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  1. Ballast
    The final shot, of the three characters now united, may be the quietest affirmation of life I've ever seen in a movie, and one of the truest.
  2. United 93
    Pulling the bandage of sentiment cleanly away from oozing concepts like ''heroism'' and ''our nation's war on terror'' in the aftermath of recent wounds, here's a drama about the most politically charged crisis of our time that grants the dignity of autonomy to every soul involved.
  3. Two Lovers
    James Gray's Two Lovers really is a '70s movie, in the mode of such raw, unfiltered character studies as "The Panic in Needle Park," "Wanda," and "Fat City."
  4. The Bourne Ultimatum
    A spectacular windup toy of a thriller -- a contraption made by an artist.
  5. Gladiator
    What matters for today's hero is the good fight, and Gladiator KOs us with a doozy.
  6. The Host
    Bong Joon-ho's wildly entertaining saga should become the hip, thinking-person's monster movie of choice.
  7. Bruno
    The movie is a toxic dart aimed at the spangly new heart of American hypocrisy: our fake-tolerant, fake-charitable, fake-liberated-yet-still madly-closeted fame culture.
  8. Humpday
    Anna's thoughts matter because, as played by the wonderfully nuanced newcomer Alycia Delmore, the no-bull responses of this perceptive woman are a key to Humpday's sly, wised-up feminist outlook.
  9. Capote
    Capote honors its subject by doing just what Truman Capote did. It teases, fascinates, and haunts.
  10. Bride & Prejudice
    Under the direction of "Bend It Like Beckham's" Gurinder Chadha, this festively busy and exuberantly multicultural charmer is its own intriguingly postmodern creation.
  11. The Nomi Song
    Forget Devo, Nico, Bowie, or Beefheart: The most mesmerizing freak show in the history of rock & roll was Klaus Nomi.
  12. Up and Down
    Up and Down captures Prague life with a fervor that's comical but a longing that's serious; no one is easy to pigeonhole.
  13. Intimate Stories
    But while this piquant, tapas-like movie (a 2003 film- festival favorite only now being released) asserts that landscape is a kind of destiny from which one cannot escape, Sorin takes delighted, serious interest in how far a person can advance psychologically, even if all roads lead back to a home at the end of the world.
  14. Millions
    This sincere, delicate, and intrinsically religious comedy may also become that most unexpected of blessings - Danny Boyle's first family classic.
  15. Don't Move
    Told in a tricky flashback mode that's vivid even with a few too many temporal kinks, Don't Move is the sort of thing that Claude Chabrol was once praised for making with more pretension and a lot less less juice.
  16. Kung Fu Hustle
    All of Kung Fu Hustle is like that: You don't just watch it, you ride with it, laughing all the way.
  17. Winter Solstice
    A realistic drama that looks and feels as inevitably true and moving as a good documentary.
  18. Palindromes
    Then there's Todd Solondz's Palindromes, which is that rare event: a memorable provocation.
  19. The Holy Girl
    The blessings of salvation have rarely felt so mixed, the parameters of Lolita-hood so elusive - which is exactly Martel's specialty.
  20. Brothers
    We do live in a fraught world of interconnections, Bier makes clear, and what happens far away matters, in unexpected ways, close to home.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Unleashed
    Bounding out of the gate like a greyhound, Unleashed needs only its first 30 seconds or so to elevate itself well above the average action potboiler.
  22. Kings & Queen
    Gripping, highly original.
  23. Madagascar
    Dishes up some very corny jokes, but the images have a brighter-than-life vivacity.
  24. Howl's Moving Castle
    The worldview, the sense of childlike fun shaded with adult melancholy, and the joyful, serene attention to visual oddity and wordless beauty could only be made in Japan. And, specifically, made by Hayao Miyazaki.
  25. The Talent Given Us
    A film of uncommon originality.
  26. War of the Worlds
    An attack-of-the-aliens disaster film crafted with sinister technological grandeur -- a true popcorn apocalypse.
  27. On the Outs
    On the Outs parses the hopes and terrors of blasted lives with an empathy that never cheapens into pity. The movie wounds as much as it heals, and that's its true power.
  28. Wedding Crashers
    Funny, ungirdled romp - a buddy picture about buddies who actually know what women want.
  29. Hustle & Flow
    The home-studio recording sequences in Hustle & Flow are funky, rowdy, and indelible. Brewer gives us the pleasure of watching characters create music from the ground up.
  30. 2046
    There are many places a visitor may go astray in 2046 -- places where the filmmaker appears to be a bit at loose ends too. Still, Wong's invitation -- ''Let's get lost'' -- is irresistible.
  31. Grizzly Man
    A mesmerizing work of disturbing power and unease.
  32. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Buoyantly clever and amusing.
  33. The Constant Gardener
    The movie is smart, serious, and adult about something that matters, but not at the expense of a kind of awful, sensual revelry as le Carré's capacious plot hurtles to its big finish.
  34. Separate Lies
    Wilkinson once again astonishes with his ability to convey weakness and strength, hypocrisy and gallantry, cruelty and compassion in the same male animal.
  35. MirrorMask
    This dazzling reverie of a kids-and-adults movie, an unusual collaboration between lord-of-the-cult multimedia artist Dave McKean and king-of-the-comics Neil Gaiman (The Sandman), has something to astonish everyone.
  36. The Squid and the Whale
    In hovering, The Squid and the Whale becomes its own realistic display of family entropy, as cautionary as it is educational.
  37. Nine Lives
    What could have been a parlor game becomes a surprisingly rich sketchbook, boosted by the work of fine actors.
  38. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    The deliriously enjoyable noir comedy-thriller Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang does nothing by halves and everything by doubles.
  39. Paradise Now
    Of all the shocks in the riveting and timely political thriller Paradise Now, the most unsettling may be the dignity bestowed on a pair of prospective Palestinian suicide bombers.
  40. The Passenger (re-release)
    The Passenger isn't finally the masterpiece some have made it out to be, but it retains a singular intrigue: It's the first, and probably the last, thriller ever made about depression.
  41. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
    Greenwald floats the vital issue of whether Wal-Mart should be restrained by antimonopoly regulations, but his real question is cultural: Even with its rock-bottom prices, is Wal-Mart in the best interest of American consumers?
  42. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Zathura is a rarity: a stellar fantasy that faces down childhood anxieties with feet-on-the-ground maturity.
  43. The Ice Harvest
    In a season of bulging Movies Earmarked for Importance, it is almost startling to come across something as unhyped - and perfectly swell - as The Ice Harvest.
  44. Rent
    The movie is literally a series of showstoppers, unified by the impulse to turn life, at its scruffiest, into theater - into a rhapsody of the everyday.
  45. The Descent
    The director of The Descent is savvy enough to suggest even more than he shows. And he's old-school enough to load up on glimpses of good, clean, gruesome gore.
  46. Hoodwinked!
    The result is a wacked kiddie Rashomon in which the different versions dovetail with a logic as impeccable as it is flat-out buggy. So who do we root for? Everyone and no one. Hoodwinked's most radical feature is that it's a ride without heroes.
  47. The New World
    Many have tried, but none can match Malick's touch for shuffling a deck of elegiac images (water/sky/clouds/rain) and fanning out the hand to express what speech cannot; he's a master, too, of incorporating sound that is often wordless but never empty.
  48. Fateless
    In the juxtaposition of cataclysmic matter-of-fact misery and cinematic poetry, the filmmaker finds a calmly stunning way to convey the experience of living with death as something intimate, and, unnervingly, almost natural.
  49. Why We Fight
    Jarecki is no glib ideologue thumbing his nose at power.
  50. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
    It's a fearless and brilliant racial-historical satire, done in a meticulous re-creation of the Ken Burns mode, that chronicles the last 150 years of America as if the South had won the Civil War.
  51. Little Fish
    The actors are terrific, especially Weaving, who plays bottoming out as a tragedy spiked with gallows humor, and Blanchett, who digs deep into the booby-trapped nature of recovery. The revelation, however, is Rowan Woods, a major filmmaker in the making.
  52. Duck Season
    Duck Season unfolds with a slaphappy logic that only looks casual. In fact, every unfinished conversation and banal picture on the wall (one's of ducks) matters as four little people share one memorable little day.
  53. Inside Man
    The jazzish score, by Lee's music man, Terence Blanchard, is typically intrusive. But the mood is right, the twists are new. And with one casting inspiration, Inside Man furthers the rising stardom of Chiwetel Ejiofor (Serenity).
  54. Lady Vengeance
    "Old Boy's" vivid star Choi Min-sik plays a terrible schoolteacher -- yet another damned soul in Park's inflammatory, inimitable movie inventory of hell on earth.
  55. The Proposition
    A pitiless yet elegiac Australian Western as caked with beauty as it is with blood.
  56. Cars
    A work of American art as classic as it is modern. Note to tourists: Leave before the very end of the credits and you'll miss some of the best and funniest roadside sights.
  57. An Inconvenient Truth
    An Inconvenient Truth can't, of course, reveal a future that is still up to us, but by the time you're done watching, the real question is, Which way on God's green earth would you want to err?
  58. The War Tapes
    The War Tapes captures how the war in Iraq, for all its terrible carnage and death, is in a way too random in its destruction to even be called ''combat.''
  59. Who Killed the Electric Car?
    Who Killed the Electric Car? makes you angry, and also sad, to live in a country where innovation could be contrived into an enemy.
  60. Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
    It's a stylish scramble of evocative footage, groovy music, and crazy-candid reminiscences from key players still proud to score.
  61. Monster House
    Kenan directs with a zingy sense of kids, comedy, fright, and visual perspective. But the movie also shimmers and shakes in all its motion-capture animated beauty with the slyly deep sensibilities of executive producer Robert Zemeckis.
  62. Idlewild
    Idlewild is a romp, a ticket to rowdy good times.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Lassie
    About as good as a Lassie movie can be.
  64. Little Children
    A jolting, artfully made drama set in and around a suburban playground somewhere between "American Beauty" and "In the Bedroom" on America's psychic highway.
  65. Requiem
    Requiem is drawn from an incident that was also the basis for last year's demon-seed hit, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose."
  66. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
    When Baron Cohen works without a net, he flies.
  67. Climates
    Exquisitely structured, pitiless study of a middle-aged man trapped in a stagnant emotional weather pattern.
  68. Come Early Morning
    The baby-voiced costar of "Chasing Amy" proves an effortless filmmaker, turning Lucy’s journey into the awakening of a soul.
  69. For Your Consideration
    Each and every character in Christopher Guest's latest hilarious cultural corrective is something inspiring to behold.
  70. The Aura
    Ricardo Darín, wearing a mild-mannered expression of emotional remove, plays the unnamed antihero, obsessed with imagining the perfect robbery. The ''aura'' is the clarity with which he sees -- or imagines he sees -- the world in moments preceding an epileptic attack.
  71. Charlotte's Web
    What hooks you from the start is Dakota Fanning's unfussy passion as Fern.
  72. The Dead Girl
    Moncrieff pushes a view of women as victims that might create its own pornography of masochism if it didn't touch so many authentic shattered nerve endings.
  73. Mafioso [re-release]
    Mafioso does more than cast its fascinating shadow over "The Godfather." It captures, in a stark yet haunting way, the indelible fact that no man is born a mobster.
  74. The Namesake
    Moving and marvelous new cross-cultural family saga.
  75. Offside
    Jafar Panahi's wonderfully funny, outspoken shaggy-dog story, a light counterweight to his sadder 2000 feminist drama "The Circle."
  76. After the Wedding
    Talented filmmaker Susanne Bier (Brothers), armed with an outstanding compositional sense, keeps control over the storms of melodrama that swirl in this rich weepie.
  77. The Hoax
    Gere is terrific at suggesting the kind of addictive cocktail of excitement, panic, chutzpah, creativity, and naked hunger for fame and megabucks that might inspire such big, fat lies.
  78. The TV Set
    If only for the comedy glory of Sigourney Weaver as a TV network president who confuses acid reflux with gut instinct, this very smart, very funny movie about the making of a network sitcom is a cut-glass gem of a showbiz conceit.
  79. Year of the Dog
    I mean no impertinence when I say that as a portrait of love and grief, writer-director Mike White's exceptional film Year of the Dog deserves the same admiration accorded Joan Didion's exceptional memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking."
  80. The Valet
    A satisfying contraption of twists, missteps, and blithe repartee that produces old-fashioned, honestly earned guffaws.
  81. Triad Election
    A muscular sequel to To's riveting 2005 gangster picture "Election."
  82. Les amitiés maléfiques
    While the young people chatter about life and literature with sometimes overbearing self-satisfaction, the astute filmmaker observes their pretentious gum-flapping with a mixture of amusement, compassion, and wised-up rue.
  83. Paris, je t'aime
    Anthology films usually work better in theory than execution, but this feature parade of shorts is a blithe, worldly, and enchanting exception.
  84. Paprika
    Fantasy leaks into reality.
  85. Ocean's Thirteen
    In a world ruled by process, is compassion still real? Or is it just another scam? In Ocean's Thirteen, it is deviously, and merrily, both.
  86. Crazy Love
    The tale itself is so spectacularly perverse, and the film stays so authentically close to the personalities involved, that you don't feel dirty -- you feel cleansed.
  87. Rescue Dawn
    Out of a harrowing story set in a foreign thicket, Herzog has found American beauty.
  88. Interview
    Any doubts as to whether Sienna Miller is a gifted actress should be laid to rest by Interview.
  89. Talk to Me
    A rowdy, richly offbeat biopic.
  90. Hairspray
    A fizzy and delirious high-camp message-movie musical that may just turn out to be the happiest movie of the summer.
  91. Deep Water
    A spooky, moving documentary.
  92. 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.
  93. My Kid Could Paint That
    Amir Bar-Lev's engrossing film is as much about the stubborn ambiguities of art, truth, meaning, and relationships as it is about the authenticity of the Olmstead oeuvre.
  94. Reservation Road
    There's a kind of tough beauty to this deft, satisfying thriller.
  95. Dan in Real Life
    A nimble and supple and moving comedy.
  96. Bee Movie
    Agreeably skewed fun.
  97. King Corn
    Aaron Woolf's we-are-what-we-eat documentary King Corn is a lively introduction to the corn industrial complex.
  98. Starting Out in the Evening
    Andrew Wagner has made a lovely comedy of death and rebirth.
  99. Margot at the Wedding
    Which brings us back to Kidman, who really IS sensational here.
  100. Taxi to the Dark Side
    Where "No End" is cool and measured, Taxi is hot, anguished, and sometimes as difficult to watch as pictures of torture ought to be.
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