| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| The Theory of Everything | 2014 | 93 | 1 | - For the truly talented actors and actresses, there comes a role and a performance that forever puts them on the map. For Mr. Redmayne, this is that film. |
| Dallas Buyers Club | 2013 | 89 | 2 | - Matthew McConaughey's best performance since 'We Are Marshall'. And Jared Leto's best performance since, well, ever. |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | 89 | 2 | - The whole film really revolves around the question "Is it better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all?". Where the film earns its brass is its surprising take and cogent emotional arguments to back it up. |
| Kill the Messenger | 2014 | 84 | 4 | - Though the title has very little (if anything) to do with the film, it is a compelling, intellectual thriller. Viewers who thought it was the B-Action movie it's poster art tries to sell it as will likely be disappointed. |
| Black Sea | 2014 | 83 | 5 | - A gripping submarine thriller. |
| The Ice Harvest | 2005 | 80 | 6 | - A sort of dark comedy. Definitely a different -- and less cheery -- take on the Christmas flick. |
| Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | 2012 | 78 | 7 | - For better or for worse, I can honestly say there's no movie quite like it. |
| Place Beyond the Pines, The | 2013 | 77 | 8 | - This crime drama/thriller could've easily been called 'The Sins of The Father' and been no less obvious with its message. |
| Dan in Real Life | 2007 | 76 | 9 | - Don't ever try to sell me Steve Carrell and Dane Cook as family ever ever again. |
| World's End, The | 2013 | 70 | 10 | - A noticeably weaker entry than we're used to from Simon Pegg and co. |
| Closed Circuit | 2013 | 69 | 11 | - It's all been done before... |
| Eastern Promises | 2007 | 69 | 11 | - If you want to delve into the saturated genre of organized crime noirs, you better bring something special. 'Eastern Promises' does not. |
| A Serious Man | 2009 | 65 | 13 | - For a movie so deeply embedded in Jewish social culture, the Coen brothers sure like the concepts of karma a lot more. |
| In Bruges | 2008 | 65 | 13 | - You buy into the film's more comical moments, not the serious ones. Unfortunately, the ending relies on the latter. |
| Greenberg | 2010 | 56 | 15 | - It's hard to like a movie whose protagonist is so unlikable. |
| Lost in Translation | 2003 | 55 | 16 | - You feel like the makings of a better movie are there -- somwhere -- but, as the title suggests, gets somehow lost in translation. |
| Bad Words | 2014 | 49 | 17 | - So we're supposed to get behind a guy who ruins the fun of countless children so he can deal with his daddy issues in his own immature way? The real question here -- and it's an easy one to spell -- is 'Why'? |
| Fifty Shades of Grey | 2015 | 49 | 17 | - It's sort of like if 'American Psycho' had kinky sex with a 25-cent romance novel. |
| Admission | 2013 | 36 | 19 | - In a word: stupid. Really stupid. |
