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Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
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  1. Dunkirk
    Few movies have so palpably conveyed the sheer isolation of fear, and the extent to which history is often made by people who are just trying to survive it — few movies have so vividly illustrated that one man can only do as much for his country as a country can do for one of its men.
  2. Air
    Air is a slam dunk and ultimately one of the best sports movies ever made.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    7 Boxes
    “The Fast and the Furious” with wheelbarrows, Paraguayan action-thriller-romance hybrid 7 Boxes is a rollicking good time at the movies that offers breathtaking action and suspense, humor and appealing characters all in one visually flashy package.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Green Room
    Littered with clever dialogue, a beautifully constructed narrative, as well as moments that shift between the energizing and sheer terror, there are a slew of endearing qualities worth sifting through.
  5. Ad Astra
    An awe-inspiring film.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Take Me to the River
    The darker undertones of the family are handled with surprising nuance considering the first-timer behind the camera. The movie deals in open secrets, implications, and unsettling histories; a sense of alienation haunts virtually every scene.
  7. Boyhood
    Epic in scope yet unassuming throughout, Linklater's incredibly involving chronicle marks an unprecedented achievement in fictional storytelling.
  8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Razor-sharp and shatteringly romantic ... as perfect a film as any to have premiered this year.
  9. The Last Detail
    There’s a deep sense of melancholy and finality that runs through The Last Detail even when it’s at its funniest, not just because of Meadows’ fate, but because of Buddusky and Mulhall’s collective guilt for being part of a system that would dole out such a punishment.
  10. Manakamana
    On the whole, Manakamana succeeds by creating the ongoing anticipation of something, anything to happen next, a wholly unique sensation specific to its inventive design.
  11. The Hidden Fortress
    The Hidden Fortress is a bracing adventure in its own right — not a frivolous outlier from one of cinema’s most formative oeuvres, but rather a Cervantes-inflected delight that complicates and enriches Kurosawa’s signature humanism by exploring the value of morality in an amoral world.
  12. World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
    It’s no surprise that Hertzfeldt distills the tragicomic absurdity of being alive in 2020 better than any other filmmaker has thus far (after all, he’s been doing it for the last two decades).
  13. Dekalog (1988)
    For a biblically-scaled film cycle so rich with irony that it seems to be chipping off the walls of the brutalist apartment complex where most of it takes place, perhaps the greatest irony of them all is that Dekalog is ultimately defined by its humility.
  14. Pacifiction
    Pacifiction is not a vicarious experience of luxury; it is an experience of life. Set to its own tidal rhythm, it is one of the most beautiful and rigorously introspective movies of this or any year, a film that makes you deeply ponder the fate of humanity itself.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Le Samouraï
    An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville, 'Le samouraï' is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture-with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology. [16 Aug 2017]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sunshine Superman
    Strauch creates enormous drama from the clips at her disposal — not just the Boenish material, but movie clips and found footage, all of which is deftly handled.
  17. Strange Darling
    An excruciating chase film, a terrifying puzzle-box whodunit, and a testament to romanticizing even the darkest cinema in glowing 35mm, Strange Darling is an outright triumph.
  18. Melancholia
    Melancholia hovers in ambiguity with riveting aesthetic prowess.
  19. The Soft Skin (1969)
    The excitement in The Soft Skin, however, gives way to an intense tragedy that's INFORMED by the thrills.
  20. Speak No Evil
    Speak No Evil is the most cunningly depraved horror film in years, offering a piercing commentary on the ways we accommodate others to the point of self-subjugation.
  21. Queer
    Guadagnino wants not only to expand your consciousness as a moviegoer, but to cut you open and rearrange all the parts of you that see and feel things when you watch a film at all.
  22. Tótem
    To love in the moment holds far more power than wishing for something you can never have, yet when it comes to Avilés’ work, we can’t help but do both, simultaneously adoring Tótem while eagerly looking ahead to what’s coming next.
  23. Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club
    As Bong himself has taught us, paradise is an elusive notion. Thankfully, there’s still plenty of passion to enjoy in the nostalgic joy that “Yellow Door” brings, both to him and to us.
  24. One Battle After Another
    One Battle After Another might be among the sillier films that Anderson has ever made, but there’s no mistaking the sincerity of its horrors, or how lucidly it diagnoses the smallness of the men inflecting them upon the innocent and the vulnerable.
  25. Short Term 12
    Taking its time to let the world take shape, Short Term 12 builds to an involving series of mini-climaxes without tidying up every loose end.
  26. Citizen Ashe
    "Citizen Ashe” is a fascinating portrait that weaves together his on- and off-court life seamlessly.
  27. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    As with every beautiful, unearthly segment of "Pigeon," the only certainty is life's endlessly puzzling nature.
  28. Sullivan's Travels
    A satire that chastises Hollywood for its blinkered moralizing yet espouses on the value of escapism, Preston Sturges’ “Sullivan’s Travels” may seem like a film rife with contradictions, but not only is it cohesive, it never once feels muddled or, worse, didactic.
  29. Hold Your Fire
    The result is a searing look into a little-known moment in history with profound repercussions for how we understand policing today.
  30. Mrs. Miniver
    An increasingly loud world may have made the quiet truths of "Mrs. Miniver" seem small - tune out the noise and hear what this film is saying. It's a roadmap for how dignity and freedom can survive.
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