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  1. Hannah Montana: The Movie
    Cyrus, as always, is a professional charmer (it's hard to resist when she leads a hip-hop hoedown), and the crusty folkiness of Billy Ray Cyrus as her real-life dad is as welcome as ever.
  2. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
    A stillborn rendering of Michael Chabon's first novel.
  3. Observe and Report
    The superb character actor Celia Weston (In the Bedroom) is truly breathtaking as Ronnie's boozer mom.
  4. Lymelife
    Overworked if heartfelt indie.
  5. Adventureland
    For nostalgia junkies, it's one from the heart.
  6. Sugar
    The film's style is so ''objective'' it's a bit subdued, yet this is a sports drama of total originality, as well as the most authentic inside view of the immigrant experience the movies have given us in quite a while.
  7. Alien Trespass
    The characters in Alien Trespass (directed by X-Files producing alum R.W. Goodwin) are specimens of Sputnik-era determination, led by a gung-ho Eric McCormack.
  8. Fast & Furious
    It offers an attractive getaway route from self-importance, snark, and chatty comedies about male bonding. Here, stick shifts do the talking.
  9. Paris 36
    It's like a pastry that's been sitting on the shelf for 60 years.
  10. Tulpan
    If you see only one comic love story from Kazakhstan this year, choose this prize-winning honey.
  11. Goodbye Solo
    The result is a playful, elusive movie that isn't so much heartwarming as soul-cleansing.
  12. Monsters vs Aliens
    The movie works hard -- desperately hard -- to be all things to all audience segments. And the visible effort erodes the sense of gaiety, of unfettered fun.
  13. Spinning Into Butter
    A painfully miscast Parker nervously flips her hair and waves her hands, sitcom-style, as a do-gooding dean of students.
  14. The Education of Charlie Banks
    Ritter, who's like the young Ethan Hawke on a bender of violence, is an actor to watch.
  15. 12 Rounds
    You will probably find yourself praying for this duel's knock-out punch to arrive long before it actually does.
  16. American Swing
    Plato's Retreat was a buffet of bodies, and the film catches the moment America could think that was tasty.
  17. The Haunting in Connecticut
    Smart enough to put much of its weight on Gallner, a lively presence with a terrifically sour mug that makes him look like a mutual cousin of Willem Dafoe and Peter Lorre.
  18. 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.
  19. Knowing
    If you want to know how inept the movie is...well, it's so inept that you may wish you were watching an M. Night Shyamalan version of the very same premise.
  20. Sin Nombre
    Whenever Sin Nombre turns violent, it seizes you with its convulsive skill, but the film's images vastly outstrip its imagination.
  21. I Love You, Man
    By far the best Judd Apatow comedy that Judd Apatow had nothing at all to do with.
  22. Duplicity
    Duplicity doesn't have depth -- but it does have Julia Roberts, in full Hollywood movie-star mode.
  23. The Great Buck Howard
    The Great Buck Howard is in love with kitsch, the backwaters of showbiz, and true magic. It's a wee charmer that left me enchanted.
  24. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    Film music by Nino Rota provides a Fellini overlay.
  25. Sunshine Cleaning
    This peachcolored comedy about a wacky family who shove their sadness into a bulging closet is being marketed as ''from the producers of Little Miss Sunshine'' All that's missing from the formula is a Volkswagen Microbus.
  26. Miss March
    Writer-director-stars Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore, of the Whitest Kids U'Know, here prove the crassest, most maladroit moviemakers you know.
  27. The Last House on the Left
    This remake is merely vile (and dull).
  28. Race to Witch Mountain
    The planet-hopping children have special talents -- telekinesis, telepathy etc. -- although it is the high-wattage lovability of Mr Rock that's the real superpower on display here.
  29. Tokyo Sonata
    Known for distinctive horror movies like "Cure" and "Pulse," inventive Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa finds just the right melancholy tone to suit a new and all too familiar kind of horror: economic downsizing.
  30. Watchmen
    Even Watchmen fanatics may be doomed to a disappointment that results from trying to stay THIS faithful to a comic book.
  31. Phoebe in Wonderland
    As the school drama teacher who tries to unlock ''the real,'' Patricia Clarkson makes high theatrical solemnity funny.
  32. Everlasting Moments
    All staged as a harsh poem of survival, with no great psychological interest, yet the ending carries a surprise feminist tug that’s worth the wait.
  33. Fados
    Fados connects today's leading interpreters with legendary fadistas of the past. And it's the last title to be released under the banner of the venerable New Yorker Films.
  34. Explicit Ills
    Webber has a knack for bringing out actors at their showiest, but he palms off too much first-draft sketchiness as ''ambiguity.''
  35. 12
    Has none of the crisp passion or suspense of the 1957 Sidney Lumet version; it's bloated, heavy-handed, and lugubrious.
  36. Red Riding Trilogy
    Each episode (originally made for British TV) works by itself, but there's a real payoff in following all three. (Nothing matches The "Wire," but this holds its own.)
  37. Crossing Over
    Crossing Over is so eager to go for the emotional jugular that it never quite forges an enlightening point of view.
  38. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    To fully savor Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, it's best to watch with an audience overwhelmingly populated by girls and young women.
  39. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
    Don't be fooled by the low grade: This sequel-in-spirit to Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1994 dud doesn't even succeed in being memorably bad.
  40. Madea Goes to Jail
    It's a tale soggy with the kind of race/class lessons that Madea, the director-star's battle-ax alter ego, doles out far more handily (and entertainingly) in a single church-lady-from-hell zinger.
  41. Fired Up!
    The teensploitation premise is like something a porn filmmaker from the '70s might have come up with. But Fired Up! has one added quirk: The script, credited to Freedom Jones, is a riot of tongue-twisting ironic sleaze -- it sounds like the first (and last) collaboration between Diablo Cody and Artie Lange.
  42. Must Read After My Death
    Did granny intend this stuff for strangers? We'll never know. File this ''therapeutic'' movie, well made and creepy, on the dysfunction-as-art shelf next to "Capturing the Friedmans."
  43. Katyn
    The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda musters the power of classical filmmaking and personal emotional investment to dramatize a stunning atrocity long covered up.
  44. Gomorrah
    Naples-born Servillo is a national star, famed as a theater, opera, and film director as well as an actor. And he's got the face of a mensch (or a Madoff) -- which makes his embodiment of criminal banality all the more identifiable, as well as horrifying.
  45. Two Lovers
    James Gray's Two Lovers really is a '70s movie, in the mode of such raw, unfiltered character studies as "The Panic in Needle Park," "Wanda," and "Fat City."
  46. Friday the 13th
    However, this film is (be)head and shoulders above the recently reanimated likes of "Prom Night" and "My Bloody Valentine."
  47. Under the Sea 3D
    Offers up dazzling ocean creatures in calmly shifting scenes that could double as the world's most expensive screensaver.
  48. Coraline
    This thrilling stop-motion animated adventure is a high point in Selick's career of creating handcrafted wonderlands of beauty blended with deep, disconcerting creepiness.
  49. He's Just Not That Into You
    He's Just Not That Into You turns romantic sanity into something so sanitized that it starts to make delusion look good.
  50. The Pink Panther 2
    Provides genial chuckles, but it's never excitingly rude.
  51. Push
    A weightless, style-driven thriller set in a photogenically chaotic Hong Kong.
  52. Confessions of a Shopaholic
    Breathless and petite yet powerfully in-your-face, Fisher combines dizzy femininity and no-nonsense verve in the manner of a classic screwball heroine. She's like Carole Lombard reborn as a tiny angel-faced dynamo.
  53. The International
    There's something almost endearingly out of sync about the sleek but now dated Euro-thriller The International.
  54. Fanboys
    Mildly cute, mildly drooly, majorly too late spoof/homage.
  55. Taken
    Propulsively outandish thriller.
  56. The Uninvited
    Horror standbys like mangled corpses and stone-faced children pop up regularly, but sibling directors Charles and Thomas Guard haven't quite nailed the genre's rhythms.
  57. New in Town
    A gentle, traditional (like, from the last century) romantic comedy.
  58. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
    Sheen and Nighy do their best with the material, but this is easily the worst Underworld so far.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Donkey Punch
    This predictable film wouldn't be effective anywhere outside a DARE program.
  60. Inkheart
    Mirren's all-out display in this distinctly British absurdo-literary extravaganza had me wishing Elinor were my own fabulous auntie and that she'd lend me some magic items from her closet.
  61. Of Time and the City
    ''Documentary'' is too impersonal a word and ''visual poem'' is too mushy a phrase to describe Of Time and the City, a short, beautiful, characteristically sublime memory piece by the great British auteur Terence Davies.
  62. Chandni Chowk to China
    It all makes you want to see a Bollywood movie, all right -- a good one.
  63. Cherry Blossoms
    There's a grace to it all, and moments of oddball poetry.
  64. Hotel for Dogs
    There are still cuddly pups and piddle jokes aplenty.
  65. My Bloody Valentine
    What really leaps out at you about My Bloody Valentine 3-D is its lack of imagination.
  66. Notorious
    Notorious makes the death of Biggie Smalls look like a tragic mistake, instead of the outgrowth of a culture devoted to selling the fantasy of who's the biggest man.
  67. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
    Has a few surprises in store. The biggest is James, an unexpectedly nimble master of the face-plant, the failed jump, and the lopsided tumble.
  68. Bride Wars
    Bride Wars pretends to be a satire of wedding mania, but since there's virtually nothing else to the movie, the satire comes depressingly close to endorsement.
  69. Not Easily Broken
    Laughter through tears is director Bill Duke's M.O., and he hits the bull's-eye of that modest target.
  70. The Unborn
    Indeed, Goyer has penned many scripts superior to this one (he co-wrote cult gem Dark City), but he does make sure you're never far away from a big "Boo!"
  71. Silent Light
    The stab at sublimity-by-proxy doesn't take.
  72. Defiance
    Zwick offers excitingly staged moments, but once you get past the novelty of WWII Jews acting this heroically macho, Defiance bogs down in a not very well-developed script.
  73. Good
    Good has a stagy fustiness, but it's worth seeing for Mortensen, who makes this study of a "good German" look creepily contemporary.
  74. Revolutionary Road
    The best thing about Revolutionary Road, a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn't end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie. It only begins there.
  75. Waltz with Bashir
    Waltz With Bashir has transcended the definitions of ''cartoon'' or ''war documentary'' to be classified as its own brilliant invention.
  76. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    A curious case indeed: an extravagantly ambitious movie that's easy to admire but a challenge to love.
  77. The Spirit
    As the vamps, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson might be posing for a fashion spread with just one note to play -- gorgeous high-bitch mockery.
  78. Bedtime Stories
    It's a dispirited, galumphing mess.
  79. Last Chance Harvey
    Hoffman and Thompson are each good enough to bring out a glow in the other.
  80. Marley & Me
    Wilson has a scene near the end with Marley that's the most wrenchingly tender acting of his career.
  81. Valkyrie
    The mechanics of the actual plot are pretty amazing. Singer has assembled a top-notch international cast.
  82. The Secret of the Grain
    The title embraces the richness of Kechiche's beautiful film, which captures the rhythms of displacement and hardship, the bond of family meals, and even the daily routines of the magnificent women who are part of Slimane's life.
  83. The Tale of Despereaux
    Too bad the story's such a mess.
  84. The Class
    In a class by itself.
  85. Seven Pounds
    An unintentionally ludicrous drama of repentance.
  86. Yes Man
    This is basically a nerd-loosening-his-tie romantic comedy done in the manic-compulsive mode of "Liar Liar."
  87. The Wrestler
    The Wrestler is like "Rocky" made by the Scorsese of "Mean Streets." It's the rare movie fairy tale that's also a bravura work of art.
  88. Nothing But the Truth
    Lurie hits closer to the bone here than he did in his ham-handed "The Contender" (2000).
  89. Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
    Walker forged an out-of-time mystique that is vividly captured here.
  90. Gran Torino
    A movie at once understated and radical, deceptively unremarkable in presentation and ballsy in its earnestness. Don't let the star's overly familiar squint fool you: This is subtle, perceptive stuff.
  91. Che
    As political theater, Che moves from faith to impotence, which is certainly a valid reading of Communism in the 20th century. Yet as drama, that makes the second half of the film borderline deadly.
  92. The Day the Earth Stood Still
    The original Day the Earth Stood Still had a paranoid poetry that lifted the audience up even as it warned the world to come together. This one is so dour it just comes off as a scolding.
  93. Doubt
    Shanley turns out to have dismayingly few original cinematic notions to back up the basic did-he-or-didn't-he hook in his study of conviction and compassion.
  94. Nothing Like the Holidays
    The troubles are broad, the plot twists giant, and the performances cheery in this carol to ethnic pride in Chicago's traditionally Latino Humboldt Park.
  95. Adam Resurrected
    The director, Paul Schrader, tries for cleansing audacity, but ends up too close to farce.
  96. Dark Streets
    Alas, the flimsy plot -- less a whodunit than an isn't-it-screamingly-obvious-that-that-guy-done-it! -- will have thriller fans singing the blues.
  97. Delgo
    Too grim for kids and too dumb for grown-ups.
  98. What Doesn't Kill You
    A tough, authentic street drama born, bred, and shot in the no-spin zone of working-class South Boston.
  99. Where God Left His Shoes
    Writer-director Salvatore Stabile has a good eye for the details of hard-luck ordinariness, and he sketches believable family bonds with a minimum of flourish.
  100. The Reader
    The film is notable for its nice performances, its handsome photography, and its very active music. If the preceding praise sounds generic, so is the movie.
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