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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
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  1. Seed of Chucky
    By far, the most shocking carnage is Tilly carving up her persona. What a doll.
  2. After the Sunset
    A fun-in-the-sun heist caper that director Brett Ratner stages as if he were the activities director of a cruise ship.
  3. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    A triumph of performance, production, and adaptation over the empty-calorie dither of its source material.
  4. Kinsey
    Kinsey is patient and educational and never (darn it) rude or shocking.
  5. Finding Neverland
    Depp portrays a fellow who is openly gentle to the core, and the actor just about wraps the movie around his lilting delivery and quiescent gaze.
  6. Overnight
    I do wish that Overnight caught in more precise detail what Duffy, who finally made his film on the cheap at an obscure studio, did to tick off the Miramax powers. Imagining it, though, is half the fun.
  7. The Polar Express
    The screenplay, by Zemeckis and William Broyles Jr., plumps Van Allsburg's simple fable about the purity of childhood faith in what can't be seen with all sorts of wholly invented characters, complications, and declarations.
  8. Fade to Black
    The man has the right to retire, but what will he do with all the words in his head?
  9. 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.
  10. Alfie
    The new Alfie is so irresistible that he hardly requires contempt. Without it, the movie is little more than a feature-length roll in the hay.
  11. The Incredibles
    Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    It's All About Love
    The experiment didn't work. The English-language production is a jumble of poorly delineated notions about love, celebrity, the look of romantic movies, and the sound of American-style dialogue - and it's been sitting on the shelf for over a year.
  13. Enduring Love
    What blows us away is the power of Ifans' moist puppy eyes and chilling smile as a true believer undeterred by reality.
  14. Birth
    When Kidman slithers into a bathtub with her young ''husband,'' the scene, in its soft-pedaled way, is the definition of exploitation: It appears to have been cooked up for no other purpose than to conjure creepy child-porn overtones.
  15. Saw
    Saw is a gristle-cut B psycho thriller that would like to tap the sickest corners of your imagination. It has a few moments of nightmare creepiness, but it's also derivative and messy and too nonsensical for its own good.
  16. Ray
    As a musical biography, Ray is driven by the primal excitement of rock-and-soul at the moment of its discovery.
  17. Sideways
    It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this -- and there's a particular giddiness to be had in thinking about what movies can (but don't often) do for one's soul after imbibing such a fine vintage.
  18. Undertow
    The truth is that Undertow is like a conventional Hollywood movie operating on half its cylinders.
  19. The Manson Family
    The film evokes how homicide became the ultimate orgasm for kids who had turned themselves into zombies of flesh.
  20. Lightning in a Bottle
    The music's sensational, but you keep waiting for the pledge number to flash up.
  21. The Machinist
    Bale exists all too large under the circumstances, a well-fed actor playing at emaciation for the sake of a fiction about a character whose torment is as unreadable as his vertebrae are countable.
  22. The Grudge
    A horror film that consists of virtually nothing but don't-go-in-the-attic suspense scenes strung together with a reasonable degree of brooding mood and a minimum of logic.
  23. Surviving Christmas
    There are no survivors here.
  24. Sex Is Comedy
    Shows a beguiling aptitude for self-mockery in the pursuit of polemic.
  25. P.S.
    The movie implodes, with each actor less vivid than he or she ought to be and each character less connected to the others than necessary for such an arbitrary plot.
  26. Riding the Bullet
    Falls short of its source.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Final Cut
    Quiet and sleepy.
  28. Moolaadé
    The result: This great work of art has the potential to change the world.
  29. Eulogy
    The cast itself is weirdly overqualified.
  30. Being Julia
    Being Julia flirts too heavily with soap opera clichés, but it has enough surprises to keep you guessing, and for Annette Bening it's the liveliest of comebacks.
  31. Shall We Dance
    The movie never gives its heart freely and honestly to the satiny whirl of post-"Chicago" showbiz spectacle it so clearly wants to be.
  32. Team America: World Police
    I was amused more or less throughout by the ingeniously designed and executed stunt that is Team America.
  33. The Scandal
    Les Liaisons Dangereuses is such an elaborate and satisfying structure of deceit and salaciousness that every attempt I have seen to adapt it on film -- "Dangerous Liaisons," "Cruel Intentions," even the trashy 1959 Roger Vadim version -- has resulted in an entertainment of agreeable nasty elegance. Until now.
  34. Vera Drake
    Stunning and compassionate period drama.
  35. Around the Bend
    It's the showy story, script, and even staging that wear a fella out in this relentlessly precious feature debut by writer-director Jordan Roberts.
  36. Stage Beauty
    A celebration of the theater that tends to drag the moment it's out of drag.
  37. Friday Night Lights
    Thornton, giving a splendid, disciplined performance, seamlessly shapes his coach into a believable man of quality rather than star-size charisma.
  38. Primer
    Consider Primer a successful lab experiment with, as they might say in techie chat rooms, significant indie-cred applications, IMHO. Oh, and :-).
  39. Raise Your Voice
    Hilary Duff makes me long for the comparatively Dostoyevskian depths of Sandra Dee.
  40. Tarnation
    Painfully beautiful autobiographical kaleidoscope.
  41. Taxi
    An action-choked dud in which even the closing outtakes barely deserve to be left on the cutting-room floor?
  42. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Potent and eye-opening documentary.
  43. Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
    Thérese unfolds with the sunlight-and-daffodils piety of a Sunday school slide show.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Woman Thou Art Loosed
    Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell from this confused mess (costarring Jakes as himself) what that message is.
  45. Dig!
    The fascination of Dig! is that it invites those of us who aren't alt-rock obsessives into the hive, yet it never feels like a dilettante's tour.
  46. Shark Tale
    The noisiest laughs in this watery animated comedy are reserved for those who value self-referential winks above all else.
  47. I Heart Huckabees
    What in the Buddha's name is going on in I Heart Huckabees? Russell has come up with a grab bag of ideas that don't stick with you because they don't stick together.
  48. Ladder 49
    Aside from the awesome flames and pyrotechnic scenes of crisis, danger, and part-of-the-job bravery, the movie is a quiet salute; it does its job.
  49. The Yes Men
    When they're good, the Yes Men are astonishing, anarchic sights to behold.
  50. First Daughter
    The role of a poised daddy's girl is a dull one for Holmes, who looks pained, in a nonspecific way, throughout her capers; the movie itself, with a screenplay by Jessica Bendinger and Kate Kondell, is a dull one for director Forest Whitaker.
  51. A Dirty Shame
    A Dirty Shame isn't dirty fun. It's the perv "Footloose."
  52. The Last Shot
    Teetering on an abyss of meta-wackiness, The Last Shot -- a movie about movie fakery, based on a true story about a fake movie -- succeeds modestly where, by all rights, it should fail miserably.
  53. The Forgotten
    A thriller of carefully cultivated murk. It's enigmatic in the worst sense, in that every explanation for what's going on holds less water than the last.
  54. Infernal Affairs
    Dazzling psychological cat-and-mouse drama.
  55. Shaun of the Dead
    The daffy, innately British joke that propels the cheeky U.K. comedy hit Shaun of the Dead is that although real zombies have risen up -- slacker wankers Shaun (Simon Pegg) and his best pal and roommate, Ed (Nick Frost), are too slack, wankerish, and blitheringly British to notice.
  56. Anatomy of Hell
    Homophobic, sex-phobic, maybe even human-phobic.
  57. The Motorcycle Diaries
    Glazed over by its worship of Che Guevara.
  58. Head in the Clouds
    Stuart Townsend, Theron's reallife boyfriend, may have inner fires as an actor that have yet to be revealed, but in Head in the Clouds he's a somber puppy who looks as if Theron could eat him alive. I wish she had.
  59. 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.''
  60. Incident at Loch Ness
    Incident at Loch Ness, unfortunately, is a riddle wrapped in a hoax stuffed inside a crock.
  61. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Sky Captain is a gorgeous, funny, and welcome novelty.
  62. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    The title Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is a brain banger. But as sci-fi nomenclature goes, it's easy to read--no twistier, certainly, than "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
  63. Wimbledon
    Nothing more than amiable fluff, yet Bettany infuses it with a brazen dash of reality. You believe in him, even when you don't quite believe in the movie.
  64. Silver City
    Silver City may be the mustiest political-conspiracy tale ever filmed; it's like "Chinatown" rewritten by Ralph Nader.
  65. Reconstruction
    Features a supernatural twist that is merely okay, but the film's mood of fractured anxiety and longing made me eager to see what the director, Christoffer Boe, does next.
  66. Criminal
    The performances are winning -- Gyllenhaal is particularly sharp as an aggrieved sibling, and there's mutual zing in her scenes with Reilly.
  67. Cellular
    Chris Evans is blithely likable despite a few faux-Cruise mannerisms, Basinger makes a vividly frightened yet resourceful woman in peril, and William H. Macy scores as a mild L.A. cop who lets out his inner macho.
  68. When Will I Be Loved
    A ripe psychosexual compost heap of a drama that emits a provocative scent of rot and nonsense.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the undead are back to stumbling in the dark, sometimes even in blurry slo-mo, making the many packs of them about as terrifying as the mobs waiting for Matt and Katie outside the "Today" studio.
  70. The Cookout
    Sends comedy backward in time, and we're in the 1970s, ethno-sitcom style: These Andersons in their out-of-date white, snooty gated community apparently confuse themselves with their forebears on The Jeffersons.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    Always entertains, just like ''Pearl Harbor'' and the rest of the best of Hollywood's dumb war movies.
  72. Wicker Park
    It would be tempting to say that fractured time sequences in movies have become a cliché, except that Wicker Park makes your brain spin in surprising and pleasurable ways.
  73. Paparazzi
    It doesn't take long for the film to devolve into a ludicrously far-fetched Celebrity Death Wish.
  74. Vanity Fair
    It borders on perky -- a duller, safer tonal choice for the story of a conniving go-getter whose fall is as precipitous as her rise.
  75. Suspect Zero
    The truth is, the freakiness kinda turns the director on, and he nearly strangles Suspect Zero with love.
  76. The Brown Bunny
    It's hard to deny that Gallo has caught the freedom and melancholy, the intoxicating aimlessness, the lonely twilight beauty of a solo road trip in a way that no previous filmmaker quite has.
  77. Hero
    I wish 'Hero's emotional heat rose more intensely -- more recklessly. There's something grand but distant and almost fetishistic about the operatic solemnity with which Zhang approaches the Rashomonic story of assassins attempting to kill a king.
  78. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    There's no enjoyably outlandish hiss to this variation on the formula, and no Ice Cube or Owen Wilson, either. This time, a ship of capitalist fools (and no movie stars, unless you count utility player Morris Chestnut as a headliner) steams along the river in Borneo.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    The film's moral? Turn off the TV, young 'uns, and go outside and play! And avoid Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 matinees while you're at it.
  80. End of the Century
    A documentary that digs deep inside this most revolutionary and tortured of punk quartets, it's hard not to feel that the Ramones, who never had a hit record, were the greatest band in 50 years to be stonewalled out of success.
  81. Mean Creek
    Although the talent of a kid with the last name of Culkin may not, at this point, register as such a novelty -- Rory follows brothers Macaulay and Kieran -- there is something precociously mature but natural about the work of this youngest Culkin sibling that stands apart.
  82. Bright Young Things
    Both script and direction are the work of the glittering comedic polymath Stephen Fry.
  83. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    A smashingly effective documentary -- I found it more resonant than ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' -- yet to say that it's preaching to the converted would be generous; it's preaching to a microscopic sliver of the converted.
  84. Red Lights
    It evokes the spirit of Hitchcock and Highsmith.
  85. Exorcist: The Beginning
    The new movie is a dusty piñata stuffed with omens and not much more.
  86. Without a Paddle
    There are some genuinely clever moments of physical comedy, and the inevitable crudeness is offset by winning whimsy. Without has all the freshness of moldering Playboys stashed under a mattress, but it evokes what few boys-will-be-boys larks can: chumminess.
  87. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    The film is at times harrowing to watch, yet it's also wry and delicate and absorbing. It's infused with the messy excitement of imperfect passion.
  88. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    It's all the thrill of watching other people play Uno.
  89. Danny Deckchair
    It's a soothing stoner tableau, a fine dropout fantasy.
  90. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    The film's generic feminism pales beside its bloated sense of privilege, only underlined by a nonstop cabaret of sideshow acts.
  91. Stander
    Riveting true-life drama.
  92. 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.
  93. Little Black Book
    The big climax isn't climactic, just hysterical and incoherent. Murphy, with her bug-eyed, love-me mugging, is simply too slight and gawky to play the Everygirl.
  94. Open Water
    In spirit, Open Water reduces us to children peering through our fingers, waiting for the horrid deliverance we're not quite sure we want to see.
  95. Collateral
    Michael Mann's tensely funny and alive Los Angeles night-world thriller, is, in its own twisty way, a very high-stakes buddy movie, yet it doesn't look like one, because it leaps off from a situation more jangled and threatening than we're used to.
  96. Gozu
    Not until the last 20 minutes does Gozu come fully alive. A man has sex with a seductive beauty, who then gives birth to...well, let's just say it's a sight that may take time to fight its way out of your head.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Thunderbirds
    Without fail its upbeat cheesy wholesomeness is always good for a smile.
  98. The Village
    It gives nothing of the plot away to say that there's a fine line between an ''Aha!'' and an ''Oh, brother!'' Whether you feel The Village crosses that line may hinge on whether you think Shyamalan's screenwriting ability is beginning to lag behind his skill as a director.
  99. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    Harold and Kumar share a quality the overgrown adolescents in films like this are never allowed to possess: They're witty, focused, and highly aware. They make having a brain look hip.
  100. The Manchurian Candidate
    What this Manchurian Candidate for a new generation makes up for in timing, it lacks in discipline and edge.
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