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  1. Pandorum
    How brazenly can one film rip off "Alien," "I Am Legend," and, somewhat oddly, "The Poseidon Adventure"?
  2. The Big Wedding
    The movie, in its basic concept, is corny and contrived, but as written and directed by Justin Zackham, it's executed in a pleasantly wry and understated fashion.
  3. Dirty Deeds
    Too mild to be dirty, yet too dirty to be charming, and altogether too generic to be much of anything.
  4. The Hitcher
    A remake of the 1986 suspense ''classic,'' is as processed and hoot-worthy as the original.
  5. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    A cheap cut-glass tiara of a booby prize goes to Drop Dead Gorgeous for messing up so utterly.
  6. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Any grown men and women who pay to see the movie face a harrowing ordeal.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Happily N'Ever After
    Stuffed with stock characters -- the vain prince, the critter sidekicks -- who adamantly stay stock.
  8. The Haunting of Molly Hartley
    The story's a snooze, so the filmmakers punch it up with smash cuts and thunderclaps that turn the most laughably banal items -- birds, mail, an alarm clock -- into cheap jack-in-the-box shocks.
    • 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.
  10. Man Down
    Director Dito Montiel splinter’s the film’s story on multiple tracks, in a truly shameless and incredibly obvious effort to protect a Big Twist.
  11. The Bag Man
    The only one having any fun in this dead-on-arrival noir is Robert De Niro.
  12. House on Haunted Hill
    Trash, but always just a little creepier than you expect.
  13. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
    No less sweet for being unoriginal: A guy (Charlie Sheen) mourns a bad breakup with the woman he loves (Katheryn Winnick). The execution, on the other hand, is perilously self-absorbed.
  14. Season of the Witch
    The best thing about it is Claire Foy's performance as the seething, caged is-she-a-witch?. Foy, like a Brit Kristen Stewart, has an entrancing sparkle of disdain.
  15. Fifty Shades of Black
    The film manages to be surprisingly subversive with its humor.
  16. The Ugly Truth
    The Ugly Truth isn't fizzy and fun -- it's vacuously snappy.
  17. Deck the Halls
    In this year's lump of coal, Matthew Broderick is the control freak who lives for toasty yuletide cheer, and Danny DeVito is the vulgar pest who wants his holiday lights seen from space. The dueling-neighbor crankfest is blah.
  18. Gentlemen Broncos
    The audience may have bought the act in "Napoleon Dynamite." But this time, the act bombs.
  19. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    Madea is still a witty character, but the gutter wisdom of her tossed-off verbal hand grenades can’t shock us anymore; even the outtakes that play through the closing credits feel like reruns.
  20. Pixels
    Neither Sandler nor his listless writers (too many punchlines just sit there and collect flies) seem invested. Whether he’s saving the planet or putting the moves on Michelle Monaghan, Sandler can’t be bothered to raise his pulse above comatose. If he doesn’t care, why should anyone else?
  21. Head Over Heels
    Bland to dismal.
  22. The Perfect Man
    What sin did Heather Locklear commit to deserve her role in The Perfect Man?
  23. Sweet November
    A very low grade romantic drama indeed, a love story with all the life and death intensity of a heat rash.
  24. Delgo
    Too grim for kids and too dumb for grown-ups.
  25. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    With no headliners to raise hopes, this negligible entertainment has its own boneheaded charms.
  26. Beverly Hills Ninja
    But when the writers run out of ideas, they simply have Farley walk into a lamppost, or cop from old SNL skits.
  27. Garfield
    Cloddish, unfunny dud.
  28. Mortdecai
    The movie is too odd and randy to play for kids on an Austin Powers level, and too broad to really work as farce. But Depp, god bless him, fully commits, and finds a few genuinely funny moments amidst all the outsize mugging and mild sociopathy.
  29. Nina
    Saldana (Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy) is an accomplished and bankable actress, but she doesn’t look much like Simone. That has led to several complaints, including from the Simone estate.
  30. The Book of Love
    It’s a diabetically sappy big-screen self-help seminar that should have been titled The Book of Schmaltz.
  31. The Bonfire of the Vanities
    One of the most indecently bad movies of the year.
  32. The Happytime Murders
    There are a few spiky moments of sick, WTF fun (a bout of rough sex that ends with a Silly String climax; the first time a puppet drops an F-bomb), but mostly it feels like a promising idea poorly executed.
  33. I Spit on Your Grave
    Now it's just some thin chick in her underwear, kicking butt.
  34. Vampire in Brooklyn
    Vampire in Brooklyn is a horror comedy that mixes lame blood-pellet effects with lame gags, and it clunks along on a series of interchangeably deserted streets that manage to look dank and overlit at the same time.
  35. Are We There Yet?
    It's been a while since we saw a bad John Hughes comedy, and Are We There Yet? more than fits the bill (even though Hughes had absolutely nothing to do with it).
  36. Flatliners
    It often feels like Flatliners is trapped between multiple genres without knowing exactly what kind of movie it wants to be, and the result is a confused mess.
  37. Sex and the City 2
    As Carrie might type on her laptop while giving one of her girly little shrugs, When did Sex and the City become so long and mean so little?
  38. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    You should hear instead about Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen, who whip up cowboy fun as married U.S. marshals assigned to protect the pair in Wyoming.
  39. Crossroads
    Not only makes excellent use of the singer's sweetly coltish acting abilities, but it also promotes a standardized set of sturdy values with none of Mariah Carey's desperate ''Glitter,'' or any of Mandy Moore's gummy pap in ''A Walk to Remember.''
  40. The Majestic
    Maybe this well-loved Luke is who his neighbors want him to be, a good fellow who, with his father, reopens the old movie house in town -- the Majestic -- thus allowing his neighbors to dream in the dark again.
  41. A Guy Thing
    Jason Lee seems to have been bitten by a vampire who sucked out all his prickly charisma. You see the promise of stardom dribbling through his fingers.
  42. Catwoman
    I wouldn't call Catwoman incompetent, yet it has no visual grandeur, and very little surprise; you can tick off the story beats as if they'd been graphed.
  43. Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
    Thérese unfolds with the sunlight-and-daffodils piety of a Sunday school slide show.
  44. Gamer
    As the brutish Kable, Gerard Butler must find out who's pulling his strings, but it's the audience whose chain gets yanked by this headache-inducing techno-violent mishmash.
  45. Wild Hogs
    Nothing about this sputtering midlife-crisis family comedy is natural except the timeless notion that even the most latte-tamed baby boomer has the power to reclaim his inner Iron John. Ray Liotta provides the one true blast of comedic energy as the leader of a real, more pugnacious head-butting gang who tangles with the four amigos.
  46. Transformers: The Last Knight
    Monster metal, mass destruction, Anthony Hopkins saying “dude.” This is your brain on Michael Bay—a cortex scramble so amped on pyro and noise and brawling cyborgs it can only process what’s happening on screen in onomatopoeia: Clang! Pew-pew! Kablooey!
  47. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    Asia Argento is not what I would call a good actress, but she's a prime specimen of train-wreck sexuality: a debauched Eurotrash starlet who oozes punk cred more than she does talent. It's not too hard to see why she wanted to write, direct, and star in The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.
  48. Coyote Ugly
    Welcome to the brave new world of slut-chic cosmetic feminism.
  49. 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.
  50. When a Stranger Calls
    When a Stranger Calls is ba-a-a-a-c-k, in frightless form, updated for the age of anytime minutes and caller ID.
  51. Playing for Keeps
    The central question of the movie becomes: Can George triumph over his inability to stop hot women from throwing themselves at him?
  52. Cool World
    Ralph Bakshi's first feature in nearly a decade would like to be a down-and-dirty "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," but Bakshi isn't up to the task.
  53. The Fog
    Selma Blair, the one vibrant actress in a cast of colorless screamers (including Tom Welling from Smallville and Maggie Grace from Lost), takes Adrienne Barbeau's old role.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Let's Go to Prison
    Nearly laughless.
  55. Taxi
    An action-choked dud in which even the closing outtakes barely deserve to be left on the cutting-room floor?
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Musketeer
    Musketeer's fight scenes are underlit, overmiked, and appallingly edited, with none of the spacious grace that even routine Asian action flicks get right. Worse, the narrative scenes make less sense.
  57. Dead Man on Campus
    As a satire of new-style collegiate types, this MTV production actually evinces a few germs of rancid wit.
  58. Norbit
    Murphy speaks in a breathy lisp, as if his mouth had been partially buttoned shut, and he doesn't give himself the nerd's traditional redeeming feature of a geeky, slide-rule intellect. Norbit, all frozen gawk, is just a very dim bulb.
  59. Child's Play 3
    Chucky the plastic slasher proves that his novelty value has long worn off.
  60. Simply Irresistible
    A tuneless variation on the working girl-captivates-Mr. Big formula that has propelled fairy tales as old as Cinderella.
  61. 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.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Trumpet of the Swan
    A pox on the man's (E.B. White) memory.
  63. Terminal
    This stylish-but-grating pastiche of far better crime flicks is as soft-boiled as they come.
  64. Little Fockers
    Comedy has changed. Jack can only give his son-in-law the stink eye so many times before the whole "I'm watching you" pantomime gets stale.
  65. Problem Child
    With jokes this lame you won't have to worry as much about your children getting any bad ideas.
  66. Fantastic Four
    In short, this Josh Trank-directed reboot had a very low hurdle to overcome to become the best FF movie so far. The most fantastical aspect of the movie is that it may not achieve that goal.
  67. Twisted
    A pretty lousy movie, which would be offensive were it not safely neutered by its own stupidity.
  68. Little Man
    Tedious.
  69. Because I Said So
    This slapdash, charmless, baldly boomer-chasing romantic comedy, directed by Michael Lehmann (Heathers) from a clunky, orgasm-obsessed script by Karen Leigh Hopkins and Jessie Nelson, is the lazy studio's answer to a call for more age-appropriate entertainment for "More" magazine readers.
  70. War Room
    War Room is a gold-plated piece of Bible thumping that’s resonating with the same audience that watches Jimmy Stewart get touched by an angel every December in "It’s a Wonderful Life" — and cry next to Christmas trees, despite that film’s many hackneyed religious devices.
  71. A Thousand Words
    In theory, A Thousand Words should draw on its star's abilities as a physical comedian, but Murphy, miming his order for a triple latte at Starbucks, comes off like Charlie Chaplin on crystal meth; he's strenuously unfunny to watch.
  72. Tyler Perry's Temptation
    A few wild, third-act twists give Perry's middling melodrama some soap-opera kick. But all the finger-wagging sure does get tiring after a while.
  73. Dolittle
    The film is so eager to please, so relentlessly quippy and quirky and tipped with antic whimsy, it often feels like visiting a zoo built into a Tilt-A-Whirl.
  74. Babylon A.D.
    When martial arts star Michelle Yeoh shows up as a pious, butt-kicking nun, you have to wonder if Kassovitz isn't accidentally cribbing from Mel Brooks, too.
  75. Trixie
    Torturously whimsical gumshoe caper.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Look Who's Talking Now
    Lie down with dogs like Look Who’s Talking Now! and you’ll end up with fleas.
  77. The Choice
    The Choice feels like Mad Libs with some of Sparks’ laziest clichés — a romantic rowboat, a colorful small-town carnival, a jealous upper-class boyfriend — and the result is a predictable, recycled mess.
  78. Rio, I Love You
    Vincente Amorim weaves each short together with lots of sweeping panoramas of the city, and the end result feels less like a collection of love stories and more like a bland tourism ad.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Millennium
    It offers neither the tension of a good plane-disaster movie nor the ingenuity of a smart time-travel tale.
  80. Dracula 2000
    One of those desultory F/X and no script potboilers that seems to restart itself with every new scene.
  81. Van Wilder
    Studded with Lampoon/John Hughes anachronisms.
  82. No Good Deed
    There's an intriguing premise buried in there that could have resulted in a smart look inside the mind of a malignant narcissist (which, the movie reminds us over and over again, was Jeffrey Dahmer's diagnosis too).
  83. Basic Instinct 2
    Basic Instinct 2 isn't bad, exactly, but it lacks the entertaining vulgarity of the first film; it's Basic Instinct redone with more ''class'' and less thrust.
  84. Patch Adams
    Oooh, this is toxic.
  85. Tideland
    Dour, absurdist, gruesomely awful.
  86. Zoom
    In a feat of dullness quite powerful in its own way, this lifeless family comedy sucks the joy from every joke it touches.
  87. A Night at the Roxbury
    The lame-o aspects of the whole campy setup are still lame-o.
  88. Waiting for Forever
    An indistinct romantic-dramedy-ish something or other about the rekindled romance of an actress (Rachel Bilson) and her childhood best friend (Tom Sturridge).
  89. Supercross
    Amusingly, Supercross puts up a fierce anticorporate front, lauding the self-financed ''privateer'' over the ''factory'' cyclist. If this is a joke, few will get it.
  90. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    The film is consistently fun, and Tucker's comeuppance ? will leave you gasping (if not gagging) with laughter.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 16 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Phantoms
    It's nearly unwatchable, a farrago of confusing direction, stupid plot coincidences, and banal dialogue.
  92. Gloria
    Stone's latest penance is Gloria, the Sidney Lumet-directed dud that sprung from the singularly bad idea of remaking John Cassavetes' oddball 1980 character study. I mean, really, did anyone even like the original?
  93. Filth and Wisdom
    The movie is short on wisdom, but it might have gotten by if it had had better filth.
  94. Taken 3
    It's a testament to Neeson's startling charisma as an action star that for all its storytelling flaws, large swaths of Taken 3 remain wildly entertaining.
  95. 2016: Obama's America
    Dinesh D'Souza's documentary is no mere screed: 2016: Obama's America is a nonsensically unsubstantiated act of character assassination.
  96. Skyline
    Basically a nifty VFX reel in search of a plot.
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