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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. Giuliani Time
    The trouble with Giuliani Time is that Keating, as a filmmaker, wants to give power to the people but in his every perception he takes it away from them.
  2. 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.''
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Saving Shiloh
    Saving Shiloh is like one of those wholesome, old-fashioned films that you used to watch with your third-grade classmates during visits to the library.
  4. Wah-Wah
    An overdeveloped coming-of-age potboiler.
  5. Sketches of Frank Gehry
    Gehry sketches and free-associates about how he's not nearly the menschy aw-shucks pussycat from Canada he appears to be but rather a wily, complicated L.A. lion.
  6. Russian Dolls
    Russian Dolls captures how being a sexual cad has become an essential phase in the life of the modern male.
  7. Mission: Impossible III
    A gratifyingly clever, booby-trapped thriller that has enough fun and imagination and dash to more than justify its existence.
  8. Art School Confidential
    Insistently sullen, nihilistic, and successful to the point of smugness at transmitting buzzkill, Art School Confidential is the second collaboration between art-house cartoonist Daniel Clowes and director Terry Zwigoff.
  9. An American Haunting
    The unnecessarily famous cast for such a standard, creaking, fake-spooky ghost story (with Bible verses thrown in for good measure).
  10. Hoot
    Don't let the Carl Hiaasen pedigree fool you: Hoot is an Afterschool Special too crummy to give a hoot about.
  11. Down in the Valley
    As long as Norton plays Harlan as a modern-day Joe Buck, a kind of four-in-the-afternoon cowboy, we're drawn by his waltz of innocence and vagueness. But Down in the Valley turns out to be one of those films with a thick, gummy overlay of Western ''mythology.''
  12. The Proposition
    A pitiless yet elegiac Australian Western as caked with beauty as it is with blood.
  13. United 93
    Pulling the bandage of sentiment cleanly away from oozing concepts like ''heroism'' and ''our nation's war on terror'' in the aftermath of recent wounds, here's a drama about the most politically charged crisis of our time that grants the dignity of autonomy to every soul involved.
  14. Stick It
    A deliriously, defiantly unfocused headrush, Stick It is primarily an exercise in exercise.
  15. Akeelah and the Bee
    Blessed with excellent turns by Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne, this feel-gooder revels in its hip-to-be-square hyperliteracy, and neatly exceeds its own PSA-ness, practically amounting to a black, preteen "Good Will Hunting."
  16. RV
    As Williams ricochets between playing submissive soft-drink executive tethered to the whims of a hysterical boss and pathetic dad at the wheel, trying to cajole his family into vacation satisfaction, we can be excused for getting carsick.
  17. The Lost City
    Though the filmmaker's feel for his Cuban heritage is bone-deep, it's a glazed and dolorous movie - a depressed epic.
  18. Water
    The movie takes the form of a lackluster women's-prison picture.
  19. Lady Vengeance
    "Old Boy's" vivid star Choi Min-sik plays a terrible schoolteacher -- yet another damned soul in Park's inflammatory, inimitable movie inventory of hell on earth.
  20. Army of Shadows
    The picture was made in 1969 and is only now being released in the U.S., in a beautiful restoration supervised by original cinematographer Pierre Lhomme.
  21. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    Mr. Lazarescu is that rich and riveting a film of universal small human moments and big-system failure.
  22. Three Times
    Do Hou's films deserve to be seen? Absolutely, if only to end the myth that they're too perfect for this world.
  23. American Dreamz
    A blithe, funny, and engaging movie.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Sentinel
    Looking back, 1993 was a golden age for thriller cinema. That was the year Hollywood hatched both "In the Line of Fire" and "The Fugitive," the two obvious and way superior antecedents for the very humdrum B-movie mash-up The Sentinel.
  25. Silent Hill
    A few of the images are startling, but as Radha Mitchell (a good actress) wanders through a ghost town, searching for her lost daughter as though she was touring an abandoned movie set, Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness.
  26. Somersault
    The character can be a dolt, but Cornish is a marvel, exuding a reckless hunger and prowling with a sexuality of potent directness.
  27. Scary Movie 4
    And as ever, the jokes are a jumble of the gross, the baggy, the raunchy, the mistimed, and - every once in a while - the refreshingly incorrect.
  28. The Wild
    Lifting a concept isn't exactly foreign to the world of animation (what's "The Lion King" if not "Bambi" with manes?), but it isn't often a rip-off gets as blatant as The Wild, a flat-out regurgitation of "Madagascar."
  29. 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.
  30. Hard Candy
    Hard Candy is extreme - a battle of the sexes that glides from tricky to angry to shockingly ugly.
  31. The Notorious Bettie Page
    The movie, in a sense, is just like Bettie's photos: all glorious surface. The Notorious Bettie Page captures, with seductive finesse, how Bettie Page happened, yet what it leaves us with is the tantalizing enigma of a girl who couldn't truly be ''bad'' because she made sex divinely delicious.
  32. Look Both Ways
    Ineffably Australian and intriguingly (rather than annoyingly) artsy, Look Both Ways introduces a handful of people gobsmacked by life-changing crises, all of them trying to make sense of responsibility, mortality, and connection.
  33. La Mujer de Mi Hermano
    You could dismiss this swankily shot Latin American trifle as an upscale soap opera, but that would be an insult to soap operas.
  34. Lucky Number Slevin
    A thriller that holds less interest - and less water - the more it reveals about what's actually going on.
  35. The Benchwarmers
    This morphing of "The Bad News Bears" and a "Three Stooges" episode parades its dumbness with such zip that it almost passes for clever.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Phat Girlz
    Jazmin's so fat that the movie reduces her to a single discernible characteristic, which is a telltale mark of many a wholly awful comedy.
  37. Take the Lead
    Antonio Banderas is a charming and talented man, but in Take the Lead he lays on the old-world panache so thick - the accent, the flowery courtliness, the romance of romance - that he comes off like Dracula's metrosexual cousin.
  38. Friends with Money
    There is also a manufactured symmetry, an every-gal's-got-issues roundness, an HBO sitcomitude to the movie that undercuts its own observational intelligence.
  39. On a Clear Day
    Scottish actor Peter Mullan saves a drama tangled in the seaweed of life lessons from drowning in pathos.
  40. Free Zone
    Natalie Portman demonstrates tour de force weeping in the back of a taxi as an American searching for her roots in Israel.
  41. 95 Miles to Go
    The mangy joke in the defiantly homemade documentary 95 Miles to Go is that Ray Romano on a business trip is no different from any other schmo, minus the autograph signing.
  42. I Am a Sex Addict
    Zahedi is ruefully funny and savage in his self-exposure.
  43. Basic Instinct 2
    Basic Instinct 2 isn't bad, exactly, but it lacks the entertaining vulgarity of the first film; it's Basic Instinct redone with more ''class'' and less thrust.
  44. ATL
    The more rink time, the better: As directed by hip-hop music-video king Chris Robinson from a story by "Antwone Fisher's" Antwone Fisher, the skate scenes are a blast.
  45. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    Ice Age: The Meltdown blithely looks on the bright side of life, amassing a screen full of vultures to sing and dance ''Food Glorious Food'' and daring us not to get happy.
  46. Slither
    There are times (and plenty of them) when Slither slops over from smart, affectionate homage into unmodulated frat goofiness as Gunn cannibalizes so many horror plots with such high spirits.
  47. Brick
    Johnson also grabs hold of a fundamental truth and seduces us with it: The schoolyard can be the noirest burg of all.
  48. Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
    Boils down to a performance film with abysmal sound in which you rarely get to see a good, revealing close-up of the stars.
  49. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    A fascinating and lovingly crafted musical documentary that nevertheless misunderstands its own subject.
  50. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    Really, about all that unifies the movie is its inclination to turn little people's dreams into limply ''affectionate'' camp.
  51. Inside Man
    The jazzish score, by Lee's music man, Terence Blanchard, is typically intrusive. But the mood is right, the twists are new. And with one casting inspiration, Inside Man furthers the rising stardom of Chiwetel Ejiofor (Serenity).
    • 24 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Stay Alive
    Videogames are no longer brainless, so why are videogame movies so slow to evolve?
  53. The Beauty Academy of Kabul
    The documentary takes on its own engaging shape - one of edgy editorial and political ambivalence.
  54. Lonesome Jim
    Buscemi is stymied here by the inertia of his material.
  55. L'Enfant (The Child)
    It makes sense that L'Enfant has been hailed as a masterpiece, since a masterpiece is what it's trying, in every unvarnished frame, to be. If you wandered unknowingly into the film, however, you would see this: a stark, fascinating, and naggingly detached character study.
  56. Stoned
    Thorogood allegedly confessed on his deathbed (in 1993) that he killed Jones, and while the movie convinces us that this might have happened, it never truly reveals who Brian Jones was before he fell apart. His indulgence, and his demise, play out in a void.
  57. Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
    As an expat redneck, I recognize the deep, dumb need of every group for its own culturally customized minstrel show. Larry, a junker ''star'' vehicle run on arse wind and fan love, fills that niche.
  58. V for Vendetta
    As a fix of pop iconography, V for Vendetta is eyeball grabbing, even if it lacks the relentless videogame bravura that sold the Matrix films. As a movie, however, it's merely okay, with a pivotal dramatic weakness: Evey, for all the attentions of her revolutionary Svengali, remains, in essence, a bystander, and Portman, her head shaved, plays her like Joan of Arc as a tremulous Girl Scout.
  59. Find Me Guilty
    A sharp-looking Mob drama with a gooey moral center.
  60. She's the Man
    As an actress, Bynes is wholesome to a fault. She impersonates a teenage boy yet never gives him one good dirty thought.
  61. Thank You for Smoking
    Cynical and cheerily merciless.
  62. The Zodiac
    The Zodiac has been made with the dunderheaded flatness of bad '70s TV.
  63. Take My Eyes
    If Take My Eyes explored how a woman could still feel for a man who abused her, it might have gripped us with its difficult truths. But the movie presents Pilar and Antonio's marriage as a stale, neurotic dead end.
  64. Don't Come Knocking
    Shepard's charisma has always reached back to an earlier time, so it's easy to accept him as a kind of pre-counterculture hero - Eastwood without the sneer - who aged into the era of tabloid scandal.
  65. The Devil's Miner
    This beautiful, terrible story is not easily forgotten.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Don't Trip ... He Ain't Through with Me Yet
    Harvey's stand takes place live in front of 16,000 believers at Bishop T.D. Jakes' church event MegaFest, and the intriguing novelty of the movie comes from watching one of the R-rated Original Kings of Comedy try to go the whole night without swearing.
  67. Failure to Launch
    If you like Kathy Bates movies, you'll probably be frustrated with this one, since as Tripp's mother, the invaluable character actress is made to whipsaw between playing sappy domestic slave to her son's laundry and salty, overly sexual wife.
  68. The Hills Have Eyes
    Where Craven and his director, Alexandre Aja, may have miscalculated is in making the genetically damaged demons, with their flesh-potato foreheads and minimal verbal skills, into monster action figures who take vengeance on the world that created them. They're not scary because they're victims themselves.
  69. The Shaggy Dog
    The star (Allen), unleashed, is so energetic in his approximation of a bearded collie -- his nose sniffing the air, his whole being (which toggles between human and canine form) overcome by the need to fetch any stick thrown -- that his slobbery charm carries the picture.
  70. Ask the Dust
    The movie lacks even the misplaced fervor of obsession. It's lifeless kitsch.
  71. Duck Season
    Duck Season unfolds with a slaphappy logic that only looks casual. In fact, every unfinished conversation and banal picture on the wall (one's of ducks) matters as four little people share one memorable little day.
  72. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    Asia Argento is not what I would call a good actress, but she's a prime specimen of train-wreck sexuality: a debauched Eurotrash starlet who oozes punk cred more than she does talent. It's not too hard to see why she wanted to write, direct, and star in The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.
  73. 16 Blocks
    A helluva lot happens in 16 Blocks - an outrageous amount, really, along with a coda that deposits the audience squarely at a movieland finale. Who knew that looking both ways before crossing is where the real action is?
  74. Aquamarine
    That everything gets worked out -- friendship affirmed, jokes made about silly magazine articles on reeling in a boy -- is as sure as the soundtrack's inclusion of a Mandy Moore song.
  75. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    The enthralling spirit of Dave Chappelle's Block Party, its mood of exuberant democracy, extends to every rap and soul performance in the film.
  76. Ultraviolet
    Ultraviolet, warns someone, ''Don't overthink it.'' Sage advice for anyone masochistic enough to watch this pile of poorly pixelated vampire poo.
  77. Our Brand Is Crisis
    A fascinating glimpse at the perils of ''exporting'' democracy.
  78. Sorry, Haters
    The movie is cross-eyed with fuzzy thinking; it's also an interesting, if wacko, artistic response to world events.
  79. Tsotsi
    More calculated than a Starbucks sampler CD, the picture could win the up-from-hardship award.
  80. Doogal
    An animated movie designed with very young children in mind. And very young children should be very angry about that. Where is it written that 4-year-olds don't deserve a good story, decent characters, and a modicum of coherence?
  81. Madea's Family Reunion
    Let's not sell Tyler Perry short. As the vinegar-witted Madea, he's a drag performer of testy charm, but in his overlit patchwork way he's also making the most primal women's pictures since Joan Crawford flexed her shoulder pads.
  82. Running Scared
    Running is a fevered smashup, as if Hollywood dug up Sam Peckinpah's corpse and forced it to adapt "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" for the screen.
  83. Dirty
    When the florid speeches of volcanic rage and frustration draw to a close - and when Collins and Gooding complete their acting exercises - we still have no clue who these men are and what sent them down their intersecting moral dark alleys.
  84. Little Fish
    The actors are terrific, especially Weaving, who plays bottoming out as a tragedy spiked with gallows humor, and Blanchett, who digs deep into the booby-trapped nature of recovery. The revelation, however, is Rowan Woods, a major filmmaker in the making.
  85. Unknown White Male
    Unknown White Male is framed as a look at the mystery of identity, but there's a bizarre neutrality to the movie, since it makes Bruce's life just as detached and remote to us as it seems to him.
  86. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
    This moving film explores the trauma of a Holocaust survivor with rare complexity.
  87. Date Movie
    In Date Movie, the hormones, anxiety, and princess jealousy that fuel the majority of Hollywood love stories are made so excessive that the romance itself is revealed to be...every bit as big a crock as it usually is.
  88. Eight Below
    There's something invigorating about this unpretentious dog tale. And if a penguin drops by to promote his own movie product, well, there's room on the frozen continent for all.
  89. Freedomland
    Moore doesn't just act. She goes on the attack, embracing the kind of lower-rung-of-the-middle-class role that actresses from Jodie Foster to Meryl Streep have long savored. Her performance is an achievement of sorts, yet, like the movie itself, it's also strenuous and joyless.
  90. Battle in Heaven
    A notorious opinion divider last year at Cannes, Battle in Heaven is less about heaven or battle, or hell on earth, or the soul of Mexico, and all too much about gawking. And so, for all the ''shock'' of the movie's clinical carnality, this battle is lost.
  91. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    A fractious fiasco: whiplash camera movement set to raging blasts of death metal, a story so incoherent it made me wish I was watching, instead, the collected outtakes from Van Helsing.
  92. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Sophie Scholl has a certain quiet dignity that wins its audience popularity honestly.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Winter Passing
    Winter Passing is also being called ''the serious Will Ferrell movie,'' but he's not especially serious in it. Put it this way: His character Corbit is one of those movie types who's into ''kar-a-tay,'' which is a joke that must officially die.
  94. 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.
  95. Curious George
    I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the new cartoon of Curious George, featuring the voice of Will Ferrell as the Man in the Yellow Hat, doesn't veer all that far from the soothing tone of the books.
  96. Final Destination 3
    What makes all of this ''fun,'' instead of dark or threatening, is that the victim was an idiot who leered at the class teases with horny glee.
  97. Firewall
    Firewall is a witless entertainment, and a derivative one, too; it's everything listless about Hollywood in February, everything discardable about the genre in general.
  98. The Pink Panther
    Martin's gift for physical and vocal comedy is as deft as ever.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    London
    At least London nails the inanity of drug-speak - the bathroom chat quickly devolves from God and ''time horizons'' to coprophilia and a truly dumb confessional tirade by Statham - although perhaps this achievement is unintentional.
  100. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    Young, wizened yet valiant, his voice still braying at the moon, delivers these songs of aging and loss as if caught in a beautiful dream of what lies waiting for him on the other side.
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