Actually moves, whisking the audience on a funny, sad and extraordinary journey through a singularly compelling moment in American pop culture.

Rififi, with its stark visuals, dark humor and constrained performances, earned Dassin the Best Director nod at the Cannes Film Festival and a secure place in film history.

Stanley Kubrick was always infatuated with human clockwork, both in terms of what makes each of us tick and how we choreograph our lives, deaths, and sins. The Killing, his big heist movie, suits this obsession perfectly. It is often considered, and rightly, his first masterpiece.

For Americans, Gomorrah will play like every other Mafia epic - and no other Mafia epic.

Deep Blue is pure bliss. This documentary about ocean life in all its forms achieves its own tidal pull with visual marvels that conjure a Darwinian delirium.

Stops your heart and keeps your belly jiggling with laughter. It's an improbably sunny tragicomedy.

If any movie can rid Americans of "Iraq war fatigue," it's Charles Ferguson's muscular documentary No End in Sight.

It is, at once, among the most riveting and hard-to-watch documentaries of recent years.

As magical as it is realistic.

Unfolds amid the mechanized carnage of World War I. Yet everything in it is personal. That's why it's a masterpiece.

What emerges is a fallen warrior's tale: the inside story of a man bloodied and bowed.

A great adventure.

A pop masterpiece.

It moves so confidently and brightly that it's ticklish as well as chilling - and, in its own dark way, enthralling.

Barbershop 2 makes you want to know what happens next. In its own way, it's the Ivory Soap of sequels: 99 and 44/100% pure.

Supple, eloquent and enchanting.

This smart, fanciful and brilliantly staged comedy takes a truly one-of-a-kind premise and makes it, of all things, a weirdly profound meditation on consciousness, identity, fame, gender and reality.

Watching this movie, you can dream with open eyes.

The ovation that Hudson wins from the movie's audience is one of those miraculous moments when a performer's artistry breaks through the screen and makes you feel part of a live audience. I haven't experienced anything like it since Barbra Streisand sang "My Man" at the end of her astonishing debut in Funny Girl.

The result is harrowing and inspiring. As escapist entertainment, it's the movie of the year.

A genuine odyssey: a journey to self-knowledge.

It's a miracle: A tough, honest, bloody film set so far from the bright lights it feels as if it's on a different planet, yet knowable and absolutely compelling from start to finish.

Brad Pitt's sensitive performance helps make 'Benjamin Button' a timeless masterpiece.

It's a startling physical transformation, as Noland goes from flabby desk jockey to lean, mean fishing machine. But even more remarkable is the mental transformation Hanks effects.

A spellbinder of the rarest kind and quality. It opens audiences up to an infinite variety of emotional and intellectual nuances.

This movie is both sad and inspiring. It offers proof that Lennon's wit and art are everlasting.

Ratatouille is a sublime dish of a movie, and the company's piece de resistance.

A gorgeous flirt of a murder movie.