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  1. Chéri
    Pfeiffer transcends any hint of cliché ''cougar'' voraciousness.
  2. Surveillance
    A grubby, disturbing serial-killer mystery, a kind of blood-simple "Rashomon."
  3. I Love You, Beth Cooper
    The story is timeless; this could have taken place when Doyle graduated in '76 -- or any year, really, since the effects of high school linger throughout adult life and nerds are forever.
  4. Paper Heart
    The movie's hide-and-seek attitude toward truth mirrors the intricacies of one lover getting to know another -- an arresting notion of the heart that's much more than paper-deep.
  5. Crude
    It's a David-and-Goliath tale, full of anger and disturbing accusation, but it's also inspiring.
  6. The Horse Boy
    Turns into a lyrical and stirring meditation on the mystery of autism.
  7. More Than a Game
    It's the die-hard camaraderie that undergirded this squad and lifted it to the top.
  8. Good Hair
    Rock gives Good Hair a rousing message: Where African-Americans in the '60s adopted a ''natural'' look, they now feel free to coif their heads any way they want. That's cultural power.
  9. The House of the Devil
    There's wit but never a wink in this smartly shot production, which pays homage to the 1980s without fetishizing the era.
  10. William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
    His pluck and chutzpah shine through.
  11. The Exploding Girl
    Gray has an artful, understated way of conveying what's going ?on inside, often simply by focusing his camera on Kazan.
  12. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Does a great job of being in two places at once: In the head and gangly bodies of kids, and in the hearts of those of us who have survived grades 6-8.
  13. Greenberg
    Baumbach's movies are addictive dispatches from a genteel jungle of white privilege, where highly educated people behave badly. I can't take my eyes off the exotic wildlife.
  14. The Eclipse
    What holds The Eclipse together is Hinds' sorrowful and moving performance as a man haunted in more ways than one.
  15. Waking Sleeping Beauty
    The joy of cartoons meets the agony of office politics in this fascinating, inside- Hollywood-baseball documentary.
  16. The Brothers
    Passionate and saucy comedy.
  17. End of the Century
    A documentary that digs deep inside this most revolutionary and tortured of punk quartets, it's hard not to feel that the Ramones, who never had a hit record, were the greatest band in 50 years to be stonewalled out of success.
  18. The Château
    If anyone steals the movie, though, it's Sylvie Testud, who never lets on whether the sexy French country maid she's playing is mournfully obtuse or embodies the wisdom of the ages.
  19. Painted Fire
    Art history majors may write in with corrections. Meanwhile, I'm declaring that the masterly, big-canvas biographical drama Chi-hwa-seon: Painted Fire is about the Jackson Pollock of 19th-century Korea.
  20. The Cider House Rules
    Lasse Hallström calms Irving's typically busy 1985 best-seller with a balm of the Swedish director's typically soothing lyricism.
  21. The School of Flesh
    Jacquot economically conveys the small, painful sacrifices both lovers -- but particularly the woman -- must make, and the constant, ongoing negotiations of power required to maintain no-strings freedom.
  22. The Young Unknowns
    There's a shocking, casual quality to the self-destructive narcissism of the pretty, petty kids squandering their lives in the L.A. sunshine of The Young Unknowns.
  23. Open Hearts
    Well-made film. Indeed, discovering such a small pleasure is the kind of experience that rewards film lovers who browse with open eyes as well as hearts.
  24. The Cat's Meow
    Peter Bogdanovich taps deep into the Hearst mystique, entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal.
  25. O
    To an astonishing degree, O gets the tragic Shakespeare mood, that somber stentorian passion born of hidden slivers of ambition and betrayal.
  26. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
    In the scurrilously enjoyable documentary Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy, we get to know the man whom Al Goldstein dubbed ''the hedgehog of porn."
  27. Me You Them
    Casé, with her sturdy, elemental body and shining eyes, is the reason phrases like ''inner beauty'' were invented, and she's also the reason this idealistic, naturalistic film by Rio de Janeiro born Andrucha Waddington has been such a success at festivals around the world.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Luzhin Defence
    Fine candy for mind and eye.
  29. Tortilla Soup
    At times, the movie smacks of a standard-issue Hollywood chick flick, especially in the obligatory scene where the women bond by singing and dancing in a kitchen (to Doris Day's ''Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps'').
  30. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    The dramatic power, though, comes entirely from the eloquence of old people, shot in medium close-up, barely moving as they remember things.
  31. Under the Sand
    Ozon specializes in dissecting the vulnerability, erotic longing, and garbled intentions with which people regularly rub up against one another.
  32. Empire
    Leguizamo owns Empire, the first film to capture the live-wire crackle of his one-man stage shows -- He's front and center in nearly every scene, and he holds the screen with a simmering self-assurance.
  33. Red Satin
    Undoubtedly downplays the seamier, less attractive experiences of Arab women and men in Tunisian cabaret culture, and plays up the fairy-tale charm of the universal ''Flashdance'' formula in an unusual setting.
  34. Julien Donkey-Boy
    Korine remains unnecessarily smitten with sordidness, and there's plenty of it here.
  35. When Brendan Met Trudy
    The movie luxuriates in cinema references while laughing at its own fetishes -- a neat talent.
  36. The Wisdom of Crocodiles
    Peculiarly bloodless.
  37. Mifune's Last Song
    As loose and restful as pajamas.
  38. Baran
    There are moments in Baran as wholesomely heart-tugging as any involving Charlie Chaplin and a blind girl, but the film is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition.
  39. Flawless
    It says a lot for Joel Schumacher's Flawless that you can see the picture's high-concept heart a mile away and still be won over by it.
  40. The Last September
    There's something Slavic about Warner's storytelling.
  41. My Wife Is an Actress
    With every detail in this clever peekaboo, the sly filmmaker dangles the possibility that fiction is fact and that Yvan and Charlotte are real -- or at least as real as the movies.
  42. Mansfield Park
    The Australian actress Frances O'Connor is a true find. She's as beautiful as the young Barbara Hershey, with a stare that's pensive yet playful, and she puts us in touch with the quiet battle of emotions in Fanny.
  43. Eureka
    Slow -- sometimes maddeningly, soporifically so.
  44. Aimee & Jaguar
    Färberböck's sensual adaptation is a matter of fact embrace of the unconventional and dangerous during a terrible time.
  45. Monkeybone
    There's unwieldy mess -- but there's also unruly brilliance to this dark and funny story about the havoc that ensues when a man's uncensored Freudian id is allowed the run of the place.
  46. Last Resort
    Moving and eerily beautiful.
  47. Pandaemonium
    Pandaemonium goes a long way toward capturing the compelling delirium of opium among a crowd of freethinking British iconoclasts.
  48. The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
    A gaily busy kid flick.
  49. Elling
    Charms because of its natural, non-magical attitude toward humanity.
  50. Secret Ballot
    Charms with its amalgam of absurdity, optimism, humor, and avuncular regard for the million small daily chores, rituals, suspicions, and courtesies of dwellers on even the sparsest spots on earth.
  51. Undisputed
    Undisputed is a shrewd and splendidly volatile B movie structured around a highly original gambit of suspense.
  52. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
    A majority oriented movie that assumes sophisticated familiarity with a sexual minority.
  53. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    Her memories lack the quality of revelation -- that is, up until the remarkable final section, in which she describes the last weeks in the bunker with Hitler and Eva Braun.
  54. The Mothman Prophecies
    It's made with deftly unsettling genre flair.
  55. Chunhyangdyun
    It's a good bet the average American moviegoer, however familiar with the rhythms of cinematic global culture, has never experienced such a handsomely self contained world.
  56. Spring Forward
    Great, restrained performances of Beatty and Schreiber, delicately framed by the filmmaker's taste for visual compositions.
  57. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    Imamura's delight in the infinite oddity of men and women is goofy; it's also, at heart, reverent.
  58. The Lady and the Duke
    The technique is impressive. But it would count for little if the human story -- of a magnetic, resourceful, and, in the way of all Rohmer heroines, articulate woman who was mistress to the Duke of Orleans -- weren't engrossing on its own dramatic terms.
  59. Stardom
    It may be the first movie that mirrors, in its very syntax, the ''snap crackle and pop'' narcotic superficiality of the E! channel. I mean that as a compliment.
  60. The Source
    The rare case in which a filmmaker's unadulterated worship of his subjects adds force and resonance--and not just luster--to the way that we see them.
  61. Merci Pour Le Chocolat
    Huppert has never been this cheerful, or lethal, and the movie itself is like Hitchcock's ''Rebecca'' reshot for House & Garden, with all the ghosts pulled out of the closet.
  62. Stevie
    Gripping in its intimacy.
  63. The Hurricane
    Washington immerses himself, even more than he did in "Malcolm X," in a stare of unforgiving outrage.
  64. Dr T and the Women
    Funny and ebullient look at a man in full confusion.
  65. Biggie and Tupac
    At best, a half-finished puzzle, but Broomfield leaves you with questions that few investigators have even dared to ask.
  66. Mondays in the Sun
    The performances are relaxed. The open-ended, vignette-like structure of the filmmaking sometimes imitates the movement of weary, life-worn men nursing liquor.
  67. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
    Herzog's fascinating, rambling, love-hate documentary about their friendship and creative partnership, and in its discursive, anecdotal way it gets at the essence of one of cinema's indelible crackpots.
  68. Felicia's Journey
    Like a dowser who can divine hidden sources of water, Atom Egoyan has a talent for locating the dream-state perversity that runs just under the surface of everyday life;
  69. Nicholas Nickleby
    At a little over two hours, this is a pared-down but no less essential Dickensian feast.
  70. Erin Brockovich
    Roberts, in her most forceful dramatic performance, allows us to take in every moment through fresh, impassioned eyes.
  71. Domestic Disturbance
    Every signifier in this quintessentially American domestic thriller is in satisfying running order.
  72. The Tailor of Panama
    In a world full of off the rack thrillers, it's fine boutique quality.
  73. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    The mad genius of this cheerily bonkers feature is the integration of a documentary-style safari into an outlandish fiction involving a fancy-pants CIA pursuit of a downed spy satellite, and a shotgun-wielding outback widow.
  74. Tosca
    Conveys the heaving passion of Puccini's famous love-jealousy-murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation.
  75. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Noyce honors the story best by standing back (and getting Kenneth Branagh, as a supercilious official, to stand back, too): Noyce lets the landscape and the untrained young actresses own the screen, particularly the naturally magnetic Everlyn Sampi.
  76. Only the Strong Survive
    One of the happiest movies around.
  77. Shine
    Shine beams with warmth, sensitivity, and fine taste.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  78. On the Run
    Genre-hoppers like Steven Soderbergh ought to love this neat triple doozy. [Note: From a review of the entire trilogy.]
  79. An Amazing Couple
    Genre-hoppers like Steven Soderbergh ought to love this neat triple doozy. [Note: From a review of the entire trilogy.]
  80. After the Life
    Genre-hoppers like Steven Soderbergh ought to love this neat triple doozy. [Note: From a review of the entire trilogy.]
  81. Out of Sight
    Lopez, for all her Latina-siren voluptuousness, has always projected a contained coolness, and this is the first movie in which it fully works for her.
  82. Mission: Impossible II
    It's eye candy that detonates.
  83. Friday Night
    Ziplessness has rarely looked so inviting, nor have a couple of actors seemed so much like real people -- attractive, but hardly hunks of perfection -- who happened to get lucky, and are delighted to throw some of their guiltless good fortune our way.
  84. Kippur
    Intense, autobiographically based drama.
  85. Smoke Signals
    The film excels in small scenes of cannily chosen Indian everydayness.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue in the Face
    The improvisations are a mixed bag -- Reed and Fox are surprisingly hilarious, while Roseanne is a shrieking horror show -- but the air of gentle play and a wistful sense that Brooklyn is some kind of lost Eden put this one up on the more structured "Smoke."
  87. Swimming Pool
    The narrative logic of Swimming Pool slips through our hands like cool water, shimmery and light-dappled, leaving behind the pleasures of summer heat and goose bumps.
  88. Bittersweet Motel
    It's like Woodstock without the mud, and it leaves you feeling clean.
  89. Velvet Goldmine
    Velvet Goldmine is no masterpiece, but, at its best, it's a ravishing rock dream.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Spanish Prisoner
    For once, too, David Mamet the director outshines David Mamet the writer.
  91. Buffalo Soldiers
    A good satire that had the untimely bad luck to be about a U.S. soldier who will do anything it takes to party, except fight for the right.
  92. Crossroads
    Not only makes excellent use of the singer's sweetly coltish acting abilities, but it also promotes a standardized set of sturdy values with none of Mariah Carey's desperate ''Glitter,'' or any of Mandy Moore's gummy pap in ''A Walk to Remember.''
  93. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Isn't content to stick to the genre conventions it sets up. Instead, it sprawls and mutates into one of the Coens' elaborate gizmoid yarns.
  94. About a Boy
    Hugh Grant has grown up, holding on to his lightness and witty cynicism but losing the stuttering sherry-club mannerisms that were once his signature. In doing so, he has blossomed into the rare actor who can play a silver-tongued sleaze with a hidden inner decency.
  95. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    With him (Schwarzenegger), we return to a franchise we never knew we missed, surprisingly grateful for the star's generosity -- and evident pleasure -- in strapping on the old sunglasses and blasting adversaries to hell.
  96. Real Women Have Curves
    It's refreshingly low on the kind of Cinema of Empowerment pedantry that often goes along with stories about ethnic families, sweatshop working conditions, or women confronting issues of weight and body image -- and this little crowd-pleaser embraces all three.
  97. The Emperor's New Groove
    Hip, funny, mostly nonmusical, decidedly non- epic family picture.
  98. My Architect
    The son is obsessive and petulant, punishing and self-pitying, and by the time he gets to a talk with his hurt old mother, we understand why.
  99. One Hour Photo
    In One Hour Photo, Williams is a snapshot of human complexity worth framing.
  100. The Rookie
    Something particularly clean shines in this American fairy tale, a quality of simplicity that's almost as hard to achieve in such movies as a middle-aged man's boyhood dreams.
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