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  1. In the Valley of Elah
    It's the first Hollywood Iraq movie to remind me of a Vietnam film like Coming Home, and it does more than disturb. It scalds, moves, and heals.
  2. King of California
    It's as if the star (Douglas) finally gets to integrate all his onscreen personas, all at once.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Mr. Woodcock
    Uninspired, sure, but sporadically, spasmodically funny.
  4. Silk
    Wan, generically pretty adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's 1996 novel.
  5. The Brave One
    Everything about Foster's ocular intensity is riveting, but little in this hushed vigilante drama makes sense.
  6. The Rape of Europa
    Unfortunately, most of the two-hour documentary is devoted to annotating what the Nazis stole for both their state and personal collections. The movie doesn't dramatize this crime -- it catalogs it. With deadening monotony.
  7. Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
    Between clips of the concerts Seeger staged as hootenanny hosannas, the film chronicles how the blacklisted star stuck true to his beliefs -- which were more patriotic than those of his accusers.
  8. Great World of Sound
    A terrific, small, funny, sad movie.
  9. 3:10 to Yuma
    This is how a Western today tries to give us more bang for the buck. By working this hard to be a crowd-pleaser, though, it may please fewer crowds.
  10. In the Shadow of the Moon
    In the Shadow of the Moon finds new resonance in the moment when America redefined progress -- but also when it heeded the siren song of a world so desolate it reminded you what a paradise ours truly is.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Romance & Cigarettes
    With Walken around, hair up high, of course there are fleeting moments of fascinating weirdness, but even then, you're still moderately embarrassed for the cast.
  12. Shoot 'Em Up
    Its pulpy violent excess will tip over...into slightly more excessive excess. That's its silly, scuzzball joy.
  13. The Brothers Solomon
    The sheer, animal idiocy beaming from their faces in the opening credits of The Brothers Solomon creates the film's only moment of uncalculated comic joy.
  14. The Hunting Party
    What makes The Hunting Party an original, gonzo treat is the way that Shepard plants the movie's tone somewhere between hair-trigger investigative danger and the from-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire glee of a Hope/Crosby picture.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    A wry movie that, packed with his well-known friends and scored intermittently to bouncy accordion music, plays like a softer episode of "Curb."
  16. Death Sentence
    The morality of revenge is barely at issue in a movie that pushes the plausibility of revenge right over a cliff.
  17. The Nines
    John August directs it briskly, as a gossip-era "Twilight Zone" of image and reality.
  18. Halloween (2007)
    This Myers is more problem child than bogeyman.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Exiled
    One of those wearisome Hong Kong action movies where characters engage in Mexican standoffs not so much to ratchet up excitement or generate tension but rather to look cool for as long as possible.
  20. Balls of Fury
    A joke of a title in search of a movie with a single good joke.
  21. Deep Water
    A spooky, moving documentary.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Illegal Tender
    For a second, the movie has the snap of a truly surprising thriller -- like a Hispanic "Kill Bill" -- about an aging lioness willing to kill to protect her cub.
  23. Mr. Bean's Vacation
    Atkinson's goofball grotesquerie never lets up -- right through to the inspired finale.
  24. The Nanny Diaries
    For a light comedy, The Nanny Diaries turns out to have an off-putting theme. It glorifies the romance of slumming.
  25. Resurrecting the Champ
    The gooey sanctity of the bond between fathers and sons all but nullify Jackson's zesty performance.
  26. Right at Your Door
    There are no zombies to distract from the plausibility of Right at Your Door. And that's what makes this smart, coolly horrifying American indie thriller one of the scariest movies you're likely to see all year — a post-9/11 nightmare about terrorism, panic, and paranoia with real, waking-life implications.
  27. September Dawn
    The audience gets the message (religious fanaticism: bad), but nothing we see is convincing on its own.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    War
    There are few cinematic crimes more heinous than making a boring action movie. Sadly, that's what the first hour of Triads-versus-Yakuza thriller War is.
  29. The Hottest State
    Whatever you're imagining -- self-serving self-awareness; unedited hipster mopes; yammering dear-diary script -- The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke's bathetic tale of a good-looking young actor's first heartbreak, is far worse.
  30. Hannah Takes the Stairs
    What defines the slacker-geek twentysomething men and women who wander through Joe Swanberg's too-hip-to-be-romantic comedy Hannah Takes the Stairsis that they treat their libidos as minor accessories -- only to stammer through every casual conversation as if they were on a first Internet date.
  31. Superbad
    Superbad is cute if you like guys who aren't even remotely bad, in a coming-of-age tale so old-fashioned the girls might just as well be wearing bloomers.
  32. Death at a Funeral
    By the end of Death at a Funeral's effortful farce about busted British propriety, you may feel that peculiar facial ache that comes from wishing to laugh with no really satisfying release.
  33. Them
    You'd better deliver the goods. And Them, despite some moody imagery out of the "Blair Witch" school, never does.
  34. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    There's no denying its grip: It is lurid, fascinating, sickening, and eye-opening.
  35. The 11th Hour
    This activist documentary -- alternately impassioned, despairing, edifying, and hectoring about all the ways humans are screwing up the earth in a death rattle of hubris -- shouts, People, do something! In contrast, "An Inconvenient Truth" feels positively hushed.
  36. The Invasion
    The movie isn't terrible; it's just low-rent and reductive.
  37. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    A funny and madly arresting new documentary.
  38. The Last Legion
    Every once in a while, though, Firth's eyebrow hints, Can you believe I'm wearing this dorky leather breastplate?
  39. Delirious
    It would be nice to see a sharp, funny, penetrating satire of the new, kicked-up culture of empty media fame, but Tom DiCillo's scattershot buddy movie Delirious isn't it.
  40. 2 Days in Paris
    Delpy wrote and directed this study of a relationship heading (it would seem) for the rocks. She stages it with a funny and diverting improv-y flow.
  41. Descent
    It's been a while since we saw a demagogic feminist exploitation revenge drama, and Descent, while top-heavy with ''agenda,'' is shrewdly done.
  42. Rocket Science
    One of those terminally annoying, depressive-yet-coy Sundance faves in which the tale of a mopey teen misfit unfolds behind a hard candy shell of irony.
  43. Rush Hour 3
    It's a jerry-built kick-ass insult machine assembled entirely out of secondhand parts.
  44. Stardust
    It's the closest the movies have come in a while to the nudgy, knowing fairy-tale enchantment of "The Princess Bride."
    • 13 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Daddy Day Camp
    Filling in for Eddie Murphy in a septically humored kiddie sequel to "Daddy Day Care," Gooding gives a mug-job performance that consists mainly of reacting (again and again) to nasty smells.
  46. The Bourne Ultimatum
    A spectacular windup toy of a thriller -- a contraption made by an artist.
  47. The Ten
    Devious and inspired enough to juice you past any weak spots. Thou shalt be amused.
  48. Becoming Jane
    Becoming Jane has a burnished feminine sadness, and the director, Julian Jarrold, gives it a creamy-dark visual flow.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Bratz
    A movie based on a doll line, is an M&M-colored high school fantasia for aspirational 10- and 12-year-old girls who'll be shocked (or, hopefully, delighted) when they get to ninth grade and find out life isn't so super-Bratz-fabulous.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Hot Rod
    Wait until the best parts pop up on YouTube.
  51. Underdog
    This digitized update, with Jason Lee as a huskier, more generic Underdog, mostly drops the doggerel, but the endearing airborne-beagle effects help to offset the formula twists.
  52. El cantante
    Anthony, with his famished thousand-yard stare, turns in a delicate -- perhaps too delicate -- performance more informed by the shadow of Lavoe's death than the spark of his art. And his shrill domestic scenes with Lopez feel small and squalid, as we wait restlessly for the band to play us out.
  53. Laura Smiles
    There's an unconvincing last-act twist, but this is the movie "Little Children" wanted to be.
  54. No End in Sight
    Ferguson spotlights two massive mistakes: the looting that was allowed to continue, destroying Iraqi infrastructure and morale; and--far more revelatory -- the apocalyptically stupid decision to disband the Iraqi army, sending half a million angry soldiers into the streets.
  55. I Know Who Killed Me
    A grisly piece of torture porn.
  56. No Reservations
    It's fun to see the glamorous actress turn down her movie-star flame, but it's a pity she's stuck with so many trite gestures on Kate's journey to fulfillment.
  57. The Simpsons Movie
    The best thing about this long-awaited feature-length project, a classic Simpsonian interplay of family psychology, social commentary, and brainy visual and verbal jokes tossed off at rat-a-tat speed, is how relaxed it manages to be.
  58. This Is England
    Sad, menacing, empathetic story.
    • 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.
  60. Cashback
    Director Sean Ellis has a lovely eye, but he's set the film in his blind spot. Not only can't he distinguish between art and porn, savoring and wallowing, universal truths and exhausted clichés -- he doesn't even seem interested in these distinctions.
  61. Goya's Ghosts
    In a season of digital bombast, it can be a relief to walk into a stodgy life-of-the-great-man costume drama. Goya's Ghosts, before it turns into a messy, horse-drawn load, achieves a civilized stuffiness that gives off its own mild pleasure.
  62. Hairspray
    A fizzy and delirious high-camp message-movie musical that may just turn out to be the happiest movie of the summer.
  63. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    Myself, I felt victimized by the stereotype shtick of reliably grating Rob Schneider as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister from SNL castoff hell. But maybe that's just because this movie encourages sensitivity by hitting everyone over the head with its humor hammer.
  64. Sunshine
    Another thinking-person's thriller from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, also co-pilots on "28 Days Later."
  65. Interview
    Any doubts as to whether Sienna Miller is a gifted actress should be laid to rest by Interview.
  66. My Best Friend
    An unlikely comedy charmer.
  67. Talk to Me
    A rowdy, richly offbeat biopic.
  68. Time
    Time, Kim Ki-Duk's pointed commentary on surfaces and consumer fads -- with particular meaning for plastic-surgery-obsessed South Korea -- is as tautly ''pretty'' and inexpressive as the results for those who compulsively seek cosmetic perfection.
  69. Captivity
    Roland Joffé brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this "Saw" clone.
  70. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    The flourishes don't answer the question most on Potterites' minds -- who lives, who dies? -- but they briefly stupefy.
  71. Joshua
    Joshua does grow a bit repetitious (it lacks the cathartic climaxes of a horror film), yet it has cool and savvy fun with your fears.
  72. Introducing the Dwights
    Sometimes Brenda Blethyn is content merely to nibble the scenery. In Introducing the Dwights, a drippy Australian family comedy caper, she chomps it to a pulp until we long for her straightforward monstrosity as a mother in "Little Voice."
  73. Rescue Dawn
    Out of a harrowing story set in a foreign thicket, Herzog has found American beauty.
  74. Transformers
    Bay, at heart, isn't a fantasist; he's a literal-minded maestro of demolition.
  75. License to Wed
    The creepy-faced robot twin babies are funny (for a while); the rest of the film is not. It's like "Meet the Parents" with Dr. Phil as the officiant from hell.
  76. Ratatouille
    Ratatouille is a blithe concoction, as well as a miraculously textured piece of animated design.
  77. Sicko
    The Cuban escapade, designed to provoke, backfires when he loses focus by including Cuban firefighters in an homage to 9/11 first responders.
  78. Evening
    For all the creaminess of the sets and costumes, every character talks as if she is still made out of written words, not flesh, and each woman's struggles feel about as important as a tea dance.
  79. Vitus
    Vitus, a fizzy domestic fairy tale from Switzerland, gives you a lift, as it revels in the oddball joy of genius as kid power.
  80. Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox
    It's like "Capturing the Friedmans" scrubbed to a happy ending.
  81. Live Free or Die Hard
    An enjoyable pop projection of post-9/11 anxiety.
  82. Ghosts of Cité Soleil
    A spectacularly turbulent portrait of the chaos and bloodshed that have come to define Haiti.
  83. In Between Days
    With In Between Days, the filmmaker captures feminine melancholy with rare precision. Find this movie.
  84. 1408
    A deft Stephen King freak-out.
  85. Evan Almighty
    The message is so good-hearted, so inarguable, so dull.
  86. A Mighty Heart
    Despite the best of intentions, an actress who makes her own headlines gets in the way of the big picture.
  87. Broken English
    As charmingly verklemmt New York women with bad luck in men and good luck in apartments go, Nora Wilder in Broken English has all the breaks.
  88. Lady Chatterley
    There's an adult life force in every frame of this luxuriously paced work, even in the sight of rain and a lady's stocking.
  89. You Kill Me
    Inert dud of a hitmen-are-people-too comedy.
  90. Manufactured Landscapes
    Jennifer Baichwal's gorgeous documentary Manufactured Landscapes amplifies the powerful work of Edward Burtynsky, a Canadian artist who specializes in large-scale photographs of terrain transformed by civilization into rivers and tides of industrial ugliness.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    DOA: Dead or Alive
    If you only ever see one bad movie about warrior chicks who meet on a tropical isle for a fight contest, make it DOA: Dead or Alive.
  92. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    The dialogue aims young and low, and sounds translated from comic-book Esperanto.
  93. Nancy Drew
    The culprit, I'd say, is the uninteresting casting of Miss Roberts in the title role. She's a pleasant enough performer, but her made-for-teen-TV acting style, a perky blandness, doesn't supply a clue as to the appeal of Nancy Drew after all these years.
  94. Eagle vs Shark
    It's a tale that reduces angst, not to mention love, to a generational tic.
  95. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    An irresistibly vibrant concert-tour documentary.
  96. Macbeth
    The words belong to Mr. Shakespeare. All else in this Macbeth is the pleasurably fevered invention of brash Australian director Geoffrey Wright.
  97. Lights in the Dusk
    There's great music, an excellent dog, and that indescribable Kaurismäki tension between misery and a cosmic joke.
  98. Ocean's Thirteen
    In a world ruled by process, is compassion still real? Or is it just another scam? In Ocean's Thirteen, it is deviously, and merrily, both.
  99. Hostel: Part II
    An authentic real-world creep show -- better, if anything, than its predecessor.
  100. 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.
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