Tuesday, October 14, 2008

2008

1. Speed Racer (The Wachowski Bros.)
2. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
3. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
4. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
5. Dear Zachary: A Story to a Son About His Father (Kurt Kuenne)
6. Two Lovers (James Gray)
7. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
8. My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai)
9. Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
10. Snow Angels (David Gordon Green)
11. The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
12. Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne, Jon Stevenson)
13. Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
14. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
15. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
16. Redbelt (David Mamet)
17. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
18. Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
19. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
20. Milk (Gus Van Sant)
21. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
22. Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)
23. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
24. Step Brothers (Adam McKay)
25. W. (Oliver Stone)
26. Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
27. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
28. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
29. Role Models (David Wain)
30. Choke (Clark Gregg)
31. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
32. City of Ember (Gil Kenan)
33. Man on Wire (James Marsh)
34. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
35. Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov)
36. Valkyrie (Bryan Singer)
37. Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)
38. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
39. Religulous (Larry Charles)
40. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
41. Taken (Pierre Morel)
42. Bolt (Byron Howard, Chris Williams)
43. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro)
44. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath)
45. Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
46. Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
47. The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson)
48. Ghost Town (David Koepp)
49. Horton Hears a Who! (Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino)
50. Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
51. The Spirit (Frank Miller)
52. The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
53. The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)
54. Hamlet 2 (Andrew Fleming)
55. Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings)
56. Harold and Kumar Escape to Guantanamo Bay (Jon Hurwitz)
57. Traitor (Jeffrey Nachmanoff)
58. Body of Lies (Ridley Scott)
59. Transsiberian (Brad Anderson)
60. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
61. Leatherheads (George Clooney)
62. Doomsday (Neil Marshall)
63. Get Smart (Peter Segal)
64. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
65. The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier)
66. The Fall (Tarsem)
67. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
68. Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
69. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Scott Derickson)
70. Eagle Eye (D.J. Caruso)
71. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
72. Pride and Glory (Gavin O'Conner)
73. Australia (Baz Luhrmann)
74. Miracle at St. Anna (Spike Lee)
75. 21 (Robert Luketic)
76. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Dave Filoni)
77. Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Kevin Smith)
78. Hancock (Peter Berg)
79. Semi-Pro (Kent Alterman)
80. The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff)
81. Blindness (Fernando Mierelles)

2007

1. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
2. Zodiac (David Fincher)
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
5. Once (John Carney)
6. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
7. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
8. Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
9. Sicko (Michael Moore)
10. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
11. We Own the Night (James Gray)
12. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
13. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
14. Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
15. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
16. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Zach Helm)
17. Seraphim Falls (David Von Ancken)
18. The Mist (Frank Darabont)
19. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates)
20. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
21. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
22. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
24. Atonement (Joe Wright)
25. Away from Her (Sarah Polley)
26. Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer)
27. Meet the Robinsons (Stephen J. Anderson)
28. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
29. Superbad (Greg Mottola)
30. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
31. Breach (Billy Ray)
32. Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
33. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
34. Persepolis (Vincent Parronaud)
35. Before the Devil Knows Your Dead (Sidney Lumet)
36. Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis)
37. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
38. Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
39. Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols)
40. Shoot 'Em Up (Michael Davis)
41. Amazing Grace (Michael Apted)
42. Stardust (Matthew Vaughn)
43. Air Guitar Nation (Alexandre Lipsitz)
44. Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh)
45. The Last Mimzy (Robert Shaye)
46. The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)
47. The Lookout (Scott Frank)
48. Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
49. Year of the Dog (Mike White)
50. Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
51. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (Matt Maiellaro & David Willis)
52. The Namesake (Mira Nair)
53. 28 Weeks Later... (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
54. Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
55. TMNT (Kevin Munroe)
56. American Gangster (Ridley Scott)
57. Bridge to Terabithia (Gabor Csupo)
58. 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold)
59. I Am Legend (Francis Lawerence)
60. Surf's Up (Ash Brannon & Chris Buck)
61. The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman)
62. Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi)
63. Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
64. Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman)
65. A Mighty Heart (Michael Winterbottom)
66. Reign Over Me (Mike Binder)
67. Waitress (Adrienne Shelley)
68. The Great Debaters (Denzel Washington)
69. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story)
70. Enchanted (Kevin Lima)
71. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski)
72. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan)
73. Bee Movie (Steve Hickner & Simon J. Smith)
74. The Astronaut Farmer (Michael Polish)
75. Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford)
76. Juno (Jason Reitman)
77. Superman: Doomsday (Lauren Montgomery & Bruce Timm)
78. 300 (Zach Snyder)
79. Fracture (Gregory Hoblit)
80. The Kingdom (Peter Berg)
81. Shrek the Third (Chris Miller)
82. Death Sentence (James Wan)
83. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Shekhar Kapur)
84. Transformers (Michael Bay)
85. Balls of Fury (Ben Garant)
86. Smokin' Aces (Joe Carnahan)
87. The Brave One (Neil Jordan)
88. The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
89. Ghost Rider (Mark Steven Johnson)
90. Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)

2006

1. Stranger than Fiction (Zach Helm)
2. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
3. United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
4. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
5. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
6. Perfume: Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)
7. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
8. Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
9. Happy Feet (George Miller)
10. Offside (Jafar Panahi)
11. The Host (Joon-ho Bong)
12. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles)
13. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
14. The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
15. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
16. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
17. Superman Returns (Bryan Singer)
18. Monster House (Gil Kenan)
19. Talladega Nights: The Story of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay)
20. Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
21. The Queen (Stephen Frears)
22. This is England (Shane Meadows)
23. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel)
24. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
25. Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan)
26. V For Vendetta (James McTiegue)
27. The Painted Veil (John Curran)
28. Exiled (Johnny To)
29. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
30. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
31. Scoop (Woody Allen)
32. Over the Hedge (Tim Johnson & Karey Kirkpatrick)
33. The Hoax (Lasse Hallstrom)
34. Infamous (Douglas McGrath)
35. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
36. Volver (Pedro Almodavor)
37. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)
38. Apocalypto (Mel Gibson)
39. The Black Dahlia (Brian DePalma)
40. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
41. Flags of our Fathers (Clint Eastwood)
42. Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter)
43. An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
44. Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)
45. Mission Impossible III (J.J. Abrams)
46. The Good Shepherd (Robert DeNiro)
47. Cars (John Lasseter)
48. The Illusionist (Neil Burger)
49. The Last King of Scotland (Kevin MacDonald)
50. Marie Antoinette (Sophia Coppola)
51. Inside Man (Spike Lee)
52. Fearless (Ronny Yu)
53. Little Children (Todd Field)
54. Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)
55. Brick (Rian Johnson)
56. The Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino)
57. Invincible (Ericson Core)
58. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski)
59. Idiocracy (Mike Judge)
60. Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis)
61. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
62. Thank You For Smoking (Jason Reitman)
63. Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick)
64. The Good German (Steven Soderbergh)
65. Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
66. X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)
67. Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny (Liam Lynch)
68. World Trade Center (Oliver Stone)
69. Flushed Away (David Bowers & Sam Fell)
70. The Nativity Story (Catherine Hardwicke)
71. Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy)
72. Bobby (Emilio Estevez)
73. Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)
74. For Your Consideration (Christopher Guest)
75. Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)
76. Running with Scissors (Ryan Murphy)

2005

1. The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
2. Good Night and Good Luck (George Clooney)
3. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
4. The New World (Terrence Malick)
5. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box & Nick Park)
6. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
7. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
8. Serenity (Joss Wheden)
9. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
10. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
11. MirrorMask (Dave McKean)
12. Cache (Michael Haneke)
13. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
14. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
15. A History of Violence (David Croneneberg)
16. Election (Johnny To)
17. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
18. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
19. Match Point (Woody Allen)
20. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese)
21. Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright)
22. Capote (Bennett Miller)
23. The 40-Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
24. Manderlay (Lars Von Trier)
25. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
26. Hustle and Flow (Craig Brewer)
27. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
28. King Kong (Peter Jackson)
29. Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott)
30. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmausch)
31. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings)
32. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
33. Madagascar (Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath)
34. The Constant Gardner (Fernando Mierelles)
35. Lord of War (Andrew Niccol)
36. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson)
37. Sky High (Mike Mitchell)
38. Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)
39. Corpse Bride (Tim Burton & Mike Johnson)
40. The Weather Man (Gore Verbinski)
41. Constantine (Francis Lawrence)
42. Walk the Line (James Mangold)
43. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman)
44. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell)
45. Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin)
46. Jarhead (Sam Mendes)
47. Danny the Dog (Louis Letterier)
48. The Upside of Anger (Mike Binder)
49. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
50. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
51. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
52. Sin City (Robert Rodriquez & Quentin Tarantino)
53. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
54. Crash (Paul Haggis)
55. The Island (Michael Bay)
56. Robots (Chris Wedge & Carlos Saldanha)
57. Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe)

2004

1. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
3. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
4. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
5. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
6. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
7. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
8. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
9. Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes)
10. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
11. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuaron)
13. Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
14. 2046 (Wong Kar Wai)
15. Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro)
16. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
17. The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme)
18. Collateral (Micheal Mann)
19. The Village (M. Night Shyamalan)
20. Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)
21. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
22. The Phantom of the Opera (Joel Schumacher)
23. Saved! (Brian Dannelly)
24. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy (Adam McKay)
25. The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell)
26. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
27. Garden State (Zach Braff)
28. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
29. The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)
30. Spartan (David Mamet)
31. Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
32. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
33. The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich)
34. The Ladykillers (Joel and Ethan Coen)
35. Miracle (Gavin O'Conner)
36. Undertow (David Gordon Green)
37. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (Stephen Hillenburg)
38. I, Robot (Alex Proyas)
39. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
40. Dawn of the Dead (Zach Snyder)
41. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
42. In Good Company (Paul Weitz)
43. Primer
44. Hotel Rwanda
45. Friday Night Lights
46. Ghost in Shell 2: Innocence
47. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
48. Maria Full of Grace
49. Tropical Maladay
50. The Machinist
51. A Very Long Engagement
52. King Arthur
53. Jersey Girl
54. Super Size Me
55. Troy
56. Ray
57. The Motorcycle Diaries
58. 3-Iron
59. Closer
60. Fahrenheit 9/11
61. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
62. Vanity Fair
63. Finding Neverland
64. Nobody Knows
65. Napoleon Dynamite
66. The Door in the Floor
67. The Chronicles of Riddick
68. Kinsey
69. The Punisher
70. Shrek 2
71. Van Helsing
72. The Girl Next Door
73. Along Came Polly
74. Blade: Trinity
75. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
76. Team America: World Police
77. Shark Tale
78. Home on the Range
79. Alien vs. Predator

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