#200 Onibaba (1964)

A mother and her daughter-in-law kill samurai and sell their belongings for rice to survive.

3.5/5

#199 Che (2008)

Two part, 4 hour epic chronicling Che's successful and unsuccessful revolutions in Cuba and Bolivia.

5/5

#198 The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

A young Che Guevara travels South America with his best friend and shapes his future political views.

5/5

#197 Sin Nombre (2009)

A family making the dangerous journey from Guatemala through Mexico to the US gets mixed up with a gang member trying to escape the 'green light' hit put on him by his former gang. One of 2009's best.

5/5

#196 Zach Galifianakis: Live At The Purple Onion (2006)

4/5

#195 Sanjuro (1961)

Kurosawa's sequel to Yojimbo. Toshiro Mifune is once again a masterless samurai that just wants sake, a good meal and a place to sleep but keeps getting dragged into situations where he ends up helping others out.

5/5

#194 Planet 51 (2009)

3/5

#193 The Box (2009)

The worst film released in 2009. Worse than Chun-Li and Dragonball Z. It's bad.

1/5

#192 Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

4/5

#191 Love Actually (2003)

4/5

#190 Yojimbo (1961)

5/5

#189 Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Holmes and Watson kicked ass for two hours and it was awesome.

4.5/5

#188 Ran (1985)

Kurosawa's last epic is epic. Lord Hidetora has three sons and at age 70 wishes to hand over power to his oldest son. They aren't the nicest brothers, so all hell breaks loose. A beautiful film which leaves all the main characters dead at the end.

5/5

#187 Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

Sally Hawkins is the happiest person ever. She has me convinced.

4/5

#186 Avatar (2009)

Awesome movie. I had my doubts leading up to release, pretty sure this was going to be the biggest flop in history, but I was instantly proven wrong. Cameron delivers. I will never doubt him again.

5/5

#185 The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (2008)

The first movie I've seen that tried to make me sympathize with the Nazi family. Boohoo. Bruno is the slowest 8 year old ever. I mean, he sneaks into a gas chamber instead of helping his friend escape. Barbed wire fence universally means prison if you are surrounded by it. I don't care if you're 8 or 88; it doesn't take a genius to figure out the other kid's life sucks. And I don't buy for a minute that German civilians had no idea what they were doing to the Jews.

3.5/5

#184 Up In The Air (2009)

4.5/5

#183 Red Road (2006)

Red Road follows a CCTV operator that starts following a man from her past that she didn't expect to be out of prison yet. The story slowly reveals itself at just the right pace to keep you wondering why the hell she is doing what she's doing.

3.5/5

#182 Criminal (2004)

4.5/5

#181 The Twilight Samurai (2002)

5/5

#180 Blindness (2008)

1/5

#179 The Usual Suspects (1995)

5/5

#178 The Way We Get By (2009)

4.5/5

#177 Carriers (2009)

4/5

#176 Food, Inc (2008)

DTA.

Big Business is going to kill us all.

5/5

#175 The International (2009)

I hate banks!

3.5/5

#174 An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder (2006)

I didn't know this was a Q&A session, I thought it was going to be straight stand-up. I've heard An Evening With Kevin Smith was worth watching, and 2 was on Netflix streaming so I checked it out. Started off slow with some terrible questions by a fat guy and a pushy midget, but once the pace picked up it was good. Having been to several live Q&A sessions at PAX this year, I can appreciate the excitement of seeing someone you're a fan of in person. I like Smith's movies, but never followed him personally and still enjoyed hearing stories about the industry and behind the scenes happenings.

4/5

#173 Invictus (2009)

A great true story about the South African rugby team uniting the country after Nelson Mandela became president.

5/5

#172 Revolver (2005)

Guy Ritchie was high on Madonna, Kabbalah, and number theory when he churned out this huge turd.

I just realized he directed Sherlock Holmes which hits this month. At least I'll be seeing that for free.

2/5

#171 Solaris (1972)

Crazy interesting Russian sci-fi film based on a book that today's movies and games are still borrowing ideas from.

5/5

#170 Angels and Demons (2009)

Catholics are weird and Tom Hanks is going to solve the case!

4/5

#169 Empire Records (1995)

An eccentric group of teenagers working at a record store who then went on to star in other movies.

5/5

#168 21 (2008)

I went in with extremely low expectations for 21. I just had a feeling it wouldn't be good. I was wrong. Smart kids counting cards in Vegas vs Kevin Spacey.

4/5