2003 Films: Ranked

Submitted by hinterland on Thu, 02/03/2005 - 06:57
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  1. -=10=-

  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, US/New Zealand)
  3. Vibrator (Ryuichi Hiroki, Japan) Road Movie

  4. -=9=-

  5. Gozu (Takashi Miike, Japan) Surreal Oddity
  6. Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/Japan) Drama/Romance
  7. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, S. Korea) Baroque Revenge
  8. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Judy Irving, US) Parrot Documentary
  9. Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, Japan) Blind Samurai
  10. A Tale of Two Sisters (Ji-woon Kim, S. Korea) Horror

  11. -=8=-

  12. Dogville (Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden) Allegory
  13. Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
  14. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Ki-duk Kim, S. Korea)
  15. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, S. Korea) Detective Drama
  16. Classic (Jae-young Kwak, S. Korea) Romance
  17. ...ing (Eon-hie Lee, S. Korea) Romance/Melodrama
  18. Big Fish (Tim Burton, US) Fantasy/Adventure/Melodrama
  19. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu, US) Interconnecting Dramas
  20. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, US) Pirates!
  21. Azumi (Ryuhei Kitamura, Japan) Live-Action Anime/Manga
  22. One Missed Call (Takashi Miike, Japan) Cell Phone Ringu
  23. Collage of Our Life (Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Japan)
  24. Villmark (Pål Øie, Norway) Horror in the Woods
  25. If You Were Me (Various, S. Korea) Human Rights
  26. Open Water (Chris Kentis, US) Lost at Sea
  27. X2 (Bryan Singer, US) Mutants

  28. -=7=-

  29. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, US) Drama
  30. Bad Santa
  31. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  32. Lost in Translation
  33. The Blue Light
  34. Aragami
  35. Please Teach Me English
  36. Spring Bears Love
  37. Love Actually (Richard Curtis, UK/US) Romance/Comedy
  38. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  39. School of Rock
  40. Success
  41. Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
  42. The Matrix Reloaded
  43. The Matrix Revolutions
  44. High Tension (Alexandre Aja, France) Grindhouse/Horror
  45. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  46. The I Inside
  47. The Messenger
  48. Stara basn. Kiedy slonce bylo bogiem
  49. The Station Agent
  50. House of 1000 Corpses (Rob Zombie, US) Grindhouse/Horror
  51. Negotiator [Kôshônin] (Takashi Miike, Japan) Crime/Mystery
  52. Open Range
  53. Wonderful Days
  54. The Barbarian Invasions
  55. The Fog of War (Errol Morris, US) Documentary/War
  56. Dead End

  57. -=6=-

  58. Noi the Albino
  59. 1-Ichi
  60. Uninvited
  61. The Five Obstructions
  62. Finding Nemo
  63. Elephant
  64. Infernal Affairs II (Wai Keung Lau/Siu Fai Mak, HK/China) Crime/Drama
  65. I'm Not Scared (Gabriele Salvatores, Italy) Drama/Quasi-Thriller
  66. Elf
  67. Hulk
  68. Ju-on: The Grudge
  69. Kontroll
  70. Kopps
  71. My Life Without Me (Isabel Coixet, Canada/Spain) Melodrama
  72. Ju-on: The Grudge 2
  73. Sky High
  74. Frazetta: Painting with Fire (Lance Laspina, US) Biopic
  75. Under the Tuscan Sun
  76. Singles
  77. Underworld (Len Wiseman, US/Germany/Hungary/UK) Action/Thriller
  78. Save the Green Planet (Joon-Hwan Jang, S. Korea) Aliens! Kill them!
  79. 11:14 (Greg Marcks, US/Canada) Happenstance
  80. Freddy Vs. Jason
  81. Sweet Sex and Love
  82. Veronica Guerin
  83. Pieces of April

  84. -=5=-

  85. Code 46
  86. Spring Breeze
  87. Ong-bak
  88. Undead
  89. Reversal of Fortune (Yong-woon Park, S. Korea) Life Switching Comedy
  90. The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, UK/France/Italy) Coming of Age
  91. Monster
  92. How to Deal
  93. Old School
  94. American Wedding
  95. Scary Movie 3
  96. Skagerrak (Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Denmark) Drama
  97. Buddy (Morten Tyldum, Norway) Friendship/Comedy/Romance
  98. Anything Else (Woody Allen, US) Comedy/Drama/Romance
  99. The Crescent Moon (Kil-soo Chang, S. Korea) Melodrama
  100. Something's Gotta Give
  101. The Italian Job
  102. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
  103. Brother Bear
  104. Battle Royale II
  105. D.E.B.S. (Short)
  106. All The Real Girls (David Gordon Green, US) Heavyhanded Drama
  107. The Hebrew Hammer

  108. -=4=-

  109. Café Lumière (Hsiao-hsien Hou, Japan/Taiwan) Ozu Tribute
  110. Wild Berries (Miwa Nishikawa, Japan) Drama
  111. The Corporation (Mark Achbar/Jennifer Abbott, Canada) Polemic
  112. Identity (James Mangold, US) Mystery/Thriller
  113. Haggard: The Movie (Bam Margera, US/Canada)
  114. Kikoku (Takashi Miike, Japan) Yakuza Drama
  115. It's All About Love (Thomas Vinterberg, US/Denmark) Title Says All
  116. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

  117. -=3=-

  118. The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, US) Artsy Ennui
  119. Anger Management (Peter Segal, US) Unfunny Comedy
  120. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Donald Petrie, US) Weak Romance/Comedy
  121. Show Show Show (Jeong-ho Kim, S. Korea) Period Comedy
  122. Ultrachrist! (Kerry Douglas Dye, US) Amateur/Low Budget Cheese

  123. -=2=-

  124. House of the Dead (Uwe Boll, US/Germany/Canada) Horror
  125. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, US) Worthless Shorts
  126. Fat Pizza (Paul Fenech, Australia) Terrible Comedy

  127. -=1=-

  128. Red Cockroaches (Miguel Coyula, US/Cuba) Completely Incompetent
Author Comments: 

Formerly the top 10 of 2003 list now expanded to include (most) all of the movies I've seen of 2003.

Many of these need re-rating though.