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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
  3. Negative: 266 out of 5171
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  1. Chevalier
    The only certainty is Tsangari has delivered another intriguing and thoroughly original character study, which this time serves as an apt metaphor for Greece's larger problems.
  2. Sweaty Betty
    Sweaty Betty is the rare discovery that's bracingly original and down to earth in equal measures.
  3. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
    Snazzily directed by J.J. Abrams with vibrant effects and a busy plot that sets the whole franchise in motion all over again, The Force Awakens delivers on expectations with a fun, polished space odyssey that embraces the appeal of the originals.
  4. The Hateful Eight
    No matter how absorbing its individual scenes, however, The Hateful Eight is often hindered by Tarantino's confidence in the material. For every gripping sequence, there's an abrupt development or undercooked throwaway line.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Club
    The Club is a bold and bracing allegory of a church tainted by scandals.
  6. Joy
    A sunny ode to capitalism, the movie is a coy advertisement of its own. In that context, it's a whole lot better than one might expect, and loaded with talent unabashedly hawking their wares.
  7. The Revenant
    No amount of ingenious camerawork and breakneck pacing can obscure a simplistic core.
  8. TransFatty Lives
    TransFatty Lives stands out less for its inherently emotional topic than the appealing personality at its center.
  9. Creed
    Creed does justice to its roots while trying something new.
  10. Burnt
    Burnt deals less with the food itself than the way it drives Adam to the brink of insanity. Yet it falls short of generating any real urgency surrounding that situation.
  11. Mediterranea
    It renders a global crisis in strikingly intimate terms.
  12. Rock the Kasbah
    Although no one comes off looking especially good, an acceptable alternate title for the film could be "The Ugly Americans," because Mitch Glazer's script takes some of the worst stereotypes about ex-pats and blows them sky high.
  13. Crimson Peak
    Beyond its surface pleasures, Crimson Peak also confronts the demons of modern entertainment. The movie frightens and surprises us in familiar ways, but at the same time issues a plea for restraint.
  14. Miles Ahead
    Erratic, unpredictable and constantly intriguing, Miles Ahead plays more like one of Davis' compositions than a traditional biopic, stumbling around with flashes of insight and a brilliant central performance.
  15. The Treasure
    The Treasure may not be a major work from Porumboiu or his filmmaking tradition, but it proves that even cerebral formalism has its soft side.
  16. Junun
    A meditative universe of self-contained artistry, Junun offers no clear-eyed statement on its subject, but develops an enveloping internal logic about the thrill of artistic innovation.
  17. Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
    With up-close footage of police beatings and hordes of angry protestors calling for the country's president to resign, Winter on Fire features the intensity of an action movie and the fury of a clear-eyed polemic.
  18. Bridge of Spies
    While the rousing tale of espionage has plenty of appealingly old-fashioned qualities, there's no doubting Spielberg's ability to devise visually arresting moments that speak to the movie's themes far better than its story.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Pearl Button
    The Pearl Button is a vivid, essential portal to understanding not only the heritage of a nation, but also the art of nonfiction cinema.
  20. My Last Year with the Nuns
    With Smith's memories as the subject, Fetzer constructs a compelling cinematic experiment that turns the actor's monologue into a feature-length movie, and the result holds as much appeal as the solitary member of the cast.
  21. Neon Bull
    Lyrically involving and deeply sensual, Neon Bull showcases a full-bodied artist in command of his form.
  22. Janis: Little Girl Blue
    Long-time fans of Joplin's music will likely not find much new material to relish in "Janis: Little Girl Blue," and if the film earns any new acolytes for the songstress, it will be the result of Joplin's own charisma, not of the presentation of the film built so shakily around her.
  23. Hardcore Henry
    It never crystallizes into a singular experience, and instead collapses in a rush of well-intentioned innovations.
  24. Maggie's Plan
    Miller applies Gerwig to the center of a busy story with simple themes, but it glides along so effortlessly that its reductive qualities barely register. The filmmaker's exceedingly smart screenplay is the real plan, and Gerwig's performance puts it into action.
  25. Trumbo
    Trumbo works well enough as a general survey of Trumbo's life and career, a primer on a complicated man who endured a terrible injustice, but it fails to really engage with the material, to dig deep for significant themes and salient meanings
  26. Truth
    Blanchett, a commanding figure who scowls her way through every argument, gives Mapes an involving screen presence that elaborates on the character's staunch resolve much better than the straightforward script.
  27. Heart of a Dog
    Haunting and celebratory at once, Heart of a Dog ultimately amounts to a contemplation of mortality.
  28. High-Rise
    High-Rise isn't an entirely cohesive accomplishment, but that's part of its zany appeal. While in certain ways his weakest film, it maintains the morbid entertainment value found throughout Wheatley's work while marking an ambitious step up in scale.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    He Named Me Malala
    It's a shame that Guggenheim's slickly produced documentary examines such an important and fascinating story with such underwhelming results.
  30. Freeheld
    Unfortunately, while Julianne Moore and Ellen Page go great lengths to make the central romance convince, Nyswaner's undercooked script and Peter Sollett's direction have the opposite effect, reducing Freeheld to a tired formula.
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