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  1. Heartless
    Unpredictability isn't this horror film's strength, but it's stylishly crafted and excellently acted, and it boasts an abundance of heart in every sense of the word.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Fading Gigolo
    He (Turturro) lands a three-way with two eager ladies (Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara), but it’s his platonic meet-up with a lonely Hasidic widow (Vanessa Paradis) that establishes the deepest bond.
  3. Glory Road
    Still, it's only just a jump shot or two before Glory Road settles into its rudimentary, music-cued rhythms of classroom civics lessons punctuated by on-court action.
  4. The One and Only Ivan
    Watching Ivan discover his love of art is intoxicating, too, particularly when his realization that he can use it to communicate results in a truly breathtaking tableau. The film’s genuine bursts of emotion, combined with the wry warmth of the vocal performances and the deftly realistic rendering of the CGI animals, give the project a silverback gorilla-sized heaping of heart.
  5. We Bought a Zoo
    The movie is like Doctor Dolittle remade as a therapeutic sudser. By the end, it got to me.
  6. Everything Is Illuminated
    For one of those obstreperously original books that are themselves impossible to translate, Everything Is Illuminated is impressively well lit.
  7. Stone
    Milla Jovovich slinks cartoonishly as Stone's seductive wife, on a mission to compromise the lawman. Lordy.
  8. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    Much like the entries of the original trilogy, at its heart, Dial is a rip-roaring adventure that borrows more from the cinematic language of golden age swashbucklers than modern blockbusters.
  9. Felon
    Val Kilmer, as a polite horn-rimmed sociopath with a heart of gold, keeps showing up to drop Nietzschean pensées.
  10. The Invention of Lying
    The performances are razor sharp. And the ideas in this movie are, no kidding, big.
  11. The Yards
    A drama about corruption in the city's transit system that's not only hard boiled but also dipped in egg batter dialogue and deep fried.
  12. Death Race 2000
    Death Race 2000 isn’t the sharp satire Corman thinks it is, but it’s fun.
  13. Benny & Joon
    Benny & Joon turns out to be a whimsical (and not very well paced) heart tugger in which two nice couples spend 98 ever-so-slightly flaky minutes figuring out that they’re perfect for each other.
  14. The Lords of Salem
    Unfortunately, it’s just a witchy mess.
  15. Renaissance
    Connoisseurs of digital animation, graphic novels, and the history of dystopian art will have plenty to discuss about Christian Volckman's visually striking, technically impressive black-and-white animated feature Renaissance…But no one will be talking about the movie's banal plot, the trite dialogue, or any of the indistinguishable characters who offer a bleak futuristic vision of cinema that's all style, no soul.
  16. Wayne's World
    As a movie, Wayne's World isn't much more than an amiable goof, yet it's carried along by the flaked-out exuberance of its two stars.
  17. Crank
    The movie is cranked up somewhere between stylish and proudly stupid, dusted with sunniness from Amy Smart (as Chev's sleepy girlfriend) -- and guaranteed to be out of your system by the time the lights come up.
  18. Special
    Thanks to Rapaport's brio in embracing the hero's drug-induced delusions, the movie is less a failure than a noble experiment gone awry.
  19. Keeping Up with the Steins
    Garry Marshall takes over the movie (no mystery: his son, Scott, directed it), and Keeping Up With the Steins turns into a recipe to forget: chopped liver with ''heart.''
  20. Flawless
    It's left to Caine to wink and nod at his own contribution to real caper classics of the 1960s and '70s, produced with more emphasis on fun and less on instructive fact-finding.
  21. Daybreakers
    Daybreakers turns?into a ponderous apocalyptic chase film -- it's like "Children of Men" with exploding-plasma shock effects.
  22. Trishna
    The shots of urban traffic jams have more spark than the story, which skips from a pregnancy to the filming of a musical to murder - without convincing us of any of it.
  23. Lila Says
    Lila, played by Vahina Giocante, who resembles a sexed-up young Emma Thompson, is a teasing, 16-year-old blond baby doll with a gleam of perception beyond her years.
  24. Pet Sematary
    Fortunately, directing duo Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer get everything absolutely right in their bone-chillingly effective new remake.
  25. Paul
    Graeme and Clive, representatives of a nation of nonbelievers in UFOs and big dinner portions, come to the psychic capital of a country that wants to believe, and they're transformed. In Paul, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost do likewise, in celebration of what the Spielbergian cosmos is all about.
  26. Color Me Kubrick
    The film reveals, rather delectably, how potent the power of suggestion can be in a world gone madly groupie.
  27. My Wife Is an Actress
    With every detail in this clever peekaboo, the sly filmmaker dangles the possibility that fiction is fact and that Yvan and Charlotte are real -- or at least as real as the movies.
  28. Holy Smoke
    Too tightly made not to keep you watching, Holy Smoke is also too hokey and didactic to take seriously.
  29. The Ring
    The best thing about the movie, which is a very elegantly crafted piece of gothic snuff hokum, is the way it teases and intrigues us with the revelation of what's on that tape.
  30. Osmosis Jones
    Oscillates between streaky black comedy and sanitary instruction.
  31. The Laundromat
    If a motley crew of movie stars is what it takes to shine more light on government malfeasance, then let Meryl carry that torch in a wig and a bucket hat. But as a pure movie-going experience, it’s all kind of a wash.
  32. The Zookeeper's Wife
    Even at its most engaging (those cubs!), Zookeeper can’t help evoking the dozens of films that have told these stories before, and better.
  33. The Woman in the Fifth
    Heavy on mood and murk.
  34. The World Is Not Enough
    The hero himself has been denatured for a young, late 1990s audience with little appreciation for real suavity or sex play.
  35. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
    Disappearance is worth watching for Chastain's fierce performance as a woman swallowed up by bone-deep grief. If we can feel exactly what Eleanor is feeling, maybe we're not so alone after all.
  36. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    I wish I could say that the film is half as intriguing as it sounds, but A Woman, a Gun... lacks the Coen brothers' precision, their diabolical game-board cleverness. It's a remake in shaggy outline only.
  37. Flicka
    As for our heroine (Lohman), her archetypal struggle with crusty Pa (uncrusty Tim McGraw) feels attitude-heavy and life-lesson-light.
  38. Bram Stoker's Dracula
    The director has dressed up a classic tale in mesmerizing visual overkill without coming close to its dark heart. [13 Nov 1992, p. 56]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  39. Mifune's Last Song
    As loose and restful as pajamas.
  40. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    It's not every comedy that can make you laugh with ridicule and cringe in empathetic horror at the same time.
  41. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    It's ''The Matrix'' meets ''TRON'' meets ''Jimmy Neutron,'' with all the cheery (if not cheesy) evanescence of a Jolly Rancher commercial. I mean that as a compliment.
  42. The Intouchables
    The power dynamic may charm the French, but it's likely to push the cringe buttons of local moviegoers in Obama's post-"The Green Mile America." Apart from the wince-inducing moments, The Intouchables is often a pleasant buddy picture.
  43. Thor
    It's not art, but it's mighty fun.
  44. Permanent Midnight
    Permanent Midnight never shows us who Jerry Stahl was before he began shooting junk, and so we have no real stake in what the drugs did to him. He’s a case study in search of a movie.
  45. Body of Lies
    Most of this just seems, you know, so three years ago, so "Bourne" again.
  46. The Wedding Guest
    The phrase “low-key thriller” might be an oxymoron, but it also feels like the best description of The Wedding Guest.
  47. Towelhead
    As it becomes clear that Ball, in essence, has just restaged American Beauty with a socially conscious paint job, the sensationalism of Towelhead looks more and more like a dramatic tic.
  48. Antlers
    For all its eerie scene-setting and squishy entrails, Antlers never really exposes the emotional guts of its narrative beyond the scope of midnight-movie horror; without that, it's just another nightmare fairytale leaning hard on heavy vibes and jump scares, and losing the forest for the trees.
  49. Space Jam
    This mediocrity disguised as entertainment, this greed promoted as synergy — this, to paraphrase that seminal media study, Broadcast News, is what the devil looks like.
  50. The Groomsmen
    Every actor registers...In a film of minor ambition, they're all worthy company.
  51. Bite
    It seems to exist merely to spoil your appetite.
  52. Adult Beginners
    There aren’t enough laughs here to goose it past formulaic. It’s harmless and mild and likable, but it’s also a toothless comedy that should have had some bite.
  53. Scent of a Woman
    In the end, Scent of a Woman offers little more than lumbering simulation of Rain Man's nimble magic. But Pacino's performance-scabrous, tender, ripely theatrical-is a master showman's trick.
  54. Little Buddha
    You hardly need to be devoted to the ways of Buddhism to see when a gifted filmmaker, for the sake of multicultural niceness, has enthusiastically abandoned his mind.
  55. Happy Endings
    There are pleasing outcomes for almost everyone in Happy Endings, and that's not good news.
  56. The Missing Person
    Overly fussy and self-conscious in its noir details. But in The Missing Person, Buschel makes striking use of the Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe tradition.
  57. Kodachrome
    Kodachrome isn’t a bad movie, it just never for a moment feels like a real one: A road-trip dramedy so schematic and loaded for emotional bear it feels like it was generated by a Sundance screenwriting app.
  58. Encounter
    Riz Ahmed takes Encounter a long way. But he can't single-handedly carry a film that never quite figures out what it wants to be — stark sci-fi paranoia? Psychological family drama? Desert road-trip apocalypse?
  59. The Boys Are Back
    With those piercing eyes, Owen makes a lovely, soulful Joe, of course. But it's not the nice papa we want to understand here, it's the unapologetically naughty one.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Red Violin
    Carefully crafted, lushly romantic.
  61. Bossa Nova
    The air smells sweet and there's a thrumming beat in Bossa Nova.
  62. Mr 3000
    It's a canned clip reel of Heartwarming Sports Comedy, intermittently redeemed by its easygoing boomer vibe. And at its center is the redoubtable Bernie Mac, nicely aged, as he says, ''like USDA beef.''
  63. 13 Going on 30
    The rare commercial comedy that leaves you entranced by what can happen only in the movies.
  64. Bright Days Ahead
    The script is wispy, but the performances (including Patrick Chesnais as Caroline’s prideful, devastated husband) shine.
  65. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    What work better in the movie are mostly smaller moments: the jokes that land, the rapport between the reporters, and all the weirdly ordinary ways people manage to find a new normal, even in the most WTF circumstances.
  66. Fifty Dead Men Walking
    Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) makes a believable cocky lad who signs on for the con; an oddly bewigged Ben Kingsley is fussier and too actorly as his handler.
  67. Chemical Hearts
    An adaptation of Krystal Sutherland’s YA novel Our Chemical Hearts, Tanne’s second film doesn’t live up to the promise of his first, lacking its texture and specificity, but still offers small insights and worthy central performances.
  68. The Broken Hearts Gallery
    If the movie had just a little bit of truth, it could speak to people without "relatable" pandering about how adulting is hard and men are jerks! It's easy to parade around an ostentatiously broken heart, but that only means anything if it comes with baring a little bit of soul.
  69. Army of the Dead
    Army of the Dead grills its cheese to a crisp, but Bautista adds some healthy flavor. His headshots never miss your heart.
  70. Kinky Boots
    The fact that this formulaically winsome movie, directed by British TV helmer Julian Jarrold, is based on product-line changes at a real Northamptonshire factory does little to freshen its approach.
  71. Our Kind of Traitor
    The film, while gorgeously shot, is schematic and wholly implausible. But Skarsgård saves it; wild and funny and ferociously alive, he’s a crucial bolt of color in all that tasteful gray.
  72. Smart People
    Smart People, unlike "Sideways" or "The Savages," has a plot that's a little too rote.
  73. Candy
    A wildly romanticized Australian druggie drama.
  74. Bad Words
    Bateman deserves props for sustaining Bad Words as a little balancing act between sulfurously funny hatred and humanity.
  75. Uncle Drew
    You more or less know what this soft-drink-sponsored movie is going to be as soon as the lights start to dim. What makes it worth recommending is that it ends up being just slightly more than that by the time the lights come back on.
  76. The Fourth War
    The Fourth War is an old-soldiers-never-die movie — an ironic elegy — and though much of the story is contrived and second-rate, Scheider gives a richly felt performance.
  77. Katy Perry: Part of Me
    Part of Me works hard to prove it's more than a glorified infomercial, and one reason it is more is that Perry has a startling story to tell.
  78. Flesh and Bone
    In Baker Boys, Kloves crafted a melancholy vision laced with ripe possibilities for pleasure and love. But the movie was (inexplicably, to me) a commercial disappointment, and Kloves, perhaps as a delayed response, has returned with a vision drained of joy, freedom, excitement.
  79. The Newton Boys
    Scored to a disarmingly quaint array of fiddle-and-banjo tunes, The Newton Boys has so little in the way of blood or rancor that before long, you begin to notice that there's no real drama in it, either.
  80. The Grand
    Each of these improv farceurs wins a few laughs. But not enough.
  81. The Forbidden Kingdom
    This kingdom really should be forbidden.
  82. Albert Nobbs
    Close's passion for the character she plays - 
a role, she has explained in interviews, that has absorbed her since she first played Nobbs on stage 30 years ago - contains its own intrigue.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    What's Cooking?
    Like the meal itself, the movie's both filling and familiar.
  84. The Human Stain
    The Human Stain is, contradictorily, drained of color by the spotlight turned on its charismatic leads. Between the labors of simplifying the story for the screen and accommodating the stardust of world-class actors, an essentially, uniquely American tragic hero and heroine are bleached of real American tragedy.
  85. Lights in the Dusk
    There's great music, an excellent dog, and that indescribable Kaurismäki tension between misery and a cosmic joke.
  86. Chimpanzee
    No amount of gorgeous jungle footage can make up for the fact that this Disney-produced documentary feels about as natural as an episode of "The Hills," though with (slightly) more feral characters.
  87. Southpaw
    Gyllenhaal’s Southpaw performance is great, but for reasons unrelated to his physique. He’s thrilling to watch and the only unpredictable thing in a two-hours-plus movie where you can count on one hand the number of moments that aren’t hand-me-downs from better boxing films like "Rocky," "Raging Bull," and "Fat City."
  88. Instant Family
    At its heart (and it’s a big corny heart, for sure), the film’s message is one of unconditional love and embracing family wherever you find it. It’s hard to argue with. Especially when it’s served up with such spiky laughter-through-tears sweetness.
  89. Happy Death Day 2U
    Look, no one is expecting much from a movie called Happy Death Day 2U. Certainly not air-tight logic. But this chapter feels phoned in. And unless you’re really, really desperate for a new horror movie to check out, you might want to think twice about accepting the charges.
  90. The Secret Life of Bees
    The Secret Life of Bees is a lesson -- or, rather, a whole series of them -- we no longer need to learn. Of course, it's also a divine-sisterhood-defeats-all chick flick, and on that score there's no denying that its clichés are rousingly up to date.
  91. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    The film chooses style over substance, emphasizing how cool the children’s powers are without fleshing them out as full characters. To compete with Burton’s best, his heroic weirdos need a little more heart—and the monsters need sharper teeth.
  92. Miss Potter
    Miss Potter, right to the end, is the definition of a "nice" movie, and that makes it a genuine oddball in a universe of increasingly distressed and uncivilized pop culture.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Best of Times
    It’s hardly a great Williams performance, nor would it make the short list of really good football movies, but there’s something very sweet and innocent about it—especially Williams’ hopeless dreamer.
  94. Evil Dead
    The new Evil Dead's delirious gross-out scenes spoke to me, and they go further than any mainstream picture I can think of.
  95. Thor: Love and Thunder
    Even in Valhalla or Paradise City, though, there is still love and loss; Thor dutifully delivers both, and catharsis in a climax that inevitably doubles as a setup for the next installment.
  96. Madagascar
    Dishes up some very corny jokes, but the images have a brighter-than-life vivacity.
  97. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
    Harold and Kumar, fortunately, never lose their verbally relentless way of delivering raunch as pure common sense.
  98. City of Ghosts
    Turns out to be a supple, intriguing, and beautifully staged movie. It features Dillon, in his most forceful performance since ''Drugstore Cowboy.''
  99. My Life Without Me
    This hankie-yanker is an emotional cheat.
  100. Titus
    Remains a sampling of stagy scenes barreling to a gruesome climax, parts greater than the sum of the whole.
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