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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Driving Miss Daisy
    Director Bruce Beresford's tightly focused adaptation retains all the impact of its Pulitzer Prize-winning stage original. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman give exceptional performances as the aging widow and the sage black chauffeur who enlightens her in the segregated South.
  4. Fruitvale Station
    Fruitvale Station is great political filmmaking because it's great filmmaking, period.
  5. American Hustle
    It's a film of jaw-dropping virtuosity and pleasure, one that leaves you revved, enthralled, tickled, moved, and amazed.
  6. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
    The Voyage Home is pure, joyful cinema.
  7. 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.
  8. Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
    A remarkable doc about a life well lived.
  9. The Past
    The Past, is hugely ambitious — it's Farhadi seizing his moment — yet it's also a wrenchingly intimate tale of lives torn asunder by forces within and without them.
  10. Snowpiercer
    Snowpiercer sucks you into its strange, brave new world so completely, it leaves you with the all-too-rare sensation that you've just witnessed something you've never seen before...and need to see again.
  11. Dom Hemingway
    If ever there were an actor ripe to ''McConaughnesize'' his career, it's Jude Law — and guess what, he has done it, spectacularly, in Dom Hemingway.
  12. To Be or Not to Be
    One of Hollywood’s funniest, and most poignant, classics.
  13. Locke
    Yes, Locke is a bit of a storytelling stunt: For the entirety of the movie, Ivan is the only character on screen. But even with nothing to cut away to and no flashbacks to offer context, the film manages to stay as tight as a vise.
  14. Gone Girl
    Anyone who loved Gone Girl the book will walk out of Gone Girl the movie with a sick grin on their face. You can stop being nervous.
  15. Tim's Vermeer
    An exquisitely fun documentary.
  16. Body Bags
    Gruesome stuff — and yet Body Bags moves along with such jaunty, good bad taste that it’s hard not to smile.
  17. 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.
  18. Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
    A spooky, heartbreaking documentary.
  19. Boyhood
    Like Michael Apted in his "Seven Up!" documentary series, Linklater makes you feel as if you're watching a photograph as it develops in the darkroom.
  20. Mr. Turner
    J.M.W. Turner was a master of light and image, but what stands out most about him in Mike Leigh's captivating biographical film is a sound. Playing the renowned Victorian-era English painter, Timothy Spall grunts and expectorates his way through his scenes, chugging along with the phlegmy belch of an old jalopy or, as the film suggests more than once, a snuffling pig.
  21. 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.
  22. Love Is Strange
    Sachs, Molina, and Lithgow have given adult moviegoers a perfect piece of summer counterprogramming — a warm, humane, resplendent romance to savor while our days are still long.
  23. Whiplash
    If you can appreciate the sight of two totally dialed-in performers simmering until they boil over, that's enough. And P.S., that's pretty much the definition of jazz.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Jules and Jim
    Seminal Truffaut.
  25. Timbuktu
    Visually dazzling and morally devastating.
  26. National Gallery
    The knowledge that Rembrandt recycled his own paintings doesn't minimize the scene in Frederick Wiseman's documentary where we see an X-ray of one of the Dutch master's portraits — and go, ''Wow!''
  27. Mommy
    It taps into every parent's worst nightmare — the horror of being unable to protect an out-of-control child.
  28. Hoop Dreams
    Hoop Dreams is an astonishing emotional experience — it has highs, lows, and everything in between.
  29. 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.
  30. Kelly & Cal
    The biggest takeaway from Kelly & Cal, a wonderfully honest and tender film about the bitter pill of adulthood, is Hollywood's criminal underuse of Juliette Lewis.
  31. 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.
  32. Red Army
    Thanks to Gabe Polsky's enthralling new documentary, we finally get to see these athletes for who they really were—it humanizes a group of men who were cast by history in the role of villains.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sleeping Beauty
    Barbie-doll-slim Princess Aurora, cursed to enter suspended animation at 16, and her Abercrombie & Fitch-worthy savior Prince Phillip, who literally rides a white horse — aren’t as much fun as the three fussy-old-lady fairies who become their protectors. This movie is all about the lure of supporting ornamentation.
  34. 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.
  35. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
    If Going Clear were a Hollywood thriller, I’d complain that it’s too over-the-top. But this is real life, which is hard to believe. And it’s disturbingly good.
  36. The Hunting Ground
    Heartbreaking, infuriating, and unmissable.
  37. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
    It proves that Morgen isn’t interested in hagiography. He wants to show us the real Kurt Cobain, warts and all.
  38. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
    Douglas Tirola’s doc about the satirical bible’s rise and fall is fascinating, funny, smart, juvenile, tragic, and likely to offend just about everyone. It’s a must-see for anyone who cares about comedy.
  39. Sicario
    With a taut and timely screenplay by Taylor Sheridan, Sicario is a brilliant action thriller with the smarts of a message movie.
  40. 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.
  41. La La Land
    It’s stunningly ambitious and thrillingly alive the way the best movies are.
  42. He Named Me Malala
    Davis Guggenheim’s latest documentary is a forceful and exquisitely made piece of advocacy journalism.
  43. The Lobster
    If you’re willing to surrender to his singular vision, you might just walk out of the theater seeing the world in a new way — which is probably more than you can expect from the new Kevin Hart comedy.
  44. Son of Saul
    It’s the rarest kind of moviegoing experience: an absolute masterpiece.
  45. Beasts of No Nation
    Cary Fukunaga’s stark, beautifully shot drama was likely never meant to be a blockbuster; its brutal account of a child soldier in an unnamed African country is far too discomfiting for wider audiences. It absolutely does belong on a big screen, though, and more important, it just deserves to be seen.
  46. 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.
  47. 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
  48. Spotlight
    Tautly directed by Tom McCarthy (The Visitor), the film hums as a tense shoe-leather procedural and a heartbreaking morality play that handles personal stories respectfully without losing sight of the bigger, more damning picture.
  49. The Big Short
    I suppose you could call The Big Short a comedy. It’s very, very funny. But it’s also a tragedy. Behind every easy drive-by laugh is a sincere holler of outrage.
  50. Only Yesterday (1991)
    Only Yesterday may have been released in 1991 and take place in 1982 and 1966, but Taeko’s reflection on girlhood is truly timeless.
  51. 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.
  52. Manchester by the Sea
    Affleck has never had a role that matches his minimal, anti-charisma style like this one. His tendency to be mumbly and awkward and withholding fits his character perfectly. And Hedges, as a temperamental teenager working through loss in his own authentically teenage way, is a real discovery. Michelle Williams, as Lee’s ex-wife, doesn’t get many scenes, but she cracks your heart open in the ones she has.
  53. 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.
  54. 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.
  55. Hell or High Water
    Hell or High Water isn’t a flashy movie, but it has an undeniably resonant sense of small-scale justice, not to mention an authentic sense of place that will remind you of other Texas-set masterpieces like John Sayles’ "Lone Star" and the Coen brothers’ "No Country for Old Men." See it, and then spread the word.
  56. The Red Turtle
    Lavish with stunning imagery, the experience will ripple into your dreams.
  57. 13th
    13th is a titanic statement by a major American voice. Viewing — right now — should be mandatory.
  58. Moonlight
    Easily one of the most personal and most powerful films of the year.
  59. Dekalog (1988)
    The stories are shocking, tender, sometimes funny, with a soap-opera abundance of plot. Always, the camera stares, respectfully neutral about ordinary people grappling — inconsistently, as men and women do — with the ordinary mysteries of being human. You’ll stare back, amazed it’s taken more than a decade to spread the word.
  60. Network
    Timeless and essential.
  61. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    It’s the kind of pure, straight-no-chaser pop fun that not only keeps taking your breath away over and over again, it restores your occasionally shaky faith in summer blockbusters.
  62. The Shape of Water
    It's both weird and wonderful.
  63. Gone with the Wind
    To see Gone With the Wind on a big screen again is to weep for the fearlessness with which Hollywood once believed the sublime was possible.
  64. Tag
    It’s a ridiculously raunchy and very, very sweet comedy about staying connected to the most important people in your life.
  65. 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.
  66. Downhill Racer
    One of the great unheralded films of the late ’60s.
  67. Hostiles
    Westerns can be a tough nut to crack, but Hostiles may be the finest example of the genre since "Unforgiven."
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All the President's Men
    A riveting, superbly acted political thriller.
  70. 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.
  71. Searching for Bobby Fischer
    A wonderful movie, a delicate and touching drama that takes us deep inside the eccentric competitive mystique of grandmaster chess.
    • 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.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    The Bridge on the River Kwai is that rare film about something as seemingly black-and-white as World War II that is colored entirely in shades of gray, and the better for it.
  74. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
    It’s like a security blanket for our troubled times.
  75. The Favourite
    This couldn’t be further from the corsets and curtsies of your typical Hollywood prestige period piece. It’s more like "All About Eve" directed by a Satyricon-era Fellini all hopped up with enough sex, deviance, hypocrisy, decadence, and spicy profanity to make your average Masterpiece Theatre patron reach into their PBS tote bag for some smelling salts.
  76. Roma
    Experiencing the lovely and lyrical Roma, you get the impression that at age 56, Cuarón not only wanted to get these still-vivid memories down on film, but that he also needed to. You’ll be glad he did. Because movies with this much empathy and humanity don’t come along very often.
  77. The African Queen
    Bogart is hilariously crusty as a hard-drinking river rat who journeys downriver on a rickety steamer with a prim missionary (a flawless, lock-jawed Hepburn), trying to stay one step ahead of the Germans.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Maltese Falcon
    Boldly manipulating light and shadow, utilizing drastic camera angles, and introducing Bogart’s Sam Spade, the first-time director’s detective classic defines film noir.
  79. Eighth Grade
    Eighth Grade is an absolute delight that stings with truth. It’s heartbreaking, heartwarming, and a total charmer.
  80. Three Identical Strangers
    The best documentaries reveal the ways in which truth can be stranger (and wilder and weirder) than fiction. And director Tim Wardle’s stunning and tragic Sundance sensation, Three Identical Strangers, is stranger (and wilder and weirder) than most.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Double Indemnity
    Barbara Stanwyck cracks wise too, while dripping pheromones.
  82. Rear Window
    Masterpiece of voyeurism.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    King Kong
    Granddaddy of beast-on-the-loose movies.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Secret of NIMH
    Bluth and his animators, bless them, chose to revive an endangered art form — classically detailed animation. They drew their characters exquisitely and gave them individual personalities. The entire ensemble — artists, actors, animals, and musicians — created something unique: the world’s first enjoyable rat race.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Once Upon a Time in America
    A brilliantly detailed Lower East Side Jewish version of The Godfather.
  86. Reality Bites
    Ryder, good as she was in The Age of Innocence, gives her first true star performance here. Beneath her crisp, postfeminist manner, Lelaina is bristling with confusion, and Ryder lets you read every crosscurrent of temptation and anxiety, the way her tentative search for love slowly grows into a restless hunger. Yearning, hilarious, lost within their precocious self-awareness, these slackers have soul.
  87. Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
    If you see only one movie this year about a twisted, cuddly, courageous, fatally diseased, self-mutilating love slave, make sure that movie is Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist.
    • 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.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
    The film is so deeply sorrowful that it’s sometimes hard to watch, yet so filled with painterly beauty that you cannot look away.
  90. Touch of Evil
    A film noir great... Just to see and hear the extraordinary 3 minute and 20 second opening sequence — a fluid tour de force tracking shot — without impediment of opening credits and street-sound-masking movie score is accomplishment enough.
  91. The Fabulous Baker Boys
    Nearly every scene is a jazz-tinged, virtuoso actors’ duet.
  92. They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
    More narratively straightforward (but also masterfully edited in F for Fake style), the documentary takes its title from a Welles quote about the fickle hypocrisy of the movie business and about his other favorite subject: himself. And that quote couldn’t have been more spot-on for a man who was most appreciated most only when it was too late.
  93. The Gunfighter
    A ruthlessly heartbreaking tale of a famous gunslinger (Gregory Peck in a black mustache and a little black hat) grown weary of facing down an increasingly young bunch of challengers to his quick-draw supremacy.
  94. Trees Lounge
    Trees Lounge is so deft, funny, and light-handed it may not be until the film’s shattering final image that you realize you’ve been watching one of the most lived-in portraits of an alcoholic ever made.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    An extremely tight, beautifully made film.
  96. REC
    Shot in shaky handheld style, [REC] is a bit like George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead, but, you know, actually scary.
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Pinocchio
    Among all of Disney’s endangered-tot stories, including Cinderella and 101 Dalmatians, only Pinocchio plucks the heartstrings with such incomparable resonance. Why? One reason is that this movie consistently sprinkles adorable comedy relief (has there ever been a more endearing sidekick than guardian Jiminy Cricket?) over scenes of malice, dismay, and outright horror.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Rescuers Down Under
    The Rescuers Down Under, directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel, carries its ambitions with an easy grace, expanding the art of animation to fresh ground without losing sight of the silly fun we love cartoons for.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bambi
    Whatever Kleenex moments it causes, Bambi is unmissable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Lady and the Tramp
    The first animated feature filmed in CinemaScope.
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