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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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  2. Mixed: 1,249 out of 7557
  3. Negative: 1,358 out of 7557
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  1. Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
    The montage of footage—New York street scenes in the 1950s, 1960s, the press conferences, speeches, footage of the men getting off airplanes, surrounded by a crush of people, or laughing together, talking together, is mesmerizing. Individually and together, both men “shook up the world.” Blood Brothers shows why.
  2. Ron's Gone Wrong
    Ron’s Gone Wrong is an indictment of the invasive, insidious tactics of Big Tech, and of the ways we relinquish a little more of our privacy with every click and view.
  3. The Opening Act
    It's a very insightful insider-baseball look at the creative process.
  4. Heart of a Dog
    There are times when Anderson’s Buddhist leanings can be a bit overwhelming, and the piece ends a bit too abruptly for my tastes, although that almost seems thematically appropriate.
  5. Catfight
    Tukel takes that tired cliché and blows it to smithereens. Let's hear it for unvarnished hatred expressed with no holds barred.
  6. I Believe in Unicorns
    If it falls victim to a bit too many college film student clichés, it’s easy to forgive Meyerhoff due to the great performance she draws from her talented young star and what this film means for her bright future.
  7. Critical Thinking
    I am always game for a movie that makes me reckon with my personal feelings and biases, and I’m glad this one exists because representation will always speak volumes. If nothing else, Critical Thinking reminds you what a chess player can look like.
  8. Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
    It’s a fun soulful documentary that’s rarely ever invasive, depicting the type of statesman we’re sorely missing today.
  9. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
    Thanks to Øvredal’s visual flair and visceral dedication to the monsters of Guillermo del Toro, clearly a major influence on the “Trollhunter” director’s bittersweet approach to the field, this satisfying though far from innovative dish boasts comforting flavors throughout.
  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. All Saints
    Director Steve Gomer approaches dire and potentially devastating situations in understated fashion, allowing the purity of their prevailing humanity to shine through.
  12. Jungleland
    Winkler, and featuring three very strong central performances and eye-catching poetic visuals, Jungleland is more of a mood-piece than anything else, and on that level it works beautifully. The mood is strange, sad, and hypnotic.
  13. The Age of Shadows
    While Kim’s filmmaking is typically engaging, it’s really Song Kang-ho who carries the viewer’s interest.
  14. Big Hero 6
    An action adventure that puts brain ahead of brawn as a valued commodity is always reason to celebrate. Add in the considerable heart that Baymax contributes (with elements borrowed from both “WALL-E” and “Up”), and you have a winner.
  15. Premature
    At times, Premature has the same fly-on-the-wall, near-improvisational and casually meandering qualities of a Cassavetes film, though its refreshingly honest and direct depiction of Black sexuality made me think of early Spike Lee or Bill Gunn.
  16. Beast
    One of the strengths of the film, also written by Pearce, is how much it is willing to withhold, without descending into "Gotcha!" manipulation.
  17. To Kill a Wolf
    A tight, restrained, worthwhile first feature from a cast and crew whose next jaunt into the woods will surely worth sharpening our teeth for.
  18. Far from the Tree
    People can find ways to be happy now because they have more choices, more resources. In a world that seems in many respects to be headed to hell in a handbasket, that’s a fact worth celebrating, and this movie does so in an appropriately humane manner.
  19. Voyeur
    Too often, Kane and Koury don’t seem to trust entirely what they have, and they needlessly pad Voyeur with miniatures, re-enactments and an overall light, playful tone. It all seems at odds with the story’s fundamentally disturbing — yet gripping — content.
  20. Seasons
    As awe-inspiring as this footage is, it’s every bit as amazing to envision how the filmmakers had to prepare for framing these moments with impeccable precision.
  21. Housebound
    Housebound is a standout, though, because of its satirical mood and its multiple scenes of almost screwball comedy.
  22. Marc by Sofia
    We might not come away understanding Jacobs or his world better, but we can still enjoy spending time with him.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    First Match
    But there is much to like, and pay attention to in First Match. It’s a film of small moments.
  24. Dora and the Lost City of Gold
    I am here to tell you that you will be shockingly entertained. Dora and the Lost City of Gold manages to ride a fine line between being true to the characters and conventions of the series and affectionately skewering them.
  25. Cop Car
    The plot description is a good old-fashioned okey-doke, a distraction that lulls you with its absurdity so you’ll be blindsided by the lean, suspenseful and effective movie director Jon Watts delivers.
  26. Gay Chorus Deep South
    The overwhelming positivity in this footage is illuminating and encouraging, yet also more than a touch puzzling, raising questions of precisely where this intolerance hibernates when cameras aren’t around to support such devastating legislation.
  27. Umberto Eco - A Library of the World
    This lively and engaging documentary could just as well be titled “The Labyrinths of Umberto Eco.”
  28. Father of the Bride
    Garcia and Estefan and all of our feelings about weddings bring so much warmth and good humor to the movie that it calls for a "yes" on the RSVP.
  29. Blow the Man Down
    Blow the Man Down isn’t an earth-shaker, but it’s a small pleasure that makes you wish for more from its filmmakers, and soon.
  30. Athena
    While some of these struggles are specific to the French communities the film follows, they are also universal, with recent echoes deeply familiar here in the US. And despite a morally ambiguous parting note, Athena incisively engages with these battles despite a brassy style that at times overpowers them.
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