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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
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,579 out of 5179
  2. Mixed: 1,334 out of 5179
  3. Negative: 266 out of 5179
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  1. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    Giddy, exhausting, and breathtakingly violent.
  2. The Hustle
    When The Hustle succeeds — in fits and starts, and with occasional big laughs — it’s wholly thanks to the dedication of Hathaway and Wilson, who throw themselves into thinly written roles (the film somehow required four screenwriters) that they spice up by bringing their A-game to material that’s beneath them.
  3. Poms
    If this is the best Hollywood can offer these women, it’s not their fault for wanting to work. Instead, it’s on writers and studios to stop treating seniors like some sort of oddities to squeeze a few laughs out of before they croak.
  4. Wine Country
    A pleasant and perfectly watchable comedy that would have died on the vine in theaters, Wine Country is casual viewing done right.
  5. Stray Dolls
    A taut and stylish thriller that manages to draw fresh blood from some very familiar territory.
  6. Yesterday
    This sweet but vacuous exercise in suspending disbelief is an overstuffed and underwritten misfire.
  7. Rewind
    A wrenching self-portrait of inherited abuse that joins “The Tale” and “Leaving Neverland” on a growing list of essential and unfathomably brave films about the internalization of sexual trauma. What “Rewind” sometimes lacks in elegance, it makes up for in immediacy.
  8. Swallow
    A provocative and frequently brilliant thriller.
  9. Dreamland
    You’ve seen this story a thousand times before, but Joris-Peyrafitte’s expressive direction and Margot Robbie’s sheer force of will are enough to endow the movie’s best moments with the same hope-and-a-prayer immediacy that its heroes take with them as they speed towards the southern border.
  10. Burning Cane
    For all these striking moments, Burning Cane can’t shake the feeling of a sketchbook loaded with ideas that could use more fleshing out.
  11. Tolkien
    While it still dilutes Tolkien’s memory by molding his life to the narrow dimensions of a middle-brow feature that’s too safe for the arthouse and too small for the multiplex, at least it does so in a sincere attempt to trace the etymology of Tolkien’s work, and to emphasize that where stories come from can be as meaningful as where they take us.
  12. Pokémon Detective Pikachu
    It seems that this particular game of Pokémon needed more time at the gym. Yes, that’s a “Pokémon Go” reference, and if you can’t follow it, don’t bother.
  13. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
    A maddeningly shallow look at Ronstadt’s remarkable life.
  14. Good Posture
    More of a snack than a fulfilling meal, Good Posture is too scattershot to make good on the full potential of its protagonist.
  15. UglyDolls
    The UglyDolls film makes the most obvious choice at every conceivable opportunity, and is all the more tolerable for that.
  16. Georgetown
    The way that the film resolves — or doesn’t — leaves the distinct impression that Waltz simply ran out of interest in this story, which would be an explanation as understandable as it is frustrating.
  17. Come to Daddy
    No matter its oddball turns, Kiwi director Ant Timpson’s wild, unpredictable debut manages to deliver a gory hilarious father-son reunion saga with a surprising degree of confidence in the silly-strange nature of the material.
  18. Meeting Gorbachev
    Not since Klaus Kinski has Herzog aimed his camera at such an uncontrollable subject, and that includes the erupting peaks of “Into the Volcano” and the radioactive crocodiles in “The Cave of Forgotten Dreams.”
  19. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
    The results are fascinating, weird, and often quite moving.
  20. Body at Brighton Rock
    Body at Brighton Rock is the happy work of someone who misses when scrappy genre fare could have low stakes and still feel slightly dangerous; when filmmakers were empowered by the knowledge that a VHS of their schlock took up just as much real estate on video store shelves as a tape of the biggest Hollywood blockbuster.
  21. Avengers: Endgame
    As Endgame sputters to the finish line, it leaves the impression of witnessing a Marvel Movie Marathon compressed to three hours — and 58 seconds, but trust me, they’re disposable — of unbridled fan service.
  22. Okko's Inn
    Even at its most serious, Okko’s Inn is calibrated for the attention span of a five-year-old; as mature and abstract as the lessons its protagonist learns might be, there’s no use making an uncommonly honest kids movie about death if kids aren’t interested in (or able to) sit through it.
  23. Red Joan
    A strange, bifurcated tale of love and espionage, with Judi Dench stuck in a thankless role that does nothing to capitalize on her talents. The film is worse for it.
  24. Someone Great
    The wit of Robinson’s series still occasionally peeks out in Someone Great, especially when her central trio are interacting, but smushed into a 92-minute running time, little of the best bits can actually breathe.
  25. Stockholm
    The best thing you can say about Stockholm is that it’s good enough to prove that a much better film could be made from this story.
  26. Penguins
    With Penguins, frequent Disneynature filmmaker Alastair Fothergill and franchise newbie Jeff Wilson are working in a more minor key than such essential entries as Chimpanzee and African Cats, but the artistry and relative magic of the series is still on full display.
  27. Hellboy
    Perhaps it’s appropriate that the 2019 version of Hellboy is busy to an exhausting degree, overloaded with apocalyptic fears, and seemingly endless in its pileup of twists. But it’s hard to read much into a movie less invested in shrewd observations than in stuffing as much lore as possible into 120 minutes.
  28. Little
    Whenever things seem really dire, Martin saunters in with attitude to spare, and puts everything in perspective. With talent that big, the rest of the movie seems little by comparison.
  29. Breakthrough
    There are bigger questions to ask here, but when it’s easier to roll out some simple images and wrapped-up answers, Breakthrough breaks down, happy to just explain away everything good as a divine act that no one could possibly control. Movies, however, require a bit more than just faith.
  30. The Haunting of Sharon Tate
    The Haunting of Sharon Tate resolves as a cheap revenge fantasy that suggests its subjects only died because they couldn’t see the writing on the wall.
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