2004 Top Ten List
Primer (Shane Carruth)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell)
Spartan (David Mamet)
3-iron (Kim Ki-duk)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Red Lights (Cédric Kahn)
Whisky (Pablo Stoll & Juan Pablo Rebella)
Additional 2004 Films By Rating
Head-On (Fatih Akin)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
Touch the Sound (Thomas Riedelsheimer)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
Control Room (Jehane Noujaim)
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder)
Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
In Your Hands (Annette K. Olesen)
Miracle (Gavin O'Connor)
Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
Innocence (Lucile Hadžihalilović)
Citizen Dog (Wisit Sasanatieng)
The Big Bounce (George Armitage)
I, Robot (Alex Proyas)
Riding Giants (Stacy Peralta)
My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke)
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
DiG! (Ondi Timoner)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Lech Majewski)
The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis)
Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
Mindhunters (Renny Harlin)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
13 Lakes (James Benning)
Cinévardaphoto (Agnès Varda)
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
District B13 (Pierre Morel)
Le Pont des Arts (Eugène Green)
Intimate Strangers (Patrice Leconte)
Clean (Olivier Assayas)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
Sideways (Alexander Payne)
Stray Dogs (Marziyeh Meshkini)
Howl's Moving Castle (Hiyao Miyazaki)
Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston)
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
Undertow (David Gordon Green)
The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)
The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis)
The World (Jia Zhangke)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Stephen Hillenburg)
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón)
The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme)
Enduring Love (Roger Michell)
p.s. (Dylan Kidd)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay)
Changing Times (André Téchiné)
Brothers (Susanne Bier)
Troy (Wolfgang Petersen)
Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes)
Canary (Akihiko Shiota)
Closer (Mike Nichols)
The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino)
Millions (Danny Boyle)
Antares (Götz Spielmann)
The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial (Raymond Depardon)
The Edukators (Hans Weingartner)
The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii)
13 Going on 30 (Gary Winick)
Zebraman (Takashi Miike)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Mueller)
Gilles' Wife (Frédéric Fonteyne)
Three...Extremes (Fruit Chan/Park ChanWook/Takashi Miike)
4 (Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
The Bridesmaid (Claude Chabrol)
The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams)
Broken Lizard's Club Dread (Jay Chandrasekhar)
The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
Cellular (David R. Ellis)
Eros (Wong Kar Wai/Steven Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni)
Or (My Treasure) (Keren Yedaya)
To Take a Wife (Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz)
The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chris Marker)
Calvaire (Fabrice du Welz)
Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
Keane (Lodge Kerrigan)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
Bergman Island (Marie Nyreröd)
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui)
A Very Long Engagement (Jean Pierre Jeunet)
Ten Skies (James Benning)
Kinsey (Bill Condon)
Melinda and Melinda (Woody Allen)
Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg)
Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro)
A tout de suite (Benoît Jacquot)
Persons of Interest (Alison Maclean & Tobias Perse)
Team America: World Police (Trey Parker)
Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs)
Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury & Conrad Vernon)
Lightning in a Bottle (Antoine Fuqua)
Disney's Teacher's Pet (Timothy Björklund)
Omagh (Pete Travis)
Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)
Ae Fond Kiss... (Ken Loach)
Izo (Takashi Miike)
Finding Neverland (Marc Forster)
We Don't Live Here Anymore (John Curran)
They Came Back (Robin Campillo)
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
The Ladykillers (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
Land of Plenty (Wim Wenders)
National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub)
Life Is a Miracle (Emir Kusturica)
Private (Saverio Costanzo)
Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips)
Man on Fire (Tony Scott)
Kings & Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Ella Enchanted (Tommy O'Haver)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
The Girl Next Door (Luke Greenfield)
5 x 2 (François Ozon)
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner)
A hole in my heart (Lukas Moodysson)
The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)
In Good Company (Paul Weitz)
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (Kevin Willmott)
Tomorrow We Move (Chantal Akerman)
Spanglish (James L. Brooks)
Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Everyday People (Jim McKay)
Samaritan Girl (Kim Ki-duk)
The Village (M. Night Shyamalan)
Twist of Faith (Kirby Dick)
Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
Criminal (Gregory Jacobs)
When Will I Be Loved (James Toback)
Pusher II (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Mondovino (Jonathan Nossiter)
Exiles (Tony Gatlif)
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Lu Chuan)
My Father Is an Engineer (Robert Guédiguian)
Secret Window (David Koepp)
Throwdown (Johnnie To)
The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell)
Vital (Shinya Tsukamoto)
The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
Ray (Taylor Hackford)
Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
Silver City (John Sayles)
Breaking News (Johnnie To)
Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach)
Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer)
Saw (James Wan)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
In the Battlefields (Danielle Arbid)
Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi)
The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes)
Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
Innocence (Mamoru Oshii)
Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
Wimbledon (Richard Loncraine)
Laws of Attraction (Peter Howitt)
The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu)
El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime) (Alex de la Iglesia)
Beyond the Sea (Kevin Spacey)
Pirated Copy (He Jian-Jun)
Up and Down (Jan Hrebejk)
Rolling Family (Pablo Trapero)
The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson)
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (Asia Argento)
She Hate Me (Spike Lee)
The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber)
The Intruder (Claire Denis)
Never Die Alone (Ernest Dickerson)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Stephen Hopkins)
Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)
In My Country (John Boorman)
Envy (Barry Levinson)
Anatomy of Hell (Catherine Breillat)
The Weeping Meadow (Theo Angelopoulos)
Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
Los muertos (Lisandro Alonso)
Crash (Paul Haggis)
10 on Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)