Welcome to the 8th Annual Tomato Awards, where we honor the best-reviewed movies of the year. As in years past, 2006 had its share of hits, misses, and surprises.

This year, the Man of Steel returned to the big screen after a long absence on a quest -- not for peace, but for a certain plucky reporter who had since moved on. Or had she? The 9/11 World Trade Center attacks were dramatized in not one but two feature films, including one directed in a surprisingly straightforward fashion by Mr. Conspiracy Theory himself, Oliver Stone. 007 Pierce Brosnan had his license to kill revoked by the powers that be; in 2006, that honor belonged to Daniel Craig. A reporter from Kazakhstan did his country proud by poking fun at the U.S. (and how about that wrestling match?), while Tom Cruise found himself on another impossible mission -- doing damage control for that couch-jumping incident on Oprah and various other off-screen shenanigans. Snakes on a plane, X-Men and animated penguins all made an appearance in theaters, as well as numerous documentaries about the war in Iraq.

But which of these films were crowned the freshest by critics in 2006? Read on to see how these movies and the rest of the 2006 crop ranked in the 8th Annual Tomato Awards!