Best and Worst: 2004: Film: Critics' 10 Best Synopsis

Submitted by dgeiser13 on Tue, 12/07/2004 - 09:58
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  1. 0026.00 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - D: Michel Gondry
  2. 0021.00 Before Sunset (2004) - Richard Linklater
  3. 0018.00 Notre Musique (2004) (aka Our Music) - D: Jean-Luc Godard
  4. 0017.00 Sideways (2004) - D: Alexander Payne
  5. 0015.00 Five (2003) - D: Abbas Kiarostami
  6. 0014.00 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) - D: Quentin Tarantino
  7. 0014.00 Tarnation (2003) - D: Jonathan Caouette
  8. 0013.00 La Mala Educación (2004) (aka Bad Education) - D: Pedro Almodóvar
  9. 0011.00 The Big Red One (1980) - D: Samuel Fuller
  10. 0010.00 Innocence (2004) - D: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
  11. 0010.00 Kôhî jikô (2003) (aka Café Lumière) - D: Hou Hsiao-hsien
  12. 0010.00 Shi Mian Mai Fu (2004) (aka House of Flying Daggers) - D: Zhang Yimou
  13. 0010.00 Shijie (2004) (aka The World) - D: Jia Zhang-ke
  14. 0009.00 Baadasssss! (2003) - D: Mario Van Peebles
  15. 0009.00 Bad Santa (2003) - D: Terry Zwigoff
  16. 0009.00 Collateral (2004) - D: Michael Mann
  17. 0008.00 () (2003) - D: Morgan Fisher
  18. 0008.00 10e chambre - Instants d'audience (2004) - D: Raymond Depardon
  19. 0008.00 Bu san (2003) (aka Goodbye Dragon Inn) - D: Tsai Ming-liang
  20. 0008.00 Lost in Translation (2003) - D: Sofia Coppola
  21. 0008.00 Osama (2003) - D: Siddiq Barmak
  22. 0008.00 The Mother (2003) - D: Roger Michell
  23. 0007.00 5x2 (2004) - D: François Ozon
  24. 0007.00 Lo Sguardo di Michelangelo (2004) (aka Michelangelo Eye to Eye)- D: Michelangelo Antonioni
  25. 0007.00 Million Dollar Baby (2004) - D: Clint Eastwood
  26. 0007.00 Rheinmetall/Victoria 8 - D: Rodney Graham
  27. 0007.00 Um Filme Falado (2003) (aka A Talking Picture) - D: Manoel de Oliveira
  28. 0006.00 Diarios de Motocicleta (2004) - D: Walter Salles
  29. 0006.00 Le Conseguenze dell'amore (2004) (aka The Consequences of Love) - D: Paolo Sorrentino
  30. 0006.00 Not Yet - Jim O'Rourke
  31. 0006.00 Primer (2004) - D: Shane Carruth
  32. 0006.00 Shaun of the Dead (2004) - D: Edgar Wright
  33. 0006.00 The Brown Bunny (2003) - D: Vincent Gallo
  34. 0005.00 Cowards Bend the Knee (2003) - D: Guy Maddin
  35. 0005.00 Sud pralad (2004) (aka Tropical Malady) - D: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  36. 0005.00 The Aviator (2004) - D: Martin Scorsese
  37. 0005.00 The Dreamers (2003) - D: Bernardo Bertolucci
  38. 0005.00 The Station Agent (2003) - D: Thomas McCarthy
  39. 0005.00 The Uncles - D: Tacita Dean
  40. 0005.00 Ying Xiong (2002) (aka Hero)- D: Zhang Yimou
  41. 0004.00 Friday Night Lights (2004) - D: Peter Berg
  42. 0004.00 Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004) - D: George Butler
  43. 0004.00 Man on Fire (2004) - D: Tony Scott
  44. 0004.00 The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - D: Paul Greengrass
  45. 0004.00 The Incredibles (2004) - D: Brad Bird
  46. 0004.00 The Machinist (2004) - D: Brad Anderson
  47. 0004.00 Vento di terra (2004) - D: Vincenzo Marra
  48. 0003.00 Aaltra (2004) - D: Benoît Delépine
  49. 0003.00 Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) - D: Michael Moore
  50. 0003.00 La Blessure (2004) - D: Nicolas Klotz
  51. 0003.00 Memory Bucket - D: Jeremy Deller
  52. 0003.00 The Cooler (2003) - D: Wayne Kramer
  53. 0003.00 The Manchurian Candidate (2004) - D: Jonathan Demme
  54. 0003.00 The Saddest Music in the World (2003) - D: Guy Maddin
  55. 0002.67 Wu Jian Dao (2002) (aka Infernal Affairs)- Andrew Lau and Alan Mok
  56. 0002.67 Wu Jian Dao 2 (2003) (aka Infernal Affairs 2)- Andrew Lau and Alan Mok
  57. 0002.67 Wu Jian Dao 3 (2003) (aka Infernal Affairs 3)- Andrew Lau and Alan Mok
  58. 0002.00 Arna's Children (2003) - D: Danniel Danniel and Juliano Mer Khamis
  59. 0002.00 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - D: Alfonso Cuarón
  60. 0002.00 Spider-Man 2 (2004) - D: Sam Raimi
  61. 0002.00 Top Spot (2004) - D: Tracy Emin
  62. 0001.00 Kinsey (2004) - D: Bill Condon
  63. 0001.00 Luke (1967) - Bruce Conner
  64. 0001.00 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) - D: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
  65. 0001.00 The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) - D: David Twohy
  66. 0001.00 Trilogia I: To Livadi pou dakryzei (2004) (aka Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow) - D: Theo Angelopoulos
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Synopsis: One critic, one voice, one top ten list.

Scoring: The number ten film gets 1 point and the number one film gets 10 points. Everything in between is distributed accordingly. If a critic places 2 films in the same position on the list, e.g. Tied for 1st, then the points for that position are split between the two films. If a critic provides their top 10 movies but doesn't bother to rank them then the total points (55) are split evenly across the list as a whole.

Critics Tallied Herein: David Ansen, Jack Foley, Brandon Gattis, Chrissie Iles, James Quandt, Jonathan Romney, Amy Taubin, John Waters

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