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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. Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation
    While Goodman and Ephron’s film abides by a “peace & love 101” approach that might prove tiresome for people who already know about Wavy Gravy or the inclement weather that threatened to rain out an entire movement, this lucid and entertaining look back in time gradually twists that broadness into its greatest strength.
  2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Razor-sharp and shatteringly romantic ... as perfect a film as any to have premiered this year.
  3. A Hidden Life
    A Hidden Life is a lucid and profoundly defiant portrait of faith in crisis.
  4. Port Authority
    It’s not the most polished endeavor ... However, Bloom gives Wye such a dynamic screen presence that she often transcends the boundaries of the material.
  5. First Love
    Frequently sublime ... a piece of work so feral and full of life that you’d never guess it was (at least) the 90th feature its director has made in the last 30 years.
  6. Pain and Glory
    The filmmaker’s best and most personal movie in years.
  7. Beanpole
    Beanpole is slow to thaw, and its emotional impact is dulled by a structure that delays the story’s full power until the final moments, but there’s a resonant beauty to how these women seize control over their themselves.
  8. Sorry We Missed You
    Sorry to Miss You doesn’t break new ground for the filmmaker, but it radiates a timeliness that suggests an old-fashioned Ken Loach lament matters more than ever.
  9. Bacurau
    At once both more forceful and more inscrutable than Filho’s previous work, Bacurau plunges deeper into midnight territory as its core ideas take hold, its ghosts become literal, and its heroes take up arms.
  10. Rocketman
    Rather than revealing much about the man behind the music, Rocketman seems more content to hover inside of it, exploring his unique synthesis of blues, rock, and every other relevant genre as a natural extension of his personality.
  11. Atlantics
    Diop’s first feature doesn’t always fit together from a narrative perspective, but it musters such an absorbing vision of an alienated seaside life that not everything needs to add up for the atmosphere to take hold.
  12. El Chicano
    El Chicano feels less like a cut-rate version of a comic book movie than it does an insanely over-budgeted pitch video.
  13. The Wandering Earth
    Perhaps no other movie has better illustrated the golden rule of CGI: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
  14. Bull
    Director Annie Silverstein doesn’t elevate these conventions to new heights, but understands their potential well enough to craft an absorbing window into marginalized lives.
  15. Deerskin
    It’s hard to shake the feeling that Dupieux’s outré premise would have worked better as a short, as the unusual narrative struggles to make the scenario palatable even at the bare minimum for a feature-length treatment.
  16. The Sun Is Also a Star
    While great direction isn’t the worst problem to have, the fact that the writing and acting couldn’t quite live up to their gorgeous surroundings hollows the experience of watching it.
  17. The Dead Don't Die
    If Jarmusch’s latest often feels as though it lacks a pulse, this star-studded parable is held together by one consistent truth: When Hell is full, the dead will walk the Earth. And when the Earth is fucked, the living will do whatever they can to sleepwalk through the nightmare.
  18. Trial by Fire
    Trial by Fire is completely reignited by the scenes between Dern and O’Connell, who form a compelling bond through a thick sheet of plexiglass. More than just an acting masterclass, the probing, delicate conversations between their characters build towards a harrowing tap dance between hope and surrender.
  19. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    Giddy, exhausting, and breathtakingly violent.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Wine Country
    A pleasant and perfectly watchable comedy that would have died on the vine in theaters, Wine Country is casual viewing done right.
  23. Stray Dolls
    A taut and stylish thriller that manages to draw fresh blood from some very familiar territory.
  24. Yesterday
    This sweet but vacuous exercise in suspending disbelief is an overstuffed and underwritten misfire.
  25. 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.
  26. Swallow
    A provocative and frequently brilliant thriller.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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