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Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 La Gradiva
Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 1,348 out of 5235
  3. Negative: 269 out of 5235
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  1. Mary Shelley
    For a film that chronicles the rise of a creator obsessed with reanimating the dead, Mary Shelley is utterly lifeless. It contains a sparkling and startlingly raw performance by Elle Fanning, but Haifaa Al-Mansour’s disappointing followup to her remarkable “Wadjda” doesn’t push beyond paint-by-numbers biopic posturing
  2. First Reformed
    The movie’s conclusion pits religion against personal desire in remarkably visceral terms.
  3. On Chesil Beach
    On Chesil Beach offers up so many tricky tonal changes, enough that Cooke eventually gives them over to a single note: limp.
  4. Angels Wear White
    Angels Wear White brings into relief the bureaucratic corruption and class tension that inform the power dynamics of such situations.
  5. Mrs. Hyde
    It’s a fascinating role in an uneven but frequently insightful movie riddled with amusing asides and enigmatic developments, partly because Huppert doesn’t undergo a radical transformation. Instead, she subtly finds herself at war with her inner confidence, and it’s often hard to tell which side has the upper hand.
  6. Disobedience
    Disobedience is a beautiful, fraught, and emotionally nuanced drama that wrestles with hard questions about the tension between the life we’re born into and the one we choose for ourselves.
  7. Borg vs. McEnroe
    What we’re left with is a staid little movie that races around the court and rallies itself to exhaustion, a historical drama that enshrines the narrative underpinnings of all great sports stories without doing anything to upend them.
  8. The Rider
    Utilizing a cast of non-actors — most of whom are tasked with playing versions of themselves, in a story pulled from their lives — Zhao’s film derives its power from the truth that both drives it and inspires it, and the final result is a wholly unique slice-of-life drama.
  9. Lowlife
    A messy but ultimately interesting look a a group of downtrodden individuals who get mixed up in an organ harvesting scheme.
  10. Lean on Pete
    Each scene is so quietly compelling because Haigh doesn’t focus on cruelty, but helplessness.
  11. The Death of Stalin
    It’s “Veep” in the Soviet Union, a welcome expansion of Iannucci’s canvas that keeps his savage comedy intact.
  12. Before We Vanish
    The movie is every bit as bloated as his last few, but its charms remind us of his great potential (and potential greatness).
  13. Mom and Dad
    More than the fervid cartoon violence and Cage’s rococo line readings, the film’s greatest asset lies in its simple, cold-blooded premise.
  14. The Insult
    While it doesn’t quite justify the sprawling courtroom antics or the blunt metaphor they entail, the movie nevertheless provides a profound look at the effect of historical trauma on modern Lebanese society.
  15. Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
    Eventually so generic that it might as well be about anyone, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool creates a foul tension between the paint-by-numbers quality of its approach and the uniqueness of its affair.
  16. Hostiles
    This is a proudly traditional oater that travels down old trails with new sadism, as though the Western genre only died off because the movies weren’t cruel enough.
  17. Foxtrot
    Maoz maintains such a riveting formalism that everything seems to fit together.
  18. I, Tonya
    Robbie, for her part, has never been better. Making the most of her first leading role since Z for Zachariah, she does a brilliant job of skating along the thin line that runs between glory and the gutter. Sympathetic but not too sympathetic, her performance is all that allows the film to maintain its tenuous hold over its queasy tragicomedy.
  19. The Rape of Recy Taylor
    The Rape of Recy Taylor works as both artifact and indictment.
  20. The Villainess
    If The Villainess sounds like derivative junk, that’s because it is — but rarely is derivative junk executed with such panache and personality.
  21. Rhino Season
    We simply couldn’t get invested in this film, despite our very best efforts.
  22. REC
    “REC” delivers a steady stream of frights because its camera man never knows quite where to look — and by the time he figures it out, it might be too late.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Limbo
    Though it’s admirable that Sayles shows so much ambition to change his style and to give his film such a weight of unpredictability, he doesn’t really succeed at matching the depth of the film’s first half.
  24. August 32nd on Earth
    August 32nd on Earth takes way too long to get going, but the chemistry between its leads helps things along. More than anything, however, it’s the incredible economy of Villeneuve’s images that keeps things together, his shots becoming tighter and more expressive as the story falls apart.
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  25. 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pom Poko
    Its broad, slapstick send-up of human foibles prefigures Takahata’s more pointed My Neighbors, the Yamadas (1999). At 119 minutes, the film feels a bit long and the story rambles, albeit genially.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Candyman
    One of the more original horror creations of the last few decades.
  28. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    Fire Walk with Me isn’t what many wanted it to be, it’s easy to accept the film for what it is: a bracing look at incest and rape.
  29. Society
    The first two-thirds of Brian Yuzna's Society are admittedly lackluster. Starring Billy Warlock as Bill Whitney, the Beverly Hills-set tale of a rich kid beginning to distrust the world he grew up in takes more than an hour to figure out its footing. But once that happens, Society assumes an unshakable vise-grip that's nearly impossible to look away from.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Long Walk Home
    It’s a pretty intense film at times, and it may be too earnest for its own good; but it’s a finely acted film and one that also firmly makes a connection between the Civil Rights movement and the beginning of the women’s movement, as Spacek begins to find her spine and come out of her protective “good wife” shell.
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