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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. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    It’s fun, but it’s blockbuster overkill after an already-crowded summer season.
  2. Simran
    Simran might put Ranaut front and center, the film proves once again that in Bollywood, screenplays that truly serve an actress’s talent are still woefully hard to find.
  3. Victoria and Abdul
    Victoria & Abdul is an otherwise benignly toothless, pleasantly glossy affair, but it does force us to confront one tricky question: When treating a subject as fraught as British imperial rule, when does a film’s benign inoffensiveness become offensive in and of itself?
  4. The Upside
    No surprises here, folks; just half-hearted punchlines and unadventurous sentimentality readymade for marketplace consumption.
  5. Thelma
    Here, the Norwegian’s filmmaker’s signature brand of existential dread (always coupled with and complicated by a youthful sense of becoming), is expressed through style more than action. This isn’t a movie where all that much happens, but every decision ripples with darkness.
  6. Stronger
    Bolstered by sterling turns from stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, and Miranda Richardson, the film is a showcase for what Green has always been able to do so well, and what his actors continue to excel at.
  7. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Rather than developing Roman’s conundrum, Roman J. Israel, Esq. settles for a prosaic character study laid out in painfully obvious terms, with a tacked-on twist in the third act just so that the story can find some way to end.
  8. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
    Evans, Hall, and Heathcote exhibit major chemistry (in every permutation) possible, but they also don’t wink at the storyline, playing a provocative story totally straight.
  9. Molly's Game
    The subtly profound ways in which this movie distorts the recent past makes it one of the most radically entertaining things its iconoclastic scribe has ever written.
  10. Brawl in Cell Block 99
    Brawl in Cell Block 99 unleashes a fascinating gamble, blending the grimy aesthetic of a one-note action movie with undercurrents of blue-collar frustration. It doesn’t quite succeed at fusing those two elements, but it’s further proof of a filmmaking sensibility willing to push beyond the presumed barriers of formula.
  11. Breathe
    It’s a gorgeous, romantic drama that earns its emotional resonance without venturing beyond the most familiar beats.
  12. American Assassin
    In American Assassin, the violence is surprising and brutal. However, its impact is stymied by a predictable script and action sequences that feel like a watered-down version of “John Wick.”
  13. First They Killed My Father
    The result is relentless and involving even when it stumbles. Jolie may not be a full-fledged auteur yet, but she unquestionably possesses a singular aesthetic that courses through her work and exists completely apart from her high-profile acting career.
  14. Brad's Status
    Even as Brad’s Status doesn’t overextend its reach, Stiller gives the material a touching, soulful core.
  15. EX LIBRIS: The New York Public Library
    These portraits don't have a hint of didacticism or preachiness, but "Ex Libris" achieves a certain emotional velocity all the same.
  16. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Not only is Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri the director’s most accomplished film yet, it’s also his most compassionate.
  17. Lady Bird
    Lady Bird is both snarky and sincere — a touching, markedly feminine ode to growing up that never takes its familiarity for granted. Gerwig earns the ability to make this rite-of-passage saga her own.
  18. Rebel in the Rye
    Despite the focus on such a fertile period, it suffers from a meandering narrative and a jarring pace, particularly as it pushes on into his later years without bothering to age star Nicholas Hoult in the slightest.
  19. It
    At times, the movie excels at portraying the dread of children forced to confront a world indifferent to their concerns. But no matter how many times Pennywise leaps out from unexpected places, it’s impossible to shake the feeling that we’ve been here many times before.
  20. Home Again
    It’s an amenable enough ramble of a romantic comedy, and Witherspoon is as charming as ever in the genre in which she excels.
  21. mother!
    mother! begins as a slow-burn and builds towards a furious blaze. Awash in both religious and contemporary political imagery, Darren Aronofsky’s allusive film certainly opens itself to a number of allegorical readings, but it also works as a straight-ahead head rush.
  22. Suburbicon
    An undeniably entertaining watch, Suburbicon stumbles when it tries to recycle effective old ingredients into something new.
  23. Darkest Hour
    It’s a deliciously unsubtle testament to the power of words and their infinite capacity to inspire.
  24. Battle of the Sexes
    This is a film that admires — even awes at — Billie Jean King, but it doesn’t share her commitment to the game. If anything, it has more in common with Riggs than it should, moving with the sluggishness of a player who underestimates their opponent.
  25. Kill Me Please
    Kill Me Please is as much a teen movie as it is a horror movie, vacillating between the genres in such a way that you’re reminded from one scene to another how similar the two really are.
  26. Tulip Fever
    Love makes people do crazy things, and as overwrought and silly as Tulip Fever is in both execution and aim, the film embodies that sentiment in an unexpectedly compelling manner. It’s unfortunate that it takes 107 minutes to get there, but a final twist offers the film’s sole play for emotional resonance.
  27. Loving Vincent
    There’s something ineffably beautiful about such a purehearted folly, even if a Herzogian drama about the making of Loving Vincent might have more to offer than the film does itself.
  28. Human Flow
    Human Flow is an epic portrait of mass migration that understands how a lack of empathy often stems from a failure of imagination.
  29. The Shape of Water
    Not only is The Shape of Water one of del Toro’s most stunningly successful works, it’s also a powerful vision of a creative master feeling totally, joyously free.
  30. Downsizing
    Downsizing is rife with witty visual touches and inspired comic premises but never quite comes together as fully successful whole.
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