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  1. Up in the Air
    Up in the Air is light and dark, hilarious and tragic, romantic and real. It's everything that Hollywood has forgotten how to do; we're blessed that Jason Reitman has remembered
  2. The Hurt Locker
    The result is an intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground.
  3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
    With its virtuoso tomfoolery, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like a homegrown Wallace and Gromit caper. To Wes Anderson: More, please!
  4. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    It's a potent and moving experience, because by the end you feel you've witnessed nothing less than the birth of a soul.
  5. District 9
    Madly original, cheekily political, altogether exciting District 9.
  6. The Princess and the Frog
    What matters is that Tiana triumphs as both a girl and a frog, that dreams are fulfilled, wrongs are righted, love prevails, and music unites not only a princess and a frog but also kids and grown-ups.
  7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    Nothing good happens in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the riveting, horrifying chronicle of an illegal abortion performed in 1987 when Ceauescu's dictatorial hand still gripped Romania's throat. And yet no lover of greatness in filmmaking will want to look away from one of the very best movies of 2007.
  8. Where the Wild Things Are
    This is one of the year's best. To paraphrase the Wild Thing named KW, I could eat it up, I love it so.
  9. Killer of Sheep
    Way ahead of its time 30 years ago, and just as stunning today, Killer of Sheep is one of those marvels of original moviemaking that keeps hope of artistic independence alive.
  10. The Beaches of Agnès
    In The Beaches of Agnès, you get addicted to watching Agnès Varda watch the world.
  11. Pan's Labyrinth
    Like any great myth, Pan's Labyrinth encodes its messages through displays of magic. And like any good fairy tale, it is also embroidered with threads of death and loss.
  12. (500) Days of Summer
    It's a feat of star acting, and it helps make (500) Days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between.
  13. Up
    A lovely, thoughtful, and yes, uplifting adventure.
  14. Ponyo
    Don't tell Walt Disney, but Hayao Miyazaki really holds the keys to the magic kingdom.
  15. Sideways
    It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this -- and there's a particular giddiness to be had in thinking about what movies can (but don't often) do for one's soul after imbibing such a fine vintage.
  16. There Will Be Blood
    For bleakness, the movie can't be beat -- nor for brilliance.
  17. Police, Adjective
    Yet another outstanding little movie in the exciting Romanian New Wave.
  18. The Class
    In a class by itself.
  19. Summer Hours
    Brims with life and loveliness even as it meditates on the loss of childhood.
  20. Drag Me to Hell
    Raimi has made the most crazy, fun, and terrifying horror movie in years.
  21. Gomorrah
    Naples-born Servillo is a national star, famed as a theater, opera, and film director as well as an actor. And he's got the face of a mensch (or a Madoff) -- which makes his embodiment of criminal banality all the more identifiable, as well as horrifying.
  22. No End in Sight
    Ferguson spotlights two massive mistakes: the looting that was allowed to continue, destroying Iraqi infrastructure and morale; and--far more revelatory -- the apocalyptically stupid decision to disband the Iraqi army, sending half a million angry soldiers into the streets.
  23. Nobody Knows
    Yagira's performance is so extraordinary, it won him the best actor prize at the 2004 Cannes film festival.
  24. Coraline
    This thrilling stop-motion animated adventure is a high point in Selick's career of creating handcrafted wonderlands of beauty blended with deep, disconcerting creepiness.
  25. The Best of Youth
    Like a great novel from a more expansive bygone age, The Best of Youth is full of big thoughts; like a great soap opera, it's also full of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema.
  26. WALL-E
    It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own.
  27. Crash
    The stunning, must-see drama Crash is proof that words have not lost the ability to shock in our anesthetized society.
  28. Black Dynamite
    Along the way, Black Dynamite blends satire, nostalgia, and cinema deconstruction into a one-of-a-kind comedy high.
  29. Food, Inc.
    Food, Inc. is hard to shake, because days after you've seen it, you may find yourself eating something -- a cookie, a piece of poultry, cereal out of the box, a perfectly round waxen tomato -- and you'll realize that you have virtually no idea what it actually is.
  30. Children of Men
    It's a work of art that deserves a space cleared for its angry, nervous beauty.
  31. Waltz with Bashir
    Waltz With Bashir has transcended the definitions of ''cartoon'' or ''war documentary'' to be classified as its own brilliant invention.
  32. Pride & Prejudice
    Keira Knightley, in a witty, vibrant, altogether superb performance, plays Lizzie's sparky, questing nature as a matter of the deepest personal sacrifice.
  33. Man on Wire
    The gorgeous music includes Ralph Vaughan Williams' wafting tone poem ''The Lark Ascending'' -- apt in describing an artist who might well be part bird.
  34. Rachel Getting Married
    A triumph -- Demme's finest work since "The Silence of the Lambs," and a movie that tingles with life.
  35. Once
    Until Once, I'm not sure that I'd ever seen a small-scale, nonstylized, kitchen-sink drama in which the songs take on the majesty and devotion of a musical dream.
  36. Tulpan
    If you see only one comic love story from Kazakhstan this year, choose this prize-winning honey.
  37. Brokeback Mountain
    Brokeback Mountain is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story.
  38. Persepolis
    The movie sparkles with witty self-awareness.
  39. Knocked Up
    The very opposite of a storybook romance, and also the very model of a great comedy for our values-driven time.
  40. Letters from Iwo Jima
    Clint Eastwood's profound, magisterial, and gripping companion piece to his ambitious meditation on wartime image and reality, "Flags of Our Fathers."
  41. Fat Girl
    With the pitiless, devastating Fat Girl, Catherine Breillat puts men and women, boys and girls on notice: When fantasy, hypocrisy, and manipulation mix in a wet, sandy place, you dive into sex at your own risk.
  42. Murderball
    The filmmaking is as strong as the subject matter, with an elegant structure.
  43. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    The conclusion of Peter Jackson's masterwork is passionate and literate, detailed and expansive, and it's conceived with a risk-taking flair for old-fashioned movie magic at its most precious.
  44. The Wrestler
    The Wrestler is like "Rocky" made by the Scorsese of "Mean Streets." It's the rare movie fairy tale that's also a bravura work of art.
  45. Zodiac
    Zodiac never veers from its stoically gripping, police-blotter tone, yet it begins to take on the quality of a dream.
  46. The Savages
    The Savages is terrific -- a movie of uncommon appreciation for the nature and nurture that go into making us who we are, a perfectly calibrated drama both compassionate and unsentimental.
  47. I Love You, Man
    By far the best Judd Apatow comedy that Judd Apatow had nothing at all to do with.
  48. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
    It's a hilarious, and unexpectedly moving, documentary about the greatest metal band you've probably never heard of.
  49. Casino Royale
    Relaunches the series by doing something I wouldn't have thought possible: It turns Bond into a human being again -- a gruffly charming yet volatile chap who may be the swank king stud of the Western world, but who still has room for rage, fear, vulnerability, love.
  50. A History of Violence
    David Cronenberg's brilliant movie -- without a doubt one of the very best of the year.
  51. The Girlfriend Experience
    The Girlfriend Experience is one of Steven Soderbergh's bite-size, semi-improvised, shot-on-DV doodles (like Bubble or Full Frontal), and it's the best one he's made.
  52. Inside Deep Throat
    Nimble, engrossing, and journalistically eye-opening, a movie that pulls into focus 30 years of porn in America. It also pulls no punches.
  53. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    Miller's theme is innocence, the loss of it, and the reclamation of equanimity in the face of that loss, and the music she makes is haunting.
  54. Look at Me
    The wry filmmaker has created an urbane society of family and friends as ridiculously pretentious and hypocritical as they are cultured, accomplished, and posh.
  55. Fever Pitch
    It's been a while since a movie made the game of love this winning.
  56. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    A deeply straightforward yet beautifully crafted documentary.
  57. Layer Cake
    Fast, convulsive, and densely exciting new British gangster thriller.
  58. Lords of Dogtown
    Lords of Dogtown is a docudrama, rare in its grit and authenticity, that also strives for the mythical youth-rebel excitement of something like "8 Mile."
  59. Batman Begins
    A confidently original, engrossing interpretation.
  60. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    Definition eludes the delicate pleasures of this marvelous, idiosyncratic movie collage.
  61. My Summer of Love
    Pawlikowski has made a romance that becomes a horror movie in which love, more than anything around it, is a delusionary fever to fear.
  62. The World
    A film of wonderful looseness and innovation. Set free to film fakes, the director is the real thing.
  63. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Those Oompa-Loompas are the beat, and soul, of Burton's finest movie since "Ed Wood": a madhouse kiddie musical with a sweet-and-sour heart.
  64. Tony Takitani
    It's a quiet dream of a movie, a vision of loneliness giving way to love, then to loneliness again; it's like "Vertigo" remade in a sedately haunted style of Japanese lyricism.
  65. Junebug
    Amy Adams in a performance as deep as it is delightful, is the film's heart and also its flaky, wonderstruck soul.
  66. Broken Flowers
    A movie of uncommon sweetness and delight.
  67. The Century of the Self
    Rapt, heady, and startling: the most profound documentary I've seen this decade.
  68. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    Bestows generous blessings on all that's good in Englishness, in moviedom, and, of course, in cheese.
  69. The Big Risk
    A doozy of a French gangster pic that, in its beautifully refurbished and pithily resubtitled re-release, turns out to be one of the highlights of the 2005 movie year.
  70. Down to the Bone
    Down to the Bone achieves what only the best independent films have: making life, at its most unvarnished, a journey.
  71. King Kong
    One of the wonders of the holiday season.
  72. Match Point
    To call Match Point Woody Allen's comeback would be an understatement - it's the most vital return to form for any director since Robert Altman made "The Player."
  73. The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
    It's a fluid cinematic essay, rooted in painstakingly assembled evidence, that heightens and cleanses your perceptions.
  74. Munich
    Munich, Steven Spielberg's spectacularly gripping and unsettling new movie, is a grave and haunted film, yet its power lies in its willingness to be a work of brutal excitement.
  75. Caché (Hidden)
    The picture moves with stealth, enjoying its own thriller-ness as hints are laid and mislaid. There's a sense that Hitchcock is hovering in the background and cheering for Auteuil, who musters all his French superstardom to play a man having his mask of blandness torn off.
  76. Bubble
    Of the idiosyncratic ''little'' movies that Soderbergh has made to clear his head (Full Frontal, Schizopolis), this is the first that truly connects.
  77. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    The first great, mind-tickling treat of the new movie year.
  78. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    The enthralling spirit of Dave Chappelle's Block Party, its mood of exuberant democracy, extends to every rap and soul performance in the film.
  79. The Devil's Miner
    This beautiful, terrible story is not easily forgotten.
  80. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    Mr. Lazarescu is that rich and riveting a film of universal small human moments and big-system failure.
  81. Army of Shadows
    The picture was made in 1969 and is only now being released in the U.S., in a beautiful restoration supervised by original cinematographer Pierre Lhomme.
  82. Russian Dolls
    Russian Dolls captures how being a sexual cad has become an essential phase in the life of the modern male.
  83. Half Nelson
    Half Nelson offers an opportunity to marvel, once again, at the dazzling talent of Ryan Gosling for playing young men as believable as they are psychologically trip-wired.
  84. SherryBaby
    Maggie Gyllenhaal is such a miracle of an actress that she makes you respond to the innocence of Sherry's desperate, selfish destruction.
  85. Old Joy
    It's in all the moments where little happens that Reichardt is most amazing, investing even a gas-station pit stop with perfect emotional pitch.
  86. 49 Up
    49 Up is a precious document, and must viewing.
  87. Deliver Us from Evil
    Brilliant and psychologically transfixing documentary.
  88. Sweet Land
    Sweet Land is a movie of extraordinary tenderness, in which Reaser and Guinee, using a language of looks, make you happy to think about what love once might have been.
  89. Iraq in Fragments
    The calm poetry of the cinematography offsets the mess of the politics to stunning effect.
  90. Days of Glory
    The ensemble cast shared the best-actor award at the 2006 Cannes film festival -- and rightly so.
  91. Notes on a Scandal
    It's a poison bonbon tastier than just about anything else out there.
  92. An Unreasonable Man
    Nader became famous as a "consumer advocate," but as the thrilling first hour of An Unreasonable Man makes clear, that humdrum bureaucratic term didn't do justice to his courage, his vision.
  93. Bamako
    The serious accusations are leavened by the moments of brimming, illogical, intimate neighborly dailiness the filmmaker also captures with warmth and infectious high spirits.
  94. Grindhouse
    Grindhouse, like "Ed Wood" and "Boogie Nights," celebrates how certain low-grade entertainment, viewed in hindsight, looks different now than it did then, since we can see the ''innocence'' of its creation -- the handmade quality of it -- in a world not yet ruled by corporate technology.
  95. Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
    A love poem to the New York City of the '50s and '60s, when Smith, the visionary of camp (Andy Warhol stole from him), more or less invented performance art.
  96. Waitress
    A wee romantic charmer, a delectable Dixie screwball romp that never loses its spry sense of discovery.
  97. Ten Canoes
    A marvel of warm collaboration and shared jokes about husbands and wives, shot both in dreamscape color and pristine black and white.
  98. Manufactured Landscapes
    Jennifer Baichwal's gorgeous documentary Manufactured Landscapes amplifies the powerful work of Edward Burtynsky, a Canadian artist who specializes in large-scale photographs of terrain transformed by civilization into rivers and tides of industrial ugliness.
  99. Lady Chatterley
    There's an adult life force in every frame of this luxuriously paced work, even in the sight of rain and a lady's stocking.
  100. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    A funny and madly arresting new documentary.
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