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The following list averages the opinions of my favorite critics plus mine.
Foreign movies show sometimes a year later, so if you can't find a title, check last year's ratings.
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7.8 Sergei Loznitsa: Schastye Moe/ My Joy  7.5 Chang-dong Lee: Poetry 7.5 Quentin Dupieux: Rubber (2010) 7.4 Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 7.3 Raul Ruiz: Misterios de Lisboa/ Mysteries of Lisbon 7.2 Agusti Vila: La Mosquitera/ The Mosquito Net 7.2 Michelangelo Frammartino: Le Quattro Volte 7.2 Edgar Wright: Scott Pilgrim vs the World 7.2 Alex de la Iglesia: Balada Triste/ The Last Circus 7.2 Manoel de Oliveira: The Strange Case of Angelica 7.2 Christopher Nolan: Inception 7.1 Hong Sang-soo: Oki's Movie 7.1 Joanna Hogg: Archipelago 7.1 Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: The Screaming Man 7.1 Darren Aronofsky: Black Swan 7.1 Mike Mills: Beginners 7.1 Abdellatif Kechiche: Venus Noire/ Black Venus 7.0 Jerzy Skolimowski: Essential Killing 7.0 Vikramaditya Motwane: Udaan (2010) 7.0 Nina Menkes: Dissolution 7.0 David Robert Mitchell: The Myth of the American Sleepover 7.0 Leland Orser: Morning 7.0 Chen Kaige: Sacrifice 7.0 Wen Jiang: Rang Zi Dan/ Let the Bullets Fly (2010) 7.0 Aparna Sen: Iti Mrinalini (2010) 7.0 Goutam Ghose: Moner Manush (2010) 7.0 Semih Kaplanoglu: Bal/ Honey 7.0 Maria Sodahl: Limbo 7.0 Hongqi Li: Winter Vacation 7.0 Liu Jian: Piercing I 7.0 Hong Sang-soo: Hahaha 7.0 Tsui Hark: Di Renjie - Tong Tian di Guo/ Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame 7.0 Andre Ovredal: Trolljegeren/ Trollhunter 7.0 Alexei Popogrebsky: How I Ended This Summer 7.0 Fred Cavaye: Point Blank 7.0 Jan Svankmajer: Surviving Life 7.0 Rafi Pitts: The Hunter 7.0 Hong-jin Na: The Yellow Sea 7.0 Eric Mendelsohn: 3 Backyards 7.0 Kelly Reichardt: Meek's Cutoff 7.0 Clio Barnard: The Arbor 7.0 Marc Meyers: Harvest 7.0 Mike Goldbach: Daydream Nation 7.0 Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer: R 7.0 Im Sang-soo: The Housemaid 7.0 Feng Xiaogang: Aftershock 7.0 Larysa Kondracki: The Whistleblower 7.0 Julie Bertuccelli: The Tree 7.0 Cristi Puiu: Aurora 7.0 Denis Villeneuve: Incendies 7.0 Xavier Dolan: Heartbeats 7.0 Xavier Beauvois: Of Gods and Men 7.0 Mike Leigh: Another Year 7.0 Debra Granik: Winter's Bone 7.0 Lisa Cholodenko: The Kids are All Right 7.0 Baltasar Kormakur: Inhale 7.0 Gareth Edwards: Monsters 7.0 Silvio Soldini: Come Undone 7.0 Radu Muntean: Tuesday After Christmas 7.0 Michael Rowe: Leap Year 7.0 Ed Gass-Donnelly: Small Town Murder Songs 6.9 Sylvain Chomet: The Illusionist 6.9 Wen Jiang: Rang Zi Dan Fei/ Let the Bullets Fly 6.9 Zhang Chi: Dixia de Tiankong/ The Shaft 6.9 Noah Baumbach: Greenberg 6.9 Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois: How to Train Your Dragon 6.9 Victor Nunez: Spoken Word 6.9 Nicolo Donato: Brotherhood 6.9 Rachid Bouchareb: Outside the Law 6.9 Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani: Amer 6.9 Lena Dunham: Tiny Furniture 6.9 Jean-Luc Godard: Film Socialisme 6.8 Manoel de Oliveira: Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl 6.8 Oren Moverman: Rampart 6.8 Michael Winterbottom: The Trip 6.8 Christian Carion: Farewell 6.8 Antoine Fuqua: Brooklyn's Finest 6.8 Danny Boyle: 127 Hours 6.8 Marco Bellocchio: Vincere 6.8 Miguel Sapochnik: Repo Men 6.8 Maren Ade: Everyone Else 6.8 Felix van Groeningen: The Misfortunates 6.8 Bette Gordon: Handsome Harry 6.8 Patrick Hoelck: Mercy 6.8 Ralph Ziman: Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema 6.8 Daniel Stamm: The Last Exorcism 6.8 Fredrik Edfeldt: The Girl 6.8 Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman: Howl 6.8 Doug Liman: Fair Game 6.8 Tom McGrath: Megamind 6.8 Damien Chazelle: Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench 6.8 Nigel Cole: Made in Dagenham 6.8 Urszula Antoniak: Nothing Personal 6.8 Andrei Konchalovsky: Nutcracker in 3D 6.8 Andrew Jarecki: All Good Things 6.7 Deagol Brothers: Make-Out With Violence 6.7 Jeb Stuart: Blood Done Sign My Name 6.7 Jake Scott: Welcome to the Rileys 6.7 Peter Liechti: The Sound of Insects 6.7 Hong Sang-soo: The Day He Arrives 6.6 Nicole Holofcener: Please Give 6.6 Jacques Rivette: Around a Small Mountain 6.6 Olivier Assayas: Carlos 6.6 Warwick Thornton: Samson & Delilah 6.6 Tyler Perry: For Colored Girls 6.5 Chris Morris: Four Lions 6.5 Banksy: Exit Through the Gift Shop 6.5 Michael Winterbottom: The Killer Inside Me 6.5 Florin Serban: If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle 6.5 Wang Quan'an: Tuan Yuan/ Apart Together 6.5 Benjamin Heisenberg: The Robber 6.5 Im Sang-soo: The Housemaid 6.5 Patrick Keiller: Robinson in Ruins 6.5 Aleksei Fedorchenko: Silent Souls 6.5 Julian Schnabel: Miral 6.5 Mika Kaurismaki: The House Of Branching Love 6.5 Abbas Kiarostami: Certified Copy 6.5 Pablo Larrain: Post Mortem 6.5 Panos Cosmatos: Beyond The Black Rainbow 6.5 Hossein Keshavarz: Dog Sweat 6.5 Sion Sono: Cold Fish 6.5 Amos Gitai: Carmel 6.5 Andrei Khrzhanovsky: A Room and a Half 6.5 Paul Greengrass: Green Zone 6.5 Conor McPherson: The Eclipse 6.5 Tim Blake Nelson: Leaves of Grass 6.5 Robert Saitzyk: Godspeed 6.5 Michel Gondry: The Thorn in the Heart 6.5 Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men 6.5 David Levien: Solitary Man 6.5 Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Micmacs 6.5 Jan Kounen: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky 6.5 Aaron Schneider: Get Low 6.5 Rob Reiner: Flipped 6.5 Daniele Thompson: Change of Plans 6.5 Jeff Mizushima: Etienne 6.5 Paul Fierlinger: My Dog Tulip 6.5 Matt Reeves: Let Me In 6.5 Eugene Green: The Portuguese Nun 6.5 Ned Farr: A Marine Story 6.5 Philip Ridley: Heartless 6.5 Nathan Greno and Byron Howard: Tangled 6.5 Jalmari Helander: Rare Exports 6.5 Geoff Marslett: Mars 6.5 Tanya Hamilton: Night Catches Us 6.5 John Requa and Glenn Ficarra: I Love You Phillip Morris 6.5 Edward Zwick: Love & Other Drugs 6.5 John Wells: The Company Men 6.5 Nicolas Philibert: Nenette 6.5 Alejandro Inarritu: Biutiful 6.5 David Fincher: Social Network 6.4 Steven Soderbergh: And Everything Is Going Fine 6.4 Takeshi Kitano: Outrage 6.4 Joel Schumacher: Twelve 6.4 Philipp Stolzl: North Face 6.4 James Hausler: Kalamity 6.3 Lasse Hallstrom: Dear John 6.3 Sofia Coppola: Somewhere 6.3 Harvey Wang: The Last New Yorker 6.3 Lee Unkrich: Toy Story 3 6.2 Tomm Moore: The Secret of Kells 6.2 Michel Leclerc: The Names of Love 6.2 Monte Hellman: Road to Nowhere 6.2 Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman: The Extra Man 6.2 Zack Snyder: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole 6.2 Clint Eastwood : Hereafter 6.2 Steve Pink: Hot Tub Time Machine 6.1 Julio DelPietro: The Good Guy 6.0 Takashi Miike: Jusannin no Shikaku/ 13 Assassins 6.0 Roman Polanski: The Ghost Writer 6.0 Miguel Arteta: Youth In Revolt 6.0 Eduardo Sanchez: Lovely Molly 6.0 Henry Jaglom: Queen of the Lot 6.0 Doug Langway: BearCity 6.0 Jeff Malmberg: Marwencol 6.0 Randall Wallace: Secretariat 6.0 Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden: It's Kind of a Funny Story 6.0 Tze Chun: Children of Invention 6.0 Dave Boyle: White on Rice 6.0 Adam Green: Frozen 6.0 Pierre Morel: From Paris With Love 6.0 Haim Tabakman: Eyes Wide Open 6.0 Peter and Michael Spierig: Daybreakers 6.0 Dror Zahavi: For My Father 6.0 Hue Rhodes: Saint John of Las Vegas 6.0 Josh Goldin: Wonderful World 6.0 Allen and Albert Hughes: The Book of Eli 6.0 Anne Aghion: My Neighbor My Killer 6.0 Tom Vaughan: Extraordinary Measures 6.0 David Oliveras: Watercolors 6.0 Ben Waller: Murder in Fashion 6.0 Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Easier With Practice 6.0 Adam Kane: Formosa Betrayed 6.0 Udayan Prasad: The Yellow Handkerchief 6.0 Raymond De Felitta: City Island 6.0 Minos Papas: Shutterbug 6.0 Daryl Wein: Breaking Upwards 6.0 Matthew Vaughn: Kick-Ass 6.0 Neil LaBute: Death at a Funeral 6.0 Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney: Paper Man 6.0 Jee-woon Kim: The Good, the Bad, the Weird 6.0 Daniel Barber: Harry Brown 6.0 Dover Kosashvili: The Duel 6.0 Philippe Loiret: Welcome 6.0 Brooks Branch: Multiple Sarcasms 6.0 Gary Winick: Letters to Juliet 6.0 Mike Mitchell: Shrek Forever After 6.0 Nicholas Stoller: Get Him to the Greek 6.0 Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass: Cyrus 6.0 Taylor Hackford: Love Ranch 6.0 Lance Daly: Kisses 6.0 Jay Roach: Dinner for Schmucks 6.0 Radu Mihaileanu: The Concert 6.0 George Gallo: Middle Men 6.0 Ruba Nadda: Cairo Time 6.0 Abhishek Sharma: Tere Bin Laden 6.0 Ryan Murphy: Eat Pray Love 6,0 David Michod: Animal Kingdom 6.0 Susanna White: Nanny McPhee Returns 6.0 Nanette Burstein: Going the Distance 6.0 Robert Rodriguez: Machete 6.0 Jann Turner: White Wedding 6.0 Elizabeth Lucas: Clear Blue Tuesday 6.0 Mark Romanek: Never Let Me Go 6.0 Pascal Chaumeil: Heartbreaker 6.0 Galt Niederhoffer: The Romantics 6.0 Francois Ozon: Le Refuge/ Hideaway 6.0 Francois Ozon: Potiche/ Trophy Wife 6.0 Philip Seymour Hoffman: Jack Goes Boating 6.0 Katie Aselton: The Freebie 6.0 Atom Egoyan: Chloe 6.0 Joseph Graham: Strapped 6.0 Jon Gunn: Like Dandelion Dust 6.0 Oliver Stone: Money Never Sleeps 6.0 Rodrigo Cortes: Buried 6.0 Todd Phillips: Due Date 6.0 Steven Antin: Burlesque 6.0 Richard Lewis: Barney's Version 6.0 John Irvin: Hemingway's Garden of Eden 6.0 John Cameron Mitchell: Rabbit Hole 6.0 George Hickenlooper: Casino Jack 6.0 Sam Taylor-Wood: Nowhere Boy 6.0 Chui-mui Tan: Year Without A Summer (2010) 5.9 Martin Scorsese: Shutter Island 5.9 Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo: After Life 5.8 Night Shyamalan: The Last Airbender 5.8 Olivier Masset-Depasse: Illegal 5.8 Tom Hooper: The King's Speech 5.8 Daniel Alfredson: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 5.7 Tim Burton: Alice in Wonderland 5.7 J Blakeson: Disappearance of Alice Creed 5.7 Stephen Frears: Tamara Drewe 5.5 Gabriel Medina: The Paranoids 5.5 Ananth Narayan Mahadevan: Red Alert - The War Within 5.5 Andy Tennant: The Bounty Hunter 5.5 Shawn Levy: Date Night 5.5 David Kittredge: Pornography: A Thriller 5.5 Neil Marshall: Centurion 5.5 Claudia Llosa: The Milk of Sorrow 5.5 Mel Damski: Legendary 5.5 Ben Wheatley: Down Terrace 5.5 Claude Chabrol: Inspector Bellamy 5.5 Roger Mitchell: Morning Glory 5.5 David Yates: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 5.2 Paul Haggis: The Next Three Days 5.0 Jon Amiel: Creation 5.0 Raul Ruiz: A Closed Book/ Blind Revenge 5.0 Ry Russo-Young: You Wont Miss Me 5.0 Julie Taymor: The Tempest 5.0 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: The Tourist 5.0 David Russell: The Fighter 5.0 Greg Berlanti: Life as We Know It 5.0 John Curran: Stone 5.0 Jonathan Lynn: Wild Target 5.0 Margarethe von Trotta: Vision 5.0 Tony Goldwyn: Conviction 5.0 Agustin: Falling Awake 5.0 Michael Lembeck: Tooth Fairy 5.0 Patrick Alessandrin: District 13: Ultimatum 5.0 Mitchell Lichtenstein: Happy Tears 5.0 Kevin Smith: Cop Out 5.0 Bradley Rust Gray: The Exploding Girl 5.0 Allen Coulter: Remember Me 5.0 Rick Famuyiwa: Our Family Wedding 5.0 Leena Yadav: Teen Patti 5.0 Floria Sigismondi: The Runaways 5.0 Julie Anne Robinson: The Last Song 5.0 Jerry Zaks: Who Do You Love 5.0 Derrick Borte: The Joneses 5.0 Sylvain White: The Losers 5.0 Duncan Ward: Boogie Woogie 5.0 Allen Wolf: In My Sleep 5.0 Tom Six: The Human Centipede - First Sequence 5.0 Adam Sherman: Happiness Runs 5.0 Ridley Scott: Robin Hood 5.0 Woody Allen: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 5.0 Sanaa Hamri: Just Wright 5.0 Ian FitzGibbon: Perrier's Bounty 5.0 Mike Newell: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 5.0 David Slade: Twilight Saga - Eclipse 5.0 Fouad Mikati: Operation Endgame 5.0 Burr Steers: Charlie St. Cloud 5.0 Adam McKay: The Other Guys 5.0 Jon Chu: Step Up 3D 5.0 Sylvester Stallone: The Expendables 5.0 Goro Miyazaki: Tales From Earthsea 5.0 Bruce Beresford: Mao's Last Dancer 5.0 Anton Corbijn: The American 5.0 James Strouse: The Winning Season 5.0 Casey Affleck: I'm Still Here 5.0 Ben Affleck: The Town 5.0 Will Gluck: Easy A 5.0 Catherine Corsini: Leaving 5.0 Casper Andreas: Violet Tendencies 5.0 Kyle Gallner: Cherry 5.0 Roger Spottiswoode: Shake Hands With the Devil 5.0 Tony Scott: Unstoppable 5.0 George Tillman: Faster 5.0 Joseph Kosinski: Tron - Legacy 5.0 James Felix McKenney: Satan Hates You 5.0 Anton Bormatov: Alien Girl 5.0 Joel Coen and Ethan Coen: True Grit 5.0 Rob Letterman: Gulliver's Travels 5.0 Derek Cianfrance: Blue Valentine 4.9 Malcolm Venville: 44 Inch Chest 4.6 William Jennings: Harlem Aria 4.5 Garry Marshall: Valentine's Day 4.5 Joe Johnston: The Wolfman 4.5 Chris Columbus: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief 4.5 Lee Toland Krieger: The Vicious Kind 4.5 Martin Campbell: Edge of Darkness 4.5 Shana Feste: The Greatest 4.5 Alan Poul: The Back-up Plan 4.5 Marc Forby: Princess Kaiulani 4.5 James Mangold: Knight and Day 4.5 Daniel Alfredson: The Girl Who Played With Fire 4.5 Jon Turteltaub: The Sorcerer's Apprentice 4.5 Rachel Perkins: Bran Nue Dae 4.5 Andy Fickman: You Again 4.5 Robert Schwentke: Red 4.5 Paul Weitz: Little Fockers 4.3 Drake Doremus: Douchebag 4.0 Dennis Dugan: Grown-ups 4.0 Brad Peyton: Cats and Dogs 4.0 Brian Levant: The Spy Next Door 4.0 Anand Tucker: Leap Year 4.0 Mark Steven Johnson: When in Rome 4.0 Breck Eisner: The Crazies 4.0 Jim Field Smith: She's Out of My League 4.0 Thor Freudenthal: Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4.0 Mark Young: The Killing Jar 4.0 James Bolton: Dream Boy 4.0 Bill Humphreys: Just Say Love 4.0 Louis Leterrier: Clash of the Titans 4.0 Jake Goldberger: Don McKay 4.0 William Dear: The Perfect Game 4.0 Samuel Bayer: Nightmare on Elm Street 4.0 Roger Kumble: Furry Vengeance 4.0 Jon Favreau: Iron Man 2 4.0 Harald Zwart: The Karate Kid 4.0 Joe Carnahan: The A-Team 4.0 George Romero: Survival of the Dead 4.0 Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin: Despicable Me 4.0 Nimrod Antal: Predators 4.0 Philip Noyce: Salt 4.0 Will Speck and Josh Gordon: The Switch 4.0 Alexandre Aja: Piranha 3D 4.0 John Luessenhop: Takers 4.0 James Brooks: How Do You Know 4.0 Eric Brevig: Yogi Bear 3.5 Ron Satlof: Misconceptions 3.5 Michael Patrick King: Sex and the City 2 3.5 Jeff Tremaine: Jackass 3D |