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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. Death Race
    Soft sexual and racial jabs replace the more daring political commentary of the original, a crude classic from the Roger Corman factory.
  2. The House Bunny
    The movie flaunts its comedy roots like a messy bleach job.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Longshots
    Hopelessly clichéd.
  4. Hamlet 2
    As a movie, Hamlet 2 is lively, energetically daft, and very, very scrappy -- a broader, more loony-tunes knockoff of "Waiting for Guffman."
  5. Trouble the Water
    Essential, unique viewing.
  6. I.O.U.S.A.
    If they handed out an Academy Award for Most Gripping Graphs and Charts, this film would take it.
  7. Momma's Man
    Beautiful, wise, and poker-faced comedy of discombobulation.
  8. The Rocker
    The only brazen thing about the film is how shamelessly it rips off "School of Rock."
  9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    George Lucas is turning into the enemy of fun.
  10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    The writing is zippy, the story spins like a top, and Bardem turns out to be the wittiest of leading men.
  11. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    Brisk and sweet, even if the script veers toward fussy and lame.
  12. Mirrors
    The movie could have been a lot scarier.
  13. Henry Poole Is Here
    It's less a tale of religious rebirth than a faith-based Hallmark card.
  14. The Girl Cut in Two
    Sagnier is yummy.
  15. Tropic Thunder
    It's raunchy, outspoken -- and also a smart and agile dissection of art, fame, and the chutzpah of big-budget productions.
  16. Elegy
    There's a poetic irony to the idea that it took a female filmmaker to finally do justice to Philip Roth on screen.
  17. Pineapple Express
    It ends up subverting its own subversion, arriving at a place that can only be called conventional.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    Even cynics might concede that, again, four capable actresses have pulled off a relatively rare thing: They've convinced us they're an honest-to-God movie sisterhood.
  19. Frozen River
    A tale of ordinary Americans scraping bottom, yet there's a redemption in that. The film asks: If you were this desperate, wouldn't you do the same?
  20. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    After an hour of inert exposition, a race through Shanghai gooses the movie alive. Then it plunges back into torpor.
  21. Swing Vote
    Costner (who's also a producer) plays to his middle-aged strengths in a role that exaggerates male weaknesses.
  22. Man on Wire
    The gorgeous music includes Ralph Vaughan Williams' wafting tone poem ''The Lark Ascending'' -- apt in describing an artist who might well be part bird.
  23. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    Older and sadder, Mulder and Scully are no longer sure they've got the energy to even ask if the truth is still out there. And it feels as if Carter is skeptical, too.
  24. Step Brothers
    Step Brothers is a Judd Apatow production and it's the closest that the Apatow factory has come to spitting out a dumb-and-dumber high-concept comedy.
  25. Brideshead Revisited
    The one performer who seems at home with the gravity of it all is Emma Thompson.
  26. American Teen
    The players are timelessly familiar in American Teen, too. But filmmaker Nanette Burstein tells their stories with a distinctly 21st-century pop and audacity.
  27. The Dark Knight
    At two hours and 32 minutes, this is almost too much movie, but it has a malicious, careening zest all its own. It's a ride for the gut AND the brain.
  28. Mamma Mia!
    It's tempting to say that Mamma Mia! has the worst choreography of any big-screen musical in history, though that would imply that what happens in the film IS choreography.
  29. Space Chimps
    While candy-colored graphics should dazzle kids, Space Chimps has little draw for audiences spoiled by the Pixar-given knowledge that CGI can entertain -- and not just stupefy -- moviegoers of any age.
  30. Felon
    Val Kilmer, as a polite horn-rimmed sociopath with a heart of gold, keeps showing up to drop Nietzschean pensées.
  31. Berlin
    Berlin is far from the lost masterpiece the movie wants it to be.
  32. Transsiberian
    Who doesn't have a sweet tooth for intrigue on a train?
  33. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    The Golden Army dazzles like something out of "Jason and the Argonauts." To make a comic-book fantasy this derivative yet this dazzling requires more than technique. It takes a director in touch with his inner hellboy.
  34. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    Journey is just the new version of a 1950s comin'-at-ya roller coaster, with a tape measure, trilobite antennae, and giant snapping piranha thrust at the audience.
  35. Meet Dave
    this unfairly maligned sci-fi comedy testifies that Eddie Murphy still has the gift of surprise.
  36. August
    Anyone who thinks that Josh Hartnett isn't a true movie star should see his riveting, high-wire performance in August.
  37. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    The movie also captures Thompson's tragedy: the haze of drugs and bad writing that consumed him for no less than his last 30 years.
  38. Diminished Capacity
    The result is fairly silly slapstick, but Alda, hair disheveled and brow knit with stubborn intent, is both fierce and quietly heartbreaking.
  39. The Wackness
    The best thing about it is Peck, who shows you the sweet, virginal kid hiding inside the outlaw poseur.
  40. Tell No One
    Tell No One's plot thickens in about five ways at once, but they're all connected. The issue of how is a riddle that does more than tease --gives you an itch you won't want to stop scratching.
  41. Hancock
    Hancock can revel in schmuckery, of course, because you and I and cute kids and peaceful oldies worldwide know in advance that there's no way on Hollywood's green earth Will Smith will ever play someone seriously, dangerously unsavory.
  42. WALL-E
    It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own.
  43. Wanted
    Best of all, there's a lot of Jolie, barrels blazing. The star's fearlessly sexy hauteur is unique in the biz today. And when she works it in Wanted, she kills, bullets optional.
  44. Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
    Glosses over the kids' lives off the court.
  45. Trumbo
    That's Trumbo's message -- that the true victim was America.
  46. The Last Mistress
    Breillat, the flamethrower who made "Romance" and "Fat Girl," artfully twists period-piece drama to suit her provocative modern notions about sex, gender roles, and power.
  47. Get Smart
    The unexpected star is Hathaway, looking cool as a runway model in the role originated by Barbara Feldon, lithe as a (pink) panther, and displaying great comic timing.
  48. The Love Guru
    Myers is trying for another of his endearingly hormonal imp-egomaniacs, but hidden behind a wavy beard, a wax-curled mustache, and an astoundingly ugly squashed fake nose, he's a little too grotesque.
  49. Brick Lane
    One of those feminist cries in the dark in which the heroine, a saintly sufferer, is more admirable than interesting.
  50. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    A smart, playful, informative pleasure.
  51. The Happening
    Some sure symptoms: The movie demonstrates a smart movie geek's obsession with the rhythms and gory details of horror storytelling, undermined by a pompous insistence on spiritual lessons of the tritest kind.
  52. The Incredible Hulk
    The Incredible Hulk is just a luridly reductive and violent B movie -- one that clears a bar that hadn't been set very high.
  53. Chris & Don. A Love Story
    Their love story was inevitably complicated. And so is the documentary Chris & Don: A Love Story -- not simply a love letter to love -- by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara.
  54. My Winnipeg
    Both the definition of ''my'' and the definition of ''Winnipeg'' become profoundly fluid in this exquisite ''docu-fantasia'' (Maddin's term), an entrancing riffle through the olde curiosity shoppe of the filmmaker's psyche.
  55. Encounters at the End of the World
    The stunning images aren't enough for Herzog, though. He wants us to see how these quirky researchers, in their lust to explore, are acting out a drive as primitive as nature: the need to break away from the world in order to find it.
  56. Kung Fu Panda
    Light and goofy, yet the fight scenes, which are the heart of the film, are lickety-split mad fun.
  57. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    Forget "Monty Python," You Don't Mess With the Zohan is a circus that never really flies.
  58. The Go-Getter
    The Go-Getter travels, but it doesn't go anywhere.
  59. Miss Conception
    Graham is charming, but Miss Conception is a cloddish biological-clock bedroom farce.
  60. Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
    Quite grand, quite exotic, David Lean-style epic.
  61. Mother of Tears
    As a lissome art restorer, Asia Argento (the director's daughter) comes off as the sanest human on screen, which is pretty scary.
  62. The Promotion
    The Promotion edges toward some pretty bleak stuff. Then it steps back and laughs, like an office slacker.
  63. Bigger Stronger Faster*
    Bigger, Stronger, Faster is a portrait of a culture that claims to hate steroids but may, by now, be too pumped to do much about it.
  64. The Foot Fist Way
    Not short on broad physical humor. But Simmons is a brilliantly detailed grotesque capable of withstanding comparison to his most obvious inspiration, Ricky Gervais' "Office" boss David Brent.
  65. Savage Grace
    The director, Tom Kalin, stages acid duels, but he should have provided more psychological structure. Though Moore, a great actress, turns fury into verbal music, we're never quite sure what's driving her.
  66. Sex and the City
    A movie that taps directly back into the show's primal appeal, which is the sweet, sad, saucy delight of sharing these women's company.
  67. The Strangers
    Bryan Bertino, stages The Strangers' early scenes with spooky panache...But then comes the blood, the shrieking midnight chase scenes, the anything-goes over-the-top-ness. In other words, everything that we liked the movie for not being.
  68. The Unknown Woman
    Russian-born Xenia Rappoport gives it her tragic-heroine all as an abused Ukraine prostitute-turned-sneaky housemaid in Italy in The Unknown Woman.
  69. Stuck
    Stuart Gordon, the mostly under-the-radar director of "Re-Animator," pops back into view with this amusing trifle -- a piece of scuzzy tabloid noir.
  70. The Children of Huang Shi
    It's like "Schindler's List" crossed with "The Sound of Music," and Roger Spottiswoode directs it in a stiff, lifeless, utterly dated style of international squareness.
  71. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Harrison Ford? Terrific -- and re-energized.
  72. The Edge of Heaven
    Hopping from Germany to Turkey and back again, Akin is out to capture the ways that a globalized world can tear up our hearts, and repair them, too.
  73. A Jihad for Love
    Noble in intention but crude in execution.
  74. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    In total effect, Prince Caspian feels a lot more earthbound than "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
  75. Reprise
    Reprise is kissed with the breath of French New Wave sensibility, sweet with verve and a love of forward movement. The mood of joy in the midst of youthful pain is enhanced by the freshness of the first-time lead actors.
  76. Speed Racer
    Young boys are the only suitable audience for Speed Racer, the elaborate live-action adaptation written and directed by "Matrix" creators Larry and Andy Wachowski. And even they might feel an urge to squirm.
  77. The Babysitters
    The premise is out of '70s porn, and so is the overbroad satire and almost total lack of conviction.
  78. Noise
    As a follow-up to his striking 2002 directorial debut, "The Believer," this second obsessive study in fanaticism by writer-director Henry Bean has its own delirious integrity and outsider-art charm.
  79. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
    There are more chuckles than laughs, but the film does a witty job of replicating the hermetic, overlit shot language of '60s studio movies.
  80. Surfwise
    Doug Pray's cool documentary about 85-year-old Dr. Dorian Paskowitz, his wife, and their eight sons and one daughter is about surfing insofar as surfing is the family's shared passion.
  81. Turn the River
    An only-in-the-movies mother hustles pool to raise the money to abduct the son she's been forbidden to see since her divorce.
  82. What Happens in Vegas
    Kutcher, who gives his most energized performance to date, and Diaz, darting between the caustic and shrill, look as if they're warming up to groovy hate sex, not love, which may be why the film goes flat the moment it turns friendly.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Before the Rains
    This period piece is exactly what you'd expect from a Merchant Ivory production: a tragic tale of love set against a backdrop of opulent scenery.
  84. Battle for Haditha
    Searing, powerful, and morally entangled.
  85. Iron Man
    Even at his coolest, Downey's Iron Man remains a ghostly, neurotic crusader -- one whose life, in the Marvel tradition, has become a grand spectacle of overcompensation.
  86. Made of Honor
    A nice cookie-cutter comedy, no more and no less, but Dempsey, with his relaxed charm, and Monaghan, with her soft and peachy sensual spark, rise to the challenge of making friendship look like the wellspring of true love.
  87. Mister Lonely
    None of the faux icons comes close to being a character. Instead, they are contrasted with a group of nuns who skydive without parachutes. Could this possibly be a metaphor for Korine's filmmaking? It certainly goes splat.
  88. Redbelt
    Mamet regulars Ricky Jay and Joe Mantegna blend well with Mamet newbie Tim Allen, a treat as a spoiled-rotten aging Hollywood action star.
  89. Son of Rambow
    The team who made "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" display plenty of whirligig energy, if not much control or lightness of touch.
  90. XXY
    It's set at a beach house, but we see only gray skies, and though Efron has a wary and cutting intelligence (it matches that of the fine actor Ricardo Darin, who plays her father), the effect is tepid and damp.
  91. Viva
    It takes skill — a certain sly, even perverse nimbleness of craft — to make an homage to schlock movies that treats them as works of art.
  92. Baby Mama
    Although the big picture itself gets mushy, the small moments, especially involving Fey, are sharp.
  93. Deception
    Everything is wrong pretty much from the start of this misbegotten adventure.
  94. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
    Harold and Kumar, fortunately, never lose their verbally relentless way of delivering raunch as pure common sense.
  95. Roman de gare
    A sly catalog of deceits and a gentle commentary on slippery creativity and desire.
  96. Standard Operating Procedure
    Morris, using a welter of photographs (many of which we haven't seen), constructs a day-to-day sense of how Abu Ghraib descended into a medieval hell.
  97. Then She Found Me
    Hunt's movie-directing debut frequently crackles with nice gags.
  98. Up the Yangtze
    Filmmaker Yung Chang finds a sad and beautiful way to glimpse the big picture of dislocation through an exquisitely poised small study.
  99. 88 Minutes
    A stinker, the more so for the thespian excesses of the accomplished cast.
  100. The Forbidden Kingdom
    This kingdom really should be forbidden.
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