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Highest review score: 100 13th
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  1. The Flower of Evil
    The discreet stink of the bourgeoisie perfumes the wonderfully mordant, dry-eyed family saga, The Flower of Evil.
  2. The Thomas Crown Affair
    A romp of romantic larceny built out of spare parts we've seen in countless other films.
  3. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    An animated fairy tale made with simple, elegant conviction.
  4. Calendar Girls
    While each Yorkshire playmate-of-the-month warmly assesses her own undewy flesh, the movie gives off a happy vibe of appreciation -- for the dignity of the real Rylstone lot, the actresses who play them so lovingly, and the simple, flower-bed borders of the story.
  5. Tadpole
    Where ''Rushmore'' surprises and delights with its spiky depiction of sprawling American idiosyncrasy, Tadpole's more urbane, less complicated charms are specifically made in New York City.
  6. Head of State
    Rock and Mac exult in the kind of highly charged verbal and physical antics that are star-turn rewards for performers currently at the tops of their games.
  7. The Weather Underground
    Powerful and searching documentary.
  8. S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
    Yet S21, unlike many documentaries about the Nazi era, isn't a sickening panorama of brutality. Shot on video, it's quiet and intimate.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Saturday Night Fever
    Travolta molds what could have been an equally obvious character into a substantial, tragic figure.
  10. Divan
    The serious struggle in this lilting doc is told with an inviting light touch and a big heart.
  11. Mars Attacks!
    In its nothing's-quite-at-stake way, Mars Attacks! has Tim Burton's flaked-out spirit -- it makes you feel like a very knowing 8-year-old, seeing through the artifice yet believing in it at the same time.
  12. Twelve Monkeys
    As the jabbering psychotic Jeffrey Goines, Brad Pitt has a rabid, get-a-load-of-me deviousness that works for the film's central mystery: We can't tell where the fanatic leaves off and the put-on artist begins.
  13. Step Into Liquid
    Even from the safety of a movie seat, you can just about feel the stinging hardness of the surf. Blue crush? This is more like white smash.
  14. Lost in La Mancha
    Nothing more than a modest, streamlined ''making of...'' diary about a movie that never got made -- it's ''Project Greenlight'' with bigger stars and bigger disasters.
  15. Below
    In the handsome, haunting submarine thriller Below, the usual perils of deep-sea maneuvers are heightened by psychic unraveling.
  16. Slums of Beverly Hills
    Slums of Beverly Hills has the kind of big heart, strong voice, vivid look, and original sense of humor many young artists -- particularly young female artists -- don't find until they're riper, and some never find at all.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Amistad
    Becomes a too-stately courtroom drama, with the Africans in the dock, the issue of slavery on trial at didactic length, and the top-billed Morgan Freeman as an abolitionist shunted to the sidelines with too little to do. [26 Jun 1998, p. 130]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  18. The Rules of Attraction
    The cast is a pitch-perfect assemblage of pretty young things, but James Van Der Beek, as a slit-eyed dorm stud, proves that he can be an actor of cruel force.
  19. The X Files
    Dark, funny, paranoid, arbitrary, humming with tamped-down eroticism and in love with all things weird: That's the good news.
  20. The Legend of Drunken Master
    May be the most kick ass demonstration yet, for the majority of American moviegoers, of what the fuss is all about.
  21. Out of Time
    Entertainingly deft sleight-of-hand thriller.
  22. The Company
    The key to The Company is the quiet, focused rapture of Neve Campbell, who formally trained in ballet and performed all of her on-screen dances. The tranquil delight she takes in her body becomes its own eloquent form of acting.
  23. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Packs appeal for both kids and parents.
  24. Winged Migration
    Mesmerizing.
  25. The Eye
    Part supernatural thriller, part Oliver Sacks-style meditation on the neurological mysteries of perception, and part Buddhist treatise on reincarnation, the story luxuriates in shadows.
  26. Adorenarin doraibu
    Clever, laid-back.
  27. Palmetto
    Palmetto has a satisfyingly deceptive plot that ultimately takes one too many turns.
  28. The Negotiator
    The Negotiator, once it gets going (there's a rather lengthy prosaic setup), is a satisfyingly tense and booby-trapped thriller about the meeting of two relentless minds.
  29. X2: X-Men United
    X2 sparkles with a lightness of spirit that was missing from ''X-Men.''
    • 68 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    The result has the dingy grace of pigeons flying across an urban wasteland.
  31. Hannibal
    Hannibal lacks the rounded emotional elegance of ''The Silence of the Lambs'' (that was a great film; this one is merely good).
  32. Ghosts of the Abyss
    Cameron wants to take the audience ''back to 'Titanic,''' but the journey's magic is hemmed in, paradoxically, by the transcendence of his previous effort; surely he must know that a lot of us never left.
  33. Orange County
    Arriving amid the traditionally withered harvest of January releases, Orange County is peachy.
  34. Solomon & Gaenor
    A "Romeo and Juliet" tragedy of surprising power.
  35. Sweet and Lowdown
    Allen draws a snappy, loose-limbed performance from Penn.
  36. Punch-Drunk Love
    Deeply rich and strange new romantic comedy.
  37. Tupac: Resurrection
    It's no insult to Tupac to say that he was gangsta rap's greatest matinee idol, or that he lived the part only too well.
  38. He Got Game
    As is often the case with Lee, though, the film left me wishing for even more scenes of casual intimacy, still the most powerful way to carry any message.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The War of the Roses
    DeVito doesn't hesitate to send the camera anywhere to goose the humor.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  40. Starship Troopers
    The movie is sensationally exciting, but its hey-kids-let s-put-on-a-war! story line plays like Beverly Hills, 90210 recast as a military-recruitment film for the Third Reich.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Manhunter
    The brilliance of Michael Mann's Manhunter is that it appreciates that the true nexus of humanity is our shared closeness.
  42. The Guru
    Bright dialogue and finely embroidered performances adorn The Guru like festive beading on a pair of made-in-India bedroom slippers.
  43. Unbreakable
    Somberly fantastic new mystery thriller.
  44. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
    Underneath the ravishing imagery however, hearts are in flux.
  45. MC5*: A True Testimonial
    Wide-ranging and beautifully edited -- it's a vivid evocation of a moment when even the ugliest guitar feedback could be taken as a serious political statement.
  46. The Score
    A sturdily diverting old fashioned heist thriller that looks like a masterpiece of sheer competence next to the slovenly action fantasy F/X grab bags that have been passing for summer entertainment.
  47. Anger Management
    The two XXL personalities are in fit, fighting form in a comedy as bracing and furiously right for the moment as it is broad and huggable.
  48. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Smart enough to hook us with the best thing it has going: Cedric the Entertainer's gruffly uproarious and lived-in performance as Eddie.
  49. A Beautiful Mind
    Crowe sometimes summons up one of the most powerful depictions of mental illness I have ever seen with barely an eyelid flicker separating manifestations of sickness from utterly sane displays of creative concentration.
  50. Bus 174
    Although it shares a bitter interest in slum desperation with last year's Brazilian-underbelly docudrama ''City of God,'' Bus 174 pulls ahead, I think, by not confusing cinematic pizzazz with the content of misery.
  51. Dahmer
    To explain a serial killer is to diminish his madness, but Dahmer does something quietly riveting. It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho, without making him any less psycho.
  52. Joy Ride
    Zigzags across the conventions of genre, occasionally driving on the shoulders of black humor -- it's a road movie for the way we process suspense today.
  53. The Dancer Upstairs
    The movie has a mystery, and moral unease, that lingers.
  54. The Komediant
    Reflect the robust status of Yiddish theater in the early 20th century, and its post-Holocaust decline.
  55. Iron Monkey
    Gravity-defying kung fu choreography.
  56. The Station Agent
    That his (writer-director Tom McCarthy) strange, often funny film is so well-disciplined and deadpan refreshing is an achievement.
  57. Final Destination
    An unexpectedly alert teen-scream disaster chiller.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Glengarry Glen Ross
    Alec Baldwin is on camera for barely eight minutes in Glengarry Glen Ross, the tightly wound — and actually very fine — film adaptation of David Mamet’s play. But his big speech, whipping up the assembled real estate salesmen with reptilian gung ho, could stand as a compressed version of what makes Baldwin, when bad, so good.
  59. Runaway Jury
    The already heavy-footed clomp of Grisham's declamatory storytelling style has been given an extra-thick-soled, wing-tipped, liberal-leaning, reality-tampering kick thanks to a screenplay credited to four writers.
  60. The Princess Diaries
    This charming, if unnecessarily coronation-length production gets the duckling-to-swan ambivalence just right.
  61. Rat Race
    The easygoing silliness with which this late-summer movie surprise scuttles from mayhem to mayhem and the verve with which the cast throws itself into the fray are so cheering and liberating.
  62. Jesus' Son
    Another grotty drama about junkie love? Well, yes...I make an exception for Jesus' Son.
  63. Auto Focus
    The performances are vividly alive.
  64. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    The movie is a great big feast of wreckage. But that’s also what makes it a bit numbing.
  65. State and Main
    Delectably caustic comedy.
  66. Black and White
    A pulsating snapshot of America caught in a mad, liberating identity crisis.
  67. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    May not tell a great story, but it's a great wow.
  68. Japanese Story
    This is an origami story, really, about what a construction of chance the big world is.
  69. The Yes Men
    When they're good, the Yes Men are astonishing, anarchic sights to behold.
  70. Lone Star
    The biggest problem with Lone Star is that colorful Charley Wade isn't the center of the movie -- it's bland Sam Deeds. Cooper isn't a compelling enough movie star to carry us along some of the film's more languid twists and turns.
  71. Russian Ark
    It was only with the advent of digital technology that the notion of an entire film done in a single take became possible. Mike Figgis got there first with ''Time Code,'' and now the Russian director Alexander Sokurov has brought off a comparably startling feat with Russian Ark.
  72. Tuck Everlasting
    A dreamy adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's cherished 1975 children's novel.
  73. The Ice Storm
    Kevin Kline is sweetly befuddled as a good man caught between worlds, and Sigourney Weaver, as a hard, sexy adulteress, makes her wit sting.
  74. No Man's Land
    It's a merciless and mirthlessly funny antiwar weapon from a filmmaker who has seen battle firsthand and has lived to make art from memories of hell.
  75. Tigerland
    An affecting, old fashioned, antiwar war story.
  76. Das Boot
    Sweaty and claustrophobic, exciting and horrifying at the same time, it never lets us forget we're riding aboard a giant, primitive tin can, a hunk of industrial machinery that mingles the illusion of omnipotence with the reality of a floating prison cell. [Director's Cut]
  77. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
    Best of all, a revisit with Jedi makes a viewer appreciate spectacle, presentation, mythology -- that, and the power of a bitchin' helmet to speak volumes in a language even an alien can understand. [Special Edition]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sense and Sensibility
    Ang Lee's film of the Jane Austen novel slavishly follows the gospel according to Merchant Ivory, swooning over characters declaiming modestly while surrounded by topiary.
  79. The Big Bounce
    By not trying too hard, this remake of a dumb movie has got spring in its step. The bounce is on us.
  80. Sex Is Comedy
    Shows a beguiling aptitude for self-mockery in the pursuit of polemic.
  81. House of Sand and Fog
    Just because a scenario turns dark doesn't mean that it's convincing. House of Sand and Fog is artful until it lunges for Art.
  82. Shall We Dance?
    Even when the catharsis we yearn for arrives, it's tinged with restraint. But then, the true romance in Shall We Dance? is more than personal. It's the spectacle of a nation learning to dance with itself.
  83. Roger Dodger
    A little too programmed in its despair, but it coasts along on the jagged music of the modern lothario's song.
  84. Next Stop Wonderland
    Anderson brings compassion to his amused sense of yuppie tragicomedy, as he does to his nuanced understanding of Boston, the setting of this appealing fairy tale.
  85. Sunshine
    While inevitably oversimplified, is never less than engrossing.
  86. George Washington
    A peculiar combination of willful meandering and matter of fact violence, and it occasionally confounds in its attempts to exalt.
  87. Dr. Dolittle
    Director Betty Thomas demonstrates her expertise at keeping indulgence at bay in even the coarsest of comic situations.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    Let's face it: Chick power was never this yummy.
  89. Lost Boys of Sudan
    Yearns to be optimistic (juxtaposed with the disaster of Sudan, it certainly has the right to be), yet that only ends up underscoring its ache of sadness.
  90. Ten
    A glimpse into a society that has grown more open, more free, and also more casually selfish in its interpersonal aggression.
  91. 25th Hour
    Lee, as he did in ''Malcolm X'' and ''Clockers,'' makes his hero's dread palpable, and though 25th Hour lacks the glittering brilliance of those films, I was held by the toughness and pity of Lee's gaze.
  92. American Beauty
    You know you're in the hands of a true filmmaker when you feel invited, at every turn, to share his sense of entrancement. I got that feeling in just about every frame of American Beauty.
  93. Chasing Amy
    The hit-and-run outlandishness of "Clerks" was a stunt. With Chasing Amy, Smith has made his first real movie.
  94. Narc
    Narc is as cop movie as a cop movie can be.
  95. The Recruit
    From the get-go, The Recruit is one of those thrillers that delights in pulling the rug out from under you, only to find another rug below that.
  96. The Ladykillers
    A lot of good actors have gone to work for the Coens and ended up looking like puppets, but Hanks is too clever for that. He knows that he's playing a concoction rather than a human being.
  97. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    Very ''Waking Ned Devine.'' There's shrewd wit to Pouliot's gentle, no-bull farce.
  98. Mulan
    It took long enough, but Disney has finally come up with an animated heroine who's a good role model and a funky, arresting personality at the same time.
  99. The Corporation
    The Corporation has better manners and a longer fuse than ''Fahrenheit 9/11.'' But the acerbic, sardonically illuminating Canadian documentary shares with its American cousin a certain bleak leftist glee in pursuit of its cause.
  100. I'm Not Scared
    With a taste for dark lyricism, the director delicately emphasizes the contrast between surface innocence and subterranean danger, and between grown-up secrets and boyhood bravery.
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