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The Best Films of 2006

By Christopher Beaubien • April 26, 2008 • Best of the Year

Little Children (dir. Todd Field)
Pan’s Labyrinth (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
United 93 (dir. Paul Greengrass)
Paprika (dir. Satoshi Kon)
Tristram Shanty: A Cock and Bull Story (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Man Push Cart (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
The King (dir. James Marsh)
The Descent (dir. Neil Marshall)
The Proposition (dir. John Hillcoat)
The Illusionist (dir. Neil Burger)
The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Babel (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Queen (dir. Stephen Frears)
Stranger Than Fiction (dir. Marc Forster)
Little Miss Sunshine (dir. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)
Climates (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (dir. Larry Charles)
Inland Empire (dir. David Lynch)
Flags of Our Fathers | Letters from Iwo Jima (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (dir. Cristi Puiu)
Red Road (dir. Andrea Arnold)
Notes on a Scandal (dir. Richard Eyre)
The Departed (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Bubble (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
The Last King of Scotland (dir. Kevin Macdonald)
Deliver Us from Evil (dir. Amy Berg)
Bug (dir. William Friedkin)
Open Window (dir. Mia Goldman)
The Notorious Bettie Page (dir. Mary Harron)
Marie Antoinette (dir. Sofia Coppola)
The Dead Girl (dir. Karen Moncrieff)
The Bridge (dir. Eric Steel)
Joyeux Noel (dir. Christian Carion)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (dir. Adam McKay)
Casino Royale (dir. Martin Campbell)
Blood Diamond (dir. Edward Zwick)
Edmond (dir. Stuart Gordon)
Curse of the Golden Flower (dir. Yimou Zhang)
Half Nelson (dir. Ryan Fleck)
Conversations with Other Women (dir. Hans Canosa)
Brick (dir. Rian Johnson)
A Prairie Home Companion (dir. Robert Altman)
This Is England (dir. Shane Meadows)
Lassie (dir. Charles Sturridge)
Something New (dir. Sanaa Hamri)
The Good Shepard (dir. Robert De Niro)
Apocalypto (dr. Mel Gibson)
Come Early Morning (dir. Joey Lauren Adams)
Old Joy (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Rescue Dawn (dir. Werner Herzog)
Slither (dir. James Gunn)
Friends with Money (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
12 and Holding (dir. Michael Cuesta)
V for Vendetta (dir. James McTeigue)
Monster House (dir. Gil Kenan)
Fast Food Nation | A Scanner Darkly (dir. Richard Linklater)
Bobby (dir. Emilio Estevez)
The Namesake (dir. Mira Nair)
12:08 East of Bucharest (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (dir. Ken Loach)
The Night Listener (dir. Patrick Stettne)
Shut Up & Sing (dir. Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (dir. Tom Tykwer)
Sherrybaby (dir. Laurie Collyer)
Venus (dir. Roger Michell)
Strangers with Candy (dir. Paul Dinello)
Hollywoodland (dir. Allen Coulter)
Taking Lives (dir. D.J. Caruso)
Idiocracy (dir. Mike Judge)
The Prestige (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Time (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
Fido (dir. Andrew Currie)
Black Snake Moan (dir. Craig Brewer)
Akeelah and the Bee (dir. Doug Atchison)
Manufactured Landscapes (dir. Jennifer Baichwal)
Flushed Away (dir. David Bowers and Sam Fell)
Water (dir. Deepa Mehta)
A Good Year (dir. Ridley Scott)
Breaking and Entering (dir. Anthony Minghella)
Jesus Camp (dir. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady)
Clerks II (dir. Kevin Smith)
Dreamgirls (dir. Bill Condon)
Manderlay (dir. Lars von Trier)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (dir. Kirby Dick)
Tekkonkinkreet (dir. Michael Arias)

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  • Miss Soo

    perfume: story of a murder.. very much enjoyed.. the filming style reminded me of the fall. Even though he was the killer i was still on his side… haha that sounded bad

    pan’s labyrinth.. i love the director.. he also directed “the Devil’s backbone” that movie was good.. just scary, dark, evil, sad and good story…lets just say i’ve never watched a sad and scary movie combination before.. i’m glad i watched it with my sister and not alone in my room.