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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
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  1. La mission
    The warmth comes through, even if the storytelling is simplistic and clichéd.
  2. Letters to God
    A bland, pious yet touching faith-based tearjerker.
  3. 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.
  4. Women Without Men
    Stronger on beautiful imagery than on narrative flow.
  5. Don McKay
    The premise of the short-story-size comic thriller Don McKay is as thin and crumbly as a corn chip.
  6. The Greatest
    A histrionic mess.
  7. Leaves of Grass
    The movie bubbles with intellectual curiosity and narrative ambition.
  8. The Thorn in the Heart
    But overall, this lazy, sweet trifle seems to express the banality of well-being.
  9. Why Did I Get Married Too?
    WDIGMT? serves up speeches about trust and fidelity and rolling with the punches and blah blah blah. But it does so with so little energy that the actors might as well be saying the words blah blah blah.
  10. Breaking Upwards
    Fitfully amusing, mostly annoying rom-com.
  11. Clash of the Titans
    As Zeus, Liam Neeson twinkles where Laurence Olivier kvetched, and Ralph Fiennes, as Zeus' dark brother Hades (who has egged on the revolt to challenge Zeus), has a slinky nastiness.
  12. The Last Song
    And here's the revelation: Miley Cyrus is a really interesting movie star in the making, with an intriguing echo-of-foghorn speaking voice, and a scuffed-up tomboyish physicality (in the Kristen Stewart mode) that sets her apart from daintier girls in her celebrity class.
  13. 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.
  14. Chloe
    The film is Moore's story, and she acts the hell out of one sexy scene, but most of Chloe is plodding and drab.
  15. The Eclipse
    What holds The Eclipse together is Hinds' sorrowful and moving performance as a man haunted in more ways than one.
  16. How to Train Your Dragon
    Rouses you in conventional ways, but it's also the rare animated film that uses 3-D for its breathtaking spatial and emotional possibilities.
  17. Waking Sleeping Beauty
    The joy of cartoons meets the agony of office politics in this fascinating, inside- Hollywood-baseball documentary.
  18. Blue Beard
    Catherine Breillat, the French director of "Fat Girl", blends victim feminism with the threat of slasher violence in this arid ''deconstruction'' of Bluebeard, the wife killer of legend.
  19. Repo Men
    A grisly one-note chase thriller.
  20. The Bounty Hunter
    In The Bounty Hunter, the couple that foils a bunch of tiresome grade-C thriller goons together stays together. Whether or not that's a recipe for love, it's certainly not a formula for romantic-comedy magic.
  21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Does a great job of being in two places at once: In the head and gangly bodies of kids, and in the hearts of those of us who have survived grades 6-8.
  22. 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.
  23. Greenberg
    Baumbach's movies are addictive dispatches from a genteel jungle of white privilege, where highly educated people behave badly. I can't take my eyes off the exotic wildlife.
  24. IMAX: Hubble 3D
    Awesome documentary.
  25. The Runaways
    The most entertaining thing about The Runaways, a highly watchable if mostly run-of-the-mill group biopic, is that its writer-director, Floria Sigismondi, has a sixth sense for how the Runaways were bad-angel icons first and a rock & roll band second.
  26. City Island
    Andy Garcia reminds you of what a cunning, likable actor he can be.
  27. Vincere
    Mezzogiorno (Love in the Time of Cholera) plays Dalser with the kind of fervent intensity once seen in silent films.
  28. The Exploding Girl
    Gray has an artful, understated way of conveying what's going ?on inside, often simply by focusing his camera on Kazan.
  29. She's Out of My League
    If you're hungry to see a romantic comedy about a genetically and culturally imbalanced geek-meets-babe relationship that makes the one in Knocked Up look like the quintessence of plausible human mating, then by all means subject yourself to the one-joke sub–Judd Apatow snark-athon that is She's Out of My League.
  30. Green Zone
    With Green Zone, though, the malaise has finally hit me. So while Damon's Miller uncovers the (inconvenient) truth of why the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, all I want to know is: How does he suggest we get out?
  31. Mother
    Another must-see marvel of horror, comedy, and impeccable filmmaking by the Korean director Bong Joon-ho.
  32. Our Family Wedding
    Be prepared to swallow a lot of empty-calorie jokes in which blacks and Latinos insult and misunderstand one another in a spirit of vigorous buffoonery.
  33. Remember Me
    As a shameless contraption of ridiculously sad things befalling attractive people, the engorged romantic tragedy Remember Me stands tall between those towering monuments to teen-oriented cinematic misery, Love Story and Twilight.
  34. Stolen
    It's a toss-up as to what's the worse sin in this graceless piece of tragedy porn.
  35. Alice in Wonderland
    In the film's rather humdrum 3-D, the place doesn't dazzle — it droops.
  36. Brooklyn's Finest
    Ellen Barkin provides unexpected diversion in a madwoman cameo as the PD's brassiest brass. But otherwise the clichés keep coming.
  37. The Secret of Kells
    Regrettably, the film's story is so busy yet flat that the effect isn't magical -- it's more like watching the tale of some very enchanted wallpaper.
  38. Cop Out
    Without that heightened racial antipathy-turned-camaraderie, there's not a whole lot to Cop Out besides watching Kevin Smith pretend, with a crudeness that is simply boring, that he's an action director making a comic thriller about cops versus a Mexican drug gang (yawn).
  39. A Prophet
    There's also no romanticizing on the part of the director, who proceeds with calm, unshowy attentiveness (even in the midst of scenes of violence), creating a stunning portrait of an innately smart survivor for whom prison turns out to be a twisted opportunity for self-definition.
  40. The Crazies
    Here's what I can say for sure about the humanoid attackers in the new version of The Crazies: They're not very interesting.
  41. The Yellow Handkerchief
    Here the fascination is Hurt, so deft at steering his character away from booby-trap clichés that he guides his young costars safely out of sap's way and brightens an otherwise very yellowed tale.
  42. 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.
  43. Shutter Island
    Shutter Island holds you, but it doesn't grip you. It's as if Scorsese had put his filmmaking fever on psychotropic drugs.
  44. The Good Guy
    One by one, each scene goes slack as the script struggles with Screenwriting 101 problems like who the main character is and what he wants -- not to mention why any of us should care in the first place.
  45. The Ghost Writer
    Satisfying, melancholy political suspense story.
  46. Lourdes
    Beautifully led by birdlike Sylvie Testud as an ailing young woman in a wheelchair, every character (pilgrim and helper alike) exhibits a soul. And shaped with confident talent by the Austrian filmmaker, every serenely composed shot matters.
  47. The Wolfman
    Del Toro, with his melancholy-brute features, endows this raging beast with some of the ''Why me?'' poignance you may remember from Lon Chaney Jr.'s performance in the original.
  48. Valentine's Day
    How you feel about Valentine's Day may depend on how you feel when someone really, really cute -- and someone you're really, really fond of -- gives you a nasty box of cheap chocolate on Valentine's Day, picked up at the corner Rite Aid and delivered with the price tag still attached.
  49. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    Has all the CGI sorcery of a Harry Potter pic, but none of the magic.
  50. From Paris with Love
    A ''fun trash'' movie that's more trash than fun.
  51. Dear John
    Ironically, they make the bond between John and Savannah look so natural that the ''dear John'' turn in their relationship makes even less sense than it does in the book.
  52. Ajami
    Emotionally mesmerizing.
  53. Edge of Darkness
    His (Gibson) slow-burn fury keeps the movie going, but not enough to invest us in any justice beyond payback.
  54. When in Rome
    Sounds mildly fun, be forwarned: When in Rome doesn't even offer that.
  55. Saint John of Las Vegas
    With stars like Steve Buscemi and Sarah Silverman and big-fish producers such as Spike Lee and Stanley Tucci on board, you'd think this indie would offer some glimmer of wit or originality. Think again.
  56. Legion
    After a brisk start, the script turns out to be a rough and humorless beast slouching its way towards utter ludicrousness.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Extraordinary Measures
    Hardly an extraordinary movie. In fact, it's hard to believe that this schmaltzy film found its home on the big screen rather than the Hallmark Channel. But I dare you not to feel something at its conclusion.
  58. The Girl on the Train
    Téchiné has made a half-captivating, half-baffling tease of a movie in which one woman's destructive whim has the effect of making anti-Semitism look like a myth. It's a distortion that Téchiné, with a passivity bordering on perversity, does nothing to dispel.
  59. Creation
    One of those tepid, genteel biopics that's far too busy ennobling its hero to bother giving him any recklessly interesting personality traits.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Tooth Fairy
    British comic Stephen Merchant (Extras), exudes an easier charm as a goofy fairyland caseworker who harbors big dreams of his own.
  61. The Book of Eli
    A ponderous dystopian bummer that might be described as "The Road Warrior" without car chases, or "The Road" without humanity.
  62. Fish Tank
    The amazingly natural first-timer was discovered, in a gift of publicity-ready truth, while having an argument with her boyfriend at a train station.
  63. Daybreakers
    Daybreakers turns?into a ponderous apocalyptic chase film -- it's like "Children of Men" with exploding-plasma shock effects.
  64. Youth in Revolt
    Timing is everything. And Youth in Revolt is late -- arriving not just at the tail end of the star's sell-by date for this particular kind of character, but more importantly at the tail end of the intended audience's attention span for an inconsequential Sundance-y tale of sexual coming-of-age.
  65. Leap Year
    Leap Year could have used more pizzazz.
  66. Wonderful World
    It's all very sincere, but watching a dweebish depressive learn that Life Is Good is a lesson of diminishing returns.
  67. Crazy on the Outside
    Each actor appears to have received the script to a different movie, while Allen adds his own directorial touch of sexual vulgarity.
  68. The White Ribbon
    Shot in vivid black and white, the movie is like "Village of the Damned" directed by Ingmar Bergman, only without Bergman's intensity.
  69. The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
    Howard looks peachy, and actor-turned-director Jodie Markell sweats the details -- moonlight, honeyed accents -- but the brittle script resists restoration.
  70. Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes is an odd amalgam, a top-heavy light entertainment that keeps throwing things at you and doesn't seem too concerned with whether they stick.
  71. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    As is so often the case since his "Monty Python" days, Gilliam is best at visual games and weakest at storytelling.
  72. It's Complicated
    It's Complicated is middle-aged porn, the specialty of Meyers, who also set ladies and interior decorators drooling over homes and gardens in 2006's “The Holiday.”
  73. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    If only for the sake of adults, couldn't the folks behind the Alvin films have had the good grace to turn Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel into a musical?
  74. Police, Adjective
    Yet another outstanding little movie in the exciting Romanian New Wave.
  75. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    You should hear instead about Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen, who whip up cowboy fun as married U.S. marshals assigned to protect the pair in Wyoming.
  76. Avatar
    As visual spectacle, Avatar is indelible, but as a movie it all but evaporates as you watch it.
  77. Nine
    The numbers, while lively, remain cluttered and stage-bound. The women, however, are spirited and sexy.
  78. The Young Victoria
    The Young Victoria has a subtler flow than you might expect, and at times it's calmer than you may like. Director Jean-Marc Vallée's images have a creamy stateliness, but this is no gilded? princess fantasy.
  79. Crazy Heart
    Bridges' guileless performance makes this piquant little indie tale of country music, redemption, and the love of a pretty younger woman such a sad-song charmer.
  80. Invictus
    How is Invictus as a sports movie? Let's just say that its lump-in-the-throat climax is predictable, but that doesn't mean it's less than earned.
  81. The Lovely Bones
    A sad-but-hopeful, dramatic-but-gentle fairy tale intentionally made less upsetting for teens.
  82. A Single Man
    Firth plays him as a man of his time who is also mournfully ahead of his time. He's addicted to his own broken heart. A Single Man may break yours as well.
  83. Up in the Air
    Up in the Air is light and dark, hilarious and tragic, romantic and real. It's everything that Hollywood has forgotten how to do; we're blessed that Jason Reitman has remembered
  84. The Last Station
    A grandly entertaining historical drama.
  85. Transylmania
    It's tempting to say ''avoid at all costs,'' but truthfully, everyone should see something this bad at least once, if only to help us better appreciate the comparatively brainy merits of works like "Eurotrip," "Freddy Got Fingered," and the modern-day plague of movies with titles ending in "Movie."
  86. Brothers
    Brothers isn't badly acted, but as directed by the increasingly impersonal Jim Sheridan, it's lumbering and heavy-handed, a film that piles on overwrought dramatic twists until it begins to creak under the weight of its presumed significance.
  87. Armored
    Alas, Armored is one predictable and forgettable movie that should consider itself very lucky not to have gone straight to DVD.
  88. Everybody's Fine
    Calculatedly soppy, seasonally phony Americanized remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 "Stanno Tutti Bene."
  89. Serious Moonlight
    There's a lot of yelling, cracking wise, and cooing in this creepy rom-com.
  90. The Strip
    The makers of this mediocre comedy about dorky guys who work in a cut-rate electronics store probably hoped that "40 Year-Old Virgin" lightning would strike twice. It doesn't.
  91. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
    The mix is Lifetime soap–meets–Woody Allen smart-set comedy, with less humor and a genteel Connecticut setting.
  92. The Road
    There's enough foreboding in America right now to make sitting through a movie such as The Road seem like one more heavy burden that, frankly, no one needs.
  93. The Princess and the Frog
    What matters is that Tiana triumphs as both a girl and a frog, that dreams are fulfilled, wrongs are righted, love prevails, and music unites not only a princess and a frog but also kids and grown-ups.
  94. Old Dogs
    Exhausted as the premise already is -- hapless boomer learns that real manhood is a function of committed fatherhood -- Old Dogs nevertheless finds ways to make the lesson even less tolerable.
  95. Ninja Assassin
    Let's be honest, killing is this film's business...and business is good.
  96. Me and Orson Welles
    Has so little fire that Welles himself would have wondered out loud what he was doing stuck in the middle of it.
  97. The Blind Side
    A feel-good movie that never stops feeling good. The film is based on a true story (it was adapted from a nonfiction best-seller by Michael Lewis), but you never feel that Hancock has honestly captured what's true about it.
  98. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Bad Lieutenant doesn't go where you expect, but it has a stubborn, trippy logic.
  99. Broken Embraces
    Many of the characters go by two different names. So best advice for optimum viewing is, see Broken Embraces...twice.
  100. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Fan-ready and saga-solid.
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