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  1. The Wood
    A genial story of friendship among three young African-American men that gets far on charm even when the cinema technique falters and stalls.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    It feels wrong; the entire machinery of the movie seems to be rotating around Woody Allen's vanity. He remains a canny (if, in this case, hollow) film craftsman, but by now we know him far too well to be asked to find him adorable.
  3. Down with Love
    Could have used more of the shimmering elegance of the Day-Hudson comedies. Those movies had a true sparkle. This one's a likable piece of costume jewelry.
  4. Hollywood Dreams
    Jaglom's scruffy style doesn't carry it through. He puts enough toxic insincerity on screen to singe, though.
  5. The Holiday
    The dialogue has a perky synthetic sheen, and with the exception of Diaz, Meyers brings out the best in her actors.
  6. Black Snake Moan
    Be prepared to collapse into a hoot and a howl of hilarity at all the wrong moments.
  7. Mr. Right
    The ludicrous action-flick plot slows to a crawl whenever Kendrick and Rockwell aren’t on screen.
  8. Blackhat
    Occasionally, Mann shows flashes of the sort of springloaded action set pieces he was once hailed for, like a shoot-out during a religious parade. But mostly they just come off as warmed-over parodies from a onetime master aping his own style.
  9. Yardie
    Yardie is a sprawling drug-world saga, but whatever narrative flaws it has are helped out by an infectious selection of dub-heavy reggae tracks and an authentically gritty sense of period and place.
  10. The City of Your Final Destination
    Lovely to look at -- and languid to the point of stultifying torpor, as interesting characters make speeches to one another about life, love, and literature.
  11. Remember
    A twisted helix of "Memento" and "Munich" without either of those film’s craft, depth, or thematic murkiness.
  12. Fay Grim
    The faux espionage plot, with its winks at terrorism, is really just a convoluted plea for the relevance of precious indie artistes (i.e., Hal Hartley).
  13. The Mothman Prophecies
    It's made with deftly unsettling genre flair.
  14. The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John
    Altogether too faithful to its source. The makers of this ponderously middlebrow Canadian production have re-created the Gospel of John in its pristine entirety -- word for word, miracle for miracle.
  15. Greendale
    In the history of rock-star indulgence on film, I would rank it somewhere between Bob Dylan's epic carnival of pretension ''Renaldo & Clara'' and the overblown messianic doldrums of 1982's ''Pink Floyd The Wall.''
  16. Get Over It
    The only performer I enjoyed watching was Martin Short, who plays a bitch dandy music teacher with a smile so fake that the comedian seems to be acting with his gums.
  17. Blade II
    Del Toro lays on the operatic head-trip gore, but his heavy-handed embrace of the ''Blade'' mythology allows Wesley Snipes to give more of a performance than he did in the first film.
  18. Coming 2 America
    Coming 2 America is cute and fun, a lovingly made exercise in nostalgia that delivers several genuine laughs, even if it never achieves the comedic excellence of its predecessor.
  19. Wild Tigers I Have Known
    Fragmentation can be an artful method; it can also be the last refuge for someone who scarcely knows how to make a film. In the no-budget fantasia Wild Tigers I Have Known, the fragments are like a borrowed collage of gay coming-of-age tropes.
  20. Insidious: Chapter 3
    Insidious Chapter 3 is the worst kind of sequel: Not terrible, but also cartoonishly unnecessary.
  21. The Switch
    Squeezes fresh laughs out of what is, in essence, a rather startlingly post-Freudian, nature-trumps-nurture view of child development.
  22. Kill Your Idols
    Takes a misguided swerve into the current downtown New York rock scene, so that it can spend more time preaching about the anarchy of the good old days than it does revealing them.
  23. Cuban Fury
    Frost is a likable bloke with a deft physical grace to match his rat-a-tat one-liners. But all the sequins and silk shirts in the world can’t disguise the film’s too-familiar formula.
  24. Gridiron Gang
    Parades itself as an ''honest'' message movie, a call for troubled kids to choose life over street nihilism, but the picture is so earnest that it leaves out the easy, old-school pleasure conjured by the last few years of Disney sports flicks (Invincible, Miracle, The Rookie).
  25. Pusher (2012)
    Best part: Colorful Croatian-Danish actor Zlatko Buri´ reprises his role as the jovially menacing foreign heavy out to collect his dough.
  26. Con Air
    It's so shameless, so psychotically nervous about keeping you ''thrilled,'' that the phrase over the top won't do it justice. It's like a drug designed for people who've done every drug and now want to be jet-propelled into numbness.
  27. The Lake House
    The only real magic in The Lake House is that Kate and Alex have never heard of e-mail.
  28. Deadfall
    There isn't much to the characters in this morose thriller.
  29. Trap
    I'd place it more alongside the enjoyable The Visit or Split, and, indeed, there are some story commonalities with both. It is, however, masterfully shot, with great use of wide angles, cropped frames, and a sense of foreboding inside and around the concert venue.
  30. Death on the Nile
    In a post-Knives Out world, is a movie like this meant to be a classic whodunit for the whole family, or something more deliberately meta and modern? Branagh mostly lands on the former: a sort of sumptuous dinner-theater redux studded with stray bits of caricature, camp, and many CG pyramids.
  31. Bean
    In this slapdash production directed by Mel Smith ("The Tall Guy" but also, alas, "Radioland Murders"), written by Richard Curtis ("Four Weddings") and Robin Driscoll, there's just enough unrepentant self-centeredness missing to take the hilariously brutish edge off Bean's game for those who know him.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    That's the Way I Like It
    Cute, but there's no movie here -- just a transcultural replication.
  33. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    An animated fairy tale made with simple, elegant conviction.
  34. Eternals
    The looping flashback structure and relaxed, intimate pacing has the odd effect of making the fate of the free world feel a lot less urgent than it probably should; the movie frequently comes off less like a standard MCU tentpole than a metaphysical family drama whose black sheep just happens to be Thanos.
  35. 47 Meters Down
    As far as cheap warm-weather junk food goes, it will suffice. It will have to.
  36. The United States vs. Billie Holiday
    Daniels has a way of molding the chaotic murk of history into something neat and shiny — whether it be the roots of Holiday's addiction or the decidedly 2021 cut of Rhodes' rippling torso.
  37. The Next Three Days
    Damon's how-to-break-the-law lesson - as ludicrous as anything else in this enjoyably zigzaggy exercise in accumulating peril - grants Neeson the fun of experimenting with an American ex-con accent for his one scene.
  38. HouseSitter
    Every time Housesitter seems about to turn wild, it gets waterlogged with heart.
  39. G20
    If you do not find yourself hootin’ and hollerin’ at Viola Davis — excuse me, President Viola Davis — packing automatic weapons, tossing grenades, and charging into a helicopter, well, your loyalty to good, idiotic fun might be questioned.
  40. Maggie
    The sight of Schwarzenegger in this small, subdued role makes us root for his survival. That’s the power of star wattage at work. Not even the undead can kill it.
  41. 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.
  42. Murder on the Orient Express
    Branagh executes his double duties with a gratifyingly light touch, tweaking the story’s more mothballed elements without burying it all in winky wham-bam modernity.
  43. Nanny McPhee Returns
    Thompson, who also wrote the script, has skittery, baffling fun enjoining her plummy guest actors (including Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, and Maggie Smith) to play broad Brit types.
  44. Possession
    The movie is intelligent yet lifeless; it's all wisps and abstractions.
  45. Center Stage
    As a Balanchine-like martinet, Peter Gallagher is a hoot, whispering to his minions about good and bad feet.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
    Like Demi Moore leaking tears or Sharon Stone crossing her legs, Jamie Lee Curtis screaming is one of those glorious sights that inspire a generation of moviegoers to binge on popcorn.
  47. 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.
  48. Serendipity
    Serendipity has no business working, but it does. And by the way, Eugene Levy has no business almost stealing the show, but he does, too.
  49. Bring It On
    It's an okay brat movie.
  50. Charlie's Angels
    This new Charlie’s Angels gets very crush-y between silly excess and striving ambition, but even the sugar is flammable.
  51. SuperFly
    Neither as satisfying as the remake of "Shaft" nor as objectionable as the remake of "Death Wish," the second coming of Superfly wants to tap into that same ’70s grindhouse allure and put a similarly slick modern gloss on it. The results are pretty mixed.
  52. Gracie
    You miss the knockabout edge of "Bend It Like Beckham" -- though the ending, in its Pavlovian sports-flick way, pumps you up.
  53. Dark Water
    A shudder-by-numbers pseudo-J-horror gothic, full of supernatural stunts you feel as if you've seen before the movie even gets to them.
  54. Mars Attacks!
    In its nothing's-quite-at-stake way, Mars Attacks! has Tim Burton's flaked-out spirit -- it makes you feel like a very knowing 8-year-old, seeing through the artifice yet believing in it at the same time.
  55. 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.
  56. Ghost in the Shell
    If there’s anything Sander’s ravishing set pieces fail to sufficiently color in, it’s the movie’s emotional stakes.
  57. Magic Mike's Last Dance
    Last Dance is missing a lot, but it has the moves you mostly came for — and in its final strobe-lit moments, the full release of a Hollywood ending.
  58. Detachment
    When it stays in the classroom, Detachment is a scrappy testament - to the futility of even trying to reach students who are cut off from the possibilities of knowledge, and to the way that our teachers are slowly being driven nuts.
  59. Running with Scissors
    Watching Running With Scissors the movie instead of reading Running With Scissors the best-selling memoir by Augusten Burroughs is like running with a spatula, or maybe some weird toast tongs.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Central Intelligence
    While not necessarily a diamond-in-the-rough itself, Central Intelligence proves that Johnson has always been at the center of his own ring, in more ways than one. It just took the rest of us (and Hollywood) a little longer to notice.
  61. Last Holiday
    A chaste and tepid remake of a 1950 British comedy.
  62. Insidious
    A haunted-house movie that has some of the most shivery and indelible images I've seen in any horror film in decades. Yes, it's that unsettling.
  63. The Sun Is Also a Star
    The leads are both charming, but they can’t override the tooth-aching sincerity of the script, or the cardboard conflicts that propel it.
  64. Chasing Madoff
    Jeff Prosserman's riveting documentary takes a question that haunted the Bernie Madoff scandal - how did he fool everyone for so long? - and answers it with a decisive "He didn't."
  65. The Iron Lady
    Streep is a pleasure to behold; less so the rest of The Iron Lady.
  66. Once in the Life
    Showcases a trio of terrific performances.
  67. The Princess Diaries
    This charming, if unnecessarily coronation-length production gets the duckling-to-swan ambivalence just right.
  68. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
    A solidly enjoyable formula thriller.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Longshots
    Hopelessly clichéd.
  70. Exodus: Gods and Kings
    Is it possible to sit through a movie, mentally cataloging its absurdities, and still walk out dazzled? Because that pretty much sums up my experience watching Ridley Scott's eye-candy spectacle Exodus: Gods and Kings, an over-the-top Old Testament epic that's essentially Gladiator with God.
  71. Heleno
    Rodrigo Santoro (Paulo on Lost, Xerxes in 300, and even better, Raúl Castro in Che) is mighty matinee-idol charismatic himself in the title role, alternating between swaggering lady-killer and ravaged victim of self-destruction.
  72. Starship Troopers
    The movie is sensationally exciting, but its hey-kids-let s-put-on-a-war! story line plays like Beverly Hills, 90210 recast as a military-recruitment film for the Third Reich.
  73. The Devil's Double
    I'm not sure what it all adds up to, but The Devil's Double puts its hooks in you and keeps them there.
  74. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
    There might not be a more gorgeous-looking movie this year than Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
  75. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    Breaking Dawn - Part 2 starts off slow but gathers momentum, and that's because, with Bella and Edward united against the Volturi, the picture has a real threat.
  76. The Christmas Chronicles
    What kind of Grinch would I be to berate a new cheesy holiday movie about two siblings going on a Christmas-related adventure in which, I repeat, Kurt Russell plays a hot Santa? Make some cocoa for the family, and spike yours if you have to, but remember what the holiday is about: watching mediocre, predictable movies with the people you love.
  77. The Last Boy Scout
    The Last Boy Scout is a guilty pleasure by any standard, but I’ve seen plenty of guilt-free movies lately that aren’t this much fun.
  78. The Spy Who Dumped Me
    The new comedy, The Spy Who Dumped Me, is a mirthless, dead-on-arrival dud.
  79. The Sea
    The loveliest moments put both politics and theatrics aside, conveying the strange beauty of a hard life involving little else than fish, water, and gray sky.
  80. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Has my eye, seduced by the devious and tactile delights of ''Shrek,'' already evolved in tandem with the technological leaps in computer animation? Or is Atlantis simply a Disney dud?
  81. Dopamine
    A melancholy romance that has the distinction of being the first film set among San Francisco dotcommers that knows it's about the end of the boom.
  82. Secondhand Lions
    With no baseline ''truth'' to be found among the cartoony characters and cheesy twists, the whole production feels like a Texas-size load of secondhand lyin'.
  83. Ping Pong Summer
    The film coasts on its time-capsule fetishism and affable supporting turns from Susan Sarandon and Lea Thompson, but it never achieves the emotional punch of like-minded comedies such as "Adventureland" and "The Way, Way Back."
  84. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    If this is what it sounds like when a new millennium goes pop, I'll take it.
  85. Be Kind Rewind
    There's nothing not to like about the movie, a teensy, hand-crocheted trifle, fitted with embroidered pockets of guest stardom, including Mia Farrow as the nice local lady who wants to see what "Ghostbusters" is all about and "Ghostbusters'" own Sigourney Weaver as a movie-studio corporate meanie, ha-ha.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Jamaica Inn
    The film looks decent, though not as striking as any of Hitchcock's prior sound films.
  87. Wild at Heart
    A lurid hodgepodge of the ''subversive'' and the secondhand, the movie lacks the primal pop pleasures of Lynch's best work.
  88. Casa de mi Padre
    If you take the film on its own terms, as a kind of Elvis movie dipped in guacamole, it's quirkily engrossing. Ferrell is a good straight actor for the same reason that he's an inspired comedian: He commits himself to every moment.
  89. Hook
    Hook is jam-packed with ''entertainment value,'' enough to give you your money's worth, and to guarantee (in all probability) that Spielberg earns his. Yet something has clouded this director's vision... The problem isn't that Spielberg has lost his gift for fantasy. It's that he no longer seems to know (or care) about anything else.
  90. 300
    Look, but don't be touched: There is much to see but little to remember in this telling of a battle we are meant never to forget.
  91. Race to Witch Mountain
    The planet-hopping children have special talents -- telekinesis, telepathy etc. -- although it is the high-wattage lovability of Mr Rock that's the real superpower on display here.
  92. Any Given Sunday
    The film's cumulative effect is as exhausting as it is exciting.
  93. Mother of Tears
    As a lissome art restorer, Asia Argento (the director's daughter) comes off as the sanest human on screen, which is pretty scary.
  94. Goya's Ghosts
    In a season of digital bombast, it can be a relief to walk into a stodgy life-of-the-great-man costume drama. Goya's Ghosts, before it turns into a messy, horse-drawn load, achieves a civilized stuffiness that gives off its own mild pleasure.
  95. Splendor
    It gradually loses wattage. Robertson, however, is a real sparkler.
  96. Little Secrets
    The kids in this syrupy family picture are spunky tykes and the adults are dolts, but Wood is worth watching because she's so clearly ready to play nobody's girl but her own.
  97. The King Is Alive
    Janet McTeer displays Amazonian power while Jennifer Jason Leigh tears into her role as a high maintenance creature with a ferocity that leaves little room for her usual acting tics.
  98. Valentin
    Agresti fattens us up with the kind of kid's-eye-view tragi-comic adventures that regularly supply empty calories in artificially sweetened foreign-language imports.
  99. Scream 4
    Some of the riffs are really funny and/or expertly scary. Others have the feel of awfully snappy dialogue crafted by middleaged people trying a little too eagerly to sound like the young people from whose mouths the banter flows.
  100. Water for Elephants
    Something is wrong under this big tent. Actually made to resemble a good old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing movie, this cinematic Water for Elephants droops and lumbers like Rosie the elephant herself.
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