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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. Gigli
    A watchable bad movie, but it's far from your typical cookie-cutter blockbuster. There are no shoot-outs or car chases, and there isn't much romantic suspense, either.
  2. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Croft is one humorless butt-kicker. Excavations in exotic lands have rarely looked so much like items on a to-do list.
  3. Mondays in the Sun
    The performances are relaxed. The open-ended, vignette-like structure of the filmmaking sometimes imitates the movement of weary, life-worn men nursing liquor.
  4. 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.
  5. Seabiscuit
    Trembles with respect for Hillenbrand's book. It's hobbled by good intentions, grand plans for telling many stories at once, and a fear of the very audience whose intelligence and sophistication it claims to court.
  6. Lucía, Lucía
    Anxiety is a fair response to a midlife crisis, but that hardly means that we want to see the heroine of a movie spend scene after scene trapped in a nervous dither of indecision. That's exactly what happens in Lucia, Lucia.
  7. 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.
  8. Camp
    The sum is no greater than the ''Fame''-style saga of any one of them, and Graff, an actor and screenwriter making his directing debut, is less successful at developing each story than at conveying his general affection for the curtain-call species.
  9. Masked and Anonymous
    Requires tremendous restraint not to conclude that this entertainingly apocalyptic mess is about nothing, since it may well be about everything. But I doubt it.
  10. Johnny English
    The hilarious Malkovich, coiffed in an artful pageboy and savoring a fruity French accent, would overpower the competition on sheer thespian madness.
  11. How to Deal
    Moore makes Halley's awakening organic and touching. In an age when most teenagers are up to their eyeballs in postmodern consumer glitz, her movies seem radical not just in their retro squareness but in their unfashionable embrace of faith over ironic flippancy.
  12. Dirty Pretty Things
    Jammed with banner-ready political rhetoric, and the relentlessness of the lectures is wearying. The plot, on the other hand, is a standard contraption built on enduring urban anxieties and involving a nasty hotel-room trade.
  13. Bad Boys II
    Bad Boys II proves that it's possible to pack a movie with so much popcorn that it leaves the audience overdosed.
  14. September 11
    In the most shocking contribution to this self-conscious but fascinating sampling of art challenged by life, Mexico's Alejandro González Iñárritu (''Amores Perros'') makes a horrifying suspense story.
  15. Garage Days
    There's something uniquely embarrassing about a rock & roll fable that is no more authentic (and no less coy) than an episode of ''The Monkees'' yet insists on presenting itself as the epitome of rebel-yell cool.
  16. A Housekeeper
    By the end, you may marvel at the film's worldly-wise wink of maturity. You may also think, Is that all?
  17. Northfork
    It has that vintage Polish pace, their signature arch pomposity and rhythmless weirdness, only this time the brothers had to go and make a cosmic allegory of American dreams.
  18. The Cuckoo
    A stirring action movie -- in the international manner of ''The Fast Runner'' or ''No Man's Land."
  19. I Capture the Castle
    Smith's book is a charmer, but the keys to this ''Castle'' have been misplaced.
  20. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    The movie is based on a 1999 series of comic books by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, but the original tone of deadpan historical audacity has been replaced by a kind of wax-museum literalness.
  21. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    There may be nothing more fun for actors than experimental exaggeration, especially when filming on a Caribbean island. But there’s nothing that makes an audience feel less welcome than not being in on the joke.
  22. Swimming Pool
    The narrative logic of Swimming Pool slips through our hands like cool water, shimmery and light-dappled, leaving behind the pleasures of summer heat and goose bumps.
  23. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    With him (Schwarzenegger), we return to a franchise we never knew we missed, surprisingly grateful for the star's generosity -- and evident pleasure -- in strapping on the old sunglasses and blasting adversaries to hell.
  24. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    This voyage is strictly one for the disposable present, however quaintly old-fashioned the hand-drawn work that the animators have blended with 3D effects. (Tots will twitch during the grown-up relationship parts, and teens will groan at the kiddie sops.)
  25. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    At once brasher and more frivolous, she's a lot less compelling fighting for the welfare of lab-test animals than she was crusading for her own dignity.
  26. Friday Night
    Ziplessness has rarely looked so inviting, nor have a couple of actors seemed so much like real people -- attractive, but hardly hunks of perfection -- who happened to get lucky, and are delighted to throw some of their guiltless good fortune our way.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    Let's face it: Chick power was never this yummy.
  28. 28 Days Later...
    A swankily austere piece of jeepers-creepers sci-fi.
  29. Alex & Emma
    It's hard to say what's more excruciating: Alex's novel, which is like ''The Great Gatsby'' rewritten by Lizzie McGuire, or his quarrelsome flirtation with Emma, who has no existence as a character apart from her drive to reshape Alex into a specimen of respectable tamed manhood.
  30. Hulk
    A comic-book superhero has seldom squandered so much screen time being conflicted about his heritage and destiny -- and I don't mean conflicted in a sexy, Wolverine-y, ''X-Men'' way, either; a big-budget comic-book adaptation has rarely felt so humorless and intellectually defensive about its own pulpy roots.
  31. From Justin to Kelly
    It's like ''Grease: The Next Generation'' acted out by the food-court staff at SeaWorld.
  32. The Hard Word
    An Australian crime caper that's one part ''Sexy Beast,'' one part ''The Full Monty,'' and three parts very flat soda.
  33. Jet Lag
    It's a pleasure to encounter a confectionary love story in which a man and woman of age and experience discover feelings that youth, more and more, has a patent on in Hollywood.
  34. The Heart of Me
    In their own precisely posed ways, the drenched players in The Heart of Me are as compelling as those in any less decorum-bound love triangle.
  35. Hollywood Homicide
    Is it, you know, fun? At times. Yet there's a rote quality to the way this half-dumb, half-sly movie resolves itself into an intentional debauch, a pileup of villainy and heavy metal. The only California dream it leaves you with is one of wretched excess.
  36. Rugrats Go Wild
    Mildly amusing, but compared to Pixar's splashy fish story, the rudimentary drawings and childish gags of Nickelodeon's latest feature look, in a word, cartoonish.
  37. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    Without any of the patented Farrelly insight into the insecure, horndoggy teen in every man, and without a grown-up setting in which Harry and Lloyd can transgress like dum-dum geniuses,Dumb and Dumberer is dumberest.
  38. Love the Hard Way
    Adrien Brody completists will appreciate Love the Hard Way, if only as an example of the kind of self-conscious, brat-noir projects their man probably won't be doing anymore.
  39. The Eye
    Part supernatural thriller, part Oliver Sacks-style meditation on the neurological mysteries of perception, and part Buddhist treatise on reincarnation, the story luxuriates in shadows.
  40. Wattstax (re-released)
    I wish I could say that Wattstax was an ecstatic soul celebration, but most of the performances, while enjoyable, fall short of memorable.
  41. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    2F2F, under the cut-to-the-chase direction of John Singleton, strips the package known as the Mindless Summer Movie down to its barest components of wheels, skin, and a pulsing soundtrack.
  42. Whale Rider
    An inviting international audience-pleaser.
  43. The Weather Underground
    Powerful and searching documentary.
  44. Together
    To contextualize the story's lack of subtlety, it helps to see these casting choices as ongoing penance for the time when, as a boy, Chen denounced his own father to the Red Guard.
  45. The Italian Job
    There's a fair amount of filler in The Italian Job, but it all boils down to the big heist, which has been staged as if it were Fort Knox being robbed by Evel Knievel.
  46. Wrong Turn
    A blood-simple backwoods spatterfest that makes shameless use of the same old antirural moonshine Hollywood's been bootlegging for decades.
  47. Capturing the Friedmans
    An extraordinary film; it may be the most haunting documentary since ''Crumb.''
  48. Finding Nemo
    You could trawl the seven seas and not net a funnier, more beautiful, and more original work of art and comedy than Finding Nemo.
  49. The In-Laws
    While much of The In-Laws feels stuck in time, what really does it in is the script's boring, modern sensitivity to fatherhood, and bonding with one's kids, and all that enlightened parenthood crap.
  50. Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
    A unintentionally funny fanzine-flavored documentary.
  51. Grazia's Island
    For all Golino's comeliness, she's upstaged by the windy beauty of the landscape, and by Crialese's attention -- in an Italian neorealist way -- to the routines of daily life in an insular, traditional culture.
  52. Bruce Almighty
    Carrey isn't afraid to go happily psycho, like Peter Sellers or Eminem on his funniest tracks, and that's his edge.
  53. 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.
  54. L'Auberge Espagnole
    The atmosphere of gentle communal chaos is authentic enough to become the movie's dramatic center.
  55. Sweet Sixteen
    In the grim and empathetic lost-youth drama Sweet Sixteen, the director focuses on a few failed souls -- rather than excoriate the system that failed them -- to produce a story of particularly streamlined, eloquent despair.
  56. The Matrix Reloaded
    If The Matrix Reloaded is a trip through high-toned mediocrity, not nearly as suggestive or cohesive as ''The Matrix,'' it's one of the most wizardly mediocre movies I've seen in quite some time.
  57. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    Maddin chops it up into a feature-length antique-bloodsucker video, and the result takes hold neither as dance nor as silent horror dream.
  58. Only the Strong Survive
    One of the happiest movies around.
  59. Man on the Train
    The premise, the structure, and the men-at-twilight conversation in Patrice Leconte's ingratiating drama feel cloyingly predetermined at times, but the sight of Hallyday and Rochefort luxuriating in their contrasting manly personas is a kick.
  60. Daddy Day Care
    A parent-and-kid-oriented comedy about the adventures of men doing the hard work of mommies, which couldn't be more timely -- or less delightful.
  61. The Shape of Things
    What it isn't is a believable relationship. Yet that may scarcely matter to LaBute, a gifted and corrosive wordsmith who appears intent, by now, on shoving all romantic couplings into the meat grinder of his misanthropic design.
  62. 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.
  63. X2: X-Men United
    X2 sparkles with a lightness of spirit that was missing from ''X-Men.''
  64. The Dancer Upstairs
    The movie has a mystery, and moral unease, that lingers.
  65. Owning Mahowny
    Hoffman plays Dan Mahowny's addiction to instant money as something dirty and private and, at the same time, soul-quickening.
  66. Blue Car
    A memory of the automobile in which a father drove away from his family provides the title for Blue Car but no hint of the power of writer-director Karen Moncrieff's superb feature debut.
  67. 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.
  68. Spellbound
    Thrilling little epic set in the bewildering arena of the English language.
  69. Marooned in Iraq
    Nothing I've read about Iraq or seen on TV in the past few weeks has felt nearly as real and intimate as this commanding fiction.
  70. The Real Cancun
    It's just a camcorder soap opera of packaged hormonal fervor -- ''The Real World'' with extra tequila body shots.
  71. 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.''
  72. A Decade Under the Influence
    This documentary about the triumph of the New Hollywood employs a treasure trove of interviews and clips to create a rich understanding of the many forces -- cultural undertows, really -- that flowed together to fill the void left by the dying studio system.
  73. Manic
    There's something already exhausted, however, in the intrusively gauzy, wobbly, blurry, zoomy digital-video look of the piece.
  74. Confidence
    Confidence may be mannered at times, but its shell-game plot is alive with organic trickery.
  75. Identity
    The hardest work falls to Cusack, a subtle actor with a valuable gift for conveying the sadness and loneliness beneath the skin of even the most jaded and self-contained men-about-town.
  76. It Runs in the Family
    A sodden drama of filial conflict that dares the audience to confuse the characters with the players. P.T. Barnum couldn't have come up with a better hook, but he would have rewarded his suckers with more ''On Golden Pond'' entertainment bang for their buck.
  77. People I Know
    As it is, the story collapses like a bad tip to Liz Smith. Still, there's something brash, retro, and even stupidly touching about all the chatty mania, and the way Baitz and Pacino get off on paranoia, conspiracy theories, and the lure of 1960s idealism.
  78. Winged Migration
    Mesmerizing.
  79. Holes
    Honoring the literary ground beneath it, spotted yellow lizards and all, the movie Holes is easy to dig.
  80. Lilya 4-Ever
    A haunting and incandescent work of art.
  81. Malibu's Most Wanted
    A send-up of rap personality in which no one actually has a personality. The joke, alas, is on the movie.
  82. Love and Diane
    Riveting family portrait.
  83. A Mighty Wind
    A movie that re-creates its object of satire with such pitch-perfect flair that it all but erases the line between derision and love.
  84. Bulletproof Monk
    As ungainly in its jammed-together East-meets-West-ness as Steven Seagal in a yoga pose.
  85. The Young Unknowns
    There's a shocking, casual quality to the self-destructive narcissism of the pretty, petty kids squandering their lives in the L.A. sunshine of The Young Unknowns.
  86. XX/XY
    Emotional presence and a sophisticated understanding of commitment-phobia (as something other than a comedic punchline or an excuse for sex scenes) distinguishes this intense, contained drama, as does the unforced, sensual, and sensitive cinematography of Uta Briesewitz.
  87. Better Luck Tomorrow
    Lin works with a rhythmic observational flair that outweighs the movie's flaws. It's a long way from Long Duk Dong.
  88. Ghosts of the Abyss
    Cameron wants to take the audience ''back to 'Titanic,''' but the journey's magic is hemmed in, paradoxically, by the transcendence of his previous effort; surely he must know that a lot of us never left.
  89. Anger Management
    The two XXL personalities are in fit, fighting form in a comedy as bracing and furiously right for the moment as it is broad and huggable.
  90. House of 1000 Corpses
    Isn't coherent, exactly, but what dripping-ghoul horror movie is these days? The new rule is, It's not hip to make sense when you're raising hell.
  91. DysFunktional Family
    That Griffin tells some of the most intolerant jokes since Andrew Dice Clay should hardly obscure his talent, even if it does tarnish it.
  92. The Man Without a Past
    The message, if there must be one, of this marvelous, stubbornly personal movie is that there is a spark in every soul.
  93. Phone Booth
    It's an energetic stunt of a movie, and it wants to make us sweat like it's 1974.
  94. What a Girl Wants
    In her sassy but scrubbed way, Bynes is a real charmer, and What a Girl Wants is a likable throwaway.
  95. A Man Apart
    Sour, sadistic, and stale from sitting on the shelf since the pre-''XXX'' era -- an era I'm starting to miss.
  96. Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    When Bebop's anime characters stand still, chirping their strangely stilted, dubbed talk and not moving their strangely blank faces, I feel lost on Mars myself.
  97. Cet amour-là
    You can forget about veracity, since this gauzy and sometimes dopey romanticization can't be trusted.
  98. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    It's a messy, entertaining documentary rooted in -- though not limited to -- the iconically indulgent years of Fellini's later career.
  99. The Good Thief
    The trouble with all this is that it's thin movie tinsel that, while lovingly polished, never becomes more than tinsel. The Good Thief has a glib stylishness (the rapid freeze-frames at the end of scenes signify...nothing), yet it lacks a blast of reality to balance its fable.
  100. Stevie
    Gripping in its intimacy.
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