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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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  2. Mixed: 1,338 out of 5190
  3. Negative: 268 out of 5190
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  1. The Power
    The Power is built on subtle elements, but the director’s more ambitious jumps are just as electrifying.
  2. Vice Is Broke
    Huang will never forgive Smith for killing the golden goose, and Smith will probably never take responsibility for it (to judge by the Instagram message with him that Huang shares in the film), but that’s not really what this raw and well-relished documentary is all about.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    They Came Together
    In terms of its pure laughter quotient, They Came Together constantly delivers.
  4. To the Stars
    The movie’s topple into melodramatic excess is fitting for a film set in the 1960s, a time dominated by melodramas. And also like the cinema of the 1960s, there’s a grit and urgency to To the Stars, of something bigger and darker coming along with the changing times.
  5. Isn't It Romantic
    Every trope, twist, and trick of the genre is up for skewering in the comedy, but the film keeps things light and smart, never dipping into darkness or crass jokes. It’s funny because it’s clever, but it’s also never cruel.
  6. The Columnist
    Van Aart and Windhorst make brief forays into interrogating the morality of what Femke is doing; they are fascinating and layered, and in too short supply. Hebers bridges many gaps with a fluid performance that moves between zippy joy and stone-faced sociopathy.
  7. The Beaver
    With tightly controlled performances and uniquely eccentric events, The Beaver is mainly undone by the lack of a satisfying outcome.
  8. Animal Crackers
    If Animal Crackers never quite matches the mania of “Meet the Robinsons,” nor the comic wit of “Cloudy with a Chance of Meetballs,” it still moves so fast that less generic animation might have seemed like a waste.
  9. AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
    Braun and Yanagimoto’s film is frustratingly shortsighted about the societal conditions that allowed Aum to thrive in public for so long. Plenty of fingers are pointed, but most of them only in passing.
  10. The Aeronauts
    There’s enough potential with the balloon’s feats to justify an entire feature-length experience set within its basket, but The Aeronauts constantly interrupts the journey to shoehorn random tangents on the ground, and busies up the drama with underdeveloped side characters.
  11. A Magnificent Life
    The film runs on an engine at the altar of memory, itself a facile idea since prolific writers who produce feted work don’t wholly rely on retroactive synthesis. The film is then only memorable in some sequences. Magical, it is not.
  12. All Day and a Night
    There’s a fine line between resilience and false hope, and All Day and a Night walks it with purpose even when it’s tripping over itself.
  13. Night Always Comes
    Handsomely made but tediously plotted, Kirby is more than deserving of this kind of meaty, she’s-in-every-frame role, but Night Always Comes sunsets long before we get there.
  14. Under the Silver Lake
    It’s fascinating to watch Mitchell grasp for a bigger picture with the wild ambition of his scruffy protagonist.
  15. Finally Dawn
    I’m not quite sure how this group of actors came together or how any of the ideas coalesce into something that a) makes sense or b) is meant to make us feel anything. It’s impenetrable with no intellect: a true curio in the worst way.
  16. Dracula
    Radu Jude’s gleefully stupid Dracula proves much too expansive — and much too invested in the centuries of barbarism that paved the way toward Silicon Valley — to be misunderstood as a simple rebuke against the grotesqueries of algorithmic image-making.
  17. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
    It’s certainly proof that even dumb movies can endeavor to enlighten the masses, and gels nicely with the broader message: If Hobbs and Shaw can learn to get along, there may be hope for all of us.
  18. Gifted
    Evans and Grace are exceedingly appealing together, and their charming chemistry keeps the film afloat even when it doesn’t seem to know which direction to move in.
  19. Lone Survivor
    Lone Survivor is a grotesque action movie at times impressively directed by Peter Berg that combines the brute masculinity with the ugliness of the battlefield and viscerally unsettling shock value. But it's less a depiction of courage than a brutish magnification of anger and pain, both of which it conveys a lot better than the high ground that it reaches for.
  20. Smallfoot
    Smallfoot really flounders with its obligatory message-mongering: a hodgepodge of didacticism about the importance of celebrating differences, asking questions, never fearing the unknown, or judging someone because they look different. Plenty of sound lessons in there, to be sure, but without a singular focus, they all blend into one.
  21. House of Gucci
    Locked in a heated conversation with its own campiness from the moment it starts, 'House of Gucci' leverages that underlying conflict into an operatic portrait of the tension between wealth and value.
  22. Being the Ricardos
    While the filmmaker’s affection for full circle moments can be charming, within the context of “Being the Ricardos,” it all feels like a cheat. The film might not opt to get as obvious as Lucy muttering to herself, “Yes, I do love Lucy!,” but it gets damn well close, and that’s sillier than anything Ball ever dreamed up.
  23. Bad Moms
    Although it often stumbles in service to delivering yet another foul-mouthed joke, its heart remains firmly in the right place.
  24. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
    Ultimately, throwing the same people in the same place with little to do and even less time to do it is emblematic of the sins of far worse, much less worthy sequels. Without Streep there to tie it altogether, well, it just doesn’t sing.
  25. Life of Crime
    It's a showcase of proficient storytelling that's eager to entertain.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bedknobs and Broomsticks
    The script is tight and witty with sparks of sophistication. This is a film that, while never quite given the rightful place in the Disney canon it deserved, had a positive influence on many lives over the decades, including that of this writer.
  27. Self Reliance
    The problem is that, while Johnson crafted a good script that balances multiple tones, his directing isn’t as confident in that tightrope.
  28. Rust Creek
    The austere minimalism of Rust Creek works to the movie’s advantage.
  29. Celeste and Jesse Forever
    The whole thing is a step above studio romantic comedies, but that's not saying much.
  30. Metal Lords
    Metal Lords may never find the rhythm a movie like this needs in order to stay in the sweet spot between goofy and charming, but there’s a stubborn kernel of truth to how casually its young characters learn to hear themselves by listening to Judas Priest.
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