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  1. A Film Unfinished
    Hersonski quietly and insistently unravels reality from "reality"; her commitment to archival authenticity is its own tribute to those no longer able to testify.
  2. Vampires Suck
    The exception is newcomer Jenn Proske, who spoofs Twilight star Kristen Stewart's flustered, hair-tugging angst with hilarious precision.
  3. Eat Pray Love
    If only Roberts' warmth, coupled with Javier Bardem's scruffy sexiness as Felipe, were enough to compensate for the folded-map flatness of this production.
  4. The Expendables
    The way that Stallone directs, though, every machete thrust and relentless round of bullet spray is staged with a certain undeniable...conviction.
  5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    The first rock & roll kung fu videogame youth love story.
  6. Animal Kingdom
    Don't be fooled: In this unpeaceable kingdom, the den mama is also ready to eat her young.
  7. Tales from Earthsea
    He does an okay imitation of his father's languidly matter-of-fact dreamscapes, but it's hard to deny that a certain vitality is missing in Tales From Earthsea.
  8. Step Up 3-D
    Step Up 3D isn't, in dramatic terms, a very good movie, but it's the first film in a while to use 3-D as more than a marketing ploy; it points toward an original way of making a musical.
  9. The Other Guys
    It's a comedy of manhood for the age of emasculation.
  10. Cairo Time
    Cairo Time is affectingly gentle, with Juliette slowing down to open up -- a gossamer transformation that Clarkson makes tangible.
  11. Flipped
    Worse, he (Reiner) vacuum-seals it all in a patronizingly wholesome package, like an extended episode of "The Wonder Years" with all the wonder sucked out.
  12. Middle Men
    This cranked-up drama wants it both ways.
  13. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
    A brutally monotonous thriller.
  14. The Wildest Dream
    The voices of Liam Neeson -- as the film's narrator -- and his late wife, Richardson, inevitably add to the project's poignance.
  15. Twelve
    Twelve ogles the lost boys and girls as they make their mistakes. But unlike the novel, the movie never really gets inside these kids, who aren't in the least all right.
  16. Lebanon
    It took writer-director Samuel ''Shmulik'' Maoz nearly 30 years to make this disturbing, visceral, personal film.
  17. Dinner for Schmucks
    No schmucks were harmed in the making of Dinner for Schmucks. That's the problem.
  18. Charlie St. Cloud
    The surreal thing is, Zac Efron can't do despair.
  19. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    No movie -- whether aimed at adults or kids or canines themselves -- has the right to be as tiresome and unoriginal as this action-comedy mutt.
  20. The Concert
    The crowd-pleasing comic Euro-drama The Concert is, at its musical center, as full of ripe emotion as Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. It's also as darkly funny as a Slavic farce, a composition of sweet cacophony.
  21. The Extra Man
    What feels enjoyably outré in the 1998 coming-of-age novel by Jonathan Ames (creator of HBO's Bored to Death) feels oppressively outré in this deadened, literal adaptation.
  22. Get Low
    Duvall's acting turns magical: scary, touching, and full of grace. But Get Low, as directed by Aaron Schneider, forces you to sit through a lot of poky setup to reach that touching epiphany.
  23. Who Killed Nancy?
    The film offers evidence that Vicious spent the entire night out cold on barbiturates. It plants resonant doubts.
  24. Salt
    Salt knows how to stay one step ahead of you in devious, if jaw-droppingly contrived, ways. The movie is fun, dammit. So who cares, really, if it's trash?
  25. Ramona and Beezus
    On the other hand, this proud graduate of the School of Cleary Classics wishes that, like the young heroine herself, Ramona and Beezus dared more often to color outside the lines.
  26. Countdown to Zero
    Countdown to Zero makes old terrors radioactively new again.
  27. 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.
  28. Inception
    As engrossing and logic-resistant as the state of dreaming it seeks to replicate, Christopher Nolan's audacious new creation demands further study to fully absorb the multiple, simultaneous stories Nolan finagles into one narrative experience.
  29. Kisses
    A superior lyrical ragamuffin Irish drama.
  30. 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.
  31. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    The Sorcerer's Apprentice is too long, and it's ersatz magic, but at least it casts an ersatz spell.
  32. The Kids Are All Right
    This warm, funny, sexy, smart movie erases the boundaries between specialized ''gay content'' and universal ''family content'' with such sneaky authority.
  33. Predators
    As a fan of Schwarzenegger's macho, heart-of-darkness original, it gives me no pleasure to say that Predators is an uninspired mess of mediocre action scenes strung together until the final reel.
  34. Despicable Me
    Another 3-D animated kid movie demonstrates that cartoon storytelling pitched to young people is the last, best refuge of sprightly filmmaking this hard, hot summer.
  35. 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.
  36. The Last Airbender
    The movie is "Star Wars" with martial arts, plus a touch of "The Last Emperor." Technically, it's not badly done; I enjoyed the physical clash of elements, the water balls rising like sculpture in the air.
  37. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    The story, at heart, is earnest and humorless teen romantic glop, but its feelings aren't fake, and the movie is compulsively watchable; it has a passionflower intensity.
  38. Love Ranch
    Taylor Hackford, fails to squeeze the tiniest bit of juice, sexy or comic or otherwise, out of the chintzy-libertine locale.
  39. Grown Ups
    For a while, the movie looks like "Couples Retreat" or a Tyler Perry house party, only instead of cookie-cutter conflicts, everyone just grows happier and more relaxed.
  40. Restrepo
    It's doubtful you'll ever see a combat documentary that channels the chaos of war as thoroughly as this one.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. Knight and Day
    In this oddly uninvolving caper, the size of skulls makes its own statement: The producers assume that audience interest in movie stars is bigger than audience interest in characters.
  44. Jonah Hex
    The star is done in by the deathless mediocrity of the production, an assemblage of random camera shots, messy editing, redundant scenes, and witless dialogue as haphazardly stitched together as the flesh on Jonah Hex's face.
  45. Cyrus
    Cyrus cues us to expect it to go over the top, but the film never does. That may be its neatest trick
  46. 8: The Mormon Proposition
    Filmmaker Reed Cowan (himself gay and raised Mormon) documents the church's considerable financial influence on Prop 8's passage. Then he expands his sad and furious homegrown film to record the misery of gay Mormons sometimes driven to suicide over being rejected by their church and families.
  47. I Am Love
    The film is almost deliriously stylish, which helps mask the silliness. But the bellowing music, by John Adams, is infuriatingly intrusive -- which undoes the visual good.
  48. Let It Rain
    Jaoui neatly, gently, firmly slips political commentary into Let It Rain's articulate mayhem.
  49. Toy Story 3
    Toy Story 3 is a salute to the magic of making believe.
  50. Stonewall Uprising
    Stonewall Uprising does an evocative job of coloring in the oppression of gay life before Stonewall, so that when the eruption happens, we feel its necessity in our bones.
  51. 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.
  52. The A-Team
    The whole movie is a diversionary activity. It's trash so compacted it glows.
  53. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    She's a teller of hilarious gutbucket truths as surely as Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor ever were. Yet while they were consumed by their demons, Rivers is just the opposite.
  54. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
    The movie, by Dutch director Jan Kounen, is all surfaces, set pieces, Significant Looks, and voguing -- the same strictures Chanel and Stravinsky sought to bust.
  55. Winter's Bone
    One of the unshowiest and most true-blooded epics of Americana you're ever likely to see.
  56. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
    Fans will gorge on this deft, year-by-year portrait of the ultimate enduring cult band.
  57. Splice
    A cheeky, great-looking, thoughtfully loopy creature feature about the lure and dangers of cutting-edge gene splicing.
  58. Get Him to the Greek
    A clever rock-world satire, with some lively take-offs on the TMZ-gossip magazine circus, but it's also too long, and by the time of the inevitable Las Vegas sequence, it starts to grow repetitive.
  59. Killers
    The steady drip-drip-drip of nothings like this are killing us all.
  60. Marmaduke
    An afterthought of a plot ships the family from Kansas to the O.C., offering SoCal set pieces -- like a doggie surfing contest -- to spackle the few gaps between big-dog-small-world jokes.
  61. Micmacs
    Jeunet maintains a firm control of his dreamscape creation, drawing on influences as varied as "Toy Story," "Children of Paradise," and TV's "Mission: Impossible."
  62. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    This is what a videogame movie looks like now.
  63. Survival of the Dead
    There are some memorable images, including the sight of a beautiful, horse-riding ''dead head.'' But for much of the movie, Van Sprang's zombie fatigue seems to be an echo of Romero's own.
  64. Sex and the City 2
    As Carrie might type on her laptop while giving one of her girly little shrugs, When did Sex and the City become so long and mean so little?
  65. Shrek Forever After
    Everyone involved fulfills his or her job requirements adequately. But the magic is gone, and Shrek Forever After is no longer an ogre phenomenon to reckon with. Instead, it's a "Hot Swamp Time Machine."
  66. MacGruber
    The result is a naughty throwaway in all senses of the word.
  67. Holy Rollers
    Feels staged and exoticized in the way stories about insular communities often do when told by outsiders.
  68. Kites
    It's a romantic noir chase thriller made in the violently schlocky spirit of Sam Peckinpah's "The Getaway."
  69. Solitary Man
    With an outstanding screenplay by Brian Koppelman and disciplined direction by Koppelman and David Levien, a story that could have been generic (or worse, scented with flowery bulls---) turns into a precise, honest, and affecting drama.
  70. Robin Hood
    The battles are grainy and ''existential,'' but what they aren't is thrilling. They're surging crowd scenes with streams of arrows and flecks of blood, and Crowe, slashing his way through them, is a glorified extra. He's so grimly possessed with purpose that he's a bore, and so is the movie.
  71. Daddy Longlegs
    A disconcertingly jumpy tale of breathtakingly crummy parenting, the windblown movie dares a tolerant audience not to call Child Services.
  72. Letters to Juliet
    Redgrave shimmers like one of Tuscany's magnificent cypress trees as an Englishwoman searching for Lorenzo (Nero).
  73. Just Wright
    The movie is a rigged game of clichés and platitudes, but fans will be pleased by additional proof that Latifah is a lovable Queen but not a pampered princess.
  74. Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
    A delightfully weird, if occasionally too arty, documentary as darting in its structure as a dragonfly's flight.
  75. Looking for Eric
    The British director Ken Loach can be a master of working-class realism, but not in this cranky, rudderless shambles.
  76. Iron Man 2
    Downey's head and heart are in the right place, but the movie is more in pieces than whole, and more about iron than about men.
  77. Casino Jack and the United States of Money
    Casino Jack is really a look at how the culture of Washington was rebuilt to sell itself to the highest bidder.
  78. Mother and Child
    The hothouse drama Mother and Child is organized like a femme-friendly spa that specializes in treatments for the psyche rather than the skin. Soft New Agey music tinkles intrusively. Sore spots are prodded and massaged. Clients pass one another in the changing room. The ritual is exquisite to some, and excruciating to others.
  79. Babies
    As the movie goes on, these fleshy little beings turn into…well, people. And that's something to see. But Babies, without falsifying its subject, could have used a more soul-stirring sense of showbiz -- that is, a riper display of infantile special effects.
  80. Trash Humpers
    In Trash Humpers, the latest slovenly, haphazard, is-it-a-travesty-if-it's-bad-on-purpose avant doodle from director Harmony Korine, three figures in rubbery old-age makeup do indeed mimic intercourse with Dumpsters.
  81. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    It's not every day that one of our rogues' gallery of iconic psycho killers gets to be played by a creepy and fascinating actor -- in this case, Jackie Earle Haley taking on the role of Freddy Krueger.
  82. Furry Vengeance
    Still, it's refreshing that the animals don't talk.
  83. The Good Heart
    The Big Apple of this evanescent tone poem is an invented nocturnal landscape featuring speechifying eccentrics and absurdist moments that feel northern European in sensibility.
  84. Harry Brown
    Part punk-drab British art-house portrait of underclass despair, part bloody vigilante pic, Harry Brown is shakily held together by industrial-strength sound design and the expertly employed theatrics of Michael Caine in the title role.
  85. Please Give
    In Please Give, the sharp-eyed filmmaker sends her vibrant representative out into the world to explore what it means for a woman to be lucky and still feel itchy. The report has the resonant ring of truth.
  86. 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.
  87. The Back-up Plan
    As a romantic comedy, The Back-up Plan is friendly but also a bit drab.
  88. The Losers
    Basically, it's "The A-Team" meets "Rambo" meets "Mission: Impossible," with a mission that's one part trickiness, four parts blowing stuff up.
  89. Paper Man
    Concentrate instead on the delightful performances. A thespian shoutout goes to Reynolds (his hair bleached bright yellow for the gig) for his jaunty way with a cape, tights, and the hands-on-hip poses of superherodom.
  90. Oceans
    There have, over the years, been a lot of terrific undersea documentaries, but if you want to know what distinguishes this new one, it comes down to a single word: technology.
  91. 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.
  92. Death at a Funeral
    Reveling in mess and homegrown multiracial mayhem, Death at a Funeral finds a new lease on life.
  93. Kick-Ass
    An enjoyably supercharged and ultraviolent teen-rebel comic-book fantasy that might be described -- in spirit, at least -- as reality-based.
  94. The Joneses
    This cautionary tale might be easier to swallow if all that stuff didn't look like it came from a Sky Mall catalog.
  95. The City of Your Final Destination
    Lovely to look at -- and languid to the point of stultifying torpor, as interesting characters make speeches to one another about life, love, and literature.
  96. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    An exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when global art fame turns anonymous, artists become objects, fans turn into artists, and the whole what's-sincere-and-what's-a-sham spectacle is more fun than art was ever supposed to be.
  97. No One Knows About Persian Cats
    Director Bahman Ghobadi (Turtles Can Fly) shot his faux documentary in secret, and the close-to-the-ground style compensates for the tenuous narrative structure by capturing the energy and variety of Tehran's music scene in all its bravery.
  98. The Secret in Their Eyes
    The performances are tender, the script elegant, the cinematography (especially during a virtuoso chase scene in a soccer stadium) artful.
  99. Date Night
    For this 21st-century Nick and Nora Charles, the flame is kept alive despite his nighttime anti-snore nose strip and her nighttime bite guard -- thanks to a shared appreciation of the hilarity of nose strips and bite guards.
  100. After.Life
    Requires Neeson to stare coldly and talk to corpses, but Ricci has the greater dramatic challenge: She has to operate, unfazed, in close-up nakedness much of the time.
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