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1. Act of Valor 2012 Just barely a movie, "Act of Valor" is more like a high-quality recruitment video with interstitial acting. full review
2. The Babymakers 2012 An increasingly incredulously plotted series of embarrassments about the wounded masculinity of a low sperm count. full review
3. ParaNorman 2012 ParaNorman, blessed with otherworldly animation, can't escape the demons of story. full review
4. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie 2012 With limitless absurdity comes a kind of glossy-eyed meaninglessness and extreme tastelessness. full review
5. Abduction 2011 As an action star, Lautner handles himself reasonably well. He has a bit too much of a boy-band singer look to him, but he's likeable and the major deficiency of "Abduction" isn't his. It's the script. full review
6. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy 2011 Gregory and Huyck don't go far in exploring the weirdness and emotional difficulty that a group of lifelong friends might create in sleeping together -- they want so much for a carefree holiday from such concerns. full review
7. Ironclad 2011 An utterly joyless exercise in blood and dirt. full review
8. Pearl Jam Twenty 2011 Any enterprise like this is inherently self-congratulatory, but the film is best considered from Crowe's perspective: that of a fan. full review
9. The Extra Man 2010 Kline's performance as Henry -- regal in its classical stage pronunciations -- is clearly the best thing in the film. But the character still fails to resonate; Henry isn't much more than a bag of peculiarities. full review
10. Cairo Time 2009 The scenery is enchanting and it's clear Nadda was inspired to make the film from the beauty of Cairo. She and cinematographer Luc Montpellier succeed in fashioning a graceful postcard to the city, but a story, too, would have been nice. full review
11. Jackass: Number Two 2006 True to its aim, Jackass 2 probably will leave fans more satisfied than the vast majority of films this year have left moviegoers. full review