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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: 3,565 out of 5164
  2. Mixed: 1,333 out of 5164
  3. Negative: 266 out of 5164
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  1. Wind River
    Wind River may not blow you away, but this bitter, visceral, and almost parodically intense thriller knows what it takes to survive.
  2. Mudbound
    While Mudbound is rooted in a precise historical moment, it’s also a sobering commentary on timeless struggles.
  3. The Little Hours
    Matching a crackling wit with the absurd dissonance of time and place found in the best of Monty Python and Mel Brooks, Little Hours is so eager to please that its one-note humor lands with ease.
  4. Call Me by Your Name
    The final beats of Guadagnino’s adaptation galvanize two hours of simmering uncertainty into a gut-wrenchingly wistful portrait of two people trying to find themselves before it’s too late.
  5. Lost in London
    As a director, Harrelson seems to be grasping at elements of far better movies. The live component, while impressively executed, rarely alters the movie in any meaningful way.
  6. Landline
    Landline is a textured, silly, sweet, and deeply felt comedy that traces the distance between the most satisfied parts of ourselves and the most desperate, between the people we are and the people we think we should be, and it finds that — for better or worse — we’re all stuck somewhere in between.
  7. It Happened in L.A.
    This whirling vortex of dysfunctional friends and acquaintances feel like an unfocused and self-absorbed melange of frustration. It’s a parade of broken people, connected only by their fruitless pursuits of happiness.
  8. A Ghost Story
    Lowery manages to find entertainment value and genuine intrigue from his outlandish scenario, synthesizing the magical realism of his earlier films with a tighter grasp of tone.
  9. The Discovery
    By turns resoundingly human and regretfully half-baked, the film wears its influences on its sleeve.
  10. The Big Sick
    The Big Sick plays less like a great movie than a platform for its appealing tone, but it’s so well acted and dense with insights into the culture clash at its center that nothing about the central dynamic is strained.
  11. Icarus
    Fogel’s only other filmmaking credit, the romcom “Jewtopia,” doesn’t suggest the makings of a sophisticated nonfiction storyteller, and Icarus suffers from an imitative quality that’s hard to shake. Fortunately, Rodchenkov’s dilemma single-handedly keeps Icarus engaging throughout.
  12. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    The filmmakers manage to improve on the limitations of the original by showing more of Gore’s resilience in the field.
  13. I don't feel at home in this world anymore.
    The film never loses its strong sense of character, but those characters deserve a bit more love than they’re afforded. Still, Lynskey and Wood see it through.
  14. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
    Even in the weak signal that is the January movie season, xXx: The Return of Xander Cage hardly registers.
  15. Donald Cried
    While hardly reinventing the wheel, Donald Cried spins it faster than usual, taking cues from its memorably irritating protagonist. Beneath its entertainment value, the movie also hints at the tragedy of aimless adulthood.
  16. Sleepless
    If Sleepless feels like the microwaved leftovers of a dish that was designed to be swallowed whole, Foxx is the frozen part in the middle, the bite that makes you regret that someone tried to heat this up in the first place.
  17. The Bye Bye Man
    Led by a few strong performances, and delivering plenty of heart-clutching moments, The Bye Bye Man is sure to appeal to horror lovers of all stripes.
  18. Claire in Motion
    Too heavy-handed and clumsy to land with a real knockout punch, Annie J. Howell and Lisa Robinson’s second feature benefits immensely from the quietly moving work of its lead, Besty Brandt.
  19. Monster Trucks
    The scenes where Creech and co are outracing the Terravex death squads are playful and inventive enough to provide a glimpse of what this movie could have been if it weren’t so remarkably bad in most other respects.
  20. We Are the Flesh
    For every moment of sick visceral genius (e.g. whenever Hernandez or Evoli are left to their own devices), there’s another of clumsy metaphor (e.g. the limp punchline of the movie’s final minutes).
  21. The Son of Joseph
    In Green’s world, every moment is an unsolvable mystery that requires debate.
  22. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
    These are two magnificent women who live in the shadows of their own legacies, surrounded by petrified images of their former selves.
  23. The Ornithologist
    Mind-blowing in the best possible way, The Ornithologist may not work for everyone, but those willing to embrace its puzzling ingredients will find a rewarding solution: further confirmation of a genuine film artist.
  24. Gold
    Over time, Gold becomes nothing more than a masterclass in watching a great actor try to build a fortune out of dirt.
  25. Ocean Waves (1993)
    Hindsight has revealed the quiet resonance that’s been humming inside this tiny film ever since it first set out to sea.
  26. Your Name.
    Like all of Shinkai’s films, the richness of the light coats everything it touches with such an evocative hue of nostalgia that the plot only puts a damper on things (and there’s a lot of plot here).
  27. The Autopsy of Jane Doe
    This morbid film takes body horror to a new level, but leaves its brains behind.
  28. Live by Night
    At their worst, Affleck’s roles are stern and lifeless without soul, pretty sculptures with nothing inside. It was only a matter of time before he made a movie that embodied that lesser side of his career.
  29. Assassin's Creed
    Declaring Assassin’s Creed to be the best video game movie ever made is the kind of backhanded compliment that sounds like hyperbole, but the description fits the bill on both counts. Regardless of what you call this peculiar, arrestingly uninviting nonsense, the fact of the matter is that it’s the only blockbuster of 2016 that left me desperate for a sequel.
  30. Sing
    Sing is the Platonic ideal of an Illumination movie. It’s a profoundly soulless piece of work that shines a light on the mediocrity they foist upon the children of the world.
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