“Top of Year” Lists
Top 10 films of 2010 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. The Social Network [Fincher]
2. Black Swan [Aronofsky]
3. Dogtooth [Lanthimos]
4. Kick-Ass [Vaughn]
5. The King’s Speech [Hooper]
6. A Prophet [Audiard]
7. Inception [Nolan]
8. Blue Valentine [Cianfrance]
9. Micmacs [Jeunet]
10. The Fighter [O. Russel]
Top 5 films of 2009 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. Inglourious Basterds [Tarantino]
2. The Hurt Locker [Bigelow]
3. Moon [Jones]
4. Drag Me to Hell [Raimi]
5. (500) Days of Summer [Webb]
Top 5 films of 2008 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. In Bruges [McDonagh]
2. Paranoid Park [Van Sant]
3. Slumdog Millionaire [Boyle]
4. The Dark Knight [Nolan]
5. Man on Wire [Marsh]
Top 5 films of 2007 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. There Will Be Blood [Anderson]
2. Ratatouille [Bird]
3. No Country for Old Men [Coen/Coen]
4. The Lives of Others [von Donnersmarck]
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [Schnabel]
Top 5 films of 2006 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. Pan’s Labyrinth [Del Toro]
2. The Departed [Scorsese]
3. Bubble [Soderbergh]
4. Letters from Iwo Jima [Eastwood]
5. Lady Vengeance [Park]
Top 5 films of 2005 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. Kontroll [Antal]
2. Brokeback Mountain [Lee]
3. The Squid and the Whale [Baumbach]
4. Sin City [Miller/Rodriguez]
5. Capote [Miller]
Top 5 films of 2004 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. Before Sunset [Linklater]
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 [Tarantino]
3. The Incredibles [Bird]
4. Shaun of the Dead [Wright]
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [Cuaron]
Top 5 films of 2003 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. City of God [Meirelles/Lund]
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 [Tarantino]
3. Elephant [Van Sant]
4. Capturing the Friedmans [Jarecki]
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [Jackson]
Top 5 films of 2002 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. Punch-Drunk Love [Anderson]
2. The Pianist [Polanski]
3. Y Tu Mama Tambien [Cuaron]
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [Jackson]
5. Roger Dodger [Kidd]
Top 5 films of 2001 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. Memento [Nolan]
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [Jackson]
3. Amores Perros [Inarritu]
4. Mulholland Dr. [Lynch]
5. The Devil’s Backbone [Del Toro]
Top 5 films of 2000 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. Requiem for a Dream [Aronofsky]
2. Traffic [Soderbergh]
3. X-Men [Singer]
4. Almost Famous [Crowe]
5. The Virgin Suicides [Coppola]
Top 5 films of 1999 (click link for picture accompaniment):
1. American Beauty [Mendes]
2. Magnolia [Anderson]
3. The Matrix [Wachowski/Wachowski]
4. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut [Parker]
5. Run Lola Run [Tykwer]