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  1. Kong: Skull Island
    Hiddleston and Larson are especially let down by the script, which wants to be jokey in the way that something like Predator was, but can’t pull it off. The same lack of care goes into the period-specific song choices that have as much imagination as a Time-Life Songs of the ‘70s set.
  2. City Hall
    In the course of City Hall, Calhoun doesn’t just get to the bottom of a scandal. He grows up, and watching Cusack enact the transformation, I thought I glimpsed this gifted young actor growing into a star.
  3. Hush!
    A feel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about.
  4. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II
    Packs appeal for both kids and parents.
  5. Austin Powers in Goldmember
    Mike Myers and Austin Powers may stick to their old Beatle boots, but they've both come a long way, luvvy. For proof, just look at all the A-list celebrities-I-won't-mention happy to crash the party.
  6. Antwone Fisher
    Intense but dignified.
  7. American History X
    This is the sort of incendiary role a lot of actors would kill for, yet the shock of Norton's performance isn't its showboat flamboyance. It's that he makes this sadistic junior sociopath rueful and intelligent.
  8. Veronica Mars
    As directed by series creator Rob Thomas, the movie, like the show, is entertainingly fast-talking in a tidy, faux-serious way. Kristen Bell, if anything, has only gained in appeal.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Fly
    The original The Fly scared baby boomers something fierce in its day, but time hasn’t been kind to it; in fact, its big scare moments seem almost ludicrously chaste.
  10. Emelie
    Those scenes do allow star Sarah Bolger to showcase her range as a babysitter gradually transforming from sweet to sinister.
  11. The Yellow Handkerchief
    Here the fascination is Hurt, so deft at steering his character away from booby-trap clichés that he guides his young costars safely out of sap's way and brightens an otherwise very yellowed tale.
  12. On a Clear Day
    Scottish actor Peter Mullan saves a drama tangled in the seaweed of life lessons from drowning in pathos.
  13. Seraphim Falls
    Neeson and Brosnan are supremely well-matched foils, though I do wish that the filmmaker, David Von Ancken, had lent his sparsely mythic tale just a twinge of something...new.
  14. Alligator
    Clever, funny, and wonderfully bloody.
  15. My One and Only
    A weightless movie as cheerily artificial as the Old Navy pitchman's bronze skin tones.
  16. Dolores Claiborne
    Since there is a mystery, the movie might have been entertaining camp had director Taylor Hackford staged it with pace, style, or a whisper of surprise. Instead, the plot just clunks forward-for two hours and 10 minutes.
  17. Something to Talk About
    Tack on a jarringly upbeat coda that looks like the kids at the studio demanded a ”happily ever after” ending before they would agree to put the picture to bed, and Something to Talk About becomes a safe, generic family story of no particular personality.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rugrats Movie
    The tapes of the TV episodes are in heavy rotation at our house, and the movie is not. And that’s because even a 4-year-old can tell when something has gotten a little too big for its Huggies.
  19. Bleed for This
    With the exception of maybe two scenes, you’ve seen everything in this movie before.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Off the Black
    Sucking at the top of many a can, and greedily slurping the sides of an overflowing bottle, Nolte gives a master class in how to drink a beer on screen. The rest of his work here is sad, understated, and worth seeking out.
  21. Comedian
    The thrust of the movie is that even for Jerry, the quintessential scientist of stand-up, comedy is very, very hard to do. By the end, you're closer to knowing why.
  22. Finding Forrester
    Highly unoriginal but nevertheless stirring drama.
  23. The Claim
    There's something almost too controlled, cerebral, and overdetermined about Winterbottom's Western notions.
  24. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    Isn't nearly as cheerily unpleasant as it ought to be.
  25. All the Old Knives
    Pine and Newton work valiantly to fill in the blanks, though the gray-flannel template of the dialogue often pushes back. When they do manage to transcend it, the movie becomes something still rare enough to appreciate: an urbane thriller calibrated for slow burns and analog attention spans.
  26. Five Minutes of Heaven
    A forceful Neeson and an even more intense Nesbitt (Bloody Sunday) both show their stuff and obscure the unrelieved pain endured by the men they portray.
  27. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
    It's a fearless and brilliant racial-historical satire, done in a meticulous re-creation of the Ken Burns mode, that chronicles the last 150 years of America as if the South had won the Civil War.
  28. Deconstructing Harry
    Deconstructing Harry is Woody Allen's naughty-boy confessional movie, a disquietingly candid and funny portrait of a pathological narcissist.
  29. Maverick
    True deft wit is just plum missing from this good-natured, flat-footed, eager-to- please, tee-hee Western.
  30. G.I. Jane
    Were women put on earth to be warriors? Demi Moore certainly was. The role of Jordan fits her as snugly as a new layer of muscle.
  31. Despicable Me 2
    By the end, every child in the audience will want his or her own monster-minion toy. Adults will just regret the way that Despicable Me 2 betrays the original film’s devotion to bad-guy gaiety.
  32. Kites
    It's a romantic noir chase thriller made in the violently schlocky spirit of Sam Peckinpah's "The Getaway."
  33. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
    The Cook, The Thief is so full of loathing it just about gags on its own bile.
  34. The Matrix Reloaded
    If The Matrix Reloaded is a trip through high-toned mediocrity, not nearly as suggestive or cohesive as ''The Matrix,'' it's one of the most wizardly mediocre movies I've seen in quite some time.
  35. Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    When Bebop's anime characters stand still, chirping their strangely stilted, dubbed talk and not moving their strangely blank faces, I feel lost on Mars myself.
  36. Ted
    And yet. And yet, Gawd help me, the always surprising Mark Wahlberg throws himself into his thespian adventure with such radiant wacko energy, so full of Boston beans, that Ted is also kind of, well, impressively nuts.
  37. Bad Turn Worse
    Directors Zeke and Simon Hawkins add air-quote references to Jim Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, and the Coen brothers but are too proud of the movie's twists to make them truly snap. Call it "Blood Simple-ton."
  38. Beautiful Boy
    Michael Sheen and Maria Bello both have wrenching moments in this quiet, oblique drama. Yet the movie isn't really convincing.
  39. Nearing Grace
    Scott Sommer's late-1970s coming-of-age novel, with little of the vivid specificity of "Mean Creek," even though the two share a screenwriter and a producer.
  40. The Woman in Black
    An old-fashioned, tastefully constrained supernatural thriller, The Woman In Black embraces the elements of gothic horror movies with pleasing seriousness.
  41. U-571
    When the submarine has to dive 400 meters beneath the surface to avoid detection, you can practically feel the water pressure crushing in on the sailors.
  42. The Golden Bowl
    There's no mirth, and precious little passion, left in this house.
  43. Saved!
    The director-cowriter, Brian Dannelly, has great fun tweaking the way American Christianity has been born again as a commodified, suburbanized, pop-saturated belief system.
  44. Goodbye to All That
    Writer-director Angus MacLachlan also penned the acclaimed 2005 indie "Junebug," and he aims for the same kind of gentle absurdity here.
  45. Sky High
    The flick is best in its bittier moments (watch for the stellar cameos), and there's nothing to trouble the tots.
  46. Wakefield
    Cranston is utterly hypnotic as a certain kind of American male on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
  47. Major Dundee (re-release)
    If you want to see the missing link between John Wayne's squint and Clint Eastwood's sneer, look no further than Charlton Heston in Major Dundee.
  48. Alex Strangelove
    Subtle it is not; Strangelove can feel aggressively self-aware, nouveau John Hughes with a pocket full of f-bombs and carefully worked one-liners.
  49. 5x2
    Feminist sanctimony, it turns out, looks much the same forward and backward.
  50. Romeo + Juliet
    Romeo & Juliet is a series of spectacular production designs posing as a motion picture.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Last Exit to Brooklyn
    Aficionados of fine acting will find Last Exit to Brooklyn worth renting for the complex performances of Lang and Leigh. But, with its vague and unresolved story and themes, the movie remains a blur.
  52. The Five-Year Engagement
    A lively, original, and scattershot-hilarious ramble of a Judd Apatow production.
  53. Free Guy
    In a genre where winky self-awareness has become standard-issue, Free might have come off as manic and hollow; instead, it has fun having a heart.
  54. About Last Night
    In About Last Night, Hart blows up, to hilariously oversize proportions, the eternal male desire for freedom. He’s raunch on wheels.
  55. 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.
  56. Micmacs
    Jeunet maintains a firm control of his dreamscape creation, drawing on influences as varied as "Toy Story," "Children of Paradise," and TV's "Mission: Impossible."
  57. Una
    Una’s raw, deeply dis­comfiting dance between obsession and exploitation isn’t easy to watch by any metric; they make it hard to look away.
  58. Fear of a Black Hat
    Fear of a Black Hat never achieves the dizzying cinema verite swirl that made Spinal Tap such a timeless satire. Many of the jokes are too literal (a goof on Vanilla Ice named Vanilla Sherbet). Still, Cundieff has what nearly every commentator on the rap scene has lacked: a first-class bull detector.
  59. Incident at Loch Ness
    Incident at Loch Ness, unfortunately, is a riddle wrapped in a hoax stuffed inside a crock.
  60. Labyrinth of Lies
    Fehling gives a commanding physical performance as he transitions from ambition to despair to, finally, resolve.
  61. 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.
  62. The Help
    The Help has a saucy, humorous side.
  63. William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
    His pluck and chutzpah shine through.
  64. Loggerheads
    Kirkman is shrewd enough to coax a wistful performance out of pretty boy Kip Pardue.
  65. Annabelle: Creation
    Annabelle: Creation isn’t a terrible film. Not exactly. The set-up is promising, and it offers some decent early jump scares. But eventually the thinness of the material becomes overwhelmingly obvious.
  66. Stuck on You
    Has a fractured fairy-tale charm, even if it isn't a nonstop laugh riot.
  67. The Names of Love
    For those who wish to decode The Names of Love, there's a sharp commentary on French prejudices, character types, history, and culture embedded in Michel Leclerc's droll autobiographical French comedy.
  68. Fierce Creatures
    Mostly a mess: toothless when it should be nasty, not so much madcap as merely frantic.
  69. Bug
    The enjoyably icky heart of Bug is still contained within the airless, increasingly ''bug-proofed'' room that becomes Agnes and Peter's whole world.
  70. Oswald's Ghost
    In Oswald's Ghost, his vast chronicle of the JFK assassination and its cultural aftermath, Stone uses little-seen footage to assemble the events of Nov. 22, 1963, with a fascinating present-tense density.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Dream Lover
    Possibly the greatest anti-date video ever...Writer-director Nicholas Kazan was obviously too enamored of his final twist to clean up all the loose ends and red herrings, but the acting has enough verve to put this sour valentine over but good.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Love at First Bite
    Every now and then things get so convoluted that some sort of humor is achieved, but waiting through setup, setup, explanation of hoary joke, and delivery of hoary joke gets old fast, especially when the jokes are racist.
  73. Lan Yu
    At times too restrained, yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most American love stories look downright unfree.
  74. The King
    What’s left is primarily a series of grand battleground set pieces — filmed crunchily, and well — and a series of consistently strong performances. (Has Mendelsohn every not been menacing and great in anything?).
  75. Destroyer
    Kidman, to her credit, goes all in, but it’s hard to ignore the neon sign over her head that keeps flashing “See? I’m Acting!”
  76. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    The wedding, which turns the very concept of ''Greek'' into the sort of hideous, pandering clichés that look rejected from bad Jewish and Italian sitcoms.
  77. Mumford
    Turns the tricks of psychology into duplicitous high play.
  78. A Few Good Men
    Like all courtroom dramas, A Few Good Men is gimmicky and synthetic. It's also an irresistible throwback to the sort of sharp-edged entertainment Hollywood once provided with regularity.
  79. The Mudge Boy
    It's not the homosexuality that's dubious here, it's the chicken.
  80. Unbreakable
    Somberly fantastic new mystery thriller.
  81. Ararat
    As ever, Egoyan assembles a devoted repertory cast, including Christopher Plummer.
  82. The Last Mountain
    The movie's power is undercut by the overemphasized presence of celebrity traveling environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  83. Sleight
    You’d hope that a film like this could put a bold new spin on the superhero story. The reverse is true: Here we are in 2017, and even our nifty low-budget crime movies are building a cinematic universe, and saving the best stuff for the sequel.
  84. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    As someone who has warmed up to Anderson's work only gradually, I'd call this a step back for him, but I also can't help but wonder: Will he ever take that crucial step forward and stop saying, Isn't it ironic?
  85. I Am a Sex Addict
    Zahedi is ruefully funny and savage in his self-exposure.
  86. Scream 2
    This funny, gory stab-athon is as sophisticated about the mechanics of Part 2s as the original was savvy about horror flicks.
  87. The Ice Harvest
    In a season of bulging Movies Earmarked for Importance, it is almost startling to come across something as unhyped - and perfectly swell - as The Ice Harvest.
  88. On Chesil Beach
    Director Dominic Cooke is mostly known for his Olivier Award-winning theater work, but Chesil never feels stagey or static. It’s beautifully shot, and he pulls lovely performances from both his leads.
  89. The Rental
    A neat, nasty little thriller with a brutally effective final third.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    My Favorite Year
    My Favorite Year, a slight but sweet backstage comedy, now provides three levels of nostalgia: for the era of swashbuckling stars like Errol Flynn; for the golden age of TV that supplanted it; and for the presence of Peter O’Toole.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Random Harvest
    Garson and Ronald Colman beautifully play the delicacy of two aching souls trying to recapture their lost romance.
  92. The Interpreter
    An elegant adventure of a different kind.
  93. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    Marigold Hotel achieves what it sets out to do: Sell something safe and sweet, in a vivid foreign setting, to an underserved share of the moviegoing market.
  94. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
    Dramatically, though, the film is torpid.
  95. The Great Water
    An anguished Macedonian drama.
  96. Never Goin' Back
    The two leads have chemistry and a rebellious sort of charisma. Too bad they’re given such wheezy clichés to work with.
  97. Restaurant
    Tom Cudworth's script nails the ale-drenched details of twentysomething existence.
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