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Color Code

Color Coding Key

8/8, MASTERPIECE: Perfect in form and content, or has a profound personal effect.
7/8, EXCELLENT: Brilliant, amazing, or otherwise memorable, with few minor flaws.
6/8, VERY GOOD: With minor but systemic flaws.
5/8, GOOD: Lacking focus, an idea, or derivitive in some way, which aggravates its flaws.
4/8, OK: Can be enjoyable, but with major systemic flaws.
3/8, MIDDLING: Without pleasure, there may be a few redeeming moments, has significant flaws.
2/8, BAD: Approaching emptiness, commerical tripe, very boring.
1/8, WORTHLESS: Vapid and tedious; horrid, either technically or politically repulsive.

2010

1. Shutter Island - Martin Scorsese ; U.S. added Aug. 10
2. Inception - Christopher Nolan ; U.S. added July 10
3. Toy Story 3 - Lee Unkrich, U.S. added July 10

2009

1. Inglorious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino ; U.S./Germany added Jan. 10
2. Star Trek - J.J. Abrams ; U.S.
3. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - Werner Herzog, U.S. added May 10
4. The Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson ; U.S./UK added July 10
5. Up - Pete Doctor, Bob Peterson ; U.S. added June 10
6. A Serious Man - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen ; U.S. added July 10
7. The Hangover - Todd Phillips ; U.S.
8. District 9 - Neill Blomkamp ; U.S./NZ
9. Funny People - Judd Apatow ; U.S.
10. Extract - Mike Judge ; U.S. added Feb. 10

2008

1. Wendy and Lucy - Kelly Reichardt ; U.S. added July 09

2. Le silence de Lorna / Lorna's Silence - Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne ; France added Jan. 10
3. The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow ; U.S. added Jan. 10
4. WALL-E - Andrew Stanton ; U.S.
5. Pineapple Express - David Gordon Green ; U.S.
6. Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Woody Allen ; Spain
7. Burn After Reading - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen ; U.S.
8. Låt den rätte komma in / Let The Right One In - Thomas Alfredson ; Sweden
9. Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman ; U.S.
10. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Guillermo del Toro ; U.S.
11. Iron Man - Jon Favreau ; U.S.
12. Tropic Thunder - Ben Stiller ; U.S.
13. X-Files: I Want To Believe - Chris Carter ; U.S.
14. Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Nicholas Stoller ; U.S.
15. Leatherheads - George Clooney ; U.S. added Apr. 09
16. Step Brothers - Adam Mckay ; U.S.
17. The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan ; U.S.
18. The Incredible Hulk - Louis Leterrier ; U.S.
19. Doubt - John Patrick Shanley ; U.S. added May. 09
20. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Steven Spielberg ; U.S.
21. Get Smart - Peter Segal ; U.S.

2007

1. There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson ; U.S.
2. Eastern Promises - David Cronenberg ; UK/Canada
3. No Country For Old Men - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen ; U.S.
4. The Darjeeling Limited - Wes Anderson ; U.S.
5. Les Témoins / The Witnesses - André Techiné ; France added Apr. 09
6. Le voyage du ballon rouge / Flight of the Red Balloon - Hsiao-hsien Hou ; France added June 09
7. Zodiac - David Fincher ; U.S
8. Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon - Eric Rohmer ; France/Italy/Spain
9. Death Proof - Quentin Tarantino ; U.S.
10. Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy ; U.S.
11. Ratatouille - Brad Bird ; U.S.
12. The Bourne Ultimatum - Paul Greengrass ; U.S.
13. Superbad - Greg Mottola ; U.S.
14. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters - Seth Gordon ; U.S. added Apr. 09
15. Auf der anderen Seite / The Edge of Heaven - Fatih Akin ; Germany/Turkey/Italy added July 09
16. Encounters at the End of the World - Werner Herzog ; U.S.
17. The Savages - Tamara Jenkins ; U.S. added May 09
18. Margot at the Wedding - Noah Baumbach ; U.S.
19. Hot Fuzz - Edgar Wright ; UK
20. The Kingdom - Peter Berg ; U.S.
21. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - Jake Kasdan ; U.S.
22. Knocked Up - Judd Apatow ; U.S.
23. Dan In Real Life - Peter Hedges - U.S.
24. The Simpsons - David Silverman ; U.S.
25. Charlie Wilson's War - Mike Nichols ; U.S.
26. 3:10 to Yuma - James Mangold ; U.S.
27. Stardust - Matthew Vaughn ; U.S.
28. The Mist - Frank Darabont ; U.S.
29. Spider-Man 3 - Sam Raimi ; U.S.
30. Super High Me - Michael Blieden ; U.S.

2006

1. INLAND EMPIRE - David Lynch ; U.S.
2. Sang sattawat / Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; Thailand/France/Austria added Jan. 08
3. Old Joy - Kelly Reichardt ; U.S.
4. Zwartboek / Black Book - Paul Verhoeven ; Netherlands/Germany/Belgium added Jan. 08
5. Gwoemul / The Host - Joon-ho Bong ; U.S.
6. The Departed - Martin Scorsese ; U.S.
7. Little Children - Todd Field ; U.S.
8. Marie Antoinette - Sofia Coppola ; Japan/France/U.S.
9. Volver - Pedro Almodovar ; Spain
10. Rescue Dawn - Werner Herzog ; U.S.
11. The Black Dahlia - Brian De Palma ; Germany/U.S.
12. Bug - William Friedkin ; U.S.
13. Brand Upon the Brain - Guy Maddin ; Canada added May 09
14. Children of Men - Alfonso Cuaron ; UK/Mexico
15. A Scanner Darkly - Richard Linklater ; U.S.
16. Sakebi / Retribution - Kiyoshi Kurosawa ; Japan added June 09
17. Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo Del Toro ; Mexico
18. A Prairie Home Companion - Robert Altman ; U.S.
19. La Science des rêves / The Science of Sleep - Michel Gondry ; France/Italy
20. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Larry Charles ; U.S.
21. Miami Vice - Michael Mann ; U.S.
22. Imprint - Takashi Miike ; Japan/U.S.
23. An Inconvenient Truth - Davis Guggenheim, Al Gore ; U.S.
24. Flags Of Our Fathers - Clint Eastwood ; U.S. added 08/08
25. Mission Impossible III - J.J. Abrahms ; U.S.
26. Casino Royale - Martin Campbell ; UK/U.S.
27. The TV Set - Jake Kasdan ; U.S. added Apr. 09
28. Silent Hill - Christopher Gans ; U.S.
29. Idiocracy - Mike Judge ; U.S.
30. Little Miss Sunshine - Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris ; U.S.
31. Thank You For Smoking - Jason Reitman ; U.S.
32. My Super Ex-Girlfriend - Ivan Reitman ; U.S.
33. X-Men: The Last Stand - Brett Rattner ; U.S.
34. 300 - Zack Snyder ; U.S. added 11/08

2005

1. A History of Violence - David Cronenberg ; U.S.
2. [Caché] / Hidden - Michael Haneke ; France/Austria/Germany/Italy a
3. L'Enfant / The Child - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne ; Belgium/France
4. Zui hao de shi guang / Three Times - Hsiao-hsien Hou ; France/Taiwan
5. Grizzly Man - Werner Herzog ; U.S.
6. The New World - Terrence Malick ; U.S.
7. Broken Flowers - Jim Jarmusch ; U.S.
8. Match Point - Woody Allen ; U.S.
9. A Cock and Bull Story - Michael Winterbottom ; UK
10. Brokeback Mountain - Ang Lee ; U.S.
11. Me And You And Everyone We Know - Miranda July ; U.S.
12. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Steve Box, Nick Park ; UK
13. The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach ; U.S.
14. King Kong - Peter Jackson ; NZ/U.S.
15. Good Night, and Good Luck - George Clooney ; U.S.
16. War of the Worlds - Steven Spielberg ; U.S.
17. Hak se wui / Election - Johnnie To ; Hong Kong
18. Brick - Rian Johnson ; U.S.
19. Land of the Dead - George A. Romero ; Canada/France/U.S.
20. The 40 Year Old Virgin - Judd Apatow ; U.S.
21. The Constant Gardner - Fernando Meirelles ; Germany/UK
22. Syriana - Stephen Gaghan ; U.S.
23. Thumbsucker - Mike Mills ; U.S. added 10/08
24. The Matador - Richard Shepard ; U.S./Germany/Ireland
25. Constantine - Francis Lawrence ; U.S.
26. The Ice Harvest - Harold Ramis ; U.S. added 10/08
27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Garth Jennings ; U.S.
28. Batman Begins - Christopher Nolan ; U.S.
29. Fun With Dick and Jane - Dean Parisot ; U.S.
30. Sin City - Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez ; U.S.
31. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Shane Black ; U.S. added 10/08
32. Assault on Precinct 13 - Jean-Francois Richet ; U.S.
33. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - George Lucas ; U.S.
34. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Tim Burton ; U.S./UK

2004

1. Sud pralad / Tropical Malady - Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; Thailand/France/Germany/Italy
2. Notre musique - Jean-Luc Godard ; France/Switzerland
3. L'Intrus - Claire Denis ; France
4. 2046 - Kar-Wai Wong ; China/France/Germany/Hong Kong
5. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou - Wes Anderson ; U.S.
6. Hauru no ugoku shiro / Howl's Moving Castle - Hayao Miyazaki
7. Triple agent - Eric Rohmer ; France/Greece/Italy/Russia/Spain
8. La Niña santa / The Holy Girl - Lucrecia Martel ; Argentina/Italy/Netherlands/Spain
9. Hål i mitt hjärta, Ett / A Hole In My Heart - Lukas Moodysson ; Sweden/Denmark
10. Rois et reine / Kings and Queen - Arnaud Desplechin ; France
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry ; U.S.
12. Before Sunset - Richard Linklater ; U.S./France
13. La Mala educación / Bad Education - Pedro Almodóvar ; Spain
14. Kill Bill, Vol. 2 - Quentin Tarantino ; U.S.
15. Birth - Jonathan Glazer ; U.S.
16. Izo - Takashi Miike ; Japan
17. The Incredibles - Brad Bird ; U.S.
18. The Bourne Supremacy - Paul Greengrass ; U.S.
19. Shaun of the Dead - Edgar Wright ; UK
20. Dare mo shiranai / Nobody Knows - Hirokazu Koreeda ; Japan
21. Hellboy - Guillermo del Toro ; U.S.
22. The Manchurian Candidate - Jonathan Demme ; U.S.
23. The White Diamond - Werner Herzog ; UK/Germany
24. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Stephen Hillenburg ; U.S.
25. Confidences trop intimes / Intimate Strangers - Patrice Leconte ; France
26. Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army / Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst - Robert Stone ; U.S.
27. The Aviator - Martin Scorsese ; U.S.
28. I Heart Huckabee's - David O. Russell ; U.S.
29. Collateral - Michael Mann ; U.S.
30. Il Cartaio / The Card Player - Dario Argento ; Italy
31. Control Room - Jehane Noujaim ; U.S.
32. Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore ; U.S.
33. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism - Robert Greenwald ; U.S.
34. In Good Company - Paul Weitz ; U.S.
35. Hotel Rwanda - Terry George ; U.S.
36. The Terminal - Steven Spielberg ; U.S.
37. The Ladykillers - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen ; U.S.
38. Spider-Man 2 - Sam Raimi ; U.S.
39. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry - George Butler ; U.S.
40. Starsky & Hutch - Todd Phillips ; U.S.
41. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy - Adam McKay ; U.S.

2003

1. Saraband - Ingmar Bergman ; Sweden 

2. Le Temps du loup / The Time of the Wolf - Michael Haneke ; France/Austria/Germany 3. Bu san / Goodbye Dragon Inn - Ming-Liang Tsai ; Taiwan  
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Peter Jackson ; NZ/U.S.
5. Pas sur la bouche / Not on the Lips - Alain Resnais ; France
6. Histoire de Marie et Julien - Jacques Rivette ; France
7. Talaye sorkh / Crimson Gold - Jafar Panahi ; Iran 
8. The Saddest Music in the World - Guy Maddin ; Canada 
9. How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass / Baadasssss! - Mario Van Peebles ; U.S. 
10. Zatôichi - Takeshi Kitano ; Japan a
11. Fog of War - Errol Morris ; U.S.
12. Bright Leaves - Ross McElwee ; U.S./UK
13. Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola ; U.S./Japan
14. La Fleur du mal / The Flower of Evil - Claude Chabrol ; France 
15. All the Real Girls - David Gordon Green ; U.S.
16. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - Mike Hodges ; UK 
17. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 - Quentin Tarantino ; U.S.
18. Coffee and Cigarettes - Jim Jarmusch ; U.S.
19. End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones - Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia ; U.S.
20. The Dreamers - Bernardo Bertolucci ; France
21. Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu - Takeshi Miike ; Japan
22. Les Triplettes de Belleville - Sylvain Chomet ; France
23. The School of Rock - Richard Linklater ; U.S.
24. American Splendor - Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini ; U.S.
25. Anything Else - Woody Allen ; U.S.
26. Ju-on: The Grudge - Takashi Shimizu ; Japan
27. Northfork - Michael Polish ; U.S.
28. Destino - Dominique Monfrey ; France/U.S.
29. Swimming Pool - Francois Ozon ; France/UK
30. Finding Nemo - Andrew Stanton ; U.S.
31. A Mighty Wind - Christopher Guest ; U.S.
32. X2: X-Men United - Bryan Singer ; U.S.
33. The Hulk - Ang Lee ; U.S.
34. Identity - James Mangold ; U.S.
35. Big Fish - Tim Burton ; U.S.
36. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - Jonathan Mostow ; U.S./Germany/UK
37. The Matrix: Reloaded - Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski ; U.S.
38. House of 1000 Corpses - Rob Zombie ; U.S.

2002

1. Spider - David Cronenberg ; Canada/UK
2. Lilja 4-ever - Lukas Moodysson ; Russia/Sweden
3. Le Fils / The Son - Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ; Belgium added 9/02/04
4. Vendredi soir - Claire Denis ; France
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Peter Jackson ; NZ/U.S.
6. Far From Heaven - Todd Haynes ; U.S.
7. Hable con ella / Talk to Her - Pedro Almodovar ; Spain
8. Ten - Abbas Kiarostami ; Iran/France
9. Punch Drunk Love - Paul Thomas Anderson ; U.S.
10. Russian Ark - Aleksandr Sokurov ; Russia
11. demonlover - Olivier Assayas ; France added 11/26/04
12. Sud sanaeha / Blissfully Yours - Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; Thaland/France Dec. 07
13. Mies vailla menneisyytta / The Man Without a Past - Aki Kaurismaki ; Finland
14. Femme Fatale - Brian De Palma ; France
15. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary - Guy Maddin ; Canada moved 12/02/04
16. Les Glaneurs et la glanuese... deux ans aprés / Two Years Later - Agnés Varda ; France added 05/31/06
17. 24 Hour Party People - Michael Winterbottom ; UK Nov. 07
18. Minority Report - Steven Spielberg ; U.S.
19. Gangs of New York - Martin Scorsese ; U.S. added Dec. 06
20. Uzak / Distant - Nuri Bilge Ceylan ; Turkey added 7/28/05
21. Secretary - Steven Shainberg ; U.S.
22. The Bourne Identity - Doug Liman ; U.S. added Jan. 08
23. The Weather Underground - Sam Green, Bill Siegel
24. Hollywood Ending - Woody Allen ; U.S.
25. Adaptation - Spike Jonze ; U.S.
26. 28 Days Later - Danny Boyle ; UK moved 12/28/04
27. Cuckoo - Alexander Rogozhin ; Russia
28. Dirty Pretty Things - Stephen Frears ; UK
29. Fellini: Je suisun grand menteur / I'm a Born Liar - Damian Pettigrew ; France/Italy/UK added 8/09/04
30. Spellbound - Jeffrey Blitz ; U.S.
31. Ying xiong / Hero - Yimou Zhang ; Hong Kong/China added 12/18/04
32. Cinemania - Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak ; Germany/U.S. added 02/17/06
33. Catch Me If You Can - Steven Spielberg ; U.S.
34. Comedian - Christian Charles ; U.S.
35. Hukkle - Gyorgy Palfi ; Hungary added 05/22/06
36. Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns - A.J. Schnack ; U.S.
37. Tan de repente / Suddenly - Diego Lerman ; Argentina
38. Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore ; U.S.
39. Panic Room - David Fincher ; U.S.
40. Road to Perdition - Sam Mendes ; U.S.
41. Spider-Man - Sam Raimi ; U.S.
42. Blade II - Guillermo Del Toro ; U.S.
43. Sunshine State - John Sayles ; U.S.
44. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - Peter Care ; U.S.
45. About Schmidt - Alexander Payne ; U.S.
46. Reign of Fire - Rob Bowman ; UK/Ireland/U.S.
47. Signs - M. Night Shyamalan ; U.S.
48. Phone Booth - Joel Schumacher ; U.S. added 01/22/06
49. Star Trek: Nemesis - Stuart Baird ; U.S.
50. Bubba Ho-Tep - Don Coscarelli ; U.S. added 06/25/06
51. The Guru - Daisy von Scherler Mayer ; UK/France/U.S. added 11/29/04
52. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones - George Lucas ; U.S.
53. L'Auberge espagnole - Cédric Klapisch ; France/Spain

2001

1. Eloge de l'amour / In Praise of Love - Jean-Luc Godard ; France/Switzerland
2. La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke ; France/Austria/Poland
3. Trouble Every Day - Claire Denis ; France/Germany/Japan
4. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi / Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki ; Japan
5. The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson ; U.S.
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson ; NZ/U.S.
7. Pistol Opera - Seijun Suzuki ; Japan
8. Ni neibian jidian / What Time Is It There? - Tsai Ming-liang ; Taiwan/France
9. Va savoir - Jacques Rivette ; France/Italy
10. Mulholland Drive - David Lynch ; U.S./France
11. Qianxi manbo / Millenium Mambo - Hsiao-hsein Hou ; Taiwan/France
12. Kairo / Pulse - Kiyoshi Kurosawa ; Japan
13. L'Anglaise et le duc / The Lady and the Duke - Eric Rohmer ; France
14. The Man Who Wasn't There - Joel Coen ; U.S.
15. Le Souvenir d'un avenir / Remembrance of Things to Come - Yannick Bellon, Chris Marker ; France
16. Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly ; U.S.
17. Shiqi sui de dan che / Beijing Bicycle - Xiaoshuai Wang ; Taiwan
18. Bartleby - Johnathan Parker ; U.S.
19. Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu / Warm Water Under a Red Bridge - Shohei Imamura ; Japan
20. Human Nature - Michel Gondry ; U.S.
21. Tape - Richard Linklater ; U.S.
22. Invincible - Werner Herzog ; U.S./UK/Germany
23. Waking Life - Richard Linklater ; U.S.
24. Wet Hot American Summer - David Wain ; U.S.
25. Hell House - George Ratliff ; U.S.
26. Le Peuple migrateur / Winged Migration - Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats ; France
27. Kurosawa - Adam Low ; UK/U.S./Japan
28. El Espinazo del diablo / The Devil's Backbone - Guillermo Del Toro ; Spain/Mexico
29. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion - Woody Allen ; U.S.
30. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - Steven Spielberg ; U.S.
31. Scotland, Pa. - Billy Morrisette ; U.S. added Jan. 08
32. Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain / Amelie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet ; France
33. Y tu mama tambien - Alfonso Cuaron ; Mexico
34. From Hell - The Hughes Brothers ; U.S.
35. Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira - Shinichiro Watanabe ; Japan/U.S.
36. Vanilla Sky - Cameron Crowe ; U.S.
37. Evolution - Ivan Reitman ; U.S.
38. Ghosts of Mars - John Carpenter ; U.S.
39. Hannibal - Ridley Scott ; UK/U.S.
40. Planet of the Apes - Tim Burton ; U.S.
41. A Knight's Tale - Brian Helgeland ; U.S.
42. The Score - Frank Oz ; U.S.
43. Moulin Rouge! - Baz Luhrmann ; Australia/U.S.
44. Antitrust - Peter Howitt ; U.S.
45. Jurassic Park III - Joe Johnston ; U.S.
46. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - Kevin Smith ; U.S.
47. Pearl Harbor - Michael Bay ; U.S.
48. Shrek - Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson ; U.S.
49. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - Simon West ; UK/Germany/U.S./Japan
50. 3,000 Miles to Graceland - Demian Lichtenstein ; U.S.