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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: 1,334 out of 5179
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  1. Logan
    Logan isn’t always a satisfying movie, but there’s a very satisfying answer to those questions waiting for viewers at the end of it. Satisfying not only because Mangold resolves things with some brilliantly expressive imagery, or because he endows this story with a no-shits-left-to-give honesty that defies its origins and justifies its spectacular violence and salty vocabulary, but because it proves how iconic Jackman has made this character over the last 17 years.
  2. The Other Side of Hope
    Winsome, sweet, and often very funny, The Other Side of Hope is more of the same from Kaurismäki, and thank God for that.
  3. On the Beach at Night Alone
    On the Beach at Night Alone is a fascinating sublimation of autobiography into Hong’s precise creative terms, a bittersweet character study as poignant, witty and deceptively slight as much of his work that also refurbishes it with a unique personal dimension.
  4. Final Portrait
    Though the film is all surface, that surface is precisely the point.
  5. A Fantastic Woman
    While the storytelling grows frustratingly elliptical, Lelio so desperate to constrain the drama that he resorts to removing helpful pieces of it, the scenes that remain are succinct and evocative.
  6. The Great Wall
    A bad movie by any culture’s standards, The Great Wall mostly goes to show that if the future of the business lies with Hollywood -China alliances, it doesn’t bode well for either side.
  7. Kedi
    Kedi is a playful and poignant look at the complex nature of the creatures and their inherent appeal to humankind.
  8. This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
    Gigi is an invaluable role model to young trans people in her ferocious courage and undeniable fabulousness, but the film is little more than a celebration of that.
  9. Fifty Shades Darker
    Whipping up a proper tone for the big screen versions of E.L. James’ wildly popular novels was always going to be the films’ biggest problem, and while director James Foley might not quite nail it, wily injections of humor prove to be an unexpectedly helpful addition to the kinky franchise.
  10. God's Own Country
    There will be many people who see themselves in the furtive glances and mud-covered kisses from which God’s Own Country weaves its harsh but hopeful narrative, and they will do so while witnessing a finely crafted piece of cinema.
  11. A Cure for Wellness
    Verbinski packs so much stuff into his giddy Grand Guignol, and the more he crams in the better it works.
  12. John Wick: Chapter 2
    As relentless, eager-to-please genre filmmaking goes, it marks the rare occasion where too much of a good thing is just good enough.
  13. Mr. Gaga
    The dancing alone is worth the price of admission, and Naharin is a dynamic if somewhat aloof subject.
  14. Keep Quiet
    Keep Quiet is far more compelling as a portrait of a man in transition than it is as a man reborn, but Blair and Martin never solve the problem that they only have access to the latter.
  15. The LEGO Batman Movie
    More fun than funny, more clever than smart, “LEGO Batman” moves too fast to acclimate audiences to the world it so eagerly dismantles and rebuilds (and too fast to make them want to stay there for a minute longer), but it serves as a frenzied reminder that laughing at the things we love is sometimes the best way to remember why we love them.
  16. Rings
    Rings never solidifies into one of kind movie, cramming a handful of possibilities into its bloated running time.
  17. The Space Between Us
    The film is undone by the wobbly dynamic between its romantic leads.
  18. I Am Not Your Negro
    By the end of I Am Not Your Negro, Baldwin’s words have transcended the boundaries of their era and become timeless, functioning as both a celebration of cultural survival and a warning that the battle for its survival won’t stop anytime soon.
  19. Oklahoma City
    While Goodman’s feature doesn’t focus our recently inaugurated president, it serves as a blunt reminder of what has happened, and could happen again, when misinformation is spread to dangerous, angry, homegrown radicals.
  20. Lovesong
    While Lovesong fails to coalesce, Malone and Keough emerge with two of their best performances yet, bolstered by an on-screen bond that deserves far richer material that what is offered up here.
  21. Thoroughbreds
    Thoroughbred is a dark and pointed piece of work that depends on the delicacy with which someone can thread the needle between Hitchcockian suspense and capitalistic venom, and Finley — adapting his own play to the screen — demonstrates a cinematic authority that eludes many filmmakers who have worked in the medium for decades.
  22. Chasing Coral
    Amidst the appreciation for the natural world and the tiny battles for public attention, the process of developing a camera that can capture and transmit these time-lapse images gives Chasing Coral the added layer of a time-crunch caper.
  23. Dina
    Whereas most docs about “different” people are content to flatter our empathy, Dina aims to deepen it.
  24. Patti Cake$
    One could argue that Patti Cake$ doesn’t break any new ground, but that would ignore the infectious attitude of its determine young heroine, and how much it stands out from conventional variations.
  25. Newness
    What value there is to be found is in its cast. Hoult and Costa are charismatic, committed, and totally capable of making it feel as though their characters really can’t see what’s coming.
  26. My Happy Family
    It’s at once a celebration of individuality and its potential to unnerve those who resist it.
  27. Menashe
    With its intimate focus, Menashe avoids indicting the strict logic that stifles its anti-hero’s individuality (though secular viewers can reach their own conclusions). Instead, it succeeds at showing how his challenges are more universal than judgmental viewers might think.
  28. Marjorie Prime
    Almereyda’s feature is rich in acting talent, but this stagey, flat drama can’t match the wattage of its leads.
  29. The Hero
    With Elliott front and center of every scene, The Hero pulls off the kind of acting showcase that its fictional star can never achieve.
  30. Berlin Syndrome
    Bolstered by a strong performance from Teresa Palmer (who only gets better with each role, and seems happy to mix things up when it comes time to pick them), Berlin Syndrome doesn’t break much new ground in the genre, but it’s certainly a worthy entry into it.
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