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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
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  1. Click
    At times dark and at other times gooey.
  2. 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.
  3. Changing Times
    Strangely inert drama.
  4. Lady in the Water
    Shyamalan's most alienating and self-absorbed project to date.
  5. Scoop
    A companion piece to "Match Point" that suffers all the more in comparison.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Night Listener
    Is The Night Listener a wintry drama with a few schlocky jolts, or an underdone psychological thriller straining for some dramatic heft on the side? Hard to tell, but either way, the movie doesn't cohere.
  7. Quinceañera
    Tthis isn't just any setup, is it: It's suds being sold as ethno-sensitive reality, a case of coveting thy neighbor's fiesta.
  8. Factotum
    It's too bad that the film was directed by the Norwegian minimalist Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories), who makes a fetish of building scenes around silence.
  9. 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).
  10. School for Scoundrels
    Director Todd Phillips tries for the kind of frat slaphappiness he applied so successfully to "Old School," but these boys are less scoundrels than individual salesmen for the brands of Heder and Thornton.
    • 42 Metascore
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    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker is "Agent Cody Banks" played British and kinda straight -- that is, as straight as you can when your villain, who dispatches foes with a giant jellyfish, is played by a toothpick-chomping Mickey Rourke in purple eye shadow.
  12. 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.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    This Styrofoam snowman of a sequel overdoses on its own candy-cane-colored sugary cheer.
  14. Fuck
    Examination of one of the English language's most useful utterances and why the sound packs such a friggin' wallop.
  15. Candy
    A wildly romanticized Australian druggie drama.
  16. Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj
    Everything old is old again in this rickety extension of 2002's already rickety "Van Wilder."
  17. Home of the Brave
    Evenness of political keel, combined with a generic filmmaking style, is an artistic weapon way too puny for a successful assault on so tough, bruising, and crucial a subject.
  18. Comedy of Power
    Chabrol has fashioned a mystery that caves in on itself, but unfortunately, it caves in on the audience, too.
  19. Alpha Dog
    Cassavetes throws in everything he can recycle to grab a core-demo viewer -- slutty teens making out, blaring rock music, guns, split screens.
    • 34 Metascore
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    The Messengers
    There are a few decent jolts in The Messengers, but every one of them is accompanied by a cheap freak-out on the soundtrack so you know to be decently jolted.
  21. Constellation
    Deeply odd films are often deeply personal ones, and Constellation, a dazed, inchoate drama about a mixed-race Alabama family, tells a story that's clearly close to the heart of writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman.
  22. The Exterminating Angels
    The new movie, for all its huffing and puffing, explores very little, even if some of it is sexy in a Howard Stern-meets-"9 1?2Weeks" way.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ultimate Gift
    Kind of like a feel-good "Saw" for churchgoers, minus the sadistic games of death.
  24. Dead Silence
    Terrified of puppets? Enjoy being scared? Then you'll be half-satisfied with Dead Silence, a rote horror pantomime.
  25. I Think I Love My Wife
    I Think I Love My Wife has got to be the unlikeliest French New Wave classic ever to be retrofitted by a famous African-American stand-up comedian best known for his stinging social commentary -- at least until Dave Chappelle remakes Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" as a hip-hop caper.
  26. The Lookout
    A thriller that wheezes along on bits and pieces of ''character.''
  27. Meet the Robinsons
    Who knows whether the project is meant to be earnest, ironic, post-ironic, made for adults, made for kids, made to teach lessons, or made to be watched in an altered state? All or none...jeez, this thing is one bumpy ride.
  28. Zoo
    You could wander into this poetic documentary willing to be sympathetic toward its subject -- men who have sex with horses -- and still find Zoo cryptic and borderline bogus.
  29. Snow Cake
    An awfully tidy, infernally sparkly study in skewed blessings, made manifest by Committed Acting from Sigourney Weaver.
  30. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    Knightley's Elizabeth becomes a pirate captain this time. You know a franchise has run its course when it has a buccaneer heroine who looks as if she'd hate to get her face smudged.
    • 74 Metascore
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    Golden Door
    A sluggish procedural on what it was like to make the journey to Ellis Island back in the day.
  32. Gracie
    You miss the knockabout edge of "Bend It Like Beckham" -- though the ending, in its Pavlovian sports-flick way, pumps you up.
  33. Mr. Brooks
    Mr. Brooks begins promisingly, but it grows steadily more preposterous as it goes along, becoming the first feel-good serial-killer movie.
  34. Introducing the Dwights
    Sometimes Brenda Blethyn is content merely to nibble the scenery. In Introducing the Dwights, a drippy Australian family comedy caper, she chomps it to a pulp until we long for her straightforward monstrosity as a mother in "Little Voice."
  35. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    Mandy Lane does eventually build to a whiplash twist ending, but it's too little, too late — much like the film itself. Here's a case where the backstory is more interesting than the movie.
  36. Them
    You'd better deliver the goods. And Them, despite some moody imagery out of the "Blair Witch" school, never does.
  37. Rocket Science
    One of those terminally annoying, depressive-yet-coy Sundance faves in which the tale of a mopey teen misfit unfolds behind a hard candy shell of irony.
  38. The Last Legion
    Every once in a while, though, Firth's eyebrow hints, Can you believe I'm wearing this dorky leather breastplate?
  39. The Rape of Europa
    Unfortunately, most of the two-hour documentary is devoted to annotating what the Nazis stole for both their state and personal collections. The movie doesn't dramatize this crime -- it catalogs it. With deadening monotony.
  40. Feast of Love
    Far too cloyingly pleased with its own humanity.
  41. The Game Plan
    Having tamed one muscled man-child (Vin Diesel in The Pacifier), Disney sets its sights on The Rock. He preens winningly in The Game Plan.
  42. Bella
    In stories like this defiantly unsubtle, structurally clunky specimen, causes women who are considering abortion to think again, and self-selecting audiences to enjoy a light, luxurious weep.
  43. Rails & Ties
    Rails & Ties is like one bad TV movie that slammed into another.
  44. Lars and the Real Girl
    Really, I think we put up with Lars at all only because Gosling has such an affinity for the wounded boy birds he tends to play that it's easy to watch him do his thing.
  45. Fred Claus
    The surprisingly puny haul comes from the jolly, usually sparkling comedy workshop of David Dobkin, who directed "Wedding Crashers," and Dan Fogelman, who wrote "Cars" -- two great movies that both make better stocking stuffers.
  46. Flawless
    It's left to Caine to wink and nod at his own contribution to real caper classics of the 1960s and '70s, produced with more emphasis on fun and less on instructive fact-finding.
  47. The Golden Compass
    The Golden Compass is a snowbound mystical-whizbang kiddie ride that hovers somewhere between the loopy and the lugubrious.
  48. Grace Is Gone
    Grace Is Gone grabs on to a name, a war, and the metaphor-come-to-life of a theme park with rides going nowhere. And we, the people, are spun around and shaken for tears.
  49. The Bucket List
    The first thing to say about The Bucket List is that Rob Reiner is the rare director who can take all the wonder out of one of the seven wonders of the world.
  50. First Sunday
    If Tyler Perry ever wanted to turn "Dog Day Afternoon" into a treacly after-school special, it would probably end up looking a lot like this.
  51. The Eye
    It's as if, on the umpteenth Asian-horror Xerox, the ink has run dry.
  52. Jumper
    Liman, for all his craft, doesn't have enough FUN with the premise.
  53. Bonneville
    Ladies! Thelma and Louise drove a '66T-bird, remember?! They picked up a young male hitchhiker 17 years before you did, and they too, um, interacted with a trucker and admired magnificent American sunsets -- is it coming back to you? Nope, it's not, which is exactly why the tires are so low on this creaky vehicle.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Doomsday
    Marshall cribs whole sections from other movies (Aliens and The Road Warrior, most blatantly) so baldly that you have to wonder how he'd like it if someone ripped off "The Descent" this egregiously.
  55. The Grand
    Each of these improv farceurs wins a few laughs. But not enough.
  56. Leatherheads
    Reproducing a period-piece screwball comedy for a modern audience turns out to be one playful, self-deprecating wink too many for the star, who also directed Leatherheads.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Chaos Theory
    Peddles the usual carpe diem movie bunk.
  58. XXY
    It's set at a beach house, but we see only gray skies, and though Efron has a wary and cutting intelligence (it matches that of the fine actor Ricardo Darin, who plays her father), the effect is tepid and damp.
  59. Speed Racer
    Young boys are the only suitable audience for Speed Racer, the elaborate live-action adaptation written and directed by "Matrix" creators Larry and Andy Wachowski. And even they might feel an urge to squirm.
  60. The Happening
    Some sure symptoms: The movie demonstrates a smart movie geek's obsession with the rhythms and gory details of horror storytelling, undermined by a pompous insistence on spiritual lessons of the tritest kind.
  61. The Go-Getter
    The Go-Getter travels, but it doesn't go anywhere.
  62. Felon
    Val Kilmer, as a polite horn-rimmed sociopath with a heart of gold, keeps showing up to drop Nietzschean pensées.
  63. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    After an hour of inert exposition, a race through Shanghai gooses the movie alive. Then it plunges back into torpor.
  64. Swing Vote
    Costner (who's also a producer) plays to his middle-aged strengths in a role that exaggerates male weaknesses.
  65. The Spirit
    As the vamps, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson might be posing for a fashion spread with just one note to play -- gorgeous high-bitch mockery.
  66. Henry Poole Is Here
    It's less a tale of religious rebirth than a faith-based Hallmark card.
  67. Traitor
    A slippery entertainment that's all feints and few punches thrown at a fight card of indistinguishable terrorists, Muslim and otherwise.
  68. The Women
    The movie is a feminist lesson instead of what it should have been (and once was): a tough, synthetic, high-gloss entertainment that wears its heart on its lacquered fingernails.
  69. Igor
    The visuals are a kick; the groan-inducing dialogue isn't.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Best Friend's Girl
    The actors (especially Alec Baldwin, as Tank's horndog dad) elevate the material slightly, but such piffle will just fill you with longing...for a better movie.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fireproof
    The filmmakers hedge their bets by making the young marrieds agnostic at the start of the movie, in order to turn Fireproof into a manual for eternal as well as marital salvation.
  72. Filth and Wisdom
    The movie is short on wisdom, but it might have gotten by if it had had better filth.
  73. The Secret Life of Bees
    The Secret Life of Bees is a lesson -- or, rather, a whole series of them -- we no longer need to learn. Of course, it's also a divine-sisterhood-defeats-all chick flick, and on that score there's no denying that its clichés are rousingly up to date.
  74. An American Carol
    A loony attack on wacko liberalism and a ding-dong defense of wacko conservatism.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fear(s) of the Dark
    Feels like a nonstarter.
  76. Changeling
    The trouble with Changeling is that it plays less like reality than like a bare-bones, moralistic rehash of other, better movies, such as "L.A. Confidential" or "Frances."
  77. Passengers
    Turns out to be just another dud in the genre of revisionist mysteries that have been messing with our heads since Haley Joel Osment saw dead people. Only this time, the big reveal doesn't so much twist the plot as snap its neck.
  78. Soul Men
    Soul Men could have done with less amped-up abrasiveness and more soft-shoe charm.
  79. Adam Resurrected
    The director, Paul Schrader, tries for cleansing audacity, but ends up too close to farce.
  80. Silent Light
    The stab at sublimity-by-proxy doesn't take.
  81. Bride Wars
    Bride Wars pretends to be a satire of wedding mania, but since there's virtually nothing else to the movie, the satire comes depressingly close to endorsement.
  82. Push
    A weightless, style-driven thriller set in a photogenically chaotic Hong Kong.
  83. Obsessed
    Obsessed has little plausibility, but at moments it's an entertaining bad movie, and the performers are vivid.
  84. Madea Goes to Jail
    It's a tale soggy with the kind of race/class lessons that Madea, the director-star's battle-ax alter ego, doles out far more handily (and entertainingly) in a single church-lady-from-hell zinger.
  85. 12
    Has none of the crisp passion or suspense of the 1957 Sidney Lumet version; it's bloated, heavy-handed, and lugubrious.
  86. 12 Rounds
    You will probably find yourself praying for this duel's knock-out punch to arrive long before it actually does.
  87. Dragonball: Evolution
    Marvel at the fact that something this trippy made it to our local multiplex.
  88. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
    He squeezes a bit of suspenseful juice out of the old plot, and Douglas makes smarm a chewy pleasure, but this is a noir in search of a hero we can root for because we actually buy what he’s doing.
  89. Adoration
    The upshot is that those who appear to be guilty may not be -- a muddled message for our time.
  90. Land of the Lost
    Land of the Lost has stray amusing tidbits, but overall it leaves you feeling splattered.
  91. G-Force
    The first 3-D film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer turns out to be similar to 2-D projects from the same noise-making producer--heavy on action scenes and heavy, too, on message.
  92. The Answer Man
    Daniels plays Arlen with a kind of cuddly crankiness; he makes him a jerk who just needs a hug.
  93. Post Grad
    Dismayingly conservative dramedy.
  94. Spread
    The whole movie is pat -- very pleased with itself for being so up front about the ways of a 21st-century man-whore.
  95. Fame
    The teachers (including original cast member Debbie Allen as school principal) turn out to be the best part of the show.
  96. The Stepfather
    The trouble with the movie, apart from its rather monotonous dourness of tone, is that everyone in the family, especially the reformed-delinquent high school son (Penn Badgley), comes off as tougher, smarter, and quicker on the draw than the stepfather who's supposed to be outfoxing them.
  97. The Nightmare Before Christmas
    Is it any wonder this Nightmare never coalesces? He couldn’t make up his mind about whether to be naughty or nice.
  98. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
    The mix is Lifetime soap–meets–Woody Allen smart-set comedy, with less humor and a genteel Connecticut setting.
  99. Serious Moonlight
    There's a lot of yelling, cracking wise, and cooing in this creepy rom-com.
  100. Wonderful World
    It's all very sincere, but watching a dweebish depressive learn that Life Is Good is a lesson of diminishing returns.
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