| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | 92 | 1 | - What makes '12 Years a Slave' stand out is its unwillingness to censore itself. While the characters are clearly shaded in either more darkness or light, no supposition is absolute. Thus, a brilliant level of honesty comes out. |
| Super Troopers | 2001 | 91 | 2 | - Easily one of the best Broken Lizard flicks. |
| Little Miss Sunshine | 2006 | 89 | 3 | - It's an oddball, dark, and indiecomedy all rolled into a strangely heartwarming package. |
| Way Way Back, The | 2013 | 88 | 4 | - A little rough around the edges, but overall a memorably good summer comedy. |
| Beasts of the Southern Wild | 2012 | 84 | 5 | - If you're into artsy movies, you'll absolutely love it. Otherwise, it's just "good". |
| East, The (2013) | 2013 | 84 | 5 | - Underneath the film's steely thriller exterior lies a morality play about justice and revenge and the cost of achieving each. |
| 500 Days of Summer | 2009 | 83 | 7 | - It's sort of 'Eternal Sunshine' meets 'Everything Must Go'. |
| Grand Budapest Hotel, The | 2014 | 82 | 8 | - One of Wes Anderson's best works yet. |
| 127 Hours | 2010 | 80 | 9 | - Any movie that takes place largely in just one nook in between two rocks and manages to keep you captivated is fine filmmaking. |
| Descendants, The | 2011 | 80 | 9 | - A dark family drama set in paradise is the only example you need to accurately portray the film's originality. |
| Wrestler, The | 2008 | 80 | 9 | - This classic down-on-his-luck protagonist drama is a dissection of what happens when the American dream doesn't exactly pan out with |
| Wild | 2014 | 78 | 12 | - It's a story of finding one's self, of wiping the slate clean, and constantly being paranoid that your about to be sexually assaulted in a wilderness filled with men. |
| Hills Have Eyes (2006) | 2006 | 76 | 13 | - The film is like a dinner at Chili's. It has everything you came for, but nothing is exactly "gourmet". |
| Juno | 2007 | 76 | 13 | - It's obvious concepts aside, 'Juno' is enjoyable. |
| Birdman | 2014 | 75 | 15 | - 'Birdman' is like a three-ring circus. While it's both wonderous and amazing, there's also a little too much going on. |
| Sideways | 2004 | 74 | 16 | - I'll say this: it's a GOOD wine movie. But there are better. Much better. |
| Black Swan | 2010 | 73 | 17 | - Sort of plays like a choppy music video, rife with innuendo and insinuations. It's rather easy to delve into the mind of a crazy person and call it art. |
| Calvary | 2014 | 72 | 18 | - Every day that goes by is another day Brendan Gleeson could've done something about his impending fate, but instead decides to wander off and learn just what a town of assessment he lives in. |
| Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | 2015 | 72 | 18 | - What starts out as a sharp, funny take on the traditional high school film fades into a dull, depressing teen dramedy. |
| Street Kings | 2008 | 72 | 18 | - This is sort of the baseline for David Ayer's films. Neither his worst nor his best. |
| Sunshine | 2007 | 72 | 18 | - For a film that likes to believe it's more than your conventional space thriller, it sure does love reality television-like drama amongst its characters. |
| True Story | 2015 | 70 | 22 | - What starts out as a brick and mortar true crime story devolves into some attempt at an altered realty mental thriller and that's where it will lose people. |
| Trance | 2013 | 66 | 23 | - It was pretty good...until it tried to be some reimagining of Inception and The Butterfly Effect. |
| Martha Marcy May Marlene | 2011 | 65 | 24 | - More bizarre than anything else. It's biggest success is really just tainting yet another Olsen. |
| 28 Days Later | 2002 | 59 | 25 | - It's ironic that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's infected humans are adrenaline-packed, raging monsters, because they are cast amidst a rather slow-moving world, and in a movie that never really takes off. |
| The Drop | 2014 | 58 | 26 | - Sadly, 'The Drop' will be remembered as Gandolfini's last film to hit theaters. Which is actually good for the film itself, I suppose, because on it's own merits it was simply going to be forgotten. |
| 28 Weeks Later | 2007 | 57 | 27 | - Not the best post-apocalypse movie ever, but it will entertain you through the run time. |
| Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | 55 | 28 | - Boyle's high-adrenaline, psychedellic vision for the film gets in the way of what would have otherwise been a fairly impressive script. |
| Hitchcock | 2012 | 54 | 29 | - What should be a legendary biopic instead comes across as a half-hearted smear campaign to give everyone in Hitchcock's life credit except the man himself. |
| The Ice Storm | 1997 | 47 | 30 | - It's sort of a stranger, sadder predecessor to 'American Beauty'. Also, for those calling it a 'Thanksgiving movie', 'Die Hard' is more of a 'Christmas Movie' than this is a 'Thanksgiving Movie' |
| Waitress | 2007 | 46 | 31 | - Painfully simplistic and horribly acted. |
