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The Best Films of 2004

April 24, 2008 | The Best of the Year | By Christopher Beaubien

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Kill Bill Vol. I & II (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The Fog of War (dir. Errol Morris)
Kinsey (dir. Bill Condon)
Spiderman 2 (dir. Sam Raimi)
Ripley’s Game (dir. Liliana Cavani)
Million Dollar Baby (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Incredibles (dir. Brad Bird)
Baadasssss! (dir. Mario Van Peebles)
Finding Nemo (dir. Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)
Vera Drake (dir. Mike Leigh)
Closer (dir. Mike Nichols)
Hotel Rwanda (dir. Terry George)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (dir. Michael Moore)
The Aviator (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Sideways (dir. Alexander Payne)
Young Adam (dir. David Mackenzie)
Before Sunset (dir. Richard Linklater)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (dir. Niels Mueller)
Moolaadé (dir. Ousmane Sembene)
A Home at the End of the World (dir. Michael Mayer)
3-Iron (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry)
King of the Corner (dir. Peter Riegert)
Undertow (dir. David Gordon Green)
House of Flying Daggers (dir. Yimou Zhang)
Maria Full of Grace (dir. Joshua Marston)
Brothers (dir. Susanne Bier)
Melinda and Melinda (dir. Woody Allen)
Primer (dir. Shane Carruth)
When Will I Be Loved (dir. James Toback)
Spartan (dir. David Mamet)
Down to the Bone (dir. Debra Granik)
The Woodsman (dir. Nicole Kassell)

The Best Films of 2003

April 23, 2008 | The Best of the Year | By Christopher Beaubien

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The Son (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
The Barbarian Invasions (dir. Denys Arcand)
City of God (dir. Fernando Meirelles)
Whale Rider (dir. Niki Caro)
Lost in Translation (dir. Sofia Coppola)
American Splendor (dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)
House of Sand and Fog (dir. Vadim Perelman)
Northfork (dir. Michael and Mark Polish)
The Man on the Train (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Matchstick Men (dir. Ridley Scott)
Monster (dir. Patty Jenkins)
The Five Obstructions (dir. Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (dir. Peter Webber)
The Triplets of Belleville (dir. Sylvain Chomet)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
School of Rock (dir. Richard Linklater)
Mystic River (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (dir. Peter Weir)
All the Real Girls (dir. David Gordon Green)
The Station Agent (dir. Thomas McCarthy)
The Saddest Music in the World (dir. Guy Maddin)
Touching The Void (dir. Kevin Macdonald)
Japanese Story (dir. Sue Brooks)
Thirteen (dir. Catherine Hardwicke)
The Shape of Things (dir. Neil Labute)
The Company (dir. Robert Altman)
Bad Santa (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Dogville (dir. Lars von Trier)
Love Actually (dir. Richard Curtis)
The Cooler (dir. Wayne Kramer)
Free Radicals (dir. Barbara Albert)
The Mother (dir. Roger Michell)
The Return (dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Down with Love (dir. Peyton Reed)
Elephant (dir. Gus Van Sant)
The Dreamers (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Matrix Reloaded (dir. Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski)
Open Water (dir. Chris Kentis)
Hulk (dir. Ang Lee)
Osama (dir. Siddiq Barmak)
Elf (dir. Jon Favreau)
Swimming Pool (dir. François Ozon)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (dir. Peter Jackson)
The Last Samurai (dir. Edward Zwick)
The Corporation (dir. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott)

The Best Films of 2002

April 22, 2008 | The Best of the Year | By Christopher Beaubien

Adaptation. (dir. Spike Jonze)
Punch Drunk Love (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Spirited Away (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Lovely and Amazing (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
Invincible (dir. Werner Herzog)
13 Conversations About One Thing (dir. Jill Sprecher)
The Grey Zone (dir. Tim Blake Nelson)
Songs From The Second Floor (dir. Roy Andersson)
Frailty (dir. Bill Paxton)
Talk To Her (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Last Orders (dir. Fred Schepisi)
Auto Focus (dir. Paul Schrader)
The Quiet American | Rabbit Proof Fence (dir. Phillip Noyce)
Y Tu Mamá También (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
Bowling for Columbine (dir. Michael Moore)
Tully (dir. Hilary Birmingham)
All or Nothing (dir. Mike Leigh)
25th Hour (dir. Spike Lee)
The Man from Elysian Fields (dir. George Hickenlooper)
Minority Report (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Frida (dir. Julie Taymore)
The Kid Stays in the Pictures (dir. Nanette Burstein)
Changing Lanes (dir. Roger Michell)
About Schmidt (dir. Alexander Payne)
One Hour Photo (dir. Mark Romanek)
In America (dir. Jim Sheridan)
Ivansxtc. (dir. Bernard Rose)
Dirty Pretty Things (dir. Stephen Frears)
About a Boy (dir. Chris Weitz)
Raising Victor Vargas (dir. Peter Sollett)
Solaris (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Far From Heaven (dir. Todd Haynes)
Femme Fatale (dir. Brian DePalma)
The Kid Stays in the Pictures (dir. Nanette Burstein)
The Good Girl (dir. Miguel Arteta)
The Pianist (dir. Roman Polanski)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (dir. Laetitia Colombani)
Irreversible (dir. Gaspar Noé)
The Hours (dir. Stephen Daldry)
Better Luck Tomorrow (dir. Justin Lin)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (dir. George Clooney)
Signs (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
24 Hour Party People (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Insomnia (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Metropolis (dir. Rintaro)
The Cat Returns (dir. Hiroyuki Morita)
Secretary (dir. Steven Shainberg)
Eight Legged Freaks (dir. Ellory Elkayem)
Pumpkin (dir. Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder)
Secret Things (dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau)
8 Women (dir. François Ozon)
Hukkle (dir. György Pálfi)

The Best Films of 2001

April 21, 2008 | The Best of the Year | By Christopher Beaubien

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Wit (dir. Mike Nichols)
Mulholland Drive (dir. David Lynch)
Ghost World (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Innocence (dir. Paul Cox)
Waking Life (dir. Richard Linklater)
In The Bedroom (dir. Todd Field)
Gosford Park (dir. Robert Altman)
Storytelling (dir. Todd Solondz)
The Piano Teacher (dir. Michael Haneke)
A Beautiful Mind (dir. Ron Howard)
The Royal Tenenbaums (dir. Wes Anderson)
Moulin Rouge! (dir. Baz Luhrmann)
Fat Girl (dir. Catherine Breillat)
Monster’s Ball (dir. Marc Forster)
Millenium Actress (dir. Satoshi Kon)
The Majestic (dir. Frank Darabont)
Bully (dir. Larry Clark)
Donnie Darko (dir. Richard Kelly)
Lost and Delirious (dir. Léa Pool)
Metropolis (dir. Rintaro)
How I Killed My Father (dir. Anne Fontaine)
Amelie (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (dir. Zacharias Kunuk)
Monsters Inc. (dir. Pete Docter)
Joy Ride (dir. John Dahl)
The Pledge (dir. Sean Penn)
Me Without You (dir. Sandra Goldbacher)
Spy Kids (dir. Robert Rodriguez)
Shrek (dir. Andrew Adamson)
Winged Migration (dir. Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud)

The Best Films of 2000

April 20, 2008 | The Best of the Year | By Christopher Beaubien

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Werckmeister Harmonies (dir. Béla Tarr)
You Can Count On Me (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron)
Panic (dir. Henry Bromell)
The Terrorist (dir. Santosh Sivan)
Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang)
Almost Famous (dir. Cameron Crowe)
Shadow of the Vampire (dir. E. Elias Merhige)
Girl on the Bridge (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Traffic (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Requiem for a Dream (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
George Washington (dir. David Gordon Green)
Quills (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (dir. Ang Lee)
Wonder Boys (dir. Curtis Hanson)
Unbreakable (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Dinner Rush (dir. Bob Giraldi)
Chicken Run (dir. Nick Park)
The Claim (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Amores Perros (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Cell (dir. Tarsem)
My Dog Skip (dir. Jay Russell)
Diamond Men (dir. Dan Cohen)
The Contender (dir. Rob Lurie)
Faithless (dir. Liv Ullmann)
The Emperor’s New Groove (dir. Mark Dindal)
The Dish (dir. Rob Sitch)
In the Mood for Love (dir. Kar Wai Wong)
Maelström (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
High Fidelity (dir. Stephen Frears)
Best in Show (dir. Christopher Guest)
Pollock (dir. Ed Harris)
Dancer in the Dark (dir. Lars von Trier)
Cast Away (The Island Scenes Only, dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Dr. T & the Women (dir. Robert Altman)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (dir. Joel Cohen)