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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. La Vie en Rose
    Hurtling and impassioned, driven by some of the greatest popular music ever recorded, this wildly overripe and unkempt biopic is a true experience.
  2. You're Gonna Miss Me
    Has the taint of exploitation.
  3. 12:08 East of Bucharest
    12:08 East of Bucharest is a shrewdly built comedy, but the characters are broad-verging-on-cheap unholy hick fools.
  4. Knocked Up
    The very opposite of a storybook romance, and also the very model of a great comedy for our values-driven time.
  5. Gracie
    You miss the knockabout edge of "Bend It Like Beckham" -- though the ending, in its Pavlovian sports-flick way, pumps you up.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Mr. Brooks begins promisingly, but it grows steadily more preposterous as it goes along, becoming the first feel-good serial-killer movie.
  7. Crazy Love
    The tale itself is so spectacularly perverse, and the film stays so authentically close to the personalities involved, that you don't feel dirty -- you feel cleansed.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Day Watch
    The sequel is a minor wackjob head trip.
  9. Ten Canoes
    A marvel of warm collaboration and shared jokes about husbands and wives, shot both in dreamscape color and pristine black and white.
  10. Pierrepoint
    This measured bio-production might be viewed as a lesser companion piece to "Vera Drake" -- although in the case of Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, all the period-piece tastefulness makes for a story more instructive than emotionally tangible.
  11. 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.
  12. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    Knightley's Elizabeth becomes a pirate captain this time. You know a franchise has run its course when it has a buccaneer heroine who looks as if she'd hate to get her face smudged.
  13. Angel-A
    Angel-A shows how director Luc Besson can be French in a way that even the French might despise...Quel ick. And très tedious.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Golden Door
    A sluggish procedural on what it was like to make the journey to Ellis Island back in the day.
  15. Paprika
    Fantasy leaks into reality.
  16. Steel City
    Steel City could have used more rhythmic drive, but if Jun keeps weaving together characters this compelling, he could be a major film artist in the making.
  17. The Boss of It All
    This satire of empty-suit capitalism has scalding moments, but most of it suggests Being There meets The Office gibberized into theater of the absurd.
  18. Shrek the Third
    I love the princess squad.
  19. Brooklyn Rules
    The boys-in-the-Italian-hood clichés were penned by "Sopranos" scribe Terence Winter, so they have snap, if not freshness.
  20. Even Money
    An overstructured, overacted indie drama about gambling, addiction, and the sawdusty romanticism of old-time magicians.
  21. Severance
    The chintzy characters, hair-raising deaths, and one spectacular rocket-launcher joke aren't enough to give "Hostel" a run for its blood.
  22. Fay Grim
    The faux espionage plot, with its winks at terrorism, is really just a convoluted plea for the relevance of precious indie artistes (i.e., Hal Hartley).
  23. The Wendell Baker Story
    Feels like an attempt to rebottle the postmodern fizz of Wes Anderson's "Bottle Rocket." I wish instead they'd put a stopper in it.
  24. Hollywood Dreams
    Jaglom's scruffy style doesn't carry it through. He puts enough toxic insincerity on screen to singe, though.
  25. Once
    Until Once, I'm not sure that I'd ever seen a small-scale, nonstylized, kitchen-sink drama in which the songs take on the majesty and devotion of a musical dream.
  26. 28 Weeks Later
    Excels at creating a keen, creepy sense of a civilization stopped dead in its tracks -- vaporized, almost, except for those disemboweled bodies left still undisposed.
  27. Delta Farce
    Here's a sobering thought: If every war gets the comedy it deserves, could Delta Farce, a strenuously unfunny "Three Amigos" knockoff, be our M*A*S*H?
  28. Georgia Rule
    A clunky family-therapy soaper.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    The Ex
    A painful comedy that reduces the "Garden State" star to pratfalls while many comic A-teamers around him (including Paul Rudd and Amy Adams) play idiots.
  30. Provoked: A True Story
    Based on a true story, this Indian variation on a theme of "The Burning Bed" emphasizes the psychological freedom the inmate finds behind bars.
  31. Day Night Day Night
    A stunt masquerading as a statement.
  32. Away from Her
    Munro's stark lily needed none of this gilding.
  33. Spider-Man 3
    Spider-Man 3 has terrific moments, but after the danger and majesty and romantic brio of "Spider-Man 2," those adrenalized rooftop ballets feel, more than ever, like sequences.
  34. Lucky You
    Really, all this movie is about is the joy of checks, calls, folds, rivers, and the acquired thrill of knowing what those words mean.
  35. Paris, je t'aime
    Anthology films usually work better in theory than execution, but this feature parade of shorts is a blithe, worldly, and enchanting exception.
  36. The Treatment
    The filmmaking is rudimentary in The Treatment, Oren Rudavsky's adaptation of Daniel Menaker's novel, but the feeling for the patient-and-shrink dynamic is authentic.
  37. Waitress
    A wee romantic charmer, a delectable Dixie screwball romp that never loses its spry sense of discovery.
  38. Jindabyne
    Jindabyne -- named for the lakeside town in which the troubles spill -- can't contain all that the filmmakers want to throw in. Best to keep glued to the taut performance by Laura Linney.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Condemned
    "Battle Royale," if you've never seen it, is a fantastically sadistic and unapologetically brutal Japanese film from 2000 about miscreants dropped on a jungle island with orders to kill each other for a reality TV show. The Condemned is pretty much the same thing with half the satirical wit and twice the number of wrestlers.
  40. The Invisible
    Chatwin comes off as prickly and annoyed -- they should have called this "Perturbia."
  41. Next
    An immediately forgettable action pic directed with a blowtorch by Lee Tamahori.
  42. Snow Cake
    An awfully tidy, infernally sparkly study in skewed blessings, made manifest by Committed Acting from Sigourney Weaver.
  43. Les amitiés maléfiques
    While the young people chatter about life and literature with sometimes overbearing self-satisfaction, the astute filmmaker observes their pretentious gum-flapping with a mixture of amusement, compassion, and wised-up rue.
  44. Zoo
    You could wander into this poetic documentary willing to be sympathetic toward its subject -- men who have sex with horses -- and still find Zoo cryptic and borderline bogus.
  45. Triad Election
    A muscular sequel to To's riveting 2005 gangster picture "Election."
  46. Hot Fuzz
    In the very funny cop comedy Hot Fuzz, overachieving London police officer Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) commits a very British sin: He's too good.
  47. Vacancy
    Vacancy is a schlock surprise: a no-frills motel-hell slasher film -- with a bit of soul.
  48. Fracture
    Fracture is working on us, playing us, but that's its pleasure. It makes overwrought manipulation seem more than a basic instinct.
  49. In the Land of Women
    Combines hugs and ''pain'' and dialogue so fakey-cute it makes your ears hurt.
  50. The Valet
    A satisfying contraption of twists, missteps, and blithe repartee that produces old-fashioned, honestly earned guffaws.
  51. Stephanie Daley
    The scary culminating flashback, in which Stephanie gives birth -- in a public restroom, on a high school ski trip -- is a marvel of authentic disturbance.
  52. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    The plot can't be summarized: Let's just say that crazy s--- happens, and occasionally, you laugh.
  53. Pathfinder
    Pathfinder's moody, muddy look is courtesy of music-video director Marcus Nispel, who doesn't distinguish between people and tree trunks when it comes to emotional content.
  54. Perfect Stranger
    A crappy thriller gussied up with a chrome-plated veneer.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Everything's Gone Green
    The story -- is slight, but an appealing cast and lots of scenic leafery make Green feel fresh.
  56. Lonely Hearts
    Lonely Hearts never locates the key to the killers' bloody bond.
  57. Year of the Dog
    I mean no impertinence when I say that as a portrait of love and grief, writer-director Mike White's exceptional film Year of the Dog deserves the same admiration accorded Joan Didion's exceptional memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking."
  58. Slow Burn
    A strange, sprained, but sprightly fusion of "The Usual Suspects" and the "Tragic Mulatto," Slow Burn wants badly to turn its standard neo-noir into a nuanced racial chiaroscuro.
  59. Private Fears in Public Places
    The grand old filmmaker frames each scene like a fine painting. And fake snow falls with happy artificiality between rueful vignettes.
  60. Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
    A love poem to the New York City of the '50s and '60s, when Smith, the visionary of camp (Andy Warhol stole from him), more or less invented performance art.
  61. Disturbia
    If it's possible to be a rip-off with wit, Disturbia qualifies.
  62. Grindhouse
    Grindhouse, like "Ed Wood" and "Boogie Nights," celebrates how certain low-grade entertainment, viewed in hindsight, looks different now than it did then, since we can see the ''innocence'' of its creation -- the handmade quality of it -- in a world not yet ruled by corporate technology.
  63. The Hoax
    Gere is terrific at suggesting the kind of addictive cocktail of excitement, panic, chutzpah, creativity, and naked hunger for fame and megabucks that might inspire such big, fat lies.
  64. The TV Set
    If only for the comedy glory of Sigourney Weaver as a TV network president who confuses acid reflux with gut instinct, this very smart, very funny movie about the making of a network sitcom is a cut-glass gem of a showbiz conceit.
  65. The Reaping
    No belief on earth can rescue Swank from a film that's a chain of disaster chintz masquerading as a sermon.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Are We Done Yet?
    Atrocious sequel.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Firehouse Dog
    The terrier Rexxx might be the least appealing mutt ever to slobber on screen.
  68. Black Book
    Black Book may be the looniest use of the Holocaust as a playground since Roberto Benigni served up his infernal clown act in "Life Is Beautiful."
  69. Killer of Sheep
    Way ahead of its time 30 years ago, and just as stunning today, Killer of Sheep is one of those marvels of original moviemaking that keeps hope of artistic independence alive.
  70. 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.
  71. The Lookout
    A thriller that wheezes along on bits and pieces of ''character.''
  72. Meet the Robinsons
    Who knows whether the project is meant to be earnest, ironic, post-ironic, made for adults, made for kids, made to teach lessons, or made to be watched in an altered state? All or none...jeez, this thing is one bumpy ride.
  73. After the Wedding
    Talented filmmaker Susanne Bier (Brothers), armed with an outstanding compositional sense, keeps control over the storms of melodrama that swirl in this rich weepie.
  74. Sacco and Vanzetti
    It's cleansing to see the facts laid out with intimacy and rigor, and the film earns the comparison it makes to the squelching of due process for some of today's terror suspects.
  75. Shooter
    The ultimate crime of this paranoid enemy-of-the-state pulp, directed with more style than brains by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), is how dull it is.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Hills Have Eyes II
    A retro horror-comedy featuring quick deaths and cheapo-looking gore, with a few dorky laughs and gross-outs but not so many scares.
  77. The Last Mimzy
    The newcomer kids are delightfully...kidlike. Cosmic bonus: "The Office's" Rainn Wilson plays a New Agey science teacher.
  78. Pride
    Pride doesn't have much surprise, but it's a formula picture of genuine feeling.
  79. Reign Over Me
    A strange, black-and-blue therapeutic drama equally mottled with likable good intentions and agitating clumsiness.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    TMNT
    This all-CG reboot is missing the goofy excitement of the old TMNT.
  81. Air Guitar Nation
    When C-Diddy (a.k.a. David Jung), in his samurai superman suit, does his note-perfect, lip-twisting, belly-jiggling manic mime of Extreme's ''Play With Me,'' it's hard not to grin and admit that, yes, this is almost an art form.
  82. Color Me Kubrick
    The film reveals, rather delectably, how potent the power of suggestion can be in a world gone madly groupie.
  83. First Snow
    First Snow is essentially a short story with a metaphysical twist, but Pearce puts his fears more up front than any actor I can think of.
  84. Offside
    Jafar Panahi's wonderfully funny, outspoken shaggy-dog story, a light counterweight to his sadder 2000 feminist drama "The Circle."
  85. The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
    Eight months of interrogation and torture in fetid Abu Ghraib followed before he was released, innocent. None of The Prisoner's showy flourishes -- animation, sound effects, fancy editing -- can match the power of Abbas' stillness as he describes one man's agony in one huge hell.
  86. Dead Silence
    Terrified of puppets? Enjoy being scared? Then you'll be half-satisfied with Dead Silence, a rote horror pantomime.
  87. I Think I Love My Wife
    I Think I Love My Wife has got to be the unlikeliest French New Wave classic ever to be retrofitted by a famous African-American stand-up comedian best known for his stinging social commentary -- at least until Dave Chappelle remakes Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" as a hip-hop caper.
  88. Premonition
    One piece of advice in trying to make sense of it all: Follow the sleepwear, since Bullock cycles through a few garments that clarify which day is which. Another suggestion? Ignore the two-bit psychological and spiritual doggerel with which screenwriter Bill Kelly tries to deepen the meaning of the game.
  89. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    If Loach had given full voice to each side of this division, he could have made a great film -- maybe THE great film -- about the Irish struggle.
  90. American Cannibal: The Road to Reality
    The writers act shocked at how low they are stooping, but given their desire to write sitcoms, you have to wonder.
  91. 300
    Look, but don't be touched: There is much to see but little to remember in this telling of a battle we are meant never to forget.
  92. The Host
    Bong Joon-ho's wildly entertaining saga should become the hip, thinking-person's monster movie of choice.
  93. Beyond the Gates
    John Hurt is magnetic as a Catholic priest running a school where terrified Tutsi have taken refuge, while Hugh Dancy, as a naive teacher, represents white commitment to black Africa at its most impotent and unreliable.
  94. Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
    Maxed Out, while occasionally muddled in its financial details, presents a more-accurate-than-not vision of a nation that is starting to look like a candidate for rehab, on both an individual and a national level, for its addiction to debt.
  95. The Namesake
    Moving and marvelous new cross-cultural family saga.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ultimate Gift
    Kind of like a feel-good "Saw" for churchgoers, minus the sadistic games of death.
  97. The Exterminating Angels
    The new movie, for all its huffing and puffing, explores very little, even if some of it is sexy in a Howard Stern-meets-"9 1?2Weeks" way.
  98. Zodiac
    Zodiac never veers from its stoically gripping, police-blotter tone, yet it begins to take on the quality of a dream.
  99. Wild Hogs
    Nothing about this sputtering midlife-crisis family comedy is natural except the timeless notion that even the most latte-tamed baby boomer has the power to reclaim his inner Iron John. Ray Liotta provides the one true blast of comedic energy as the leader of a real, more pugnacious head-butting gang who tangles with the four amigos.
  100. Black Snake Moan
    Be prepared to collapse into a hoot and a howl of hilarity at all the wrong moments.
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