Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Best and Worst of 2005

by Brian
In order of preference:

BEST: The Constant Gardener, Good Night and Good Luck, Cache (Hidden), Batman Begins, Grizzly Man, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Squid and the Whale, Oldboy, The Boys of Baraka, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Millions, Nine Lives, Syriana, Brokeback Mountain, The White Countess, The Beautiful Country

ALSO GOOD: Breakfast on Pluto, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, A History of Violence, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Corpse Bride, Last Days, Cronicas, Capote, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Munich, Junebug, Ushpizin, Duma, Kingdom of Heaven, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Tropical Malady, Sin City, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, In Her Shoes, Pride & Prejudice, Oliver Twist, Downfall, The Thing About My Folks, Kung Fu Hustle, Match Point, Gunner Palace

INTERESTING BUT FLAWED: Memory of a Killer (The Alzheimer Case), Stay, Shopgirl, The Family Stone, The New World, The Interpreter

NOT BAD: Cinderella Man, Layer Cake, Crash, Murderball, Broken Flowers, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, March of the Penguins

THUMBS SIDEWAYS: North Country, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Proof, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Mad Hot Ballroom, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Fun with Dick and Jane, The World's Fastest Indian, The Ice Harvest, Bee Season

WELL-MADE AND WELL-ACTED, BUT RIDICULOUS: Yes, Hustle and Flow, My Summer of Love

MOSTLY BORING: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The War Within, Occupation: Dreamland, Elizabethtown, The Aristocrats, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mrs. Henderson Presents, The Brothers Grimm, The Upside of Anger, Flightplan, Jarhead, An Unfinished Life, King Kong, The Matador, Rent, Casanova, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Legend of Zorro, The Libertine

BAD: Transamerica, Walk the Line, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, The Island, Where the Truth Lies, Domino, The Producers, War of the Worlds, Must Love Dogs, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Fantastic Four, Secuestro Express

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