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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. Eisenstein in Guanajuato
    Features some of the worst post-synching seen in any recent movie. If Eisenstein, the consummate craftsman, would have regretted Greenaway’s penchant for pointless and overdone circular tracking shots, he surely would have groaned at how the actors’ lips here and the words they speak are so often on different timetables.
  2. Jim: The James Foley Story
    Directed by an old family friend, “Jim” is a moving portrait of courage, but it is most of all a concerted effort to take back the life of James Foley.
  3. Tumbledown
    You may think you know what you are about to see when you watch that opening, but you would be wrong. It's great to be wrong.
  4. Southbound
    A prime example of a horror omnibus film: even the weaker segments have something to recommend them.
  5. The Club
    Horror ultimately gives way to irritation as the film veers into violent shock tactics and misplaced blame. What begins as a righteous indictment devolves into an unnecessary vendetta.
  6. The Choice
    But what might seem innocent enough on the written page is often downright silly if insulting on the big screen.
  7. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    While the 2009 book played this genre mash-up for dry, sly laughs, writer-director Burr Steers’ film amps up the thrills and gore. And that’s a problem—not necessarily as a narrative choice, but from a technical perspective.
  8. Hail, Caesar!
    An exhilarating switchup: A comic fable that’s both deftly clever and irrepressibly goofy.
  9. Rams
    Rams is an involving, at times curiously exciting film, because the story is so clean and simple and we always know what's at stake.
  10. Jane Got a Gun
    Jane Got a Gun has its good points and less demanding fans of the Western genre may find some value in it, especially considering how few films of its type actually get made these days.
  11. Lazer Team
    This movie is, in essence, a product of fame and money without the slightest tangible shred of effort.
  12. Rabin, the Last Day
    Frequently horrifying and never less than absorbing, Rabin, the Last Day is a meticulously observant portrait of a broken society.
  13. Requiem for the American Dream
    The result is a film that feels less like a lecture than a provocative X-ray of current American political realities.
  14. The Finest Hours
    For the most part, it is a solid film that bolsters its innately compelling narrative with effectively low-key performances, some genuinely thrilling sequences and only a few moments here and there that lean towards hokeyness.
  15. Fifty Shades of Black
    Mostly, Fifty Shades of Black is exactly what you expect it will be. It hits all the notes of its source material, only it amps them up, and it seems to get the inherent absurdity of this premise even more than Sam Taylor-Johnson’s movie did.
  16. Kung Fu Panda 3
    In spite of its abundant action — and for all the interspecies mashups, this is as much an action-adventure animated movie as it is a funny-animal animated movie — is a pretty relaxing experience for the adult viewer.
  17. The Boy
    It’s more rote than revelatory, and the possibility of a sequel in the final shot plays more like a threat than a promise.
  18. Naz & Maalik
    Some viewers may find all the walking and talking tedious, evidence of a film spinning its wheels. But these are the best sections of Naz & Maalik.
  19. Mojave
    To his credit, the writer-director maintains a pretty decent balance between his disgust with this Business We Call Show and the movie’s thriller mechanics, which are not entirely well-engineered but do chug along to a not-unsatisfying climax.
  20. All Mistakes Buried
    It's executed with such passion that it holds together better than you might expect.
  21. Aferim!
    Depressingly universal and even more depressingly contemporary more than two centuries down the line.
  22. Monster Hunt
    Chinese blockbuster Monster Hunt is a sappy, crowd-pleasing, tonally wonky fantasy-adventure/comedy that pits dorky-looking monsters against over-acting cornball comedians/monster-hunters.
  23. Synchronicity
    Having such a small number of characters, like the limitations caused by budgetary constraints, might sound like a recipe for creative claustrophobia, but Gentry turns these givens to his advantage, almost as if using Synchronicity to articulate a less-is-more filmmaking philosophy.
  24. Martyrs
    Both the French and U.S. iterations of Martyrs are transparently voyeuristic cheaply ginned-up Guignol peep shows with intellectual pretensions.
  25. Ip Man 3
    Ip Man 3 also sneaks in welcome moments of mushy romantic sweetness between Master Ip and his wife, Cheung Wing-sing (Lynn Hung).
  26. The 5th Wave
    The 5th Wave is Dystopia-Lite.
  27. Dirty Grandpa
    The movie is so incredibly consistent in failing to land an honest laugh that about an hour into it, its not being funny becomes laughable.
  28. Bleak Street
    Ripstein, who began his long career working with the maestro Luis Buñuel, has his one-time mentor’s post-idealistic anger but doesn’t adopt an insouciantly ironic mode to filter it through; his perspective is determined but never detached.
  29. The Benefactor
    This movie is one big, unsatisfying tease.
  30. A Perfect Day
    The characters in A Perfect Day don’t get to indulge in much eccentricity because they’re too busy banging their wills against bureaucratic idiocy.
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