Movie Rankings 2008

1. Slumdog Millionaire *****
2. The Dark Knight ****1/2
3. Charlie Wilson’s War ****1/2
4. Burn After Reading ****
5. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead ****
6. Tropic Thunder ****
7. Lars and the Real Girl ****
8. There Will be Blood ****
9. Frost/Nixon ****
10. In Bruges ***1/2
11. Get Smart ***1/2
12. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ***1/2
13. The Counterfeiters ***1/2
14. American Gangster ***1/2
15. Mongol ***1/2
16. Iron Man ***1/2
17. The Wackness ***1/2
18. Body of Lies ***
19. The Bank Job ***
20. Quantum of Solace ***
21. In the Shadow of the Moon ***
22. 3:10 to Yuma **1/2
23. Taken *1/2

Movie Rankings 2007

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Movie Rankings 2007

1) The Lives of Others *****
2) Letters from Iwo Jima ****1/2
3) No Country for Old Men ****1/2
4) The Last King of Scotland ****1/2
5) The Simpsons Movie ****
6) Hot Fuzz ****
7) Zodiac ****
8) Sunshine ****
9) Michael Clayton ****
10) Breach ***1/2
11) Bobby ***1/2
12) Daywatch ***1/2
13) This is England ***1/2
14) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ***1/2
15) Curse of the Golden Flower ***
16) The Prestige ***
17) Beowulf ***
18) Notes on a Scandal ***
19) Venus* ***
20) The Namesake ***
21) Fracture* ***
22) Noise ***
23) The Host ***
24) The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford ***
25) Lucky Miles **1/2
26) Black Sheep* **1/2
27) The Bourne Ultimatum* **1/2
28) Transformers* *1/2

*watched on DVD

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Movie Rankings 2006

1) Water *****
2) Children of Men ****1/2
3) Brokeback Mountain ****1/2
4) Borat ****
5) Kenny ****
6) Casino Royale ****
7) Syriana ****
8) Little Miss Sunshine ****
9) V for Vendetta ****
10) The Prestige ***1/2
11) The Aristocrats ***1/2
12) Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story ***1/2
13) The Departed ***1/2
14) Inside Man ***1/2
15) Jindabyne ***1/2
16) Capote ***1/2
17) Thank You For Smoking ***1/2
18) X Men: The Last Stand ***1/2
19) Pirates of the Caribbean ***1/2
20) Babel ***1/2
21) Wah-Wah ***1/2
22) Ten Canoes ***1/2
23) A Scanner Darkly ***1/2
24) Tsotsi ***
25) Colour Me Kubrick ***
26) Catch a Fire ***
27) Munich ***
28) Suburban Mayhem ***
29) The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada ***
30) The Libertine ***
31) The Queen ***
32) A History of Violence **1/2
33) A Prairie Home Companion **1/2
34) Match Point **1/2
35) The Devil Wears Prada **1/2
36) The Book of Revelation **

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Movie Rankings 2005

1) Downfall *****
2) War Of The Worlds ****1/2
3) Good Night, And Good Luck ****1/2
4) The Aviator ****1/2
5) Night Watch ****
6) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ****
7) Sideways ****
8) Sin City ****
9) Look Both Ways ****
10) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy ****
11) Vera Drake ****
12) Batman Begins ****
13) Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith ****
14) The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou ***1/2
15) Me And You And Everyone We Know ***1/2
16) Serenity ***1/2
17) The Interpreter ***1/2
18) The Assassination Of Richard Nixon ***1/2
19) King Kong ***1/2
20) Little Fish ***1/2
21) Mysterious Skin ***1/2
22) The Proposition ***1/2
23) Kinsey ***
24) The House Of Flying Daggers ***
25) The Constant Gardener ***
26) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory ***
27) The Island ***
28) Travellers And Magicians ***
29) Oyster Farmer ***
30) Assault On Precinct 13 **1/2
31) Murderball **1/2
32) Million Dollar Baby **1/2
33) Thumbsucker **1/2
34) Three Dollars **

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Movie Rankings 2004

1) Capturing the Friedmans ****1/2
2) The Station Agent ****1/2
3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ****1/2
4) The Manchurian Candidate ****
5) I ♥ Huckabees ****
6) Touching the Void ****
7) Hero ****
8) The Motorcycle Diaries ****
9) Team America: World Police ****
10) Infernal Affairs ****
11) The Day After Tomorrow ***1/2
12) The Life and Death of Peter Sellers ***1/2
13) I, Robot ***1/2
14) The Fog of War ***1/2
15) Fahrenheit 9/11 ***1/2
16) The Incredibles ***1/2
17) Garden State ***1/2
18) Shrek 2 ***1/2
19) Somersault ***1/2
20) 21 Grams ***1/2
21) The Corporation ***1/2
22) Kill Bill Vol 2 ***1/2
23) Supersize Me ***
24) The House of Sand and Fog ***
25) Starsky and Hutch ***
26) The Return ***
27) Tais Toi ***
28) Zatoichi ***
29) Tom White ***
30) The Cooler ***
31) The Bourne Supremacy ***
32) Troy **1/2
33) Dirty Pretty Things **1/2
34) The Barbarian Invasions **
35) Dodgeball **
36) The Terminal 1/2

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Movie Rankings 2003

1) American Splendor *****
2) Lord Of The Rings – The Return of the King *****
3) The Pianist *****
4) Master and Commander ****1/2
5) **Space Station 3D ****1/2
6) The Quiet American ****1/2
7) Mystic River ****1/2
8) Solaris ****1/2
9) 24 Hour Party People ****
10) Alien: The Director’s Cut ****
11) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ****
12) Lost in Translation ****
13) Punch Drunk Love ****
14) Cypher ****
15) Whale Rider ****
16) Buffalo Soldiers ****
17) The Matrix Reloaded ***1/2
18) The Matrix Revolutions ***1/2
19) Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind ***1/2
20) 25th hour ***1/2
21) Gettin’ Square ***1/2
22) Intolerable Cruelty ***1/2
23) X Men 2 ***1/2
24) Kill Bill – Volume 1 ***1/2
25) Star Trek: Nemesis ***
26) Spider ***
27) About Schmidt ***
28) Auto Focus ***
29) Secretary ***
30) Bright Young Things ***
31) Welcome To Collinwood ***
32) *Turkish Film Festival Film ***
33) The Good Thief ***
34) Catch Me If You Can ***
35) The Night We Called It A Day ***
36) Nowhere In Africa ***
37) Alexandra’s Project ***
38) Perfect Strangers **1/2
39) Japanese Story **1/2
40) 28 Days Later **1/2
41) The Italian Job **1/2
42) Undercover Brother **1/2
43) Matchstick Men **1/2
44) The Hours **
45) Chaos **
46) Chicago **
47) Habla Con Ella (Talk To Her) **
48) Johnny English *1/2
49) Russian Ark *
50) One Hour Photo 1/2
51) *Gerry 0

* Sydney Film Festival release that did not receive general release (deservedly so in Gerry’s case)
** IMAX film

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Movie Rankings 2002

1) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers *****
2) No Man’s Land *****
3) The Royal Tenenbaums ****1/2
4) Adaptation ****1/2
5) Spirited Away ****1/2
6) Blackhawk Down ****
7) The Bourne Identity ****
8) Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones ****
9) Rabbit-Proof Fence ****
10) Bowling for Columbine ****
11) Changing Lanes ***1/2
12) Metropolis ***1/2
13) Minority Report ***1/2
14) Insomnia ***1/2
15) A Beautiful Mind ***1/2
16) Pollock ***1/2
17) Mulholland Drive ***1/2
18) Frida ***
19) The Devil’s Backbone ***
20) My Big Fat Greek Wedding ***
21) Dirty Deeds ***
22) Bend it Like Beckham ***
23) About a Boy ***
24) Spiderman **1/2
25) The Panic room **1/2
26) The Shipping News **1/2
27) Gosford Park **1/2

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Movie Rankings 2001

1) Apocalypse Now Redux *****
2) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings ****1/2
3) Almost Famous ****1/2
4) Lantana ****1/2
5) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ****1/2
6) Memento ****
7) State and Main ****
8) Traffic ****
9) Best in Show ****
10) Shadow of the Vampire ****
11) The Limey ***1/2
12) Shrek ***1/2
13) Sexy Beast ***1/2
14) AI: Artificial Intelligence ***1/2
15) Quills ***1/2
16) Hannibal ***1/2
17) One Night The Moon ***1/2
18) The Man Who Wasn't There ***1/2
19) Blow ***1/2
20) He Died With a Felafel in His Hand ***
21) Bridget Jones' Diary ***
22) Moulin Rouge ***
23) Princess Mononoke ***
24) Chocolat **1/2

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Movie Rankings 2000

1) Magnolia *****
2) Gladiator ****1/2
3) Three Kings ****
4) Chopper ****
5) American Beauty ****
6) O Brother Where Art Thou? ****
7) The Dish ***1/2
8) X-men ***1/2
9) Snatch ***1/2
10) The Insider ***1/2
11) High Fidelity ***1/2
12) Wonder Boys ***1/2
13) Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo ***
14) Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ***
15) East is East ***
16) American Psycho ***
17) Chicken Run ***
18) Looking for Alibrandi ***
19) Erin Brokovich ***
20) The Talented Mr Ripley ***
21) Pitch Black **1/2
22) Space Cowboys **1/2
23) Better Than Sex **
24) Mission Impossible 2 *1/2
25) Dancer in the Dark *

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