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1. Elegy 2008 Wonderful writing, good performances, beautiful photography, and a lot of food for thought.
2. Broken English 2007 This is a very uneven effort, it lost me a couple of times, but then I got back into it due to the performances, the understated directing and the writing.
3. Civic Duty 2007 A flawed but worthwhile examination of paranoia and clashing cultures in the 21st century.
4. Eagle vs. Shark 2007 I think this film was already made, and it was called Napoleon Dynamite.
5. Encounters at the End of the World 2007 It's one of the best documentaries of the year, no doubt about it.
6. Evening 2007 Even as I admired most of the performances -- and I do stress most of them -- I found myself searching in vain for one character to care about.
7. Flawless 2007 [It's got] some neat little twists and turns.
8. Hot Rod 2007 We know from the Lazy Sunday bits Samberg's a funny guy, but he doesn't have enough to work with here.
9. Meet Bill 2007 This movie never should have seen the light of day.
10. Mr. Bean's Holiday 2007 I hate Mr. Bean, I hated this movie. He's an annoying, creepy, leering, sweaty, unfunny character, and ten seconds would be too much and this movie's like 90 minutes.
11. No End in Sight 2007 Essential viewing for any patriot.
12. Paranoid Park 2007 Yet another movie about misunderstood teenage skateboarders.
13. Shooter 2007 It's one of those conspiracy thrillers that keeps on asking you to take a leap of faith, until you get tired of leaping and you just start laughing in all the wrong places.
14. The Ten 2007 The actors are so good, and so funny.
15. You Kill Me 2007 Everybody hits just the right notes...It's just a lot of fun.
16. Bug 2006 Beat by beat, Bug is gripping: It has that feverish compression of great theater, but director William Friedkin gets inside it, so it's never stagy.
17. Cashback 2006 I think this filmmaker has a future.
18. Copying Beethoven, (Klang der Stille) 2006 Someday someone will make a great movie about an immortal composer, but for now the best movie about any Beethoven I've ever seen stars a Saint Bernard. full review
19. Curious George 2006 The artwork, I liked it, is faithful to the original, but to tell people my age, or someone 25, that they should see nine or ten bucks to see this movie I can't do it. full review
20. Failure to Launch 2006 It's completely unbelievable. full review
21. An Inconvenient Truth 2006 It's very effective and very successful. I think it can create a debate and discussion and you can go from there. full review
22. Jackass: Number Two 2006 Just like the Lord of the Rings, I can't wait for the third part of this trilogy. full review
23. Keeping Up With The Steins 2006 ... we have a lot of stereotypes, but they're not done in a mean-spirited way. full review
24. Maxed Out 2006 Maxed Out doesn't really offer solutions, probably because there are none. But it does a great job of showing how the rich get richer and the poor foot the bill, plus interest.
25. Mission: Impossible III 2006 The best of the three. full review
26. Nacho Libre 2006 Imagine my disappointment then, which grew to disbelief, which turned into utter disdain, by the time the credits rolled on this clunker. full review
27. Severance 2006 Severance seems to be posing as some kind of ironic, darkly funny takeoff on slasher movies, but I think it's mostly just a slasher movie.
28. Sixty Six 2006 I think it's a very heartfelt story, but we get the same thing over and over again.
29. Slither 2006 I'm zombied out. full review
30. Unknown 2006 The performances are uniformly excellent, and Brand relies on his music video training to provide some tantalizing flashback clues. full review
31. The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 Great film. Ken Loach is such an important filmmaker, he's made so many great films over the years, and it's great to see another director, like Eastwood and so many others in his 70's, who continues to be at the top of his game.
32. Casanova 2005 This is the very definition of an entertaining period piece romp. It's a romp, I tell ya! full review
33. Conversations With Other Women 2005 Conversations with Other Women feels like a one-act play stretched into a feature film and padded with those visual gimmicks. full review
34. Elizabethtown 2005 Cameron Crowe is a romantic at heart and there's nothing wrong with that. full review
35. Factotum 2005 I just didn't think the comic touches were very subtle and very funny and the other stuff we've just seen before. full review
36. Four Brothers 2005 Four Brothers is a violent, macho story with a perfect feel for the dynamics between four tough guys who will do anything for each other. full review
37. Grizzly Man 2005 This is shaping up to be another great year for documentaries and this is one of the best. full review
38. How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer 2005 Leisurely paced but lovely and touching.
39. Jarhead 2005 This is a very strong film with really good performances. full review
40. Land of the Dead 2005 Zombies just aren't that interesting as villains because they zombie ahead. full review
41. Lonesome Jim 2005 Steve Buscemi's a very good director. full review
42. The Longest Yard 2005 A Division III imitation of the original. full review
43. My Summer of Love 2005 Very good performances ... full review
44. Nine Lives 2005 I thought this was a great film. full review
45. Sahara 2005 It drove me crazy. It made National Treasure look like a documentary. full review
46. Serenity 2005 It has a great sense of humor about it, an attractive cast and it's just a lot of fun. full review
47. Sweet Land 2005 It's beautiful. full review
48. This Film is Not Yet Rated 2005 A flawed but also very funny and very welcome attack on the motion picture ratings board. full review
49. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price 2005 Wal-Mart says director Robert Greenwald's film is misleading and inaccurate, but it's hard to dispute the personal accounts from former Wal-Mart employees who speak from experience. full review
50. The World's Fastest Indian 2005 Far too predictable and far too many colorful supporting characters. full review
51. The Forgotten 2004 It's very manipulative, it's very maddening -- and yet I found it very entertaining. full review
52. Inside Deep Throat 2004 It's a good blueprint for people who don't know about the movie and what a huge impact it had. It doesn't do much more than that. full review
53. Little Black Book 2004 [O]ne of the worst romantic comedies of this or probably any other year. full review
54. The Puffy Chair 2004 The characters here exist in a real, real world, very authentic and realistic. full review
55. White Chicks 2004 [I]t's the worst movie of the year. full review
56. Word Wars 2004 ... it's not quite as endearing as Spellbound, because we are looking at thirty-five year olds instead of twelve-year-olds, but it's still very interesting. full review
57. Anger Management 2003 [A] disaster from the start. full review
58. Bad Boys II 2003 ... a nasty, mean-spirited movie. full review
59. Daddy Day Care 2003 It's one of the worst movies of the year. full review
60. Gigli 2003 [O]ne of the worst movies I've ever seen. full review
61. The Good Thief 2003 [T]here probably isn't another actor in the world better suited to play a substance-abusing, world-weary charmer than Nick Nolte. full review
62. The Hunted 2003 There's too much talent on-screen and behind the camera for The Hunted to be dull, but it is predictable and disappointing, and we seem to be missing about a half-hour's worth of scenes that would have brought some depths to these characters. full review
63. Identity 2003 [A] very well made horror thriller. full review
64. In the Cut 2003 [T]he character that Meg Ryan is playing so well here is so compelling. I think it's a wonderful performance that the movie is worth seeing for that. full review
65. The Missing 2003 ... a strange and haunting hybrid that's part Western, part supernatural thriller. full review
66. Ned Kelly 2003 If Ned Kelly is supposed to be an anti-hero to root for, his speeches border on parody and his cause is really unclear. full review
67. Once Upon a Time in Mexico 2003 ... this proves as the opposite of Cabin Fever, you can spill a lot of blood in a gratuitous, but very entertaining way. full review
68. Primer 2003 The first thing Shane Carruth should have done as a director was fire himself as an actor, because I think he gives a terrible performance. full review
69. Radio 2003 [Y]et another movie that takes a mentally challenged character and turns him into this kind of deity, this saint-like mascot who everybody else learns life lessons from. full review
70. Touching the Void 2003 An amazing, mind-boggling story. full review
71. Changing Lanes 2002 It pulls the rug out from under you, just when you're ready to hate one character, or really sympathize with another character, something happens to send you off in different direction. full review
72. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys 2002 I thought the young actors were strong, but the material is too thin and too cliched, even with Todd McFarlane's animated sequences to stretch the story to feature length. full review
73. Equilibrium 2002 Equilibrium is equal parts video game and GQ fashion spread. full review
74. Irreversible 2002 I hope people who go to see this don't walk out in the first ten minutes or after that scene, because I think you have to experience the entire film. And then you can decide whether or not you're offended by it. full review
75. Lost in La Mancha 2002 [W]onderful look at how movies are made or how movies fall apart. full review
76. The Master of Disguise 2002 If The Master of Disguise had been a free cable movie -- well, I still wouldn't have recommended it. full review
77. The New Guy 2002 [L]ame and unnecessary. full review
78. Paid in Full 2002 I'm going to give it a marginal thumbs up. I liked it just enough. full review
79. Rollerball 2002 ...really horrible drek. full review
80. The Rules of Attraction 2002 I hated this movie. full review
81. Secret Things 2002 ... a sexy movie. full review
82. Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 2002 I didn't like the first one enough to recommend it. I liked this one even less. full review
83. Star Trek - Nemesis 2002 Star Trek: Nemesis stands alone as an engaging intergalactic thriller with a lot of spirit-and some rousing action scenes. full review
84. Stuart Little 2 2002 At 78 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth. full review
85. The Sum of All Fears 2002 The Sum of All Fears is almost impossible to follow -- and there's something cringe-inducing about seeing an American football stadium nuked as pop entertainment. full review
86. Treasure Planet 2002 I think kids will find it really entertaining, and parents will find it amusing enough. full review
87. We Were Soldiers 2002 The battle sequences in We Were Soldiers aren't quite as head-spinning as in Black Hawk Down -- but this film does a much better job of establishing the characters before they plunge into battle. full review
88. Windtalkers 2002 A relentless, bombastic and ultimately empty World War II action flick. full review
89. XXX 2002 [U]nrelentingly stupid. full review
90. Black Hawk Down 2001 [D]efinitely worth seeing for those amazing battle sequences. full review
91. Gosford Park 2001 Everybody's so good in this! full review
92. Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India 2001 [I]t is long, but it never sags. full review
93. Love the Hard Way 2001 [W]orth seeing mainly for Brody's electric performance ... full review
94. Manic 2001 [A]n unrelenting and insightful look at some deeply disturbed young people and their dedicated but frustrated counselor. full review
95. Shaolin Soccer 2001 It's a lot of fun. full review
96. Tape 2001 Tape plays in real time in a cramped space, but there are a lot of surprises lurking in the corners of that room. full review
97. Vanilla Sky 2001 [A] spectacular film! full review
98. Waking Up in Reno 2001 I like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material, but they're treading water at best in this forgettable effort. full review
99. Wet Hot American Summer 2001 full review
100. Hamlet 2000 full review