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Index

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

2009

  1. I Am Love [Luca Guadagnino] A
  2. Up [Pete Docter, Bob Peterson] A-
  3. Antichrist [Lars von Trier] B+
  4. White Material [Claire Denis]
  5. Inglorious Basterds [Quentin Tarantino]
  6. Where the Wild Things Are [Spike Jonze] B
  7. The White Ribbon [Michael Haneke]
  8. Fantastic Mr. Fox [Wes Anderson]
  9. Julie & Julia [Nora Ephron]
  10. City of Life and Death [Chuan Lu]
  11. Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire [Lee Daniels]
  12. The Window [Buddhadev Dasgupta]
  13. Bright Star [Jane Campion]
  14. District 9 [Neill Blomkamp]
  15. Star Trek [J. J. Abrams]
  16. Coraline [Henry Selick]
  17. Cairo Time [Ruba Nadda]
  18. Eyes Wide Open [Haim Tabakman]
  19. Heiran [Shalizeh Arefpoor]
  20. Police, Adjective [Corneliu Porumboiu] B-
  21. Soul Kitchen [Fatih Akin]
  22. Avatar [James Cameron]
  23. The September Issue [R. J. Cutler]
  24. Adventureland [Greg Mottola]
  25. Duplicity [Tony Gilroy]
  26. A Shine of Rainbows [Vic Sarin]
  27. The Damned United [Tom Hooper]
  28. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee [Rebecca Miller]
  29. A Brand New Life [Ounie Lecomte]
  30. Ahead of Time [Robert Richman]
  31. It's Complicated [Nancy Meyers]
  32. (500) Days of Summer [Marc Webb] C+
  33. The Princess and the Frog [Ron Clements, John Musker]
  34. Nine [Rob Marshall]
  35. Cleanflix [Andrew James, Joshua Ligairi]
  36. Face [Tsai Ming-liang]
  37. The Young Victoria [Jean Marc Vallee]
  38. J'ai tue ma mere [Xavier Dolan] C
  39. A Serious Man [Joel and Ethan Coen]
  40. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [David Yates]
  41. This is It [Kenny Ortega]
  42. Like You Know It All [Sang-soo Hong]
  43. A Single Man [Tom Ford]
  44. An Education [Lone Scherfig]
  45. Love and Other Impossible Pursuits [Don Roos]
  46. Crazy Heart [Scott Cooper]
  47. The Day Will Come [Susanne Schneider]
  48. Women Without Men [Shirin Neshat]
  49. Kaminey [Vishal Bhardwaj]
  50. The Hangover [Todd Phillips]
  51. Leslie, My Name is Evil [Reginald Harkema]
  52. Carmel [Amos Gitai]
  53. To Die Like a Man [Joao Pedro Rodrigues]
  54. Angels & Demons [Ron Howard] C-
  55. Good Hair [Jeff Stilson]
  56. Away We Go [Sam Mendes]
  57. He's Just Not That Into You [Ken Kwapis]
  58. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? [Werner Herzog]
  59. Amelia [Mira Nair]
  60. Glorious 39 [Stephen Poliakoff] D+
  61. The Lovely Bones [Peter Jackson] F
Walk-Outs
Hotel Atlantico [Suzana Amaral; first 45 min: C-]

Monday, July 09, 2007

2008

  1. Happy-Go-Lucky [Mike Leigh] A
  2. The Class [Laurent Cantet] A-
  3. Khamsa [Karim Dridi]
  4. The Wrestler [Darren Aronofsky]
  5. Synecdoche, New York [Charlie Kaufman]
  6. Rachel Getting Married [Jonathan Demme] B+
  7. Wendy & Lucy [Kelly Reichardt]
  8. Disgrace [Steve Jacobs] B
  9. The Strangers [Bryan Bertino]
  10. The Hurt Locker [Kathryn Bigelow]
  11. Hunger [Steven McQueen]
  12. Man on Wire [James Marsh]
  13. Milk [Gus Van Sant]
  14. The Dark Knight [Christopher Nolan]
  15. Adoration [Atom Egoyan]
  16. Summer Hours [Olivier Assayas]
  17. Hellboy II: The Golden Army [Guillermo del Toro]
  18. Elegy [Isabel Coixet]
  19. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist [Peter Sollett]
  20. Waltz with Bashir [Ari Folman]
  21. Lorna's Silence [Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne]
  22. Ponyo [Hayao Miyazaki]
  23. Food, Inc. [Robert Kenner]
  24. Che: Part Two/Guerrilla [Steven Soderbergh]
  25. The Dungeon Masters [Keven McAlester]
  26. Doubt [John Patrick Shanley] B-
  27. The Duchess [Saul Dibb]
  28. Iron Man [Jon Favreau]
  29. Hamlet 2 [Andrew Fleming]
  30. Che: Part One/The Argentine [Steven Soderbergh]
  31. Changeling [Clint Eastwood]
  32. Frost/Nixon [Ron Howard]
  33. Firaaq [Nandita Das]
  34. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [David Fincher] C+
  35. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day [Bharat Nalluri]
  36. Il y a longtemps que je t'aime [Phillipe Claudel]
  37. Blindness [Fernando Meirelles]
  38. Stop-Loss [Kimberly Peirce]
  39. Vicky Cristina Barcelona [Woody Allen]
  40. Burn After Reading [Joel and Ethan Coen]
  41. Brideshead Revisited [Julian Jarrold]
  42. In Bruges [Martin McDonagh]
  43. Wanted [Timur Bekmambetov]
  44. Patrik 1.5 [Ella Lemhagen]
  45. W. [Oliver Stone]
  46. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [Steven Spielberg]
  47. Jodhaa Akbar [Ashutosh Gowariker]
  48. Wall*E [Andrew Stanton]
  49. Frozen River [Courtney Hunt]
  50. The Forbidden Kingdom [Rob Minkoff]
  51. Revolutionary Road [Sam Mendes] C
  52. Tropic Thunder [Ben Stiller]
  53. The Reader [Stephen Daldry]
  54. Borderline [Lyne Charlebois]
  55. Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay [Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg]
  56. Slumdog Millionaire [Danny Boyle]
  57. Deadgirl [Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel]
  58. 27 Dresses [Anne Fletcher]
  59. Step Up 2 the Streets [Jon Chu] C-
  60. Mamma Mia [Phyllida Lloyd] D+
  61. Sex and the City [Michael Patrick King]
  62. Yes Man [Peyton Reed]
  63. The Other Man [Richard Eyre]
  64. The Other Boleyn Girl [Justin Chadwick] D
  65. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor [Rob Cohen]
  66. Uncertainty [Scott McGehee and David Siegel] F

Sunday, July 08, 2007

2007

  1. Persepolis [Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi] A-
  2. No Country for Old Men [Ethan and Joel Coen]
  3. We Own the Night [James Gray]
  4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [Andrew Dominik]
  5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [Cristian Mungiu] B+
  6. Sunshine [Danny Boyle]
  7. The Edge of Heaven [Fatih Akin]
  8. Zodiac [David Fincher]
  9. My Kid Could Paint That [Amir Bar-Lev]
  10. Planet Terror [Robert Rodriguez] B
  11. I'm Not There [Todd Haynes]
  12. Michael Clayton [Tony Gilroy]
  13. The Mist [Frank Darabont]
  14. Saawariya [Sanjay Leela Bhansali]
  15. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [David Yates]
  16. There Will Be Blood [Paul Thomas Anderson]
  17. The Darjeeling Limited [Wes Anderson]
  18. Chak De! India [Shimit Amin]
  19. Into the Wild [Sean Penn]
  20. The Last Lear [Rituparno Ghosh]
  21. Sleuth [Kenneth Branagh]
  22. A Jihad for Love [Parvez Sharma]
  23. Two Days in Paris [Julie Delpy]
  24. Spider-Man 3 [Sam Raimi]
  25. California Dreamin' (Endless) [Cristian Nemescu]
  26. It's a Free World [Ken Loach]
  27. The Man from London [Bela Tarr]
  28. L'Avocat de la terreur [Barbet Schroeder]
  29. Sicko [Michael Moore]
  30. Year of the Dog [Mike White]
  31. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [Tim Burton] B-
  32. Atonement [Joe Wright]
  33. The Savages [Tamara Jenkins]
  34. Lust, Caution [Ang Lee]
  35. Gone Baby Gone [Ben Affleck]
  36. Life Support [Nelson George]
  37. Breach [Billy Ray]
  38. Eastern Promises [David Cronenberg]
  39. Hairspray [Adam Shankman]
  40. Brick Lane [Sarah Gavron]
  41. Caramel [Nadine Labaki]
  42. La Vie En Rose [Olivier Dahan] C+
  43. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [Julian Schnabel]
  44. A Mighty Heart [Michael Winterbottom]
  45. Paranormal Activity [Oren Peli]
  46. Margot at the Wedding [Noah Baumbach]
  47. The Visitor [Thomas McCarthy]
  48. Ratatouille [Brad Bird]
  49. Lars and the Real Girl [Jim Gillespie]
  50. American Gangster [Ridley Scott]
  51. Things We Lost in the Fire [Susanne Bier]
  52. Knocked Up [Judd Apatow]
  53. The Bourne Ultimatum [Paul Greengrass]
  54. Disturbia [D.J. Caruso]
  55. Taare Zameen Par [Aamir Khan]
  56. Death Proof [Quentin Tarantino]
  57. Cheeni Kum [R. Balki]
  58. Guru [Mani Ratnam]
  59. Becoming Jane [Julian Jarrold] C
  60. Control [Anton Corbijn]
  61. Dan in Real Life [Peter Hedges]
  62. Married Life [Ira Sachs]
  63. The Brave One [Neil Jordan]
  64. 3:10 to Yuma [James Mangold]
  65. Elizabeth: The Golden Age [Shekar Kapur]
  66. The Simpsons Movie [David Silverman]
  67. The Invasion [Oliver Hirschbiegel]
  68. Shooutout at Lokhandwala [Apoorva Lakhia]
  69. Eklavya: The Royal Guard [Vidhu Vinod Chopra]
  70. The Golden Compass [Chris Weitz]
  71. In the Valley of Elah [Paul Haggis]
  72. Just Buried [Chaz Thorne]
  73. Juno [Jason Reitman]
  74. I Think I Love My Wife [Chris Rock]
  75. Enchanted [Kevin Lima]
  76. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom [Shaad Ali]
  77. You, the Living [Roy Andersson] C-
  78. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead [Sidney Lumet]
  79. P.S. I Love You [Richard LaGravenese]
  80. I Am Legend [Francis Lawrence]
  81. No Reservations [Scott Hicks]
  82. Rendition [Gavin Hood]
  83. Joshua [George Ratliff]
  84. Corroboree [Ben Hackworth]
  85. Om Shanti Om [Farah Khan]
  86. Transformers [Michael Bay] D+
  87. Evening [Lajos Koltai]
  88. Reservation Road [Terry George] D
  89. Nothing is Private / Towelhead [Alan Ball] D-
  90. Naqaab [Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla] F

Saturday, July 07, 2007

2006

For my "time capsule" original top ten list by Canadian (Toronto) release dates and personal awards, click here.
  1. Marie Antoinette [Sofia Coppola] A
  2. Volver [Pedro Almodovar]
  3. INLAND EMPIRE [David Lynch]
  4. Iran: une révolution cinématographique [Nader T. Homayoun]
  5. Away from Her [Sarah Polley] A-
  6. Monster House [Gil Kenan]
  7. Offside [Jafar Panahi] B+
  8. Inside Man [Spike Lee]
  9. The Departed [Martin Scorcese]
  10. The Namesake [Mira Nair]
  11. Half-Nelson [Ryan Fleck]
  12. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts [Spike Lee]
  13. The Silly Age [Pavel Giroud]
  14. Old Joy [Kelly Reichardt]
  15. Omkara [Vishal Bharadwaj] B
  16. The Queen [Stephen Frears]
  17. 12:08 East of Bucharest [Corneliu Porumboiu]
  18. Black Snake Moan [Craig Brewer]
  19. Casino Royale [Martin Campbell]
  20. Friends with Money [Nicole Holofcener]
  21. The Wind that Shakes the Barley [Ken Loach]
  22. Children of Men [Alfonso Cuarón]
  23. Bug [William Friedkin]
  24. The Fountain [Darren Aronofsky]
  25. This is England [Shane Meadows]
  26. The Bubble [Eytan Fox]
  27. The Prestige [Christopher Nolan]
  28. Deliver Us From Evil [Amy Berg]
  29. Letters from Iwo Jima [Clint Eastwood]
  30. Art School Confidential [Terry Zwigoff]
  31. Umrao Jaan [J.P. Dutta]
  32. Confetti [Debbie Isitt]
  33. Syndromes and a Century [Apichatpong Weerasethakul]
  34. Infamous [Douglas McGrath]
  35. Rescue Dawn [Werner Herzog]
  36. The History Boys [Nicholas Hytner]
  37. A Grave-Keeper’s Tale [Chitra Palekar]
  38. Pan’s Labyrinth [Guillermo del Toro]
  39. Lights in the Dusk [Aki Kaurismäki]
  40. The Devil Wears Prada [David Frankel] B-
  41. Scenes of a Sexual Nature [Ed Blum]
  42. Borat: Cultural Learnings... [Larry Charles]
  43. Flags of Our Fathers [Clint Eastwood]
  44. The Lake House [Alejandro Agresti]
  45. Quinceañera [Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland]
  46. Strangers with Candy [Paul Dinello]
  47. The Fall [Tarsem Singh]
  48. The Last King of Scotland [Kevin Macdonald]
  49. Glue [Alexis Dos Santos]
  50. Starter for Ten [Tom Vaughan]
  51. Thank You For Smoking [Jason Reitman]
  52. The Magic Flute [Kenneth Branagh]
  53. World Trade Center [Oliver Stone]
  54. Babel [Alejandro González Iñárritu]
  55. Jindabyne [Ray Lawrence]
  56. Nacho Libre [Jared Hess] C+
  57. Breaking and Entering [Anthony Minghella]
  58. The Black Dahlia [Brian De Palma]
  59. The Night Listener [Patrick Stettner]
  60. The Illusionist [Neil Burger]
  61. An Inconvenient Truth [Davis Guggenheim]
  62. Stick It [Jessica Bendinger]
  63. Shortbus [John Cameron Mitchell]
  64. Dreamgirls [Bill Condon]
  65. Lady in the Water [M. Night Shyamalan]
  66. A Prairie Home Companion [Robert Altman]
  67. Dreamland [Jason Matzner]
  68. Big Bang Love, Juvenile A [Takashi Miike]
  69. The Da Vinci Code [Ron Howard]
  70. The Painted Veil [John Curran] C
  71. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus [Steven Shainberg]
  72. The Lives of Others [Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck]
  73. Love and Other Disasters [Alek Keshishian]
  74. Dong [Zhang Ke Jia]
  75. Once [John Carney]
  76. Mission Impossible 3 [Jon Abrams]
  77. Little Children [Todd Field]
  78. Sherrybaby [Laurie Collyer]
  79. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone [Tsai Ming-liang]
  80. Penelope [Mark Palansky]
  81. Little Miss Sunshine [Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris]
  82. Superman Returns [Bryan Singer]
  83. She’s the Man [Andy Fickman]
  84. To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die [Djamshed Usmonov]
  85. Stranger Than Fiction [Marc Forster]
  86. Blood Diamond [Edward Zwick] C-
  87. Trust the Man [Bart Freundlich]
  88. The Break Up [Peyton Reed]
  89. The Pursuit of Happyness [Gabrielle Muccino]
  90. United 93 [Paul Greengrass]
  91. Notes on a Scandal [Richard Eyre]
  92. Failure to Launch [Tom Dey]
  93. PotC: Dead Man’s Chest [Gore Verbinski]
  94. Bobby [Emilio Estevez]
  95. Laghe Raho Munnabhai [Rajkumar Hirani]
  96. X3: X-Men United [Brett Ratner] D+
  97. Running with Scissors [Ryan Murphy]
  98. Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna [Karan Johar]
  99. Scary Movie 4 [David Zucker]
  100. Chup Chup Ke [Priyadarshan]
  101. When a Stranger Calls [Simon West]
  102. Step Up [Anne Fletcher]
  103. Don: The Chase Begins Again [Farhan Akhtar] D
  104. RV [Barry Sonnenfield]
  105. The Holiday [Nancy Meyers]
  106. Climates [Nuri Bilge Ceylan] D-
  107. Catch and Release [Susannah Grant]
  108. Venus [Roger Michell]
  109. Apocalypto [Mel Gibson] F
  110. The Last Kiss [Tony Goldwyn]
  111. 300 [Zach Snyder]
  112. Fanaa [Kunal Kohli]

Friday, July 06, 2007

2005

For my "time capsule" original top ten list by Canadian (Toronto) release dates and personal awards, click here.
  1. The Wayward Cloud [Tsai Ming-liang] A
  2. A History of Violence [David Cronenberg]
  3. Grizzly Man [Werner Herzog]
  4. The New World [Terrence Malick]
  5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu [Cristi Puiu]
  6. The Sun [Alexander Sokurov] A-
  7. Caché [Michael Haneke]
  8. L'Enfant [Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne]
  9. Gilaneh [Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab] B+
  10. Me and You and Everyone We Know [Miranda July]
  11. The Descent [Neil Marshall]
  12. Capote [Bennett Miller]
  13. Manderlay [Lars von Trier]
  14. C.R.A.Z.Y. [Jean-Marc Vallée]
  15. The Squid and the Whale [Noah Baumbach]
  16. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [Steve Box, Nick Park]
  17. Pride and Prejudice [Joe Wright]
  18. Last Days [Gus van Sant]
  19. Murderball [Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro]
  20. 49 Up [Michael Apted]
  21. Brokeback Mountain [Ang Lee] B
  22. Junebug [Phil Morrison]
  23. Munich [Steven Spielberg]
  24. The Upside of Anger [Mike Binder]
  25. The 40-Year-Old Virgin [Judd Apatow]
  26. The Beat That My Heart Skipped [Jacques Audiard]
  27. Drawing Restraint 9 [Matthew Barney]
  28. Happy Endings [Don Roos]
  29. Proof [John Madden]
  30. John & Jane [Ashim Ahluwalia]
  31. Free Zone [Amos Gitai]
  32. The Notorious Bettie Page [Mary Harron]
  33. Three Times [Hsiao-hsien Hou]
  34. Good Night, and Good Luck [George Clooney]
  35. The World [Zhang Ke Jia]
  36. Jarhead [Sam Mendes] B-
  37. The Forsaken Land [Vimukthi Jayasundara]
  38. Red Eye [Wes Craven]
  39. The Exorcism of Emily Rose [Scott Derrickson]
  40. Dark Water [Walter Salles]
  41. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [Mike Newell]
  42. Heights [Chris Terrio]
  43. Sabah [Rubu Nadda]
  44. V for Vendetta [James McTeigue]
  45. Hustle and Flow [Craig Brewer]
  46. Star Wars: Episode Three – Revenge of the Sith [George Lucas]
  47. Downfall [Oliver Hirschbiegel]
  48. Batman Begins [Christopher Nolan]
  49. Dave Chappelle's Block Party [Michel Gondry]
  50. Water [Deepa Mehta]
  51. Seed of Chucky [Don Mancini]
  52. My Summer of Love [Pawel Pawlikowski]
  53. Mr. and Mrs. Smith [Doug Liman]
  54. Mrs. Harris [Phillis Nagy] C+
  55. The Willow Tree [Majid Majidi]
  56. The Constant Gardener[Fernando Meirelles]
  57. The Proposition [John Hillcoat]
  58. The Skeleton Key [Iain Softley]
  59. King Kong [Peter Jackson]
  60. Parineeta [Pradeep Sarkar]
  61. Black [Sanjay Leela Bhansali]
  62. In Her Shoes [Curtis Hanson]
  63. Adam & Steve [Craig Chester]
  64. Melinda and Melinda [Woody Allen]
  65. Paheli [Amol Palekar]
  66. Syriana [Stephen Gaghan]
  67. Walk the Line [James Mangold]
  68. Mrs. Henderson Presents [Stephen Frears]
  69. The White Diamond [Werner Herzog]
  70. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride [Tim Burton, Mike Johnson]
  71. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants [Ken Kwapis]
  72. The Family Stone [Thomas Bezucha] C
  73. Shopgirl [Anand Tucker]
  74. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe [Andrew Adamson]
  75. The Interpreter [Sydney Pollack]
  76. Beauty Shop [Billie Woodruff]
  77. L’Enfer [Danis Tanovic]
  78. Walk on Water [Eytan Fox]
  79. Cinderella Man [Ron Howard]
  80. The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey [Karan Mehta]
  81. Memories in the Mist [Buddhadev Dasgupta]
  82. Bunty Aur Babli [Shaad Ali]
  83. Cake [Nisha Ganatra]
  84. The Jacket [John Maybury]
  85. Rent [Chris Columbus]
  86. Hide and Seek [Jon Polson] C-
  87. Imaginary Heroes [Dan Harris]
  88. Brick [Rian Johnson]
  89. Broken Flowers [Jim Jarmusch]
  90. Match Point [Woody Allen]
  91. War of the Worlds [Steven Spielberg]
  92. Prime [Ben Younger]
  93. Sin City [Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller]
  94. Where the Truth Lies [Atom Egoyan]
  95. North Country [Niki Caro]
  96. Transamerica [Duncan Tucker]
  97. Bam Bam and Celeste [Lorraine Machado]
  98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [Tim Burton]
  99. Fun with Dick and Jane [Dean Parisot]
  100. Monster-in-Law [Robert Luketic]
  101. Tideland [Terry Gilliam]
  102. Elizabethtown [Cameron Crowe] D+
  103. Bee Season [Scott McGehee, David Siegel]
  104. Hitch [Andy Tennant]
  105. Lucky – No Time for Love [Radhika Rao, Vinay Supro]
  106. Casanova [Lasse Hallstrom] D
  107. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [Garth Jennings]
  108. Must Love Dogs [Gary David Goldberg]
  109. Salaam Namaste [Siddharth Anand]
  110. Kisna: The Warrior Poet [Subhash Ghai]
  111. Pretty Persuasion [Marcos Siega]
  112. Hostel [Eli Roth]
  113. Bewafaa [Darmesh Darshan] D-
  114. Memoirs of a Geisha [Rob Marshall]
  115. Stay [Mark Forster] F
  116. The Fog [Rupert Wainwright]
  117. Garam Masala [Priyadarshan]
  118. The Legend of Zorro [Martin Campbell]

Thursday, July 05, 2007

2004

  1. Before Sunset [Richard Linklater] A
  2. Bad Education [Pedro Almodovar]
  3. 3-Iron [Kim Ki-duk]
  4. I Heart Huckabees [David O. Russell] A-
  5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Michel Gondry]
  6. Mean Girls [Mark Waters]
  7. Spider-Man 2 [Sam Raimi]
  8. Yes [Sally Potter] B+
  9. Vanity Fair [Mira Nair]
  10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [Alfonso Cuaron]
  11. The Merchant of Venice [Michael Radford]
  12. Clean [Olivier Assayas]
  13. Brothers [Susanne Bier]
  14. District B13 [Pierre Morel]
  15. Closer [Mike Nichols]
  16. Maria Full of Grace [Joshua Marston]
  17. Ae Fond Kiss [Ken Loach]
  18. Sideways [Alexander Payne] B
  19. Swades [Ashutosh Gowariker]
  20. Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle [Danny Leiner]
  21. Mean Creek [Jacob Aaron Estes]
  22. Dawn of the Dead [Zach Snyder]
  23. Mysterious Skin [Gregg Araki]
  24. P.S. [Dylan Kidd]
  25. The Aviator [Martin Scorcese]
  26. Saving Face [Alice Wu]
  27. Fahrenheit 9/11 [Michael Moore]
  28. Hellboy [Guillermo Del Toro]
  29. Cinevardaphoto [Agnes Varda]
  30. A Touch of Pink [Ian Iqbal Rashid] B-
  31. The Machinist [Brad Anderson]
  32. Vera Drake [Mike Leigh]
  33. Kinsey [Bill Condon]
  34. Collateral [Michael Mann]
  35. The Manchurian Candidate [Jonathan Demme]
  36. Veer-Zaara [Yash Chopra]
  37. Million Dollar Baby [Clint Eastwood]
  38. The Village [M. Night Shyamalan]
  39. A Good Woman [Mike Barker]
  40. Notre Musique [Jean-Luc Godard]
  41. Hotel Rwanda [Terry George]
  42. The Bourne Supremacy [Paul Greengrass]
  43. Promised Land [Amos Gitai]
  44. Born into Brothels [Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman]
  45. Saved! [Brian Dannelly]
  46. Super Size Me [Morgan Spurlock]
  47. A Good Woman [Mike Barker]
  48. Undertow [David Gordon Green]
  49. Being Julia [Istvan Szabo] C+
  50. Garden State [Zach Braff]
  51. Spanglish [James L. Brooks]
  52. The Passion of the Christ [Mel Gibson]
  53. Finding Neverland [Marc Forster]
  54. Alexander [Oliver Stone]
  55. In Good Company [Paul Weitz]
  56. Stage Beauty [Richard Eyre]
  57. The Motorcycle Diaries [Walter Salles]
  58. The Day After Tomorrow [Roland Emmerich]
  59. Birth [Jonathan Glazer] C
  60. Kill Bill Vol. 2 [Quentin Tarantino]
  61. Main Hoon Na [Farah Khan]
  62. The Notebook [Nick Cassavetes]
  63. Troy [Wolfgang Petersen]
  64. We Don’t Live Here Anymore [John Curran]
  65. Crash [Paul Haggis]
  66. House of Flying Daggers [Zhang Yimou]
  67. The Incredibles [Brad Bird]
  68. The Forgotten [Joseph Rubin]
  69. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou [Wes Anderson]
  70. Ray [Taylor Hackford]
  71. Open Water [Chris Kentis]
  72. 13 Going on 30 [Gary Winick]
  73. Autoumne [Ra’up McGee]
  74. Jersey Girl [Kevin Smith] C-
  75. A Home at the End of the World [Michael Mayer]
  76. The Phantom of the Opera [Joel Schumacher]
  77. United States of Leland [Matthew Ryan Hoge]
  78. Team America: World Police [Trey Parker]
  79. The Girl Next Door [Luke Greenfield]
  80. The Butterfly Effect [Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber]
  81. The Stepford Wives [Frank Oz]
  82. Head in the Clouds [John Duigan]
  83. The Door in the Floor [Tod Williams]
  84. 50 First Dates [Peter Segal] D+
  85. White Chicks [Keenan Ivory Wayans]
  86. Taking Lives [D. J. Caruso]
  87. Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason [Beeban Kibron] D
  88. Shrek 2 [Adam Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon]
  89. Bride and Prejudice [Gurinder Chadha]
  90. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events [Brad Silberling]
  91. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen [Sara Sugarman]
  92. Ill-Fated [Mark A. Lewis]
  93. Noel [Chazz Palimenteri] D-
  94. The Grudge [Takashi Shimizu] F
  95. Van Helsing [Stephen Sommers]
  96. Secret Window [David Koepp]
  97. The Terminal [Steven Spielberg]