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On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. The Assassin
    Hou uses very few close-ups here, preferring to tell his story mostly through movement: combat, dance, the act of passing through a landscape of satiny green firs or silvery birch trees and just watching. Shu conveys complicated feelings — longing, regret, anxiety — with little more than the tilt of her chin or the set of her shoulders.
  2. Rams
    The movie, wry and melancholy, doesn't linger over its artistry.
  3. Embrace of the Serpent
    Colombian director Ciro Guerra's Embrace of the Serpent is a legitimate stunner, a river-trip that will mesmerize and jack with you, leaving you not quite certain, at its end, how to go about the rest of your day.
  4. Cartel Land
    Cartel Land is interested in how idealism becomes corrupt.
  5. Famous Nathan
    Terrific documentaries are a dime a dozen; ones this multifaceted are to be cherished.
  6. Chi-Raq
    Chi-Raq is a marvel. It's Lee resurrecting his voice — angry, impassioned, and funny as hell — right when we need to hear it.
  7. Everybody Wants Some!!
    The experience of watching this film is one of reflective exuberance. It's a movie about people who arrive sure of themselves and depart in the quiet confidence that all they know is that they know nothing.
  8. The Second Mother
    As we switch sympathies from scene to scene, Muylaert forces us to think big about the clash between idealism and acceptance, a philosophical war that spills beyond the walls of this small story into every corner of our own lives.
  9. Spotlight
    Spotlight feels both timeless and modern, a dexterously crafted film that could have been made anytime but somehow feels perfect for right now.
  10. Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
    However you enjoy its nearly four hundred minutes, I expect you'll be held rapt till the last second by a film of abundant wit and generous heart.
  11. Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
    The stories have an almost dreamlike sweep and imaginative energy, and the film never exhausts that exuberance. More extraordinary still is its emotional depth.
  12. Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One
    This is a masterpiece not because it culminates in some redemptive catharsis or clinching argument for social change, but because, by disavowing such facile ends, it meets the mess of life on its own clear and true terms.
  13. Anomalisa
    Kaufman builds an emotional world we're nervous to enter, one we're already living in.
  14. In Jackson Heights
    It's a work of community portraiture that slowly develops into collective drama
  15. Neon Bull
    No matter how rigorously worked out each shot and its action might be, Neon Bull always honors the chaotic looseness of everyday living — the way that, unlike in the movies, few of the moments we inhabit seem to be about just one thing.
  16. A War
    Perhaps the best film yet set against the mess of the ongoing Middle Eastern wars, Tobias Lindholm's latest is a scrupulous, unglamorized examination of battlefield decision-making — and its potentially devastating impacts, both there and back home.
  17. Western
    The film, a hard jewel of beauty and reportage, demands and rewards that second viewing.
  18. The Russian Woodpecker
    The Russian Woodpecker is very much like Fedor himself — eccentric as hell, smart as a whip, and, at the end of the day, a heartbreaker.
  19. The Royal Road
    As personal as it is political, Olson's meditative project offers a profound lesson on intimacy and history — and the ways in which both are distorted and remade by memory.
  20. Democrats
    As excellent a documentary about politics as you will ever see.
  21. Kubo and the Two Strings
    From its opening image — of a distraught woman battling massive ocean waves on a moonlit night — to its surprisingly ambiguous final shot — of what, I won't say — Kubo and the Two Strings sears itself into your brain.
  22. Dunkirk
    Nolan fully embraces the power of visual storytelling in Dunkirk.
  23. Little Men
    Sachs, a clear-eyed humanist, honors all his characters' pained perspectives.
  24. Certain Women
    Certain Women is a kind, loving, and deeply moving portrait of bighearted small-town people.
  25. Manchester by the Sea
    A poignant, surprisingly hilarious depiction of death, grieving, and small-town life.
  26. Newtown
    Newtown is an act of memorialization, a demand that this most distractible of countries look close and continue to care.
  27. A Quiet Passion
    In his sympathetic and intelligent Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies honors his subject by remaining true to this observation from the poet herself: "To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations."
  28. After the Storm
    I walked out of After the Storm wanting to be a better person — and further convinced that Hirokazu Kore-eda isn't just one of the world's best filmmakers, but one of its most indispensable artists.
  29. Don't Think Twice
    Mike Birbiglia's Don't Think Twice stands as the best, most revealing film about comedy people and one of the best about artistic collaboration. It's a boisterous and sensitive work of many facets.
  30. Paths of the Soul
    The film is restful and exhausting, inviting us into contemplation: of Tibet's epic-scale natural beauty, which has rarely been filmed with such you-are-there patience and intimacy, each new horizon these pilgrims reach a reward for their perseverance — and yours.
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