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The Best Films of 2003

Written by Christopher Beaubien • April 23, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

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The Son (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
The Barbarian Invasions (dir. Denys Arcand)
Lost in Translation (dir. Sofia Coppola)
City of God (dir. Fernando Meirelles)
Whale Rider (dir. Niki Caro)
American Splendor (dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)
House of Sand and Fog (dir. Vadim Perelman)
Northfork (dir. Michael and Mark Polish)
Owning Mahowny (dir. Richard Kwietniowski)
Matchstick Men (dir. Ridley Scott)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (dir. Peter Webber)
The Man on the Train (dir. Patrice Leconte)
The Five Obstructions (dir. Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier)
Monster (dir. Patty Jenkins)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (dir. Peter Weir)
Lilya 4-Ever (dir. Lukas Moodysson)
The Triplets of Belleville (dir. Sylvain Chomet)
Mystic River (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Intermission (dir. John Crowley)
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)
May (dir. Lucky McKee)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
School of Rock (dir. Richard Linklater)
The Shape of Things (dir. Neil Labute)
The Company (dir. Robert Altman)
Japanese Story (dir. Sue Brooks)
Together (dir. Kaige Chen)
Dogville (dir. Lars von Trier)
Love Actually (dir. Richard Curtis)
Thirteen (dir. Catherine Hardwicke)
Capturing the Friedmans (dir. Andrew Jarecki)
Bad Santa (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
The Cooler (dir. Wayne Kramer)
Shattered Glass (dir. Billy Ray)
The Mother (dir. Roger Michell)
I’m Not Scared (dir. Gabriele Salvatores)
Dopamine (dir. Mark Decena)
The Return (dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev)
My Architect (dir. Nathaniel Kahn)
Elephant (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Big Fish (dir. Tim Burton)
Free Radicals (dir. Barbara Albert)
Down with Love (dir. Peyton Reed)
Identity (dir. James Mangold)
Tarnation (dir. Jonathan Caouette)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (dir. Peter Jackson)
The Dreamers (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Open Water (dir. Chris Kentis)
Hulk (dir. Ang Lee)
Nathalie… (dir. Anne Fontaine)
Osama (dir. Siddiq Barmak)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (dir. Joe Dante)
The Matrix Reloaded (dir. Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski)
Peter Pan (dir. P.J. Hogan)
Elf (dir. Jon Favreau)
Swimming Pool (dir. François Ozon)
Tupac: Resurrection (dir. Lauren Lazin)
The Last Samurai (dir. Edward Zwick)
The Corporation (dir. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott)
Seabiscuit (dir. Gary Ross)

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