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  1. The Last Station
    A grandly entertaining historical drama.
  2. The Young Victoria
    The Young Victoria has a subtler flow than you might expect, and at times it's calmer than you may like. Director Jean-Marc Vallée's images have a creamy stateliness, but this is no gilded? princess fantasy.
  3. The Messenger
    There's nothing drab about the tormented place these men take each other to. You'll want to go along.
  4. Zombieland
    At the bone, Zombieland is a polished, very funny road picture shaped by wisenheimer cable-TV sensibilities and starring four likable actors, each with an influential following.
  5. The Invention of Lying
    The performances are razor sharp. And the ideas in this movie are, no kidding, big.
  6. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Fan-ready and saga-solid.
  7. The Damned United
    What's lost in translation is recovered easily enough in Michael Sheen's astonishing performance as Clough.
  8. Goodbye Solo
    The result is a playful, elusive movie that isn't so much heartwarming as soul-cleansing.
  9. 9
    Storyboarded with precision, and enhanced with a resonant score by Deborah Lurie, Acker’s handsome, feature-length 9 is, for all its visual flights of fancy, grounded in an apocalypse-proof message graspable by any schoolchild.
  10. Julie & Julia
    It hooks you up, happily, to your inner top chef.
  11. The Cove
    The Cove is the rare documentary specifically designed as a thriller.
  12. World's Greatest Dad
    Williams hasn't been this sympathetic in years.
  13. Iron Man
    Even at his coolest, Downey's Iron Man remains a ghostly, neurotic crusader -- one whose life, in the Marvel tradition, has become a grand spectacle of overcompensation.
  14. Red Cliff
    The spectacular battle scenes are the engorged heart of the delirious adventure. But Woo also gets maximum romantic value from Tony Leung as a war hero married to Chiling Lin as the tea-pouring beauty.
  15. Revolutionary Road
    The best thing about Revolutionary Road, a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn't end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie. It only begins there.
  16. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    The film is consistently fun, and Tucker's comeuppance ? will leave you gasping (if not gagging) with laughter.
  17. The Proposal
    The chemical energy between Bullock and Reynolds is fresh and irresistible.
  18. 28 Weeks Later
    Excels at creating a keen, creepy sense of a civilization stopped dead in its tracks -- vaporized, almost, except for those disemboweled bodies left still undisposed.
  19. Role Models
    The fun of Role Models is that it's a high-concept movie executed with speed and finesse and the kind of brusquely tossed-off obscene banter that can get you laughing before you know what hit you.
  20. Everything Is Illuminated
    For one of those obstreperously original books that are themselves impossible to translate, Everything Is Illuminated is impressively well lit.
  21. Sugar
    The film's style is so ''objective'' it's a bit subdued, yet this is a sports drama of total originality, as well as the most authentic inside view of the immigrant experience the movies have given us in quite a while.
  22. Death at a Funeral
    Reveling in mess and homegrown multiracial mayhem, Death at a Funeral finds a new lease on life.
  23. Ong Bak
    Ong-Bak (taken from the name of the sacred statue) is delivered raw, with an on-the-fly compositional approach from director Prachya Pinkaew that includes dim lighting and jumbled editing.
  24. Aliens of the Deep
    Gorgeous as the underwater life-forms are, the excitement of Aliens of the Deep comes from that most old-school, low-tech of elements: real human beings.
  25. Lost Embrace
    It's in the brightly observed vignettes from mall-society life, captured with a low-key, on-the-run visual style, that Burman shows his best stuff and deadpan wit.
  26. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    In watching the birds and the man with an affectionate, curious eye, the filmmaker builds a story of surprising emotional resonance.
  27. Because of Winn-Dixie
    To Winn-Dixie's great credit, both as a book and as a dandy, dignified movie, there's nothing condescendingly lesson-like in the wisdom India acquires.
  28. Walk on Water
    At times too movieish, yet Ashkenazi creates a memorable figure: a spy who operates - admirably - out of the most unyielding nationalist conviction, only to learn that he needs to let some of that conviction go.
  29. Robots
    Zippy, enjoyable sci-fi slapstick jamboree.
  30. Mondovino
    The highest praise I can give to Mondovino is that it makes you want to sample every vintage it shows you.
  31. The Interpreter
    An elegant adventure of a different kind.
  32. The Year of the Yao
    A skillful and winning piece of honest booster portraiture.
  33. Funny Ha Ha
    Andrew Bujalski's Funny Ha Ha, an ebullient sliver of a movie, follows a group of men and women in their early 20s, and for once the un-dialogue dialogue doesn't come off as an affectation.
  34. Mysterious Skin
    Mysterious Skin dawdles more than it flows, but it comes alive whenever Araki, hovering between tragedy and voyeurism, reveals how sex can tear lives to pieces.
  35. Cinderella Man
    How exceptional a film actor is Russell Crowe? So exceptional that in Cinderella Man, he makes a good boxing movie feel at times like a great, big picture.
  36. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    It's okay for a grown movie critic to admit she cried freely and with great feeling for more than half the movie, and grinned like a dork through the remainder.
  37. Deep Blue
    Full of splendidly shot wonders.
  38. Rize
    As long as it showcases the art of krump, underscoring the dancers with ominous hip-hop beats, Rize is such a vibrant eruption of motion and attitude that you can forgive the film for being disorganized and too skimpy on street-dance history.
  39. Lila Says
    Lila, played by Vahina Giocante, who resembles a sexed-up young Emma Thompson, is a teasing, 16-year-old blond baby doll with a gleam of perception beyond her years.
  40. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    The Beat That My Heart Skipped lacks the screw-loose existential vibrance of "Fingers," yet it teases out a romantic underside to the original I never quite knew was there.
  41. The Warrior
    Asif Kapadia's blazing feature debut, a gorgeously photographed saga with a fine sense of the way place shapes personality, has won numerous awards in the filmmaker's native Britain.
  42. Bad News Bears
    New-era losers (the cast is a cheery scrum of relaxed kids, led by genuine whiz pitcher Sammi Kane Kraft in the role created by Tatum O'Neal) now include a rotten kid in a wheelchair.
  43. The Edukators
    A fluid and gripping drama from Germany (it has the design of a thriller and the mood of a spontaneous, whirling-camera character study).
  44. The Aristocrats
    The Aristocrats has a lot of laughs, but as it giggles and blasphemes its way into areas not so far removed from the scandalous landscape of the Marquis de Sade, the movie, funny as it is, becomes exhausting and a bit depressing.
  45. The Dukes of Hazzard
    It's trash, all right, but perfectly skewed trash -- a comedy that knows just how smart to be about just how dumb it is.
  46. Red Eye
    A good measure of the movie's white-knuckle fun comes from Craven's old-hand familiarity with the way thrillers tick.
  47. Wall
    The interviews Bitton conducts, almost all with Arabs and Jews who share her despair, are less meaningful than what she captures in silence: the sight of farmers separated from their farmland, everyday people thwarted in their dailiness, and children playing next to what looks like prison walls.
  48. Keane
    The movie draws us into complicity with someone who may be on the verge of insanity, but only because he's living with the unbearable.
  49. Roll Bounce
    Bow Wow plays the skate-dance hero in a way that's never too cool to hide what an avid achiever the kid is, and he and his buddies converse in a fiendishly alert middle-class trash talk that keeps Roll Bounce jumping.
  50. Oliver Twist
    Yet precisely because this is by Roman Polanski, it's irresistible to read his sorrowful and seemingly classical take, from a filmmaker known as much for the schisms in his personal history as for the lurches in his work, as something much more personal and poignant.
  51. Forty Shades of Blue
    Director Ira Sachs moves to the rhythms of his native Memphis, teasing emotional resonance out of geography.
  52. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    Good Night, and Good Luck has a small-scale time-capsule fascination, yet its hermeticism is really a form of moral caution -- a way of keeping the issues neat, the liberal idealism untainted.
  53. Where the Truth Lies
    A mood of lush romantic decadence -- sleaze made enigmatic -- hovers over Where the Truth Lies, which has a score that works so hard to evoke "Vertigo" that it may leave you dizzy.
  54. Loggerheads
    Kirkman is shrewd enough to coax a wistful performance out of pretty boy Kip Pardue.
  55. Ushpizin
    The unusual intimacy and authenticity can't be faked: The cast is peppered with nonprofessionals, most notably Michal Bat Sheva Rand.
  56. Ballets Russes
    The archival footage is so breathtaking, the reminiscences so piquant, that even a stranger to dance can't help but be swept up by this peek into such exquisite, now vanished glamour.
  57. Jarhead
    Jarhead isn't overtly political, yet by evoking the almost surreal futility of men whose lust for victory through action is dashed, at every turn, by the tactics, terrain, and morality of the war they're in, it sets up a powerfully resonant echo of the one we're in today.
  58. The Dying Gaul
    Has too many contrivances, but as an act of sinister staging, it proves Lucas, the noted playwright, to be a born filmmaker.
  59. Gay Sex in the 70s
    The director, Joseph Lovett, wants us to ask if there's such a thing as too much freedom, and he has the sobriety to say yes -- and no.
  60. Walk the Line
    A big, juicy, enjoyable wide-canvas biography with a handful of indelible moments.
  61. Just Friends
    Argues on behalf of the Darwinian theory that all of life imitates high school...But the argument is only halfhearted. Just Friends is much more interested in - and hilarious about - the small nostalgias of suburbia.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    First Descent
    First Descent is not as eloquent, and thus not as electrifying, as Stacy Peralta's "Dogtown and Z-Boys" or "Riding Giants," the two jock docs it's clearly modeled after. No matter: Visually, MD Films offers up a sugar rush.
  63. The White Countess
    I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that this oasis of romance amid the turmoil of Shanghai represents the way that Merchant and Ivory, for 40 years, saw themselves: as a sanctuary of calming, life-size taste in a movie culture grown coarse. It was often far from perfect, but I'll miss that sanctuary.
  64. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
    He rarely allowed himself to be interviewed, but Henri Cartier-Bresson, here nearing 100, comes off as a marvelous, spritely, and companionable figure.
  65. Film Geek
    James Westby's loving and self-aware homage to mouth-breathing boys who worship Wong Kar-Wai and can't talk to girls is the opposite of Tarantino-esque: It's Westby-ish, interspersing settings of biting social oafishness with spasms of film knowledge.
  66. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    Young, wizened yet valiant, his voice still braying at the moon, delivers these songs of aging and loss as if caught in a beautiful dream of what lies waiting for him on the other side.
  67. Eight Below
    There's something invigorating about this unpretentious dog tale. And if a penguin drops by to promote his own movie product, well, there's room on the frozen continent for all.
  68. 16 Blocks
    A helluva lot happens in 16 Blocks - an outrageous amount, really, along with a coda that deposits the audience squarely at a movieland finale. Who knew that looking both ways before crossing is where the real action is?
  69. Our Brand Is Crisis
    A fascinating glimpse at the perils of ''exporting'' democracy.
  70. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
    This moving film explores the trauma of a Holocaust survivor with rare complexity.
  71. Thank You for Smoking
    Cynical and cheerily merciless.
  72. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    Ice Age: The Meltdown blithely looks on the bright side of life, amassing a screen full of vultures to sing and dance ''Food Glorious Food'' and daring us not to get happy.
  73. Slither
    There are times (and plenty of them) when Slither slops over from smart, affectionate homage into unmodulated frat goofiness as Gunn cannibalizes so many horror plots with such high spirits.
  74. Brick
    Johnson also grabs hold of a fundamental truth and seduces us with it: The schoolyard can be the noirest burg of all.
  75. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    A fascinating and lovingly crafted musical documentary that nevertheless misunderstands its own subject.
  76. American Dreamz
    A blithe, funny, and engaging movie.
  77. Hard Candy
    Hard Candy is extreme - a battle of the sexes that glides from tricky to angry to shockingly ugly.
  78. The Notorious Bettie Page
    The movie, in a sense, is just like Bettie's photos: all glorious surface. The Notorious Bettie Page captures, with seductive finesse, how Bettie Page happened, yet what it leaves us with is the tantalizing enigma of a girl who couldn't truly be ''bad'' because she made sex divinely delicious.
  79. Look Both Ways
    Ineffably Australian and intriguingly (rather than annoyingly) artsy, Look Both Ways introduces a handful of people gobsmacked by life-changing crises, all of them trying to make sense of responsibility, mortality, and connection.
  80. Akeelah and the Bee
    Blessed with excellent turns by Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne, this feel-gooder revels in its hip-to-be-square hyperliteracy, and neatly exceeds its own PSA-ness, practically amounting to a black, preteen "Good Will Hunting."
  81. Mission: Impossible III
    A gratifyingly clever, booby-trapped thriller that has enough fun and imagination and dash to more than justify its existence.
  82. Poseidon
    It's a buoyant, old-wave disaster pic for a generation of well-conditioned thrill seekers charmed by the revelation that Richard Dreyfuss really is the Red Buttons of our day.
  83. Over the Hedge
    The visual and verbal jokes are as bouncy and multilevel (hip height for adults, knee-slap-size for kids) as we have come, no doubt selfishly, to expect from DreamWorks.
  84. Sketches of Frank Gehry
    Gehry sketches and free-associates about how he's not nearly the menschy aw-shucks pussycat from Canada he appears to be but rather a wily, complicated L.A. lion.
  85. Lemming
    The movie, which has the slightly glum perversity of early Chabrol, is a dream of betrayal, with the squirmiest attack-of-nature tableau since Willard.
  86. A Prairie Home Companion
    What sustains the film is the performers' belief in their shaggy-dog selves, which is more than just talent - it's faith.
  87. Cavite
    A breakneck inner-city odyssey of jump-cut shaky-cam suspense.
  88. The Heart of the Game
    The film is a furious full-court press, its subjects aflame with the kind of passion only youth can furnish.
  89. Lower City
    Director Sérgio Machado, who worked as an assistant to Central Station's Walter Salles, lingers sensually over every wrong move his attractive tragic trio make.
  90. Only Human
    Cheery, expertly constructed Spanish farce.
  91. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    I'm not generally a big fan of tribute concerts, but this is a glorious exception.
  92. The Hidden Blade
    The Hidden Blade is tranquil, touching, and, in its climactic sword fight, excitingly real.
  93. Gabrielle
    Greggory anchors Gabrielle in manly bewilderment and rage, while Huppert claws the title character's way to self-awareness.
  94. Been Rich All My Life
    Good times and bum times, they've seen it all and they're still here. Lucky us.
  95. The Ant Bully
    An effortlessly clever animated confection.
  96. I Like Killing Flies
    The result is an unabashedly home-cooked homage to New York eccentricity.
  97. The Illusionist
    The Illusionist looks rigorously styled and measured, and every one of Norton's postures feels chosen. Yet the interesting actor has chosen so thoughtfully that we're riveted.
  98. Beerfest
    Beerfest panders shamelessly to the 15-year-old in this 30-year-old... without assuming he is a 15-year-old. It's R-rated puerility for actual immature grown-ups.
  99. Invincible
    Wahlberg, with shaggy hair and a pumped bod he wears more convincingly than any actor, plays Vince as a guy who truly doesn't expect to win. That makes his rib-bruising triumph all the more believable and touching.
  100. Hollywoodland
    The chief frustration of this otherwise well-made, well-acted, well-heeled picture -- a movie classy in its artful modesty, with every detail of plot and period furnishings lovingly conceived, every lick of jazz-influenced score true to the times -- is that it is so very self-absorbedly graceful about something so very insular and...unremarkable.
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