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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. Queen & Slim
    Violent and sexy, balanced between hope and despair, definably too-much and unapologetically mythic. The road is bumpy, but what a trip.
  2. Breach
    Now Ray has directed his second film, the abysmally titled Breach, and it's a bona fide companion piece, another true-life tale of duplicity gone secretly insane.
  3. Japanese Story
    This is an origami story, really, about what a construction of chance the big world is.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Cape Fear
    A hypnotically engrossing thriller that spins along on the dreams and anxieties of its characters.
  5. 28 Days Later...
    A swankily austere piece of jeepers-creepers sci-fi.
  6. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Turns out to be the funniest, most risk-taking, most incisive movie of the summer.
  7. Novitiate
    First-time director Maggie Betts has said she based her story in part on extended research into the aftershocks of Vatican II’s new liberties — in its wake, devoted members left the Church in droves — and on personal biographies of the women who experienced it firsthand.
  8. On the Rocks
    The story itself, with its gorgeous interiors and jazzy Chet Baker soundtrack, turns out to be a bit of a wisp, a dandelion puff tossed to the gods of romance and prime Manhattan real estate. But if the emotional stakes never really seem all that crucial (love wins, in the end), Murray brings his own cosmic weight.
  9. Malcolm X
    With Malcolm X, Lee has created a galvanizing political tragedy, the story of a leader who, through his very perception and daring, recognized that death — and only death — would be his final evolution.
  10. Into the Wild
    The beauty of Into the Wild, which Penn has written and directed with magnificent precision and imaginative grace, is that what Christopher is running from is never as important as what he's running TO.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Miss Juneteenth
    Beharie remains a powerful performer, able to convey multitudes with subtlety, even if Miss Juneteenth never makes a move you didn’t see coming a mile down that country road.
  12. The Party
    It’s basically a Murderer’s Row of indie pros who play off one another like they’ve been performing this particular toxic soiree on a West End stage for years.
  13. A Scanner Darkly
    In A Scanner Darkly, we're watching other people freak out, but the film is maddening to sit through because their freak-outs never become ours.
  14. The House of the Devil
    There's wit but never a wink in this smartly shot production, which pays homage to the 1980s without fetishizing the era.
  15. The Dinner Game
    Veteran French farceur Francis Veber proves that feature-length idiot humor is not limited to the Farrelly brothers.
  16. Red Cliff
    The spectacular battle scenes are the engorged heart of the delirious adventure. But Woo also gets maximum romantic value from Tony Leung as a war hero married to Chiling Lin as the tea-pouring beauty.
  17. The Limey
    A small cubist masterpiece about crime and punishment set in that most split-level of environments, Los Angeles.
  18. Rust and Bone
    Cotillard, with stringy long hair and a coal fire of severity in her eyes, has what it takes to play a woman who feels that she's lost everything. But she's forced to flail and mood-swing from scene to scene. In an insult to the disabled, there is never much to her but her hellacious injury.
  19. Inland Empire
    Inland Empire is so locked up in David Lynch's brain that it never burrows its way into ours.
  20. 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.
  21. Down in the Delta
    Roots matter, is Angelou’s Hallmark-style lesson. So for good measure, novice screenwriter Myron Goble also includes an unsubtle subplot about a candelabra that has been in the family since slaves were freed, thereby throwing one more ingredient into this thick dramatic gumbo.
  22. Frantz
    Every one in the film, down to the smallest characters on the fringes, is keeping secrets and spinning lies. And those lies beget more lies and more until the truth is a distant memory. It’s what can happen when life feels too overwhelming and unbearable to face.
  23. Val
    The result is undoubtedly a canny mediation on the vagaries of fame, but it feels more intimate and essential than that: a lifetime of searching and self-regard distilled, somehow, into a state of grace.
  24. All About Lily Chou-Chou
    Gorgeously shot tableaux of random adolescent brutality are interrupted by flashes of computer garble and chat-room talk, backed by ''Lily's'' music, with its blend of Debussy-like arpeggios and Enya-like sighing.
  25. Wordplay
    Shortz's gentle manner and French-foreign-agent mustache go a long way toward making him a thinking girl's pinup nerd - and this despite the man's pitiless insistence on making the Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle ''tough as a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.''
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Queen of Katwe
    Nyong’o’s gravitas is undercut by a script teeming with wooden platitudes, special lessons learned, and the overbaked dialogue of a Joan Crawford melodrama.
  27. Time
    Time, Kim Ki-Duk's pointed commentary on surfaces and consumer fads -- with particular meaning for plastic-surgery-obsessed South Korea -- is as tautly ''pretty'' and inexpressive as the results for those who compulsively seek cosmetic perfection.
  28. I'm Not There.
    I'm Not There lets you hear it again, more majestically than ever.
  29. Of Mice and Men
    Lyrical, stirring, and beautifully acted — a seamless adaptation of a novel many will recall with almost too much familiarity.
  30. Inside Out 2
    Inside Out 2 can surely be used by parents as a teaching tool if a kid ever spirals into a freak-out before entering a new school or having a big audition. But even with the antic animation, a funny dig at Blue's Clues, and a color palette resembling an exploded box of Trix cereal, the movie suffers from a bit of a do-your-homework vibe.
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