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  1. 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    True Crime
    Woefully misconceived reporter-saves-innocent-man-from-execution cheese grater.
  3. Surf's Up
    An animated family movie about penguins -- in the wake of "March of the Happy Feet," they're the Angelina Jolie of animals, both cute and admired everywhere. Plus, it's about surfing.
  4. Miss Sloane
    Chastain fully commits to her boss-bitch persona, even if we only obliquely learn why she might have chosen such a lonely, mercenary life.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Luzhin Defence
    Fine candy for mind and eye.
  6. The Dancer Upstairs
    The movie has a mystery, and moral unease, that lingers.
  7. Inside Deep Throat
    Nimble, engrossing, and journalistically eye-opening, a movie that pulls into focus 30 years of porn in America. It also pulls no punches.
  8. The Road to Guantanamo
    Here's one case where it's no praise to say that a movie leaves you with more questions than answers.
  9. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    An 
unexpectedly revealing, disconcerting documentary that benefits from the filmmaker's unmediated approach, his home-movie-
quality visual style, and his controlled use of on-the-fly moments.
  10. The Happy Prince
    Everett’s utterly fantastic performance as Wilde slightly exceeds his grasp as a first-time filmmaker.
  11. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    So much goes down on Nick and Norah's one enchanted evening that the best advice is to enjoy the ride -- the actual ride -- around this vibrant new New York.
  12. Ant-Man
    Reed and Rudd's film is proof that no matter how silly some ideas sound at first, good things often do come in small packages.
  13. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    The biggest problem with the new Hunger Games movie is right there in the title: Part 1. Mockingjay, the final installment in Suzanne Collins' best-selling YA trilogy, wasn't conceived in two parts.
  14. Where to Invade Next
    Where to Invade Next is so heartfelt and sincere, it’s tempting to say that Moore’s mellowed with age. But beneath its innocent-abroad optimism, the film has a stinging truth that’s hard to ignore.
  15. Big Time Adolescence
    If Big Time isn’t exactly a PSA for good adulting, it’s still an endearingly messy portrait of boyhood and manhood and all the lessons in between.
  16. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    To me, the most potent dimension of The U.S. vs. John Lennon is the way that it captures the contradictory romanticism of Lennon the radical.
  17. Nothing But the Truth
    Lurie hits closer to the bone here than he did in his ham-handed "The Contender" (2000).
  18. Sirens
    It’s a measure of the film’s middlebrow kitschiness that its centerpiece sequence turns out to be a tasteful soft-core version of the lesbian ravishment of Marilyn Chambers in "Behind the Green Door."
  19. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    The MCU has been stumbling a bit since it bid goodbye to Captain America and Iron Man, and by reuniting us with characters we've known and loved for years, GotG 3 marks a welcome pivot from a recent run of unimpressive experiments and disappointing debuts. It'll be a long time, if ever, before we feel this kind of emotional payoff from this franchise again.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
    Wrestling with Angels could use some brouhaha: It's a bit too much of a pleasant air kiss from a fan, and doesn't engage inquisitively enough with Kushner's often controversial and very political ideas.
  21. Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
    Harper Lee hasn't been interviewed in 47 years, but this meditation on her only novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," puts you inside her skin.
  22. Grass
    This jovial tour through changing attitudes toward cannibis is so plugged into pothead logic that the opening credits are rerun at the end.
  23. Chocolat
    It's as agreeably sweet as advertised, with a particularly yummy performance by Juliette Binoche.
  24. Blades of Glory
    Blades of Glory has funny moves even when its characters can barely move, but the film seldom gets past its one basic laugh: that a real man figure-skating is a contradiction in terms.
  25. State of Play
    Spins a thorny tale of political corruption laced with personal sleaze.
  26. Little Odessa
    Roth, a great actor, is reduced to a walking sneer, and the picture creeps along in a series of handsome but painfully languorous hazy-shade-of-winter tableaux.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hamburger Hill
    Kudos to Vietnam vet Jim Carabatsos for writing Hamburger Hill, the only ’80s Nam film that truly showcases American heroism, but this dramatization of the charge up hellish Hill 937 lacks context and bitterly scapegoats peace activists and the media.
  28. Pineapple Express
    It ends up subverting its own subversion, arriving at a place that can only be called conventional.
  29. St. Vincent
    Murray, of course, can play a redeemable misanthrope with one hand tied behind his back. Unfortunately, that's exactly what he has to do here because writer-director Theodore Melfi reins in his leading man with a script that doesn't know when to stop troweling on the sap.
  30. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
    There’s no denying the movie gets a rise out of us, but it does so by mining the fears within our hokiest prejudices.
  31. 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.
  32. Appaloosa
    A throwback to the age when Westerns were quaint.
  33. The Villainess
    The characters come to life when they fight, and seem half-dead when they talk.
  34. Fried Green Tomatoes
    An extended framing device set in the present day, with Kathy Bates as a put-upon housewife who becomes the fierce, confident, new-and-improved ”Tawanda,” is the sort of ghastly idea that gives feminism a bad name. The movie left me wishing its sterling cast — including a radiant Jessica Tandy — had been better served.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Arctic Tale
    It's a respectable attempt to get kids who like cuddly animals thinking about death and destruction on a global scale.
  36. Everest
    When the lights come up, you don’t want to feel like you’ve watched a ­better Cliffhanger. You want to understand the tragedy you’ve just watched. Yes, you want to be entertained, but you also want the icy, whipping wind of reality to sting.
  37. Downton Abbey
    Life is hard; Downton Abbey is easy.
  38. Blood Diamond
    There is every reason to learn about the link between jewels and death, by all means, but no reason to try to disguise a term paper as entertainment.
  39. Wedding Crashers
    Funny, ungirdled romp - a buddy picture about buddies who actually know what women want.
  40. Changing Times
    Strangely inert drama.
  41. Freedom Writers
    Square, sincere, and proud of it.
  42. X-Men
    When the film version isn't assaulting you with gizmos, it's an awkward, depersonalized piece of hackwork.
  43. Bright Young Things
    Both script and direction are the work of the glittering comedic polymath Stephen Fry.
  44. Stage Beauty
    A celebration of the theater that tends to drag the moment it's out of drag.
  45. The Other Guys
    It's a comedy of manhood for the age of emasculation.
  46. Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
    The movie borders on hagiography, but Gordon is a charmingly voluble storyteller; he’s like Dos Equis’ Most Interesting Man in the World recast as a balding Jewish guy from Long Island.
  47. Kelly & Cal
    The biggest takeaway from Kelly & Cal, a wonderfully honest and tender film about the bitter pill of adulthood, is Hollywood's criminal underuse of Juliette Lewis.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Trauma
    Never a terribly coherent storyteller, here the gorehound’s Godard dispenses almost entirely with the plot development. Instead, Argento concentrates on mood, and, making terrific use of various run-down Minneapolis locations, he succeeds in giving Trauma the feel of a waking nightmare
  49. Gladiator II
    As with its predecessor, what elevates Gladiator II in the cinematic arena is the ways its themes and dialogue underpin its outrageous spectacle. David Scarpa's script is also fiercely intelligent.
  50. Something New
    A shaky piece of work, with stumpy cinematography, choppy edits, speechy dialogue, and loose plotlines. And yet: There's an easygoing authenticity to the depiction of Kenya and her world that coexists with the picture's many weaknesses.
  51. Nobody
    Nobody could play well for anyone desperate to visit a recently reopened theater, but this is a rather chilly festival of carnage, too rigid to ever really spark to life. It's wickless.
  52. Patriot Games
    For Patriot Games to have been more than a generic international thriller, it would have needed to take us deep inside the clandestine organizations — the IRA and the CIA — on which Clancy is fixated. That doesn’t happen.
  53. The Horse Boy
    Turns into a lyrical and stirring meditation on the mystery of autism.
  54. Kinds of Kindness
    With their abrupt violence, grotesque body horror, and mordant sense of humor, all three of the stories feel more aligned with Lanthimos’ earlier style, The audacity that has so defined Lanthimos and Stone’s work together remains, but here, it takes on a nastiness that becomes tedious the longer the film stretches on (and on and on to a nearly three-hour running time).
  55. Bright Future
    The most spellbinding aspect of Bright Future is that the surrealism sustains its own squiddish logic, concluding with one of the most breathtaking film finales of the year.
  56. Ready Player One
    Never mind the director’s still-prodigious work ethic, the big-screen adaptation of Ernest Cline’s giddily overstuffed, ’80s-saturated best-seller is, in a way, a movie that couldn’t be more bespoke to Spielberg. After all, so many of that decade’s most indelible touchstones poured directly from his brain. It’s the perfect marriage of fabulist and fable.
  57. It Could Happen to You
    It Could Happen to You is a syrupy-sweet package undiluted by wit, tartness, observation. It would be easier to enjoy the stars in Charlie and Yvonne’s eyes if the movie didn’t keep patting them on the back.
  58. Proof
    In Proof, Paltrow plays yet another young woman who is being gnawed at by termites of instability, only this time out, her performance, rather than startling, is merely competent: earnest and overly familiar.
  59. Star Trek: Insurrection
    That's the moral nut of this highly unexceptional episode, a midlife production in which each Enterprise crew member does his or her vaudeville act.
  60. You're Gonna Miss Me
    Has the taint of exploitation.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Amistad
    Becomes a too-stately courtroom drama, with the Africans in the dock, the issue of slavery on trial at didactic length, and the top-billed Morgan Freeman as an abolitionist shunted to the sidelines with too little to do. [26 Jun 1998, p. 130]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  62. In a Valley of Violence
    Two key aspects elevate the whole experience above its modest trappings. First, the dark, beautiful musical score by composer Jeff Grace works excellently as a lush, hummable homage to Ennio Morricone, while still feeling very true to West’s horror movie roots. And second, in the film’s best performance, John Travolta appears as the frustrated father of Ransome’s bad boy.
  63. Peter Pan
    A bright, whirling pinwheel of a movie that tosses around special effects like confetti, but the techno magic is graced with a touch of sensuality.
  64. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    It's both exhausting and laughable in its eagerness to shock. That's the bad news. The worse news is that Volume II comes out next month.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gattaca
    Sets, music, and imagery are rigorously controlled and undeniably stunning, but after a while flaws creep into the plot's double helix.
  66. Robots
    Zippy, enjoyable sci-fi slapstick jamboree.
  67. Fire
    As a director, Mehta would do well to stop smothering her empathy in glibness (she uses the family's ancient mute grandmother as a sitcom prank), but her empathy pokes through nonetheless.
  68. The Apprentice
    The Apprentice encapsulates the American Dream, revealing all the ways in which it can be subverted into a nightmare.
  69. Greyhound
    The movie maps its course by Hanks' steady hand: A ship moving swiftly and with sure purpose — compelled by death and danger, but safe in the certainty of history.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Mystic Masseur
    The novel is a sharp, Dickensian comedy; the film is just plain dull.
  71. Trekkies
    Trekkies is hilarious, fascinating, and, at times, almost scary.
  72. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    There are flashes of wit -- Speedy Gonzales muttering about political correctness and an arty chase through the Louvre. But there is also random flatulence, a.k.a. the stink of desperation.
  73. Blood Work
    Eastwood is now playing a man whose will is stronger than his body, and it's that tension -- between anger and frailty, steel and decay -- that powers the movie.
  74. The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
    Mostly just a bland, sanitized rip-off of the 1938 Errol Flynn version, offering little in terms of new contributions to the tale, and not improving substantially on anything that was already there.
  75. The Nutty Professor
    More than just a walking fat joke, Sherman Klump is Eddie Murphy's winking rebuke of his own arrogance.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Paradine Case
    This movie's attempt at a scandalous love triangle is so miscalibrated that it's extremely difficult to care about the stakes beyond the official legal proceedings.
  77. Lymelife
    Overworked if heartfelt indie.
  78. The Professional
    Ah, monsieur, you can lead a Frenchman to the Big Apple, but you can't make him a New Yorker -- and that's exactly what makes The Professional so fascinating.
  79. Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans
    Engrossingly intimate documentary.
  80. Shortbus
    Shortbus is chipper, it's fresh, it emits a distinct musk of controversy. I'll take the longbus.
  81. The Grey
    You see the pattern here? Winter-release slot + travel budget + Liam Neeson = slightly preposterous, routinely violent, apparently lucrative action movie in which the Irish-born star signals inner emotional conflict with his handsomely mashed boxer's face while settling outer physical conflict with his boxer's fists.
  82. Fast Food Nation
    Naturally, a subject this right-on draws a right-on cast. Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, and Ethan Hawke pitch in.
  83. The Salvation
    Green is officially the world’s best actress in bad movies.
  84. Serial Mom
    Serial Mom has traces of Waters’ acid wit, but most of the movie is tame and overly conscious of its naughty felicities.
  85. Defending Your Life
    A lackluster affair — smooth and mildly pleasant, with some honest chuckles but without Brooks’ special, prosaic madness.
  86. Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
    Naked Gun 33 1/3 has a sluggish, one-gag-at-a- time rhythm, and it aims at too many soft targets. Aside from the Oscar sequence, the movie’s big satirical coup is a send-up of prison-escape pictures (yawn).
  87. Dancer in the Dark
    Like a naive modernist hymn made by someone who doesn't, deep down, believe in hymns.
  88. Official Secrets
    And even as the narrative goes through its sometimes sermonizing paces, it’s hard not to be moved by the singular passion of a woman who effectively dismantled her own life not just to salve her conscience, but to save the soul of a nation.
  89. 16 Blocks
    A helluva lot happens in 16 Blocks - an outrageous amount, really, along with a coda that deposits the audience squarely at a movieland finale. Who knew that looking both ways before crossing is where the real action is?
  90. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    As compelling as it is bizarre.
  91. One True Thing
    In the end, One True Thing suggests, families can be healed even in loss. This may not be a true thing, but at least this emotional drama offers up hope, sweet like one of Kate Gulden's tasty cakes.
  92. Songcatcher
    There are mountain tunes as powerful as moonshine to be enjoyed in Songcatcher -- but there's also a mighty mushy heap of corn pone to be swallowed.
  93. Sex Is Comedy
    Shows a beguiling aptitude for self-mockery in the pursuit of polemic.
  94. Unfaithful
    Sensational sex-and-its-consequences melodrama.
  95. Kids
    If Kids is simultaneously engrossing and detached, observant and just plain showy, that may be because the film is so caught up in trying to be a statement that it never develops its characters beyond their rowdy, bellicose facades.
  96. Monsters
    Monsters is really a road-movie romance that tracks the burgeoning relationship between two strangers as they travel through the "infected" zone.
  97. The Parent Trap
    The natural, pleasurable 1990s hipness [Lohan] brings to her assignment is therefore all the more impressive. Hayley-holics should be grateful to this new girl at camp too.
  98. 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.
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