2005 Top Ten List
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry)
Who's Camus Anyway? (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
Down in the Valley (David Jacobson)
Brick (Rian Johnson)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
Frank Miller's Sin City (Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez)
Sky High (Mike Mitchell)
L'Enfant (The Child) (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Additional 2005 Films By Rating
Caché (Hidden) (Michael Haneke)
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
Mirrormask (Dave McKean)
War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki)
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box)
The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
Match Point (Woody Allen)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
The Descent (Neil Marshall)
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
Edmond (Stuart Gordon)
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Mike Johnson & Tim Burton)
Lonesome Jim (Steve Buscemi)
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
To Paint or Make Love (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu)
Sugar (Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley)
Tale of Cinema (Hong Sangsoo)
The Matador (Richard Shepard)
Tickets (Ermanno Olmi/Abbas Kiarostami/Ken Loach)
Duelist (Lee Myung-se)
Dear Wendy (Thomas Vinterberg)
Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer)
The New World (Terrence Malick) [initial late-2005 cut]
The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
9 Drawings for Projection (William Kentridge)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese)
La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrère)
Iron Island (Mohammad Rasoulof)
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Albert Brooks)
Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney)
Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (Liam Lynch)
Through the Forest (Jean Paul Civeyrac)
Workingman's Death (Michael Glawogger)
Angel (Jim McKay)
March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Zhang Yimou)
Lassie (Charles Sturridge)
Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman)
Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega)
49 Up (Michael Apted)
Oliver Twist (Roman Polanski)
Cold Showers (Antony Cordier)
Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman)
Lemming (Dominik Moll)
Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro)
Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
Nordeste (Juan Solanas)
In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson)
The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4 (Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)
Capote (Bennett Miller)
Sa-kwa (Kang Yi-Kwan)
Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
Bad News Bears (Richard Linklater)
Wassup Rockers (Larry Clark)
Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott)
Police Beat (Robinson Devor)
Isolation (Billy O'Brien)
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
Methadonia (Michel Negroponte)
Serenity (Joss Whedon)
Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
The Interpreter (Sydney Pollack)
Sketches of Frank Gehry (Sydney Pollack)
Tideland (Terry Gilliam)
Constantine (Francis Lawrence)
Twelve and Holding (Michael Cuesta)
Lords of Dogtown (Catherine Hardwicke)
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (Stuart Samuels)
Man Push Cart (Ramin Bahrani)
Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin)
Jarhead (Sam Mendes)
The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
V for Vendetta (James McTeigue)
Factotum (Bent Hamer)
Something Like Happiness (Bohdan Sláma)
Fever Pitch (Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly)
Seven Swords (Tsui Hark)
The Dying Gaul (Craig Lucas)
Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan)
Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe)
The Girl From Monday (Hal Hartley)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½ (William Greaves)
Walk the Line (James Mangold)
Zim and Co (Pierre Jolivet)
Happy Endings (Don Roos)
The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)
Red Eye (Wes Craven)
Mrs Henderson Presents (Stephen Frears)
Aliens of the Deep (James Cameron & Steven Quale)
The Peter Pan Formula (Cho Chang-Ho)
Inside Deep Throat (Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato)
Free Zone (Amos Gitai)
Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer)
The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis)
The Great Yokai War (Takashi Miike)
Once You're Born (Marco Tullio Giordana)
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (Fatih Akin)
The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam)
Shanghai Dreams (Wang Xiaoshuai)
Our Brand Is Crisis (Rachel Boynton)
The Sun (Alexander Sokurov)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell)
The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles)
3 Needles (Thom Fitzgerald)
You Bet Your Life (Antonin Svobada)
Brothers of the Head (Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney)
Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
Junebug (Phil Morrison)
The President's Last Bang (Im Sang-soo)
A Little Trip to Heaven (Baltasar Kormákur)
Nine Lives (Rodrigo García)
Time Has Come (Alain Guiraudie)
It's Only Talk (Ryiuchi Hiroki)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson)
Thumbsucker (Mike Mills)
Time to Leave (François Ozon)
Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad)
Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story (Brian Cook)
Everlasting Regret (Stanley Kwan)
Pusher 3 (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Green Chair (Park Chul-soo)
Loft (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Avenge but One of My Two Eyes (Avi Mograbi)
The White Countess (James Ivory)
Duma (Carroll Ballard)
Heading South (Laurent Cantet)
Don't Come Knocking (Wim Wenders)
The Aura (Fabián Bielinsky)
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
Hell (Danis Tanovic)
Manderlay (Lars von Trier)
Water (Deepa Mehta)
Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? (Aoyama Shinji)
Fun With Dick and Jane (Dean Parisot)
The Bow (Kim Ki-duk)
Russian Dolls (Cédric Klapisch)
The Lost Domain (Raoul Ruiz)
13 Tzameti (Gela Babluani)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Park Chan Wook)
Angel-A (Luc Besson)
Mary (Abel Ferrara)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
Who Killed Cock Robin? (Travis Wilkerson)
Election (Johnnie To)
What Is It? (Crispin Hellion Glover)
Kilometre Zero (Hiner Saleem)
I Am (Dorota Kedzierzawska)
A Perfect Couple (Nobuhiro Suwa)
Shopgirl (Anand Tucker)
Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano)
Bashing (Masahiro Kobayashi)
All the Invisible Children (Various)
Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan)
Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas)
Romance & Cigarettes (John Turturro)