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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. Earth Days
    A rapturous and enlightening look at the history of the environmental movement in America.
  2. It Might Get Loud
    A marvelous rock doc that manages to be wistful, tasty, and jam-kicking at the same time.
  3. Spread
    The whole movie is pat -- very pleased with itself for being so up front about the ways of a 21st-century man-whore.
  4. A Perfect Getaway
    Steve Zahn makes full use of the many varieties of hyper in his acting arsenal, while Timothy Olyphant has a heckuva good time telegraphing macho mania.
  5. Julie & Julia
    It hooks you up, happily, to your inner top chef.
  6. Cold Souls
    Darkly funny, twisty-cool existential tragicomedy, loaded with smart notions and filmed like a surrealist dream.
  7. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    Don't go expecting an escapist night at the movies; go expecting to be cudgeled into numb, drooling submission.
  8. Beeswax
    There are fine, fresh observational moments, but the film is much ado about not so much.
  9. Paper Heart
    The movie's hide-and-seek attitude toward truth mirrors the intricacies of one lover getting to know another -- an arresting notion of the heart that's much more than paper-deep.
  10. Funny People
    The message that comes across is: We're all screwed, and then we die. Ba-DUM.
  11. The Cove
    The Cove is the rare documentary specifically designed as a thriller.
  12. Thirst
    A gaudy, daring, operatic, and bloody funny provocation of a melodrama from Park Chan-wook.
  13. Aliens in the Attic
    A pointless but ultimately harmless family adventure that doesn't mentally assault the 12-and-over set. (Extra points for being 100 percent fart-joke-free).
  14. The Collector
    The result is a sub-"Saw" knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant.
  15. Lorna's Silence
    A stunning study of one desperate woman's conscience.
  16. Flame and Citron
    Director Ole Christian Madsen combines sharp scenes of moral inquiry with a few too many functional, oldfangled espionage twists.
  17. Adam
    It's hard to buy this relationship even for a moment. Adam is sweet, meticulous, and, at times, sort of clever, but it's also a not-quite-surprising-enough heartwarming trifle.
  18. In the Loop
    The chattering smarty-pants who ran the U.S. government on "The West Wing" are slow talkers compared with the motormouthed and hilariously imperfect power elite in the brainy British comedy In the Loop.
  19. Orphan
    Orphan isn't scary -- it's garish and plodding.
  20. The Ugly Truth
    The Ugly Truth isn't fizzy and fun -- it's vacuously snappy.
  21. G-Force
    The first 3-D film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer turns out to be similar to 2-D projects from the same noise-making producer--heavy on action scenes and heavy, too, on message.
  22. The Answer Man
    Daniels plays Arlen with a kind of cuddly crankiness; he makes him a jerk who just needs a hug.
  23. Shrink
    It wants to be "Good Will Hunting" set in the land of "Entourage," but its bummed-out touchy-feeliness is every bit as concocted as its overly jaded showbiz corruption.
  24. (500) Days of Summer
    It's a feat of star acting, and it helps make (500) Days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between.
  25. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    But the story is, still and all, only a pause, deferring an intensely anticipated conclusion. And it's in that exquisite place of action and waiting that this elegantly balanced production emerges as a model adaptation.
  26. Bruno
    The movie is a toxic dart aimed at the spangly new heart of American hypocrisy: our fake-tolerant, fake-charitable, fake-liberated-yet-still madly-closeted fame culture.
  27. Humpday
    Anna's thoughts matter because, as played by the wonderfully nuanced newcomer Alycia Delmore, the no-bull responses of this perceptive woman are a key to Humpday's sly, wised-up feminist outlook.
  28. Blood: The Last Vampire
    Gory but dramatically inert vampire schlocker.
  29. I Love You, Beth Cooper
    The story is timeless; this could have taken place when Doyle graduated in '76 -- or any year, really, since the effects of high school linger throughout adult life and nerds are forever.
  30. Soul Power
    What's infectious in Soul Power is the almost shocking optimism of its America-meets-Africa '70s world-beat vibe.
  31. I Hate Valentine's Day
    A charmless rom-com.
  32. Tony Manero
    Larrain's (literally) dark, edgy movie is a precise artistic commentary on Augusto Pinochet's miserable regime.
  33. The Beaches of Agnès
    In The Beaches of Agnès, you get addicted to watching Agnès Varda watch the world.
  34. Public Enemies
    As filmmaker Michael Mann takes pains to emphasize in his handsome, underheated gangster drama Public Enemies, the gent may have been murderous, but he had style.
  35. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    The movie settles into a mode of nice, sweet, safe, and -- sorry, I have to say it -- slightly dull family fun.
  36. The Hurt Locker
    The result is an intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground.
  37. My Sister's Keeper
    Their message (Cassavetes and screenwriter Jeremy Leven) in My Sister's Keeper? Cancer sucks, but there's always the balm of beach scenes and an emo soundtrack.
  38. Chéri
    Pfeiffer transcends any hint of cliché ''cougar'' voraciousness.
  39. The Stoning of Soraya M.
    The Stoning of Soraya M.'s drawn-out torture sequence is harrowing and lurid.
  40. Surveillance
    A grubby, disturbing serial-killer mystery, a kind of blood-simple "Rashomon."
  41. Quiet Chaos
    Moretti makes this ''study'' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience.
  42. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    The sequence serves no real purpose beyond dazzle for dazzle's sake, but when you're watching it, that's purpose enough.
  43. Whatever Works
    The fact that Allen wrote the script in the '70s explains something about why his newest movie feels so old.
  44. The Proposal
    The chemical energy between Bullock and Reynolds is fresh and irresistible.
  45. Year One
    This is just silliness run mildly wild.
  46. $9.99
    Using the droll, wise stories of Etgar Keret as her guide, Israeli filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal concocts an artful film that expresses deep thoughts, lightly.
  47. Dead Snow
    Cheery, silly, splattery, and respectful of its elders (and betters, particularly Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead").
  48. The End of the Line
    Spells out the problem in clear, urgent, prosaic terms.
  49. Moon
    The double role suits Rockwell perfectly -- in fact, it suits him a little too well.
  50. Food, Inc.
    Food, Inc. is hard to shake, because days after you've seen it, you may find yourself eating something -- a cookie, a piece of poultry, cereal out of the box, a perfectly round waxen tomato -- and you'll realize that you have virtually no idea what it actually is.
  51. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    Scott gets into the zip and rush of urban energy with an enthusiasm bordering on hilarity.
  52. Imagine That
    There's something sweet about the way that Murphy throws himself into this piffle. Thomas Haden Church does too.
  53. Tetro
    Like Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola has gone from being the filmmaker of his time to becoming a make-it-up-as-you-go-along indie free-shooter.
  54. The Hangover
    Overall it's more amusing than hilarious.
  55. Séraphine
    Moreau is bewitching -- she simply breathes her role, without a hint of vanity.
  56. Away We Go
    A gilded entry in the cinema du quirk. It's a movie that invites you, all too often, to feel superior to the people on screen.
  57. Land of the Lost
    Land of the Lost has stray amusing tidbits, but overall it leaves you feeling splattered.
  58. My Life in Ruins
    The film is so brazen about its pandering, crumple-hearted silliness that it had me rooting for Vardalos to land her big fat Greek stud-muffin.
  59. Downloading Nancy
    There are brutal scenes with razor blades and other impromptu devices of erotic torment, but what makes the movie a trial to sit through isn't just the heroine's pain-freak tastes.
  60. Tennessee
    Mariah Carey is perfectly fine playing a waitress who dreams of becoming, yes, a singer -- even if the superstar's presence in such a small venture seems jarring.
  61. Up
    A lovely, thoughtful, and yes, uplifting adventure.
  62. Drag Me to Hell
    Raimi has made the most crazy, fun, and terrifying horror movie in years.
  63. Departures
    Departures is tender and, at times, rather squishy. It's sure to squeeze the tear ducts of anyone who has lost a parent.
  64. Pontypool
    Think of this witty, economically gory little tour de force as "28 Days Later" written by linguist Noam Chomsky.
  65. The Girlfriend Experience
    The Girlfriend Experience is one of Steven Soderbergh's bite-size, semi-improvised, shot-on-DV doodles (like Bubble or Full Frontal), and it's the best one he's made.
  66. O'Horten
    Jack Nicholson's dyspeptic retiree in "About Schmidt" would no doubt identify with O'Horten's entertaining pain.
  67. Easy Virtue
    The picture itself is only mechanically breezy.
  68. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    Battle of the Smithsonian has plenty of life. But it's Adams who gives it zing.
  69. Dance Flick
    Enjoyably dirty-minded sendup of when-ballet-met-hip-hop youth musicals.
  70. Terminator Salvation
    It's basically a zombie movie with machines instead of the walking dead.
  71. Summer Hours
    Brims with life and loveliness even as it meditates on the loss of childhood.
  72. The Brothers Bloom
    This time we expect to be played, but the twist is that we're also touched -- which, the film implies, is the cinema's own form of deception.
  73. Angels & Demons
    The new movie is an opulent-bordering-on-hysterical mass of chitchat and chase scenes.
  74. Management
    Isn't it time Steve Zahn grew up? Ever since the '90s, this walking quirk of an actor has pushed his dazed solipsistic zaniness (he's like Michael J. Fox’s hillbilly cousin), but he's 41 now, and it no longer looks cute on him.
  75. Adoration
    The upshot is that those who appear to be guilty may not be -- a muddled message for our time.
  76. Julia
    This overlong, lurchy homage to John Cassavetes' 1980 film "Gloria" is a mess, but a fascinating one, given Swinton's desperately avid performance in the title role.
  77. Little Ashes
    I can't imagine what Dali or Buñuel would have made of such bourgeois sentimentality.
  78. Next Day Air
    If the movie doesn't even care about its characters, then how can we?
  79. Outrage
    The movie excoriates the hypocrisy of self-hating gay lawmakers (several of whom it outs), yet it also explores the burden of the public closet.
  80. Rudo y Cursi
    The intimate movie hums with a back-in-the-hood vibe that gets the two stars playing contentedly, and delightfully, for the love of local filmmaking.
  81. Star Trek
    The clever and infectious reboot of the amazingly enduring sci-fi classic, director J.J. Abrams crafts an origin myth that avoids any hint of the origin doldrums. That's because he rewires us back into the original Star Trek's primal appeal.
  82. The Limits of Control
    The Limits of Control, even with its flow of star cameos (Tilda Swinton, Gael García Bernal, a frenetic Bill Murray), is a listless long pause that rarely refreshes.
  83. Revanche
    As long as Revanche focuses on the relationship between Tamara (Irina Potapenko), an indentured Ukrainian prostitute, and Alex (Johannes Krisch), the ex-con gofer and would-be tough guy who wants to help her escape, it's riveting.
  84. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    The effect-laden showdowns feel more dutiful than daring, and the rare moments of fun are parceled out frugally, like precious nuggets of adamantium.
  85. Battle for Terra
    Tentle, dreamy animated sci-fi tale.
  86. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    The movie is cheesy, tacky, and gimmicky. But as directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls), it's also prankish and inventive enough to be kind of fun.
  87. The Merry Gentleman
    This Debbie Downer of a drama is a bitter slog.
  88. Obsessed
    Obsessed has little plausibility, but at moments it's an entertaining bad movie, and the performers are vivid.
  89. Fighting
    Murderously dull stretches of dialogue suck most of the fun out of this sloppy drama.
  90. Il Divo
    You need know nothing about Italian politics to completely enjoy the fantastical, Fellini-fied, tragi-comic, biographical fun-for-all Il Divo.
  91. The Soloist
    It's all a bit shapeless, yet made with sincerity and taste, and the two actors seize your sympathy.
  92. Tyson
    The result is flashy, but the meaning is a bit of a bob and weave.
  93. Earth
    This super-duper deluxe nature documentary clearly aims to recruit young viewers as conservationists.
  94. State of Play
    Spins a thorny tale of political corruption laced with personal sleaze.
  95. 17 Again
    The result is a slack do-over fantasy in which Zac Efron, as a basketball star, looks baffled as to why he hasn't been asked to sing and dance.
  96. American Violet
    An artlessly powerful performance by newcomer Nicole Behaire anchors American Violet.
  97. 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.
  98. Every Little Step
    A movie as layered and enthralling as its subject.
  99. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
    It's a hilarious, and unexpectedly moving, documentary about the greatest metal band you've probably never heard of.
  100. Dragonball: Evolution
    Marvel at the fact that something this trippy made it to our local multiplex.
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