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On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. 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.
  2. Avatar: The Way of Water
    The movie's overt themes of familial love and loss, its impassioned indictments of military colonialism and climate destruction, are like a meaty hand grabbing your collar; it works because they work it.
  3. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    As unsettling as Marielle Heller’s feature-film debut can be — there are moments you’ll ache for Minnie and other ones where you’ll want to lock her away — it rings much truer than most coming-of-age stories.
  4. The End of the Tour
    Like "Almost Famous," Ponsoldt’s film gets at something deep and true about the journalist/subject dynamic and the phony intimacy and tiny betrayals implicit in it. It’s a profoundly moving story about a towering talent who seemed to feel too much and judge himself too harshly to stick around for long. What a shame.
  5. The Witch
    What makes this chillingly creepy little black-magic folk tale work so beautifully is its evocative sense of time and place.
  6. Tangerine
    Tangerine is touching for its non-condescending stance toward working girls and the spirit of the sidewalk.
  7. Best of Enemies
    This deliciously feisty doc contextualizes their verbal brawls and the odd love-hate (mostly hate) rivalry between two men who seemed able to regard their own sense of heroism only through the other’s villainy.
  8. What Happened, Miss Simone?
    An excellently clear-eyed primer on the woman whose talent carried her from an impoverished childhood in Tryon, N.C., to the world’s most rarefied stages—and whose political defiance nearly ended her career.
  9. The Wolfpack
    As the film goes on, their rebellious thirst for freedom and independence slowly builds to a physical and psychological emancipation that Moselle never quite follows through on. Still, she’s discovered a stunning, stranger-than-fiction story and tells it with sensitivity, intimacy, and compassion.
  10. Creed
    In the end it’s a movie about legacy, and it more than preserves the Rocky franchise’s. It reminds you why it was great in the first place.
  11. 45 Years
    Courtenay is a gruff and gratifyingly knotty presence, but in the end it’s Rampling’s movie. In a quiet, beautifully calibrated performance completely stripped of actressy tricks, she’s a revelation.
  12. The Gift
    The real joy of The Gift is getting to that twisted goodness, because more than anything, Edgerton’s script and direction demonstrate a keen understanding of tension and what puts an audience on edge.
  13. The Celebration
    Out of the zany strictures of Dogma 95...Danish newcomer Thomas Vinterberg has made a funny, volatile, visually dynamic story about the unraveling of one extended family during the course of a patriarchal 60th-birthday dinner.
  14. Hitchcock/Truffaut
    The best part is getting to hear both men talk about their art in exhaustive, almost fetishistic detail. If you’re a classic movie buff, this is a must-see.
  15. Green Room
    Part of being in a punk band involves having to play some pretty hostile venues. But the one in writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s new white-knuckle thriller, Green Room, makes the typical mosh-pit dive look like a kindergarten run by nuns.
  16. Rams
    The film’s glacial pacing and drily absurd tone mimic their relationship with a bit too much discipline.
  17. Embrace of the Serpent
    While its strange rhythms may not be for everyone, it does provide something unusual in today’s movies: a truly original experience for the mind and the soul.
  18. Listen to Me Marlon
    A wondrously sly, moving, odd portrait—perfectly befitting its subject.
  19. Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor
    A sobering look at the bureaucratic trials and life-and-death decisions rookie doctors face on their daily rounds.
  20. The Second Mother
    This Brazilian drama offers a nuanced, often funny look at family and social status, and Casé’s performance is both heartbreaking and hilarious.
  21. 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.
  22. Barbie
    It's Gerwig's care and attention to detail that gives Barbie an actual point of view, elevating it beyond every other cynical, IP-driven cash grab.
  23. Mustang
    It’s not hard to see why Mustang has been dubbed the “Turkish Virgin Suicides.” Like Sofia Coppola’s dreamy, unsettling 1999 debut, it’s another first film by a young female director that focuses in feverish close-up on the adolescent awakening of five restless, radiant sisters — and the ruin that follows when their family tries to contain it.
  24. Where to Invade Next
    Where to Invade Next is so heartfelt and sincere, it’s tempting to say that Moore’s mellowed with age. But beneath its innocent-abroad optimism, the film has a stinging truth that’s hard to ignore.
  25. Anomalisa
    It’s obvious that Kaufman has always seen the world differently from the rest of us. And even if it takes a little time to settle into Anomalisa’s disorienting, herky-jerky groove, Kaufman ends up bewitching us with his fresh take on the oldest and most hackneyed of cinematic themes: boy meets girl…and anxiety ensues.
  26. 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!
  27. Eye in the Sky
    Aaron Paul has key scenes as the drone pilot who actually has to pull the trigger, but it’s the late Alan Rickman, as Mirren’s superior, who steals the film.
  28. Labyrinth of Lies
    Fehling gives a commanding physical performance as he transitions from ambition to despair to, finally, resolve.
  29. Janis: Little Girl Blue
    The portrait that emerges is one of a brash, talented girl who grew up an outcast in her small Texas town.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Microbe and Gasoline
    By the end of Microbe & Gasoline, we feel a little closer to the boy who made the man behind the camera as a result.
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