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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
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  1. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
    Never mind that Dylan Dog: Dead of Night is loosely based on an Italian comic series from the 1980s; this low-rent adaptation owes an embarrassingly big blood debt to HBO's "True Blood."
  2. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    This truly intimate film invites viewers to commune as well and feel a profound living connection with fellow humans of 30,000 years ago.
  3. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
    The movie can't be saved from its own vices of manic pacing and tediously pro forma pop culture jokes.
  4. Prom
    Will Miss Perfect fall for the Leader of the Pack? It helps that he's played by Thomas McDonell, who's not only a dead ringer for the young Johnny Depp but also has a comparable charisma.
  5. Fast Five
    High-octane trash, but you will go "Ohhhhhh!"
  6. Madea's Big Happy Family
    While I was watching Madea's Big Happy Family, I couldn't deny that it PLAYS. Madea, as always, is a figure of towering low-down wit.
  7. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    Always the smooth showman, Spurlock avoids answering his own question: Is he selling out or buying in?
  8. African Cats
    Not coincidentally, African Cats opens on Earth Day. Meeting these magnificent fellow creatures might be a fine way to celebrate.
  9. Water for Elephants
    Something is wrong under this big tent. Actually made to resemble a good old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing movie, this cinematic Water for Elephants droops and lumbers like Rosie the elephant herself.
  10. Incendies
    The movie is a bumpy road of twists that leads to a revelation that has the shock and force of Greek tragedy.
  11. Meet Monica Velour
    The role of a former star of the "golden age" of porn sounds perfect for Kim Cattrall, and she handles it nicely - at least, in the rare moments when this indie comedy isn't terminally contrived.
  12. The Conspirator
    The movie is stiff-jointed and dull.
  13. Meek's Cutoff
    Temperamentally in sync with her "Wendy and Lucy" director, Michelle Williams plays one of the toiling wives. And the actress, with her calm center, compresses the entire history of frontier wifeliness into the concentration with which she gathers firewood and loads a musket.
  14. Rio
    The soundtrack, overseen by Sergio Mendes, has a few lively bossa nova moments, but not nearly enough.
  15. Scream 4
    Some of the riffs are really funny and/or expertly scary. Others have the feel of awfully snappy dialogue crafted by middleaged people trying a little too eagerly to sound like the young people from whose mouths the banter flows.
  16. Trust
    David Schwimmer directs this smarmy Hot Topic drama with empathy for the craft of acting but less interest in the craft of making a movie move.
  17. Soul Surfer
    Soul Surfer, while formulaic in design, is an authentic and heartfelt movie.
  18. Your Highness
    Natalie Portman, by the way, is fierce and funny as a babe warrior the brothers meet along the way. She's good with dirty words, too.
  19. Arthur
    The new Arthur is a feathery screwball satire, competent on its own terms, yet as the movie went on I found it increasingly hard to separate the character's self-indulgence from that of the actor playing him.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Super
    It's really a one-joke movie, but the joke is a good one.
  23. Insidious
    A haunted-house movie that has some of the most shivery and indelible images I've seen in any horror film in decades. Yes, it's that unsettling.
  24. Hop
    It's "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with only one chipmunk, and (if possible) even less fun.
  25. 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.
  26. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    Nothing is new, which is a problem. Nothing is particularly funny or endearing, which is a worse problem.
  27. Sucker Punch
    The music screeches, the actors vamp, the knives and weapons and bombs and fireballs fly around the screen. Meanwhile, the well-prepared moviegoer slips into her or his own private fantasy of a world in which movie effects are themselves locked away in an institution for the criminally insane until such time as those effects are really, truly necessary for the story.
  28. Potiche
    An Orson Welles-size Gérard Depardieu does gallant work as the town's leftist mayor.
  29. Miral
    Confused? So is Miral, a film that makes bits and pieces of the Palestinian experience come alive without assembling them into a coherent vision.
  30. Lord of the Dance in 3D
    The best stuff: Wow, can those kids hoof - and so, even past his half-century mark, can the preening, Chicago-born Mr. F.
  31. 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.
  32. The Lincoln Lawyer
    Plot leaps that are fun on paper look generic on screen; here's another lawyer movie in which the characters are only as interesting as the actors playing them.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. Battle: Los Angeles
    Except for the relentless, jittery way that the film has been photographed, there's nothing of interest going on in it. It's all fractious guerrilla-newsreel "style" masquerading a void.
  36. Red Riding Hood
    Red Riding Hood goes from trite to triter, a plot collapse that overtakes any of the visual prettiness from cinematographer Mandy Walker (Beastly).
  37. Monogamy
    Irksome dither of an indie drama.
  38. Certified Copy
    The end will haunt you.
  39. I Am
    An earnest, lumpy macramé of a personal nonfiction project.
  40. Kill the Irishman
    The cast is tasty, including Vincent D'Onofrio as a friendly fellow Mob guy, Val Kilmer as the head of the Cleveland PD, Christopher Walken as an underworld power broker, and a bunch of character actors hoping for a remake of "The Sopranos."
  41. Mars Needs Moms
    The movie is also visually magnificent - modestly so. Plus, it's half the length of "Avatar."
  42. Jane Eyre
    The film never conveys that something larger is at work - like, say, the hand of fate. And without that, there's more busyness than beauty to Brontë.
  43. Beastly
    Spectacularly poor judgment in everything from acting to costuming (Olsen's Harajuku-troll get-up is scarier than her curse) puts Beastly right on the cusp of the so-bad-it's-good Hall of Shame.
  44. Happythankyoumoreplease
    With very little modification, the relationship woes of the six chirpy young New Yorkers in this self-absorbed indie could be reworked into episodes of TV's "How I Met Your Mother."
  45. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Spirit, animal, and human worlds coexist in dreamy harmony in this remarkable drama.
  46. I Saw the Devil
    Somewhere in all the blood (sickening realism is a selling point), a question is posed: When does the one fighting a monster become a monster himself?
  47. Take Me Home Tonight
    It does possess a certain backward-glancing innocent appeal.
  48. The Adjustment Bureau
    An enjoyable piece of hokum – your basic doom-laden parable of metaphysical sci-fi mind control, only with a surprise romantic sparkle.
  49. Rango
    The biggest strike against Rango, though - for both the movie and the hero - is that the lizard is so damn ugly.
  50. Drive Angry 3D
    Even the film's one "original" twist is just a desperate attempt to link it up to Ghost Rider, the only lousy Nicolas Cage action film that is actually spawning a sequel.
  51. Heartbeats
    Xavier Dolan is back with another madly stylish Montreal-made delight.
  52. Of Gods and Men
    It is their shared strength as a band of brothers humble before their Christian God - and indeed before the God of Islam - that may stir viewers to an awe that transcends skeptical opinions about religion or politics.
  53. Hall Pass
    Hall Pass would like to be as dunked in reality as Judd Apatow's best comedies, but the movie is thin. The Farrellys can't quite nudge the characters from two dimensions to three.
  54. I Am Number Four
    Witless, insultingly derivative, muddy-looking, and edited in the hammering epileptic style that marks so many films produced, as this one is, by Michael Bay.
  55. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
    Lawrence's gender-bending jokes are played out, and his slapstick is wooden and slow.
  56. Carancho
    Worth seeing.
  57. Poetry
    Facing a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, the older woman enrolls in a poetry class, desperate to find the words to describe beauty before language fails her. She does even better: She herself becomes a kind of poem about what it means to really see the world.
  58. The Last Lions
    The footage, by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, is stunning.
  59. Cold Weather
    Cold Weather becomes the world's first mumblecore "thriller" - a good idea for a movie that someone, in the future, should execute a bit less lackadaisically.
  60. Vanishing on 7th Street
    Anderson has made a zombie movie without the zombies.
  61. Unknown
    The movie whips up a big old puree of ingredients borrowed from other cinematic recipes.
  62. Just Go with It
    A bummer - slack rather than loose, tired rather than fun.
  63. Cedar Rapids
    Sweetness makes the raunch in this honestly funny movie even funnier.
  64. Gnomeo and Juliet
    Every movie about cuddly dwarf statues in an English garden should have music this big.
  65. 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.
  66. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    If this is what it sounds like when a new millennium goes pop, I'll take it.
  67. The Roommate
    A far-below-par thriller that desperately wishes it were a different movie - a longing it shares with the audience.
  68. Sanctum
    As we go deeper into the cave, walls squeezing, water rising, the movie has a narrative pull as sure as gravity.
  69. From Prada to Nada
    For a film ostensibly about the importance of finding a little spice and flavor in your life, From Prada to Nada is surprisingly bland.
  70. Waiting for Forever
    An indistinct romantic-dramedy-ish something or other about the rekindled romance of an actress (Rachel Bilson) and her childhood best friend (Tom Sturridge).
  71. The Other Woman
    Opportunities for bad behavior abound in Waldman's novel - the author's prerogative. Roos, though, hasn't cracked the puzzle of how to explore that behavior on screen in such a way that the characters behave badly in interesting, rather than arbitrary, ways.
  72. Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
    This shot-on-film-and-video trifle reveals a Bombay (that's what all the characters call it) that "Slumdog Millionaire" didn't: a delicate metropolis sunk in torpor.
  73. The Rite
    The Rite commits the supreme sin of making the devil dull.
  74. The Mechanic
    As it is, The Mechanic is ham-fisted pulp, like Robert Rodriguez's "Machete" taking itself seriously.
  75. Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
    At once an unsentimental portrait of the ambitious singer who thought himself bound for glory, and an affecting elegy for a time when song was a form of revolution.
  76. A Somewhat Gentle Man
    Skarsgard's utter finesse in the role provides a satisfying warmth.
  77. The Housemaid
    The class warfare in The Housemade feels dated, but there's something nicely kinky in this lusciously photographed erotic Korean thriller by Im Sang-soo.
  78. Applause
    In his debut feature, the director is wise enough to move his hand-held camera wherever Steen wants to go.
  79. The Way Back
    It's also filled with scenes of extraordinary survival challenges. But the result is oddly impersonal and undifferentiated.
  80. No Strings Attached
    Adam is cute and all, but the real strings worth tying are those that bind this sisterhood of sharp, interesting, sexually active women together. Where's THEIR starring movie?
  81. The Time That Remains
    At best, his poker-faced vignettes nail the icy comedy of war: A man chats on his cell phone, unworried about a tank targeting him a few feet away. At worst, they're totally opaque and unmoving.
  82. The Dilemma
    The dilemma of The Dilemma is that the conundrum at the center of the story isn't particularly hilarious.
  83. Every Day
    It's hard to empathize with the family in the indie drama Every Day when each member is so sitcom-ready.
  84. 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.
  85. The Green Hornet
    In a last-minute tweak, the production has also been meaninglessly 3-D-ified - never mind that there's nothing whatsoever 3-D-ish going on. Maybe those clumsy 3-D glasses are meant to let moviegoers mimic the superhero mask-wearing experience?
  86. Season of the Witch
    The best thing about it is Claire Foy's performance as the seething, caged is-she-a-witch?. Foy, like a Brit Kristen Stewart, has an entrancing sparkle of disdain.
  87. Another Year
    What it does have is an overwhelming bittersweet melancholy at the passing of life from middle age into…well, you could call it late middle age.
  88. Country Strong
    The film keeps throwing things at you: drunk scenes, adultery scenes, "All About Eve" rise-of-the-young-rival scenes. Yet despite the presence of some appealing actors, none of it quite adds up.
  89. Casino Jack
    Tonally scattershot and more than a little heavy-footed.
  90. 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.
  91. Blue Valentine
    Blue Valentine is lushly touching and gorgeously told.
  92. Gulliver's Travels
    Strips the source material down to its recognizable parts and then builds something completely new out of them. Unfortunately, the result is entirely Lilliputian in ambition, even for a children's movie.
  93. Little Fockers
    Comedy has changed. Jack can only give his son-in-law the stink eye so many times before the whole "I'm watching you" pantomime gets stale.
  94. The Illusionist
    The many fans of the uniquely droll 2003 animation Oscar nominee "The Triplets of Belleville" will recognize the inventive hand-drawn sensibilities of French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet in his loving and lovely new feature The Illusionist.
  95. 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.
  96. How Do You Know
    How Do You Know asks really good questions but doesn't so much answer them as toss the ball from player to player until the clock runs out.
  97. Yogi Bear
    There's nothing particularly inventive in the plot or grade-school humor, but the movie skates by on the timeless, undemanding charm of watching a tie-wearing bear try to steal people's lunches.
  98. TRON: Legacy
    The sequel, more successfully (if less innocently), injects you into a luminous technological wonderland and asks you to be happy with the ride.
  99. 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.
  100. Due Date
    And so by the time the pair admire the Grand Canyon and, Due Date has lost its way, relying on its leading men to lead by charisma alone, even though their characters have nowhere interesting to go besides the happily-ever-after of dull, responsible male maturity.
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