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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
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  1. House of Sand
    The House of Sand's director, Andrucha Waddington, lays on the Awesome Visual Poetry and throws in a welter of story gimmicks, but it's all a bit too fancifully arid.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    John Lewis: Good Trouble
    John Lewis: Good Trouble is absolutely inspiring — but it stops a bit short of being illuminating.
  3. Paddleton
    Thanks to two pitch-perfect performances, Paddleton is bittersweet and poignant beyond words.
  4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    The creators of Captain America: The Winter ­Soldier have brought off something fresh and bold.
  5. Primary Colors
    One of those thrilling confluences in pop culture that rewards audiences for thinking the worst about politicians and the best about movie stars.
  6. Better Living Through Circuitry
    It's got a good beat, you can dance to it.
  7. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
    A no-frills docu-Dogma plainness, yet Miller lingers on invisible, nearly psychic nuances, leaping into digressions of memory and desire. She boxes these women's souls right open for us.
  8. The Emperor's New Groove
    Hip, funny, mostly nonmusical, decidedly non- epic family picture.
  9. Prisoner of Paradise
    Gerron's terrible film was never shown in the places it was meant for, but in Prisoner of Paradise it reveals a queasy corner of the Nazi mind that tried to imagine a concentration camp as it fantasized the inmates might have.
  10. 10 Things I Hate About You
    The film's crank-case snappishness doesn't break any molds, but it certainly gives you a lift.
  11. Freaky Friday
    A funny, shrewd, no-bull family comedy about the relationship between mothers and teenage daughters that allows Curtis the comedian to remember her days as a slinky starlet while making use of her wisdom as the mother of an adolescent girl herself.
  12. Thirteen
    With an authenticity that is tender and merciless, the movie shows you what it looks like when youth rebellion becomes a form of fascism.
  13. The Krays
    We never get any sense of how the brothers build their empire, or of how the various supporting characters fit into their lives. Telling this story in a more straightforward fashion would have been far more satisfying. Still, the Kemps are something to see.
  14. Together Together
    A wry low-key dramedy that lands with surprising sweetness.
  15. Heartbeats
    Xavier Dolan is back with another madly stylish Montreal-made delight.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    eXistenZ
    Typically icky and unusually witty.
  17. Far from the Tree
    All of the families in Far From the Tree are compelling — their trials unimaginable and their spirits indomitable.
  18. Gunner Palace
    The film's fragmentary structure, though, is suspect. It says that the soldiers find no real meaning in their combat actions, yet Gunner Palace presents the operations we're seeing in so little context, reducing them to a random hash of ''sensational'' moments, that Tucker at times appears to be exploiting the war to create a didactic canvas of manic military unease.
  19. The Skin I Live In
    Allusions to "Vertigo," "Rebecca," and Georges Franju's great 1960 French horror movie "Eyes Without a Face" are intentional: The Skin I Live In is, above all, the creation of a movie fanatic who loves to look.
  20. Curse of the Golden Flower
    Curse of the Golden Flower is a watchable soap opera, but its marching-band martial-arts scenes are little more than weakly staged retreads of the ones in Zhang's "Hero."
  21. Shall We Kiss?
    Mouret not only stars (opposite a delicate Ledoyen) as the slightly schlemiely fellow in want of a woman's affection, he also wrote and directed this enticing, weightless divertissement.
  22. Sunshine Superman
    Interviews with Boenish’s wife, Jean, give his life story perspective and heart.
  23. The Science of Sleep
    The Science of Sleep is like a weird dream that tugs at the memory throughout the day with its intriguing, misshapen pieces.
  24. Elling
    Charms because of its natural, non-magical attitude toward humanity.
  25. Elephant
    Beauty competes with vacuity in Elephant, and for a good stretch of writer-director Gus Van Sant's maddeningly passive ode to high school innocence and Columbine-age youthful evil, beauty wins.
  26. Love Songs
    Chiara Mastroianni charms here just as her maman, Catherine Deneuve, did in Demy's 1964 classic.
  27. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
    They don't really make fairy tales for women over 40. If they did, though, it might look a little like Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris — a featherweight meringue of a movie so sweet it threatens to float away on its own sugar high, if not for the sheer generosity of the story's premise and luminous commitment of its lead actress.
  28. Meet the Patels
    In its current form as a documentary, Meet the Patels is a charming and moderately enlightening examination of what happens when an American-raised man recovering from a bad breakup attempts to find a wife through the kind of arranged marriage that has kept his parents blissful for decades.
  29. Doubt
    Shanley turns out to have dismayingly few original cinematic notions to back up the basic did-he-or-didn't-he hook in his study of conviction and compassion.
  30. A Man Called Ove
    Holm’s adaptation is a darkly funny, tragic, and ultimately heartwarming tearjerker about the life of one lonely but extraordinary man.
  31. Liar Liar
    Jim Carrey entertains himself mightily in Liar Liar, and his enthusiasm is infectious.
  32. Happy Together
    The vignettes don't add up to a story, but Wong's nervy brio and subterranean-fantasy style make for an arresting work about an exotic subculture.
  33. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
    The generosity and gorgeousness with which Aussie writer-director Stephan Elliott (and costume designers Lizzy Gardiner and Tim Chappel) turn this most unlikely road picture into something arresting - if a tad sentimental - in its naive vision of a perfectly tolerant world.
  34. Soul Food
    In the tradition of such food-as-love films as "Eat Drink Man Woman" and "Big Night", kitchen work is idealized as a form of communion in this indulgently nostalgic story -- deep-fried with plot, script, and character cliches but honey glazed with goodwill...
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
    A stricken teen trapped in a polyurethane isolation tent. That’s a potent metaphor for adolescence, which may be why this made-for-TV movie was a rite of passage for an awful lot of us.
  36. Nightmare Alley
    Nightmare Alley is both a beautiful-looking film and an oddly forgettable one, maybe because borrowed material is no match for the ingenious creations of del Toro's own mind.
  37. The Hoax
    Gere is terrific at suggesting the kind of addictive cocktail of excitement, panic, chutzpah, creativity, and naked hunger for fame and megabucks that might inspire such big, fat lies.
  38. Who Killed the Electric Car?
    Who Killed the Electric Car? makes you angry, and also sad, to live in a country where innovation could be contrived into an enemy.
  39. Fados
    Fados connects today's leading interpreters with legendary fadistas of the past. And it's the last title to be released under the banner of the venerable New Yorker Films.
  40. Tosca
    Conveys the heaving passion of Puccini's famous love-jealousy-murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation.
  41. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Potent and eye-opening documentary.
  42. Studio 54
    One of the great surprises of Matt Tyrnauer’s giddy glitterbomb of a documentary about New York’s infamously Caligulan Me Decade hot spot is discovering how much of our culture (the drugs, the music, the sexual liberation) is wrapped up in one nightclub that existed for a mere 33 months.
  43. Wuthering Heights
    Willful, meandering, and intriguing, this Wuthering Heights is similarly headstrong.
  44. Only Human
    Cheery, expertly constructed Spanish farce.
  45. 21 Grams
    Paradoxically, a movie that loses power the more you perceive what's actually going on in it. Laid end to end, the story is, to put it mildly, overwrought, fusing several cataclysms too many.
  46. The Bellboy
    This is where the brilliant second act of Lewis' career begins.
  47. Caramel
    A Lebanese variation on sweetly soapy dramas about Women Who Bond With Wet Hair.
  48. Rampart
    Oren Moverman's Rampart is a terrific film: tense, shocking, complex, mesmerizing.
  49. The Poseidon Adventure
    Once the lady in question is overturned by a freak tidal wave the tone shifts from unintentionally comedic to undeniably exciting as renegade priest Gene Hackman leads a motley band of souls (including Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, and Roddy McDowall) on their upside down quest to escape from a watery grave.
  50. Your Friends & Neighbors
    Bleak, scathing, and utterly compelling.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pure
    Pure belongs to Eden, a remarkably strong child actor, and Deadwood's Molly Parker, broken and affecting as his sweaty, gear-crazy mum.
  52. Late Night
    The best scenes in Late Night are consistently the ones where the movie’s main stars spar and banter and intermittently connect; two unlikely satellites smashing into each other’s orbits, and maybe finding themselves in the wreckage.
  53. Sacco and Vanzetti
    It's cleansing to see the facts laid out with intimacy and rigor, and the film earns the comparison it makes to the squelching of due process for some of today's terror suspects.
  54. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
    Eric Appel's directorial debut essentially plays like a movie-length Funny or Die sketch — which it is, technically (or at least produced under that production umbrella): a giddy cameo-stacked satire propelled by murder, mayhem, Mexican drug lords, and athletic sex with Madonna. This is whole-cloth fantasy, of course, and that's the point: less Walk the Line than Walk Hard, with accordions.
  55. Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
    As her success spikes exponentially, so does the film's momentum, shifting toward the more familiar touchstones of a traditional music doc: The smear of foreign cities seen through a town-car window; the endless roundelay of interviews, meet-and-greets, and promo signings.
  56. City Slickers
    Crystal’s ordinariness — his utter lack of glamour — really works for him here. He’s far more pleasureful to watch in this sort of dramatic-comedy role than, say, Robin Williams, because his comfy, urban-shlemiel personality helps ground the jokes.
  57. Ginger Snaps
    A ferocious, funny, gory, and astute Canadian horror parable.
  58. Clerks
    The latest slacker manifesto, Clerks lacks the grunge artistry of either "Stranger Than Paradise" or "Slacker," but it's a fast, likable 90 minutes at the movies.
  59. The Boys in the Band
    Boys no doubt has its benefits as both a history lesson and an outsize acting showcase for its talented cast; as a film experience in 2020, though, it often comes as a kind of relief to know that the seismic half-century-plus since its creation — as a play and a 1970 film, then a play and a movie again — have given us so many other sweeter, deeper stories to tell.
  60. All About Nina
    All About Nina works best as a showcase for Winstead, even if she’s performing material we’ve already heard before.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Murder!
    After the introduction of the titular crime and a proto-12 Angry Men jury scene, the film becomes a playful meta-commentary on the inherent silliness of watching actors go through the motions of detective work, with numerous charming visual embellishments.
  62. The Old Guard
    That leaves a movie that, beneath its strong female presence and few contemporary bits of flair, has a sort of inevitable bog-standard action feel, just entertaining enough in its live-die-repeat machinations to pass the minimal engagement test.
  63. Contagion
    Here's a scare-the-crap-out-of-you medical thriller about a viral pandemic that will have the immediate post-screening effect of causing a handwashing stampede.
  64. The School of Flesh
    Jacquot economically conveys the small, painful sacrifices both lovers -- but particularly the woman -- must make, and the constant, ongoing negotiations of power required to maintain no-strings freedom.
  65. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    Herzog's fascinating, rambling, love-hate documentary about their friendship and creative partnership, and in its discursive, anecdotal way it gets at the essence of one of cinema's indelible crackpots.
  66. Pieces of April
    The quaint racial blinders are really on the eyes of the filmmaker, Peter Hedges, who shoves his characters into the narrowest of sitcom slots and seals them there.
  67. Bad Santa
    Isn't up to much of anything besides pretending that swearwords and snot-nosed insults, served up by Santa with an almost institutional monotony, aren't just naughty. They're -- big joke! -- incorrect.
  68. Waking Sleeping Beauty
    The joy of cartoons meets the agony of office politics in this fascinating, inside- Hollywood-baseball documentary.
  69. It Might Get Loud
    A marvelous rock doc that manages to be wistful, tasty, and jam-kicking at the same time.
  70. The Nile Hilton Incident
    The whole thing feels a bit like an Arabic riff on "Chinatown" or "L.A. Confidential" — a neonoir with a tawdry edge where our imperfect hero will eventually be doomed. It’s not a question of if, only when he will lose.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    District B13
    The big innovation here is that the two nimble leads, stuntmen-turned-stars, are devotees of parkour, a fancy French word for the fluid use of urban environments as jungle gyms.
  72. Double Lover
    The kind of deliriously trashy psychosexual thriller that only the French seem to be able to pull off with a straight face. It’s like "Dead Ringers" meets "Body Double" with a kinky, winking full-frontal Gallic twist.
  73. Materialists
    Materialists doesn’t offer any easy answers despite delivering on its romantic premise.
  74. I.O.U.S.A.
    If they handed out an Academy Award for Most Gripping Graphs and Charts, this film would take it.
  75. Louder Than Bombs
    While Byrne is solid (as always) and Eisenberg is restrained (a relief after his manic Lex Luthor), it’s newcomer Druid whose scenes pack the most power and force.
  76. Cedar Rapids
    Sweetness makes the raunch in this honestly funny movie even funnier.
  77. Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
    Most illuminating are the various journalists, attorneys, witnesses, and admissions counselors who testify to the case
  78. Happy Christmas
    That doesn’t stop the movie as a whole from feeling a little slight, though, like a Christmas tree that isn’t entirely filled out.
  79. Strayed
    André Téchiné's beautifully ambiguous, exquisitely underplayed drama Strayed has less to do with the events and moral choices of the era that continue to shape French identity than with the timeless psychological effects of finding oneself unmoored from the familiar.
  80. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    Imamura's delight in the infinite oddity of men and women is goofy; it's also, at heart, reverent.
  81. Lars and the Real Girl
    Really, I think we put up with Lars at all only because Gosling has such an affinity for the wounded boy birds he tends to play that it's easy to watch him do his thing.
  82. Tears of the Black Tiger
    A few more films like Tears of the Black Tiger, and kitsch will be on its way to having a bad name.
  83. Thumbsucker
    Pucci proves to be one of the most charismatic male ingenues since Johnny Depp.
  84. The Cruise
    Miller hit documentary gold when he met Levitch. But this marvelously structured, sensitively edited, deep and compassionate portrait (in atmospheric, made-for-Manhattan black and white) of one man hopscotching a fine line between verbal genius and psychological miswiring is Miller's own jewel, the work of a gifted filmmaker.
  85. Inglourious Basterds
    In Tarantino's besotted historical reverie, real-life villains Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are played as grotesque jokes. The Basterds are played as exaggeratedly tough Jews. The women are femmes fatales.?
    • 69 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Mermaid
    The Mermaid is at its best when it embraces the ridiculous, no-holds-barred, farcical comedy that Chow has become known for, thanks to films like Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer.
  87. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
    If anything holds Dragon together, it’s Jason Scott Lee’s intensely likable performance.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Never Let Me Go
    It's a very tony fantasy of class oppression and fascist medical exploitation (themes that may speak louder in England), but it's a lyrically inert movie.
  89. Babel
    Measured in anything other than biblical cubits, the sum of Babel's many parts turns out to be a picture that suggests Americans ought to stay home and treat their nannies better.
  90. Man from Reno
    None of it would work without the two leads: As the author on the run, Ayako Fujitani conjures a rare mix of demureness and daring. And as the sleuthing lawman, Pepe Serna uses his cement-mixer voice and boxer’s mug to convey a real bloodhound determination.
  91. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Bad Lieutenant doesn't go where you expect, but it has a stubborn, trippy logic.
  92. Unstoppable
    The exchange of substance for speed may not appeal to all, but if you're on board you'll find it hard to disembark.
  93. Brave
    Merida may be a headstrong heroine, a feisty animated hybrid who calls to mind Katniss Everdeen, Bella Swan, and the neo-fairy-tale protagonist who faces off against her evil stepmother in "Snow White and the Huntsman." But she is also, for safety's sake, a nice girl in a pretty green dress who loves her family and believes in dynasty.
  94. Viva
    Havana’s crumbling trapped-in-time beauty also plays a starring role, but it’s Medina who provides the movie’s raw, tender heart.
  95. God's Creatures
    As an acting showcase, Creatures is more than admirable; as a tourism ad for Ireland, untenable. As a movie experience, alas, it's both intriguing and teasingly incomplete.
  96. Undercover Brother
    Lee's images of black and white stereotypes are agreeably silly yet altogether too thin and vanilla safe.
  97. Dung che sai duk
    For the love of all things sensual and mysterious, see this one on a big screen.
  98. Enter the Void
    Director Gaspar Noé proved a shock poet in "Irreversible" (2003). In Enter the Void, he's a shockingly tedious show-off.
  99. Revolutionary Road
    The best thing about Revolutionary Road, a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn't end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie. It only begins there.
  100. Live Free or Die Hard
    An enjoyable pop projection of post-9/11 anxiety.
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