The Movie List 2011

Our ever-expanding ranking of all the year's movies, from best to worst. Find out where this week's releases fit!

By Andrew O'Hehir

Executive Editor

Published January 6, 2011 10:01PM (EST)

Welcome to the 2011 edition of The Movie List -- which is now nearly complete!. It's exactly what it sounds like: an ongoing ranking of the year's movies, from No. 1 to No. Yucko. Of course it's subjective and prone to perceptual flaws and chronological bias. In 2010, I wound up rearranging frequently as I re-evaluated or saw movies again. (By popular demand, here's the full and final version of last year's list.)

There's always an element of the ridiculous in any endeavor like this: How do you decide whether a documentary about an artist who became famous years after committing suicide is better or worse than an animated film starring Johnny Depp as a chameleon? Which did I enjoy more: "Winnie the Pooh" or "The Thing"? I think there's a two-part answer to questions like those. First, I ask myself which one I'd rather watch again, tonight. Then I try to think about the perplexing question of enduring value: Which one will I want to watch in five years? Which one would I recommend to my friends, my kids or my mother-in-law?

I'll update at least once a week. New additions are always marked accordingly.

  1. Poetry

    Director: Lee Chang-dong

    Starring: Yun Jung-hee, David Lee, Ahn Nae-sang

  2. Melancholia

    Director: Lars von Trier

    Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Skarsgård

  3. Take Shelter

    Director: Jeff Nichols

    Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart

  4. Coriolanus

    Director: Ralph Fiennes

    Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain, Brian Cox

  5. Mysteries of Lisbon

    Director: Raúl Ruiz

    Starring: Afonso Pimentel, Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Clotilde Hesme, Ricardo Pereira

  6. A Separation new!

    Director: Asghar Farhadi

    Starring: Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini

  7. Drive

    Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

    Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman

  8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

    Starring: Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee

  9. Meek's Cutoff

    Director: Kelly Reichardt

    Starring: Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan

  10. Putty Hill

    Director: Matt Porterfield

    Starring: Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance, James Siebor, Charles Sauers

  11. Beginners

    Director: Mike Mills

    Starring: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic

  12. Of Gods and Men

    Director: Xavier Beauvois

    Starring: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach, Farid Larbi

  13. Le Havre

    Director: Aki Kaurismäki

    Starring: André Wilms, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Kati Outinen, Blondin Miguel

  14. We Need to Talk About Kevin new!

    Director: Lynne Ramsay

    Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell

  15. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy new!

    Director: Tomas Alfredson

    Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Toby Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch

  16. Shame new!

    Director: Steve McQueen

    Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, Nicole Beharie

  17. Certified Copy

    Director: Abbas Kiarostami

    Starring: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell

  18. A Dangerous Method new!

    Director: David Cronenberg

    Starring: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel

  19. Hugo new!

    Director: Martin Scorsese

    Starring: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Emily Mortimer

  20. Weekend new!

    Director: Andrew Haigh

    Starring: Tom Cullen, Chris New

  21. The Interrupters

    Director: Steve James

    Starring: Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams, Eddie Bocanegra (documentary)

  22. World on a Wire (1973)

    Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Starring: Klaus Löwitsch, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Mascha Rabben, Barbara Valentin

  23. The Trip

    Director: Michael Winterbottom

    Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon

  24. The Princess of Montpensier

    Director: Bertrand Tavernier

    Starring: Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Gaspard Ulliel

  25. Sleeping Beauty new!

    Director: Julia Leigh

    Starring: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie

  26. Armadillo

    Director: Janus Metz

    Starring: n/a (documentary)

  27. Jane Eyre

    Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga

    Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Judi Dench

  28. Nostalgia for the Light

    Director: Patricio Guzmán

    Starring: n/a; documentary

  29. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo new!

    Director: David Fincher

    Starring: Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård

  30. The Descendants

    Director: Alexander Payne

    Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Judy Greer, Robert Forster

  31. Project Nim

    Director: James Marsh

    Starring: Nim Chimpsky, Herbert Terrace, Stephanie LaFarge, Bob Ingersoll (documentary)

  32. Leap Year

    Director: Michael Rowe

    Starring: Mónica del Carmen, Gustavo Sánchez Parra

  33. A Somewhat Gentle Man

    Director: Hans Petter Moland

    Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Jorunn Kjellsby, Bjørn Floberg, Jannike Kruse

  34. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

    Director: Marshall Curry

    Starring: Daniel McGowan, Suzanne Savoie, Kirk Engdall (documentary)

  35. The Time That Remains

    Director: Elia Suleiman

    Starring: Saleh Bakri, Samar Tamus, Elia Suleiman, Isabelle Ramadan

  36. The Future

    Director: Miranda July

    Starring: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky, Joe Putterlik

  37. The Artist

    Director: Michel Hazanavicius

    Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell

  38. Margin Call

    Director: J.C. Chandor

    Starring: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci

  39. Hell and Back Again

    Director: Danfung Dennis

    Starring: Nathan Harris, Ashley Harris (documentary)

  40. The Guard

    Director: John Michael McDonagh

    Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong

  41. The Muppets

    Director: James Bobin

    Starring: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy

  42. Buck

    Director: Cindy Meehl

    Starring: Buck Brannaman, Mary Brannaman, Robert Redford (documentary)

  43. Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    Director: Werner Herzog

    Starring: n/a (documentary)

  44. Bombay Beach

    Director: Alma Har'el

    Starring: n/a (documentary)

  45. The Tree of Life

    Director: Terrence Malick

    Starring: Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn, Hunter McCracken

  46. Tuesday, After Christmas

    Director: Radu Muntean

    Starring: Mimi Brănescu, Mirela Oprişor, Maria Popistaşu

  47. Senna

    Director: Asif Kapadia

    Starring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Ron Dennis, Sid Watkins (documentary)

  48. My Joy

    Director: Sergei Loznitsa

    Starring: Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Aleksey Vertkov

  49. Martha Marcy May Marlene

    Director: Sean Durkin

    Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy

  50. The Housemaid

    Director: Im Sang-soo

    Starring: Jeon Do-youn, Lee Jung-jae, Seo Woo, Park Ji-young, Yun Yeo-jong

  51. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

    Director: Göran Olsson

    Starring: Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale (documentary)

  52. 13 Assassins

    Director: Takashi Miike

    Starring: Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya, Goro Inagaki

  53. Kill the Irishman

    Director: Jonathan Hensleigh

    Starring: Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken

  54. Crazy, Stupid, Love.

    Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

    Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone

  55. The Last Circus

    Director: Álex de la Iglesia

    Starring: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Enrique Villén

  56. Into the Abyss

    Director: Werner Herzog
    Starring: Jason Burkett, Michael Perry, Lisa Stotler-Balloun, Charles Richardson (documentary)

  57. Contagion

    Director: Steven Soderbergh

    Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet

  58. The Skin I Live In

    Director: Pedro Almodóvar

    Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes

  59. War Horse new!

    Director: Steven Spielberg

    Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston

  60. The Ides of March

    Director: George Clooney

    Starring: Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, George Clooney

  61. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

    Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson

    Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Danny Trejo, Elias Koteas, Neil Patrick Harris

  62. The Lincoln Lawyer

    Director: Brad Furman

    Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy

  63. The Help

    Director: Tate Taylor

    Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain

  64. My Week With Marilyn

    Director: Simon Curtis

    Starring: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Dominic Cooper

  65. Page One: Inside the New York Times

    Director: Andrew Rossi

    Starring: David Carr, Brian Stelter, Bruce Headlam, Bill Keller (documentary)

  66. Carancho

    Director: Pablo Trapero

    Starring: Ricardo Darín, Martina Gusman

  67. Stake Land

    Director: Jim Mickle

    Starring: Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Kelly McGillis, Michael Cerveris

  68. Source Code

    Director: Duncan Jones

    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright

  69. The Human Resources Manager

    Director: Eran Riklis

    Starring: Mark Ivanir, Guri Alfi, Gila Almagor, Noah Silver

  70. How I Ended This Summer

    Director: Alexei Popogrebsky

    Starring: Grigory Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis

  71. The Adventures of Tintin new!

    Director: Steven Spielberg

    Starring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost

  72. In Time

    Director: Andrew Niccol

    Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser

  73. You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo

    Directors: Luc Côté, Patricio Henríquez

    Starring: Omar Khadr (documentary)

  74. R

    Directors: Tobias Lindholm, Michael Noer

    Starring: Johan Philip Asbæk, Dulfi Al-Jabouri, Roland Møller

  75. Winnie the Pooh

    Directors: Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall

    Starring: Jim Cummings, Bud Luckey, John Cleese, Craig Ferguson, Jack Boulter

  76. The Myth of the American Sleepover

    Director: David Robert Mitchell

    Starring: Claire Sloma, Marlon Morton, Amanda Bauer, Brett Jacobsen

  77. Unknown

    Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

    Starring: Liam Neeson, January Jones, Diane Kruger, Bruno Ganz

  78. Janie Jones

    Director: David M. Rosenthal

    Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Abigail Breslin, Peter Stormare, Elisabeth Shue

  79. The Thing

    Director: Matthijs van Heijningen

    Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen

  80. Battle for Brooklyn

    Directors: Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley

    Starring: Daniel Goldstein, Shabnam Merchant (documentary)

  81. Sucker Punch

    Director: Zack Snyder

    Starring: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Oscar Isaac

  82. Life in a Day

    Director: Kevin Macdonald, et al.

    Starring: n/a (documentary)

  83. Moneyball

    Director: Bennett Miller

    Starring: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman

  84. Trollhunter

    Director: André Øvredal

    Starring: Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Johanna Mørck, Hans Morten Hansen

  85. American: The Bill Hicks Story

    Directors: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas

    Starring: Bill Hicks, Mary Hicks, Dwight Slade, Kevin Booth (documentary)

  86. Bellflower

    Director: Evan Glodell

    Starring: Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, Rebekah Brandes, Tyler Dawson

  87. Septien

    Director: Michael Tully

    Starring: Robert Longstreet, Onur Tukel, Michael Tully, Mark Darby Robinson

  88. The Women on the 6th Floor

    Director: Philippe Le Guay

    Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke

  89. Captain America: The First Avenger

    Director: Joe Johnston

    Starring: Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell

  90. Into Eternity

    Director: Michael Madsen

    Starring: n/a; documentary

  91. The Adjustment Bureau

    Director: George Nolfi

    Starring: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery

  92. Super 8

    Director: J.J. Abrams

    Starring: Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Kyle Chandler, Riley Griffiths

  93. Midnight in Paris

    Director: Woody Allen

    Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Corey Stoll, Tom Hiddleston, Alison Pill

  94. Hanna

    Director: Joe Wright

    Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett

  95. Magic Trip

    Directors: Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney

    Starring: Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary (documentary)

  96. Circumstance

    Director: Maryam Keshavarz

    Starring: Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy, Reza Sixo Safai

  97. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop

    Director: Rodman Flender

    Starring: Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter (documentary)

  98. Super

    Director: James Gunn

    Starring: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon

  99. Rapt

    Director: Lucas Belvaux

    Starring: Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny, André Marcon, Françoise Fabian

  100. Applause

    Director: Martin Peter Zandvliet

    Starring: Paprika Steen, Michael Falch, Sara-Marie Maltha

  101. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

    Director: Joann Sfar

    Starring: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta

  102. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

    Director: Sophie Fiennes

    Starring: Anselm Kiefer (documentary)

  103. Margaret

    Director: Kenneth Lonergan

    Starring: Anna Paquin, J. Smith-Cameron, Jeannie Berlin, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon

  104. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

    Director: Bill Condon

    Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene

  105. Attack the Block

    Director: Joe Cornish

    Starring: Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Luke Treadaway, Nick Frost

  106. Higher Ground

    Director: Vera Farmiga

    Starring: Vera Farmiga, Joshua Leonard, Dagmara Dominczyk, John Hawkes

  107. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    Director: Rupert Wyatt

    Starring: James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow

  108. Texas Killing Fields

    Director: Ami Canaan Mann

    Starring: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, Chloë Grace Moretz

  109. Girlfriend

    Director: Justin Lerner

    Starring: Evan Sneider, Shannon Woodward, Jackson Rathbone

  110. Like Crazy

    Director: Drake Doremus

    Starring: Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence, Alex Kingston

  111. Friends With Benefits

    Director: Will Gluck

    Starring: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson, Woody Harrelson

  112. United Red Army

    Director: Koji Wakamatsu

    Starring: Maki Sakai, Arata, Akie Namiki, Go Jibiki

  113. Point Blank

    Director: Fred Cavayé

    Starring: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya

  114. Green Lantern

    Director: Martin Campbell

    Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong

  115. Cedar Rapids

    Director: Miguel Arteta

    Starring: Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, Isiah Whitlock Jr.

  116. One Lucky Elephant

    Director: Lisa Leeman

    Starring: David Balding, Carol Buckley, Flora the elephant (documentary)

  117. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

    Director: David Yates

    Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

  118. Killer Elite

    Director: Gary McKendry

    Starring: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro

  119. Ra.One

    Director: Anubhav Sinha

    Starring: Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal

  120. Revenge of the Electric Car

    Director: Chris Paine

    Starring: Bob Lutz, Carlos Ghosn, Elon Musk, Greg "Gadget" Abbott (documentary)

  121. Submarine

    Director: Richard Ayoade

    Starring: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor

  122. Fast Five

    Director: Justin Lin

    Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Dwayne Johnson

  123. Warrior

    Director: Gavin O'Connor

    Starring: Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte

  124. Kaboom

    Director: Gregg Araki

    Starring: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Roxane Mesquida

  125. My Reincarnation

    Director: Jennifer Fox

    Starring: Yeshi Silvano Namkhai, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu (documentary)

  126. Kidnapped

    Director: Miguel Ángel Vivas

    Starring: Fernando Cayo, Ana Wagener, Manuela Vellés, Dritan Biba

  127. The Beaver

    Director: Jodie Foster

    Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence

  128. The Double Hour

    Director: Giuseppe Capotondi

    Starring: Ksenia Rappoport, Filippo Timi

  129. The Woodmans

    Director: C. Scott Willis

    Starring: Francesca Woodman, Betty Woodman, Charles Woodman (documentary)

  130. Cars 2

    Director: John Lasseter

    Starring: Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Larry the Cable Guy, John Turturro

  131. If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

    Director: Florin Serban

    Starring: George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Clara Voda

  132. Red State

    Director: Kevin Smith

    Starring: Michael Angarano, Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman

  133. The Debt

    Director: John Madden

    Starring: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain

  134. Scream 4

    Director: Wes Craven

    Starring: Neve Campbell, Emma Roberts, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Hayden Panettierre

  135. J. Edgar

    Director: Clint Eastwood

    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Judi Dench

  136. Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster

    Director: Wilson Yip

    Starring: Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Lynn Hung, Huang Xiaoming

  137. When We Leave

    Director: Feo Aladag

    Starring: Sibel Kekilli, Settar Tanriogen, Derya Alabora

  138. Rango

    Director: Gore Verbinski

    Starring: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina

  139. Our Idiot Brother

    Director: Jesse Peretz

    Starring: Paul Rudd, Emily Mortimer, Zooey Deschanel, Elizabeth Banks, Rashida Jones

  140. In a Better World

    Director: Susanne Bier

    Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, William Jøhnk Juels Nielsen, Markus Rygaard, Trine Dyrholm

  141. Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja

    Director: Billy Corben

    Starring: n/a; documentary

  142. Thor

    Director: Kenneth Branagh

    Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård

  143. Farmageddon

    Director: Kristin Canty

    Starring: n/a (documentary)

  144. Miral

    Director: Julian Schnabel

    Starring: Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbass, Yasmine Al Massry, Alexander Siddig

  145. X-Men: First Class

    Director: Matthew Vaughn

    Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon, January Jones

  146. The Rite

    Director: Mikael Håfström

    Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciarán Hinds

  147. The Whistleblower

    Director: Larysa Kondracki

    Starring: Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn

  148. Red Riding Hood

    Director: Catherine Hardwicke

    Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Julie Christie, Shiloh Fernandez

  149. The Eagle

    Director: Kevin Macdonald

    Starring: Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Tahar Rahim

  150. The Way Back

    Director: Peter Weir

    Starring: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan

  151. Barney's Version

    Director: Richard J. Lewis

    Starring: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Scott Speedman

  152. Cowboys & Aliens

    Director: Jon Favreau

    Starring: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Paul Dano, Olivia Wilde

  153. The Other Woman

    Director: Don Roos

    Starring: Natalie Portman, Scott Cohen, Lisa Kudrow, Charlie Tahan

  154. The Company Men

    Director: John Wells

    Starring: Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Chris Cooper, Rosemarie DeWitt

  155. Happythankyoumoreplease

    Director: Josh Radnor

    Starring: Josh Radnor, Malin Akerman, Kate Mara, Zoe Kazan

  156. Orgasm Inc.

    Director: Liz Canner

    Starring: n/a (documentary)

  157. Anonymous

    Director: Roland Emmerich

    Starring: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Rafe Spall, David Thewlis

  158. The Rum Diary

    Director: Bruce Robinson

    Starring: Johnny Depp, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart

  159. Young Adult

    Director: Jason Reitman

    Starring: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser

  160. Another Earth

    Director: Mike Cahill

    Starring: Brit Marling, William Mapother

  161. Tower Heist

    Director: Brett Ratner

    Starring: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Téa Leoni

  162. Trespass

    Director: Joel Schumacher

    Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet, Ben Mendelsohn

  163. Larry Crowne

    Director: Tom Hanks

    Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, George Takei

  164. Rubber

    Director: Quentin Dupieux

    Starring: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser, Roxane Mesquida

  165. Rid of Me

    Director: James Westby

    Starring: Katie O'Grady, John Keyser, Storm Large

  166. The Son of No One

    Director: Dito Montiel

    Starring: Channing Tatum, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche

  167. Transformers: Dark of the Moon

    Director: Michael Bay

    Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, John Turturro, John Malkovich

  168. W.E.

    Director: Madonna

    Starring: Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, Oscar Isaac, James D'Arcy

  169. Insidious

    Director: James Wan

    Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Barbara Hershey

  170. The Change-Up

    Director: David Dobkin

    Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde, Leslie Mann

  171. The Catechism Cataclysm

    Director: Todd Rohal

    Starring: Steve Little, Robert Longstreet, Wally Dalton

  172. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)

    Director: Tom Six

    Starring: Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Maddi Black

  173. Hall Pass

    Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

    Starring: Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate

  174. Brighton Rock

    Director: Rowan Joffe

    Starring: Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren, John Hurt

  175. Arthur

    Director: Jason Winer

    Starring: Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner, Greta Gerwig

  176. Horrible Bosses

    Director: Seth Gordon

    Starring: Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell

  177. Mr. Popper's Penguins

    Director: Mark Waters

    Starring: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Ophelia Lovibond, Angela Lansbury

  178. Limitless

    Director: Neil Burger

    Starring: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish

  179. Paul

    Director: Greg Mottola

    Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig

  180. The Ward

    Director: John Carpenter

    Starring: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Jared Harris

  181. The Art of Getting By

    Director: Gavin Wiesen

    Starring: Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano

  182. Colombiana

    Director: Olivier Megaton

    Starring: Zoe Saldana, Cliff Curtis, Jordi Mollà, Lennie James

  183. One Day

    Director: Lone Scherfig

    Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Rafe Spall

  184. Trust

    Director: David Schwimmer

    Starring: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato

  185. Sanctum

    Director: Alister Grierson

    Starring: Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Parkinson

  186. No Strings Attached

    Director: Ivan Reitman

    Starring: Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline, Greta Gerwig, Olivia Thirlby

  187. The Dilemma

    Director: Ron Howard

    Starring: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly

  188. Tanner Hall

    Directors: Francesca Gregorini, Tatiana von Furstenburg

    Starring: Rooney Mara, Georgia King, Brie Larson

  189. Bad Teacher

    Director: Jake Kasdan

    Starring: Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel, Lucy Punch

  190. Abduction

    Director: John Singleton

    Starring: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Sigourney Weaver, Alfred Molina

  191. The Hangover Part II

    Director: Todd Phillips

    Starring: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong

  192. The Green Hornet

    Director: Michel Gondry

    Starring: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz

  193. Battle: Los Angeles

    Director: Jonathan Liebesman

    Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Ramon Rodriguez, Cory Hardrict

  194. Just Go With It

    Director: Dennis Dugan

    Starring: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Brooklyn Decker

  195. Prom

    Director: Joe Nussbaum

    Starring: Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, DeVaughn Nixon, Danielle Campbell

  196. Season of the Witch

    Director: Dominic Sena

    Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Foy

  197. I Am Number Four

    Director: D.J. Caruso

    Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Dianna Agron, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer

  198. Your Highness

    Director: David Gordon Green

    Starring: Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Justin Theroux

 


By Andrew O'Hehir

Andrew O'Hehir is executive editor of Salon.

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