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Average Movie review score: 69
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Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
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  1. Side by Side
    Produced by Keanu Reeves, this talking heads survey of the transition from shooting on film to digital video is against all odds an imminently watchable overview, and not only because Reeves has decent interview skills.
  2. Cosmopolis
    Since 2005's "A History of Violence," Cronenberg has ventured beyond the grotesque allegorical interests of his earlier movies, a shift that has led some longtime fans to assume he has softened up. As an enjoyably peculiar anti-capitalist indictment, Cosmopolis proves otherwise.
  3. Compliance
    It's a movie that must be seen, processed and discussed, perhaps the first of its kind to transform the audience into a focus group.
  4. Chicken with Plums
    While visually scrumptious, the movie struggles to reach a greater profundity that it never quite obtains, but its childlike emulation of a grand tragedy is indelibly precious.
  5. Beloved
    Beloved never really earns its sprawling timeline, eventually getting bogged down with too many developments and overstaying its welcome. For a movie where people intermittently burst into song, the plot is oddly one-note.
  6. The Awakening
    As ghost stories go, this one's done just well enough to provide reminders of how it has been done better.
  7. Robot and Frank
    Robot and Frank succeeds where "Ted" fails because, unlike McFarlane, Schreier and Ford render the relationship between the human character and the robot in largely credible terms.
  8. Sleepwalk with Me
    Sleepwalk With Me calls to mind Judd Apatow's "Funny People" for its focus on the eccentric, obsessive nature of the wannabe comic's mind.
  9. Red Hook Summer
    It's painful to watch Red Hook Summer stumble, because the man behind it has tried so hard to get his groove back. However, it's energizing in the fleeting moments when he does just that.
  10. 2 Days in New York
    Even when it stumbles, however, 2 Days in New York retains an airy vibe, reflecting its dogged intention to charm its viewers. But seeing as "2 Days in Paris" never felt especially irksome, this affable sequel deserves the same insouciant shrug.
  11. ParaNorman
    Unlike the polished universe of Pixar's "Brave" or countless other recent CGI efforts, ParaNorman maintains a delicate, handcrafted look that underscores its ideas.
  12. Sushi: The Global Catch
    Any bona fide sushi fan stands to benefit from the general wake up call that "The Global Catch" provides in ample doses.
  13. Dreams of a Life
    Dreams of a Life unintentionally amounts to a mean-spirited snooze.
  14. Celeste and Jesse Forever
    The whole thing is a step above studio romantic comedies, but that's not saying much.
  15. Searching for Sugar Man
    For a quarter of a century -- unbeknownst to most Americans, including Rodriguez's original producers -- the singer landed a massive following in the country where his humanitarian outlook provided an escape for many disgruntled youth struggling under apartheid, elevating him to the stature of a "South African Elvis."
  16. Killer Joe
    With an eye for gritty, shameless fun, Friedkin unleashes the play's guilty pleasure center. Friedkin holds nothing back, but it's Letts' rambunctious plotting that enables the director to chart a path to the wild climax.
  17. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Recently released from jail, Ai's full story remains to be told, but Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry competently summarizes his lasting relevance, regardless of what may happen next.
  18. Klown
    For American audiences, each gag has added appeal because it contains an uneasy humor that's often explored but never fully exploited in these parts.
  19. Ruby Sparks
    Kazan has fun with a silly premise and smartly plays it straight when the occasion calls for it, while keeping the cutesy, fantastical extremes of the material at bay. It's less fairy tale than shrewd exaggeration on the pratfalls of desire.
  20. The Queen of Versailles
    Slickly made if not particularly stylish, the movie maintains its entertainment value for picking ideal models of American excess.
  21. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
    With its lethargic pace, Hara Kiri may disappoint more often than it delights, but the payoff is extreme in more ways than one.
  22. Shut Up and Play the Hits
    If you've never heard of LCD Soundsystem or cared much for the group's work, Shut Up and Play the Hits still manages to explore the prospects of fame and contemporary rock music's lasting relevance.
  23. The Dark Knight Rises
    A spectacular noir epic that's equal parts murky, bloated, flashy and triumphantly cinematic. Four years after Nolan's "Batman Begins" sequel "The Dark Knight" rattled audiences with a similar audiovisual overload, the new movie falls into the same rhythm and remains viscerally satisfying even when the story falters.
  24. Easy Money
    While overlong and occasionally too reliant on a formulaic set of motives to drive the action forward, Easy Money retains its suave composure right through the engrossing finale.
  25. Savages
    Stone's uneven direction veers from near-amateurish genre antics to an enjoyable awareness of those same standards.
  26. Magic Mike
    Magic Mike casts a seriously entertaining spell.
  27. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    If nothing else, this memorable effort eloquently displays Hushpuppy's fragile understanding of her world, where the only certainty is that nothing lasts forever. That makes "Beasts" into a gigantic triumph even when it falls apart.
  28. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
    It pitches a tone between comedy and tragedy that holds unique appeal.
  29. To Rome with Love
    Even Allen himself, appearing in front of the camera for his first role since 2005's "Scoop," looks a little lost in the mess.
  30. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
    The filmmaker's first-rate access feels like a kind of desecration.
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