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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
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  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Up for Grabs
    I say the movie is infuriatingly unfair to Hayashi; others will cry foul for Popov. See it with an umpire.
  2. The Opposite of Sex
    Traffics in the coyly blasphemous, aren't-we-dysfunctional family-disaster chic that has become the single most annoying trend in independent filmmaking.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Romeo and Juliet
    The whole thing sinks on the shoulders of its pretty teen stars (Hussey and Whiting), who exhibit all the raw talent and sensuality of bit players in some bad Spanish soap.
  4. Lion
    Where Saroo goes and what he finds there left me in tears, but you feel that a complicated true story has been airbrushed into a postmodern legend.
  5. The September Issue
    Lusciously revealing fly-on-the-wall portrait of Anna Wintour.
  6. Fresh Dressed
    Midway through, the narrative gets a little bogged down in the details of retail; still, Fresh is a colorful, comprehensive trip.
  7. Beeswax
    There are fine, fresh observational moments, but the film is much ado about not so much.
  8. Cinderella Man
    How exceptional a film actor is Russell Crowe? So exceptional that in Cinderella Man, he makes a good boxing movie feel at times like a great, big picture.
  9. The Last Lions
    The footage, by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, is stunning.
  10. Rocketman
    Egerton’s whole-body commitment captures not just Elton’s outrageous physicality — in costume designer Julian Day’s hands, he’s essentially a one-man Mardi Gras — but his enduring sadness and insecurity (and the self-sabotaging behavior it was too often funneled through) without tipping into showbiz-tragedy cliché. He’s the starry-eyed cosmonaut the part demands, but merely, endearingly mortal too.
  11. The Cooler
    A lot of fun early in the evening, when the Rat Pack ambiance is novel, but gets bleary by 4 a.m. in the story.
    • 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 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eating Raoul
    Paul and Mary Bland stop at nothing to open a restaurant in Paul Bartel’s scabrous black comedy.
  14. Frontrunners
    This is no real-life comedy à la "Election" -- more like a valuable, teen-scaled version of the presidential election that currently obsesses us.
  15. The Little Hours
    Writer-director Jeff Baena adapts parts of Boccaccio’s Decameron into an absurd and hysterical tale of nuns gone wild.
  16. Monsoon
    The specificity with which Khaou portrays this beautiful place, evolving beyond its traumatic history but never forgetting it entirely, is what makes Monsoon so piercing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming
    Still, the picture remains the only ”feel good” movie of the entire Cold War corpus.
  18. Duplicity
    Duplicity doesn't have depth -- but it does have Julia Roberts, in full Hollywood movie-star mode.
  19. The Painted Veil
    The always surprising Watts creates a woman at once contemporary and retro. And Norton, as a producer as well as star, concedes enough space for Schreiber and the effortlessly fascinating Jones to earn their own spotlights.
  20. It
    It is essentially two movies. The better by far (and it’s very good) is the one that feels like a darker Stand by Me — a nostalgic coming-of-age story about seven likable outcasts riding around on their bikes and facing their fears together... Less successful are the sections that trot out Pennywise. The more we see of him, the less scary he becomes.
  21. Digging for Fire
    What starts off as a promising indie about a couple (Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt) trying to balance their own needs versus their partner’s quickly goes south in director Joe Swanberg’s latest meditation on aging-hipster malaise.
  22. Cold Souls
    Darkly funny, twisty-cool existential tragicomedy, loaded with smart notions and filmed like a surrealist dream.
  23. How to Build a Girl
    Still, there's a sort of willful energy field between Giedroyc and Feldstein that pushes the story along; the blithe, anything-can-happen thrill that comes from being young in a world where anything is possible — including the right to wreck yourself spectacularly, rebuild, and then start it all over again.
  24. A Shock to the System
    The movie is juicy fun, a high comedy about the personality of power.
  25. Butterfly Tongues
    Diverges to become something quite powerfully unnerving and guilt-ridden.
  26. The Sleeping Beauty
    Following 2009's "Bluebeard," French filmmaker Catherine Breillat continues her unique and psychologically, erotically daring deconstruction of classic fairy tales and the female condition.
  27. Life During Wartime
    In a staring contest with his audience, Solondz never blinks. He picks and picks at the themes that consume him, and he doesn't care who stays and who leaves. Me, I'm rapt.
  28. The Unknown Known
    To take the playfully convoluted, semi-nonsensical aggression of Rumsfeld's language and make it the whole point of a movie is to fall into the trap of mistaking the spin for the story.
  29. Small Time Crooks
    For all its wispy fun, Small Time Crooks still tilts, with little-guy stubbornness, at windmills in Allen's mind.
  30. Ride with the Devil
    Ang Lee's bloody but dramatically anemic depiction of the American Civil War as fought by boys without uniforms.
  31. Monster's Ball
    A traffic map of calls and responses, lessons and homework, wishes and fulfillment. All roads lead to acting-award nominations, but none lead to truth.
  32. Operation Avalanche
    The movie’s premise has trouble sustaining a feature-length running time, getting mired in repetitive jokes and a third-act swing into harder-core suspense that never really connects.
  33. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
    This is a pretty, surface-y documentary rather than the kind of exciting one Vreeland would have demanded, declaring, "You gotta have style!"
  34. Blockers
    Sure, showing that girls can be as horny and impulsive and raunchy as guys isn’t exactly the most radical statement. But when it’s done this well, it certainly is a welcome change-up.
  35. Green Book
    In a world that seems to get uglier every day, this movie’s gentle heart and mere humanity feel like a salve.
  36. Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
    If Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me leads even one person to listen to Big Star for the first time, this movie will have done a great service.
  37. Boy Erased
    Boy Erased is the kind of topical, well-intentioned movie that makes you wish it was slightly better than it is.
  38. The Avengers
    In terms of storytelling, The Avengers is for the most part a highly functional, banged-together vehicle that runs on synthetic franchise fuel. Yet the grand finale of CGI action, set in the streets of New York, is - in every sense - smashing.
  39. Venus in Fur
    What is surprising is how little Polanski juices the material with his usual devilish touch.
  40. Barton Fink
    Barton Fink has an atmosphere of languid comic anxiety (it's like a cross between "Eraserhead" and "Angel Heart"), and it's fun to watch, if only because you have no idea what's coming next.
  41. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
    In a year short on so many of those things, Jangle feels like finding something sweetly familiar but also new, finally, under the tree.
  42. Beirut
    The performances are strong and the story is absorbing; a smart diversion for adult attention spans.
  43. Nurse Betty
    The superb screenplay won an award at Cannes this year for good reason.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Beau Geste
    Spirited performances don’t / quite redeem the melodramatic contrivances of this often-filmed piece of romantic nonsense. But the Moroccan desert (actually Arizona) looks great, and at the very least, this Geste is leagues better than the 1966 remake with Telly Savalas.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    American Hardcore
    Illuminating nostalgia, stuffed with all the right tattooed talking heads (like Black Flag's Henry Rollins), plus grim-looking concert footage of wailing skinny guys.
  46. There's Something About Mary
    The Farrellys may well be the new kingpins of adolescent slob comedy, but There's Something About Mary doesn't approach the witty anarchy of movies like "Animal House," "The Naked Gun," or "Hairspray."
  47. Bodies Bodies Bodies
    Depending on your demographic, Bodies will probably either make you feel seen or utterly obsolete. But it's also just straight-up fun: a black-hearted comedy of manners meets contemporary social nightmare, written in blood and vape smoke.
  48. Joshua
    Joshua does grow a bit repetitious (it lacks the cathartic climaxes of a horror film), yet it has cool and savvy fun with your fears.
  49. The Piano Lesson
    August Wilson is a poet of the American stage. In the hands of this remarkable cast and Washington's assured direction, Wilson's work finds its best conduit to the screen yet.
  50. Blue Story
    As a director, Onwubolu brings a tender, vivid touch the film’s relationships — particularly Timmy’s giddy plunge into first love with the fiercely independent Leah (Karla Simone-Spence) — though he stumbles when it comes to building deeper storylines around them; there's almost no narrative turn that doesn't seem telegraphed from the jump.
  51. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
    This moving film explores the trauma of a Holocaust survivor with rare complexity.
  52. The Last September
    There's something Slavic about Warner's storytelling.
  53. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
    It's all way too heavy-handed, though nicely acted by Hirsch, Culkin, and, especially, Jena Malone.
  54. How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    While it won't win any Oscars, Matthew Cooke's new documentary How To Make Money Selling Drugs may take the prize for being the shallowest and most glib film of the year.
  55. Chronicle
    The most original and excitingly executed wow-factor-meets-handheld-video feature since "Blair Witch" itself. It's also a movie that rebuilds the power of special effects from the ground up.
  56. Arthur Christmas
    The resulting adventure, like most of Aardman's work (Chicken Run, Flushed Away), is more clever than outright funny, but it's also genuinely sweet, and the complicated relations among Santa's clan are surprisingly believable.
  57. Into the Woods
    The first two-thirds of the film, which are like the Brothers Grimm's Greatest Hits on laughing gas, have a fizzy, fairy-dust energy. But as soon as the baker couple's scavenger hunt is over and a rampaging giant appears, Woods loses its magic and momentum and sags like an airless balloon.
  58. What They Had
    While it’s loaded with excellent ensemble performances and flashes of real poignancy, it can’t seem to help itself from occasionally jack-knifing into heavy-handed wrong turns that can play as clichéd or phony. It’s half of a great movie.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Blue Jay
    Instead of treating puppy love like child’s play, Blue Jay savors the fantasy of foundations built in adolescence, kindled while the heart is still young, and draws out the agonizing reality that romance ultimately fizzles out of necessity as we age and mature.
  60. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
    One day, Captain’s pint-size viewers will undoubtedly move on to Marvel’s spandex universe; until then, they’ve got this sweet, silly starter kit.
  61. Predestination
    Predestination's pace is too slack, and the brothers are so painfully tentative as storytellers that the easily guessed big twist gets three separate reveals.
  62. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
    Gremlins 2 is a limited achievement — it’s nothing but the sum of its own whirring pop-culture mechanics. But that’s more than enough to keep you occupied, and occasionally exhilarated.
  63. Eyes Wide Shut
    The director's famously over-deliberate, pause-laden style verges, for the first time, on amateurville, and that gives us too much time to linger on the movie's more bizarre details.
  64. The Underneath
    Soderbergh is able to execute his games without pigeonholing his characters. He has made that rare thing, a modern-day noir with feeling.
  65. Absolute Wilson
    Surprisingly square portrait of avant-garde artist and director Robert Wilson.
  66. The Last Winter
    Who said that an environmental horror film couldn't be didactic and spooky at the same time?
  67. Chicken with Plums
    Adapting Satrapi's graphic novel about a violinist (Mathieu Amalric) in late-1950s Tehran who's got a broken fiddle and a broken heart and takes to his bed, willing himself to die, the filmmakers rely on expressive eyes to carry a narrative style suitable for a silent movie.
  68. Tenet
    Yes, this stuff is cool. It is also massively complex, presented with a straight face via a script that nevertheless winks at The Protagonist’s — and our — utter confusion as Tenet's byzantine plot unfolds.
  69. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Does the movie, with its sock-puppet intros and narration by RuPaul Charles, mock Tammy Faye, sanctify her, or turn her into a flamboyant image of distressed womanly martyrdom -- the Judy Garland of televangelism? All of the above.
  70. Go Tigers!
    Beautifully edited, Go Tigers! is an enthralling look at the drama that can transpire in the autumn of one small town on any given Friday.
  71. Sunshine State
    Like a blue plate special at a theme diner, Sunshine State comes with a lot of overdone side dishes thrown on the table at the same time.
  72. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Why would filmmakers with this much talent work this hard to thumb their noses at everything they put on screen?
  73. People Say I'm Crazy
    People Say I'm Crazy doesn't defuse, or romanticize, the trauma of mental illness. It just humanizes it.
  74. Climax
    Is it possible to be an enfant terrible when you’re 55? Unrepentant French provocateur Gaspar Noé pushes that question (and your buttons) to the breaking point with his latest transgressive import, Climax.
  75. Wendell & Wild
    You'll forgive the movie its cluttered shagginess because its universe is so strange — even an icy puddle is rendered exquisitely.
  76. Solitary Man
    With an outstanding screenplay by Brian Koppelman and disciplined direction by Koppelman and David Levien, a story that could have been generic (or worse, scented with flowery bulls---) turns into a precise, honest, and affecting drama.
  77. Shallow Grave
    Danny Boyle's glittering, deadpan, nihilistic little thriller.
  78. The Bank Job
    One of the pleasures of The Bank Job is that it returns us to the days when robbing a bank was a gritty, hole-in-the-wall affair.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Little Voice
    The movie adaptation suffers the symptoms of so many stage-to-screen transplants: What seemed thrillingly big and bold in live performance comes across shrunken and hemmed in when "opened up" to fill a feature film.
  80. Talk to Me
    A rowdy, richly offbeat biopic.
  81. The Birth of a Nation
    A big, unabashedly ambitious picture, heavy with the weight of history. But its best moments turn out to be the smaller human ones.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Young Man with a Horn
    (Doris Day) is quietly touching in Young Man With a Horn as a singer pining for Kirk Douglas’ tortured trumpeter.
  83. Steal a Pencil for Me
    Gentle study in human resilience and luck.
  84. Spider-Man: Far from Home
    Far From Home succeeds with an unusual, troubling virtue: The best parts are the most fake.
  85. Tell Me Who I Am
    But the truth, when it does come out, is devastating — to the point that it can feel invasive to watch such a profoundly private moment unfold on camera for our benefit.
  86. Friday Night
    Ziplessness has rarely looked so inviting, nor have a couple of actors seemed so much like real people -- attractive, but hardly hunks of perfection -- who happened to get lucky, and are delighted to throw some of their guiltless good fortune our way.
  87. Ginger & Rosa
    A touching drama from British art-house filmmaker Sally Potter, who broke through to wider audiences with 1992's "Orlando" and has now made her most mainstream movie yet.
  88. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
    A stranger-than-fiction gem.
  89. Live Flesh
    Almodovar is positively mature, adapting a novel by Ruth Rendell so deftly that the plot now also describes the invigorating and sometimes disorienting effects of democracy after long years of repression under the Franco regime.
  90. Patriots Day
    Patriots Day benefits from a robust, concentrated timeline and sheer bat-out-of-hell pacing.
  91. Slacker
    The movie never loses its affectionate, shaggy-dog sense of America as a place in which people, by now, have almost too much freedom on their hands.
  92. 25th Hour
    Lee, as he did in ''Malcolm X'' and ''Clockers,'' makes his hero's dread palpable, and though 25th Hour lacks the glittering brilliance of those films, I was held by the toughness and pity of Lee's gaze.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Hidden
    The Hidden is hands down the best movie ever made about a homicidal alien slug that oozes from human host to human host.
  94. The Fault in Our Stars
    I couldn't help wondering what kind of spiky unpredictability a "Say Anything" - era John Cusack would have brought to the character — with or without the requisite Peter Gabriel song.
  95. 21 Jump Street
    Underneath, 21 Jump Street is a riot of risks that pay off, the biggest of which might be handing Tatum funny business.
  96. Redbelt
    Mamet regulars Ricky Jay and Joe Mantegna blend well with Mamet newbie Tim Allen, a treat as a spoiled-rotten aging Hollywood action star.
  97. Fair Game
    Fair Game gets you riled up all over again at a deeply unpatriotic abuse of power.
  98. World's Greatest Dad
    Williams hasn't been this sympathetic in years.
  99. Circle of Friends
    As Benny, a small- town Irish teenager in the '50s who goes off to university in Dublin, Minnie Driver has a touchingly awkward prettiness. Her jaw may be as square as a picture frame, but her smile lights her up from within.
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