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Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Ghost Elephants
Lowest review score: 0 Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
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  1. Marguerite & Julien
    Rather than presenting something akin to the heady youthful cravings of Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as contemporary versions of Romeo and Juliet, the equally tragic Marguerite & Julien often feels more like a version of Richie and Margot in Wes Anderson’s “The Royal Tenenbaums” crossed with the pre-teen runaways from “Moonrise Kingdom,” but minus the humor and insight.
  2. The Last Man on the Moon
    This is not my favorite kind of documentary filmmaking. Eugene “Gene” Cernan, the subject of this film, who’s also the older fellow watching the bucking bronco, is a man deserving of a tribute such as this movie aspires to give him. The filmmakers, attempting to jazz up their material, get in the way a lot.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    A Country Called Home
    The central problem with A Country Called Home is neither the performances nor even the characters. It's the transparent ways in which the movie conjures easy resolutions to issues that it otherwise does a fine job convincing us are not so simple.
  4. Backtrack
    Petroni, in any case, is a skilled storyteller with a strong visual sense.
  5. King Georges
    The movie also show’s Perrier’s humor, and his talents as a mentor.
  6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
    A well-made, confident piece of entertainment that lacks the poetry and nuance of the first film and gets less interesting as its narrative thinness is revealed but never feels like something that’s being phoned in to make a quick buck.
  7. Triple 9
    There are movies about ugly, vile people, and there are ugly, vile movies. Triple 9 is the latter.
  8. Eddie the Eagle
    Slapstick mishaps and—ultimately—feel-good triumph of sorts ensue, with plenty of perky training montages in between.
  9. Gods of Egypt
    The alternately cornball and self-aware dialogue and the clearly not state-of-the-art CGI would seeming charmingly retro (like something from a TV miniseries two decades ago) if the movie didn't trot out one epic action film cliche after another.
  10. The Mermaid
    The Mermaid will make you laugh. It doesn't matter if you don't like subtitles. It doesn't matter if you've never heard of the director. It doesn't matter if you've never seen a Chinese movie in your life. It will make you laugh. Guaranteed.
  11. Rolling Papers
    Dickman's film reeks of pot smoke and non-seriousness.
  12. Becoming Mike Nichols
    The result is a film that’s packed with stories more than insight.
  13. Forsaken
    It has a solid story to tell, and tells it with no winks and few, if any, frills. It’s involving and ultimately exciting.
  14. The Witch
    The Witch, a feminist narrative that focuses on an American colonial family as they undergo what seems to be an otherworldly curse, is more like a sermon.
  15. Race
    Race takes a complicated, messy story and shapes it with the bland cookie-cutter mold too often seen in the biopic genre.
  16. Risen
    An old-fashioned Biblical spectacular with fresh blood in its veins.
  17. Embrace of the Serpent
    It can't quite seem to get out of its own way. It is intelligent and sensitive and assembled with a great care, and worth watching just for its images of the jungle.
  18. Glassland
    This intimate Irish drama travels a road that'll be familiar to anyone who's ever seen a film about addiction, or known an addict, but the fact that all stories of addiction are essentially the same doesn't blunt its impact.
  19. The Final Project
    Worst of all, nothing in The Final Project has any personality.
  20. Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
    The film lacks the underlying subtext that grounded similar hopeful-yet-doomed-romance stories in the past.
  21. Standoff
    It is all very terribly tiresome.
  22. Cabin Fever
    The film adds up to a lot of bad ideas and very few good ones, wandering around Roth's footsteps in search of purpose.
  23. Nina Forever
    Nina Forever subverts audience expectations at every turn and develops the kind of genuine emotional power that keeps it from being just another gory goof.
  24. Touched With Fire
    In her latest film Touched With Fire, she (Holmes) delivers a beautifully understated and moving performance.
  25. A War
    A War, as tough to watch as it can be, is an extremely rewarding and disquieting experience.
  26. Mountains May Depart
    Whatever Jia shows us and wherever he takes us, we’re always aware of being in the hands of one of the contemporary world’s great filmmakers.
  27. How to Be Single
    Think of How to Be Single as a cinematic Whitman’s Sampler: There are enough pieces that work to offset the pieces that don’t.
  28. Zoolander 2
    It then becomes very funny, funny enough that my wife observed that she thought I was going to have a stroke, as I was laughing so much.
  29. Deadpool
    It’s a remarkably straightforward origin flick, lacking in true satire of its genre, carried almost entirely by its lead. Deadpool is a fun character, but he’s still in search of a fun movie to match his larger-than-life personality.
  30. Misconduct
    “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion once said. And yet, watching Misconduct, a twisty but exceptionally bone-headed—one might even say cretinous—legal thriller, sitting through its story hardly felt like “living.”
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