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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Together
    This is the rare movie that gets you to fall in love with characters you don't even like.
  2. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    Maddin chops it up into a feature-length antique-bloodsucker video, and the result takes hold neither as dance nor as silent horror dream.
  3. Boxing Gym
    A riveting and unexpectedly inspiring essay on the peace that comes from shared physical and mental concentration.
  4. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
    Damien Chazelle's extraordinary black-and-white retro dream of a feature debut.
  5. Crazy Heart
    Bridges' guileless performance makes this piquant little indie tale of country music, redemption, and the love of a pretty younger woman such a sad-song charmer.
  6. De Palma
    As De Palma shows us, whether he’s got two more films left in him or two dozen — Holy Mackerel — what a career!
  7. The Exorcist
    Here, in paranoid, bad acid trip form, is the real birth of girl power. [2000 re-release]
  8. A Little Princess
    There are moments in A Little Princess--particularly Cuaron's Indian play-within-the-play, which is nearly avant-garde in its conception--when you may just want to clap from pleasure. My advice to you is: Go ahead, you're a grown-up. [26 May 26 1995]
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  9. Under the Shadow
    Under the Shadow is a skilled, chilling feature debut that might follow you around a while after seeing it.
  10. Adaptation.
    The notion of meta has never been diddled more mega than in this giddy Möbius strip of a movie, a contrivance so whizzy and clever that even when it tangles at the end, murked like swampy southwestern Florida itself, the stumble has quotation marks around it.
  11. Network
    Timeless and essential.
  12. The Secret of the Grain
    The title embraces the richness of Kechiche's beautiful film, which captures the rhythms of displacement and hardship, the bond of family meals, and even the daily routines of the magnificent women who are part of Slimane's life.
  13. Trainspotting
    It would be hard to imagine a movie about drugs, depravity, and all-around bad behavior more electrifying than Trainspotting.
  14. Welcome to the Dollhouse
    But Solondz also creates keen portraits of the participating characters in Dawn's daily drama. (The only downside: The drama veers unsteadily toward outlandishness.)
  15. The Wind Rises
    As gorgeously animated as any of his previous movies, Wind has Miyazaki trading in his more fantastical impulses for contemplative, old-fashioned drama and period detail.
  16. Fantastic Mr. Fox
    With its virtuoso tomfoolery, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like a homegrown Wallace and Gromit caper. To Wes Anderson: More, please!
  17. In the Loop
    The chattering smarty-pants who ran the U.S. government on "The West Wing" are slow talkers compared with the motormouthed and hilariously imperfect power elite in the brainy British comedy In the Loop.
  18. Bus 174
    Although it shares a bitter interest in slum desperation with last year's Brazilian-underbelly docudrama ''City of God,'' Bus 174 pulls ahead, I think, by not confusing cinematic pizzazz with the content of misery.
  19. Soul
    Like the best moments in Up or Wall-E or Inside Out, the alchemy of Soul's final scenes find Pixar at its most stirring and enduring, a marshmallow puff of surreal whimsy that somehow lightly touches the profound.
  20. Amores Perros
    Fierce, loving, and electric, this movie's got bite as well as bark.
  21. Osama
    The movie is a rare uncensored postcard from a ruined place, a document at once depressing and hideously beautiful that sketches the real hardships of trampled people -- specifically women -- with authority and compelling simplicity.
  22. The Salt of the Earth
    With this heartbreaking yet hopeful new documentary about his life’s work, Salgado shares the stories behind these split-second black-and-white moments, giving them even more dimension.
  23. Turning Red
    In the tricky world of tween-dom, it captures something sweetly universal: Growing up is messy, no matter how you bear it.
  24. Chop Shop
    As he did in his striking 2005 first feature film, "Man Push Cart," about a Pakistani street vendor in New York, perceptive indie filmmaker Ramin Bahrani looks at what others overlook and finds drama in everyday details.
  25. Raising Victor Vargas
    The writer-director, Peter Sollett, cast the film with kids from his own neighborhood, who give themselves over to the camera with a spirit of improvised play that morphs into vivid, layered acting.
  26. '71
    It’s only March, but this could be 2015’s most invigorating directorial debut.
  27. The Cave
    It delivers something more and better, too: a moving, beautifully humanistic story whose inevitable hardships are laced with real hope and levity.
  28. The Guilty
    The Guilty is an absolute workout that pulls the rug out from under you just when you think you have it figured out. The last ten minutes will keep you rattled long after you’ve left the theater.
  29. Corpse Bride
    As an achievement in macabre visual wizardry, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride has to be reckoned some sort of marvel.
  30. Project Nim
    A fascinating and in many ways tragic documentary, takes us back to one of the high-water marks of the apes-are-people-too era.
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