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  1. Mutual Appreciation
    If this is the sound of a new generation, then it may be the first generation cautious enough to embrace friendship as mightier than love.
  2. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
    Ken Takakura, a great rain-creased oak of an actor, delivers a quietly massive performance.
  3. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
    Has a bright, dishy spirit.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    I Trust You to Kill Me
    Even when he looks like a complete dolt, Sutherland still comes off sympathetically, as a cool guy.
  5. Jesus Camp
    As a documentary, Jesus Camp could lose its haunted-house score and contrapuntal Air America refrains and still deliver its message: that, here and elsewhere, fundamentalism is no longer content with a separate peace. It wants the meat.
  6. The Last King of Scotland
    Drawing on a documentary visual style he deftly employed in "One Day in September" and "Touching the Void," director Kevin Macdonald uses McAvoy's boyishness to treat Garrigan's apolitical foolishness as yet another damn mess in one African country's hell.
  7. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
    This gallantly imperfect indie pops with attitude.
  8. Marie Antoinette
    Coppola's stranded royal suggests that at heart, Marie Antoinette was just a simple girl who wanted to have fun, and got her head handed to her.
  9. The Prestige
    The Prestige isn't art, but it reaps a lot of fun out of the question, How did they do that?
  10. Sleeping Dogs Lie
    Hamilton, in her movie debut, is a find: the kinkstress next door.
  11. Shut Up & Sing
    Through it all, Natalie Maines' decision to shirk humility, to stick by her guns, to the point that the group returns to that London concert venue in 2006 and she utters the same joke again, becomes a feisty and inspiring act of something there is only one word for: patriotism.
  12. Death of a President
    The movie IS a provocation, but not a glib or ideologically myopic one.
  13. Flushed Away
    Flushed Away lacks the action-contraption dottiness of a Wallace and Gromit adventure, but it hits its own sweet spot of demented delight.
  14. Harsh Times
    Bale is mesmerizing and Rodriguez keeps up with him as the whole unsafe contraption zooms.
  15. Fast Food Nation
    Naturally, a subject this right-on draws a right-on cast. Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, and Ethan Hawke pitch in.
  16. The Fountain
    I'm as touched and charmed by its failures as I am transfixed, at times, by its successful inventiveness and audacity.
  17. Dreamgirls
    Dreamgirls is the rare movie musical with real rapture in it.
  18. The Bergman Trilogy
    After a lifetime of flogging the demons of cosmic despair, Ingmar Bergman, at 88, comes off as lean and vigorous in this fascinating memoir-interview.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Off the Black
    Sucking at the top of many a can, and greedily slurping the sides of an overflowing bottle, Nolte gives a master class in how to drink a beer on screen. The rest of his work here is sad, understated, and worth seeking out.
  20. The Painted Veil
    The always surprising Watts creates a woman at once contemporary and retro. And Norton, as a producer as well as star, concedes enough space for Schreiber and the effortlessly fascinating Jones to earn their own spotlights.
  21. The Pursuit of Happyness
    It's a beautiful and understated performance, one that hums with a richer, quieter music than Smith has mustered before.
  22. The Astronaut Farmer
    After teeny indies, this studio release retains the trademark love of warped American gothic that the Polishes share with David Lynch and the brothers Ethan and Joel Coen. But the unexpected streak of yearning sunniness -- the Spielbergian touch of boyhood dreams propelling a grown man -- gives The Astronaut Farmer a warmth that's new for them.
  23. Beyond the Gates
    John Hurt is magnetic as a Catholic priest running a school where terrified Tutsi have taken refuge, while Hugh Dancy, as a naive teacher, represents white commitment to black Africa at its most impotent and unreliable.
  24. Pride
    Pride doesn't have much surprise, but it's a formula picture of genuine feeling.
  25. Air Guitar Nation
    When C-Diddy (a.k.a. David Jung), in his samurai superman suit, does his note-perfect, lip-twisting, belly-jiggling manic mime of Extreme's ''Play With Me,'' it's hard not to grin and admit that, yes, this is almost an art form.
  26. First Snow
    First Snow is essentially a short story with a metaphysical twist, but Pearce puts his fears more up front than any actor I can think of.
  27. The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
    Eight months of interrogation and torture in fetid Abu Ghraib followed before he was released, innocent. None of The Prisoner's showy flourishes -- animation, sound effects, fancy editing -- can match the power of Abbas' stillness as he describes one man's agony in one huge hell.
  28. Hot Fuzz
    In the very funny cop comedy Hot Fuzz, overachieving London police officer Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) commits a very British sin: He's too good.
  29. Fracture
    Fracture is working on us, playing us, but that's its pleasure. It makes overwrought manipulation seem more than a basic instinct.
  30. Bug
    The enjoyably icky heart of Bug is still contained within the airless, increasingly ''bug-proofed'' room that becomes Agnes and Peter's whole world.
  31. Surf's Up
    An animated family movie about penguins -- in the wake of "March of the Happy Feet," they're the Angelina Jolie of animals, both cute and admired everywhere. Plus, it's about surfing.
  32. La Vie en Rose
    Hurtling and impassioned, driven by some of the greatest popular music ever recorded, this wildly overripe and unkempt biopic is a true experience.
  33. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    An irresistibly vibrant concert-tour documentary.
  34. Sicko
    The Cuban escapade, designed to provoke, backfires when he loses focus by including Cuban firefighters in an homage to 9/11 first responders.
  35. Vitus
    Vitus, a fizzy domestic fairy tale from Switzerland, gives you a lift, as it revels in the oddball joy of genius as kid power.
  36. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    The flourishes don't answer the question most on Potterites' minds -- who lives, who dies? -- but they briefly stupefy.
  37. My Best Friend
    An unlikely comedy charmer.
  38. Sunshine
    Another thinking-person's thriller from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, also co-pilots on "28 Days Later."
  39. The Simpsons Movie
    The best thing about this long-awaited feature-length project, a classic Simpsonian interplay of family psychology, social commentary, and brainy visual and verbal jokes tossed off at rat-a-tat speed, is how relaxed it manages to be.
  40. The Ten
    Devious and inspired enough to juice you past any weak spots. Thou shalt be amused.
  41. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    There's no denying its grip: It is lurid, fascinating, sickening, and eye-opening.
  42. Shoot 'Em Up
    Its pulpy violent excess will tip over...into slightly more excessive excess. That's its silly, scuzzball joy.
  43. The Hunting Party
    What makes The Hunting Party an original, gonzo treat is the way that Shepard plants the movie's tone somewhere between hair-trigger investigative danger and the from-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire glee of a Hope/Crosby picture.
  44. King of California
    It's as if the star (Douglas) finally gets to integrate all his onscreen personas, all at once.
  45. The Darjeeling Limited
    This is familiar psychological as well as stylistic territory for Anderson after "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums." But there's a startling new maturity in Darjeeling, a compassion for the larger world that busts the confines of the filmmaker's miniaturist instincts.
  46. Control
    Control goes past the clichés of punk rock-god gloom to offer a snapshot of alienation that's shockingly humane.
  47. Wristcutters: A Love Story
    The whole film is cracked, but in a stylish, downtown way.
  48. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
    It's galvanizing to see it played out through the furious contradiction of Carter's personality. He is pious, stubborn, compassionate, testy, moral, unreasonable, and wise.
  49. Terror's Advocate
    The title Terror's Advocate is both a statement of fact and a worrisome understatement in a documentary as slippery as its subject.
  50. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
    Captures the Joe Strummer who, in the late 1970s, just about firebombed the rock establishment with his fury.
  51. Lynch
    As skewed, prismatic, and free of fluff as the man himself.
  52. Beowulf
    Beowulf is a solemnly gorgeous, at times borderline stolid piece of Tolkien-with-a-joystick mythology.
  53. Enchanted
    Enchanted is festooned with extravagant set pieces -- there's a great number in praise of romantic gestures, and a ballroom scene to make even grown-up girls swoon.
  54. The Mist
    There's a grim modern parable to be read into the dangerous effects of the gospel-preaching local crazy lady Mrs. Carmody (brilliantly played by a hellfire Marcia Gay Harden) on a congregation of the fearful.
  55. Sharkwater
    This beautiful and urgent eco-doc takes a bite out of the shark mythology made indelible by "Jaws."
  56. Charlie Wilson's War
    It's all about a likable scoundrel who discovers what it means to act out of conviction. The film's underlying twist, though, is tartly ironic.
  57. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    The movie is so finely minced a mixture of Sondheim's original melodrama and Burton's signature spicing that it's difficult to think of any other filmmaker so naturally suited for the job.
  58. Cloverfield
    Cloverfield, a surreptitiously subversive, stylistically clever little gem of an entertainment disguised, under its deadpan-neutral title, as a dumb Gen-YouTube monster movie, makes the convincingly chilling argument that the world will end -- or, at least, Manhattan will crumble -- with a bang and a whimper.
  59. How She Move
    Rutina Wesley glowers with just the right touch of sweetness as a brainy student (and stellar after-school stepper).
  60. The Witnesses
    What the characters in The Witnesses -- and we, the audience -- pay testimony to in André Téchiné's urgent, compassionate, and ultimately optimistic French drama are the toll the epidemic has rung, and the responsibility of the living to choose life.
  61. Paranoid Park
    Paranoid Park has the slightly glum insularity of minimalist fiction, but it's the first of Van Sant's blitzed-generation films in which a young man wakes up instead of shutting down.
  62. Blindsight
    Lucy Walker's observant film Blindsight is about profound East-West differences in the importance of journey versus destination and comradeship versus competition.
  63. Meduzot
    Marvelously inventive, often-ironic Israeli storyteller Etgar Keret and his life- and workmate, Shira Geffen, spin in Jellyfish a dreamy, arty, alluringly cockeyed tale involving three unrelated women in Tel Aviv.
  64. Shine a Light
    In Shine a Light, a crackling concert movie directed by Martin Scorsese, the Rolling Stones are now so old that they seem new again.
  65. The Visitor
    This audaciously issues-loaded indie drama works, improbably and entirely, on account of the marvelous, often familiar-looking, rarely starring character actor Richard Jenkins and his perfect performance as a stodgy, widowed economics professor.
  66. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Nakedness has rarely looked so...naked. And innately, universally comic.
  67. Roman de gare
    A sly catalog of deceits and a gentle commentary on slippery creativity and desire.
  68. Redbelt
    Mamet regulars Ricky Jay and Joe Mantegna blend well with Mamet newbie Tim Allen, a treat as a spoiled-rotten aging Hollywood action star.
  69. Sex and the City
    A movie that taps directly back into the show's primal appeal, which is the sweet, sad, saucy delight of sharing these women's company.
  70. Get Smart
    The unexpected star is Hathaway, looking cool as a runway model in the role originated by Barbara Feldon, lithe as a (pink) panther, and displaying great comic timing.
  71. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    The Golden Army dazzles like something out of "Jason and the Argonauts." To make a comic-book fantasy this derivative yet this dazzling requires more than technique. It takes a director in touch with his inner hellboy.
  72. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
    Quite grand, quite exotic, David Lean-style epic.
  73. Chris & Don. A Love Story
    Their love story was inevitably complicated. And so is the documentary Chris & Don: A Love Story -- not simply a love letter to love -- by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara.
  74. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    A smart, playful, informative pleasure.
  75. Trumbo
    That's Trumbo's message -- that the true victim was America.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    Even cynics might concede that, again, four capable actresses have pulled off a relatively rare thing: They've convinced us they're an honest-to-God movie sisterhood.
  77. Hamlet 2
    As a movie, Hamlet 2 is lively, energetically daft, and very, very scrappy -- a broader, more loony-tunes knockoff of "Waiting for Guffman."
  78. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    A spare, controlled study in communication gaps and a piercing sketch of suburban American loneliness.
  79. Choke
    It's an indelibly warped cartoon of lust and despair.
  80. RocknRolla
    Ritchie concocts a crime-jungle demimonde that's organically linked to the real world, and it's a damn fun one to visit.
  81. Quarantine
    Quarantine director John Erick Dowdle and co-writing brother Drew wisely stick close to the told-from-the-cameraman's point-of-view template of the terrific original, though they add a few fine flourishes.
  82. Frontrunners
    This is no real-life comedy à la "Election" -- more like a valuable, teen-scaled version of the presidential election that currently obsesses us.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pride and Glory
    Edward Norton is in top form as Ray, a burned-out detective whose investigation into the deaths of four cops leads him to suspect his brother-in-law, Officer Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell, also terrific).
  84. Splinter
    A nifty horror movie that doesn't claim to be anything other than a zippy exercise in creature-feature entertainment.
  85. Pray the Devil Back to Hell
    Gini Reticker's simply made, affecting documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell reveals how these heroic ordinary women prodded the factions to peace and literally brought down Taylor, a leader of sociopathic cruelty.
  86. We Are Wizards
    This charm-filled documentary about passionate Harry Potter fans (and one foe) leaps all over the place.
  87. Cadillac Records
    It's an enjoyable ramble, with a feel for what made the early days of rock as wild as any that followed.
  88. What Doesn't Kill You
    A tough, authentic street drama born, bred, and shot in the no-spin zone of working-class South Boston.
  89. Where God Left His Shoes
    Writer-director Salvatore Stabile has a good eye for the details of hard-luck ordinariness, and he sketches believable family bonds with a minimum of flourish.
  90. Nothing But the Truth
    Lurie hits closer to the bone here than he did in his ham-handed "The Contender" (2000).
  91. Notorious
    Notorious makes the death of Biggie Smalls look like a tragic mistake, instead of the outgrowth of a culture devoted to selling the fantasy of who's the biggest man.
  92. Fados
    Fados connects today's leading interpreters with legendary fadistas of the past. And it's the last title to be released under the banner of the venerable New Yorker Films.
  93. Alien Trespass
    The characters in Alien Trespass (directed by X-Files producing alum R.W. Goodwin) are specimens of Sputnik-era determination, led by a gung-ho Eric McCormack.
  94. Fast & Furious
    It offers an attractive getaway route from self-importance, snark, and chatty comedies about male bonding. Here, stick shifts do the talking.
  95. American Violet
    An artlessly powerful performance by newcomer Nicole Behaire anchors American Violet.
  96. Rudo y Cursi
    The intimate movie hums with a back-in-the-hood vibe that gets the two stars playing contentedly, and delightfully, for the love of local filmmaking.
  97. O'Horten
    Jack Nicholson's dyspeptic retiree in "About Schmidt" would no doubt identify with O'Horten's entertaining pain.
  98. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    Scott gets into the zip and rush of urban energy with an enthusiasm bordering on hilarity.
  99. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    Battle of the Smithsonian has plenty of life. But it's Adams who gives it zing.
  100. The End of the Line
    Spells out the problem in clear, urgent, prosaic terms.
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