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  1. Hannibal
    Hannibal lacks the rounded emotional elegance of ''The Silence of the Lambs'' (that was a great film; this one is merely good).
  2. Code 46
    Code 46 has a noirish fatalism that renders it a close cousin to ''Blade Runner,'' but Winterbottom's film, shot mostly in the light, uses the theme of memory erasure to peer into the eternal sunshine of tragically altered minds.
  3. Laura Smiles
    There's an unconvincing last-act twist, but this is the movie "Little Children" wanted to be.
  4. The Maze Runner
    The first two-thirds of The Maze Runner are a clever feat of fantasy world building. It's thrilling, twisty, and as mysterious as the mammoth Skinner Box environment the film takes place in. But the promising set-up raises so many puzzle-piece questions that when it's all finally explained in the final reel, you can't help feeling a bit gypped.
  5. The Sleepwalker
    The setup has mysterious promise, but the film cheaps out on a satisfying payoff.
  6. Iron Man 2
    Downey's head and heart are in the right place, but the movie is more in pieces than whole, and more about iron than about men.
  7. The Muse
    An embarrassment--a fairy-tale showbiz satire that seems to defang itself, scene by scene.
  8. Cars 2
    Not to get all Dorothy about it, but when it comes to Cars, there's no place like home. The emotional punch of the original is inextricably rooted in the movie's appreciation of off-the-beaten-track America, and all that homegrown vintage car culture signifies.
  9. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    Journey is just the new version of a 1950s comin'-at-ya roller coaster, with a tape measure, trilobite antennae, and giant snapping piranha thrust at the audience.
  10. 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.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Little Big League
    Filled with baseball lore, trivia, and cameos by major-league players, this fable covers its bases with sincerity and humor.
  12. Cold Pursuit
    It knows exactly what kind of movie it is, but that doesn’t stand in the way of it goosing its bloodbath set pieces with irreverent, off-kilter gallows humor.
  13. The House with a Clock in Its Walls
    Black, no surprise, steals the show, manically hamming it up like Harry Houdini on laughing gas, while Roth tries to keep the breakneck pace of his phantasmagoria going. As someone who was growing bored with Roth’s gory shockfests, I say: “Welcome to the kiddie table, Eli.”
  14. Strangers with Candy
    If you loved Amy Sedaris before in a golfer-lady wig and inbred chump's grin, you'll maybe love her again here, while wishing she had another TV-episode-size venue for her talents
  15. The Addams Family
    It might have helped had the film included a few more representatives of the straight world. As it is, there’s almost nothing for the family to play off. We’re shut up in that mansion right along with them, and the kookiness grows fatally quaint.
  16. First Knight
    Zucker gives the Camelot legend a makeover and rediscovers its humanizing fire. He has made a true adult fairy tale, only with a heart of glass.
  17. The Wildest Dream
    The voices of Liam Neeson -- as the film's narrator -- and his late wife, Richardson, inevitably add to the project's poignance.
  18. The Santa Clause
    Watch for the ''Mrs. Doubtfire'' syndrome: In Santa drag and padded for laughs, Scott demonstrates how to be a more sensitive, more funsy parent than boring old Mom.
  19. Bubba Ho-tep
    Don Coscarelli, writer-director of the logy, fatuous Bubba Ho-Tep, is trying to will a cult movie into existence -- which, of course, never works.
  20. Snow White and the Huntsman
    A tastefully overbearing franchise fairy tale with a handful of ravishing touches.
  21. Greetings from Tim Buckley
    Penn Badgley saunters around with an air of spooky self-possession, and he does a dead-on impersonation of Buckley's high-vibrato wail.
  22. Coach Carter
    Jackson, though, does lend this earnest formula flick a core of conviction.
  23. Assisted Living
    Parts of the film play like the world's slowest and most insensitive reality show (Who Wants to Be an Octogenarian?).
  24. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    These are standard youth-movie dilemmas, but they're brought to life by the high-energy cast and the musical numbers, which Ortega shoots with electrifying pizzazz.
  25. Somebody I Used to Know
    There's a low-key charm to the movie's knowing spin on familiar beats, and far more chaotic non-sexual nudity than Julia Roberts would ever allow in her contract.
  26. The Great New Wonderful
    Working from a stagy script by Sam Catlin, director Danny Leiner uses a dainty palette of tristesse (untouched when he made Dude, Where's My Car?) to suggest that the shadow of 9/11 makes every discontent more pathetic.
  27. The People Under the Stairs
    If there were truth in advertising, The People Under the Stairs would be called The Not Very Scary Movie Set Inside a Grungy, Badly Lit House.
  28. The Dinner
    On paper, writer-director Oren Moverman’s The Dinner has all the ingredients for what should be a four-star feast. But from the opening course, it’s clear that something has gone wrong in the kitchen. Moverman, the chef, has tried to make his creation too clever and complicated.
  29. Home for the Holidays
    Foster, working from a patchy, meandering script by W.D. Richter, produces scene after scene of rudderless banter. The movie is all asides, all nattering; the actors seem lost in their busy, fractious shticks.
  30. Confetti
    Must viewing for the Bridezillas set, this winning pageant of gaudy bad taste is the work of some of the U.K.'s most popular comedy performers.
  31. A Walk Among the Tombstones
    As a throwback to a type of nasty, ugly crime film of yesteryear, A Walk Among the Tombstones cleans up.
  32. Morning Glory
    Where Broadcast News mourned the trivialization of the nightly news, Morning Glory asks you to learn to stop worrying and love the trivia.
  33. Traveller
    This fresh and interesting story about a tight-knit clan of Irish grifters in the rural South who make their living scamming is a ''con men on the road'' picture all the more welcome during a season of junky action thrillers and indie-style explorations of kinky sex.
  34. Viper Club
    Viper Club is an earnest and often engaging film that’s undeniably heartfelt. It’s capital-I important and timely. But without its star’s passionate, nuanced performance, it would run the risk of being a bit generic and forgettable.
  35. The Last Kiss
    An alarming male wallow passing as a fetching date-night dramedy.
  36. The Man from Elysian Fields
    A pompous and garbled parable about how terribly, terribly difficult it is to make it as a creative artist, and how important it is to maintain high standards of haberdashery.
  37. Up at the Villa
    Politics is almost an afterthought in this balky, attenuated film.
  38. Wind
    Wind sometimes dawdles, but it’s a sports movie with soul.
  39. Wrath of Man
    Wrath is just another loose bag of lizard-brain thrills and wood-block dialogue: too ugly to be camp, too grimly familiar to feel new.
  40. Today's Special
    The cooking scenes are fun, but Samir's reawakening and romance with a co-worker (Jess Weixler) hold about as many surprises as a prix fixe meal.
  41. Mascots
    If you’re a Guest devotee, you’ll be in the stands cheering; otherwise, Mascots feels like a bit of a retread.
  42. Last Chance Harvey
    Hoffman and Thompson are each good enough to bring out a glow in the other.
  43. Horrible Bosses
    A bouncy, well-built, delightfully nasty tale of resentment, desperation, and amoral revenge that does for employer-employee relations what Danny DeVito and Bette Midler did for the bonds of matrimony in the great 1986 Zucker brothers comedy "Ruthless People."
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Mama
    Nothing in the movie is quite original, yet Muschietti, expanding his original short, knows how to stage a rip-off with frightening verve.
  45. The Company You Keep
    Shia LaBeouf, who appears to be on hand to prove that a movie with a crusading newspaper reporter can still exist, perks up his scenes, and Redford acts with his usual hyperalert, placid control.
  46. Not Without My Daughter
    It would all be worth getting mad over were the film not so plodding or so obvious in its tactics.
    • 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.
  48. Forks Over Knives
    So scrupulously researched and argued that only a fool would ignore its findings.
  49. Cet amour-là
    You can forget about veracity, since this gauzy and sometimes dopey romanticization can't be trusted.
  50. Dark Blue
    Goes where all too few films dare to venture these days -- into the heart of moral darkness.
  51. Michael Jordan to the Max
    A highly conventional 2-D infomercial.
  52. Flash of Genius
    The individual components of director Marc Abraham's David-and-Goliath drama are roundly unexceptional; the script, soft and teach-y; the performances, earnest.
  53. Brother to Brother
    First-time writer-director Rodney Evans makes a ballsy leap into historical fantasia, with heartfelt fervor outrunning stray moments of artistic gawkiness.
  54. It's Complicated
    It's Complicated is middle-aged porn, the specialty of Meyers, who also set ladies and interior decorators drooling over homes and gardens in 2006's “The Holiday.”
    • 57 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Back to the Future Part II
    All in all, Future II is another fantastic voyage in a thoroughly entertaining contraption.
  56. I Origins
    It works its own sort of magic. After all, who doesn't want to believe that the soul does have a window, and that if it closes we might open it again?
  57. Casanova
    And if real eroticism is missing - this is a Disney movie, with bosoms heaving more in a gentle parody of heaving than in full desire - the great discovery of this Casanova is Hallström's recovered capacity for play.
  58. War Dogs
    A lot of what makes War Dogs work comes down to Hill, who is operating at maximum density here physically (he reportedly gained weight specifically for the role) but whose unhinged charisma also anchors the movie.
  59. Rubberneck
    The movie is scattershot (intense at some moments, slack at others), but it earns its docu-style creepiness, and Karpovsky's stretch as an actor is daring and authentic.
  60. The Equalizer
    It's the sign of an empty, depressing experience when the only tension is over Bob's choice to use a power drill or a weed whacker for his next kill.
  61. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
    Branagh did a nice job of directing "Thor," but all he can do here is try to energize the recycled pulp of the script.
  62. Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes is an odd amalgam, a top-heavy light entertainment that keeps throwing things at you and doesn't seem too concerned with whether they stick.
  63. The Intervention
    Tears are shed. Laughs are had. Some jokes land better than others. The script wobbles between heavy-handed and touching, but the result is a pleasantly nostalgic throwback that’s saved from its copy-cat tendencies by charismatic actors.
    • 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.''
  65. Cecil B. DeMented
    Has a few viciously funny moments.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ghosts of Mississippi
    What with Goldberg’s somnambulistic nobility, and the fact that this is yet another civil rights movie in which the struggles of black Americans take a backseat to the heroics of wealthy white guys, Woods’ presence is the least of Ghosts‘ problems.
  67. The First Grader
    Plays more like a teaching tool than a dynamic drama.
  68. Dogfight
    For all the pitfalls it scrupulously avoids, Dogfight isn’t finally very interesting. It’s not just the movie’s plot that’s diminutive. The emotions seem small too.
  69. Best and Most Beautiful Things
    The film’s overall effect lets the person — not the condition — be the real story, one that’s worth sharing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Plan 9 from Outer Space
    Shockingly nonlinear, boasting a cast of the once great (Lugosi), the never-even-good (Lyle Talbot, Tor Johnson), and the unbelievably motley (”psychic” Criswell, cinch-waisted Vampira), its 79 minutes are jam-packed with insanity, and those tin plates on strings that Wood tries to pass off as flying saucers are the least of its delights.
  71. Ezra
    The film is so committed to its view of Ezra as a pawn in the psychotic game of postcolonial Africa that he is never allowed, as a character, to become more than a pawn.
  72. Collaborator
    Donovan, acting with ironic reserve, hands the movie to Morse, who makes his character the kind of crank you can care about just because he's so abysmally lost.
  73. The Kingdom
    So shameless is The Kingdom, ignoring consequence and treating its audience like cash-dispensing machines with buttons to be pushed rather than thinking individuals willing to consider the reality of America's entanglement with the Middle East.
  74. Extraction
    Extraction mostly delivers what its swaggering trailer promises: international scenery; insidious villains; a taciturn, tree-trunk Aussie. And the comfort of knowing that the kids — or at least the one he came for — are probably alright.
  75. Save Me
    Even those of us who find anti-homosexual ''deprogramming'' to be hideously intolerant and naive may find ourselves oddly relieved that Mark is there (in a Christian rehab center).
  76. A Very Brady Sequel
    The most impressive thing about A Very Brady Sequel is the shrewd care that has once again been taken to evoke the look and tone of the endlessly repeated, ultimate ’70s family sitcom.
  77. Mufasa: The Lion King
    The visual effects and animation teams scale a monumental peak here, and their work, at least, is worthy of praise. But Nathanson’s screenplay is a spiral of ever-increasing peril.
  78. Minions: The Rise of Gru
    In a movie that only nominally needs to make sense, those little mango-colored agents of chaos — with their thumb-shaped bodies, jaunty overalls, and inscrutable dialect ("Who are these tiny tater tots and where did they get so much denim?" Gru marvels in his own esoteric accent) — are often the best thing on screen, a loopy confluence of Buster Keaton and Evel Knievel.
  79. Buffalo Soldiers
    A good satire that had the untimely bad luck to be about a U.S. soldier who will do anything it takes to party, except fight for the right.
  80. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    Perfume misses some of the subtler base notes of Süskind's creepier, more self-aware original, but Whishaw and Tykwer blend the movie into something quite heady in its own bottle.
  81. Rising Sun
    There’s a real spark to Connery’s performance, but except for that Kaufman has produced a middling contradiction, a thriller too polite to hit its target.
  82. The Commuter
    Peppered with implausibilities and foul-smelling red herrings, The Commuter downshifts from a solid cat-and-mouse joyride to a ridiculous howler, insulting its audience’s patience and intelligence at every turn.
  83. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    Let's face it: Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) is just too darn polished to be a junior-high underdog, even by the standards of her 'luxe suburban environs.
  84. The Corruptor
    Beneath The Corruptor's explosive body count is a rock-solid, visually slick crime thriller set in the squalid netherworld of Manhattan's Chinatown.
  85. Die Another Day
    The savviest and most exciting Bond adventure in years, and that's because there's actually something at stake in it.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    7 Chinese Brothers
    The movie’s soundtrack is excellent. Too bad that it’s one of the only things this cinematic portrait of a serial screw-up has going for it.
  87. Dark Blue World
    The aerial-dogfight scenes, which are beautiful and shot through with jittery panic, are notable for not being staged for videogame kicks.
  88. Breaking Upwards
    Fitfully amusing, mostly annoying rom-com.
  89. Wine Country
    There’s plenty of drinking, bonding, and bickering. But none of the jokes feel as barbed-wire sharp as the material you know these brilliant comic actresses could have come up with if they tossed out the script and just ad-libbed.
  90. An Everlasting Piece
    In every way dreadful.
  91. Scream 3
    About the only thing the movie kills with any decisiveness is your time.
  92. Eraser
    And the guy is really good at his job: He knows how to combine impossibly macho action plus attractive self-amusement into a reliable rhythm of ooof! and wink-wink.
  93. Adrift
    It’s all done expertly and with an unexpectedly deft sleight-of-hand twist in the homestretch that proves once again that Kormakur is the kind of overachieving director that one pigeonholes at their own risk. He has a knack for making the familiar feel more surprising than it is.
  94. Fever Pitch
    It's been a while since a movie made the game of love this winning.
  95. In the Land of Blood and Honey
    In the Land of Blood and Honey captures the sickening way the war in Bosnia became a gray zone of genocide. Yet that, unfortunately, is not enough to make it a good movie.
  96. Straw
    Straw is not exactly subtle, but the emotions are so raw and the performances are so earnest that you’ve really got to have a heart of stone not to care for these people.
    • 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.
  98. Tag
    It’s a ridiculously raunchy and very, very sweet comedy about staying connected to the most important people in your life.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    13 Ghosts
    The unconvincing wraiths appear whether you like it or not in this good-for-a-few-laughs feature.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Heart and Souls
    Downey’s deftness is so miraculous, in fact, that it’s a shame Heart and Souls never really lets him cut loose.
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