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Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 La Gradiva
Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,618 out of 5235
  2. Mixed: 1,348 out of 5235
  3. Negative: 269 out of 5235
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  1. Passione
    Subtitled "a musical adventure," the actor-director's love letter to some 800 years of Neapolitan expression probes its subject with a wide romantic outlook.
  2. A Better Life
    Weisz flirts with greatness but unfortunately misses the opportunity to make the material soar. And yet he comes close.
  3. Buck
    Buck Brannaman, the subject of Cindy Meehl's engaging documentary profile Buck, has a warm presence and knows how to tame horses better than anyone else.
  4. Super 8
    Creepy implications keep Super 8 engaging, but the cast makes it click.
  5. Trollhunter
    The Troll Hunter offers high-caliber entertainment despite a low-budget production.
  6. One Lucky Elephant
    Unlike recent activist documentaries about animal cruelty like "The Cove," Leeman's narrative doesn't feature any real villains. Balding's bond with Flora leaves him in a perpetual state of uncertainty about which possible new home for his elephant would provide the safest habitat.
  7. The Trip
    The central appeal of The Trip is that it's only a comedy in bits and pieces. Overall, however, Winterbottom constructs a thoughtful and generally sad portrait of Coogan's persona as a man unsure of his next move.
  8. Beginners
    Mills fashions the set-up for an overwrought, thoroughly depressing character study into an oddly charming comedy. It's a midlife crisis gently portrayed with sympathy rather than grief.
  9. Film Socialisme
    Film Socialism is a weighty, intentionally cryptic product that's easy on the eyes and heavy on the mind.
  10. Submarine
    Where "Bridesmaids" has plenty of solid gags, it's not much to look at; Submarine always has something impressive to watch even when its plot is on autopilot.
  11. Beautiful Boy
    Despite routinely overstating the scenario with rampant scenes of tantrums and sobs, the majority of Beautiful Boy is made bearable by its two solid performances.
  12. The Tree of Life
    More meditation than movie, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is bound to mystify, awe and exasperate in equal measures.
  13. Everything Must Go
    The material, however, takes a Raymond Carver short story and plays it almost too straight. Ferrell looks uncomfortable, but not amusingly so.
  14. Beautiful Darling
    Beautiful Darling not only explains the appeal of its subject; it actively contributes to her ongoing mystique.
  15. Caterpillar
    Before its spell unravels with overdone theatricality and on-the-nose flashbacks, Caterpillar succeeds as a kind of representational horror movie.
  16. Hobo with a Shotgun
    Loaded to the gills with thrill-inducing mayhem, Hobo with a Shotgun feels almost tribal in its commitment to violence.
  17. The Beaver
    With tightly controlled performances and uniquely eccentric events, The Beaver is mainly undone by the lack of a satisfying outcome.
  18. Passion Play
    The reality is that Passion Play has a few good ideas that simply don't hold together. More of a miscalculation than an outright dud, it takes the form of a wildly surreal western fantasy, something that Chilean madman Alejandro Jodorowsky ("El Topo") could have executed with more rigorous invention.
  19. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    Herzog naturally plays up the enigma at hand with epic grandeur, occasionally overdoing it but usually hitting the mark.
  20. The Arbor
    The cumulative impact of The Arbor is one of claustrophobia; at times, the endlessly downbeat adventures of Dunbar and her offspring grow almost unbearably morose.
  21. Incendies
    The climax is a little too clever and far-fetched-an unnecessarily neat finale for a movie that works fine when dealing in broad strokes, some of which are nothing short of masterful.
  22. The Double Hour
    At its core, The Double Hour is a classic noir story of deception.
  23. The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
    The first-time director's refreshingly credible portrait of a boho character with Middle Eastern origins rectifies the aforementioned canonical gap in a witty, naturalistic generational snapshot.
  24. A Screaming Man
    At its core, A Screaming Man emphasizes the strength of family bonds. It's a sad, moving portrait that has nothing to do with its chaotic setting.
  25. The Conspirator
    While Redford frames the drama with a tense atmosphere, it doesn't shake the sense that we're watching a tame made-for-TV affair.
  26. Arthur
    Easy on the eyes, intermittently amusing and never downright awful.
  27. To Die Like a Man
    To Die Like a Man deserves your attention for showcasing a filmmaker with the capacity for bold narrative trickery that doesn't come at the expense of emotional investment.
  28. Kati with an I
    Greene's patient, understated portrait renders a universal rite of passage in strangely alluring, poetic terms.
  29. Meet Monica Velour
    Like the poster, Meet Monica Velour is engaging to a point, but leaves much to be desired.
  30. Meek's Cutoff
    Reichardt crafts a highly textured narrative that both invokes the mythology of the American frontier and cleverly transcends it.
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