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  1. The Ladies Man
    One more case of a winning ''SNL'' character tamed by the wan, fizzled farce around him.
  2. Get Carter
    The only fun is in watching Stallone square off against Alan Cumming and Mickey Rourke.
  3. Jurassic Park III
    Has no pretentions to be anything more than a goose-bumpy fantasy theme-park ride for kids, but it's such a routine ride.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kaena: The Prophecy
    Originally conceived as a videogame, Kaena is now, instead, a creamy-colored yet derivative sci-fi fantasy with a few rip-offs so blatant (''The Empire Strikes Back,'' ''Alien,'' etc.) that even kiddie fans not yet mentally agile enough to make sense of the loopy plot could pick them out.
  5. Solaris
    Soderbergh, in essence, has come up with a plodding and far less psychologically arresting version of ''Ghost.''
  6. X-Men
    When the film version isn't assaulting you with gizmos, it's an awkward, depersonalized piece of hackwork.
  7. Laws of Attraction
    Operates on such outdated, unimaginative conventions of movie chemistry that Moore and Brosnan end up appearing older and stodgier than necessary.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Myth of Fingerprints
    The first-rate cast is wasted serving up this melodramatic turkey.
  9. The Tigger Movie
    A conflicted entertainment, compromised by trying too hard to impress the restless, self-referential adults in the audience.
    • 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.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    World Traveler
    Crudup is the best navigator a road movie like World Traveler can have, but even he can't single-handedly transport these goods from nowhere to somewhere.
  12. 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.
  13. Love Liza
    Hoffman acts the hell out of the role.
  14. View from the Top
    A romantic comedy with all the confectionary value of one of those watery diet shakes; it practically evaporates while you're watching it.
  15. 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.
  16. Taking Lives
    After ''Seven'' and three ''Hannibal'' hits, the audience tolerance for baroque serial-killer flourishes has been duly amped. We require sustained creativity in our sick violence, and Taking Lives, after a token bit of ghastly foreplay, loses its life.
  17. The Fast and the Furious
    Works hard to be exciting, but the movie scarcely lives up to its title. It could have used a bit of a fuel injection itself.
  18. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
    Lacks even the good, guilty setup of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" -- the sense that the heroes are fleeing the consequences of their own crime.
  19. Lilo & Stitch
    The animation in Lilo & Stitch has an engaging retro-simple vivacity, and it's nice to see a movie for tots make use of Elvis Presley, but the story is witless and oddly defanged.
  20. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    This is just cut-rate, generic daughter of Indy Jones hokum.
  21. The General's Daughter
    The plot is a nonsensical mess -- which just caps off the ugliness.
  22. Brother Bear
    Mark it: Phil Collins officially has nothing more to teach us. The tunes he's composed for Brother Bear are so generic, they're modular.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Other Side of Heaven
    Slick, fact-based, missionary-themed drama.
  24. 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.
  25. The Good Girl
    Only pretends to care about good people who sometimes do bad things. In fact, it hasn't got time for the pain.
  26. The Rainmaker
    Any random episode of Law & Order would be more sophisticated than this heavy-handed, moralistic Southern-lawyer corn pone, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
  27. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    May find an audience, but I found it to be a leftover John Hughes triangle.
  28. Drowning Mona
    The actors more eager to goof around in schlumpfy costumes on a low-budget lark than to play their trashy characters with the seriousness such farce requires.
  29. Intolerable Cruelty
    With Intolerable Cruelty, though, something scares me: I cannot detect a heartbeat of feeling, no matter how close I press a stethoscope against the star machinery of George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
  30. Coyote Ugly
    Welcome to the brave new world of slut-chic cosmetic feminism.
  31. Timeline
    Special kudos go to Walker, for his dead-on impression of a time-traveling 2x4, and the perpetually hysterical O'Connor, who delivers one of the most grating performances in history.
  32. Sweet Home Alabama
    Unbearable were Witherspoon not such a genuinely attractive performer.
  33. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    The magnolias in Callie Khouri's fried green movie look limp.
  34. The Time Machine
    Deliberately quaint and old-fashioned, a once-over-slightly exercise in nostalgic wonder directed by the British-born great-grandson of H.G. Wells, who treats the spirit of his ancestor's novel with literal-minded fealty.
  35. 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.
  36. Riding the Bullet
    Falls short of its source.
  37. The Replacement Killers
    Between cycles of gunfights and glowering, Yun-Fat displays some of the dignity and suave good looks that account for his star status (without much chance to show his wit).
  38. I Spy
    TV's ''I Spy'' knew how to swing. The movie 'I Spy knows only how to scramble and string together moments of Murphy braggadocio and Wilson stoner-ocity, and the sweat shows.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Final Cut
    Quiet and sleepy.
  40. A Dirty Shame
    A Dirty Shame isn't dirty fun. It's the perv "Footloose."
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ghost Ship
    That creaking noise you hear in Ghost Ship is the rattling of countless plot skeletons that have sunk before.
  42. Suspect Zero
    The truth is, the freakiness kinda turns the director on, and he nearly strangles Suspect Zero with love.
  43. Dudley Do-Right
    The balance of inspired idiocy to hackneyed buffoonery is out of whack.
  44. The Other Side of the Bed
    While we can agree, for the sake of Iberian-American cinematic friendship, to go along with the whole simplified 1960s swinger premise and ''The Jackie Gleason Show'' choreography, we can also long for the comparatively nuanced 1990s swinger premise of ''Friends.''
  45. The Whole Ten Yards
    It's every bit as nonsensical and overitalicized a mess as ''The Whole Nine Yards.''
  46. Godsend
    The umpteenth recycled shocker about a mystical dark child with an aura of disaster.
  47. New Best Friend
    Dudsville.
  48. Dancer in the Dark
    Like a naive modernist hymn made by someone who doesn't, deep down, believe in hymns.
  49. The Dreamers
    In The Dreamers, Bertolucci wants to take us back to a more revolutionary time, but mostly he ends up recalling the faded revolution of his own glory days.
  50. The Affair of the Necklace
    Slipshod rather than sly. There's no fury to the movie, repressed or otherwise, which may be why when the Revolution arrives, it has all the impact of a guillotine with a deadly dull blade.
  51. The Man Who Cried
    There's only one performer in the movie who looks completely at ease with what he's doing: the horse.
  52. National Security
    The funny thing about Lawrence is he's often paired with a partner (e.g., ''Blue Streak,'' ''Bad Boys,'' etc.), yet has no aptitude for sharing the screen.
  53. Bandits
    A comedy that might have made Butch and Sundance jump off a cliff.
  54. Van Wilder
    Studded with Lampoon/John Hughes anachronisms.
  55. Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
    Thérese unfolds with the sunlight-and-daffodils piety of a Sunday school slide show.
  56. When Will I Be Loved
    A ripe psychosexual compost heap of a drama that emits a provocative scent of rot and nonsense.
  57. Recess: School's Out
    Creator producers Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere have come up with some unexceptional children and underdeveloped adults.
  58. Waking the Dead
    Enough to anesthetize the living.
  59. Dances with Wolves
    The movie is so busy turning the Sioux characters into photogenic saints that it never quite allows them the complications of human beings.
  60. 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.
  61. Snatch.
    Guy Ritchie's second feature, is a faux tough caper modeled lock, stock, kit, and caboodle on his earlier film ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.''
  62. 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.
  63. My Flesh and Blood
    You'd have to be a stone not to be affected by My Flesh and Blood, but the director, Jonathan Karsh, merges compassion with voyeurism until you can't tell the difference.
  64. Jump Tomorrow
    There's a certain breed of annoying indie movie in which a character's shyness is portrayed in a manner so coy that it becomes a reverse form of exhibitionism. Jump Tomorrow is that kind of movie.
  65. Gothika
    Comes from the same jolly homage-to-schlock-shock producers who remade ''House on Haunted Hill,'' and the emphasis is shamelessly on ornate scares. But with its high-gloss cast and French art-house actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz (''Hate'') in charge, the movie also shoots for class.
  66. Pieces of April
    The quaint racial blinders are really on the eyes of the filmmaker, Peter Hedges, who shoves his characters into the narrowest of sitcom slots and seals them there.
  67. In Praise of Love
    Godard, as always, sounds full of insight, yet he uses the past to damn the present in a way that may be reflexively self-serving. In Praise of Love leaves a taste as bitter as poison ash.
  68. Honey
    Despite some sizzle with love interest Mekhi Phifer, the alluring Alba ends up a desexualized mouthpiece.
  69. Human Traffic
    The movie is too cute to lose its head in the music. It never generates its own ecstasy.
  70. Conspiracy of Silence
    Want Jesuitical fineness of argument? Look elsewhere. This one merely answers the prayers of those looking for an argument.
  71. Formula 51
    The film should have been called ''Lock, Stock and Two Wilting Barrels.''
  72. Eyes Wide Shut
    The director's famously over-deliberate, pause-laden style verges, for the first time, on amateurville, and that gives us too much time to linger on the movie's more bizarre details.
  73. Lethal Weapon 4
    At the Lethal Weapon plant, what you see, after 11 years, are the rusting remnants of a once innovative model.
  74. Fierce Creatures
    Mostly a mess: toothless when it should be nasty, not so much madcap as merely frantic.
  75. Kiss the Girls
    Kiss the Girls is a fake psychological thriller that turns into a garishly schlocky and implausible bogeyman hunt.
  76. 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.
  77. Scream 3
    About the only thing the movie kills with any decisiveness is your time.
  78. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    At once hypnotic and baffling, filled with surreal motifs and symbols, Fire Walk With Me could be the most rarefied teen horror film ever made: It's like "A Nightmare on Elm Street" directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
  79. Danny Deckchair
    It's a soothing stoner tableau, a fine dropout fantasy.
  80. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Designed to be "inspirational," yet it shortchanges the complex reality of the lives it makes such a show of saving.
  81. The Big Red One
    Lee Marvin, it must be said, is terrific as the platoon commander, and Fuller deserves props for the film's one sustained sequence: the D-Day attack, in which the platoon gets pinned on the beach for a hellish eternity.
  82. Mr. Deeds
    An idiot variation on Frank Capra's ''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,'' might have been thrown together in even less time than it takes Sandler to get dressed in the morning; it feels sort of like the dumbest corporate comedy of 1987.
  83. Underworld
    By the end, I was starting to ponder questions like, If a vampire mates with a lycan-vamp hybrid, which parent will have to convert?
  84. Wonderland
    When we finally do see what happened, it's a genuine shock, a nightmare vision of a hedonist who forged his own hell.
  85. City of Angels
    This is the sort of movie in which everyone on screen is swathed in gauzy benevolence. You practically have time to say a prayer in the dead spaces between lines.
  86. Absolute Power
    Glum and depersonalized, as if Eastwood couldn't muster the energy to guide us through this maze of improbable twists. [14 Feb 1997, p. 39]
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  87. Kundun
    At once spectacular and inert -- a mosaic impersonating a movie; an empty-shell epic.
  88. Beyond Borders
    Jolie, in this movie at least, has exactly two expressions: blank wistfulness and blank dismay. She reduces the tides of history to one more raided tomb.
  89. 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.
  90. John Q
    The movie could have used a brain transplant. It doesn't explore injustice -- it just exploits it.
  91. Friday After Next
    The movie is altogether too infatuated with its ramshackle spirit. Most of the gags take after the characters -- they just sit there.
  92. Ju-on: The Grudge
    Divided into chapters, the film jumps around in time, which means that we get to observe Shimizu's utter failure to develop his characters from endless narrative angles.
  93. 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.
  94. Scary Movie 2
    An act of nose-thumbing that never quite figures out how, or even where, to position its thumb.
  95. Beyond the Sea
    Weirdly moving.
  96. The Chronicles of Riddick
    This is a movie so devoted to metal that it couldn't care less about the flesh it destroys.
  97. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    The number of levels on which these pros trade on their diminished reputations makes the movie an inside joke rather than a funny one. If Spade thinks otherwise, he's nucking futs.
  98. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    There are two sparks of light amid the trifling dialogue and bad faux-'80s love-on-the-beach montages in Havana Nights, and they are the film's costars.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Extreme Days
    One quarter ''True love waits,'' three quarters ''Cowabunga!,'' all pretty clumsy.
  100. 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.
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