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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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7.7 Carlos Reygadas: Post Tenebras Lux 7.6 Leos Carax: Holy Motors  7.5 Christian Petzold: Barbara 7.4 Johnnie To: Drug War 7.4 Thomas Vinterberg: Jagten/ The Hunt (2012) 7.3 Miguel Gomes: Tabu 7.2 Matteo Garrone: Reality 7.2 Anurag Kashyap: Gangs of Wasseypur 7.2 Cristian Mungiu: Beyond the Hills 7.2 Jem Cohen: Museum Hours 7.2 Raul Ruiz: Night Across the Street 7.2 Noah Baumbach: Frances Ha 7.1 Benh Zeitlin: Beasts of the Southern Wild 7.1 Don Hertzfeldt: It's Such a Beautiful Day 7.1 Jean-Claude Brisseau: La Fille de Nulle Part/ The Girl from Nowhere 7.1 Ken Loach: The Angel's Share 7.1 Benjamin Dickinson: First Winter 7.1 Richard Foreman: Once Every Day 7.1 Alain Resnais: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet 7.1 Wes Anderson: Moonrise Kingdom 7.1 Kleber Mendonca Filho: Neighboring Sounds 7.1 Michel Franco: Despues de Lucia/ After Lucia 7.0 Harmony Korine: Spring Breakers 7.0 Mamoru Hosoda: Wolf Children 7.0 Radu Jude: Toata Lumea din Familia Noastra/ Everybody In Our Family (2012) 7.0 Julia Dyer: The Playroom 7.0 Peter Strickland: Berberian Sound Studio (2012) 7.0 Joshua Oppenheimer: The Act of Killing (2012) 7.0 Christian Schwochow: The Tower 7.0 Gyorgy Palfi: Final Cut - Holgyeim es Uraim / Final Cut - Ladies and Gentlemen 7.0 Xavier Dolan: Laurence Anyways 7.0 Jen and Sylvia Soska: American Mary 7.0 Jeff Nichols: Mud 7.0 Amy Seimetz: Sun Don't Shine 7.0 Ulrich Seidl: Paradise - Love 7.0 Joss Whedon: Much Ado About Nothing 7.0 Terence Nance: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty 7.0 Alice Winocour: Augustine 7.0 Sergei Loznitsa: In the Fog 7.0 Tobias Lindholm: A Hijacking 7.0 Ziad Doueiri: The Attack 7.0 Matias Pineiro: Viola 7.0 Eduardo Nunes: Southwest 7.0 Cate Shortland: Lore 7.0 Nabil Ayouch: Horses of God 7.0 Joachim Lafosse: Our Children 7.0 Wladyslaw Pasikowski: Aftermath 7.0 Keith Miller: Welcome to Pine Hill 7.0 Kim Nguyen: War Witch 7.0 Tim Sutton: Pavilion 7.0 Sally Potter: Ginger & Rosa 7.0 Sally El Hosaini: My Brother the Devil 7.0 David Russell: Silver Linings Playbook 7.0 Anand Gandhi: Ship of Theseus 7.0 Im Sang-soo: The Taste of Money 7.0 Moussa Toure: The Pirogue 7.0 Ben Lewin: The Sessions 7.0 Sacha Baron Cohen: The Dictator 7.0 Ava DuVernay: Middle of Nowhere 7.0 Paul Thomas Anderson: The Master 7.0 Srisaila Rajamouli: Eega (2012) 6.9 Joe Carnahan: The Grey 6.9 Christophe Honore: Beloved 6.9 Richard Linklater: Bernie 6.9 Craig Zobel: Compliance 6.9 Ole Bornedal: The Possession 6.9 Dong-hoon Choi: The Thieves 6.9 Eric Lartigau: The Big Picture 6.9 Joe Wright: Anna Karenina 6.8 Mariette Monpierre: Elza 6.8 Kim Ki-duk: Pieta 6.8 Scott Derrickson: Sinister 6.8 Sam Fell and Chris Butler: ParaNorman 6.8 Jenny Deller: Future Weather 6.8 Pablo Larrain: No 6.8 Steven Soderbergh: Magic Mike 6.8 Ann Emond: Nuit #1 6.8 Aurora Guerrero: Mosquita y Mari 6.8 Ya-Che Yang: Girlfriend Boyfriend 6.8 Ira Sachs: Keep the Lights On 6.8 Brian Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky: Francine 6.8 Pen-ek Ratanaruang: Headshot 6.8 Lav Diaz: Florentina Hubaldo 6.8 Drew Goddard: The Cabin in the Woods 6.7 Yam Laranas: The Road 6.7 Adam Leon: Gimme the Loot 6.7 Matt Ross: 28 Hotel Rooms 6.7 Jake Schreier: Robot & Frank 6.6 Eric Canuel: Barrymore 6.6 Michael Haneke: Amour 6.6 Jay Chandrasekhar: The Babymakers 6.6 Colin Trevorrow: Safety Not Guaranteed 6.6 Prashant Bhargava: Patang/ The Kite 6.6 Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud: Chicken With Plums 6.6 Mia Hansen-Love: Goodbye First Love 6.6 Sheldon Candis: Luv 6.6 Martin McDonagh: Seven Psychopaths 6.6 Francois Ozon: Dans la Maison/ In the House 6.6 David Cronenberg: Cosmopolis 6.5 Paolo and Vittorio Taviani: Cesare Deve Morire/ Caesar Must Die 6.5 Srdjan Dragojevic: Parada 6.5 Cao Hamburger: Xingu 6.5 Matteo Garrone: Reality 6.5 Brillante Mendoza: Thy Womb 6.5 Leonardo Di Costanzo: L'intervallo 6.5 Yesim Ustaoglu: Araf 6.5 Rama Burshtein: Fill the Void 6.5 Lee Daniels: The Paperboy 6.5 Juan Solanas: Upside Down 6.5 Peter Hedges: The Odd Life of Timothy Green 6.5 Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer: Cloud Atlas 6.5 Michael Winterbottom: Trishna 6.5 Nancy Savoca: Union Square 6.5 Nima Nourizadeh: Project X 6.5 Baltasar Kormakur: Contraband 6.5 Cristian Jimenez: Bonsai 6.5 David Mackenzie: Tonight You're Mine 6.5 Nicholas Stoller: The Five-Year Engagement 6.5 Patricia Riggen: Girl in Progress 6.5 Chris Eyre: Hide Away 6.5 Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman: Brave 6.5 Tom Shu-Yu Lin: Starry Starry Night 6.5 Rob Reiner: The Magic of Belle Isle 6.5 Nicholas McCarthy: The Pact 6.5 Martin Donovan: Collaborator 6.5 Oliver Stone: Savages 6.5 Christopher Nolan: Dark Knight Rises 6.5 Jonathan Dayton: Ruby Sparks 6.5 Pascal Laugier: The Tall Man 6.5 Pablo Giorgelli: Las Acacias 6.5 So Yong Kim: For Ellen 6.5 Josh Radnor: Liberal Arts 6.5 Ursula Meier: Sister 6.5 Rian Johnson: Looper 6.5 Sean Baker: Starlet 6.5 Andrew Neel: King Kelly 6.5 Feng Xiaogang: Back to 1942 6.5 John Henry Summerour: Sahkanaga 6.5 Caveh Zahedi: the Sheik and I 6.5 Victoria Mahoney: Yelling to the Sky 6.5 Zhang Yuan: Beijing Flickers 6.5 Woody Allen: To Rome With Love 6.5 Barry Levinson: The Bay 6.4 Jacob Aaron Estes: The Details 6.4 Chen Kaige: Caught in the Web (2012) 6.4 Julia Loktev: The Loneliest Planet 6.4 Yaron Zilberman: A Late Quartet 6.4 Daniel Espinosa: Safe House 6.4 Gianni Di Gregorio: Gianni e le Donne/ The Salt of Life 6.4 Brandon Harris: Redlegs 6.3 Michael Roskam: Rundskop/ Bullhead 6.3 Taika Waititi: Boy 6.3 Lasse Hallstrom: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen 6.2 Josh Trank: Chronicle 6.2 Spike Lee: Red Hook Summer 6.2 McG: This Means War 6.2 Paula Van der Oest: Black Butterfly 6.2 Jannicke Systad Jacobsen: Turn Me On Dammit 6.2 John Madden: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 6.2 Zal Batmanglij: Sound of My Voice 6.2 Nicholas Jarecki: Arbitrage 6.2 Luis Prieto: Pusher 6.2 Matthias Schweighoefer: What a Man 6.2 Edward Burns: The Fitzgerald Family Christmas 6.2 Lynn Shelton: Your Sister's Sister 6.2 Phil Lord and Christopher Miller: 21 Jump Street 6.1 Reema Kagti: Talaash 6.0 Tarsem Singh: Mirror Mirror 6.0 Abbas Kiarostami: Like Someone in Love 6.0 Manoel de Oliveira: Gebo and the Shadow 6.0 Kathryn Bigelow: Zero Dark Thirty 6.0 David Mackenzie: Perfect Sense 6.0 Benjamin Avila: Clandestine Childhood 6.0 Dustin Guy Defa: Bad Fever 6.0 Alan Brown: Private Romeo 6.0 David Wain: Wanderlust 6.0 Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando: Chico & Rita 6.0 Hiromasa Yonebayashi: The Secret World of Arrietty 6.0 James Watkins: The Woman in Black 6.0 Joshua Marston: The Forgiveness of Blood 6.0 Justin Kurzel: The Snowtown Murders 6.0 Paul Weitz: Being Flynn 6.0 Andrew Stanton: John Carter 6.0 Jennifer Westfeldt: Friends With Kids 6.0 Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass: Jeff Who Lives at Home 6.0 Stephen Cone: The Wise Kids 6.0 Gareth Huw Evans: The Raid - Redemption 6.0 Michael Knowles: The Trouble With Bliss 6.0 Guy Maddin: Keyhole 6.0 Braden King: Here 6.0 Lawrence Kasdan: Darling Companion 6.0 Bobcat Goldthwait: God Bless America 6.0 Gerald Hustache-Mathieu: Nobody Else but You 6.0 Maiwenn: Polisse 6.0 Matt D'Elia: American Animal 6.0 Barry Sonnenfeld: Men in Black 3 6.0 Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache: The Intouchables 6.0 Rupert Sanders: Snow White and the Huntsman 6.0 Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol: A Cat in Paris 6.0 Ridley Scott: Prometheus 6.0 Colin Trevorrow: Peace Love & Misunderstanding 6.0 Philippe Garrel: A Burning Hot Summer 6.0 Andre Techine: Unforgivable 6.0 Martin Sulik: Gypsy 6.0 Jay and Mark Duplass: The Do-Deca-Pentathlon 6.0 Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier: Ice Age - Continental Drift 6.0 Benoit Jacquot: Farewell My Queen 6.0 Stephen Gyllenhaal: Grassroots 6.0 Daniel Auteuil: The Well-Digger's Daughter 6.0 Rirkrit Tiravanija: Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors 6.0 Jay Roach: The Campaign 6.0 David Koepp: Premium Rush 6.0 Marcel Rasquin: Hermano 6.0 Karl Markovics: Breathing 6.0 Jiri Barta: Toys in the Attic 6.0 Robert Lorenz: Trouble With the Curve 6.0 Anne Fontaine: My Worst Nightmare 6.0 Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted: Chasing Mavericks 6.0 Hong Sang-soo: In Another Country 6.0 Josh Schwartz: Fun Size 6.0 Nikolaj Arcel: A Royal Affair 6.0 Rich Moore: Wreck-It Ralph 6.0 Robert Zemeckis: Flight 6.0 Sara Blecher: Otelo Burning 6.0 Michael Walker: Price Check 6.0 Peter Ramsey: Rise of the Guardians 6.0 Andrew Dominik: Killing Them Softly 6.0 Jonathan Caouette: Walk Away Renee 6.0 Marshall Lewy: California Solo 6.0 Peter Askin: Certainty 6.0 Steven Miller: Silent Night 6.0 Stefan Ruzowitzky: Deadfall 6.0 Brian Savelson: In Our Nature 6.0 Maya Kenig: Off White Lies 6.0 Fisher Stevens: Stand Up Guys 6.0 Judd Apatow: This is 40 6.0 David Chase: Not Fade Away 6.0 Juan Antonio Bayona: The Impossible 6.0 Michael Connors: Allegiance 6.0 Andy Fickman: Parental Guidance 6.0 Rick Alverson: The Comedy 6.0 Sion Sono: Kibo nu Kuni/ The Land of Hope (2012) 6.0 Leslye Headland: Bachelorette 5.9 Liza Johnson: Return 5.8 Gus Van Sant: Promised Land 5.8 Peter Lord: The Pirates - Band of Misfits 5.8 Tony Gilroy: The Bourne Legacy 5.8 Todd Louiso: Hello I Must Be Going 5.7 Tim Burton: Dark Shadows 5.7 Lee Toland Krieger: Celeste and Jesse Forever 5.7 Walter Salles: On the Road 5.6 Joss Whedon: The Avengers 5.6 David Ayer: End of Watch 5.5 Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower 5.5 Ken Kwapis: Big Miracle 5.5 Peter and Bobby Farrelly: The Three Stooges 5.5 Tanya Wexler: Hysteria 5.5 Dean Wright: For Greater Glory 5.5 Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod: Bel Ami 5.5 Nacho Vigalondo: Extraterrestrial 5.5 Lorene Scafaria: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World 5.5 Gurvinder Singh: Alms for a Blind Horse 5.5 Mike Birbiglia: Sleepwalk With Me 5.5 Andrea Arnold: Wuthering Heights 5.5 Lorraine Levy: The Other Son 5.5 Bill Condon: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 5.5 Gabriele Muccino: Playing for Keeps 5.5 Dustin Hoffman: Quartet 5.4 Chris Kentis and Laura Lau: Silent House 5.3 Anne Renton: The Perfect Family 5.2 Matt Piedmont: Casa de Mi Padre 5.2 Quentin Tarantino: Django Unchained 5.0 Robbie Pickering: Natural Selection 5.0 Ben Wheatley: Sightseers 5.0 Wolfgang Murnberger: My Best Enemy 5.0 Tom O'Brien: Fairhaven 5.0 Steven Soderbergh: Haywire 5.0 Michael Sucsy: The Vow 5.0 Ti West: The Innkeepers 5.0 Anthony Hemingway: Red Tails 5.0 Asger Leth: Man on a Ledge 5.0 Berndt Mader: Five Time Champion 5.0 Eric Schaeffer: After Fall Winter 5.0 Gabe Torres: Brake 5.0 Gary Ross: The Hunger Games 5.0 John Stockwell: Dark Tide 5.0 Antony Cordier: Four Lovers 5.0 Whit Stillman: Damsels in Distress 5.0 Scott Hicks: The Lucky One 5.0 Dennis Lee: Jesus Henry Christ 5.0 James Franco: The Broken Tower 5.0 James McTeigue: The Raven 5.0 Kirk Jones: What to Expect When You're Expecting 5.0 Debbie Goodstein-Rosenfeld: Mighty Fine 5.0 Daryl Wein: Lola Versus 5.0 Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath: Madagascar 2 - Europe 5.0 Adam Shankman: Rock of Ages 5.0 Timur Bekmambetov: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter 5.0 Chris Pine: People Like Us 5.0 Seth MacFarlane: Ted 5.0 Adam Sherman: Crazy Eyes 5.0 Alexis Lloyd: 30 Beats 5.0 Takashi Miike: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai 5.0 Scott Speer: Step Up Revolution 5.0 Fernando Meirelles: 360 5.0 Julie Delpy: 2 Days in New York 5.0 Christopher Neil: Goats 5.0 David Frankel: Hope Springs 5.0 Nick Murphy: The Awakening 5.0 Guillaume Canet: Little White Lies 5.0 Mads Matthiesen: Teddy Bear 5.0 Dax Shepard: Hit & Run 5.0 John Hillcoat: Lawless 5.0 Jamie Travis: For a Good Time Call 5.0 Lance Daly: The Good Doctor 5.0 Tsui Hark: Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 5.0 Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal: The Words 5.0 Ben Palmer: The Inbetweeners 5.0 Fred Schepisi: The Eye of the Storm 5.0 Jamie Linden: 10 Years 5.0 Delphine and Muriel Coulin: 17 Girls 5.0 Ryan O'Nan: Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best 5.0 Daniel Barnz: Won't Back Down 5.0 Tim Burton: Frankenweenie 5.0 Julian Farino: The Oranges 5.0 Jonathan Lisecki: Gayby 5.0 Ben Affleck: Argo 5.0 Ry Russo-Young: Nobody Walks 5.0 Hur Jin-ho: Dangerous Liaisons 5.0 Sam Mendes: Skyfall 5.0 Steven Spielberg: Lincoln 5.0 Ang Lee: Life of Pi 5.0 Alexander Poe: Ex-Girlfriends 5.0 Darragh Byrne: Parked 5.0 Marialy Rivas: Young and Wild 5.0 Paul Fraser: My Brothers 5.0 Roger Michell: Hyde Park on Hudson 5.0 Donald Rice: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding 5.0 Peter Jackson: The Hobbit 5.0 David Riker: The Girl 5.0 Travis Fine: Any Day Now 5.0 Connie Stevens: Saving Grace B Jones 5.0 Michael Mohan: Save the Date 5.0 Tom Hooper: Les Miserables 5.0 Christopher McQuarrie: Jack Reacher 4.9 Madonna: W.E. 4.8 Len Wiseman: Total Recall 4.5 Jonathan Liebesman: Wrath of the Titans 4.5 Dan Bradley: Red Dawn 4.5 Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg: American Pie - Reunion 4.5 Darren Lynn Bousman: Mother's Day 4.5 John Stalberg: High School 4.5 Sean Anders: That's My Boy 4.5 Salim Akil: Sparkle 4.5 Philip Dorling and Ron Nyswaner: Why Stop Now 4.5 Michael Bassett: Solomon Kane 4.5 Matthew Lillard: Fat Kid Rules the World 4.5 RZA: The Man With the Iron Fists 4.5 Peter Ho-Sun Chan: Wu Xia/ Dragon 4.5 Stephen Frears: Lay the Favorite 4.5 Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux: The Rabbi's Cat 4.4 Nicole Kassell: A Little Bit of Heaven 4.0 Todd Graff: Joyful Noise 4.0 Mikael Buch: Let My People Go 4.0 Marc Webb: The Amazing Spider-Man 4.0 James Mather & Stephen St Leger: Lockout Directed 4.0 Brandon and Jason Trost: The FP 4.0 Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax 4.0 Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh: Act of Valor 4.0 Julie Gavras: Late Bloomers 4.0 Dustin Lance Black: Virginia 4.0 Peter Berg: Battleship 4.0 Patrik-Ian Polk: The Skinny 4.0 Akiva Schaffer: The Watch 4.0 Simon West: Expendable 2 4.0 Olivier Megaton: Taken 2 4.0 Rob Cohen: Alex Cross 4.0 Lorrel Manning: Happy New Year 4.0 Nikhil Advani: Delhi Safari 4.0 Anne Fletcher: The Guilt Trip |