung Chang finds a sad and beautiful way to glimpse the big picture of dislocation through an exquisitely poised small study.
  34. Sideways
    It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this -- and there's a particular giddiness to be had in thinking about what movies can (but don't often) do for one's soul after imbibing such a fine vintage.
  35. The Devil's Miner
    This beautiful, terrible story is not easily forgotten.
  36. Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
    Between clips of the concerts Seeger staged as hootenanny hosannas, the film chronicles how the blacklisted star stuck true to his beliefs -- which were more patriotic than those of his accusers.
  37. Lilya 4-Ever
    A haunting and incandescent work of art.
  38. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Soaring and romantic, wild and serene, feminist and gutsy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the best movies of the year.
  39. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    One of the most revelatory rock portraits ever made.
  40. Gladiator II
    As with its predecessor, what elevates Gladiator II in the cinematic arena is the ways its themes and dialogue underpin its outrageous spectacle. David Scarpa's script is also fiercely intelligent.
  41. Our Song
    The movie draws us into the illusion that we're simply eavesdropping on the lives of three inner-city black and Hispanic girls.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brazil
    One of those rare gems that prove equally stunning on both aesthetic and cerebral levels.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  43. Maria Full of Grace
    Unfolds with a simplicity that's as breathtaking as its inevitability is harrowing.
  44. Downhill Racer
    One of the great unheralded films of the late ’60s.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bambi
    Whatever Kleenex moments it causes, Bambi is unmissable.
  46. The Company Men
    Kevin Costner, as Bobby's carpenter brother-in-law, does the finest character acting of his career.
  47. Flight
    Flight opens with one of the most harrowing in-flight-disaster depictions of all time.
  48. Russian Dolls
    Russian Dolls captures how being a sexual cad has become an essential phase in the life of the modern male.
  49. To Be and to Have
    So superb, so graceful, so strong -- another beauty in this year of good documentaries -- that I do believe it will influence career choices, sending inspired viewers to study pedagogy, or cinematography.
  50. Police, Adjective
    Yet another outstanding little movie in the exciting Romanian New Wave.
  51. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    Nothing more (or less) than an enchanting light comedy of romantic confusion... It's a movie that understands love because it understands pain.
  52. Toy Story 2
    It's a great, IQ-flattering entertainment both wonderful and wise.
  53. Skyfall
    The third starring the totally captivating cool cucumber Daniel Craig as Agent 007 - is both an elegy and a mission statement. It's also a great, long-lasting jolt of pleasure.
  54. Alien
    Pay attention to the enhanced detail audible in a new six-track sound mix, which may be the most important cleaning job of all; silence and Jerry Goldsmith's score have never twined so hauntingly.
  55. Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
    Tim Skousen and Jeremy Coon’s new documentary, Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made, isn’t the kids’ finished film. It’s a film about the making of their film — and it’s amazing.
  56. Bowfinger
    Disciplined script -- bitingly funny.
  57. Go
    The one truly thrilling movie I've seen so far this year.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pumping Iron
    Arnold conquers all comers, your heart, and the world!
  59. Days of Glory
    The ensemble cast shared the best-actor award at the 2006 Cannes film festival -- and rightly so.
  60. A Woman Under the Influence
    Rowlands gives a harrowing performance as a housewife coming unhinged.
  61. Shakespeare in Love
    The richest and most satisfying romantic movie of the year. It's really about two great loves at once -- the love of life and of art -- and the way that Shakespeare, like no writer before him, transformed the one into the other.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All the President's Men
    A riveting, superbly acted political thriller.
  63. Before Midnight
    Before Midnight confounds expectations in powerful and even haunting ways. It's not just darker than the previous two films. It's bigger, deeper, and more searching. It follows the characters through a tale of embattled love that extends far beyond them.
  64. Goodnight Mommy
    Goodnight Mommy, a brilliantly sinister horror film in the recent art-house mold of "The Babadook" and "It Follows," has a premise that cracks like the whip of a devil’s tail.
  65. Igby Goes Down
    Gets weirder and meaner and darker and sadder as it progresses, which is amazing since it simultaneously remains funny and horrifying right up to the end.
  66. The Godfather: Part III
    In this brilliantly sustained climax, Coppola unveils a vision of corruption that embraces the entire world, but he's also reveling in sheer theatrical magic in a way that only a master can.
  67. Funny or Die Presents: Donald Trump's the Art of the Deal: The Movie
    It’s utterly demented, slightly terrifying, and most of all hilarious. It’s also one of the giddiest and most stinging political satires since Thomas Nast took on Tammany Hall.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Buffalo '66
    It's all somehow both familiar and dazzling, just as Ricci's kidnapped tap student, forced to pose as the protagonist's wife for his horrifically indifferent parents, is somehow both nondescript and heartbreaking.
  69. The Sweet Hereafter
    Leaves you shaken and ecstatic at the same time, transported by the vision of a major film artist.
  70. Moonlight
    Easily one of the most personal and most powerful films of the year.
  71. The Descendants
    Another beautifully chiseled piece of filmmaking - sharp, funny, generous, and moving.
  72. Body Bags
    Gruesome stuff — and yet Body Bags moves along with such jaunty, good bad taste that it’s hard not to smile.
  73. Amour
    In Amour, these two actors show us what love is, what it really looks like, and what it may, at its most secret moments, demand.
  74. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
    It's a hilarious, and unexpectedly moving, documentary about the greatest metal band you've probably never heard of.
  75. Swingers
    The beauty of Swingers lies in the irony of its title: Despite their lounge-lizard posing, these guys will never really live up to their Rat Pack dreams.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  76. A Christmas Tale
    The movie is enchanting.
  77. Mother
    Another must-see marvel of horror, comedy, and impeccable filmmaking by the Korean director Bong Joon-ho.
  78. Last Train Home
    This is essential viewing for understanding our world.
  79. A Mighty Wind
    A movie that re-creates its object of satire with such pitch-perfect flair that it all but erases the line between derision and love.
  80. Murderball
    The filmmaking is as strong as the subject matter, with an elegant structure.
  81. Earth Days
    A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Gay Divorcee
    The repartee is sharp, the plot is delightfully ridiculous, and the numbers — like ”Night and Day” and the epic Oscar winner ”The Continental” — are knockouts.
  83. Grindhouse
    Grindhouse, like "Ed Wood" and "Boogie Nights," celebrates how certain low-grade entertainment, viewed in hindsight, looks different now than it did then, since we can see the ''innocence'' of its creation -- the handmade quality of it -- in a world not yet ruled by corporate technology.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Odd Man Out
    Mason gives a grand performance, his voice racked with desperation and pain yet sonorous.
  85. A Christmas Carol
    A marvelous and touching yuletide toy of a movie.
  86. Citizen Kane
    What’s magical about Kane — the sheer transformative thrill of invention — is there in every shot, every performance, every narrative surge.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Naked City
    Nearly 50 years later, The Naked City‘s Oscar-winning cinematography and editing still have resonance.
  88. Crash
    The stunning, must-see drama Crash is proof that words have not lost the ability to shock in our anesthetized society.
  89. The Hurt Locker
    The result is an intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground.
  90. Prisoners
    The thriller that's exciting, cathartic, and powerfully disturbing. Prisoners is that type of movie. It's rooted in 40 years of Hollywood revenge films, yet it also breaks audacious new ground.
  91. The Life of Jesus
    It’s only when you’re in the grip of the climax that you realize how richly the filmmaker has painted a landscape that to other eyes might appear so parched.
  92. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    There’s no need to heavily editorialize here; Hittman is an assured enough filmmaker to portray this drama honestly and non-manipulatively, trusting her audience to interpret the complicated heartbreak of Autumn’s predicament without having to explain it to them.
  93. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
    The antidote to every square tough-guy caper you've ever seen, and the inspiration for many great ones. It is an existential imperative to seek out a showing and burn rubber to get there, preferably in an excellent car.
  94. Open Water
    In spirit, Open Water reduces us to children peering through our fingers, waiting for the horrid deliverance we're not quite sure we want to see.
  95. Blood Simple
    All in all, Blood Simple looks better than ever.
  96. Easy Money
    Easy Money is not merely an early-career curiosity. It's one of the best underworld films I've seen in years, and Kinnaman gives a fantastic performance in it.
  97. Dunkirk
    This is visceral, big-budget filmmaking that can be called Art. It’s also, hands down, the best motion picture of the year so far.
  98. Blue Jasmine
    The movie is rich with class tension, and if Allen nails the moods of the wealthy, he also gets surprising, dynamic performances from Hawkins, Cannavale, and Andrew Dice Clay as the folks who have no money but may have a fuller sense of what life is.
  99. All the Real Girls
    It's thrillingly original, lyrical, and wise, and the filmmaker conveys the mutable intensity of young love with the authoritative originality of an important filmmaker.
  100. The Savages
    The Savages is terrific -- a movie of uncommon appreciation for the nature and nurture that go into making us who we are, a perfectly calibrated drama both compassionate and unsentimental.
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