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Highest review score: 100 13th
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  1. Jerry Maguire
    Brashly engaging.
  2. A Few Good Men
    Like all courtroom dramas, A Few Good Men is gimmicky and synthetic. It's also an irresistible throwback to the sort of sharp-edged entertainment Hollywood once provided with regularity.
  3. The Professional
    Ah, monsieur, you can lead a Frenchman to the Big Apple, but you can't make him a New Yorker -- and that's exactly what makes The Professional so fascinating.
  4. Croupier
    So sharp and dryly urbane in its mod-Brit take on the noir, noir, noir, noir world of gambling, dames, and pulp fiction, it makes higher-profile attempts like ''Rounders'' look blah, blah, blah, blah.
  5. Insomnia
    Superb psychological thriller.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Hilary and Jackie
    Neither the stars' harmonious interplay nor director Anand Tucker's insistent urbanity of camera work can disguise that the cello drama is melodrama.
  7. Trekkies
    Trekkies is hilarious, fascinating, and, at times, almost scary.
  8. The King Is Alive
    Janet McTeer displays Amazonian power while Jennifer Jason Leigh tears into her role as a high maintenance creature with a ferocity that leaves little room for her usual acting tics.
  9. The Quiet American
    Noyce's movie works because the director -- trusts himself, and his audience, to understand that catastrophe isn't always a matter of loud ideology. Rather, it's the result of age-old human weakness. And sometimes it's quiet.
  10. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    It's not every comedy that can make you laugh with ridicule and cringe in empathetic horror at the same time.
  11. Gerry
    The movie is on some level a stunt, but it has the fervent, sun-dazed pull of an authentic experience unfolding in real time, with glints of drama, comedy, and terror mixed into the almost-but-not-quite tedium.
  12. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    A dazzlingly crafted documentary about the teenage surf punks of lower Los Angeles who singlehandedly transformed skateboarding into the extreme sport it has become.
  13. How I Killed My Father
    The script is a steady accretion of small stabs to the heart, propelling the gorgeous performances of Berling, Regnier, and especially the 76-year-old French cinema veteran Bouquet, whose every faint smile is killing.
  14. Scream
    A deft, funny, shrewdly unsettling tribute to such slasher-exploitation thrillers as "Terror Train," "New Year's Evil," and Craven's own "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
  15. Godzilla
    Godzilla is still the most awesome of tacky movie monsters.
  16. Human Resources
    Acompelling, cant free drama about clashing class systems and challenged family relationships that's all the more engrossing for its organic, near documentary style.
  17. Chicken Run
    A delightful, perceptive, funny, detail-perfect fable.
  18. Harry Is Here to Help
    A suspenseful and delightfully creepy French drama.
  19. Girl on the Bridge
    Leconte (''Ridicule'') gives his heart to the luck of romance, to the dream state visual style of Fellini, and, most lyrically, to the passion of the dagger point swoon.
  20. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    The subtle selectivity of Leconte's eye, how he moves with great control from gesture to gesture, is matched by the disciplined intensity of the performances.
  21. Knafayim Shvurot
    That the story is so oldfashioned and domestic and the family so average and secular is, in its way, the wind beneath this Broken Wings.
  22. In This World
    Realer and more consequential than much being packaged for TV and movies these days as ''reality,'' the fictional In This World unfolds with the deceptive dispassion of a documentary, but builds with a sure sense of dramatic epic.
  23. American Psycho
    Funny, pungent, and weirdly gripping.
  24. Raising Victor Vargas
    The writer-director, Peter Sollett, cast the film with kids from his own neighborhood, who give themselves over to the camera with a spirit of improvised play that morphs into vivid, layered acting.
  25. In & Out
    As a sharky, gay TV journalist investigating the story, Tom Selleck charms by playing in contrast to his own determinedly hetero persona.
  26. Spellbound
    Thrilling little epic set in the bewildering arena of the English language.
  27. Girl, Interrupted
    Shrewd, tough, and lively -- a junior-league "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    High Art
    Who knew that Brat Packer Sheedy would shine as a heroin-addicted photographer who had too much fame too early?
    • 63 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Secretary
    There's a word for an actress who can go from nervous to winsome to raunchy to romantic in a heartbeat and get you to adore her the whole time. The word is star.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Manchurian Candidate
    This gonzo satiric thriller is a riveting portrait of early-60's paranoia. [15 Nov 1996, p.82]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  31. Veronica Guerin
    Her death was shocking; this well-made telling of her life is inspiring.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Terminator
    Kineticism and suspense, combined with strongly conceived characters....Made Cameron a talent to watch. [13 Jan 1995, p. 67]
    • Entertainment Weekly
  33. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    The vivid fictional specifics, and the simple loveliness of the artless performances by nonactor Mongolian nomads, attest to the filmmakers' abundant artistry.
  34. Owning Mahowny
    Hoffman plays Dan Mahowny's addiction to instant money as something dirty and private and, at the same time, soul-quickening.
  35. The 13th Warrior
    The most unexpectedly audacious, exhilarating, wildly creative adventure thriller I've seen in ages.
  36. Irreversible
    After a while, a didactic overdeliberateness seeps into Noé's design, but there's no doubt that he's a new kind of dark film wizard: a poet of apocalyptic shock.
  37. One Last Kiss
    A crowd-pleaser in the deepest sense, mixes heartbreak and happiness together until you don't even want to see them apart.
  38. Guinevere
    This patient, perceptive, nonjudgmental love story about age difference is the first to convincingly explain the temporal physics of May-December romances.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Winslow Boy
    This genteel period piece invites a typically Mametian tension between its characters' stylized manners and their underlying motivations.
  40. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    It's all very French, very intricate, and -- this is Rivette's magic -- seemingly as light as air.
  41. Last Night
    A surreal, elegantly melancholy, and yet witty ensemble story.
  42. Twin Falls Idaho
    A quietly dazzling microcosm that's always just this side of eerie, just that side of tragic.
  43. Divided We Fall
    The tonal elegance of this black comedy set in a dark time -- is boldly dependent on performances that tug at taut lines of moral complexity.
  44. Since Otar Left
    Superb family drama.
  45. Central Station
    A richly tender and moving experience.
  46. Drumline
    Does more than capture the excitement of marching bands; it gets their clockwork beauty as well.
  47. The Exorcist
    Here, in paranoid, bad acid trip form, is the real birth of girl power. [2000 re-release]
  48. Mean Creek
    Although the talent of a kid with the last name of Culkin may not, at this point, register as such a novelty -- Rory follows brothers Macaulay and Kieran -- there is something precociously mature but natural about the work of this youngest Culkin sibling that stands apart.
  49. The Devil's Backbone
    Del Toro builds excitement, dread, and melodrama in equal layers.
  50. Read My Lips
    Expertly sinister, office-as-devil's-playground French thriller.
  51. Gosford Park
    The movie might almost be winking at the fact that any single one of these performers could easily be the featured star of his or her own upper-crust period piece.
  52. Shrek
    Lives happily ever after because it's such a feisty but good natured embrace of the inner ogre in everyone.
  53. Very Bad Things
    Peter Berg's scandalous sick-joke thriller is packed with rude and clever twists, and it delves, with surprising force, into the hypocritical postures of corporate-era male bonding. The cast is terrific, especially Christian Slater.
  54. The Battle of Algiers
    Nearly four decades ago, Pontecorvo anatomized the very form of modern terrorist warfare: the hidden cells, the cultish leaders, the brutish cycle of attack and counterattack.
  55. Monsoon Wedding
    The old-world-meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack, a joyful effusion of disco Bollywood that, by the end of Monsoon Wedding, sent my spirit soaring out of the theater.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Bad Lieutenant
    For all its scenes of degradation (five minutes of which have been shorn for an R-rated cut; we recommend the original NC-17 version), Bad Lieutenant is a deeply moral movie. It's not pretty-it's not even very realistic-but it does matter.
  57. Stuck on You
    Has a fractured fairy-tale charm, even if it isn't a nonstop laugh riot.
  58. Deconstructing Harry
    Deconstructing Harry is Woody Allen's naughty-boy confessional movie, a disquietingly candid and funny portrait of a pathological narcissist.
  59. Your Friends & Neighbors
    Bleak, scathing, and utterly compelling.
  60. Serendipity
    Serendipity has no business working, but it does. And by the way, Eugene Levy has no business almost stealing the show, but he does, too.
  61. Dogma
    It's not every day you get to see a movie that begins in satire and ends in reverence, but then, for Kevin Smith, they may ultimately be the same thing.
  62. Wag the Dog
    If the result is often as glib as the targets it's satirizing, it's also driven by a cruelly distilled joy. Wag the Dog is an ode to the thrill of deception, a thrill embodied in Hoffman's inspired performance.
  63. The Iron Giant
    At times, The Iron Giant is more serene than it needs to be, but it's a lovely and touching daydream.
  64. Notting Hill
    Blithe and exhilarating romantic comedy.
  65. Blade Runner
    This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
  66. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Sky Captain is a gorgeous, funny, and welcome novelty.
  67. Before Sunrise
    If Linklater goes to a bit of an extreme here, it's in making both characters so intelligent and sincere, so ardent and giving, that they seem a little too good to believe.
  68. Sling Blade
    It's a beautiful contraption of a movie, a gothic backwoods fable that uses its naive yet murderous hero to walk a fine line between sentimentality and dread.
    • Entertainment Weekly
  69. Cast Away
    Hanks towers as a near naked, near biblical man. Zemeckis tells his story -- the screenplay is by William Broyles -- with a control magnificent in what isn't shown as much as in what is.
  70. Galaxy Quest
    A fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them.
  71. The Straight Story
    Lynch's first movie since ''Blue Velvet'' that truly envelops you in its spell. It's a piece of celestial Americana -- his journey to the light side of the moon.
  72. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    A smashingly effective documentary -- I found it more resonant than ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' -- yet to say that it's preaching to the converted would be generous; it's preaching to a microscopic sliver of the converted.
  73. Scream 2
    This funny, gory stab-athon is as sophisticated about the mechanics of Part 2s as the original was savvy about horror flicks.
  74. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    The triumph of ''Spring, Summer'' is that even those of us who don't happen to be Buddhists can catch a glimpse of ourselves in the spinning wheel of hope, destruction, suffering, and bliss.
  75. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    A story in full billow; it sails through stretches of bloody battle, anxious waiting, wine-soaked relaxation, and marvelous scientific discoveries by the remarkable Maturin (Paul Bettany, well matched again with his ''A Beautiful Mind'' costar).
  76. Strayed
    André Téchiné's beautifully ambiguous, exquisitely underplayed drama Strayed has less to do with the events and moral choices of the era that continue to shape French identity than with the timeless psychological effects of finding oneself unmoored from the familiar.
  77. Dig!
    The fascination of Dig! is that it invites those of us who aren't alt-rock obsessives into the hive, yet it never feels like a dilettante's tour.
  78. Adaptation.
    The notion of meta has never been diddled more mega than in this giddy Möbius strip of a movie, a contrivance so whizzy and clever that even when it tangles at the end, murked like swampy southwestern Florida itself, the stumble has quotation marks around it.
  79. Intermission
    The first Irish creation I've seen in ages to pull off the high-difficulty feat of trafficking in grit, drollery, and emotion without turning to blarney as a crutch.
  80. Jurassic Park
    As a flight of fantasy, Jurassic Park lacks the emotional unity of Spielberg's classics ("Jaws," "Close Encounters," "E.T."), yet it has enough of his innocent, playful virtuosity to send you out of the theater grinning with delight.
  81. Enduring Love
    What blows us away is the power of Ifans' moist puppy eyes and chilling smile as a true believer undeterred by reality.
  82. The Triplets of Belleville
    If ''Finding Nemo'' is an awesome Pixar superpower, The Triplets of Belleville is a charming, idiosyncratic, self-governing duchy with huge tourism potential on the other side of the animated-movie planet.
  83. Amélie
    The charming movie, already an international success, seduces.
  84. Working Girl
    The movie was a major success for Melanie Griffith, sure, but it was as the secretary's boss ... that Weaver combined all of her star qualities, pulled in laughs, and took home an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
  85. Tarnation
    Painfully beautiful autobiographical kaleidoscope.
  86. Southern Comfort
    The film defuses all preconceptions about the ''issues'' of transsexual identity to arrive at a place of tremulous human power.
  87. Time of the Wolf
    There are no zombies out of ''28 Days Later'' to alleviate the slow creep of realistic doom in this chilly, tense corker.
  88. Girlfight
    While Rodriguez punches through the indie clutter to announce herself as a superb new movie talent, so Kusama scores big points in her first main event.
  89. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    There aren't many at all like Spielberg and Kubrick, directors willing to lasso dreams (that's Steven) and nightmares (that's Stanley) or die trying. A.I. is a clash of the titans, a jumble, an oedipal drama, a carny act. I want to see it again.
  90. Promises
    Superb, Oscar-nominated documentary.
  91. The Saddest Music in the World
    Hard to say who's luckier -- those who have seen the work of Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin before and know what to expect, or those who haven't and for whom The Saddest Music in the World serves as an eye-popping introduction.
  92. Unfaithful
    Sensational sex-and-its-consequences melodrama.
  93. Freaky Friday
    A funny, shrewd, no-bull family comedy about the relationship between mothers and teenage daughters that allows Curtis the comedian to remember her days as a slinky starlet while making use of her wisdom as the mother of an adolescent girl herself.
  94. Love & Basketball
    Lathan, charismatic and beautifully strong, holds the screen in every scene.
  95. Stander
    Riveting true-life drama.
  96. Almost Famous
    Crowe, staying close to his memories, has gotten it, for perhaps the first time, onto the screen.
  97. The Lion King
    Has the resonance to stand not just as a terrific cartoon but as an emotionally pungent movie.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dazed and Confused
    From the opening shot of a burnt-orange GTO cruising a high school parking lot to the strains of Aerosmith's ''Sweet Emotion,'' Richard Linklater's film nails mid-'70s adolescence so precisely that you'll need Clearasil by the end credits.
  99. Leaving Las Vegas
    Dark and giddy at the same time, Leaving Las Vegas takes us into dreamy, intoxicated places that no movie about an alcoholic has gone before.
  100. The Pianist
    The result is a movie, and Cannes Palme d'Or winner, of riveting power and sadness, a great match of film and filmmaker -- and star, too.
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