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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
Score distribution:
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  1. A Real Pain
    What Eisenberg accomplishes overall here, however, is beyond measure. It’s the real deal.
  2. The Vast of Night
    What makes it one of the best (and most unclassifiable) movies of the year is the hypnotic way it keeps re-inventing itself from scene to scene.
  3. Palm Springs
    Palm Springs suggests that repetition can kill sex drives, marriages, and even the will to live. Yet it still leaves you laughing gratefully at the resilience of love.
  4. The Believer
    Unique and unforgettable.
  5. The Remains of the Day
    Detractors will see the usual parade of repressed feelings in a Masterpiece Theatre setting. Those who look closer will find one of the best films of the year.
  6. birth/rebirth
    What gives birth/rebirth its dark, subtle, painful sense of humor, as well as its horror and its thoughtful gravity, is the sense that even the most profound problems of life and death can be approached like problems of science — that the act of trying to give someone you love more life can result in basic trial and error and scientific problem-solving.
  7. Best in Show
    Waggish fun like this is too good to miss.
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  8. Unfaithful
    Lane is a force of nature. Her slow-burning, fiercely erotic performance charges the movie.
  9. First Man
    Concentrate on the abundant factors that make First Man unmissable and unforgettable. There have been astronaut movies before, good (Apollo 13) and better (The Right Stuff). But few have been as much a triumph of the imagination fueled, not by FX but by indelible feeling, as this one.
  10. Our Lady of the Assassins
    Setting it against the backdrop of a wanton city under siege, Schroeder crafts a film of whiplash urgency.
  11. Humanité
    It's a haunting, hypnotic film that exerts an escalating grip on the heart and the conscience.
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  12. American Psycho
    An uneven movie that nonetheless bristles with stinging wit and exerts a perverse fascination.
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  13. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    Mitchell gives this post-punk, neo-glam rock extravaganza everything in his loaded arsenal of talents. He gets the sound right, the look right, the fun right and - this is crucial - the pain right.
  14. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
    You can barely call it a movie. You can, however, recognize it as one of Wes Anderson‘s best attempts at transforming both his and his literary idol’s idiosyncrasies into something like art — and the most satisfying posthumous double act in ages.
  15. Barbarian
    While Barbarian‘s unexpected popularity outside of die-hard genre circles can be attributed to old-fashioned, organic word of mouth, it’s also a first-rate horror movie, full stop.
  16. Ghost World
    Let the unsettling secrets of this outrageously funny and steadily engrossing meditation on the life of two high school misfits after graduation catch you by surprise. It's that good.
  17. Hannibal
    It's unmissable, flaws and all, because riveting suspense spiced with diabolical laughs and garnished with a sprig of kinky romance add up to the tastiest dish around.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Kitchen
    There is such clarity of vision here, a rare feat from a first-timer, that it feels as though it was crafted by a seasoned pro. The script is tight and full of humanity, never falling into the trap of being too earnest, and blends some genuine comedy with sequences of pathos and heartbreak. Everything feels grounded without an ounce of pretension.
  19. Thelma & Louise
    Begins like an episode of "I Love Lucy" and ends with the impact of "Easy Rider."
  20. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
    Using their voices for demonstrations and protests, they helped pass 1990’s revolutionary Americans With Disabilities Act. This documentary proves that they are still changing the world.
  21. My Own Private Idaho
    Before this trippy, mesmerizing movie swerves out of control, it delivers an exhilarating and challenging ride.
  22. Saint Omer
    Diop’s direction of Saint Omer is spare in style but dense in emotional intelligence, heavy with its own inquiries.
  23. East Is East
    Get your titles straight -- this is the good one, and a roaring good time.
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  24. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
    Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is one of the all-time great live performers aiming higher — and louder — than ever.
  25. Carmine Street Guitars
    It’s a love letter — to New York, to the bohemians and musicians who still live there come hell or high water, to the art of crafting a damn fine customized Stratocaster, to taking pride in your work, to shooting the shit and most importantly, to finding a place for fellow freaks and misfits to call home.
  26. Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
    Beyoncé’s Renaissance is so much more than a concert film. It’s a superhero epic—as if Bey is filling the void left by The Marvels or Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. It’s a glorious three-hour tour of the Queen in all her creative splendor, on her record-setting Renaissance World Tour from this past summer.
  27. The Old Man & the Gun
    Sometimes a movie arrives that charms its way into your heart — and The Old Man & the Gun is just such an unassuming, exuberant gift.
  28. Damage
    Richardson is extraordinary; it’s a brave, award-caliber performance...The fiercely erotic and deeply moving Damage casts a hypnotic spell and without moralizing.
  29. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
    It’s the perfect goodbye from an artist who lived to jolt you out of a sense of complacency. Mission accomplished.
  30. Me, Myself & Irene
    Irresistibly deranged.
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  31. Leaving Las Vegas
    A uniquely hypnotic and haunting love story sparked by Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue at their career best.
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  32. Being John Malkovich
    The crazy-ass imagination at work in Being John Malkovich hits you like a blast of pure oxygen...this movie of constant astonishments will make you laugh hard and long.
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  33. 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.
  34. Gimme the Loot
    Instead of the easy attitudinizing that is the default position for teen comedies, Gimme the Loot fills each frame with raw talent and exuberance.
  35. Nightcrawler
    Nightcrawler curves and hisses its way into your head with demonic skill. When the laughs come, they stick in your throat. This is a deliciously twisted piece of work. And Gyllenhaal, coiled and ready to spring, is scarily brilliant. He truly is a monster for our time.
  36. A Mighty Heart
    The film belongs to Jolie. She won an Oscar for 1999's "Girl, Interrupted," but this is by far her best performance.
  37. Contemporary Color
    This may be one of the few rockumentaries since Stop Making Sense to tap the cinematic potential of sound and vision in a way that feels genuinely collaborative and borderline transcendental.
  38. Funny People
    It's the work of a major talent. Apatow scores by crafting the film equivalent of a stand-up routine that encompasses the joy, pain, anger, loneliness and aching doubt that go into making an audience laugh.
  39. Cinderella Man
    It's the classic American tale of the family man triumphant, and Howard makes sure that it hits you right in the heart.
  40. Corpse Bride
    It's warped and wonderfully effervescent. Ditto the songs by Danny Elfman, who sings the role of Bonejangles, the frontman for a skeleton jazz band at a swinging underworld club. Best of all is the love story.
  41. SubUrbia
    The fierce and funny film version has been directed by Texan Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise) with rare grace and compassion.
  42. Black Book
    Just for starters, no movie about the Dutch Resistance during World War II has any right to be this wildly entertaining, not to mention this provocative and potently erotic.
  43. Like Crazy
    Jones is a marvel. Sundance couldn't get enough of her. You won't, either. Her performance grabs hold and won't let go.
  44. Ray
    Jamie Foxx gets so far inside the man and his music that he and Ray Charles seem to breathe as one.
  45. mother!
    Shot with a surrealist's eye for madness and destruction by the great cinematographer Matthew Libatique, Mother! always seems on the verge of exploding. Your head will feel the same way. And I mean that as a compliment.
  46. Crazy Love
    For those who don't believe that truth trumps fiction for whacked-out depravity, mark this shockingly fierce and funny spellbinder as Exhibit A.
  47. Shrek 2
    Shrek 2 may be computer-generated, but its innate heart and glorious sense of mischief make it one of the best and most humane movies of the summer.
  48. A Serious Man
    This seriously funny movie, artfully photographed by the great Roger Deakins, is spiritual in nature, barbed in tone, and, oh, yeah, it stings like hell.
  49. A Perfect World
    Eastwood grabs the reins and draws Costner's scrappiest performance since Bull Durham. In going beyond chase-yarn duty, Eastwood and Costner do themselves proud.
  50. The Barbarian Invasions
    It's a feast of smart, sexy, glorious talk. The Oscar for best foreign film belongs right here.
  51. Slumdog Millionaire
    Brimming with humor and heartbreak, Slumdog Millionaire meets at the border of art and commerce and lets one flow into the other as if that were the natural order of things.
  52. Jackie
    Powered by a transfixing Portman, Larrain's film – one of the year's best – is appropriately hard to pin down and impossible to forget.
  53. Baby Driver
    Now this is what I call a summer movie. Baby Driver has it all: thrills, laughs, sex, nonstop action, a killer soundtrack, a star-making performance from Ansel Elgort and a director – Edgar Wright – who can knock the wind out of you.
  54. I Shot Andy Warhol
    Immensely entertaining and provocative.
  55. Doubt
    You may have doubts about which side to choose, but there's no doubt about this mind-bender. It'll pin you to your seat.
  56. Avatar
    Tone-deaf but thunderously exciting.
  57. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
    Kudrow's Michele is a deadpan delight as she joins fellow misfit Romy (a deliciously funny Mira Sorvino).
  58. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
    McNaughton has made a film of clutching terror that's meant to heighten our awareness instead of dulling it. At the end, Henry is still out there among us. And he's no B-movie monster in a hockey mask. He could be the guy next door. This film gives off a dark chill that follows you all the way home.
  59. Crude
    Here’s a powerhouse of a documentary that makes you feel mad as hell and unwilling to take it anymore.
  60. Life Itself
    Don't miss it. Though Life Itself is a warts-and-all portrait Ebert didn't live to review, my guess is his thumbs would be shooting upward. Mine sure are.
  61. Five Easy Pieces
    A marvel of letting an antihero's restless wanderings dictate the terms of the story, Pieces doesn't explain its lead's ennui so much as honors it.
  62. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    A dynamite film that ranks with the year's best.
  63. Appaloosa
    Appaloosa is gripping entertainment that keeps springing surprises.
  64. Cyrus
    Cyrus, the summer's best, most original and crazily inventive comedy, is potently funny and painfully real.
  65. American Hustle
    For some, the silver linings in Russell’s movies represent a failure to embrace darkness. I see them as a humanist’s act of resistance. That’s why American Hustle ranks with the year’s best movies. It gets under your skin.
  66. Toy Story 3
    A joy to behold.
  67. Little Children
    This unnervingly funny and quietly devastating film -- director Todd Field's first since his smash 2001 debut with "In the Bedroom" -- pulls you in like a magnetic-force field.
  68. Down in the Valley
    Down in the Valley is a wild thing that sticks with you long after it's over. You know, a real movie.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Parenthood
    Parenthood, heartfelt and howlingly comic, also comes spiced with risk and mischief. Just when you fear the movie might be swept away on a tidal wave of wholesomeness, a line, a scene or a performance poke through to restore messy, perverse reality.
  70. Get Out
    A jolt-a-minute horroshow laced with racial tension and stinging satirical wit.
  71. Finding Neverland
    Glorious entertainment.
  72. The Constant Gardener
    Director Fernando Meirelles and screenwriter Jeffrey Caine put a human face on John le Carre's novel of sex, lies and dirty politics in modern Africa. Prepare for a thrilling ride.
  73. Bob Roberts
    Robbins’s debut as a director is exceptionally accomplished. He shrewdly balances his sense of purpose with a flair for mischief.
  74. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    It will hook you good and keep you riveted.
  75. Blue Is the Warmest Color
    Blue Is the Warmest Color sweeps you up on waves of humor, heartbreak and ravishing romance.
  76. My Life as a Zucchini
    What's lucky is that no matter what language it's in, My Life as Zucchini never sacrifices what’s true for what’s trite and easier to sell. This is animation as an art form, inspiring and indelible.
  77. The Hangover
    The Hangover ain't art, but Phillips has shaped the hardcore hilarity into the summer party movie of all our twisted dreams.
  78. Capturing the Friedmans
    It's a modern horror story that gets you where you live.
  79. Citizenfour
    It's a wow of a thriller with a soul that isn't computer generated. Poitras may be guilty of taking Snowden at face value, but she succeeds brilliantly in evoking a shadow villain intent on world domination. Big Brother is back, baby, and he's gone digital.
  80. The Wrestler
    You watch The Wrestler (with a superb title song from Bruce Springsteen) in a state of pure exhilaration. A great actor in a great movie will do that to you.
  81. Blue Caprice
    Blue Caprice is a cinematic punch to the gut, a mind-bending meditation on how to mold a killer, and one of the most potent and provocative true-crime movies ever made.
  82. 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.
  83. Cars 2
    Lasseter is back behind the wheel, and you can feel his love for all things automotive in every frame. No humans blot this anthropomorphic romp. Cars do all the talking.
  84. Beowulf
    Zemeckis springs so many pow 3-D surprises you'll think Beowulf is your own private fun house.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Ronin
    Ronin represents an exhilarating return to form for Frankenheimer.
  86. G.I. Jane
    Down in the mud with the guys, Moore finds the heart of her character and a career beyond vanity and hype. She's never looked better.
  87. Disobedience
    A gorgeously acted, written and directed spellbinder.
  88. Open Water
    The ending -- a more devastating surprise than "The Village" could manage -- caps eighty sweat-job minutes of imaginative, jolting suspense.
  89. Amateur
    Amateur is Hartley heaven, a sharp-witted thriller that takes off into dark and uncharted territory.
  90. Ponyo
    Miyazaki works marvels. Sit back and behold.
  91. Snowpiercer
    A slambam sci-fi thriller with a brain, a heart and an artful sense of purpose. You're in for a wild whoosh of a ride.
  92. The Lives of Others
    Von Donnersmarck has crafted the best kind of movie: one you can't get out of your head.
  93. 50/50
    A movie handled with this kind of care is a rare gift. Refusing to hide from pain or bow to it, 50/50 makes its own rules. It'll get to you.
  94. Breach
    In this steadily gripping hothouse of a thriller, it's Cooper -- funny, fierce and bug-wild -- who gives us a look into the abyss.
  95. Incredibles 2
    This follow-up is every bit the start-to-finish sensation as the original, and you'll be happy to know that Bird's subversive spirit is alive and thriving.
  96. Lilya 4-Ever
    Lukas Moodysson, a young Swedish director, crafts a stunner of a film out of familiar turf.
  97. Dallas Buyers Club
    McConaughey makes sure we feel his tenacity and triumphs in the treatment of AIDS. His explosive, unerring portrayal defines what makes an actor great, blazing commitment to a character and the range to make every nuance felt.
  98. Midnight in Paris
    What's fresh about Midnight in Paris is the way he (Allen) identifies with Gil's idealization of the past, of the Paris that represented art and life at their fullest.
  99. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Your only mistake would be to not see it at all, and miss out on one of the unalloyed pleasures of the fall movie season.
  100. Cold Mountain
    The specter of war haunts Cold Mountain, but you remember it for the heat of its romantic yearning and the mysteries that wrap themselves around you until you're lost in another world.
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