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Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
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  1. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    Until the last half-hour, when Lucas actually does establish a emotional connection between the landmark he created in 1977 and the prequel investment portfolio he laid out in 1999, the movie is one spectacularly designed letdown after another.
  2. Anonymous Club
    It’s a perfectly good rockumentary. It may be an even better group therapy session, led by one person’s unfiltered experience down in a hole yet resonating as deeply for anyone else still struggling to lift themselves up. Welcome to the club.
  3. Superman
    It’s faint praise, even in the post-MCU era of the genre, to say that Superman is a solid superhero film; the caveat is hiding in plain sight. What Gunn has pulled off is something more complicated, more interesting, and far tougher: He’s given us a Superman movie that actually feels like a living, breathing comic book.
  4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    Artfully exciting and compulsively watchable even at a butt-numbing 152 minutes, the film makes good on the promise New Zealand writer-director Andrew Dominik showed with "Chopper" in 2000.
  5. Fracture
    Just because a movie is freakin' preposterous doesn't mean it can't be diabolical fun. Case in point: Fracture.
  6. Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
    Get ready to be shaken and stirred.
  7. The Italian Job
    A triumph for the machines, more proof that we do indeed live in the Matrix.
  8. Never Look Away
    Lit with a poet’s eye by Deschanel and given dramatic heft by von Donnersmarck, Never Look Away lunges at the primitive forces that define our lives. Even when it trips up, it’s never less than exhilarating.
  9. Jurassic Park
    Colossal entertainment -- the eye-popping, mind-bending, kick-out-the-jams thrill ride of summer and probably the year.
  10. Neighbors
    You expect hardcore hilarity from Neighbors, and you get it. It's the nuance that sneaks up on you.
  11. Noah
    Hold off on burning Aronofsky at the stake till you see Noah, a film of grit, grace and visual wonders that for all its tech-head modernity is built on a spiritual core.
  12. Crimes of the Future
    This is what the work of a visionary filmmaker looks like. Forget the new flesh. Long live the old Cronenberg.
  13. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
    You wish the movie wasn’t content to be a feature-length meme and truly deserved what Cage is doing with this long, hard look in the fun-house mirror. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is not unbearable by any means. It just should have been so much better.
  14. Black Widow
    Credit is due to Pugh and Johansson, most of all, for proving, in the movie’s opening chunk, that their foes-then-friends dynamic could satisfyingly hold an entire movie.
  15. Whip It
    At moments, especially in the conflicted intimacy between Marcia Gay Harden and Daniel Stern as Bliss' parents, Barrymore shows real directing chops. But in Whip It she's painting inside the box.
  16. Dick Tracy
    After all the hype, the movie of Dick Tracy turns out to be a great big beautiful bore.
  17. Z for Zachariah
    The three actors work wonders. And Zobel, as he did in 2012's mindbending "Compliance," nails every nuance of intonation and posture.
  18. Problemista
    As a dig at generational dissatisfaction and/or a lament about the migrant’s blues, the film is good enough. As a portrait of a diva on the verge of a meltdown that could take out a metropolis, it’s a next-level nightmare.
  19. Rustin
    If Rustin only gives you a slice of a story — you could make seven different films out of his life and achievements — it assures you walk away knowing who Bayard Rustin was. The same can be said for Colman Domingo. Attention must be paid a hundredfold.
  20. The Good Thief
    Nolte brings a raspy authority to the role, and director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) surrounds him with colorful characters.
  21. Monsters and Men
    Green sometimes hits his points too hard, letting his fierce human drama drift into polemic. But there’s no denying the righteous indignation that fuels Monsters and Men, a powerhouse that couldn’t be more timely or necessary.
  22. Gladiator
    Glorious, a colossus of rousing action and ferocious fun.
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  23. Moon
    Moon is a potent provocation that relies on ideas instead of computer tricks to stir up excitement.
  24. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    A raucous ride through one man's pain.
  25. Concrete Cowboy
    As an at-risk teen drama, the film is passable. As a portrait of a community, it’s eye-opening.
  26. Avatar: The Way of Water
    The Way of Water is like its predecessor: sincere to the point of being brash, wide-armed and open-hearted toward the world it loves and vengefully, comically violent toward the people who arrive to destroy that world. It’s a better movie than the first outing because Cameron lets things get weirder, wilder.
  27. Light of My Life
    Even when Light of My Life feels like it’s straining under the heaviness of its storytelling, there’s something about the way he guides us to an inevitable endgame that suggests the filmmaker knows what he’s doing. It’s not a pretty picture he paints here. But it makes you want Affleck to keep picking up that brush.
  28. Ghosts of the Abyss
    Despite over-ripe narration and an understandable urge to cram too much in, Ghosts of the Abyss is a thrilling documentary.
  29. Robot and Frank
    It also addresses questions of aging and neglect that Hollywood likes to run from. Langella, who's played everyone from Dracula to Nixon onscreen, is giving a master class in acting. Enroll now.
  30. Vox Lux
    You should prepare to be wowed by Natalie Portman, who delivers a take-no-prisoners performance as Celeste, a swaggering rock diva who tends to burn down everything in her path, especially when she’s crossed.
  31. In Bruges
    A haunting and hypnotic movie, just the thing to get lost in.
  32. Nocturnal Animals
    Ford hits it out of the park again in Nocturnal Animals, a stunning film noir that resonates with ghostly, poetic terror.
  33. Framing John DeLorean
    And while the arrest and trial take up the bulk of the film’s focus, no amount of famous folks mouthing lines can compare to the compelling, grainy black-and-white clips of the real-deal DeLorean getting busted by the feds.
  34. T2 Trainspotting
    This Trainspotting sequel may feel like that for many who raised a fist in unison with the first film's f--k-the-world defiance. There's a hard-won wisdom at work here, as well as an aching sense of loss. Any way you look at it, T2 takes a piece out of you.
  35. This Is the End
    There's no way you won't have a blast. In their directing debuts, Rogen and Goldberg come up aces, mixing hilarity and horror like pros and never letting up on the killer momentum.
  36. The Door in the Floor
    You can't shut the door on this spellbinder. It gets into your head.
  37. Mondovino
    If "Sideways" made you curious about vino, this fierce, funny and challenging doc opens up a world worth debating.
  38. Stir of Echoes
    Compared with ("The Sixth Sense"), there's no contest. Stir of Echoes has been outrun and outclassed.
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  39. The Fisher King
    Restores our belief in the power of movies to transform reality, even temporarily. So what if it's not perfect? It's magic.
  40. An Ideal Husband
    What shakes the dust off this period piece is the vibrant acting.
  41. Fahrenheit 9/11
    Moore has marshaled what's on the record and off into a stinging indictment of where we're going. In a multiplex filled with Hollywood cotton candy, we need him more than ever.
  42. Blaze
    Shelton obviously wants to distill something innocent and romantic from a relationship the world saw as sleazy. A noble mission. But he's left out a few essentials — like the facts.
  43. Cuties
    It’s a portrait of girls that decries how sexuality is force-fed to them and/or viewed as the only way to foster self-esteem at far too young an age. It is the polar opposite of what it’s accused of being.
  44. Halloween
    That Green’s sequel works as well as it does — it’s still a slasher movie — is due only in part to the director and his collaborators’ copycat admiration for Carpenter’s blueprint. Mostly it’s the troubled times we live in that allows this energizing, elemental horror film to touch a raw nerve for #MeToo.
  45. Synecdoche, New York
    Philip Seymour Hoffman creates a mesmerizing portrait of the artist as a young, old and middle-aged man.
  46. Charlie Wilson's War
    Rude, crude and hilarious, whether he's hitting on Joanne or brokering the sale of Soviet weapons through Israel and Islamic Pakistan, Hoffman is the film's sparking live wire.
  47. The Little Stranger
    Kudos to Wilson (how has she not won an Emmy for her brilliant work on The Affair?), who builds what seems at first like a peripheral character into the defiant soul of the movie.
  48. The Armstrong Lie
    An idol had fallen, and Gibney and the superb director of photography Maryse Alberti were there to capture the descent, including a confessional interview in which Armstrong blames the corruption of the game far more than himself. The movie rambles at two-plus hours, but the provocation never stops.
  49. We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
    As an introduction to who these guys are, the bond they share and the legacy they contributed to, it’s a better-than-decent primer. You simply wish it didn’t feel like one long, stop-and-start mic check.
  50. The Wolf of Snow Hollow
    It’s the personal demons rather than old-fashioned monsters that get you, see, which is one of two central tenets of Cummings’ genre exercise/portrait of a fuck-up mash-up.
  51. The Family Fang
    Kidman and Bateman make a potent team in a provocative film that questions the limits of art in a world that forgets to be human. The result is funny, touching and vital.
  52. The Last Duel
    The experience is not Rashomon Redux so much as enduring a bad rash.
  53. Juliet, Naked
    Juliet, Naked is annoyingly hit and miss. But when Annie and Tucker connect with the gob-smacked Duncan, the movie substitutes the hard sell for grace notes and wins us over.
  54. Last Days
    Van Sant, following "Gerry" and the superb "Elephant," is on the same elliptical quest. His journey is labored but undeniably hypnotic.
  55. A Decade Under the Influence
    Here's a fireball documentary about the 1970s, when filmmakers were stoked by sex, drugs, rock and, oh, yeah, social conscience.
  56. Better Luck Tomorrow
    Lin is a talent to watch. There's a sting to this film that gets to you.
  57. The Business of Strangers
    A maliciously funny and keenly observant movie -- director-writer Patrick Stettner makes a potent feature debut -- that serves its humor dark and without artificial sweeteners.
  58. Young Adam
    Tepid.
  59. Finding Neverland
    Glorious entertainment.
  60. Jay Kelly
    While it has its share of highlights...there’s a lot of celebrity malaise and hot air masquerading as insight here.
  61. Les Cowboys
    Les Cowboys pulls in with no intention of letting you go. It's a workout worth taking.
  62. Haywire
    Haywire comes close to achieving Soderbergh's goal of creating "a Pam Grier movie made by Alfred Hitchcock."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Silent Running
    A movie that has everything — if by everything you mean Bruce Dern as a long-haired homicidal intergalactic treehugger playing poker with droids, talking to bunnies, and feeling really passionately about salad.
  64. Chappaquiddick
    The film is corrosive in its take on the injustice that allowed Ted to live and prosper in a protective bubble of privilege. Clarke makes it clear that the man himself most likely felt the same way.
  65. A Late Quartet
    Grace notes abound in A Late Quartet, a small, shining gem of a movie that works its way into your heart with insinuating potency of music.
  66. Open Range
    Open Range copies the rain and flood of the Clint Eastwood classic but can't match it for dark-night-of-the-soul brilliance.
  67. The King of Staten Island
    The result is both emotional and a comic knockout.
  68. The Ides of March
    A big, bruisingly funny moral fable etched in acid and Obama disillusion.
  69. Shortcomings
    How much self-inquiry Park himself has put into Shortcomings is pure speculation, but you can’t deny he’s put his soul into bringing his vision of a movie that explores everyday identity politics — but isn’t just about identity politics — to life.
  70. Guinevere
    Offers something magical in the haunting and hypnotic performance of Sarah Polley...(the film) cuts deep.
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  71. Tesla
    A striking film that frustratingly never coheres but still holds you in thrall.
  72. Enemy of the State
    Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott have wisely set their course by Will Smith, who is sensational in a dramatic role that leans on him to carry a movie without the help of aliens or Big Willie-style jokes for every occasion.
  73. The Great Hack
    You know you’re in the hands of professionals here — Noujaim was a director or co-director on such solid nonfiction works as "Startup.com" (2001), "Control Room" (2004), and "The Square" (2013) — even if the proceedings sometimes come off like Muckraking Moviemaking 101.
  74. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    A dynamite bundle from British writer-director Guy Ritchie. Even when the accents are as indecipherable as the plot, Ritchie keeps the action percolating and the humor on high.
  75. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Perks deserves points for going beyond the typical coming-of-age drivel aimed at teens.
  76. The Sapphires
    You could call it an Aussie "Dreamgirls." I'd call it a blast of joy and music that struts right into your heart.
  77. Garden State
    It's a hilarious and heartfelt ode to twentysomething angst. Braff has himself a winner.
  78. Long Shot
    The result is a gleefully retro and raunchy funfest that walks a minefield of sexist traps it can’t always dodge. That the rom and the com both land is a tribute to Theron and Rogen.
  79. Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
    Cera, still one of a kind and still making us love him for it (Arrested Development – yes!), never flinches. Jamie is impossible to like. And yet we do because Cera plays him without an ounce of bogus ingratiation. He's terrific.
  80. Freaky
    It’s a clever mash-up conceit that director/co-writer Christopher Landon and his cast milk for all its worth, none more so than the two leads.
  81. Furious 7
    Furious 7 is the best F&F by far, two hours of pure pow fueled by dedication and passionate heart.
  82. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
    A sexual-revolution pioneer, a “gay renegade” who was also “pre-gay,” a cultural saboteur, a sad old man in denial — we get a lot of opaque Scottys, all semi-attached to an alternate “history” that feels maddeningly incomplete and barely surface-scratched.
  83. Private Parts
    What can I tell you? It works. Private Parts is a comic firecracker with a surprising human touch.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Patti Cake$
    Macdonald sells it, the predictable and the profane, as if her life depended on it.
  85. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    Hanging with Quill and his mercenary space misfits is still everything you'd want in a wild summer ride.
  86. The Life of Chuck
    Hiddleston’s soft shoe gives you a glimpse of how the ordinary can become extraordinary. The movie surrounding it, however, seems determined to make the extraordinary seem as bumper-sticker simple and banal as humanly possible.
  87. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
    Joaquin Phoenix and director Gus Van Sant raise the bar when they use roguish humor and bruising pain to color outside the box.
  88. Reality Bites
    By spinning something fresh out of something familiar, Reality Bites scores the first comedy knockout of the new year. It also brings out the vibrant best in Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke as friends who resist being lovers, makes a star of Janeane Garofalo as their tart-tongued buddy and puts Ben Stiller on the map as a director.
  89. Rosewater
    Kudos to Stewart for making Rosewater more than an earnest plea for journalistic freedom. He makes it personal.
  90. Stranger Than Fiction
    This is a Ferrell you've never seen before, nailing a role that calls for breakneck humor in the final race against the clock and touching gravity in the love scenes with Gyllenhaal.
  91. Cairo Time
    It's a haunting and hypnotic film.
  92. Damsels in Distress
    Welcome Damsels in Distress, an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention.
  93. Selena
    Missing is a sense of the interior life behind the smiling face that Selena showed the world.
  94. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    Mission: Impossible — Final Reckoning feels like a conclusion to 30 years worth of proving that yes, you still can conjure up a certain vintage strain of Hollywood magic. It also feels like the end of an era.
  95. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    The movie isn’t always on such sure footing. But that’s almost appropriate: a messier movie trying to reckon with a messier range of feelings.
  96. Nowhere Boy
    Johnson doesn't resemble, much less embody, Lennon, but he does catch his distinctive glint of mischief tinged with pain. Duff and Scott Thomas are both exceptional, revealing how John's relationship with these two clashing sisters marked his character.
  97. The Darjeeling Limited
    All the acting is exemplary. Brody, new to Wes' World, is revelatory as Peter.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Ronin
    Ronin represents an exhilarating return to form for Frankenheimer.
  99. Barney's Version
    Rosamund Pike is perfection as Barney's true love, and Dustin Hoffman makes magic as Barney's randy dad. It's acting heaven.
  100. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    Clooney fashions a style all his own: visceral, vital and churning with off-the-wall ideas. That's what makes you want to see Clooney direct again. You can feel his joy in it.
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