| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| Spectacular Now, The | 2013 | 93 | 1 | - 'The Spectacular Now' is not a coming-of-age tale. No, it is THE coming-of-age tale. No film to date has so perfectly captured the excitement and confusion of one's teenage years. And it is a bold proclamation that Miles Teller has arrived. |
| Room | 2015 | 89 | 2 | - Both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time for the duration. |
| A Most Violent Year | 2014 | 86 | 3 | - A truly tense and unsettling drama. |
| Ex Machina | 2015 | 84 | 4 | - It's fascinating how such a seemingly simple story can evoke such complex themes. |
| Remember | 2015 | 84 | 4 | - It is, at once, painfully tedious and unbearably gripping. An enigma in and of itself. |
| Green Room | 2016 | 83 | 6 | - So it turns out white supremacists manufacturing drugs under the watchful eye of a cult-like leader are not the most wonderful people. Who knew? |
| Moonlight | 2016 | 81 | 7 | - A thoughtful and methodical drama. |
| Into the Forest | 2016 | 78 | 8 | - Slow moving, thoughtful, and methodical, this is not your average post-apocalyptic flick, if one can even call it that. |
| The Captive | 2014 | 77 | 9 | - Despite writer/director Atom Egoyan's belief that no one is apparently truly damaged by massively traumatic events, his thriller works. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end. Even if all three don't deliver the emotional notes they should. |
| The End of the Tour | 2015 | 77 | 9 | - A sweet yet sad story of nostalgia, loneliness, and what it truly means to connect with someone. |
| Cut Bank | 2014 | 73 | 11 | - Take away most of the Farrelly brothers understated sense of humor in 'Fargo', throw that film into the warm summer months, and add one exceptionally odd character, and you've got 'Cut Bank'. |
| Amy | 2015 | 71 | 12 | - A sad starlet story that feels all too familiar. |
| While We're Young | 2014 | 70 | 13 | - The flaw with 'While Were Young' ultimately is that it can't be two things. It can't both be an essay on the internal battle of getting older and the awkward middle ground between youthful angst and older rationality but also be a drama playing out between two documentarians. And 'While Were Young' so very much wants to do both. |
| The Lobster | 2015 | 68 | 14 | - The problem is, far too often, as 'The Lobster' hits its stride, it goes even whackier and seems to lose the context of its allegorical intentions. |
| Mississippi Grind | 2015 | 67 | 15 | - Ryan Reynolds' charisma isn't enough to elevate a mediocre film. |
| The Witch | 2015 | 65 | 16 | - Humanity's capacity for paranoia is the real villain here. |
| Tusk | 2014 | 62 | 17 | - Kevin Smith's understated parody plays more like an inside joke. By the time chuckles turn into genuine laughter, 'Tusk' is nearly over. |
| Dark Places | 2015 | 59 | 18 | - If you're expecting a second 'Gone Girl', prepare to be disappointed. |
| Swiss Army Man | 2016 | 56 | 19 | - I can honestly say I don't know what the hell I just watched. |
| Locke | 2014 | 53 | 20 | - The world's longest BMW commercial. |
| The Rover | 2014 | 50 | 21 | - I think we've seen enough examples by now to know that the slow-moving dystopian adventure simply does not work. |
| Enemy | 2013 | 47 | 22 | - The whole time you're asking the question the movie obviously wants you to ask: Does Adam really have a double or is he bonkers? The movie probably does NOT anticipate, however, that you could care less. |
| Under the Skin | 2014 | 31 | 23 | - Bizarre. Just utterly bizarre. |
