2002 Top Ten List
25th Hour (Spike Lee)
Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
Hero (Zhang Yimou)
Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
An Amazing Couple (Lucas Belvaux)
Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
8 Women (François Ozon)
Irreversible (Gaspar Noé)
Daughter From Danang (Gail Dolgin & Vicente Franco)
Bus 174 (José Padilha)
Additional 2002 Films By Rating
Panic Room (David Fincher)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
On the Run (Lucas Belvaux)
Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett)
Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
An Injury to One (Travis Wilkerson)
In My Skin (Marina de Van)
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin)
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
The Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph)
Blue Gate Crossing (Yee Chih-yen)
The Good Thief (Neil Jordan)
Charlotte Sometimes (Eric Byler)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd)
demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
Heaven (Tom Tykwer)
Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Respiro (Emanuele Crialese)
Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada)
24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
Love & Diane (Jennifer Dworkin)
Cypher (Vincenzo Natali)
Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman)
Friday Night (Claire Denis)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Bungalow (Ulrich Köhler)
The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
Stevie (Steve James)
Derrida (Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering Kofman)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
Cinemania (Angela Christlieb & Stephen Kijak)
Welcome to Collinwood (Anthony & Joe Russo)
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach)
Possession (Neil LaBute)
Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (Brett Morgen & Nanette Burstein)
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
Sunshine State (John Sayles)
The Ring (Gore Verbinski)
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan)
A Red Bear (Israel Adrián Caetano)
Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
Catch Me if You Can (Steven Spielberg)
The Three Marias (Aluizio Abranches)
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Sam Jones)
The Slaughter Rule (Andrew & Alex Smith)
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
Angel on the Right (Djamshed Usmonov)
Mondays in the Sun Fernando León de Aranoa)
Marie-Jo and Her 2 Loves (Robert Guédiguian)
Stone Reader (Mark Moskowitz)
Safe Conduct (Bertrand Tavernier)
Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney)
Black Tape: A Tehran Diary (Fariborz Kamkari)
Undisputed (Walter Hill)
The Cuckoo (Alexander Rogozhkin)
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (Jang Sun-woo)
Teenage Caveman (Larry Clark)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
About a Boy (Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz)
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (Shane Meadows)
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Eugene Jarecki)
Lilo & Stitch (Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois)
Guardian of the Frontier (Maja Weiss)
Jackass the Movie (Jeff Tremaine)
Road Movie (Kim In-sik)
Marooned in Iraq (Bahman Ghobadi)
Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda)
Ten Minutes Older—The Trumpet (Various)
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
Try Seventeen (Jeffrey Porter)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus)
Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
The Idol (Samantha Lang)
In America (Jim Sheridan)
Jim Brown: All American (Spike Lee)
Open Hearts (Susanne Bier)
Undercover Brother (Malcolm D. Lee)
The Sweatbox (John-Paul Davidson & Trudie Styler)
Blind Spot—Hitler's Secretary (André Heller & Othmar Schmiderer)
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Narc (Joe Carnahan)
Better Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin)
Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori)
The Housekeeper (Claude Berri)
Ararat (Atom Egoyan)
Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
After the Life (Lucas Belvaux)
Chicago (Rob Marshall)
Yossi & Jagger (Eytan Fox)
Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
Suddenly (Diego Lerman)
On_Line (Jed Weintrob)
A Peck on the Cheek (Mani Ratnam)
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (Peter Care)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
The Eye (Pang Brothers)
From the Other Side (Chantal Akerman)
Carnage (Delphine Gleize)
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce)
Amen. (Costa-Gavras)
Broken Wings (Nir Bergman)
Biggie and Tupac (Nick Broomfield)
Assassination Tango (Robert Duvall)
A Snake of June (Shinya Tsukamoto)
Only the Strong Survive (Chris Hegedus & D A Pennebaker)
Kedma (Amos Gitai)
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Lone Scherfig)
City by the Sea (Michael Caton-Jones)
Orange County (Jake Kasdan)
K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow)
Dix-sept fois Cécile Cassard (Christophe Honoré)
Cabin Fever (Eli Roth)
Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears)
Resident Evil (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne)
The Day I Will Never Forget (Kim Longinotto)
Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)
One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek)
Cry Woman (Liu Bingjian)
Murder by Numbers (Barbet Schroeder)
Dark Blue (Ron Shelton)
Personal Velocity (Rebecca Miller)
Flower & Garnet (Keith Behrman)
Secretary (Steven Shainberg)
Ken Park (Larry Clark & Ed Lachman)
Blue Car (Karen Moncrieff)
Love in the Time of Money (Peter Mattei)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney)
*Corpus Callosum (Michael Snow)
The Dancer Upstairs (John Malkovich)
Bemani (Dariush Mehrjui)
Lilya 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson)
Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher)
Spun (Jonas Akerlund)
Hollywood Ending (Woody Allen)
8 Mile (Curtis Hanson)
My Mother's Smile (Marco Bellocchio)
Eight Legged Freaks (Ellory Elkayem)
Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte)
S1m0ne (Andrew Niccol)
The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
Sister Helen (Rebecca Cammisa & Rob Fruchtman)
State of the Nation (various)
Dark Water (Hideo Nakata)
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (Takashi Miike)
Adolphe (Benoît Jacquot)
To Be and to Have (Nicolas Philibert)
Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Changing Lanes (Roger Michell)
The Coast Guard (Kim Ki-duk)
10 (Abbas Kiarostami)
Blood Work (Clint Eastwood)
The Nugget (Bill Bennett)
The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary)
Ice Age (Chris Wedge)
The Hours (Stephen Daldry)
A Loving Father (Jacob Berger)
Tadpole (Gary Winick)
Sex Is Comedy (Catherine Breillat)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (Laetitia Colombani)
Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
I'm the Father (Dani Levy)
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader)
Unknown Pleasures (Jia ZhangKe)
Monday Morning (Otar Iosseliani)
The Adversary (Nicole Garcia)
The Hard Word (Scott Roberts)
Ju-on (Takashi Shimizu)
The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce)
Seaside (Julie Lopes Curval)
The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme)
Returner (Takashi Yamazaki)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Sijie)
Resurrection (Akihiko Shiota)
High Crimes (Carl Franklin)
Bubba Ho-tep (Don Coscarelli)
Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
Wrecked on Road 17 (Luc Moullet)
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano)
DOA: Final (Takashi Miike)
Pipe Dream (John C. Walsh)
Blue Crush (John Stockwell)
Marathon (Amir Naderi)
El Bonaerense (Pablo Trapero)
Close Your Eyes (Nick Willing)
The Uncertainty Principle (Manoel de Oliveira)
Death to Smoochy (Danny DeVito)
L'Auberge espagnole (Cédric Klapisch)
Ted Bundy (Matthew Bright)
The Last Letter (Frederick Wiseman)
Spider (David Cronenberg)
September 11 (Various)
Chi-hwa-seon: Painted Fire (Im Kwon Taek)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan wook Park)
Virgin of Lust (Arturo Ripstein)
In This World (Michael Winterbottom)
Windtalkers (John Woo)
The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta)
The Embalmer (Matteo Garrone)
Novo (Jean-Pierre Limosin)
Waiting for Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Ten Minutes Older—The Cello (Various)
AKA (Duncan Roy)
Japón (Carlos Reygadas C.)
Bear's Kiss (Sergei Bodrov)
Bad Company (Joel Schumacher)
We Were Soldiers (Randall Wallace)
Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers)
Rollerball (John McTiernan)
Dragonfly (Tom Shadyac)
Snow Dogs (Brian Levant)