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  1. Brideshead Revisited
    The one performer who seems at home with the gravity of it all is Emma Thompson.
  2. Save Me
    Even those of us who find anti-homosexual ''deprogramming'' to be hideously intolerant and naive may find ourselves oddly relieved that Mark is there (in a Christian rehab center).
  3. The Duchess
    Fiennes speaks with his body what the script cannot formulate about what it's like to be a man apart. The actor creates particulars of time, space, class, and personality with one crook of a finger, one twist of a wrist. I call that nobility of craft; he's the actors' prince.
  4. Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
    At once scary and stirring.
  5. I've Loved You So Long
    This is a movie about actors acting; who cares why Juliette was in the pen?
  6. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    These are standard youth-movie dilemmas, but they're brought to life by the high-energy cast and the musical numbers, which Ortega shoots with electrifying pizzazz.
  7. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    Escape 2 Africa is pretty tame, but it knows how to keep its own turf tidy.
  8. Transporter 3
    The villainous Polluter-in-Chief is eloquently played by Robert Knepper, familiarly loathsome as T-Bag on Fox's "Prison Break." And when Knepper and Statham get together, there's a fine showdown of grimaces.
  9. Nothing Like the Holidays
    The troubles are broad, the plot twists giant, and the performances cheery in this carol to ethnic pride in Chicago's traditionally Latino Humboldt Park.
  10. Valkyrie
    The mechanics of the actual plot are pretty amazing. Singer has assembled a top-notch international cast.
  11. Good
    Good has a stagy fustiness, but it's worth seeing for Mortensen, who makes this study of a "good German" look creepily contemporary.
  12. Not Easily Broken
    Laughter through tears is director Bill Duke's M.O., and he hits the bull's-eye of that modest target.
  13. Cherry Blossoms
    There's a grace to it all, and moments of oddball poetry.
  14. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
    Has a few surprises in store. The biggest is James, an unexpectedly nimble master of the face-plant, the failed jump, and the lopsided tumble.
  15. Inkheart
    Mirren's all-out display in this distinctly British absurdo-literary extravaganza had me wishing Elinor were my own fabulous auntie and that she'd lend me some magic items from her closet.
  16. New in Town
    A gentle, traditional (like, from the last century) romantic comedy.
  17. Friday the 13th
    However, this film is (be)head and shoulders above the recently reanimated likes of "Prom Night" and "My Bloody Valentine."
  18. Under the Sea 3D
    Offers up dazzling ocean creatures in calmly shifting scenes that could double as the world's most expensive screensaver.
  19. Everlasting Moments
    All staged as a harsh poem of survival, with no great psychological interest, yet the ending carries a surprise feminist tug that’s worth the wait.
  20. Race to Witch Mountain
    The planet-hopping children have special talents -- telekinesis, telepathy etc. -- although it is the high-wattage lovability of Mr Rock that's the real superpower on display here.
  21. Crank: High Voltage
    The result, an eye-popping strobe of flesh and blood, is as visually stunning as it is absurdly offensive, sure to thrill some while leaving others in a state of outrage-induced catatonia.
  22. The Soloist
    It's all a bit shapeless, yet made with sincerity and taste, and the two actors seize your sympathy.
  23. Dance Flick
    Enjoyably dirty-minded sendup of when-ballet-met-hip-hop youth musicals.
  24. Dead Snow
    Cheery, silly, splattery, and respectful of its elders (and betters, particularly Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead").
  25. The Stoning of Soraya M.
    The Stoning of Soraya M.'s drawn-out torture sequence is harrowing and lurid.
  26. Soul Power
    What's infectious in Soul Power is the almost shocking optimism of its America-meets-Africa '70s world-beat vibe.
  27. Bandslam
    Misfit teens in the process of forming a high school band learn life lessons and raise their goblets of rock. But there's enough of a strong filmmaking backbeat in Bandslam to carry the movie's light tune.
  28. Fifty Dead Men Walking
    Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) makes a believable cocky lad who signs on for the con; an oddly bewigged Ben Kingsley is fussier and too actorly as his handler.
  29. Disgrace
    Newcomer Jessica Haines is transparent and heartbreaking as the prof's unorthodox daughter, a victim of violence as the old ways crumble.
  30. Capitalism: A Love Story
    At its best, Capitalism: A Love Story is a searing outcry against the excesses of a cutthroat time. At its worst, it's dorm-room Marxism.
  31. Ong Bak 2
    Jaa, mesmerizing as ever to behold with his pinwheel moves, also (co)directs for the first time.
  32. The Wedding Song
    Has a sensuous, intimate filmmaking style that overrides The Wedding Song's more precariously loaded plot parallels.
  33. The Karate Kid
    Fun, and believable, on the most important level: It convinces us that Jaden Smith has what it takes to fight his way to the top.
  34. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The film makes excellent use of the cold Scandinavian landscape to emphasize the story's gloomy loneliness. And Rapace and ? Nyqvist have compelling chemistry.
  35. Hot Tub Time Machine
    With sharp riffs on the intersection of '80s pop culture (ALF, Kid 'N Play, Ronald Reagan!) and 21st-century culture (Twitter, Viagra, Second Life!), this Time Machine is a fun dip into a pool of memories that are best forgotten again once the booze wears off.
  36. Frequency
    May be the first time travel fantasy to move grown fellows with 401(k) accounts to tears.
  37. Cradle Will Rock
    Robbins the agitprop celebrity may be blowin' in the wind, but Robbins, the son of a folksinger, knows how to get audiences clapping along.
  38. Biker Boyz
    A blatant re-spin of ''The Fast and the Furious'' that also happens to be a far better movie.
  39. Down to Earth
    When Rock finds his authentic swing as an actor as well as a comedian, he'll be, like, a movie god.
  40. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    Branagh shows us the comedy of a man who is too clever to understand that in the guise of dreading fatherhood, he is really at war with how much he longs for it.
  41. Pollock
    For all the praise that has been heaped upon it, is a quasisatisfying, half realized vision.
  42. Once in the Life
    Showcases a trio of terrific performances.
  43. Boesman and Lena
    About two people on a stage, talking their way into and out of alienation.
  44. Portraits chinois
    A light romantic do-si-do.
  45. Restaurant
    Tom Cudworth's script nails the ale-drenched details of twentysomething existence.
  46. Pola X
    There's only one Carax, uncompromisingly ambiguous.
  47. Better Living Through Circuitry
    It's got a good beat, you can dance to it.
  48. The Emperor's New Clothes
    It's a royal, finely modulated double performance by an actor who always wears his powers with graceful modesty.
  49. Lovely & Amazing
    This trio is like a looser, funnier version of the family of wrecks in Woody Allen's ''Interiors.''
  50. Lan Yu
    At times too restrained, yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most American love stories look downright unfree.
  51. The Minus Man
    With no climactic showdown and no comforting revelation of motive or reassuring psychoanalytic diagnosis, the nerve-rattling potential of this sly, paranoia-inducing story may sink in only later.
  52. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    The inventiveness is still superior and the network of fiends and family is extended.
  53. The Young Girl and the Monsoon
    When Kinney and Muth share scenes, it's hard not to get caught up.
  54. Comedian
    The thrust of the movie is that even for Jerry, the quintessential scientist of stand-up, comedy is very, very hard to do. By the end, you're closer to knowing why.
  55. Made
    Little more than a rambling chain of combative buddy mishaps, but the interplay between Vaughn and Favreau, who does great double takes of thrusting chin frustration, spins you through the weak patches.
  56. Price of Glory
    The movie, while heartfelt and vividly shot, takes too many rote genre turns.
  57. Agnes Browne
    Modest and prosaic, with an unfortunate fairy-tale ending (yes, it features Tom Jones).
  58. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
    A modest vérité portrait of Wilco, the engagingly melodious, deeply unglam alt-folk rockers.
  59. Shaft
    If nothing else, Shaft is spicy fast food.
  60. Interview with the Assassin
    The film's best trick is the way that it treats conspiracy as a kind of political ''Blair Witch,'' a monstrous murk that haunts us precisely because it can never be seen.
  61. Rules of Engagement
    The drama ultimately retreats to safer, duller, more illogical, and more reactionary impulses and stereotypes.
  62. La Ciudad (The City)
    In their stark, black-and-white visual style, they are redolent of Italian neorealist cinema or fine muckraking WPA photojournalism.
  63. The Visit
    This very earnestly American prison gives off an unusually mellow European air.
  64. Happenstance
    In Happenstance, fortune doesn't just smile -- it schemes and tricks and zigzags, forming an urban road map of fate's detours.
  65. Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    Does all it can not to dehumanize Chong.
  66. Boiler Room
    Younger, in his debut feature, is as canny as he is derivative.
  67. Home Movie
    Smith profiles five extraordinary American homes, and because the owners seem fully aware of the uses and abuses of fame, it's a pleasure to enjoy their eccentricities.
  68. The Sea
    The loveliest moments put both politics and theatrics aside, conveying the strange beauty of a hard life involving little else than fish, water, and gray sky.
  69. Stuart Little 2
    Very much a kiddie ride, Stuart Little 2 is lively without being hyperactive -- it's a bouncy mouse caper with a wee bit of soul.
  70. Stuart Little
    A Little goes a long way.
  71. Holy Smoke
    Too tightly made not to keep you watching, Holy Smoke is also too hokey and didactic to take seriously.
  72. L.I.E.
    You know you're in the hands of a born filmmaker when he floods a scene with danger and excitement and, at the same time, tempers it with something more delicate -- a languor of the everyday.
  73. Kiss of the Dragon
    This is all grimy, guy on guy fun, right down to the fevered, bad English dialogue.
  74. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    Lawrence makes you believe in the character you're watching. He does an amazing little piece of acting.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Red Violin
    Carefully crafted, lushly romantic.
  76. The Pledge
    Penn is a true talent, but there's just enough languid pretension to The Pledge to make you wonder if he's ultimately more interested in parading his promise as a director than in fulfilling it.
  77. City by the Sea
    Moves along with a quietude, a scruffy direct plainness that has long gone out of style.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Closer You Get
    Featherweight tale of Guinness-guzzling bachelors.
  79. Two Weeks Notice
    Knows what it needs to do for both its stars, does it, and doesn't make a federal case about it. I'd watch these two together again in a New York minute.
  80. Jet Lag
    It's a pleasure to encounter a confectionary love story in which a man and woman of age and experience discover feelings that youth, more and more, has a patent on in Hollywood.
  81. Baby Boy
    What holds the movie together, however, is Gibson's broodingly responsive performance.
  82. Godzilla 2000
    Lands on an imaginative fault line somewhere between tackiness and awe.
  83. Willard
    The new version is actually better. It's still a fairly ham-handed revenge-of-the-nerd horror fable, but you don't go to a movie like Willard for subtlety. You go to be skeeved out by rats, rats, and more rats, and I'm tempted to say that Willard does a fairly rat-tastic job of it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Colors
    Sean Penn and Robert Duvall basically played the Two Faces of Dennis: hyper young firebrand and cautious older lion.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  85. The Hunt for Red October
    Colorful and exciting, yet unless you're a young moviegoer, nothing in it takes you by complete surprise. (It's less a nail-biter than a chin-stroker.)
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    La Femme Nikita
    It's like "The Terminator" as reimagined by the editors of French Vogue.
  87. Apt Pupil
    It's scariest as a parable about the evil that exists in the hearts of adolescent boys.
  88. Apollo 13
    Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon try to get inside the skins of these space-age pilot jocks, but the roles, as written, don't give them enough to work with.
  89. Rounders
    Damon is a magical actor. His mind, as sharp and focused as a laser, beams out of the face of a vivacious choirboy, and, in nearly every scene, he invites you to share the jet-propelled pleasure of his precocious agility.
  90. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Had ''Boogie Nights'' been the tale of a California dreamer with a really long skateboard, the movie's delirious first half would have been ''Dogtown and Z-Boys,'' and its downbeat conclusion would be Stoked.
  91. Sugar & Spice
    Fun in its raunchy unwieldiness.
  92. Smoke
    The best vignette, at the very end of the film, is the story Auster originally wrote for a newspaper as a Christmas piece, the one that inspired Wang to make Smoke in the first place. It's the one you'll want to inhale.
  93. Heist
    If it's not up to the cups-and-balls elegance of previous Mamet movies like ''The Spanish Prisoner'' and ''House of Games,'' if it piles on more psychological fake-outs than is safe in a setup this size -- well, at least it's got that talk, that language, that thing Mamet does that is at this point as identifiable as the cadences of the Bard.
  94. Demonlover
    Assayas can't resist turning Demonlover into an overcalculatedly irrational rabbit-hole-to-the-dark-side thriller. The movie morphs into a ''dream,'' all right, but I confess that all I wanted to do was wake up from it and return to the slithery intrigue of corporate depravity.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    You've Got Mail
    A perfectly enjoyable star vehicle that does exactly what it sets out to do. [7 May 1999, p.66]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  96. The End of the Affair
    The affair itself, in its genteel way, does catch fire, but it's the end of the affair that needs to move us to rapture, and the movie, instead, just drifts away.
  97. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    It's a messy, entertaining documentary rooted in -- though not limited to -- the iconically indulgent years of Fellini's later career.
  98. Bones
    Snoop invests snarling meanness with as much authority as Clint Eastwood used to. As an actor, does this Dogg know any more tricks? At this point, he may not have to.
  99. The War Zone
    Roth, there's no denying, creates considerable suspense out of our desire to confront the forbidden.
  100. Butterfly Tongues
    Diverges to become something quite powerfully unnerving and guilt-ridden.
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