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  1. Kick-Ass
    An enjoyably supercharged and ultraviolent teen-rebel comic-book fantasy that might be described -- in spirit, at least -- as reality-based.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Too Much Sleep
    Maquiling has built and sustained a mood of lovely comic aplomb. Like one of its hero's daydreams, the film evaporates on contact and leaves a serene glow.
  3. Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    Let loose in a plot that's surprisingly modern about sex and relationships, Morton gives Eva's torn longings an immediacy that transcends a lot of damp, 1950s rusticated preciousness.
  4. Some Body
    Will take you places you haven't been, and also places you have.
  5. Domestic Violence
    Wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror.
  6. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    The fascination of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, the sharp, funny, unreasonably compelling adaptation of Barris' autobiography, is the way it soft-shoes past our skepticism.
  7. People Say I'm Crazy
    People Say I'm Crazy doesn't defuse, or romanticize, the trauma of mental illness. It just humanizes it.
  8. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
    Unlike the first two Decline films, this one is only tangentially concerned with music.
  9. March of the Penguins
    Luc Jacquet's exquisitely shot eye-of-God study of a year in the lives of these distinctive birds is a nature film built with a feel for the epic and a love of operatic narrative.
  10. In the Pit
    The soft-spoken, impressionistic documentary (with a hypnotic score built from the sounds of construction) climaxes with a six-minute helicopter-cam view of the colossal structure to which these somebodies have been dedicating their sweat, and sometimes their very lives.
  11. Private Fears in Public Places
    The grand old filmmaker frames each scene like a fine painting. And fake snow falls with happy artificiality between rueful vignettes.
  12. Steel City
    Steel City could have used more rhythmic drive, but if Jun keeps weaving together characters this compelling, he could be a major film artist in the making.
  13. Joshua
    Joshua does grow a bit repetitious (it lacks the cathartic climaxes of a horror film), yet it has cool and savvy fun with your fears.
  14. Laura Smiles
    There's an unconvincing last-act twist, but this is the movie "Little Children" wanted to be.
  15. Macbeth
    The words belong to Mr. Shakespeare. All else in this Macbeth is the pleasurably fevered invention of brash Australian director Geoffrey Wright.
  16. Steal a Pencil for Me
    Gentle study in human resilience and luck.
  17. Protagonist
    If all this sounds awfully classroom-bound, it isn't -- far from it. Each man's story as he tells it is riveting, truly stranger than fiction, and awesome, too, in the way of unfathomable humans.
  18. The Duchess of Langeais
    A highbrow chick flick that made me feel older, in a good way.
  19. Funny Games (2008)
    Can a movie be gripping and repellent at the same time? In Funny Games, a mockingly sadistic and terrifying watch-the-middle-class-writhe-like-stuck-pigs thriller, the director Michael Haneke puts his characters in a vise, and the audience too.
  20. Love Songs
    Chiara Mastroianni charms here just as her maman, Catherine Deneuve, did in Demy's 1964 classic.
  21. Diminished Capacity
    The result is fairly silly slapstick, but Alda, hair disheveled and brow knit with stubborn intent, is both fierce and quietly heartbreaking.
  22. The Girl Cut in Two
    Sagnier is yummy.
  23. August Evening
    The filmmaker of August Evening creates a succession of quiet, elliptical scenes that accrue into an affecting big picture of family ties and immigrant experience.
  24. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
    If you want to hear juicy inside tales of the scams devised by Lee Atwater, the right-wing visionary of media-age dirty tricks, you'll find loads of them in Boogie Man.
  25. Dung che sai duk
    For the love of all things sensual and mysterious, see this one on a big screen.
  26. Must Read After My Death
    Did granny intend this stuff for strangers? We'll never know. File this ''therapeutic'' movie, well made and creepy, on the dysfunction-as-art shelf next to "Capturing the Friedmans."
  27. Tony Manero
    Larrain's (literally) dark, edgy movie is a precise artistic commentary on Augusto Pinochet's miserable regime.
  28. Afterschool
    Campos (who was 24 when he made this jolting pic) captures the numbing psychic scramble that just might cause the YouTube generation to go morally haywire. Or become filmmakers.
  29. Skin
    A tragic, enraging, and uplifting tale.
  30. Uncertainty
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins are so interesting that it's easy to put up with the decision-making dithering that goes along with the title.
  31. The Ghost Writer
    Satisfying, melancholy political suspense story.
  32. The Art of the Steal
    It's memorable when it meditates on the changing face of where we look at art, and how that changes the art itself.
  33. Leaves of Grass
    The movie bubbles with intellectual curiosity and narrative ambition.
  34. When You're Strange
    When You're Strange, a documentary history of the Doors directed by Tom DiCillo, is for people like me who can stumble onto the scrappiest Doors video on VH1 at 3 a.m. and sit there, mesmerized.
  35. Women Without Men
    Stronger on beautiful imagery than on narrative flow.
  36. Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D
    Chesney makes an art form out of strolling down the catwalk while singing. He turns each song into a blissed-out journey homeward.
  37. The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
    Unlike its obvious influence, the 1999 Japanese shocker "Audition," The Human Centipede has no real-world echoes. It's an only-in-the-movies sick goof.
  38. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    Some of the effects remain nicely repulsive; Freddy himself comes across as a genuinely nasty piece of work, far removed from his later incarnation.
  39. Letters to Juliet
    Redgrave shimmers like one of Tuscany's magnificent cypress trees as an Englishwoman searching for Lorenzo (Nero).
  40. Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
    A delightfully weird, if occasionally too arty, documentary as darting in its structure as a dragonfly's flight.
  41. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
    Fans will gorge on this deft, year-by-year portrait of the ultimate enduring cult band.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    Director Zack Snyder (300) has crafted the rare 3-D eyegasm that's worth the premium ticket price.
  43. Wild Grass
    Wild Grass is itself odd stuff: Sometimes it's as playful as Marguerite's crayon-red corona of frizzy hair, and other times as autumnal as the sight of Georges alone in his study, feeling stuck.
  44. South of the Border
    Yes, Stone gets cozy with Hugo Chávez, soft-pedaling the Venezuelan president's crackdown tendencies, but he also captures South America in a paradigm shift, wrenching itself free of centuries of colonial control. The film is rose-colored agitprop, but it catches a current of history.
  45. The Girl Who Played with Fire
    I found The Girl Who Played With Fire more gripping than "Dragon Tattoo," because this one doesn't just play with thriller conventions -- it puts them to work.
  46. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    The first rock & roll kung fu videogame youth love story.
  47. Life During Wartime
    In a staring contest with his audience, Solondz never blinks. He picks and picks at the themes that consume him, and he doesn't care who stays and who leaves. Me, I'm rapt.
  48. Valhalla Rising
    When it comes to crazy, violent, semidelirious, testosterone-laden, proto-Viking tales about a mute visionary one-eyed warrior who breaks skulls, Valhalla Rising is pretty great.
  49. Who Killed Nancy?
    The film offers evidence that Vicious spent the entire night out cold on barbiturates. It plants resonant doubts.
  50. The Tillman Story
    Unravels the deceptions -- and the deep dishonor -- that inflated life-size valor into fake superheroism.
  51. Going the Distance
    Going the Distance may be a minor movie, but it's also the rare romantic comedy in which you can actually believe what you're seeing.
  52. Paranormal Activity 2
    Even when nothing is happening, the often dead-silent shots tend to grow scarier the more you look at them.
  53. Let Me In
    The surprise of Let Me In is that director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) hasn't just remade the Swedish cult vampire film "Let the Right One In" into a more fluid and visceral movie. He's made it more dangerous.
  54. Conviction
    The ever-magnetic Sam Rockwell is Kenny, Minnie Driver is full of beans as Betty Anne's best friend, Melissa Leo is wicked good as an ornery cop, and, in her two chewy scenes, Juliette Lewis reminds fans why we want her to run free forever.
  55. Monsters
    Monsters is really a road-movie romance that tracks the burgeoning relationship between two strangers as they travel through the "infected" zone.
  56. Megamind
    Too goofy-surreal to pack a lot of emotional punch, but it's antically light on its feet, with 3-D images that have a lustrous, gizmo-mad sci-fi clarity.
  57. Somewhere
    The movie's redemptive structure is a bit routine, yet I watched nearly every scene with a sense of discovery. Coppola is a true filmmaker, and in Somewhere she pierces the Hollywood bubble from the inside.
  58. The Debt
    The Debt is basically an entertaining riff on "Munich." It's about a (fictional) operation of top secret Israeli revenge, carried out by three highly trained agents whose plan goes off the rails in ways that are more fascinating than the mission itself.
  59. Fair Game
    Fair Game gets you riled up all over again at a deeply unpatriotic abuse of power.
  60. The Next Three Days
    Damon's how-to-break-the-law lesson - as ludicrous as anything else in this enjoyably zigzaggy exercise in accumulating peril - grants Neeson the fun of experimenting with an American ex-con accent for his one scene.
  61. Black Swan
    Lurid and voluptuous pulp fun, with a sensationalistic fairy-tale allure. You can't take it too seriously, but you can't tear your eyes away from it, either.
  62. Douchebag
    It's a minimalist "Sideways," not so much mumblecore as talkycore.
  63. Carlos
    A rivetingly journalistic account of a scoundrel's rise and fall.
  64. The King's Speech
    Lest the audience miss a cue, Hooper and soundtrack composer Alexandre Desplat count on the ringing grandeur of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony - the famous second movement, no less - to amp the emotions.
  65. Night Catches Us
    Writer-director Tanya Hamilton's intellectually ambitious debut drama Night Catches Us is all the more notable for setting well-drawn fictional characters in a fraught, real moment in civil rights history.
  66. True Grit
    Truer than the John Wayne showpiece and less gritty than the book, this True Grit is just tasty enough to leave movie lovers hungry for a missing spice.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    For a movie that's mostly a plotless mix of old sci-fi flicks and Bowie-esque gender-bending, Rocky Horror continues to charm. That's due in part to the honest delight we take in the freedoms this movie so cheerfully flaunts.
  68. Gerrymandering
    Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as the rare politician who supports reform in this timely exposé of how our democracy has slipped off its tracks.
  69. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    Deepens the saga of New York's former governor and attorney general into the paradoxical morality play it really was. Spitzer, almost three years after he was caught soliciting escorts, comes off as chastened but still regal, like a hawkeyed Jewish Kennedy.
  70. The Nutcracker
    Terry Gilliam-ish territory here, spiked with imagery from Holocaust nightmares and drug trips. Attention, university film clubs: Here's your cult-ready midnight-movie programming.
  71. Barney's Version
    Paul Giamatti, dialing down his trembly-voiced neurotic energy to good effect, gives a holy hell of a performance as Barney Panofsky.
  72. Four Lions
    These guys are not charming; they're horrifying in their ignorance, and they cause real damage. But there's a weird relief to be found in the opportunity to laugh ourselves sick at their expense, if only for an instant.
  73. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    If this is what it sounds like when a new millennium goes pop, I'll take it.
  74. In a Better World
    A fine example of Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's (Brothers) talent for weaving together accessible domestic melodrama and issues of ethical awareness of the world beyond our doorstep.
  75. Fast Five
    High-octane trash, but you will go "Ohhhhhh!"
  76. Source Code
    Among all the chess-piece players on the board, the star is the only one who really builds a solid emotional foundation for his character.
  77. Paul
    Graeme and Clive, representatives of a nation of nonbelievers in UFOs and big dinner portions, come to the psychic capital of a country that wants to believe, and they're transformed. In Paul, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost do likewise, in celebration of what the Spielbergian cosmos is all about.
  78. Hanna
    Hanna's intriguing, disorienting pleasures - the movie is part poetic dreamscape, part sinister spy saga - lie more in the filmmaking flourishes than in the narrative.
  79. African Cats
    Not coincidentally, African Cats opens on Earth Day. Meeting these magnificent fellow creatures might be a fine way to celebrate.
  80. Friends with Kids
    The observations about parenthood, pro and con, are quick and smart, and Scott effortlessly steals the show, softening Westfeldt's brittle cuteness.
  81. The Hangover Part II
    Here, as in "The Hangover," the laughs aren't just staged, they're superlatively engineered.
  82. Kung Fu Panda 2
    At times, Kung Fu Panda 2 suggests "Bambi" redone as an episode of Oprah. Yet it's a more-than-worthy sequel.
  83. The Tree of Life
    Malick clings to the promise of grace: His vision of the afterlife is a dreamy beach, enhanced by an excellent playlist of fine classical music, and promising the peace that surpasses all understanding. Plus a beautiful sky.
  84. The Eagle
    The story and setting may be ancient, but under the direction of Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), and with a nicely textured screenplay by Macdonald's Scotland coscreenwriter Jeremy Brock, the vigor is fully modern.
  85. X-Men: First Class
    McAvoy and Fassbender are a casting triumph. These two have, yes, real star magnetism, both individually and together: They're both cool and intense, suave and unaffected, playful and dead serious about their grand comic-book work.
  86. The Muppets
    For kids, blessedly unironic by nature until wised up by nurture, the movie is just shiny, funny, and filled with songs.
  87. Limitless
    In Limitless, a potently fanciful and fun thriller about a drug that turns you into a genius, Cooper proves a cock-of-the-walk movie star.
  88. 30 Minutes or Less
    There's nothing nice about 30 Minutes or Less. It's got no redeeming social value. It just ticks away, exploding all notions of where you think it's going to go. It blew me sideways.
  89. Drive
    Among Gosling's many star-making qualities is his nuanced mastery, since "The Believer," of a facial expression of infinitely adaptable, imperturbable, sustained calm that can read as chilling or ardent, hard or soft, as the role demands.
  90. Arthur Christmas
    The resulting adventure, like most of Aardman's work (Chicken Run, Flushed Away), is more clever than outright funny, but it's also genuinely sweet, and the complicated relations among Santa's clan are surprisingly believable.
  91. Contagion
    Here's a scare-the-crap-out-of-you medical thriller about a viral pandemic that will have the immediate post-screening effect of causing a handwashing stampede.
  92. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    Far more grotesque than the first Human Centipede - in fact, The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) could be the sickest B movie ever made.
  93. The Skin I Live In
    Allusions to "Vertigo," "Rebecca," and Georges Franju's great 1960 French horror movie "Eyes Without a Face" are intentional: The Skin I Live In is, above all, the creation of a movie fanatic who loves to look.
  94. Win Win
    Win Win, it turns out, isn't a tale of facile victory. It's a movie about how loss makes everyone do things they'll both defend and regret.
  95. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    A puzzle of a highly rarefied order. At times it's enthrallingly clever and subtle; at others it's borderline incomprehensible.
  96. 50/50
    The result is a duet of outstanding loveliness between Kendrick and Gordon-Levitt, also an actor of nuanced control.
  97. Life of Pi
    Lee's bigger theme isn't God or survival, but the awesome adventure of making the imaginary visible, the adventure of making movies.
  98. Last Night
    Last Night is on to something fascinating. It meditates on the meaning of adultery: the purposes it serves, beyond sex.
  99. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    The movie is like a less original "WALL•E," but it's still vibrant and touching.
  100. Battleship
    Battleship is a sound vessel floating in Hollywood's oil-slick sea of "Transformers" sequels and vampire riffs.
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