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Jonathan Foreman, New York Post

1. Darkness Falls 2003 Could just as well have been titled Dumb Then Dumber for the way its plot makes decreasing sense even by the low standards of B horror flicks.
2. Gigli 2003 An inept attempt to do Elmore Leonard by Martin Brest, a filmmaker whose coarse sensibility makes him catastrophically unqualified to the task.
3. Mona Lisa Smile 2003 Sanctimonious, relentlessly predictable and willfully ignorant of the period it's set in.
4. Equilibrium 2002 Illiterate, often inert sci-fi action thriller.
5. The Master of Disguise 2002 No one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through The Master of Disguise.
6. The New Guy 2002 Uneven, with long sections that are completely unfunny.
7. The Trials of Henry Kissinger 2002 Enjoyably fast-moving, hard-hitting documentary.
8. XXX 2002 Unfortunately, its efforts to pander to this pubescent demographic are often laughable.
9. Along Came a Spider 2001 From the very beginning of the movie, irritating implausibilities speckle Mark Moss' script.
10. The Animal 2001 OK lowbrow comedy about a man given superpowers by animal organ transplants.
11. Baran 2001 A far more impressive and affecting piece of filmmaking and storytelling than most movies put out by Hollywood this year, and offers, as a bonus, a glimpse into a fascinating, contradictory society.
12. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001 The originality and intelligence that made Smith's Clerks and Chasing Amy such refreshing pleasures are all but absent.
13. Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India 2001 If you can swallow its absurdities and crudities Lagaan really is enormously good fun.
14. The Musketeer 2001 An example of lazy, dumb and couldn't-care -less hack movie making.
15. Tomcats 2001 Much of Tomcats is actually boisterously, crudely entertaining.
16. Vanilla Sky 2001 The end isn't satisfying enough to justify their efforts and your time.
17. The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick 2000 Anyone with less than an encyclopedic knowledge of Dick's work will leave this film clueless as to what the Gospel According to Philip K. Dick might actually be.
18. Hamlet 2000 Embarrassingly sophomoric.
19. The Original Kings of Comedy 2000 While that vulgarity eventually gets wearing, parts of their acts are so funny your cheeks hurt.
20. Our Song 2000 A languid but refreshingly real depiction of female adolescence in the inner city.
21. Scary Movie 2000 Everyone plays his or her part with just enough unself-conscious seriousness for the jokes to work.
22. Titan A.E. 2000 There is no excuse for the badness of Titan A.E.
23. Bringing Out the Dead 1999 Bringing Out the Dead is as technically brilliant as you would expect from a film directed by Martin Scorsese.
24. Double Jeopardy 1999 Visual lushness is almost the only indication that the movie was directed by the same Bruce Beresford who made Breaker Morant and Driving Miss Daisy.
25. In Too Deep 1999 Slow and predictable!
26. A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999 Funny and sexy!
27. Teaching Mrs. Tingle 1999 Teaching Mrs. Tingle an ugly, failed attempt to pull off a Heathers - style, teen - oriented black comedy.
28. Topsy-Turvy 1999 A charming, warm, witty movie, funny one minute and moving the next.