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1. 17 Girls 2012 The movie takes you inside the dreamy collective mentality of bored, mildly rebellious girls who look with horror at the lives of their mostly working-class parents. full review
2. 28 Hotel Rooms 2012 "28 Hotel Rooms" slowly expires for lack of air. full review
3. 30 Beats 2012 This wisp of a movie, inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's play "La Ronde," offers only hints of the complicated personalities behind the characters' sleek, well-toned surfaces. full review
4. All Together 2012 A dour Gallic comedy about five septuagenarian friends living comfortably in the outskirts of Paris who decide to share a house rather than move into retirement homes. full review
5. The Awakening 2012 For all of its airs of refinement, "The Awakening" is pretty stale stuff. full review
6. Bachelorette 2012 "Bachelorette" comes at you with the crackling intensity of machine-gun fire. Maybe the safest way to watch it is by peeking out from a behind a sandbag. full review
7. Cheerful Weather For The Wedding 2012 The glossy appearance and trappings may evoke standard Anglophile nostalgia, but below the veneer is a cynical portrait of bored, shallow Britons halfheartedly going through the motions of a celebration. full review
8. Collaborator 2012 An exceedingly earnest, high-minded hostage drama in which any visceral tension is secondary to topical debates by a captor and his prisoner. full review
9. Crazy Eyes 2012 Yes, it feels true. But why bother? full review
10. Dark Tide 2012 It is often impossible to figure out what's going on. full review
11. Detachment 2012 Even at its most ludicrous - when it is shouting into your ear - its sheer audacity grabs your attention. full review
12. The Do-Deca-Pentathlon 2012 Although very funny, this film taps into a primal male competitiveness whose force outweighs reason and common sense. full review
13. Dreams of a Life 2012 For all its subtext about identity and London's social fabric, "Dreams of a Life" leaves too many blanks and is ultimately more frustrating than rewarding. full review
14. Elena 2012 Post-Soviet Russia in Andrei Zvyagintsev's somber, gripping film "Elena" is a moral vacuum where money rules, the haves are contemptuous of the have-nots, and class resentment simmers. full review
15. Elles 2012 In case you have forgotten, all women are prostitutes, and all men are johns. full review
16. First Winter 2012 It haunted me the first time I saw it and even more so the second time. full review
17. For Greater Glory 2012 The jamming together of so much history and melodrama makes for a handsome movie that is only rarely gripping. full review
18. The Front Line 2012 A movie that reserves its final sickening wallop for a grueling half-hour that leaves you as emotionally battered as the soldiers are forced to return to hell for one last senseless round. full review
19. Goats 2012 If Mr. Neil had the tonal mastery of Wes Anderson, "Goats" could have been so much more than an episodic sequence of whimsical little psychodramas. full review
20. God Bless America 2012 Mr. Goldthwait's screenplay is essentially a comedy act fleshed out with a story he doesn't try to make convincing. full review
21. The Good Doctor 2012 If "The Good Doctor" isn't a bad movie, it tells only half the story. full review
22. Grassroots 2012 Although it only glosses the mechanics of local politics, it exudes an endearingly scruffy charm. full review
23. House at the End of the Street 2012 A choppily edited, poorly timed mess with little continuity, overloaded with aural shocks in a desperate attempt to compensate for its minimal suspense. full review
24. How to Survive a Plague 2012 If the movie expresses equal measures of sadness and outrage, it is charged with the exhilarating excitement felt by soldiers on the front lines of battle. full review
25. In Our Nature 2012 The confessions and conflicts that bubble up feel real and lived, if overly familiar to connoisseurs of that dreaded genre known as the dysfunctional-family drama. full review
26. Jesus Henry Christ 2012 So what is "Jesus Henry Christ" about? full review
27. The Magic of Belle Isle 2012 The magic of this new movie's title emanates from the beautiful, measured performances of its stars. full review
28. Marley 2012 A riveting two-and-a-half-hour documentary biography... full review
29. Nobody Else But You 2012 If "Nobody Else but You" is smart and entertaining, it is a little too clever for its own good. full review
30. Nobody Walks 2012 You feel the characters' pangs as they spin out of control, and you are reminded of how easy it is for a careless sexual adventurer to destroy relationships and families on a whim, without even fully realizing it. full review
31. The Perfect Family 2012 [Turner's] performance is the deepest and truest element in this shallow feel-good movie about the clash between gay rights and Catholic orthodoxy in a generic suburban town... full review
32. Price Check 2012 Parker Posey cuts a ferociously funny swath through Michael Walker's "Price Check," a corporate comedy that tells you more than you ever wanted to know about the hypercompetitive world of retail marketing. full review
33. Red Hook Summer 2012 Spike Lee's messy, meandering, bluntly polemical "Red Hook Summer" has one crucial ingredient: a raw vitality. full review
34. Safety Not Guaranteed 2012 "Safety Not Guaranteed" won the Waldo Salt screenwriting award at the Sundance Film Festival, and it is a small-scale winner. full review
35. Sassy Pants 2012 Until "Sassy Pants" loses its nerve and turns somewhat warm and fuzzy, Ms. Sohn maintains tight control of the story of Bethany's liberation from her domestic prison to pursue fashion. full review
36. Sleepwalk With Me 2012 More than just a glorified stand-up act. full review
37. Struck by Lightning 2012 Except for Ms. Janney's monstrous mother and an Alzheimer's-afflicted grandmother (Polly Bergen), "Struck by Lightning" gives its characters no dimension. full review
38. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale 2012 As the war drags on, "Warriors of the Rainbow" outstays its welcome. I've never seen more severed heads in a film and cared less. full review
39. Whores' Glory 2012 [A] quietly powerful but dispiriting documentary, which compares the world's oldest profession as practiced from place to place. full review
40. The Zen Of Bennett 2012 The way Mr. Bennett talks is the way he sings. There is no subtext, only the song conveyed with knowledge, heart, a sophisticated sense of swing and a positive attitude. full review
41. Abduction 2011 To give Mr. Lautner his due, he is a martial-arts dervish with perfectly sculptured abs. His acting, however, is another matter. full review
42. Angels Crest 2011 Despite several solid performances, the characters are too hazily sketched and too loosely linked to form a meaningful chain. full review
43. Another Happy Day 2011 Both anguished and histrionic and in its strongest moments very, very good. But it is also overpopulated, strident and constitutionally unable to step back and scrutinize itself. full review
44. Cat Run 2011 An incoherent hybrid of buddy movie, "Girls Gone Wild" episode and James Bond spoof that employs cheap cinematic tricks like multiple split screens for no apparent purpose. full review
45. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop 2011 If "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" is consistently watchable, it isn't especially funny, nor does it give any deeper insight into its star than you might get from seeing his late-night shows. full review
46. Cracks 2011 In many ways "Cracks" is lurid and rickety. But its gripping ensemble performances lend it an emotional intensity that outweighs its shortcomings. full review
47. The Devil's Double 2011 full review
48. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy 2011 We may not yet have arrived at "Brave New World," but this movie about a group of 30ish friends inhibited by the threat of AIDS from sexually running wild, suggests we are lurching and bumbling in that direction. full review
49. The Hedgehog 2011 The film's moral can be distilled in the famous E. M. Forster dictum from "Howards End": "only connect." This endearing, if somewhat twee, movie gently reminds you of its truth. full review
50. House of Pleasures 2011 The heavy candlelit chiaroscuro paints the women as mobile Renoirs, Degases and Manets. full review
51. I Melt with You 2011 By the end, you feel nothing, not even contempt. full review
52. Khodorkovsky 2011 The visually snazzy film has stark, ominous, mostly black-and-white computer-animated sequences depicting Mr. Khodorkovsky's initial arrest. full review
53. Magic Trip 2011 "Magic Trip" is the cinematic equivalent of a yellowed scrapbook whose pictures are accompanied by sketchy captions created after the fact. full review
54. The Perfect Host 2011 Not even Mr. Pierce's best efforts can make sense of a character who by the end of the film seems to be a completely different person with the same name. full review
55. Seven Days In Utopia 2011 [A] humorless, mystically fortified golfing movie... full review
56. Tales from the Golden Age 2011 There are moments, especially in the first two tales, that conjure a maniacal Chaplinesque verve. full review
57. There Be Dragons 2011 Clunk, clunk, squish. That is the sound of the dead language in Roland Joffe's screenplay for "There Be Dragons" as it tramples his would-be epic of the Spanish Civil War into an indigestible pulp. full review
58. We Were Here 2011 An extraordinarily moving, beautifully edited documentary... full review
59. You've Been Trumped 2011 Mr. Trump comes across as an insensitive, lying bully who will do whatever it takes to realize his dream of creating what he promises will be the world's greatest golf resort. full review
60. 3 Backyards 2010 Little is left to chance, and every detail contributes to a tightly schematic, microcosmic poetic concept. full review
61. Casino Jack And The United States Of Money 2010 Mr. Abramoff may be in prison, but there are no signs that his kind of high-powered lobbying, which one talking head describes as "legalized bribery," is a thing of the past. full review
62. Centurion 2010 For all its analogies to Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, or wherever, the underlying thrust of Centurion is its celebration of bloodlust. full review
63. The Extra Man 2010 For all its flighty charms, The Extra Man never really lands. full review
64. Freakonomics 2010 Amiably passes the time. full review
65. Happiness Runs 2010 This strident expose may gladden the hearts of some anti-'60s conservatives, but it is a shapeless mess steeped in prurience.
66. Heartbeats 2010 The new movie confirms Mr. Dolan as a wildly talented, carelessly extravagant filmmaker nakedly in thrall to idols like Wong Kar-wai, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pedro Almodovar. full review
67. Inhale 2010 Filmed in a semi-documentary style, it fitfully aspires to moral seriousness. full review
68. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child 2010 If The Radiant Child embellishes the legend in a hundred small ways, its cleverest maneuver is to keep its subject at enough of a remove to enhance his mystique. full review
69. Nostalgia for the Light 2010 The film's passionate insistence on remembrance lends it a moral as well as a metaphysical weight. Mr. Guzman's belief in eternal memory is an astounding leap of faith. full review
70. The Romantics 2010 A formulaic rom-com with an Ivy League pedigree and a higher-than-average SAT verbal score. full review
71. South of the Border 2010 Because so little has been made in the United States about South America's leftward continental drift, South of the Border is a valuable, if naïvely idealistic, introductory tutorial on a significant international trend.
72. The Switch 2010 The first third of The Switch, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, is so bizarre that it leads you to wonder if, through some miraculous lack of oversight, the movie will blaze an unpredictable path. No such luck. full review
73. Vidal Sassoon: The Movie 2010 Vidal Sassoon: The Movie isn't just the story of a brilliant fashion idea that swept the globe. It is a euphoric account of one man's strenuous self-invention. full review
74. Waiting for Forever 2010 More often than not, I felt suffocated by the gaseous sentimentality and lightheadedness of a story that drops in subplots that it can't begin to develop. full review
75. Waste Land 2010 [An] inspiring documentary. full review
76. White Irish Drinkers 2010 Putting profane adjectives in front of every other noun in dialogue that wants desperately to sound streetwise doesn't make it feel authentic if the other words spoken by the characters are arranged into orderly little blocks of exposition. full review
77. The Woodmans 2010 If its message can be boiled down to one sentence, it is George's stoic observation: "There is a psychic risk in being an artist." full review
78. The Age of Stupid 2009 A frightening jeremiad about the effects of climate change. full review
79. An American Affair 2009 Subscribes wholeheartedly to the history-as-pornography school of thinking, in which all will be revealed if you can figure out who is sleeping with whom, when and where and what they do in bed.
80. Amreeka 2009 Stands as one of the most accomplished recent films about a non-European immigrant coming to the United States.
81. Down Terrace 2009 A grimly amusing portrait of a closed system in which the pressure is building to an explosion. full review
82. The Fourth Kind 2009 May be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare.
83. The Good Guy 2009 resh enough to provide the voyeuristic kick of glimpsing the frenzied lifestyle of aspiring masters of the universe. full review
84. The Good Heart 2009 No amount of splenetic ranting by Brian Cox, a wonderful actor, when given the right role, can salvage The Good Heart from terminal mawkishness. full review
85. I Hate Valentine's Day 2009 You might blame Nora Ephron, whose screenplay for When Harry Met Sally established the formula that I Hate Valentine's Day runs into the ground. Compared with this, Ms. Ephron is Chekhov.
86. Objectified 2009 As sleek and handsome as any of the new and improved household items it exhibits.
87. Paper Man 2009 An intelligent, meticulously constructed, well-acted movie that has been written to death.
88. Serious Moonlight 2009 Serious Moonlight suggests an unholy, watered-down hybrid of The Ref and Funny Games, played as a chirpy screwball comedy.
89. Soul Kitchen 2009 Mr. Akin's vision of interconnectedness in the global village, while similar to that of a movie like Babel, is more casual and lighthearted. full review
90. Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen 2009 Sukowa makes Hildegard a likable and charismatic woman who risks a great deal to do good in an environment that leaves women little room for self-expression. Her intelligence and enthusiasm make her a proto-feminist force to be reckoned with. full review
91. When You're Strange 2009 [A] muddled, pretentious assemblage of film clips of the band shot between 1966 and 1971, with solemn narration by Johnny Depp.
92. Wonderful World 2009 Matthew Broderick adopts just the right attitude for his role in Wonderful World.
93. American Violet 2008 American Violet, which is based on real events that took place in late 2000, has the quasi-documentary feel of a well-made television drama. full review
94. The Business of Being Born 2008 The Business of Being Born is not overtly political. Its feminism is palpable but unspoken. full review
95. Constantine's Sword 2008 At once enthralling and troubling...does about as good a job as you could hope of distilling a 750-page historical examination of religious zealotry and power into 95 swift minutes. full review
96. Disgrace 2008 A faithful, compelling screen adaptation of J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning 1999 novel.
97. Eldorado 2008 A road movie that poignantly juggles absurdism and melancholy.
98. Finding Bliss 2008 Isn't especially funny. Nor is it sexy, despite flashes of nudity and fleeting glimpses of Grind's works in progress.
99. Gardens of the Night 2008 Gardens of the Night is a harrowing story of kidnapping and forced child prostitution that conjures a world entirely populated by predators and prey.
100. Humboldt County 2008 So much pot is smoked in the agreeable drama Humboldt County that you may come away from it with a contact high.
101. Management 2008 If it isn't half as good -- or as funny -- as its forerunners, it maintains its integrity as a small, sweet-natured comedy that refuses to obey the commercial dictates of Hollywood by allowing its characters to determine their own zany destinies.
102. The Other Man 2008 The sexual temperature remains a safe, nap-inducing 98.6.
103. Shrink 2008 Like smog settling over Los Angeles, a creeping sense of anomie haunts the Hollywood power players and parasites sidling nervously through Shrink. full review
104. Unmistaken Child 2008 Unmistaken Child documents the four-year search of Tenzin Zopa, a gentle, baby-faced 28-year-old Nepalese monk.
105. Were the World Mine 2008 Were the World Mine, an indie alternative to Disney's High School Musical franchise, is a small, endearing film.
106. The Yellow Handkerchief 2008 William Hurt, who specializes in playing high-strung, upscale neurotics, brings his formidable skills to The Yellow Handkerchief. full review
107. The Yes Men Fix the World 2008 It takes some nerve, not to mention diabolical intelligence and financial resources, to pull off the elaborate pranks devised by the Yes Men. full review
108. The Babysitters 2007 Until it crosses a shadowy line dividing serious comedy from distasteful exploitation, The Babysitters has the makings of an incisive satire of greed and lust in suburbia. full review
109. Before the Rains 2007 The ingredients of the Indian director Santosh Sivan's period piece Before the Rains may be awfully familiar, but the film lends them the force of tragedy.
110. Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe 2007 A potent exercise in art-world mythography. full review
111. Charlie Bartlett 2007 Two decades after Ferris Bueller, a new smarty-pants seeks popularity in Charlie Bartlett.
112. Chris & Don: A Love Story 2007 Chris & Don: A Love Story examines a complicated and enduring relationship that raised eyebrows even in Hollywood. full review
113. Day Zero 2007 If the abysmal reception so far for films about the war in Iraq is any indication, Day Zero is the last thing movie audiences will want to consume. full review
114. Flawless 2007 Flawless is a mildly diverting period heist movie in which an odd couple conspire to loot an evil London diamond company, for which they both work.
115. The Go-Getter 2007 Much of the dialogue is so quirky it sounds overheard instead of scripted. The performances are correspondingly spontaneous.
116. Never Forever 2007 While Never Forever lingers in the thick of sex, lies and anxiety, it is something to see.
117. Phoebe in Wonderland 2007 It leaves you frustrated and annoyed. full review
118. Puccini for Beginners 2007 Snappy repartee with the ring of real conversation is sustained through enough of Puccini for Beginners to make it a rarity.
119. Sangre De Mi Sangre 2007 Although it exhibits a heartfelt connection with the city's half-invisible population of illegal immigrants, its myriad inconsistencies and strained plotting are increasingly frustrating.
120. Trumbo 2007 Peter Askin's stirring documentary Trumbo gives you reasons to cheer but also to weep.
121. Brooklyn Rules 2006 However authentic and heartfelt this film's depiction of life on the meaner streets of the Northeast corridor may be, it doesn't begin to match The Sopranos' epic vision of violence, class struggle and upward mobility in a barbarous culture.
122. Fay Grim 2006 Fay Grim gets so carried away with the intricacies of its plot that it gets lost in its own excessive cleverness.
123. The Ground Truth 2006 Amid the continuing deluge of documentaries about the war in Iraq, Patricia Foulkrod's film The Ground Truth stands out as an especially pointed indictment of the American military's treatment of its own people on and off the battlefield.
124. Heading South 2006 Laurent Cantet's devastating new film contemplates the darker social undercurrents beneath a seemingly benign example of sexual tourism. examination of middle-age desire.
125. Klimt 2006 John Malkovich has virtually cornered the market on portraying aesthetes in the thrall of demonic visions. Klimt adds to his gallery of elegant monsters.
126. Maxed Out 2006 This scattershot exposé of usurious banking practices examines why the most vulnerable segment of society is victimized by the lending industry and finds a simple answer: It's obscenely profitable.
127. Saint of 9/11 2006 Saint of 9/11 is a touching elegy for the Rev. Mychal Judge, the much-loved New York City Fire Department chaplain who died at the World Trade Center.
128. Taxidermia 2005 Produces nightmarish horror and formal beauty in a surreal, Central European blend.
129. Cavite 2005 Terrorism and cultural identity are only two of the themes wound into a tight knot of fear and bewilderment in Cavite, a gripping no-budget political thriller.
130. Color Me Kubrick 2005 Once the movie gets started, it doesn't know where to go or how to end. It more or less repeats itself.
131. End of the Spear 2005 This fact-based story of conflict and resolution between a primitive warrior tribe in Ecuador and peace-seeking Christian missionaries is inspiring despite its sentimental excesses.
132. Stagedoor 2005 This sketchy documentary portrait of a summer camp for teenagers with Broadway stars in their eyes remains a cool distance from its subject.
133. Stoned 2005 Stoned, Stephen Woolley's convoluted docudrama examining the final weeks in the life of the guitarist Brian Jones ... stalls in its own laborious accumulation of detail.
134. After Innocence 2004 Calm, deliberate and devastating, Jessica Sanders's documentary confirms many of the worst fears about weaknesses in the American criminal-justice system. full review
135. A Good Woman 2004 This misbegotten adaptation of Oscar Wildes 1892 comedy Lady Windermeres Fan lacks Wilde's high-toned repartee.
136. Moog 2004 Offers a fascinating historical look at the technological side of the 60's revolution in pop music. full review
137. Mouth to Mouth 2004 Alison Murray's chaotic, semiautobiographical account of a teenage girl's misadventures in a traveling cult, occupies its own stylistic niche: the movie as acid flashback. full review
138. Blackwoods 2002 It turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guessed at the beginning. full review
139. Bukowski: Born into This 2002 Without straining, this definitive, deeply engrossing film biography makes a strong case for Charles Bukowski as a major American poet. full review
140. Dahmer 2002 As gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character, there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy, clean-cut Dahmer (Jeremy Renner) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge. full review
141. The Deserted Station 2002 A bluntly heart-tugging city-mouse, country-mouse fable from Iran. full review
142. Paid in Full 2002 Instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western, it's an unpretentious, sociologically pointed slice of life. full review
143. Showboy 2002 A clever hide-and-seek game of reality versus fiction that reveals itself as not the movie you thought it was when the final credits roll. full review
144. Stuart Little 2 2002 Both Stuart Little ... and the even better Stuart Little 2 ... are superior family films that have perfected a seamless fusion of live action and animation in which it is difficult to tell where one leaves off and the other begins. full review
145. Children Underground 2001 A singularly depressing film. full review
146. Love the Hard Way 2001 Loses tension (and ultimately credibility) as it wanders through three possible endings before grinding to a halt. full review
147. New York in the Fifties 2001 full review
148. Gossip 2000 Although Gossip comes with a heavy dose of moralism about dating etiquette and truth-telling, the movie's vision of contemporary youth is as corrupt and prurient as that of Cruel Intentions. full review
149. Acts Of Worship 2000 Despite its crudeness, the film has a number of scenes that are so real they hurt. full review
150. Beautiful Creatures 2000 Loathsome as any mindless, blood-drenched Hollywood action-adventure yarn. full review
151. Dark Days 2000 full review
152. Happy Accidents 2000 Unlike the typical Hollywood romance, its belief in happily-ever-after, even if it has to come from the fourth dimension, feels authentic. full review
153. Hard Core Logo 2000 full review
154. Malena 2000 Flushed with emotion and a buoyant earthy humor, Malena is a yarn that sticks with you. full review
155. Maybe Baby 2000 In alternating between farcical spoof and bittersweet romantic comedy, Maybe Baby maintains a surprisingly secure comic footing. full review
156. An Ideal Husband 1999 In adapting the play, Mr. Parker has streamlined and rewritten Wilde's dialogue, keeping some (but not all) of Wilde's biting epigrams and scraping off a lot (perhaps too much) of the Victorian crust. full review
157. Joe the King 1999 full review
158. Kadosh 1999 full review
159. My Life so Far 1999 full review
160. Plunkett & Macleane 1999 full review
161. Ride with the Devil 1999 Visually arresting but dramatically flat. full review
162. She's All That 1999 She's All That is essentially a formulaic comedy, but it has enough glimmerings of originality and wit to make you wish it were much bolder and funnier than it turns out to be. full review
163. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut 1999 Very funny, extremely obscene. full review
164. Waking the Dead 1999 Painfully earnest. full review
165. Clay Pigeons 1998 A film that delights by confounding expectations. full review
166. Disturbing Behavior 1998 full review
167. Funny Games 1998 This beautifully acted and paced German variant of Cape Fear ... is tricked out with a number of Brechtian devices to catch audiences in a voyeuristic trance. full review
168. Godzilla 1998 full review
169. The Impostors 1998 full review
170. Mercury Rising 1998 full review
171. Next Stop Wonderland 1998 Next Stop, Wonderland isn't really much more than a beautifully acted, finely edited sitcom, but it creates and sustains an intelligent, seriocomic mood better than any recent film about the urban single life. full review
172. Nightwatch 1998 full review
173. Pi 1998 As smart as it is, 'Pi' is awfully hard to watch. Filmed with hand-held cameras in splotchy black-and-white and crudely edited, it has the style and attitude of a no-budget midnight movie. full review
174. The Red Violin (Le violon rouge) 1998 full review
175. What Dreams May Come 1998 All the weeping and hugging the characters do can't make up for the film's fatal lack of texture and psychological nuance. full review
176. Anaconda 1997 A trashily entertaining reptilian version of Jaws set in the steaming heart of the Amazon rain forest. full review
177. Arguing the World 1997 full review
178. Eve's Bayou 1997 full review
179. Home Alone 3 1997 full review
180. Hoodlum 1997 full review
181. The House of Yes 1997 There are many gaping holes between the funny moments. full review
182. Office Killer 1997 It doesn't offer a single moment of visceral or emotional electricity. full review
183. Switchback 1997 full review
184. The Wings of the Dove 1997 full review
185. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America 1996 They distill the agony of adolescence, the queasy feeling of being trapped in a body going through monstrous changes, at the same time that they purge it of its terror. full review
186. Boyfriends 1996 full review
187. Brassed Off 1996 Shamelessly manipulative and sentimental, but in an agreeably familiar way. full review
188. The Crow: City of Angels 1996 Utterly devoid of energy and shock value. full review
189. Happy Gilmore 1996 Happy's tantrums, which the movie pretends are liberating explosions of self-expression, aren't nearly maniacal enough to reach comic delirium. full review
190. The Substitute 1996 The entire setup is too garish to be credible. full review
191. Trees Lounge 1996 full review
192. Unhook the Stars 1996 full review
193. Butterfly Kiss 1995 full review
194. Cry, the Beloved Country 1995 full review
195. Dead Man 1995
196. Fallen Angels 1995 A densely packed suite of zany vignettes that have the autonomy of pop songs or stand-up comic riffs. full review
197. Fist of the North Star 1995 full review
198. A Month by the Lake 1995 full review
199. The Prophecy 1995 full review
200. Sudden Death 1995 Offers above-average pyrotechnics, a body count that steadily mounts, and plenty of hand-to-hand combat. full review
201. Tales from the Hood 1995 full review
202. Bad Girls 1994 full review
203. Mother's Boys 1994 full review
204. Street Fighter 1994 A dreary, overstuffed hodgepodge of poorly edited martial arts sequences and often unintelligible dialogue. full review
205. Cop and a Half 1993 full review
206. Pet Sematary Two 1992 full review
207. Rock-A-Doodle 1992 full review
208. Drop Dead Fred 1991 full review
209. The Disenchanted 1990 full review
210. I, the Worst of All 1990 full review
211. Red Scorpion 1989 The movie's reflective moments belong to Mr. Lundgren's sweaty chest. full review
212. Switchblade Sisters 1975 To watch Switchblade Sisters is to visit a never-never land of shopworn media images colliding in a tabloid high school of the mind. full review