Top Ten Lists

2005

(alphabetical)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)
Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
Walk the Line (James Mangold)

2004

01. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, USA)

02. Dogville (Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/France/Norway/Netherlands/Finland/Germany/USA/UK)

03. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, USA)

04. Undertow (David Gordon Green, USA)

05. The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, USA/Japan)

06. Primer (Shane Carruth, USA)

07. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, USA)

08. The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier, Denmark/Switzerland/Belgium/France)

09. Mean Girls (Mark Waters, USA)

10. Spanglish (James L. Brooks, USA)

2003

01. Gerry (Gus Van Sant, USA)

02. Elephant (Gus Van Sant, USA)

03. Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen, USA)

04. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff, USA)

05. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, USA/Japan)

06. Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, Japan)

07. Shattered Glass (Billy Ray, USA)

08. 28 Days Later... (Danny Boyle, UK)

09. The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute, USA)

10. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (McG, USA)

2002

01. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, USA)

02. Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico/USA)

03. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)

04. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, France/Austria)

05. Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers, USA)

06. Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, USA)

07. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze, USA)

08. The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary, USA)

09. Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener, USA)

10. Daughter from Danang (Gail Dolgin & Vicente Franco, USA)

2001

01. The Princess and the Warrior (Tom Tykwer, Germany)

02. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, USA)

03. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, USA)

04. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong/France/Thailand)

05. Audition (Takashi Miike, Japan)

06. Waking Life (Richard Linklater, USA)

07. AI (Steven Spielberg, USA)

08. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, USA)

09. The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini, Iran)

10. Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green, USA)

2000

01. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, USA)

02. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, Denmark/Germany/Netherlands/USA/UK/France/Sweden/Finland/Iceland/Norway)

03. Bring It On (Peyton Reed, USA)

04. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, USA)

05. George Washington (David Gordon Green, USA)

06. Hamlet (Michael Almereyda, USA)

07. State and Main (David Mamet, USA)

08. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, USA)

09. You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)

10. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, Taiwan/Japan)

1999

01. Fight Club (David Fincher, USA)

02. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, USA/UK)

03. The Blair Witch Project (Dan Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, USA)

04. The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, USA)

05. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, UK)

06. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain/France)

07. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, USA)

08. Three Kings (David O'Russell, USA)

09. American Beauty (Sam Mendes, USA)

10. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, USA)