3. RACHEL GETTING MARRIED

Based on my anecdotal survey, I'd call Jonathan Demme's roiling Altmanesque drama the supremely divisive love it/not that wild about it movie of the year. The scene that separates the fans from the skeptics is the one with all those rehearsal-dinner speeches. Endless? Indulgent? I felt not just that I was eavesdropping (always a good thing in a movie) but that the disparate reveling family members became, in some inexplicable way, my own. The fact that it's an interracial marriage, and that no one makes even a tiny deal of it, is part of the texture: This may be the first Age of Obama movie, a spectacle of ''difference'' melted away by the rich, teeming jumble of a family trying to make peace with itself.

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