Note: These lists are subject to change as I see more films and/or my tastes morph.
2008
| 1 |
The Dark Knight |
| 2 |
WALL-E |
| 3 |
Doubt |
| 4 |
Young@Heart |
| 5 |
Slumdog Millionaire |
| 6 |
Milk |
| 7 |
The Reader |
| 8 |
Waltz With Bashir |
| 9 |
Man On Wire |
| 10 |
Changeling |
2007
| 1 |
There Will Be Blood |
| 2 |
No Country for Old Men |
| 3 |
The Darjeeling Limited |
| 4 |
Ratatouille |
| 5 |
Juno |
| 6 |
Into the Wild |
| 7 |
Hot Fuzz |
| 8 |
Michael Clayton |
| 9 |
Lars and the Real Girl |
| 10 |
Atonement |
2006
| 1 |
Children of Men |
| 2 |
The Departed |
| 3 |
The Queen |
| 4 |
The Prestige |
| 5 |
United 93 |
| 6 |
Babel |
| 7 |
Pan’s Labyrinth |
| 8 |
Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima |
| 9 |
Little Miss Sunshine |
| 10 |
Marie Antoinette |
2005
| 1 |
Munich |
| 2 |
Good Night, and Good Luck |
| 3 |
Batman Begins |
| 4 |
Crash |
| 5 |
The New World |
| 6 |
The Constant Gardener |
| 7 |
Capote |
| 8 |
Brokeback Mountain |
| 9 |
Joyeux Noël |
| 10 |
March of the Penguins |
2004
| 1 |
The Incredibles |
| 2 |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| 3 |
Hotel Rwanda |
| 4 |
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou |
| 5 |
Million Dollar Baby |
| 6 |
Spiderman 2 |
| 7 |
Born into Brothels |
| 8 |
Sideways |
| 9 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
| 10 |
The Bourne Supremacy |
2003
| 1 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 2 |
Lost in Translation |
| 3 |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
| 4 |
American Splendor |
| 5 |
Finding Nemo |
| 6 |
Mystic River |
| 7 |
Bonhoeffer |
| 8 |
Dirty Pretty Things |
| 9 |
X2: X-Men United |
| 10 (tie) |
Shattered Glass |
| 10 (tie) |
In America |
2002
| 1 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
| 2 |
Adaptation |
| 3 |
Spirited Away |
| 4 |
About a Boy |
| 5 |
Punch-Drunk Love |
| 6 |
Road to Perdition |
| 7 |
City of God |
| 8 |
The Pianist |
| 9 |
Spiderman |
| 10 |
The Bourne Identity |
2001
| 1 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
| 2 |
The Royal Tennenbaums |
| 3 |
Moulin Rouge! |
| 4 |
Amelie |
| 5 |
Monsters, Inc. |
| 6 |
Ocean’s 11 |
| 7 |
A Beautiful Mind |
| 8 |
The Man Who Wasn’t There |
| 9 |
The Endurance |
| 10 |
Memento |
| Honorable Mention |
Apocalypse Now! Redux, I couldn’t count this outright since it’s along the lines of a director’s cut, but it is significantly different than the original. |
2000
| 1 (tie) |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| 1 (tie) |
Traffic |
| 3 |
Cast Away |
| 4 |
Billy Elliot |
| 5 |
One Day in September |
| 6 |
Chicken Run |
| 7 |
The Princess and the Warrior |
| 8 |
Wonder Boys |
| 9 |
Bamboozled |
| 10 |
George Washington |
1999
| 1 |
Fight Club |
| 2 |
Magnolia |
| 3 |
Three Kings |
| 4 |
The Iron Giant |
| 5 |
American Beauty |
| 6 |
The Insider |
| 7 |
Being John Malkovich |
| 8 |
Eyes Wide Shut |
| 9 |
Toy Story 2 |
| 10 |
Run Lola Run |
1998
| 1 |
Saving Private Ryan |
| 2 |
The Truman Show |
| 3 |
The Thin Red Line |
| 4 |
Prince of Egypt |
| 5 |
Rushmore |
| 6 |
The Big Lebowski |
| 7 |
Out of Sight |
| 8 |
Waking Ned Devine |
| 9 |
Elizabeth |
| 10 |
A Simple Plan |
1997
| 1 |
L. A. Confidential |
| 2 |
The Apostle |
| 3 |
As Good as it Gets |
| 4 |
Good Will Hunting |
| 5 |
Men in Black |
| 6 |
Contact |
| 7 |
Titanic |
| 8 |
Gattaca |
| 9 |
Waiting for Guffman |
| 10 |
Wag the Dog |
1996
| 1 |
Sling Blade |
| 2 |
Fargo |
| 3 |
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juilet |
| 4 |
Swingers |
| 5 |
Bottle Rocket |
| 6 |
Shine |
| 7 |
Trainspotting |
| 8 |
Michael Collins |
| 9 |
A Family Thing |
| 10 |
The English Patient |
1995
| 1 |
Braveheart |
| 2 |
The Usual Suspects |
| 3 |
Heat |
| 4 |
Apollo 13 |
| 5 |
The City of Lost Children |
| 6 |
Dead Man Walking |
| 7 |
Toy Story |
| 8 |
12 Monkeys |
| 9 |
Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave |
| 10 |
Tommy Boy |
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February 23, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Tom Pratt
Fun list.
Only one quibble.
I think you’ve got Memento and Run Lola Run too low in their respective years.