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Film Comment's Final Cut: Calculated from a Survey of the Nation's Top Film Critics 1. Mulholland Drive 2. In the Mood for Love 3. The Royal Tenenbaums 4. Ghost World 5. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 6. Fat Girl 7. Waking Life 8. In the Bedroom 9. The Gleaners and I 10. Werckmeister Harmonies 11. Memento 12. The Circle 13. Moulin Rouge! tied with Va Savoir 14. The Man Who Wasn't There 15. Apocalypse Now Redux 16. Amores Perros 17. Gosford Park 18. Donnie Darko 19. Eureka 20. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader) 1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2. Waking Life 3. The Circle 4. ABC Africa 5. The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein 6. Taboo tied with Chunhyang 7. Yi Yi tied with In the Mood for Love 8. What Time Is It There? 9. Mulholland Drive tied with Ghost World 10. Boesman & Lena
Kenneth Turan (L.A. Times) 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2. In the Bedroom 3. Memento 4. Black Hawk Down 5. The Deep End 6. Shrek 7. Divided We Fall tied with Together 8. Sexy Beast 9. Va Savoir 10. Lumumba
Kevin Thomas (L.A. Times) 1. L.I.E. 2. Our Lady of the Assassins 3. Ghost World 4. Amores Perros 5. Donnie Darko 6. The Gleaners and I 7. Hedwig and the Angry Inch 8. Moulin Rouge! 9. Burnt Money 10. The Circle tied with Baran
Andrew Sarris (New York Observer) 1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2. Gosford Park 3. Innocence 4. Mulholland Drive 5. A Beautiful Mind 6. Iris 7. The Man Who Wasn't There 8. Lantana 9. The Golden Bowl 10. Bridget Jones's Diary
E! Editors' Picks: Best 25 Ali Amélie Amores Perros A Beautiful Mind Black Hawk Down Bridget Jones's Diary The Deep End The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Ghost World Gosford Park Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone Hedwig and the Angry Inch In the Bedroom In the Mood for Love The Man Who Wasn't There Memento Monster's Ball Monsters, Inc. Moulin Rouge! Ocean's Eleven The Others The Shipping News Shrek Spy Game Spy Kids
Elvis Mitchell (N.Y. Times) 1. In the Mood for Love 2. Lumumba 3. Amores Perros 4. The Devil's Backbone 5. Monsters, Inc. 6. Va Savoir 7. Sexy Beast 8. Faat Kine 9. Amélie 10. Ghost World
A.O. Scott (N.Y. Times) 1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2. The Circle 3. Ghost World 4. Gosford Park 5. Our Song 6. The Gleaners and I 7. Sexy Beast 8. Baran 9. The Man Who Wasn't There 10. The Heart of the World
Stephen Holden (N.Y. Times) 1. In the Bedroom 2. Amores Perros 3. The Town is Quiet 4. Mulholland Dr. 5. Gosford Park 6. Waking Life 7. Faithless 8. Hedwig and the Angry Inch 9. Shrek 10. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Dave Kehr (N.Y. Times) 1. The Royal Tenenbaums 2. The Tailor of Panama 3. Amélie 4. Waking Life 5. The Circle 6. Fat Girl 7. Shrek 8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 9. A Chronicle of Corpses 10. Eureka
Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly) 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2. In the Bedroom 3. The Royal Tenenbaums 4. Waking Life 5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 6. Divided We Fall 7. Moulin Rouge! 8. The Tailor of Panama 9. Shrek 10. The Circle
Owen Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly) 1. Memento 2. Ocean's 11 3. Together 4. Sexy Beast 5. Startup.com 6. From Hell 7. Shrek 8. Wet Hot American Summer 9. In the Bedroom 10. Our Song
New York Post 1. Amélie 2. Monster's Ball 3. The Man Who Wasn't There 4. No Man's Land 5. Behind the Sun 6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 7. Shrek 8. Bridget Jones's Diary 9. Iris 10. Moulin Rouge!
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) 1. Monster's Ball 2. Black Hawk Down 3. In the Bedroom 4. Ghost World 5. Mulholland Drive 6. Waking Life 7. Innocence 8. Wit 9. A Beautiful Mind 10. Gosford Park
Michael Wilmington (Chicago Tribune) 1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 3. Gosford Park 4. Amores Perros 5. Moulin Rouge! 6. The Road Home 7. Faithless 8. Amélie 9. Monsters, Inc. 10. Ali
Mark Caro (Chicago Tribune) 1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2. Memento 3. The Royal Tenenbaums 4. Amores Perros 5. Lantana 6. Monsters, Inc. 7. Ghost World 8. Together 9. Amélie 10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Rita Kempley (Washington Post) 1. Moulin Rouge! 2. Memento 3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 4. The Others 5. Ghost World 6. Gosford Park 7. Shrek 8. In the Bedroom 9. Bridget Jones's Diary 10. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Stephen Hunter (Washington Post) 1. Ghost World 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 3. Black Hawk Down 4. Diamond Men 5. The Man Who Wasn't There 6. Shrek 7. Our Lady of the Assassins 8. A Beautiful Mind 9. Va Savoir 10. Bread and Tulips
Desson Howe (Washington Post) 1. Memento 2. Amélie 3. Under the Sand 4. The Deep End 5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 6. Shrek 7. Iris 8. Sexy Beast 9. Monster's Ball 10. Iron Monkey
Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun-Times) 1. Memento 2. Vanilla Sky 3. Mulholland Drive 4. A Beautiful Mind 5. In the Bedroom 6. Amores Perros 7. Dinner Rush 8. Happy Accidents 9. The Deep End 10. Shallow Hal
Andrew O'Hehir (Salon) 1. Amores Perros 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 3. Mulholland Drive 4. Donnie Darko 5. Lantana 6. In the Mood for Love 7. Ghost World 8. Sexy Beast 9. Training Day 10. The Others tied with Moulin Rouge!
Stephanie Zacharek (Salon) 1. Mulholland Drive 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 3. Moulin Rouge! 4. Together 5. Sexy Beast 6. The Gleaners and I 7. In the Mood for Love 8. Charlotte Gray 9. Born Romantic 10. Donnie Darko
Charles Taylor (Salon) 1. Mulholland Drive 2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 3. Last Orders 4. Together 5. The Gleaners and I 6. Lantana 7. In the Bedroom 8. Sexy Beast 9. Donnie Darko 10. Moulin Rouge!
James Berardinelli (Reelviews) 1. Memento 2. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring 3. In the Bedroom 4. The Princess and the Warrior 5. Amélie 6. Shrek 7. Bully 8. Bridget Jones's Diary 9. A Beautiful Mind 10. Waking Life
Eugene Hernandez (indieWIRE) 1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2. Amélie 3. Memento 4. Moulin Rouge! 5. Mulholland Drive 6. Our Song 7. Series 7: The Contenders 8. Trembling Before G-D 9. The Man Who Wasn't There 10. Waking Life
Brian Brooks (indieWIRE) 1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2. Moulin Rouge! 3. Mulholland Drive 4. Donnie Darko 5. Ghost World 6. Together 7. In the Bedroom 8. Amélie 9. In the Mood for Love 10. Trembling Before G-D
Andrea Meyer (IFC Rant) 1. Mulholland Drive 2. Amores Perros 3. Together 4. The Gleaners and I 5. The Town is Quiet 6. Moulin Rouge! 7. In the Mood for Love 8. Fat Girl 9. Amélie 10. The Royal Tenenbaums
Erin Torneo (IFC Rant) 1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2. In the Mood for Love 3. Memento 4. Southern Comfort 5. Amores Perros 6. Shrek 7. Together 8. Mulholland Drive 9. Waking Life 10. In the Bedroom
David Ansen (Newsweek) 1. Mulholland Drive 2. Together 3. In the Bedroom 4. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 5. Shrek 6. Moulin Rouge! 7. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 8. Eureka 9. The Taste of Others 10. The Circle 11. Fat Girl 12. No Man's Land 13. Dinner Rush 14. L.I.E. 15. Black Hawk Down
Jeffrey M. Anderson (San Francisco Examiner) 1. Yi Yi 2. Memento 3. In the Mood for Love 4. Ghost World 5. The Royal Tenenbaums 6. The Circle 7. The Man Who Wasn't There 8. Mulholland Drive 9. Amélie 10. Va Savoir
Joe Leydon (San Francisco Examiner) 1. The Royal Tenenbaums 2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 3. Memento 4. Vanilla Sky 5. Tape 6. Sexy Beast 7. Spy Game 8. The Pledge 9. No Man's Land 10. Lantana
J. Hoberman (Village Voice) 1. Mulholland Drive 2. Werckmeister Harmonies 3. The Captive 4. In the Mood for Love 5. Fat Girl 6. Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 pm 7. The Heart of the World 8. Platform 9. Donnie Darko 10. Little Otik
Michael Atkinson (Village Voice) 1. Werckmeister Harmonies 2. The Day I Became a Woman 3. In the Mood for Love 4. Memento 5. Eureka 6. The Circle 7. Mulholland Drive 8. Fat Girl 9. Little Otik 10. La Ciénaga
Leslie Camhi (Village Voice) 1. Apocalypse Now Redux 2. The Royal Tenenbaums 3. In the Mood for Love 4. The Gleaners and I 5. The Circle 6. Mulholland Drive 7. Gosford Park 8. Va Savoir 9. Voyages 10. The River
Dennis Lim (Village Voice) 1. Mulholland Drive 2. In the Mood for Love 3. In the Bedroom 4. Intimacy 5. The Low Down 6. Under the Sand 7. The River 8. Donnie Darko 9. Little Otik 10. Moulin Rouge!
Elliot Stein (Village Voice) The Adventures of Felix Amores Perros Berlin Babylon Bully The Devil's Backbone Donnie Darko The Gleaners and I Last Resort Otomo Our Lady of the Assassins
Jessica Winter (Village Voice) 1. Mulholland Drive 2. Eureka 3. Under the Sand 4. Memento 5. In the Mood for Love 6. Together 7. Our Song 8. In the Bedroom 9. The Royal Tenenbaums 10. Intimacy
Rob Blackwelder (SPLICEDwire) 1. Amélie 2. Memento 3. No Man's Land 4. The Road Home 5. With a Friend Like Harry 6. Donnie Darko 7. Waking Life
Glenn Kenny (Premiere) 1. Mulholland Drive 2. The Man Who Wasn't There 3. The Royal Tenenbaums 4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence 5. Va Savoir 6. Ghost World 7. Waking Life 8. Amélie 9. Fat Girl 10. A Beautiful Mind
Richard Schickle (Time) 1. Shrek 2. Black Hawk Down 3. In the Bedroom 4. Amores Perros 5. The Deep End 6. Lantana 7. Faithless 8. With a Friend Like Harry 9. Ali 10. Liam
Richard Corliss (Time) 1. Kandahar 2. Moulin Rouge! 3. Black Hawk Down 4. In the Mood for Love 5. Mulholland Drive 6. Monsters, Inc. 7. movie 7 8. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring 9. Amélie 10. Ghost World
CultureVulture.net Critics' Consensus of the Year's Ten Best Ghost World The Royal Tenenbaums In the Bedroom Waking Life Eureka Mulholland Drive Gosford Park In the Mood for Love No Man's Land Donnie Darko |
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