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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. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    For a film that invites so much self-aware chortling over franchise in-jokery, you feel Spider-Verse has missed something essential from its own screen history.
  2. Tarnation
    Painfully beautiful autobiographical kaleidoscope.
  3. Microcosmos
    The revelation of Microcosmos isn’t just that the insect world has a complex and stirring order — it’s how close these bugs come to having minds.
  4. Murderball
    The filmmaking is as strong as the subject matter, with an elegant structure.
  5. Life Itself
    In the end, cancer may have cruelly taken Roger Ebert's voice, but it couldn't silence his greatest gift: his ability to speak to his audience directly, honestly, and with empathy. Thumbs up.
  6. The Shape of Water
    It's both weird and wonderful.
  7. Caché (Hidden)
    The picture moves with stealth, enjoying its own thriller-ness as hints are laid and mislaid. There's a sense that Hitchcock is hovering in the background and cheering for Auteuil, who musters all his French superstardom to play a man having his mask of blandness torn off.
  8. The King and the Mockingbird
    The fairy-tale tableau lifts from Hans Christian Andersen but is shot through with bits of burlesque sci-fi, including a giant robot with an orchestra in its chest.
  9. Bisbee '17
    There’s no denying that Bisbee ’17 has some moments of deep elegiac power or, for that matter, that Greene’s ambition is boundless. But by the end, I often felt like his blurring of the past and the present was an experiment that was easier to admire than be swept up by.
  10. All About My Mother
    Almodóvar's masterwork, is a spectacular synthesis of everything that has always interested him -- proud women, lovely boys, beautiful drag queens, grand movie stars, gorgeous frocks, wild wallpaper .
  11. Moneyball
    The supersmart and rousing Moneyball, which may be the best baseball movie since "Bull Durham," is also about talk, but in a coolly heady and original inside-the-front-office way.
  12. Rushmore
    Murray, meanwhile, turns in a thrillingly knowing, unforced performance--an award-worthy high point in a career that continues, Max Fischer style, to defy the obvious at every turn.
  13. Force Majeure
    It's the rare kind of moviegoing experience that will haunt you long after you leave the theater and lead to some very awkward conversations with your spouse.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    I Know Where I'm Going!
    The writing-directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is best known for Technicolor wonders The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman, but I Know Where I’m Going!, a far less famous black-and-white romantic fable, is as charming as anything in their oeuvre.
  15. Blow Out
    Deliciously twisty and twisted.
  16. Ten
    A glimpse into a society that has grown more open, more free, and also more casually selfish in its interpersonal aggression.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Point Blank
    The lead character has been aptly renamed Walker, and, as played by Marvin in what may be the actor’s most emblematic performance, he strides through Los Angeles like a gangland golem: watchful, unstoppable, frighteningly silent.
  18. Tangerine
    Tangerine is touching for its non-condescending stance toward working girls and the spirit of the sidewalk.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    sex, lies, and videotape
    Compulsively watchable.
  20. The Tillman Story
    Unravels the deceptions -- and the deep dishonor -- that inflated life-size valor into fake superheroism.
  21. To Be or Not to Be
    One of Hollywood’s funniest, and most poignant, classics.
  22. Room
    Room is more than the title of one of the year’s most powerful movies — it’s a state of mind that’s unbearably tense and as claustrophobic as a straitjacket
  23. Anatomy of a Fall
    Films (and novels) are meant to reflect our lives back to us, to hold up a mirror and give us a way to engage with the more thorny issues of our existence via storytelling. Triet is both inviting us to do that with Anatomy of a Fall and warning against putting too much stock in the stories we read and tell ourselves (or is she?).
  24. The English Patient
    Lusts for catharsis yet never quite gets there, because, for all of its bitter romantic anguish, it ultimately coalesces in your head rather than your heart.
  25. Nebraska
    Nebraska isn't a perfect movie. It's often hard to tell whether Payne, an Omaha native, is paying heartfelt tribute to his vast stable of Cornhusker characters or slyly mocking them as simpleminded yokels.
  26. Like Water for Chocolate
    With its cowlike Cinderella heroine pining for forbidden love while she slaves over her bewitching recipes (and knits a shawl as long as a city block), Like Water for Chocolate offers old-fashioned romantic masochism-Harlequin pulp-dressed up in a magical-realist veneer. It makes being a happy homemaker seem wondrous again.
  27. Under the Sand
    Ozon specializes in dissecting the vulnerability, erotic longing, and garbled intentions with which people regularly rub up against one another.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Written on the Wind
    Boiling over with heated acting and schmaltzy scores, Douglas Sirk’s ’50s melodramas tap neatly into our collective trash psyche. Penetrate the surface, however, and they’re as serious and heartfelt as their director was.
  29. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    It's a little sad to say that aside from certain surprises, much of Across the Spider-Verse's contents were in the trailers. The job of a trailer is to show viewers the premise of a movie without spoiling the conclusion — but there's no conclusion here!
  30. Heavenly Creatures
    If the pleaures of Heavenly Creatures remain defiantly on the surface, on that level the movie is a dazzler.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Richard III
    Watching the splendid Ian McKellen embody any Shakespeare character is always a pleasure, and his slithery portrayal here of the Bard’s most hissable villain is a treat.
  32. Million Dollar Baby
    A movie of tough excitement and surprise, even grace.
  33. 42: Forty Two Up
    It would be tempting to describe the Up movies as a miracle in the history of nonfiction filmmaking, if they didn't also represent one of the cinema's most singularly squandered opportunities.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Hard Boiled
    All this would be overkill if it weren’t for the fact that Woo’s use of freeze frame and slow motion serves to make Hard Boiled even more of an art-house action movie than any of its predecessors.
  35. Krisha
    It’s a small, modest film, but its impact is anything but.
  36. The Babadook
    In an age when horror movies have mostly become lazy and toothless, here's one with ambition and bite.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Dead Ringers
    A masterpiece.
  38. Little Men
    Jake and Tony’s journey through early teendom never feels empty.
  39. Boogie Nights
    Mark Wahlberg, in a star-making performance, has the kind of electric ingenuousness that John Travolta did in "Saturday Night Fever."
  40. The Kids Are All Right
    This warm, funny, sexy, smart movie erases the boundaries between specialized ''gay content'' and universal ''family content'' with such sneaky authority.
  41. Welcome to Chechnya
    It's shocking, and it should be. But Welcome finds tender, funny moments too — and even, in the end, some kind of hope.
  42. The Straight Story
    Lynch's first movie since ''Blue Velvet'' that truly envelops you in its spell. It's a piece of celestial Americana -- his journey to the light side of the moon.
  43. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    This truly intimate film invites viewers to commune as well and feel a profound living connection with fellow humans of 30,000 years ago.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Big Sleep
    Bogart’s portrayal of the detective as wisecracking moralist now seems to be what makes The Big Sleep the best of the eight Philip Marlowe pictures made to date.
  45. King of the Hill
    This story of a 12-year-old boy who drops through the net of middle-class life invites us-in each shimmering frame-to gaze upon the world with a child's freshly awakening vision.
  46. Carrie
    One of the most important movies of my life. It’s one of the two films, the other being Robert Altman’s Nashville, that made me want to be a critic. And that’s because Carrie did more than thrill, frighten, and captivate me; it sent a volt charge through my system that rewired my imagination, showing me everything that movies could be.
  47. The Red Turtle
    Lavish with stunning imagery, the experience will ripple into your dreams.
  48. In the Bedroom
    The uncoagulated anguish of parents mourning the death of a child has rarely been more powerfully depicted than in the collected vignettes of grief, rage, and retribution that make up the riveting domestic drama In the Bedroom.
  49. Of Gods and Men
    It is their shared strength as a band of brothers humble before their Christian God - and indeed before the God of Islam - that may stir viewers to an awe that transcends skeptical opinions about religion or politics.
  50. To Die For
    The film's most memorable performance is also its most incongruous: As Jimmy, the teen sap who falls hard for Suzanne, Joaquin Phoenix is dead-eyed yet touchingly vulnerable -- a mush-mouthed angel.
  51. Nobody's Fool
    Nobody’s Fool shines with intelligence and grace and the natural light of fine moviemaking. Like a shot of superior whiskey, it’s a sharp comfort in the grayness of winter
  52. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    Mesmerizing.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Stranger Than Paradise
    Jim Jarmusch’s minimalist meditation on a trio of misfits who wander across the U.S. Shot in crisp black and white, the film is a series of 67 single takes punctuated by moments of black screen.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Bonnie and Clyde
    Penn's film oozes an intellectual's fashionable contempt for the characters.
  55. The Beaches of Agnès
    In The Beaches of Agnès, you get addicted to watching Agnès Varda watch the world.
  56. Deliver Us from Evil
    Brilliant and psychologically transfixing documentary.
  57. May December
    Haynes’ camera often perceives these characters from around a corner, or from the other side of a mirror, or inside what they think is a safe space — always giving the viewer the simultaneously icky and exhilarating feeling of being a trespasser on private secrets.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Say Anything...
    It all comes down to one scene: John Cusack, standing at dusk, boom box aloft, blaring Peter Gabriel's ''In Your Eyes'' outside Ione Skye's window. This, friends, is what rapturous, heartrending, soul-spinning love is all about.
  59. Happening
    There's a sneaky cumulative power to the filmmaking, though; if Happening often feels like a punch to the solar plexus, that's exactly what it should be.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Patton
    George C. Scott's Oscar-winning portrait of the megalomaniacal warrior general is still the glue holding together this blunt study of war as the ultimate human (and dehumanizing) game.
  61. The Lost Daughter
    It's a moviegoing experience, sure — and if you need to hear it, one of the best of the year. But it's really a call to compassion, which makes it transcendent.
  62. Argo
    Argo is never less than wildly entertaining, but a major part of its power is that it so ominously captures the kickoff to the world we're in now.
  63. Summer Hours
    Brims with life and loveliness even as it meditates on the loss of childhood.
  64. Traffic
    The rare Hollywood epic that dares to entertain an audience by engaging the world.
  65. The Grifters
    The movie is pulp, yet it attains a surprising emotional power-especially when Anjelica Huston's Lilly, a survivor who'll do whatever it takes to master her surroundings, is on-screen.
  66. Talk to Her
    Like everything else in this superb work of art, ''Shrinking Lover'' is exquisitely Almodóvarian. It's funny, tender, a little shocking, and it pays homage to what we know about movies: that they can move us beyond words.
  67. Our Daily Bread
    What the activist drama "Fast Food Nation" does with talk and the aid of movie stars, Our Daily Bread, a riveting documentary by Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter, does even better, with no voice-over and barely a word spoken by the unidentified workers involved in matter-of-fact killing and harvesting.
  68. The Master
    It's also one of the great movies of the year - an ambitious, challenging, and creatively hot-blooded but cool toned project that picks seriously at knotty ideas about American personality, success, rootlessness, master-disciple dynamics, and father-son mutually assured destruction.
  69. Boys Don't Cry
    It's Swank, however, who's the revelation. By the end, her Brandon/Teena is beyond male or female. It's as if we were simply glimpsing the character's soul, in all its yearning and conflicted beauty.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aladdin
    Despite a similar setting-the never-never land of the Arabian Nights — the new movie is hipper, faster, more topical.
  71. Los Angeles Plays Itself
    Gliding from the physical to the metaphysical, Andersen reveals how films like ''Chinatown'' effectively remade the reality of Los Angeles, replacing history with myth in a way that now anchors the city more than that history itself does.
  72. This Is England
    Sad, menacing, empathetic story.
  73. City of Ghosts
    City of Ghosts shows us what journalism can do in the face of evil. Its message is haunting, humane, and ultimately hopeful.
  74. Springtime in a Small Town
    There's a painterly translucence to this ''Springtime,'' and a mystery, too; each frame is as delicately poised and lit as a Vermeer portrait of a woman, beckoning but unknowable.
  75. The Player
    The film is sublime entertainment, at once ticklish and suspenseful, cynical and sincere. By its very existence, Altman's comedy about the death of Hollywood lets you know that movies are still alive and kicking.
  76. Sweet Sixteen
    In the grim and empathetic lost-youth drama Sweet Sixteen, the director focuses on a few failed souls -- rather than excoriate the system that failed them -- to produce a story of particularly streamlined, eloquent despair.
  77. Ponyo
    Don't tell Walt Disney, but Hayao Miyazaki really holds the keys to the magic kingdom.
  78. Strong Island
    Strong builds a poignant, methodical portrait of loss.
  79. American Factory
    The movie, which bowed to uniformly rave reviews at Sundance earlier this year, is also — it will probably be noted ad nauseum — the first film collaboration from Barack and Michelle Obama’s new production company Higher Ground. But the heart and soul of American Factory, like all American factories, is never really politics of course; it’s people.
  80. First Reformed
    First Reformed is a bleak, punishing movie and the furthest thing imaginable from an easy crowdpleaser. But Hawke juices it with an austere sense of grace.
  81. Z
    A pulse-pounding procedural that pieces together the murder of a left-wing youth leader (Yves Montand). A baroque government cover-up is foiled by a tenacious inspector (Jean-?Louis Trintignant) whose rat-a-tat interrogations are like machine-gun fire. This is an amazing film.
  82. Baby Driver
    With Wright in the driver’s seat, your standard getaway driver story is transformed into a giddy, adrenaline-filled joyride that’ll leave you gripping the edge of your seat and tapping your feet.
  83. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    The movie is small, local, and idiosyncratic. Then again, it's also a thing of beauty and originality - and for that, sustained huzzahs are in order.
  84. Last Train Home
    This is essential viewing for understanding our world.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
    Camp, like last year's "American Factory," is a Netflix project with the not-inconsiderable heft of executive producers Barack and Michelle Obama behind it, which will undoubtedly earn it some extra attention. That's great if it helps the film, though it's clear who the real heroes are here: a group of kids that society consistently marginalized, mistreated, and ignored, until they fought their own way off of the sidelines and into the world.
  86. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
    "Andy Warhol" makes you see that beneath the gargoyle hipster mask, he filled that emptiness with an art of transcendent sincerity.
  87. Flight of the Red Balloon
    Juliette Binoche is outstanding as a wildly untogether single mother who parks her son with a French-speaking Chinese nanny while she whirls and worries.
  88. The Gleaners & I
    Feels delightfully organic, eccentrically rambling, the found artistic collage of a woman who herself loves to collect.
  89. A Real Pain
    A film that grapples with the legacy of the Holocaust doesn’t exactly make for automatic comedy, but Eisenberg deftly juggles the film’s shifting tones, evoking real laughs in some scenes while maintaining a somber respect in others.
  90. Walkabout
    Nicolas Roeg’s art-house adventure is lyrical and intoxicating.
  91. Before Night Falls
    Arenas' life zigzags before us in a manner as heady and unpredictable as it must have felt to the man who lived it.
  92. Waking Life
    An amazing thing -- a work of cinematic art in which form and structure pursues the logic-defying (parallel) subjects of dreaming and moviegoing.
  93. The Green Knight
    In a way, the movie feels almost like Marvel antimatter, an auteur's willful response to whiz-bang emptiness and Infinity Stones. Knight is ultimately a tale of honor though, and a deeply moral one — inscrutable, but haunting too.
  94. The Bourne Ultimatum
    A spectacular windup toy of a thriller -- a contraption made by an artist.
  95. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    The thrilling conclusion to a phenomenal cinematic story 10 years in the telling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 is proof that authentic movie excitement is its own form of magic.
  96. Athlete A
    A measured if still-maddening look into the 2016 USA Gymnastics scandal.
  97. Take Shelter
    Writer-director Jeff Nichols builds his elegantly shot, weather-sensitive horror story in waves of tension that crest as if pulled by tempests.
  98. The Salesman
    By the film’s shattering end, you’ll feel the spirit of Arthur Miller, one of the great dramatists of the 20th century, reaching across the transom to touch one of the great dramatists of the 21st.
  99. You Can Count on Me
    Beautiful, compassionate, articulate domestic drama.
  100. The Pianist
    The result is a movie, and Cannes Palme d'Or winner, of riveting power and sadness, a great match of film and filmmaker -- and star, too.
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