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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: 1,333 out of 5171
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  1. The Souvenir
    It may have taken Hogg several decades to realize that her own box of darkness was actually a beautiful gift, but she unwraps it with the care and tenderness of someone who understands its true value.
  2. Creative Control
    Visually scrumptious and slickly told, Creative Control illustrates the power of groundbreaking technology while also indicting its extremes.
  3. Leviathan
    Rather than building towards the finality of a single climax, Leviathan injects several of them into the tapestry of its elegant design.
  4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    The magic of Uncle Boonmee is that it makes all viewers feel like the strange ones.
  5. 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.
  6. Ornette: Made in America (1985)
    Ornette isn't just a love letter to the liberty of jazz rhythms; it excels at expressing them.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    8½
    One of the best films ever made about filmmaking, it’s simultaneously critical of its director’s self-importance and childishness and celebratory of the possibilities of the medium.
  8. Somebody Up There Likes Me
    Byington excels at turning the edict that time waits for no one into a sensory experience. No matter how sly it gets, Somebody Up There Likes Me still retains that fundamental truth.
  9. Buzzard
    Buzzard is among the first great American satires of the 21st century, its scathing indictment of capitalism delivered as a prolonged, disorienting punchline.
  10. Paterson
    Carried by an appropriately low-key Adam Driver and Jarmusch's casual genius for capturing offhand remarks, Paterson is his most absorbing character study since "Broken Flowers" -- and far more grounded in real life. There's no context necessary to recognize it as his most personal work.
  11. Attica
    A harrowing piece of filmmaking, and a fitting, powerful remembrance of those who fought for their humanity.
  12. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    He’s only Tom Cruise because nobody else is willing to be — or maybe he’s only Tom Cruise so that nobody else has to be. Either way, Fallout is the film he’s always promised us, and it was totally worth the wait.
  13. 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.
  14. The Academy of Muses
    The Academy of Muses draws viewers in and forces them to take sides along with Pinto’s skeptical apprentices. By its end, the movie has transcended the boundaries of the classroom to become an educational experience in more ways than one.
  15. The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
    Ultimately The Only Living Pickpocket in New York shows us that old school and new school aren’t opposites. Like the city’s many seeming contradictions, they are meant to coexist.
  16. The Power of the Dog
    The Power of the Dog sticks its teeth into you so fast and furtively that you may not feel the sting on your skin until after the credits roll, but the delayed bite of the film’s ending doesn’t stop it from leaving behind a well-earned scar.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Digging for Fire
    The movie delivers a bewitching dissection of happiness and unhappiness in love. Digging for Fire is a promising peek into the future of Swanberg, and one that only signals more to come.
  18. The Red Turtle
    This is a quiet little masterpiece of images, each one rich with meaning, that collectively speak to a universal process.
  19. Take Shelter
    As with "Shotgun Stories," Nichols assembles a tense portrait of blue-collar life, while deepening his thematic interests and working on a bigger scale. Burrowing into the subconscious of a damaged man, he delivers a modern American epic with extraordinary restraint.
  20. Two-Lane Blacktop
    Two-Lane Blacktop is primarily a mood piece, and Hellman wants the audience to be imbued with the uneasy feeling of living without any roots. It’s that feeling that’s elevates Two-Lane Blacktop far beyond genre trappings and into the heights of cinema.
  21. Listening to Kenny G
    Lane set out to make a documentary about the nature of taste, and she’s accomplished that with panache.
  22. 12 Years a Slave
    More than a powerful elegy, 12 Years a Slave is a mesmerizing triumph of art and polemics: McQueen turns a topic rendered distant by history into an experience that, short of living through the terrible era it depicts, makes you feel as if you've been there.
  23. Bombay Beach
    The beautiful desolation of Bombay Beach makes it difficult to describe as a documentary. Alma Har'el's directorial debut takes a nonfiction setting and displays its haunting qualities in poetic terms.
  24. Brief Encounter
    David Lean’s Brief Encounter captures love at its most ephemeral.
  25. Before Midnight
    Before Midnight is the rare cinematic achievement that implicates alert viewers in its mission to understand the mysteries of intimate connections.
  26. i'm thinking of ending things
    For all of its self-insistent detours and high-minded indulgences, I’m Thinking of Ending Things rarely feels like a concept in search of a movie. There’s a fullness and vitality to it that shines through even when the film is chasing its own tail, which is basically all it wants to do.
  27. One More Time with Feeling
    Shrouded in grief and chilly to the core, Andrew Dominik’s mournful documentary One More Time With Feeling is at once sobering in tone and intoxicating in style.
  28. Sabaya
    There are many times in Hogir Hirori’s Sabaya, an anxiety-filled potboiler of a documentary about the fight to rescue enslaved girls from ISIS, where one might wonder how they pulled it off. That feeling is quickly followed by relief that they did.
  29. 63 Up
    People change, some more than others, but 63 Up is so beautiful and bittersweet for how it finds them becoming who they are. Hopefully many of them live to enjoy it, and this series continues for a couple more decades to come.
  30. The Overnighters
    At first galvanizing in its depiction of survival amid dire circumstances, "The Overnighters" transforms into a devastating portrait of communal unrest.
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