Top 10 Movies: 2006

Oh, I just noticed that I posted my top 10 (plus) movies from the 5 previous years, but I forgot to post my favorite films from 2006. So, here they are:

• Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
• Clean
• An Inconvenient Truth
• The Departed
• Stranger Than Fiction
• Casino Royale
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Marie Antoinette
• Brick
• The Queen

Plus a few that deserve honorable mention:

• Half Nelson
• Notes on a Scandal
• Last King of Scotland
• Children of Men

Man - it seems like I saw those films sooooo long ago!

Top 10 Movies: 2005

My favorite films from 2005, in no particular order:

• Kung Fu Hustle
• Czech Dream
• Howl’s Moving Castle
• March of the Penguins
• The 40 Year-Old Virgin
• Everything is Illuminated
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Brokeback Mountain
• The Squid and the Whale
• Walk the Line

And a few that deserve honorable mention:

• Me and You and Everyone We Know
• 2046
• Serenity

Top 10 movies: 2004

My favorite movies of 2004, in no particular order:

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Choking Hazard
• Super-size Me
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Garden State
• Harold & Kumar go to White Castle
• I Heart Huckabees
• Shaun of the Dead
• Sideways

And a few that deserve honorable mention:

• Last Life in the Universe
• House of Flying Daggers
• The Incredibles

Top 10 Movies: 2003

My favorite movies of 2003, in no particular order:

• Kill Bill Vol 1
• Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
• Shattered Glass
• Elf
• Finding Nemo
• 28 Days Later
• Spellbound
• Big Fish
• School of Rock
• American Splendor

And, honorable mention goes to:

• Lost in Translation

Top 10 Movies: 2002

Here're my favorite movies from 2002, again in no particular order:

• Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Y Tu Mamá También
• Monsoon Wedding
• Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
• The Château
• Igby Goes Down
• 8 Women
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
• 25th Hour

There were a lot of amazing films that year, so here are a few more that deserve honorable mention:

• Spider-Man
• 24 Hour Party People
• Spirited Away

Top 10 Movies: 2001

A few years ago, when I was working as a web developer at EW.com, I started making my own list of favorite movies of the year, along with a few other non-journalist movie enthusiast. This seems a good place to post those lists (and future lists, when the time comes). Without further ado, here are my 10 favorite films from 2001 (in no particular order):

• In the Mood for Love
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Memento
• Moulin Rouge
• Lord of the Rings
• Gosford Park
• Startup.com
• Donnie Darko
• Tape
• Ghost World

Coming Sooon: My favorite films from 2002!