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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. Exit Wounds
    In its low grade way, this blithely brutal cops and drugs thriller is an efficient hot wire entertainment.
  2. Sugar Town
    That durable, sexy powerhouse Beverly D'Angelo steals every scene she's in.
  3. Onegin
    Tatyana, the embodiment of a heroine whose still waters run deep, requires more maturity than Tyler as yet possesses.
  4. Romeo Must Die
    Doesn't take advantage of its own possibilities, either as a hard-boiled gangland battle or as a soft-boiled, interracial Shakespearean love story.
  5. Solas
    After all of its sadness, a tender redemptive glow.
  6. The Real Cancun
    It's just a camcorder soap opera of packaged hormonal fervor -- ''The Real World'' with extra tequila body shots.
  7. Harrison's Flowers
    A chintzy melodrama gussied up as hair-trigger combat ''reality,'' but there's no denying the vividness with which the French cowriter-director Elie Chouraqui has visualized the chaos of Croatia.
  8. The Skulls
    Antielitist, anti-hypocrisy, pro-feel-good entertainment.
  9. The Trials of Henry Kissinger
    Watching this film, one is left with the inescapable conclusion that Hitchens' obsession with Kissinger is, at bottom, a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of human power. The movie isn't, finally, an argument. It's a long angry ''Boo!''
  10. The Caveman's Valentine
    There is pleasure in giving oneself up to the gusty swirls of the film's imagery, and especially to the handsome grandeur of its star.
  11. Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire
    This sunny ode to brotherhood, made on a tiny budget, goes a fair distance on good vibes.
  12. Vénus beauté (institut)
    Clever and smooth, yet, like Angèle herself (or Nathalie Baye), the film is almost too placid for its own good.
  13. Final
    Did Scott, too, get hooked by the 1998 Spanish film ''Open Your Eyes?'' Intentionally or not, he has made ''Overcast Vanilla Sky.''
    • 51 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Birthday Girl
    If British writer-director Jez Butterworth had let his sophomore picture get as dirty as Kidman's game recklessness invited -- she started this before ''Moulin Rouge'' and ''The Others'' -- he would have served up a tasty piece of cake.
  15. CQ
    Coppola, who has made clever music videos, including the one for Moby's ''Honey,'' clearly had a lot of fun detailing the mod cheesiness of this intergalactic period piece, though the satire would have been more ticklish if ''Austin Powers'' hadn't gotten there first.
  16. Bad Company
    Joel Schumacher directs with far less fetishism than he might have, while producer Jerry Bruckheimer kicks up only a fraction of the bull dust usually visible in his projects.
  17. All the Little Animals
    Where the movie falters is in sustaining the tricky balance between pastoral life lessons and creepy suspense.
  18. Scotland, Pa.
    Funny? Yes, but in its slapdash way, it sounds nuttier than it plays.
  19. Naqoyqatsi
    If Microsoft and Nike ever merged into one corporate megalith (MicroNike?) and commissioned Leni Riefenstahl to direct its visionary new Super Bowl commercial, the result might look something like Godfrey Reggio's Naqoyqatsi.
  20. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    The songs of the South African freedom fighters were a literal call to arms. The music succeeded -- magnificently. The movie, on the other hand, is only so-so.
  21. Josie and the Pussycats
    The movie's got bounce. Spanked along by a soundtrack that has a surprising punky bite for something aimed at 13-year-olds.
  22. A Housekeeper
    By the end, you may marvel at the film's worldly-wise wink of maturity. You may also think, Is that all?
  23. Edtv
    The fact that Ed's life has been channeled into entertainment never achieves much tension or comic zest. That's because Howard thinks in cookie-cutter ''situations'' to begin with.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brotherhood of the Wolf
    This is one of those follies that go beyond pesky, bourgeois notions of ''good'' and ''bad.''
  25. Cookie's Fortune
    In theaters, the lazy haziness of this Southern ensemble comedy made the story feel like it was stuck in the mud.
  26. B. Monkey
    You may roll your eyes a bit at the glib, transparent, indie-grunge romanticism.
  27. The Contender
    Engages in the cinematic equivalent of not inhaling.
  28. Billy Elliot
    Even as the director, Stephen Daldry, places his star front and center, he doesn't know how to highlight him.
  29. Vertical Limit
    By laying on disasters with a trowel, misses the chance to sweep us up into a more elegant fantasy of primitive mountaintop terror.
  30. A Perfect Murder
    I've seen far worse thrillers than A Perfect Murder, but the movie is ultimately more competent than pleasurable.
  31. Finding Forrester
    Highly unoriginal but nevertheless stirring drama.
  32. Fantasia 2000
    Oh well, back to the drawing board.
  33. Happy, Texas
    A comedy of '90s sexual inclusiveness as effervescent as a cold sody pop -- and about as intoxicating.
  34. Last Orders
    The storytelling may be ordinary, but the cast is one of those all-star reunions.
  35. Get Bruce
    An affectionate puff profile.
  36. Hart's War
    It may seem harmless, to some, that our movies have never entirely abandoned the land of Poitier-ville, but as Hart's War demonstrates, it's an insult that they haven't.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Blast from the Past
    As pleasantly plastic as its retro-chic sets.
  38. The Third Miracle
    Suggests that finding one good priest is a feasibility, but it takes a miracle to meet one as hubba-hubba as Ed Harris.
  39. Thomas in Love
    The movie, after a while, drifts into an all too literal parable of the limits of never leaving the house.
  40. Legally Blonde
    She may be follically blond, but as an actor of distinction who's all of 25, Reese Witherspoon reveals interesting dark roots even as she plays golden girls.
  41. Full Frontal
    Even by Soderbergh's standards of serious playfulness/playful seriousness, Full Frontal is a tricky novelty item: The director himself has variously described it as an ''experiment,'' an ''exercise,'' and a ''sketch.''
  42. Jakob the Liar
    Of course, there's still the Williams schmaltz factor.
  43. The Sum of All Fears
    A world-detonation thriller, at once urgent and lazy, that benefits from its connection to current events and also, by the end, suffers from it.
  44. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    It seems pompous and scattershot now -- a tweaking of privileged European smugness that unfolds with a playful daisy-chain logic but has the tone of a quaint, doddering lecture.
  45. The Deep End
    Displays a promise it doesn't, in the end, live up to. See it for Swinton's embodiment of unadulterated maternal will.
  46. The Heart of Me
    In their own precisely posed ways, the drenched players in The Heart of Me are as compelling as those in any less decorum-bound love triangle.
  47. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    There are instances when the filmmaker tries for Western iconography and settles for ''Full Monty'' ingratiation.
  48. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Messy and scattershot, with a plot that's little more than a dirty version of ''Flubber.''
    • 45 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Deep End of the Ocean
    If the film was less than satisfying as a big-screen event, it's still worth renting for Pfeiffer, who valiantly portrays the devastating complexities of grief and guilt.
  50. Dog Park
    This shambling romantic comedy...clings to a sensibility that's imperviously, uncompromisingly Canadian.
  51. Mystery Men
    This hip send-up of the superhero lifestyle has a bunch of great comic bits from a group of great, eccentric talents, but not enough bourgeois discipline to see the story through.
  52. Men of Honor
    Educational and upstanding, a little overacted and more than a little overdramatized. But it's honorable.
  53. Phone Booth
    It's an energetic stunt of a movie, and it wants to make us sweat like it's 1974.
  54. The Big Tease
    More a sampling of previous crowd-pleasers...than a fashion statement all its own.
  55. My Life Without Me
    This hankie-yanker is an emotional cheat.
  56. The Singing Detective
    Robert Downey Jr. is great in a role no one less magnetically reckless would dare approach.
  57. In My Skin
    An experience you won't easily shake.
  58. The Code
    Doesn't have much time for refinement of image or elegance of plot. What it's got instead is an insider's feel for the local, excitable hoodlum life and speech.
  59. The Man in the Iron Mask
    Wallace, unfortunately, writes lazy, anachronistic dialogue, and the picture is abysmally shot (by Peter Suschitzky), with a prosaic, low-budget look that never allows you to experience the enraptured majesty of a fairy-tale historical setting.
  60. Lost in Space
    Is any of this, you know, fun? Just barely. But I'm sure I would have loved it at 6.
  61. Lawless Heart
    The storytelling structure is far more interesting than the story itself. And the elegiac pictures of boats and water are, dismayingly, most engrossing of all.
  62. Hey Arnold! The Movie
    The ethical, independent-minded kid has his unhip charms, and so does Hey Arnold! The Movie.
  63. With All Deliberate Speed
    Sober and honorable, yet it's far from searching.
  64. Hollywood Homicide
    Is it, you know, fun? At times. Yet there's a rote quality to the way this half-dumb, half-sly movie resolves itself into an intentional debauch, a pileup of villainy and heavy metal. The only California dream it leaves you with is one of wretched excess.
  65. Kandahar
    With its lyrical vision of oppression, looks, if anything, milder now than it might have before the war.
  66. Basic Instinct
    Beneath its heavy-breathing fripperies, though, Basic Instinct is mechanical and routine, a muddle of Hitchcockian red herrings and standard cop-thriller ballistics.
  67. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    At once brasher and more frivolous, she's a lot less compelling fighting for the welfare of lab-test animals than she was crusading for her own dignity.
  68. Tomcats
    In its mingling of horniness and disgust, Tomcats attains a convoluted cleverness.
  69. K-PAX
    I rather like the whole mystic- crystal-revelations aspect of K-PAX, and the idea that even a psychiatrist of Jeff Bridges' handsome, American substantiality is open to notions of cosmic improbability.
  70. Windtalkers
    Windtalkers blows this way and that, but there's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall grass, true to himself.
  71. Groundhog Day
    The funniest moments in Groundhog Day come when Phil takes sneaky advantage of his predicament-by, say, pumping a sexy woman in the local coffee shop for facts about her past and then, ''the next day,'' using the information to lure her into bed. What the movie lacks is the ingenious, lapidary comic structure that could have made these moments fuse into something tricky and wild.
  72. Die, Mommie, Die!
    Busch, looking like a depressed Stockard Channing, throws his tantrums with breathy ''aristocratic'' hauteur. Yet the movie winds up walking a line between put-on pastiche and kitsch passion, and Jason Priestley is perfect as a brooding lunkhead of Tab Hunter gigolo-osity.
  73. What a Girl Wants
    In her sassy but scrubbed way, Bynes is a real charmer, and What a Girl Wants is a likable throwaway.
  74. Buena Vista Social Club
    What the film leaves unexplained is how this joyous musical outpouring, which predated the revolution, could fare under a system with a pathological distrust of beauty.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Ronin
    It's not just the crack stunt driving that makes Ronin such a welcome throwback; it's also the existential hardness of this thriller's motley band of mercenaries.
  76. The Siege
    It's a cautionary tale about the excesses of jingoist paranoia, and the folly of it all is that the more the film descends into somber liberal chest thumping, the less engrossing it becomes.
  77. Star Trek: Nemesis
    A little bit obsessed with replication.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    A Walk on the Moon
    The tone of this tale is more easy-listening than acid rock.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Brokedown Palace
    It's strangely enjoyable to see her(Danes) and Beckinsale busted on a bogus heroin-smuggling rap and thrown in the slammer with bad 'dos and no makeup.
  80. Cherish
    Disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an ''Alice in Wonderland'' adventure, a stalker thriller, and a condensed season of TV's ''Big Brother.''
  81. American Pie 2
    Even though they're now college dudes, fulfillment for fellas is still predicated on copping a feel and downing a brewski.
  82. Teacher's Pet
    The somewhat rococo songs and earthy pop-art animation tread a very fine line between heady and headachy.
  83. The Fifth Element
    The future-shock details are witty, the sets and skyscapes spectacular. Besson may not be a good director, exactly, but he's a wizard at retrofitting cliches.
  84. One True Thing
    In the end, One True Thing suggests, families can be healed even in loss. This may not be a true thing, but at least this emotional drama offers up hope, sweet like one of Kate Gulden's tasty cakes.
  85. U.S. Marshals
    Efficient, uninspired sequel.
  86. To Die For
    The film's most memorable performance is also its most incongruous: As Jimmy, the teen sap who falls hard for Suzanne, Joaquin Phoenix is dead-eyed yet touchingly vulnerable -- a mush-mouthed angel.
  87. Kissing Jessica Stein
    All too content to be a comedy of surfaces and stereotypes. And because, for all the novelty of the bisexual romantic angle, there's something about Jessica, her New York-singleton ticks and her Jewish-family tocks, that feels...old.
  88. Hearts in Atlantis
    Too poky and contrived to be a good movie, but its lushly serene atmospherics, given current events, make it a pure slice of sentimental comfort food.
  89. Son of the Bride
    Has an appealing modesty, but director Juan José Campanella works so hard to keep everything soft and winsome and charming that he cushions the understatement into blandness.
  90. The Bone Collector
    A skeleton-thin thriller wrapped in glamorous production values.
  91. The Mummy
    There is much to look at--it's like spending two hours in Michael Jackson's Undead Neverland--but not a lot at stake.
  92. Rock Star
    This movie is as packed with flashy bogusness as a lead singer's tight leather trousers. On the other hand, there's nothing bogus about the charisma and tough sweetness of Wahlberg.
  93. Intact
    Somewhere in this broody ''Twilight Zone''-ish story about magical thinking (and the lure, to filmmakers, of garish casino culture) is a provocative and maybe even shocking thought on the Holocaust as a crapshoot.
  94. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    The story has more holes than the bodies do, but the shocks are efficient, and Party of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt knows how to scream with soul.
  95. 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.
  96. Songcatcher
    There are mountain tunes as powerful as moonshine to be enjoyed in Songcatcher -- but there's also a mighty mushy heap of corn pone to be swallowed.
  97. Cats & Dogs
    The plot and script sag like worn out chew toys just when Cats & Dogs should be in full squeak.
  98. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    The fact that it's difficult to believe someone who looks as dewy as Tautou would be so dangerous is much of the game.
  99. The Legend of 1900
    It's usually a good idea to avoid anything billed as ''a fable,'' but The Legend of 1900 offers almost enough merits to warrant an exception
  100. Kate & Leopold
    It's no myth: All play and no work makes Jackman, as Leopold, a doll of a boyfriend.
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