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  1. The Commuter Is Exactly What You’d Expect — and Better Than You NeedThe Liam Neeson action vehicle takes its mundane setting to heart, and is all the better for it.
    By Emily Yoshida
  2. Children (and Adults) Deserve More Films Like Paddington 2Never are you going to see the likes of Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent, and Hugh Grant having this much earnest fun.
    By Emily Yoshida
  3. The Strange Ones Is an Arty But Suspenseful Drama That Evokes Serious DreadAlex Pettyfer and James Freedson-Jackson star as a mysterious pair of travelers in this paranoia-soaked, haunting film.
    By David Edelstein
  4. Insidious: The Last Key Makes Very Little SenseFor a sequel to a horror prequel, Insidious: The Last Key sure feels like it’s making it up as it goes along.
    By Emily Yoshida
  5. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool Is Awkward, But an Annette Bening ShowpieceThe story is too bounded, like a theater piece, but it’s a thrill to see Bening in juicy parts like this.
    By David Edelstein
  6. Phantom Thread Underscores the Great Tragedy of Daniel Day-Lewis’s RetirementWe’re not so much watching Woodcock the rarefied designer as Day-Lewis the rarefied actor.
    By David Edelstein
  7. With Molly’s Game, Jessica Chastain and Aaron Sorkin Prove to Be a Potent ComboAs a director, Sorkin puts you in the mood to hear actors talk very fast — and Chastain and co-star Idris Elba are virtuoso very-fast talkers.
    By David Edelstein
  8. Jumanji Is Good, Clean, Slightly Bland FunYou could do worse than this one.
    By David Edelstein
  9. The Post Is a Perfectly Timed, Crackling Movie — and a Meryl Streep ShowcaseSpielberg’s latest has the good fortune of coming out at a time when we’re primed for more stories of women taking the difficult path.
    By David Edelstein
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    Michael Haneke Makes Snapchat Scary in Happy EndGod bless the teenager who introduced Haneke to social media.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    The Gripping In the Fade Is Anchored by a Tremendous Diane Kruger PerformanceBut it’s hard to know what to take away from this film by Fatih Akin, one of Germany’s most accomplished directors.
    By David Edelstein
  12. Bright Is an Amusing Genre-Bend, But a Mess in Just About Every Other WayIt’s kind of cool in a three-bong-hits-in way.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Michelle Williams Gives a Revelatory Performance in All the Money in the WorldA belatedly cast Christopher Plummer is getting headlines, but it’s Williams who deserves them.
    By David Edelstein
  14. The Greatest Showman Is the Fakest Show on EarthMusicals are inherently fake — they can be ecstatically, transcendentally fake — but this is a whole other level of disingenuousness.
    By Emily Yoshida
  15. Downsizing Is a Boldly Executed Sci-Fi That Trips Over Its Own ModestyHong Chau is a stand-out in Alexander Payne’s willfully weird economic parable.
    By Emily Yoshida
  16. Pitch Perfect 3 Doesn’t Really Care If It Makes Sense AnymoreThe a cappella comedy trilogy goes out with exploding yachts, daddy issues, and DJ Khaled.
    By Emily Yoshida
  17. Crooked House Is a Divertingly Twisty, Over-the-Top Agatha Christie AdaptationWorth it for Gillian Anderson’s wig alone.
    By Emily Yoshida
  18. Hostiles Is a Well-Intentioned Downer of a WesternChristian Bale and Rosamund Pike star in this slog, which still doesn’t do right by its native characters.
    By Emily Yoshida
  19. Star Wars: The Last Jedi Is Shockingly GoodIt feels like the first time the Force has extended to the director.
    By David Edelstein
  20. I, Tonya Turns Tonya Harding From a Punch Line Into a Sympathetic CharacterThe black comedy, at times too broad, has standout performances from Allison Janney and Margot Robbie.
    By David Edelstein
  21. The Other Side of Hope Is Tragic, Funny, Depressing, and InspiringIn Kaurismaki’s work, it’s as if the masks of comedy and tragedy don’t — as usual — face away from each other, but stare each other in the face.
    By David Edelstein
  22. The Tribes of Palos Verdes Is a Sleepy SoCal MelodramaJennifer Garner gets her own Big Little Lies as a miserable L.A. County housewife.
    By Emily Yoshida
  23. Voyeur Fails to Add Much Insight to Gay Talese’s Notorious StorySomeone, somewhere, thinks we can’t get enough of Gerald Foos.
    By Emily Yoshida
  24. Loveless Will Make You Happy You Don’t Live in Russia (Yet)The director of Leviathan returns with another dour look at his home country.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    The Disaster Artist Is the Ultimate James Franco ShowcaseThis is his Lincoln.
    By David Edelstein
  26. Call Me by Your Name Is a MasterpieceEverything in the movie registers momentously.
    By David Edelstein
  27. The Man Who Invented Christmas Is a Charming Story About the Making of a ClassicDan Stevens and Christopher Plummer star in the story of Charles Dickens writing his holiday blockbuster.
    By Emily Yoshida
  28. Brimstone and Glory Is a Dizzying, Poetic Ode to the Art of ExplosionsSee this one on the big screen if you can.
    By Emily Yoshida
  29. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond Is an Amazing Look at the Cost to Great ArtistsThe doc brings you into Jim Carrey’s head in a way that Man on the Moon didn’t.
    By David Edelstein
  30. Wonder Overflows With Empathy and HumanismJulia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay tug insistently on our heartstrings.
    By David Edelstein
  31. Mudbound Is a Sprawling, Engrossing Southern EpicIt feels like a movie-length binge-watch, which makes its home on Netflix peculiarly appropriate.
    By Emily Yoshida
  32. Coco Is a Charming If Belabored Adventure Right Out of the Pixar PlaybookBut it has at least one great song.
    By Emily Yoshida
  33. Justice League Tries to Lighten Up the DCU, But Droops InsteadIt’s as if the actors know they’re coming from behind.
    By David Edelstein
  34. Murder on the Orient Express Is a Mild RideKenneth Branagh’s update on the classic story is a good bet for those unfamiliar, but a bit of a snooze otherwise.
    By David Edelstein
  35. Daddy’s Home 2 Is Trash. Period.The sequel to 2015’s Daddy’s Home, starring Mel Gibson, Mark Wahlberg, and Will Ferrell, is a toxic, not at all benign movie.
    By Emily Yoshida
  36. A Gray State Is a Gripping, Almost Unbearably Dark WatchThe Werner Herzog–produced doc investigates the destructive power of conspiracy, violence, and Hollywood mythmaking.
    By Emily Yoshida
  37. One of Us is a Fascinating Look at Leaving Ultra-Orthodox JudaismCo-directors Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing have a visceral aversion to fundamentalist religions.
    By David Edelstein
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    Review: Three Billboards Unsettlingly Blends Eccentricity and TragedyWriter-director Martin McDonagh begins with a finely calibrated mix of melancholy and quirk, but it ultimately turns broad to the point of silliness.
    By David Edelstein
  39. My Friend Dahmer Is a Fascinating Portrait of an Incipient Serial KillerMarc Meyers humanizes Jeffrey Dahmer without minimizing his monstrousness — or his mystery.
    By David Edelstein
  40. Roman J. Israel, Esq., Is a Formula Movie With a Doozy of a TwistWhat diminishes the movie is the same thing that holds you: Denzel Washington’s magnetism.
    By David Edelstein
  41. Last Flag Flying Is Hard to Endure — But Worth ItIt’s in the uncertainties and dissonances of the film that Richard Linklater’s humanism really expresses itself.
    By David Edelstein
  42. Princess Cyd Is an Eloquent, Openhearted Coming-of-Age StoryIt also features some of the best performances of the year.
    By Emily Yoshida
  43. LBJ Is a By-the-Numbers Presidential DramaWoody Harrelson stars in Rob Reiner’s uninspired telling of the origins of the Civil Rights Act.
    By Emily Yoshida
  44. A Bad Moms Christmas Is About Women Trapped in a Bleak Suburban HellscapeWhat on earth is a “perfect Christmas” in 2017?
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird Marks the Arrival of a Major Directorial TalentEverything comes together for Gerwig in her marvelous solo directorial debut.
    By David Edelstein
  46. Jigsaw Is a Gruesome, Facile Reboot of a Gruesome, Facile FranchiseThe franchise for people with a teenage boy’s grasp of morality returns.
    By Emily Yoshida
  47. In Novitiate, Catholicism and Eroticism Go Hand in HandThe movie creeps up to the brink of “nunsploitation” but remains for the most part giggle-free.
    By David Edelstein
  48. Suburbicon Is Schizoid, Sanctimonious PulpTo sum up my feelings about Suburbicon on the fly: Huh?
    By David Edelstein
  49. Thor: Ragnarok’s Deadpan, Camp Comedy Elevates It Into the StratosphereTaika Waititi is a wonderful comic director, but the cookie-cutter plot brings the movie back down to Earth.
    By David Edelstein
  50. Thank You for Your Service Is a Respectable But Flat PSAThe film by American Sniper’s Jason Hall has its heart in the right place, but never quite finds its punch.
    By Emily Yoshida
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