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  1. Coastlines
    It's a heartfelt movie that could have used a zigzaggier undercurrent, though Olyphant, in the sort of role that Paul Newman used to swagger through, has a star's easy command.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    District B13
    The big innovation here is that the two nimble leads, stuntmen-turned-stars, are devotees of parkour, a fancy French word for the fluid use of urban environments as jungle gyms.
  3. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
    As filmmaking, the docu is only travel-diary so-so. But the chance to experience the machine-gun rhymes of ''the Turkish Eminem'' - a young man called Ceza - is priceless.
  4. Wordplay
    Shortz's gentle manner and French-foreign-agent mustache go a long way toward making him a thinking girl's pinup nerd - and this despite the man's pitiless insistence on making the Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle ''tough as a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.''
    • 37 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Waist Deep
    Curtis Hall keeps slipping in surprising social and emotional flavorings rarely found in the genre.
  6. Superman Returns
    The surprise of Superman Returns is that it isn't a funky, ambitious conceptual reimagining, like last summer's "Batman Begins." This really IS your father's Superman; it re-creates - and updates, though just barely - the universe Donner invented.
  7. The Devil Wears Prada
    The story is glossy junk begat of just-plain junk anyway: Lauren Weisberger, who wrote the hiss-and-tell roman à clef best-seller on which the picture is based, was herself an assistant to Wintour.
  8. Strangers with Candy
    If you loved Amy Sedaris before in a golfer-lady wig and inbred chump's grin, you'll maybe love her again here, while wishing she had another TV-episode-size venue for her talents
  9. Beowulf & Grendel
    A muscular, ardently naturalistic retelling of the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon saga.
  10. Clerks II
    An agreeable mischievous romp.
  11. Miami Vice
    As entertaining as some of it is, is so cool that it's almost too cool. It takes the sin, and much of the juice, out of vice.
  12. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    The races are scorchingly shot, and they lend the movie a zest.
  13. World Trade Center
    A scrupulous and honorable film. Yet it never comes close to being a revelatory one; it sentimentalizes more than it haunts.
  14. Another Gay Movie
    Stephens stages Another Gay Movie in a style of low-budget fluorescent overkill, but a handful of the gags are low-down funny.
  15. The Bridesmaid
    If The Bridesmaid is middle-drawer Chabrol, it's almost worth going to just to watch Laura Smet, a vamp of not-so-basic instinct.
  16. Step Up
    Step, under the sure hand of director-choreographer Anne Fletcher, quickly discovers its own virtuoso charms. Two of them are its leads.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Eat Fried Worms
    Happily, after a cartoon opening-credits sequence that overdoes it on the barf, Worms goes light (but not too light) on the gore and the goo.
  18. Man Push Cart
    This modern slice of neorealism has been made with a skill, and humanity, that suggests Bahrani may have a "Bicycle Thief" in him yet.
  19. Red Doors
    Writer-director Georgia Lee never leaves any doubt that the bonds of ethnic family devotion are a charm against any woe more serious than an engagement to the wrong white guy.
  20. Confetti
    Must viewing for the Bridezillas set, this winning pageant of gaudy bad taste is the work of some of the U.K.'s most popular comedy performers.
  21. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    To me, the most potent dimension of The U.S. vs. John Lennon is the way that it captures the contradictory romanticism of Lennon the radical.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jackass Number Two
    Jackass Number Two is not as original, aberrantly beautiful, unrepetitious, or good as Jackass Number One, yet it will still double a lot of people over with big laughs and grossed-out disbelief.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    American Hardcore
    Illuminating nostalgia, stuffed with all the right tattooed talking heads (like Black Flag's Henry Rollins), plus grim-looking concert footage of wailing skinny guys.
  24. Catch a Fire
    With the same affinity for stories of culture clash he showed in "The Quiet American" and "Rabbit-Proof Fence," director Phillip Noyce embraces the tale with gusto.
  25. Saw III
    Admit it: It's not every horror film that can make you feel preached at and slimed at the same time.
  26. Absolute Wilson
    Surprisingly square portrait of avant-garde artist and director Robert Wilson.
  27. Volver
    The movie opens as borderline Hitchcock, echoing the tone of the filmmaker's bravura "Bad Education" (2004), and then turns into a kind of overly conceptualized Tennessee Williams.
  28. Happy Feet
    A moderately adorable, musically wacky, ecologically activist CG family comedy.
  29. The History Boys
    The History Boys is as much about the meaning and value of reading and learning as it is about the ho-humness of genital fondling by sir with love.
  30. The Good German
    The leisure-time viewer will say, ''Hey, this is sort of like "Casablanca," so why play it again?''
  31. Screamers
    The film offers true insight into the patterns of war crimes, even if the songs sound disquietingly close to a call to violence.
  32. The Good Shepherd
    Here, he's (Damon) the ultimate enigma machine, a man willing to erase himself for his country. Does that make him a hero? The Good Shepherd is too closemouthed to let on.
  33. Rocky Balboa
    There is much to poke at in Rocky Balboa, yet the movie, with its amusingly updated ''Gonna Fly Now'' montage and its very niftily staged climactic bout, summons just enough incredulous wit about just how often Rocky has been around this particular block to let Sylvester Stallone earn his nostalgia.
  34. Miss Potter
    Miss Potter, right to the end, is the definition of a "nice" movie, and that makes it a genuine oddball in a universe of increasingly distressed and uncivilized pop culture.
  35. Freedom Writers
    Square, sincere, and proud of it.
  36. The Italian
    The result is a picture half sweet, half bitter. Charles Dickens would approve.
  37. Smokin' Aces
    A cheerfully disposable gangland freak-show thrill ride that's been directed by the gifted Joe Carnahan (Narc) as if he were trying to give the audience a seizure.
  38. Daddy's Little Girls
    This latest market-savvy bit of circuit preaching is less cartoonish than Perry's previous big-tent revival meetings.
  39. Breach
    Now Ray has directed his second film, the abysmally titled Breach, and it's a bona fide companion piece, another true-life tale of duplicity gone secretly insane.
  40. Close to Home
    One of the rare movies from Israel that refuses to spell out its politics, and you may wind up grateful for the ambiguity.
  41. Starter for 10
    There's a tidiness and affection to this British homage to John Hughes movies.
  42. Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
    Maxed Out, while occasionally muddled in its financial details, presents a more-accurate-than-not vision of a nation that is starting to look like a candidate for rehab, on both an individual and a national level, for its addiction to debt.
  43. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    If Loach had given full voice to each side of this division, he could have made a great film -- maybe THE great film -- about the Irish struggle.
  44. The Last Mimzy
    The newcomer kids are delightfully...kidlike. Cosmic bonus: "The Office's" Rainn Wilson plays a New Agey science teacher.
  45. Color Me Kubrick
    The film reveals, rather delectably, how potent the power of suggestion can be in a world gone madly groupie.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Everything's Gone Green
    The story -- is slight, but an appealing cast and lots of scenic leafery make Green feel fresh.
  47. Vacancy
    Vacancy is a schlock surprise: a no-frills motel-hell slasher film -- with a bit of soul.
  48. Jindabyne
    Jindabyne -- named for the lakeside town in which the troubles spill -- can't contain all that the filmmakers want to throw in. Best to keep glued to the taut performance by Laura Linney.
  49. Hostel: Part II
    An authentic real-world creep show -- better, if anything, than its predecessor.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    DOA: Dead or Alive
    If you only ever see one bad movie about warrior chicks who meet on a tropical isle for a fight contest, make it DOA: Dead or Alive.
  51. 1408
    A deft Stephen King freak-out.
  52. Broken English
    As charmingly verklemmt New York women with bad luck in men and good luck in apartments go, Nora Wilder in Broken English has all the breaks.
  53. Live Free or Die Hard
    An enjoyable pop projection of post-9/11 anxiety.
  54. Ghosts of Cité Soleil
    A spectacularly turbulent portrait of the chaos and bloodshed that have come to define Haiti.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Arctic Tale
    It's a respectable attempt to get kids who like cuddly animals thinking about death and destruction on a global scale.
  56. This Is England
    Sad, menacing, empathetic story.
  57. Becoming Jane
    Becoming Jane has a burnished feminine sadness, and the director, Julian Jarrold, gives it a creamy-dark visual flow.
  58. Descent
    It's been a while since we saw a demagogic feminist exploitation revenge drama, and Descent, while top-heavy with ''agenda,'' is shrewdly done.
  59. Stardust
    It's the closest the movies have come in a while to the nudgy, knowing fairy-tale enchantment of "The Princess Bride."
  60. Mr. Bean's Vacation
    Atkinson's goofball grotesquerie never lets up -- right through to the inspired finale.
  61. The Nines
    John August directs it briskly, as a gossip-era "Twilight Zone" of image and reality.
  62. 3:10 to Yuma
    This is how a Western today tries to give us more bang for the buck. By working this hard to be a crowd-pleaser, though, it may please fewer crowds.
  63. Eastern Promises
    It's an academic meditation in underworld-thriller drag -- a movie that looks about as close to a straight-ahead, down-and-dirty genre entertainment as anything the director has made since his exploding-head horror days.
  64. The Last Winter
    Who said that an environmental horror film couldn't be didactic and spooky at the same time?
  65. The Jane Austen Book Club
    For a visual bonus, Hugh Dancy appears in bike shorts as the lone male Jane-ite.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    A wry movie that, packed with his well-known friends and scored intermittently to bouncy accordion music, plays like a softer episode of "Curb."
  67. Lake of Fire
    It's impossible to watch Tony Kaye's theatrically supercharged, equal-opportunity button-pusher without experiencing a welter of emotions -- which is just what the filmmaker planned.
  68. Sleuth
    It's like "Deathtrap" crossed with "Cribs" as staged by Stanley Kubrick.
  69. American Gangster
    Meticulous and detailed, a drug-world epic that holds you from moment to moment, immersing you in the intricate and sleazy logistics of crime. Yet the movie isn't quite enthralling; it's more like the ghost version of a '70s classic.
  70. Lions for Lambs
    The tiny scale and armchair talkiness mark the movie as a bit of a folly, an act of idealistic hubris in today's commercial marketplace, yet that's its (minor) fascination too.
  71. This Christmas
    Everyone in this madly good-looking clan has got soapy problems as befits an aspirational, say-amen holiday movie.
  72. I Am Legend
    In spirit, I Am Legend is caught in some abstractly doom-laden sci-fi past. For what it is, though, the film is well-done, a case of suspenseful competence trumping questionable relevance.
  73. The Kite Runner
    In making a movie about the hot mess of Afghan history, a sense of reserve turns out to be a useful tool for peace.
  74. The Great Debaters
    The Great Debaters is like one of those sentimentally revved youth-sports-team crowd-pleasers. This time, though, the sport is debating, and the setting is an elite black college in Marshall, Tex., in 1935
  75. Cassandra's Dream
    Allen's latest, Cassandra's Dream, is one of his debonair ''small'' entertainments, the closest that he has come to doing a tidy, no-frills, down-and-dirty genre thriller.
  76. The Orphanage
    You're either in the mood to go along with the puzzle pieces or you're not. I'm not usually a puzzle-piece fan myself, not when it's clear that the filmmaker rigs the moves. But I couldn't help but fall for the repurposed real estate, and cheer for the lady strong enough to break through walls when she senses a child is waiting.
  77. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    The movie walks the line of surreal vulgarity (you will not, repeat not, expect the penis), yet most of it, intentionally, is less nutzoid than your average megaplex genre parody.
  78. Caramel
    A Lebanese variation on sweetly soapy dramas about Women Who Bond With Wet Hair.
  79. Praying with Lior
    Though the film gets a bit repetitive, in its moving climax Lior does more than just have his bar mitzvah -- he earns it.
  80. Definitely, Maybe
    Absolutely, probably more comfortable with human romantic complication than the usual stuff released on Valentine's Day.
  81. Chicago 10
    Chicago 10 is well worth seeing, if only because a good half of the film is devoted to extraordinary footage of the four days of rage that spawned the trial.
  82. The Other Boleyn Girl
    A classy romantic cocktail distinguished by its tart yet breezy bite.
  83. Married Life
    Married Life congratulates its audience on a sophisticated, humorous complicity in the obvious immorality of Harry's murder plans, as well as in Richard's own ungentlemanly designs on his pal's gorgeous girl. Every adult, the movie suggests, has got a secret.
  84. 21
    The fun of 21 is the way that this sharp, hyperaware star in the making, his face as readable as a mood ring, pours us into an adrenalized cocktail of fear, desire, and mental buzz.
  85. Chapter 27
    Chapter 27 is far from flawless, but Leto disappears inside this angry, mouth-breathing psycho geek with a conviction that had me hanging on his every delusion.
  86. Nim's Island
    It's hard to imagine kids not enjoying the good-hearted, lovingly shot fantasy of it all, and Breslin is charming, though most viewers past puberty will likely yearn to be voted off the Island.
  87. Baby Mama
    Although the big picture itself gets mushy, the small moments, especially involving Fey, are sharp.
  88. Then She Found Me
    Hunt's movie-directing debut frequently crackles with nice gags.
  89. Made of Honor
    A nice cookie-cutter comedy, no more and no less, but Dempsey, with his relaxed charm, and Monaghan, with her soft and peachy sensual spark, rise to the challenge of making friendship look like the wellspring of true love.
  90. Noise
    As a follow-up to his striking 2002 directorial debut, "The Believer," this second obsessive study in fanaticism by writer-director Henry Bean has its own delirious integrity and outsider-art charm.
  91. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
    There are more chuckles than laughs, but the film does a witty job of replicating the hermetic, overlit shot language of '60s studio movies.
  92. A Jihad for Love
    Noble in intention but crude in execution.
  93. The Unknown Woman
    Russian-born Xenia Rappoport gives it her tragic-heroine all as an abused Ukraine prostitute-turned-sneaky housemaid in Italy in The Unknown Woman.
  94. Stuck
    Stuart Gordon, the mostly under-the-radar director of "Re-Animator," pops back into view with this amusing trifle -- a piece of scuzzy tabloid noir.
  95. Wanted
    Best of all, there's a lot of Jolie, barrels blazing. The star's fearlessly sexy hauteur is unique in the biz today. And when she works it in Wanted, she kills, bullets optional.
  96. Meet Dave
    this unfairly maligned sci-fi comedy testifies that Eddie Murphy still has the gift of surprise.
  97. Pineapple Express
    It ends up subverting its own subversion, arriving at a place that can only be called conventional.
  98. Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
    Glosses over the kids' lives off the court.
  99. Step Brothers
    Step Brothers is a Judd Apatow production and it's the closest that the Apatow factory has come to spitting out a dumb-and-dumber high-concept comedy.
  100. Quantum of Solace
    The point is, wherever he is, this James Bond is pissed. And that ceaseless anger begins to curdle every sequence that might otherwise bring a little happiness. I mean happiness for us, the viewers.
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