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  1. The Firm
    No one is going to confuse The Firm with art, but its high- cholesterol virtues-a story that keeps you guessing, a dozen meaty character turns-are enough to send you home sated.
  2. In the Line of Fire
    With all of that going for it, it's hard to see how In the Line of Fire could be anything less than rock-solid entertainment-and, indeed, it is. Yet it's never more than that.
  3. Mrs. Doubtfire
    Williams gives an inspired comic performance. Unfortunately, he outclasses the movie, which is basically a patchwork rip-off of Tootsie.
  4. The Flintstones
    The Flintstones is a big, shiny package of comic nostalgia, as much a theme park as a movie.
  5. Wayne's World
    As a movie, Wayne's World isn't much more than an amiable goof, yet it's carried along by the flaked-out exuberance of its two stars.
  6. Emma
    Perhaps the highest praise that can be given Paltrow is that there are no appreciable performance gaps between her green talents and the rest of the truly top-drawer cast.
  7. Marvin's Room
    The three are so full-bodied and so powerfully affecting that you're carried along on the pleasure of being in the presence of their extraordinary talent.
  8. Copycat
    The movie is, in short, a trash conundrum. What nearly redeems the movie is its acting.
  9. A Bronx Tale
    Set in the 1960s, Robert De Niro's directorial debut is a work of vitality and flair. [22 Oct 1993, p.58]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  10. Jude
    It's worth seeing this stark adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure just for the extraordinary performance of Christopher Eccleston as Jude Fawley, the stonemason in turn-of-the-century England whose dreams of university scholarship are thwarted. And British telly director Michael Winterbottom sustains a fine atmosphere of dank misery.
  11. The Big Chill
    And there's that perfect soundtrack, jammed with hit after timeless hit. So integral is the music to the heat of Chill that even a now-hackneyed scene like ensemble-dancing-while-cleaning-the-kitchen (to the Temptations' ''Ain't Too Proud to Beg'') takes on a glow far lovelier than the chore warrants -- as does this ingratiating, fake movie.
  12. The Fan
    There's no denying that Scott is a wizard of the narcotic-flash school. In The Fan, he uses his chromium-edged technique to evoke a dread-saturated consumerist America in which the most beloved institutions have grown mercenary and hard.
  13. Awakenings
    And so even if you're held (as I was) by the acting, you may find yourself fighting the film's design. It reflects a certain lack of faith in your audience to take a performance as authentic as De Niro's and reduce it to the level of a glorified reach-out-and-touch-someone commercial.
  14. Traveller
    This fresh and interesting story about a tight-knit clan of Irish grifters in the rural South who make their living scamming is a ''con men on the road'' picture all the more welcome during a season of junky action thrillers and indie-style explorations of kinky sex.
  15. The Corruptor
    Beneath The Corruptor's explosive body count is a rock-solid, visually slick crime thriller set in the squalid netherworld of Manhattan's Chinatown.
  16. 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?
  17. 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.
  18. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    This is what a videogame movie looks like now.
  19. 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.
  20. Games People Play: New York
    A bit of a tease itself. The movie keeps threatening to become amateur porn, like a risqué ''Candid Camera'' gone ''Dirty Debutantes,'' but it never quite gets there.
  21. Superstar in a Housedress
    In Superstar in a Housedress, Curtis remains frozen in his flamboyance. The most resonant parts of the movie are, oddly, the interviews with his fellow glam bohemians.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Condo Painting
    This vision of creativity as blind, instinctive ''process'' is exhilarating.
  23. Cinévardaphoto
    What lights Cinèvardaphoto is Varda's ageless ability to merge her spirit with that of the images she shows us.
  24. SubUrbia
    Driven by Bogosian's finger-snapping dialogue and theatrical structure, subUrbia doesn't allow for much pleasurably Linklaterish lounging; each character has got some serious orating to do before the night is over.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Up for Grabs
    I say the movie is infuriatingly unfair to Hayashi; others will cry foul for Popov. See it with an umpire.
  26. A/k/a Tommy Chong
    Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars.
  27. The Groomsmen
    Every actor registers...In a film of minor ambition, they're all worthy company.
  28. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
    The dramatic conflicts are soapy and unsubtle, but Karanovic pours intense authority into Esma's scarred psyche.
  29. Surviving Picasso
    Cool, assured, emotionally remote, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso is never less than watchable, but it's also a cinematic paradox, a movie that works to capture Picasso from every angle yet somehow misses the fire in his belly.
  30. Pierrepoint
    This measured bio-production might be viewed as a lesser companion piece to "Vera Drake" -- although in the case of Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, all the period-piece tastefulness makes for a story more instructive than emotionally tangible.
  31. Lights in the Dusk
    There's great music, an excellent dog, and that indescribable Kaurismäki tension between misery and a cosmic joke.
  32. Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox
    It's like "Capturing the Friedmans" scrubbed to a happy ending.
  33. The Unforeseen
    Add The Unforeseen to the catalog of artfully produced nonfiction films that show how humans are screwing up the planet.
  34. Smart People
    Smart People, unlike "Sideways" or "The Savages," has a plot that's a little too rote.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The First Saturday in May
    The First Saturday in May soon digs in its heels with acute portraits of six trainers, including a paralyzed ex-cyclist in California and an MS-stricken Lexington native who works for the royal family of Dubai.
  36. A Secret
    The filmmaker's decision to shoot the past in color and the present in murky black and white is an inspired visual translation of psychological truth.
  37. Shall We Kiss?
    Mouret not only stars (opposite a delicate Ledoyen) as the slightly schlemiely fellow in want of a woman's affection, he also wrote and directed this enticing, weightless divertissement.
  38. Flame and Citron
    Director Ole Christian Madsen combines sharp scenes of moral inquiry with a few too many functional, oldfangled espionage twists.
  39. Art & Copy
    An entertaining but also oddly naive documentary about American advertising.
  40. Peter and Vandy
    More naturalistic -- and as a result, more believable.
  41. That Evening Sun
    Holbrook makes Abner a shining-eyed, noble crank.
  42. The Missing Person
    Overly fussy and self-conscious in its noir details. But in The Missing Person, Buschel makes striking use of the Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe tradition.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. The Expendables
    The way that Stallone directs, though, every machete thrust and relentless round of bullet spray is staged with a certain undeniable...conviction.
  47. 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.
  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. The Last Exorcism
    For a while, The Last Exorcism shrewdly exploits our voyeurism, as it sustains the teasing question of whether there's actually anything supernatural going on. The payoff, however, isn't scary enough.
  50. Cairo Time
    Cairo Time is affectingly gentle, with Juliette slowing down to open up -- a gossamer transformation that Clarkson makes tangible.
  51. The Switch
    Squeezes fresh laughs out of what is, in essence, a rather startlingly post-Freudian, nature-trumps-nurture view of child development.
  52. Centurion
    The plot's pretty thin -- even for a gladiator movie. Fortunately, when it comes to crunchy impalings and messy arterial geysers, Marshall's a maestro.
  53. Machete
    A gory, pulpy wink of an action thriller, was spun out of a parody trailer Rodriguez directed for the '70s-trash homage "Grindhouse" (2007). The trailer was sublime. As a feature, Machete is more fun than it isn't, but its deadpan mockery of exploitation clichés often slips a bit too close to being the real, schlocky thing.
  54. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    It's Kind of a Funny Story may be the first psych-ward drama to draw on John Hughes movies for tonal reference.
  55. Jackass 3-D
    More than ever, Johnny Knoxville and his boys belong to a very elite club of idiocy. They martyr themselves for our diversion, driven at every moment to ask: Are you not entertained?
  56. Tangled
    There's also a Disney den of big, comically dumb-looking bad guys who turn sweet when Rapunzel sings to them. Because Happily Ever After never goes out of fashion
  57. 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.
  58. Heartbreaker
    Heartbreaker is like a caper comedy meets "The Bodyguard" - it's winsome and accomplished fluff.
  59. Unstoppable
    The exchange of substance for speed may not appeal to all, but if you're on board you'll find it hard to disembark.
  60. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
    A well-made but overly idolizing documentary.
  61. Rabbit Hole
    Eckhart shows a new kind of foreboding anger. He's powerful as a man who will do anything to crack the ice.
  62. Heartless
    Unpredictability isn't this horror film's strength, but it's stylishly crafted and excellently acted, and it boasts an abundance of heart in every sense of the word.
  63. Red Hill
    A serving of "True Blood's" Ryan Kwanten in his native accent is the chief selling point of this picturesque, contentedly imitative Australian Western/thriller/Coen-brothers homage, the feature debut of writer-director Patrick Hughes.
  64. The Way Back
    It's also filled with scenes of extraordinary survival challenges. But the result is oddly impersonal and undifferentiated.
  65. Sanctum
    As we go deeper into the cave, walls squeezing, water rising, the movie has a narrative pull as sure as gravity.
  66. A Somewhat Gentle Man
    Skarsgard's utter finesse in the role provides a satisfying warmth.
  67. 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.
  68. 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.
  69. Soul Surfer
    Soul Surfer, while formulaic in design, is an authentic and heartfelt movie.
  70. The Last Lions
    The footage, by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, is stunning.
  71. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    Breaking Dawn - Part 2 starts off slow but gathers momentum, and that's because, with Bella and Edward united against the Volturi, the picture has a real threat.
  72. Captain America: The First Avenger
    Stolidly corny, old-fashioned pulp fun.
  73. 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.
  74. Take Me Home Tonight
    It does possess a certain backward-glancing innocent appeal.
  75. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    If you can watch Popper's most trusted penguin finally get to fly and feel like you're soaring right up there with her, then you may just let this likable trifle whisk you back to childhood.
  76. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    Dark of the Moon is hardly a fleet production, but here Bay makes his best, most flexible use yet of all the flamboyant bigness at his command: Computer-drawn characters and human actors seem to occupy the same narrative for once.
  77. Fright Night
    It ends up getting a surprising number of things right.
  78. Final Destination 5
    In Final Destination 5, Death makes the point yet again that it will not be cheated. And happily for those of us who enjoy the FD series' grotesquely clever premise beyond reason, unfortunate folks still refuse to pay attention, with inventively dire consequences.
  79. Warrior
    Mostly, Warrior is a showcase for its up-and-coming stars. Edgerton, from last year's "Animal Kingdom," and Hardy, who stole scenes as the identity forger in "Inception."
  80. We Bought a Zoo
    The movie is like Doctor Dolittle remade as a therapeutic sudser. By the end, it got to me.
  81. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
    The movie flies by pleasantly, and is then instantly forgettable. Perhaps Jules Verne can explain the science of that.
  82. Midnight in Paris
    Allen has fun in his imaginary French capital, turning his star-studded cast loose to interpret their characters as they wish.
  83. Immortals
    What saves Immortals as a moviegoing experience is the exuberant, kid-in-a-candy-store virtuosity of its director, former music-video wunderkind Tarsem Singh (The Cell).
  84. 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."
  85. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    With his large bod, soft features, and air of goofy sweetness, Jason Segel is a natural fit for Jeff, Who Lives at Home, a goofy, sweet comedy.
  86. Project X
    Project X, likewise, serves up the frat house/Spring Break/Snooki-and-Sitch-on-a-bender antics that many in the audience will have been staring at for years, and implies that it's breaking down bold new barriers of misbehavior. In the end, though, it ain't nothin' but a party.
  87. This Means War
    As is true in most buddy pictures, the real love in This Means War is between FDR and Tuck. Pine and Hardy are an odd choice as Men Who Bond. Pine behaves like a player on Entourage; Hardy broods as if he thinks dating is torture. But as a result, they're kind of cute in an itchy and scratchy way, ­bumping shoulders in a pantomime of what men do in love and war.
  88. 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?
  89. Potiche
    An Orson Welles-size Gérard Depardieu does gallant work as the town's leftist mayor.
  90. Super
    It's really a one-joke movie, but the joke is a good one.
  91. Premium Rush
    Premium Rush earns its place as end-of-the-summer escapism, but I can't say that it's more than a well-done formula flick. At this point, it's just one more movie-as-ride. But this one at least lives up to its title.
  92. Contraband
    Contraband, while often grungy and far-fetched, does keep you watching. And in January, that's recommendation enough.
  93. Brave
    Merida may be a headstrong heroine, a feisty animated hybrid who calls to mind Katniss Everdeen, Bella Swan, and the neo-fairy-tale protagonist who faces off against her evil stepmother in "Snow White and the Huntsman." But she is also, for safety's sake, a nice girl in a pretty green dress who loves her family and believes in dynasty.
  94. The Dark Knight Rises
    Chaos reigns for much of The Dark Knight Rises, often in big, beautiful, IMAX-size scenes that only Nolan could have conceived. Yet when the apocalyptic dust literally settles on this concluding chapter, the character who lingers longest in memory is an average Gotham City cop named John Blake, wonderfully played with human-scale clarity by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
  95. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    The film keeps throwing things at you, like a colorful ape pirate (Peter Dinklage) and a fun hallucination sequence. That said, the laughs are starting to feel prehistoric.
  96. The Expendables 2
    What a fun-dumb relief! In the isolationist Expendables world, all foreigners are bad news. All buddy bonding is done with a wink. All pretenses of art are checked at the door. Someone even says, ''I'll be back.'' (Guess who?)
  97. Chimpanzee
    No amount of gorgeous jungle footage can make up for the fact that this Disney-produced documentary feels about as natural as an episode of "The Hills," though with (slightly) more feral characters.
  98. Sarah's Key
    The Holocaust scenes are wrenching, the past-meets-present dialectics less so.
  99. The Guard
    In this offbeat buddy-cop comedy, Don Cheadle, as an FBI agent trying to stop a drug ring, makes the perfect foil.
  100. The Whistleblower
    Rarely has a movie captured the obscene violence of sex trafficking with such unvarnished grubbiness. In the end, though, The Whistleblower is a corporate thriller.
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