Thursday, 18 March 2010

One Year --> One Movie

This is sort of stupid because if you only watched one movie every year you'd be missing out on some of the best movies of all time, also, a year can have 10 better movie than the following year so its all a bit pointless, anyways, if you really must make sure you watch these ones:

1919 - Broken Blossoms
1920 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921 - The Phantom Carriage
1922 - Nosferatu
1923 - Safety Last!
1924 - Greed
1925 - The Gold Rush
1926 - Faust
1927 - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1928 - Passion of Jean d'Arc
1929 - Un Chian Andalou

1930 - All Quiet on Western Front
1931 - M
1932 - Freaks
1933 - King Kong
1934 - It Happened One Night
1935 - Top Hat
1936 - Modern Times
1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
1938 - Bringing Up Baby
1939 - The Wizard of Oz

1940 - The Philadelphia Story
1941 - Citizen Kane
1942 - Casablanca
1943 - Shadow of a Doubt
1944 - Double Idemnity
1945 - Brief Encounter
1946 - It's a Wonderful Life
1947 - Out of the Past
1948 - Ladri di Biciclette
1949 - The Third Man

1950 - Sunset Blvd.
1951 - A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 - Singing in the Rain
1953 - Tokyo Story
1954 - Seven Samurai
1955 - The Night of the Hunter
1956 - The Searchers
1957 - Le Notti Bianchi
1958 - Touch of Evil
1959 - North by Northwest

1960 - L'Avventura
1961 - Last Year at Marienbad
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
1963 - 8 1/2
1964 - Band à Part
1965 - Pierre Le Fou
1966 - Andrey Rublyov
1967 - The Jungle Book
1968 - Once Upon a Time in the West
1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1970 - Le Cercle Rouge
1971 - Harold and Maude
1972 - The Godfather
1973 - El Espíritu de la Colmena
1974 - Chinatown
1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nes
1976 - Network
1977 - Annie Hall
1978 - The Deer Hunter
1979 - Manhattan

1980 - StarWars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1981 - Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - Blade Runner
1983 - Sans Soleil
1984 - Paris, Texas
1985 - Brazil
1986 - Stand By Me
1987 - The Princess Bride
1988 - Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
1989 - Dekalog

1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - Beauty and the Beast
1992 - Reservoir Dogs
1993 - The Schindler's List
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption
1995 - Se7en
1996 - Fargo
1997 - LA Confidential
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - Fight Club

2000 - Almost Famous
2001 - LotR: Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - Cidade de Deus
2003 - LotR: Return of the King
2004 - A Love Song For Bobby Long
2005 - Brick
2006 - El Labirinto del Fauno
2007 - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2008 - Martyrs
2009 - Inglorious Basterds

Just out of curiosity: the hardest years to decide, mostly because two (or more) of my favourite movies of all time were in them, were:
1968 - Once Upon a Time in the West over 2001: A Space Odyssey
1980 - Empire Strikes Back over The Shining
1985 - Brazil over The Goonies
1990 - Goodfellas over Edward Scissorhands
1993 - The Schindler's List over Jurassic Park
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption over the Lion King
1995 - Se7en over Toy Story
1998 - The Big Lebowski over American History X and Saving Private Ryan
2002 - Cidade de Deus over Road to Perdition
2004 - A Love Song for Bobby Long over Garden State, A Very Long Engagement and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2007 - The Assassination of Jesse James over Into the Wild
2008 - Martyrs over The Dark Knight

Monday, 8 March 2010

Oscars 2010

Really I don't know why I keep watching the Oscars. Once again I think the academy screwed up.
Lets take a look at the categories...

Best Documentary
I've only seen Food Inc and The Cove which are both about food industry. One pokes the finger at the chinese and another at both Europe and America. Who is worse? Can't really tell, both movies raise very important issues about the food industry, whereas food inc is a reserach effort, the cove is more like an undercover operation so I supposed the last makes up for a more entertaining movie thus yeah its a worthy win.

Best Foreign Movie
This was really a surprise. I haven't seen the winer (Secret in their eyes) but I doubt it is better than the white ribbon or even a prophete. I can't really judge as I haven't seen the winner but my vote would have gone to Haneke's masterpiece the White Ribbon.

Best Animated
This is the hardest one to choose. I haven't seen Secret of the Kells (has anyone??) but I have seen all the others and they are all great. Up has the best opening sequence of any movie this year and it's one of the finest animated moments of all time, the rest of the movie was quite funny but definatly not Pixar's best (not even top5). The Princess and the Frog was a surprise to me a real return to form from the Disney studios, great characters and the music was great, definatly one for the ages, as good as early stuff. Fantastic Mr. Fox was awesome and had the best comedy timing of any movie this year, some really fantastic characters and some cool stop motion. Coraline was also another stop motion masterpiece, yeah maybe not as good as Nightmare Before Christmas, but nevertheless the 3D was fantastic... In the end I might have given the vote to Fantastic Mr Fox, but Up is a worthy winner.

Best Special Effects
Avatar is a revolution, enough said right?

Best Origin Song
The songs from the Princess and the Frog were great and there should have been more nominations for that movie, but The Weary Kind is a truly fantastic song. The academy got it right

Best Score
Up had by far the most memorable music from any of the movies this year so well done Academy for giving Giacchino the oscar.

Best Art Direction
All the movies deserved the win really, but its become a cliche that a period piece wins this (and costume design for that matter) so I was glad to see a Sci-Fi movie like Avatar taking home the award. Then again all the other movies deserved it too.

Best Editing
I thought District 9 should have won this.

Best Cinematography
Avatar is a worthy winner. Ok, so all the cinematography was done with computers but does that diminsh the fact that the movie looks gorgeous??

Best Adapted Screenplay
I would have given the gold man to District 9 but i suppose Precious is a worthy winner.
Best Original Screenplay
What??? The Hurt Locker? Not in a million years. Tarantino (alongside with Woody Allen, he should have been nominated for Whatever Works) is the best script writer cinema has and since his movie wasn't going to win anything else tonight it should have at least won screenplay. Shame on the academy really.

Best Director
Katherine Bigelow won because she's a woman, that is the only reason I can think of for the academy to give her the oscar. They wanted to make history but even if you hate James Cameron you'll gave to admit that Bigelow directed a few dozen people whereas Cameron directed a fuckin army, and came up with the entire Pandora's world by himself, and was on the forefront of the development of a technology that will be the future of cinema, oh and Avatar has made 2.5b worldwide... Really, help me find a reason Cameron should not have won!! Katherine wouldn't even be my second choice, Tarantino would (she would have been my third choice)

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope shouldn't have been nominated, Cotilard was much better in that movie. Gyllenhall had a fine performance but really it was Jeff Bridge's movie. The girls from Up in the air were average at best. Mo'Nique was a tour de force, so yeah there was no what she wasn't going to win this.

Best Supporting Actor
When I watch Inglorious Basterds I was thinking “wow this guy is great, I bet he's going to win the Oscar”. Guess what... he did and it was really deserved. Waltz was funny and menacing and a joy to watch. His win left a smile in my face and what a speech.. a true legend (also he basically had no competition...)

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock is lovely but her role is a straighforward one... nothing special. Meryl is, alongside with Kate Winslet, the best actress in movies today. Helen Mirren is also a classy choice but neither of them were really in the competition. Carey Mulligan is cute and her movie is actually quite good but she was just there to fill the group. Bullocks main competition was Gabourney Sibile and in the end she should have taken home the award. It's a depressing role, I mean she is raped, has a kid, has AIDS, can't read... fuck me that requires some acting... Bullock was just playing an interesting yet simple woman... The Academy got it wrong I think, still it was quite funny that last night Bullock won a Razzie and tonight she won an oscar.

Best Picture
Finally the main category. If it were me these would have been the 10 nominees:
Avatar
Inglorious Basterds
The Hurt Locker
Watchmen
Star Trek
(500) Days of Summer
Fantastic Mr Fox
Sherlock Holmes
Where the Wild Things Are
Distric 9
Out of these 10 the only ones worthy of the Oscar, in my humble opinion, were Inglorious Basterds or Avatar. The first one had the best story, best screenplay, best acting and it was perhaps Tarantino's masterpiece (yes it might even be better than Pulp Fiction). The second had amazing cinematography, special effects, sound, art direction and a tour de force director who, like I said above basically directed a small army of people, granted storywise it could have been better, but it was still one of the best cinematic experiences ever. There is no way the Hurt Locker should have won this, don't get me wrong, it's a fine fine movie but is just not a “best picture winner” and it only won because people think its cool to hate everything that is popular (like Avatar). If I had to vote I would have probably gone for Inglorious Basterds but Avatar would have been a close second and is definatly a much better cinematic experience than the Hurt Locker.

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Alice in Wonderland Review


ALICE IN WONDERLAND
2010
Tim Burton

Tim Burton is one of our great directors. He doesn't have the storytelling skills of Spielberg, the cinematic craft of Scorsese, the coolness of Tarantino or the epic vision of Peter Jackson, but he is probably the greatest visual craftsmen cinema can offer, a direct descendent from people like Rober Wiene and Murnau, the masters of German expressionism. And Lewis Carrol, well he wrote what is by far the best children's book of all time. So when I heard that Tim Burton was doing an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland I was really excited, I mean this should have been a match made in heaven. And I still belive it would have been, had Burton addapted Carrol's story from the actual books and not done a sequel like he did, and definatly not one with an epic scale. Carrol's tale is supposed to be low key, not epic... That being said I still found myself really enjoying the movie.

First of all the characters are all perfectly imagined, especially some of the minor characters. Also, the actors playing them are fantastic, such as Stephen Fry as the Cheshire cat, Alan Rickman as the Blue Catterpillar, Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts, Barbara Windsor as the Doormouse, Michael Sheen as the White Rabbit, Matt Lucas as the Tweedels, Paul Withouse as the March Hare and Christopher Lee as the Jabberwocky. Most of the main characters are also quite good, Anne Hathaway is lovely yet creepy as the White Queen, Bonham Carter is very weird as Red Queen and despite not being as memorable as the one from the Disney's animated movie does her job well. Then there is Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, he crafted another fantastic character, and while not as good as Jack Sparrow (then again, what is?) he is very funny to watch and his little dance at the end is one of the movie's quirkiest and funniest scenes. Newcomer Mia Wasikowska as Alice is however as flat as a wooden board and the character deserved better.




The cinematography and production values are gorgeous and the 3D is some of the most beautiful I have ever seen, also some of the darker scenes (like when Alice has to hop on decapitated heads to get to the Red Castle) will creep the kids out and have Burton fans salivating. The score, by Danny Elfman, is not memorable as the work he did on basically every other movie he's done with Burton, but it still works. It is in the story and mostly in the scale that this movie fails.

First the story is a very simple one (yet told on an epic scale): basically Alice, now a teenager, returns to Wonderland, and has to help everyone to bring down the Red Queen. I really don't see the need for a sequel, and the 2009 Syfy channel special is a much more interesting take on it to be honest, but I would have been okay with it since all the characters are amazing and by far the best we have ever seen in any of the books adaptations.

What is really wrong with the movie is the scale, and who do we have to blame for this? I would say Peter Jackson and his Lord of the Rings trilogy. You see like every single other fantasy movie that has come out since and tried to be epic Alice just feels flat. There are numerous examples: Chronicles of Narnia, the Golden Compass or even the Harry Potter movies, they all try to be epic and fail and whislt they are still enjoyable (some more than the others) they never feel has big as Lord of the Rings. Smaller scale flicks have been much better, like the Bridge to Terabithia or last year's Cirque du Freak and they are better because they avoid comparisions with Lord of the Rings.
Also Tim Burton, as good a director as he is, just doesn't have an epic vision, take a look at his back catalogue... Do you prefer Planet of the Apes or Edward Scissorhands?? Tim Burton is at his best when he does low key dark fantasy flicks such as the above mentioned Scissorhands, Big Fish, Sweeney Todd, Beetljuice, Corpse Bride or Nightmare Before Christimas (even though he didn't direct this one), just to name a few. What's really annoying here is that Lewis Carrol book, as great as it is, is not an epic one, there is no need for big battles (that will only feel small due to the Lord of the Rings scale). It is a simple, lowkey story, about a girl who dreams of the weirdest world you could possible imagine.

Having read the book numerous times, having seen all of Burton's movies and after having seen some of the brilliant character designs in this movie it pains me to know that if Burton had kept to the two original stories, like I thought he was going to when it was anounced, this would have been one of my favourite movies of all time, insted it became just another Chronicles of Narnia, enjoyable and gorgeous to look at yet somehow flat.

I would still recommend it, if only for the the special effects and characters, then go home and watch the Disney movie and the 1999 Hallmark TV special, then wonder why in over 100 years of cinema noone has yet been able to properly adapt Carrols masterpiece, then read the book, then think how great this movie could have been if only Tim Burton had made the right decisions, then go and watch Edward Scissorhands and forgive the man because he is still, undeniably, one of the finest directors we have!

Direction – 6
Story – 4
Cinematography and Special Effects – 9
Score – 6
Acting – 8
Overall – 7.5



Saturday, 13 February 2010

Worst films of the decade


Hello film-addicts,

I'm back to my blogging duties and this time I present you a list of the 100 worst movies of the past decade (2000-2009) made by Rotten Tomatoes. Although you might have a different opinion, most of the movies on this list are real crap.

These are the 10 worst films according to the list:

10: Witless Protection(2008)

9: Redline (2007)

8: 3 Strikes (2000)

7: Strange Wilderness (2008)

6: Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)

5: National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)

4: King's Ransom (2005)

3: Pinocchio (2002)

2: One Missed Called (2002)

1: Ballistic: Ecks vs. Server (2002)
Directed by: Kaos
Starring: Lucy Liu, Antonio Banderas, Gregg Henry

See the complete list here. Enjoy!

Enrique

Sunday, 17 January 2010

2009 Movies

And Here's 2009

2009
1.(500) Days of Summer
2.17 Again
3.2012
4.9
5.Adventureland
6.Amelia
7.American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
8.An Education
9.Angles and Demons
10.Antichrist
11.Astro Boy
12.Avatar
13.Away We Go
14.Bad Liutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
15.Bandslam
16.Beyond a Resonable Doubt
17.Blind Side, The
18.Blood: The Last Vampire
19.Boat that Roked, The
20.Broken Embraces
21.Brothers
22.Bruno
23.Capitalism: A Love Story
24.Christmas Carol, A
25.Cirque du Freak: Vampire Assistant
26.Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
27.Coco Before Channel
28.Coraline
29.Couples Retreat
30.Cove, The
31.Crank: High Voltage
32.Crazy Heart
33.Damned United, The
34.Daybreakers
35.Dead Like Me: Life After Dead
36.Dead Snow
37.Dev. D
38.District 9
39.Doghouse
40.Dorian Gray
41.Drag me to Hell
42.DragonBall: Evolution
43.Duplicity
44.Everybody's Fine
45.Extract
46.Fame
47.Fantastic Mr. Fox, The
48.FAQ About Time Travel
49.Final Destination, The
50.Fish Tank
51.Fourth Kind, The
52.Friday the 13th
53.Funny People
54.Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
55.Gamer
56.GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra
57.Girlfriend Experience, The
58.Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, The
59.Halloween II
60.Hangover, The
61.Hannah Montana The Movie
62.Harry Bronw
63.Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
64.He's Just not that Into You
65.Home
66.Hunt for Gollum, The
67.I Love You Man
68.I Love You, Beth Cooper
69.Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
70.Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The
71.In the Loop
72.Informant, The
73.Inglorious Basterds
74.International, The
75.Into the Blue 2: The Reef
76.Invention of Lying, The
77.Invictus
78.It's Complicated
79.Jennifer's Body
80.Julie and Julia
81.Knowing
82.Laid to Rest
83.Land of the Lost
84.Last House on the Left, The
85.Law Abiding Citizen
86.Lesbian Vampire Killers
87.Lovely Bones, The
88.Mary and Max
89.Men who Stare at Goats, The
90.Monsters vs Aliens
91.Moon
92.My Bloody Valentine
93.My Sister's Keeper
94.New Moon
95.New York I Love You
96.Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
97.Nine
98.Observe and Report
99.Orphan
100.Pandorum
101.Paper Heart
102.Perfect Getaway, The
103.Planet 51
104.Powder Blue
105.Precious
106.Princess and the Frog, The
107.Prison Break: The Final Break
108.Prophet, A
109.Proposal, The
110.Public Enemies
111.Push
112.Race to Witch Mountain
113.Road Trip: Beer Pong
114.Road, The
115.S. Darko
116.Saw VI
117.Serious Man, A
118.Sherlock Holmes
119.Shorts
120.Sin Nombre
121.Single Man, A
122.Soloist, The
123.Sorority Row
124.Splice
125.Spread
126.Star Trek
127.State of Play
128.Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li
129.Surrogates, The
130.Taking Woodstock
131.Terminator: Salvation
132.This is It
133.Time Traveler's Wife
134.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
135.Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
136.Uninvited, The
137.Up
138.Up in the Air
139.Van Wilder: Freshman Year
140.Veronica Decides to Die
141.Watchmen
142.Whatever Works
143.Where the Wild Things Are
144.Whip It
145.White Ribbon, The
146.Whiteout
147.World's Greatest Dad
148.Wrong Turn 3
149.Year One
150.Young Victoria, The
151.Youth in Revolt
152.Zombieland

2008 Movies

So Here's a List of What I've Seen or Want to See

2008
1.007: Quantum of Solace
2.10.000 BC
3.21
4.Anvil!: The Story of Anvil
5.Appaloosa
6.Assassination of an High School President
7.Australia
8.Baader Meinhof Complex, The
9.Baby Mama
10.Bangkok Dangerous
11.Bank Job, The
12.Be Kind Rewind
13.Bedtime Stories
14.Blindness
15.Body of Lies
16.Bolt
17.Boy in Stripped Pajamas
18.Brideshead Revisited
19.Broken, The
20.Brothes Bloom, The
21.Burn After Reading
22.Changeling
23.Che
24.Children, The
25.Choke
26.Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The
27.City of Ember
28.CJ7
29.Class, The
30.Cloverfield
31.Cottage, The
32.Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
33.Dance of the Dead
34.Dark Knight
35.Day the Earth Stood Still
36.Death Race
37.Deception
38.Defiance
39.Definatly Maybe
40.Departures
41.Donkey Punch
42.Doomsday
43.Doubt
44.Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
45.Drillbit Taylor
46.Duchess, The
47.Eagle Eye
48.Eden Lake
49.Edge of Love, The
50.Escapist, The
51.Eye, The
52.FanBoys
53.Felon
54.Food Inc.
55.Fool's Gold
56.Forbidden Kingdom, The
57.Forgetting Sarah Marshal
58.Franklyn
59.Frontier de l'Aube
60.Frost/Nixon
61.Frozen River
62.Futurama: Bender's Game
63.Futurama: The Beast with the Billion Backs
64.Get Smart
65.Ghost Town
66.Gomorrah
67.Good Dick
68.Good, the Bad, the Weird, The
69.Gran Torino
70.Hancock
71.Happening, The
72.Happy Go Lucky
73.Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
74.HellboyII: The Golden Army
75.High School Musical 3: Senior Year
76.Horton Hears a Who!
77.How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
78.Hunger
79.Hurt Locker, The
80.I Sell the Dead
81.I've Loved You So Long
82.Igor
83.In Bruges
84.Incredible Hulk, The
85.Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
86.Informers, The
87.Inkheart
88.Iron Man
89.JCVD
90.John Rambo
91.Journey to the Center of the Earth
92.Jumper
93.KillShot
94.Kung Fu Panda
95.Last Chance Harvey
96.Leatherheads
97.Let the Right One In
98.Love Exposure
99.Madagascar 2: Escape from Africa
100.Mamma Mia
101.Man on a Wire
102.Marley and Me
103.Martyrs
104.Me and Orson Welles
105.Midnight Meat Train
106.Milk
107.Mirrors
108.Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
109.Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
110.Mutant Chronicles
111.Never Back Donw
112.Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
113.Nim's Island
114.Other Boleyn Girl, The
115.Outlander
116.Pathology
117.Pinapple Express, The
118.Ponyo
119.Pride and Glory
120.Punisher: War Zone, The
121.Quarentine
122.Rachel Getting Married
123.Reader, The
124.Red Cliff
125.Religulous
126.Repo! The Genetic Opera
127.Revolutionary Road
128.Righteous Kill
129.Rocker, The
130.RocknRolla
131.Role Models
132.Ruins, The
133.Saw V
134.Seven Pounds
135.Sex Drive
136.Shine a Light
137.Slumdog Millionaire
138.Smart People
139.SpeedRacer
140.Spiderwick Chronicles, The
141.Spirit, The
142.Splinter
143.Step Brothers
144.Strange Wilderness
145.Strangers, The
146.Street Kings
147.Sunshine Cleaning
148.Synecdoche New York
149.Taken
150.Transsiberian
151.Trick R Treat
152.Tropic Thunder
153.Twilight
154.Untraceble
155.Valkyrie
156.Vantage Point
157.Vicky Cristina Barcelona
158.W.
159.Wackness, The
160.Wall-E
161.Waltz with Bashir
162.Wanted
163.War Inc.
164.Wave, The
165.Wendy and Lucy
166.What Happens in Vegas
167.What Just Happened
168.Wrestler, The
169.X-Files: I Want to Believe
170.Yes Man
171.Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Saturday, 9 January 2010

Decade's Best Movies!!!

2000
01 - Almost Famous 10
02 - Gladiator 9
03 - Requiem for a Dream 9
04 - Battle Royale 8
05 - Castaway 7
06 - The Beach 7
07 - In the Mood for Love 7
08 - Remember the Titans 7
09 - Road Trip 7
10 - Amores Perros 7
HM - Emperors New Groove, Memento, Snatch, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Unbreakable, Traffic, A Perfect Storm, High Fidelity, What Lies Beneath, O Brother Where Art Thou, Small Time Crooks.

2001
01 - Fellowship of the Ring 10
02 - Donnie Darko 10
03 - Monsters Inc 9
04 - A Beautiful Mind 9
05 - Moulin Rouge 8
06 - Mulholand Drive 8
07 - Ocean's Eleven 8
08 - Spirited Away 8
09 - American Pie 2 7
10 - Planet of the Apes 7
HM - Amelie, Vanilla Sky, From Hell, A Knight's Tale, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Shrek, The Curse of Jade Scorpion, Riding in Cars with Boys, The Royal Tenembaums,The Others

2002
01 - Cidade de Deus 10
02 - The Two Towers 10
03 - Road to Perdition 10
04 - In America 9
05 - The Pianist 9
06 - Hollywood Ending 7
07 - 28 Days Later 7
08 - Gangs of New York 7
09 - Habla Con Ella 7
10 - 8 Mile 7
HM - Jackass The Movie, Men in Black II, Igby Goes Down, Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones, Ice Age, Russian Ark

2003
01 - Return of the King 10
02 - Curse of the Black Pearl 10
03 - Finding Nemo 10
04 - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... And Spring 10
05 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 10
06 - Big Fish 9
07 - Love Actually 8
08 - Os Imortais 8
09 - X2 8
10 - Lost in Translation... 8
HM - 21 Grams, Mystic River, Anything Else, The Rundown, Open Range, Wrong Turn, High Tension, OldBoy, Elephant, The Dreamers, Saraband

2004
01 - A Love Song for Bobby Long 10
02 - Garden State 10
03 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 10
04 - A Very Long Engagement 10
05 - Diarios de Motocicleta 9
06 - Downfall 9
07 - Saw 9
08 - Prisioner of Azkaban 9
09 - The Village 8
10 - Lemony Snicket's: A Series of Unfortunate Events 8
HM - Melinda and Melinda, Million Dollar Baby, Butterfly Effect, Shrek 2, Finding Neverland, Anchorman, Bad Education, Closer, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2046

2005
01 - Brick 10
02 - King Kong 9
03 - Match Point 9
04 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 9
05 - The Constant Gardener 9
06 - Walk the Line 9
07 - Serenity 9
08 - Batman Begins 8
09 - The Descent 8
10 - Elizabethtown 8
HM - Weeding Crashers, 40 Year Old Virgin, Corpse Bride, Sin City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Brothers Grimm, House of Wax, The Island, Thank You for Smoking, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Feast, Wolf Creek, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Hardcandy, Alice, Down in the Valley, Don't Come Knocking

2006
01 - Pan's Labyrinth 10
02 - The Lives of Others 9
03 - The Departed 8
04 - Dead Man's Chest 8
05 - The Black Dahlia 8
06 - Children of Men 8
07 - Scoop 8
08 - The Fountain 7
09 - United 93 7
10 - Miami Vice 7
HM - Casino Royale, The Prestige, Alpha Dog, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, The Hills Have Eyes, Perfume, Lucky Number Slevin, Smokin Aces, Clerks 2, Blood Diamond, Inland Empire, Jackass 2, Dirty Sanchez the Movie, , Hollywoodland, Southland Tales, Borat, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beggining, The Last Kiss

2007
01 - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 10
02 - Into the Wild 10
03 - There Will Be Blood 10
04 - Inside 10
05 - At World's End 10
06 - Sweeney Todd 9
07 - King of Kong 9
08 - Zodiac 8
09 - The Simpsons Movie 8
10 - No Country for Old Men 8
HM - Rataouille, Transformers, Superbad, Knocked Up, Gone Baby Gone, Eastern Promises, Stardust, Enchanted, Hairspray, The Darjeeling Unlimited, [Rec], Cassandra's Dream, 28 Weeks Later, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, My Blueberry Nights, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Bridge to Terabithia, TMNT, Les Chansons d'amour, La Vie En Rose, Surf's Up, The Lookout, I'm Not There, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie for Theaters

2008
01 - Martyrs 10
02 - The Dark Knight 10
03 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona 10
04 - Wall-E 10
05 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 9
06 - Let the Right One In 9
07 - SpeedRacer 8
08 - The Hurt Locker 8
09 - Cloverfield 8
10 - Brothers Bloom, The 8
HM: The Wrestler, In Bruges, Kung Fu Panda, Burn After Reading, Blindness, Frost/Nixon, High School Musical 3, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Be Kind Rewind, Definatly Maybe, Religulous, La Frontier de l'aube, Gomorrah, Hunger, JCVD, Religulous, Red Cliff

2009
01 - Avatar 10
02 - Inglorious Basterds 10
03 - Watchmen 9
04 - StarTrek 9
05 - Sherlock Holmes 9
06 - Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant 9
07 - Where the Wild Things Are 8
08 - (500) Days of Summer 8
09 - Fantastic Mr. Fox 8
10 - The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
HM - Coraline, Whatever Works, Men Who Stare at Goats, Tranformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen, Up, Public Enemies, Zombieland, Moon, Adventureland, Funny People, Last House on the Left, The Box, District 9, Spread, Up in the Air, The Lovely Bones, The Road, 2012


NW - A Serious Man, Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, Eloge de l'amour, Creation, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Decade Top 20:
01 - Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003)
02 - A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
03 - Avatar (2009)
04 - Garden State (2004)
05 - The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
06 - Martyrs (2008)
07 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
08 - A Very Long Engagement (2004)
09 - Inglorious Basterds (2009)
10 - Into the Wild (2007)
11 - Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
12 - Almost Famous (2000)
13 - Donnie Darko (2001)
14 - There Will Be Blood (2007)
15 - Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy (2003, 2006, 2007)
16 - The Dark Knight (2008)
17 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
18 - Wall-E (2008)
19 - Cidade de Deus (2002)
20 - Brick (2005)