While I was reviewing, I was required to generate yearly top-ten lists. Here they are, with a caveat: I tend to skip action, horror, and dumb Hollywood rom-coms.
top ten: 2006
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Lives of Others
- Borat
- Mongolian Ping Pong
- The Real Dirt on Farmer John
- Lonesome Jim
- The Queen
- The Science of Sleep
- Mutual Appreciation
- Half Nelson
top ten: 2005
- The Squid and the Whale
- Look at Me
- Good Night, and Good Luck
- Capote
- Thumbsucker
- Murderball
- Sunset Story
- Brokeback Mountain
- Mondovino
- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
top ten: 2004
- Maria Full of Grace
- Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
- The Mother
- Vera Drake
- Sideways
- Before Sunset
- Twilight Samurai
- Osama
- Napoleon Dynamite
- I Heart Huckabees
top ten: 2003
- Lost in Translation
- Capturing the Friedmans
- American Splendor
- Monster
- Spellbound
- Lost Boys of Sudan
- Whale Rider
- In America
- Girlhood
- The Fog of War
