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Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 Ghost Elephants
Lowest review score: 0 Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,943 out of 7549
  2. Mixed: 1,248 out of 7549
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7549
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  1. M.C. Escher: Journey To Infinity
    Written and directed by Robin Lutz, this is a rare feature that takes the trouble not just to understand its subject and communicate his significance, but find ways to actually show us, visually, how his style evolved, and the principles behind that evolution.
  2. Thelma
    Also similar to "Carrie," it works best when it stays specific, grounded in this one woman's singular experience.
  3. Plan B
    While Plan B is not a perfect teen movie, it's one with a defiantly good heart and a vibrant, colorful atmosphere crafted by a talented director. On those grounds alone, this is a ride worth hopping on.
  4. Colette
    The chemistry is palpable between Knightley and West, whether they are in love or estranged, and Knightley gives one of her best performances as a girl with spirit and talent who becomes a woman with ferocity and a voice.
  5. Little Sister
    It's a quiet and gentle film, emotional but not manipulatively sentimental, sad but not nihilistic, Marilyn Manson epigram and Goth-font chapter markers notwithstanding.
  6. The Workshop
    For myself, I couldn’t avoid the irony that, in finding it ultimately rather superficial and self-satisfied in that particular Parisian way, I was echoing Antoine’s criticism of Olivia’s writing.
  7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    Using its hyperactive nature to disguise how there’s not much going on, “Mutant Mayhem” is a pretty shallow venture thematically. Having said that, it also has undeniably strong visuals and enough creative voice work to make it tolerable on a hot August day when families need an air-conditioned theater for a few hours.
  8. Disobedience
    A good old-fashioned melodrama, albeit with a quieter touch.
  9. My Big Night
    The premise of My Big Night is fine, but the film's execution is what really sells it.
  10. Becoming Cousteau
    While it on the whole doesn’t feel as engrossing as some of the filmmaker’s former, more innovative movies (the terrific What Happened, Miss Simone? comes to mind), Becoming Cousteau is still as immersive and warmly inviting as non-fiction biographies come.
  11. Woman of the Hour
    Kendrick has made a slick ’70s-set thriller about a serial killer whose reign of terror lasted a decade.
  12. Hidden Figures
    This is one of the year's best films.
  13. Sylvie's Love
    Sylvie’s Love feels downright rebellious, daring to exist with its unapologetic old-fashioned quality at a time when many maddeningly seem to dismiss honest-to-god romances and proud women’s pictures as slight and outdated.
  14. Eno
    The film works most of the time, largely because its subject is such interesting — and warm — company.
  15. The Infiltrators
    In some ways, The Infiltrators is reminiscent of 2018’s under-seen gem “American Animals” in how it blurs the line between narrative and documentary while incorporating genre tropes into the nonfiction medium.
  16. Assassins
    White plays it straight, and deftly untangles the different webs of meaning and implication, political, social and otherwise, to draw us into Siti and Doan's worlds, to understand how the girls were tricked and used as pawns in a deadly North Korean family feud.
  17. Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
    This is the generically structured and tamer “approved” version of a much richer story.
  18. Plan C
    Through interviews with women on all sides of the issue, “Plan C” paints a well-rounded picture of their operations but struggles with where to direct its focus.
  19. A Gray State
    A Gray State captures much of this in one real-life tale that’s as unsettling as it is precisely of-the-moment.
  20. Sand Storm
    It’s a fairly familiar critique of patriarchy from a humanist and feminist perspective, but one put across with some very impressive filmmaking skills by a first-time director.
  21. The Line
    For all its comparative lack of insight, there’s something intriguing about the ride, due chiefly to a pair of fascinating lead performances and a fatalistic sense of humor.
  22. A Couple
    There’s only one character here, but the institution is still illuminated by verbal storytelling, as well as our observations about how the speaker comports herself as she describes her situation.
  23. Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen
    The best part of a documentary like Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen is how it peeks into the thinking of those rare people who can piece together the impossible movie jigsaw puzzle, in order to show us our world, our community, our families, and ourselves.
  24. Eternal You
    Regardless of where you fall on the issue, “Eternal You” is undeniably beautiful, with artful cinematography from Tom Bergmann and Konrad Waldmann that creates an air of mystery from the very beginning.
  25. I Used to Be Funny
    I Used to Be Funny works through its themes in a thought-provoking way, structuring the story more like a mystery to be solved for its main character to move forward and touching on issues of consent and relationships along the way.
  26. Ain't Them Bodies Saints
    Ain't Them Bodies Saints is a film that will reward you for seeking it out.
  27. The Trials of Muhammad Ali
    The Trials of Muhammad Ali a unique and inspiring viewing experience.
  28. Miss Hokusai
    As much as I wanted to be transported to the world of Miss Hokusai, it felt more like an analytical examination of a period and one of its most artistic voices, and I could never quite engage with that aspect of it.
  29. Radio Dreams
    Radio Dreams is an example of both the compelling passion and polarizing fallibility that can arise when a director works primarily from the heart.
  30. Chasing Chasing Amy
    There’s a lot unexplored about fandom, queerness, and the ’90s indie movie scene in “Chasing Chasing Amy,” focused as it is on one filmmaker’s adoration of the subject at hand. But what’s left out of “Chasing”—and what the filmmaker decides to do, or not do, when faced with moments of clarity—can inform our own relationships with the art we love.
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