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Frank Gabrenya's Top 8 (Columbus Dispatch)
- Almost Famous (d: Cameron Crowe)
- Chicken Run (d: Peter Lord & Nick Park)
- The Emperor And The Assassin (d: Chen Kaige)
- The Life And Times Of Hank Greenberg (d: Aviva Kempner)
- Nurse Betty (d: Neil LaBute)
- Requiem For A Dream (d: Darren Aronofsky)
- Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (d: Todd Haynes)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
[Paul B. Clark]
Bill Gallo's Top 10 (New Times Los Angeles)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- Wonder Boys (d: Curtis Hanson)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- A Time For Drunken Horses (d: Bahman Ghobadi)
- Croupier (d: Mike Hodges)
- Gladiator (d: Ridley Scott)
- Requiem For A Dream (d: Darren Aronofsky)
- Quills (d: Philip Kaufman)
- Hamlet (d: Michael Almereyda)
- Billy Elliot (d: Stephen Daldry)
Chris Garcia's Top 10 (Austin American-Statesman)
- Wonder Boys (d: Curtis Hanson)
- Beautiful People (d: Jasmin Dizdar)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (d: Joel Coen)
- Hamlet (d: Michael Almereyda)
- The Color Of Paradise (d: Majid Majidi)
- Girlfight (d: Karyn Kusama)
- Nurse Betty (d: Neil LaBute)
- Unbreakable (d: M. Night Shyamalan)
[Ray Weikel]
Jack Garner's Top 10 (Gannett News Service)
- Almost Famous (d: Cameron Crowe)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Cast Away (d: Robert Zemeckis)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (d: Joel Coen)
- Wonder Boys (d: Curtis Hanson)
- The House Of Mirth (d: Terence Davies)
- Gladiator (d: Ridley Scott)
- Thirteen Days (d: Roger Donaldson)
- Erin Brockovich (d: Steven Soderbergh)
Worth Mentioning: Joe Gould's Secret, The Perfect Storm, Butterfly, Fantasia 2000, Chicken Run, Not One Less, High Fidelity, All The Pretty Horses, Girl On The Bridge, Chocolat, Malena, You Can Count On Me, The Life And Times Of Hank Greenberg, State And Main, Tigerland, Shadow of the Vampire, Pollock, Best in Show, Finding Forrester
[Tim Gannon]
Stephen Garrett's Top 10 (Time Out New York)
- Yi Yi (A One And A Two...) (d: Edward Yang)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- State And Main (d: David Mamet)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- Wonderland (d: Michael Winterbottom)
- Croupier (d: Mike Hodges)
- Wonder Boys (d: Curtis Hanson)
- The Virgin Suicides (d: Sofia Coppola)
- Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
- Lies (d: Jang Sun Woo)
[Steve Erickson]
Susan Gerhard's Top 10 (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
- George Washington (d: David Gordon Green)
- Girlfight (d: Karyn Kusama)
- In The Mood For Love (d: Wong Kar-wai)
- Chuck & Buck (d: Miguel Arteta)
- Erin Brockovich (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- See The Sea (d: François Ozon)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- The Wind Will Carry Us (d: Abbas Kiarostami)
- Just, Melvin (d: James Ronald Whitney)
[Jeff Anderson]
David Germain's Top 10 (Associated Press)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- The Claim (d: Michael Winterbottom)
- Wonder Boys (d: Curtis Hanson)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (d: Joel Coen)
- Quills (d: Philip Kaufman)
- Tigerland (d: Joel Schumacher)
- High Fidelity (d: Stephen Frears)
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie's Top 10 (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- Almost Famous (d: Cameron Crowe)
- The Claim (d: Michael Winterbottom)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- The Filth And The Fury (d: Julien Temple)
- Gladiator (d: Ridley Scott)
- The Life And Times Of Hank Greenberg (d: Aviva Kempner)
- Not One Less (d: Zhang Yimou)
- Nurse Betty (d: Neil LaBute)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (d: Joel Coen)
- Requiem For A Dream (d: Darren Aronofsky)
[Tim Gannon]
Owen Gleiberman's Top 10 (Entertainment Weekly)
- Chuck & Buck (d: Miguel Arteta)
- Requiem For A Dream (d: Darren Aronofsky)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Almost Famous (d: Cameron Crowe)
- Before Night Falls (d: Julian Schnabel)
- The Filth And The Fury (d: Julien Temple)
- What Lies Beneath (d: Robert Zemeckis)
- Bamboozled (d: Spike Lee)
- Croupier (d: Mike Hodges)
- Thirteen Days (d: Roger Donaldson)
[Jeff McGinnis]
The Globe & Mail's (Rick Groen and Liam Lacey) Top 10
- Cast Away (d: Robert Zemeckis)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- The Color Of Paradise (d: Majid Majidi)
- Erin Brockovich (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Mr. Death: The Rise And Fall Of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (d: Errol Morris)
- The Terrorist (d: Santosh Sivan)
- Topsy-Turvy (d: Mike Leigh)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Voyages (d: Emmanuel Finkiel)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
Michelle Goldberg's Top 10 (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
- Rififi (d: Jules Dassin)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- Human Traffic (d: Justin Kerrigan)
- Live Nude Girls Unite (d: Vicky Funari & Julia Query)
- Solas (d: Benito Zambrano)
- Praise (d: John Curran)
- Venus Beauty Institute (d: Tonie Marshall)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- The Virgin Suicides (d: Sofia Coppola)
- The Yards (d: James Gray)
[Jeff Anderson]
Cheryl Goldyn's Top 5 (The Reader (Omaha))
- The Emperor's New Groove (d: Mark Dindal)
- Big Momma's House (d: Raja Gosnell)
- Mission Impossible II (d: John Woo)
- Erin Brockovich (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Remember The Titans (d: Boaz Yakin)
[Jesse Mason]
Bob Graham's Top 10 (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- Chicken Run (d: Peter Lord & Nick Park)
- Billy Elliot (d: Stephen Daldry)
- Requiem For A Dream (d: Darren Aronofsky)
- X-Men (d: Bryan Singer)
- The Big Blue (d: Luc Besson)
- An Affair Of Love (Une Liaison Pornographique) (d: Frédéric Fonteyne)
- Chuck & Buck (d: Miguel Arteta)
- Croupier (d: Mike Hodges)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
[Jeff McGinnis]
Steve Gravestock's Top 7 (Festival)
- Almost Famous (d: Cameron Crowe)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- Quills (d: Philip Kaufman)
- Not One Less (d: Zhang Yimou)
- waydowntown (d: Gary Burns)
- Top Of The Food Chain (d: John Paisz)
- Grass (d: Ron Mann)
[Greg Williams]
Ian Grey's Top 10 (Baltimore City Paper)
- Requiem For A Dream (d: Darren Aronofsky)
- All About My Mother (d: Pedro Almodóvar)
- Jesus' Son (d: Alison Maclean)
- American Psycho (d: Mary Harron)
- The Virgin Suicides (d: Sofia Coppola)
- Charlie's Angels (d: McG)
- Sex: The Annabelle Chong Story (d: Gough Lewis)
- Rosetta (d: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
- Wintersleepers (d: Tom Tykwer)
- Waking The Dead (d: Keith Gordon)
[Zach Ralston]
John Griffin's Top 10 (Montreal Gazette)
- In The Mood For Love (d: Wong Kar-wai)
- Hamlet (d: Michael Almereyda)
- Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
- Erin Brockovich (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- Almost Famous (d: Cameron Crowe)
- Maelström (d: Denis Villeneuve)
- L'Humanité (d: Bruno Dumont)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- High Fidelity (d: Stephen Frears)
Martin Grove's Top 10 (CNN Showbiz Today)
- Finding Forrester (d: Gus van Sant)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Erin Brockovich (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Chocolat (d: Lasse Hallström)
- Thirteen Days (d: Roger Donaldson)
- The Contender (d: Rod Lurie)
- State And Main (d: David Mamet)
- Billy Elliot (d: Stephen Daldry)
- All The Pretty Horses (d: Billy Bob Thornton)
[Keyser]
Edward Guthmann's Top 10 (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- Before Night Falls (d: Julian Schnabel)
- Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
- Billy Elliot (d: Stephen Daldry)
- The Color Of Paradise (d: Majid Majidi)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- Nurse Betty (d: Neil LaBute)
- Judy Berlin (d: Eric Mendelsohn)
- Chuck & Buck (d: Miguel Arteta)
- Chicken Run (d: Peter Lord & Nick Park)
[Jeff McGinnis]
Ed Halter's Top 10 (New York Press)
- Bring It On (d: Peyton Reed)
- The Virgin Suicides (d: Sofia Coppola)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- Migrating Forms (d: James Fotopoulos)
- Planet Krulik 2000 (d: Jeff Krulik)
- Sonic Fragments (d: Ian Kerkhof, Frank Scheffer, Micha Klein, Alexander Oey, Miriam Kruishoop, Rob Schroder & Joost Rekveld)
- Benjamin Smoke (d: Jem Cohen & Peter Sillen)
- Secrets Of The Shadow World (d: George Kuchar)
- Charlie's Angels (d: McG)
- Songs For Cassavetes (d: Justin Mitchell)
[Tim Gannon]
Mark Hamilton's Top 5 (FFWD)
- After Life (d: Hirokazu Kore-eda)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (d: Joel Coen)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- Small Time Crooks (d: Woody Allen)
[Bjorn Olson]
Ernest Hardy's Top 24 (LA Weekly)
- Aprende (d: Enrique Cruz)
- Bamboozled (d: Spike Lee)
- Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
- Chicken Run (d: Peter Lord & Nick Park)
- Chuck & Buck (d: Miguel Arteta)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- The Devil Is A Bottom (d: Bud Light)
- Five Feet High and Rising (d: Pete Sollett)
- George Washington (d: David Gordon Green)
- Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (d: Jim Jarmusch)
- Girlfight (d: Karyn Kusama)
- Human Resources (d: Laurent Cantet)
- I’m The One That I Want (d: Lionel Coleman)
- Jesus' Son (d: Alison Maclean)
- Judy Berlin (d: Eric Mendelsohn)
- Legacy (d: Tod Lending)
- Love And Basketball (d: Gina Prince-Bythewood)
- Nurse Betty (d: Neil LaBute)
- Nuyorican Dream (d: Laurie Collyer)
- Scary Movie (d: Keenan Ivory Wayans)
- Scream 3 (d: Wes Craven)
- Time Regained (d: Raul Ruiz)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Urbania (d: John Shear)
[David Perry]
John Harkness' Top 10 (Now Magazine)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Bamboozled (d: Spike Lee)
- Topsy-Turvy (d: Mike Leigh)
- Unbreakable (d: M. Night Shyamalan)
- High Fidelity (d: Stephen Frears)
- Kadosh (d: Amos Gitaï)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (d: Joel Coen)
- Almost Famous (d: Cameron Crowe)
[author]
Dennis Harvey's Top 10 (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
- Paragraph 175 (d: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)
- Requiem For A Dream (d: Darren Aronofsky)
- Urbania (d: John Shear)
- The Virgin Suicides (d: Sofia Coppola)
- Trade Off (d: Shaya Mercer)
- Croupier (d: Mike Hodges)
- Time Code (d: Mike Figgis)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- Road Trip (d: Todd Phillips)
- Charlie's Angels (d: McG)
[Jeff Anderson]
John Hazlett's Top 6 (FFWD)
- Wonderland (d: Michael Winterbottom)
- Maelström (d: Denis Villeneuve)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (d: Joel Coen)
- Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
- Blood Simple (d: Joel Coen)
- Stuff (d: James Dunnison)
[Bjorn Olson]
Timothy C. Heck's Top 5 (FFWD)
- Contempt (d: Jean-Luc Godard)
- Wonderland (d: Michael Winterbottom)
- After Life (d: Hirokazu Kore-eda)
- New Waterford Girl (d: Allan Moyle)
- Kadosh (d: Amos Gitaï)
[Bjorn Olson]
Eugene Hernandez's Top 10 (indieWIRE)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- Before Night Falls (d: Julian Schnabel)
- Benjamin Smoke (d: Jem Cohen & Peter Sillen)
- Billy Elliot (d: Stephen Daldry)
- Chicken Run (d: Peter Lord & Nick Park)
- Human Traffic (d: Justin Kerrigan)
- Small Time Crooks (d: Woody Allen)
- Spring Forward (d: Tom Gilroy)
- Trans (d: Julian Goldberger)
- Wonderland (d: Michael Winterbottom)
Honourable Mention: Erin Brockovich, The Filth And The Fury, Wonder Boys, The Virgin Suicides
[Steve Erickson]
J. Hoberman's Top 10 (Village Voice)
- Fragments*Jersualem (d: Ron Havilio)
- Time Regained (d: Raul Ruiz)
- The House Of Mirth (d: Terence Davies)
- The Wind Will Carry Us (d: Abbas Kiarostami)
- Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
- Taboo (Gohatto) (d: Nagisa Oshima)
- Shadow Of The Vampire (d: E. Elias Merhige)
- Suzhou River (d: Lou Ye)
- Kikujiro (d: Takeshi Kitano)
- The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun (d: Djibril Diop Mambéty)
Honorable Mentions: Cast Away, George Washington, Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Saumrai, Hamlet, The Idiots, Kippur, Lies, Pola X, Praise, The Specialist, Two Family House, Yi Yi (A One And A Two...), the fight scenes from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
[Steve Erickson]
Louis B. Hobson's Top 10 (Calgary Sun)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- East Is East (d: Damien O'Donnell)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- Thirteen Days (d: Roger Donaldson)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Quills (d: Philip Kaufman)
- Almost Famous (d: Cameron Crowe)
- Gladiator (d: Ridley Scott)
- Billy Elliot (d: Stephen Daldry)
- Wonder Boys (d: Curtis Hanson)
Mark Holcomb's Top 10 (Village Voice)
- Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
- L'Humanité (d: Bruno Dumont)
- Pola X (d: Leos Carax)
- Kippur (d: Amos Gitaï)
- Public Housing (d: Frederick Wiseman)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- Human Resources (d: Laurent Cantet)
- Rififi (d: Jules Dassin)
- Sanda Wong (d: Gerardo de Leon)
- Meet The Parents (d: Jay Roach)
Stephen Holden's Top 10 (New York Times)
- The Decalogue (d: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- Yi Yi (A One And A Two...) (d: Edward Yang)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- L'Humanité (d: Bruno Dumont)
- Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
- Nurse Betty (d: Neil LaBute)
- The Color Of Paradise (d: Majid Majidi)
- Human Resources (d: Laurent Cantet)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- Cast Away (d: Robert Zemeckis)
[Zach Ralston]
Kirk Honeycutt's Top 10 (Hollywood Reporter)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- Almost Famous (d: Cameron Crowe)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- Wonder Boys (d: Curtis Hanson)
- Gladiator (d: Ridley Scott)
- Girl On The Bridge (d: Patrice Leconte)
- Tigerland (d: Joel Schumacher)
- Thirteen Days (d: Roger Donaldson)
- Before Night Falls (d: Julian Schnabel)
[JMSTREEP]
Robert Horton's Top 10 (Film Comment)
- Almost Famous (d: Cameron Crowe)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- Flowers Of Shanghai (d: Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- In The Mood For Love (d: Wong Kar-wai)
- Jesus' Son (d: Alison Maclean)
- Pitch Black (d: David Twohy)
- Trans (d: Julian Goldberger)
- The Way Of The Gun (d: Christopher McQuarrie)
- Wonderland (d: Michael Winterbottom)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
[David Perry]
Alexander Horwath's Top 10 (Film Comment)
- Les Destinées Sentimentales (d: Olivier Assayas)
- Eureka (d: Shinji Aoyama)
- O Fantasma (d: Joao Pedro Rodrigues)
- The God Of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (d: Stan Brakhage)
- Le Goût Des Autres (d: Agnès Jaoui)
- The Long Holiday (d: Johan van der Keuken)
- The House Of Mirth (d: Terence Davies)
- In The Mood For Love (d: Wong Kar-wai)
- Manila (d: Romauld Karmakar)
- Platform (d: Jia Zhangke)
[David Perry]
Desson Howe's Top 10 (Washington Post)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- Croupier (d: Mike Hodges)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- High Fidelity (d: Stephen Frears)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- East Is East (d: Damien O'Donnell)
- Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (d: Jim Jarmusch)
- State And Main (d: David Mamet)
- Chicken Run (d: Peter Lord & Nick Park)
- The Cup (d: Khyentse Norbu)
[Mark Davidson]
Peter Howell's Top 10 (Toronto Star)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- The Heart Of The World (d: Guy Maddin)
- High Fidelity (d: Stephen Frears)
- Best In Show (d: Christopher Guest)
- Gladiator (d: Ridley Scott)
- Croupier (d: Mike Hodges)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (d: Joel Coen)
Honourable Mention: Requiem For A Dream, The War Zone, A Time For Drunken Horses, The Tao Of Steve, Cast Away, Tigerland, Thirteen Days, Chicken Run, waydowntown
[Gregory Williams]
David Hunter's Top 10 (Hollywood Reporter)
- Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
- Requiem For A Dream (d: Darren Aronofsky)
- Thirteen Days (d: Roger Donaldson)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (d: Joel Coen)
- Girlfight (d: Karyn Kusama)
- Gladiator (d: Ridley Scott)
- Shadow Of The Vampire (d: E. Elias Merhige)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- Erin Brockovich (d: Steven Soderbergh)
[JMSTREEP]
Stephen Hunter's Top 10 (Washington Post)
- The Yards (d: James Gray)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (d: Ang Lee)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (d: Joel Coen)
- Human Resources (d: Laurent Cantet)
- Croupier (d: Mike Hodges)
- You Can Count On Me (d: Kenneth Lonergan)
- The Way Of The Gun (d: Christopher McQuarrie)
- Traffic (d: Steven Soderbergh)
- Dancer In The Dark (d: Lars von Trier)
- Bamboozled (d: Spike Lee)
[Mark Davidson]
Les Inrockuptibles' Top 20
- Yi Yi (A One And A Two...) (d: Edward Yang)
- Nightcap (Merci Pour Le Chocolat) (d: Claude Chabrol)
- Man On The Moon (d: Milos Forman)
- La Captive (d: Chantal Akerman)
- In The Mood For Love (d: Wong Kar-wai)
- Esther Kahn (d: Arnaud Desplechin)
- The Gleaners And I (d: Agnès Varda)
- M/Other (d: Nobuhiro Suwa)
- Vies (d: Alain Cavalier)
- Lies (d: Jang Sun Woo)
- Our Lady Of The Assassins (d: Barbet Schroeder)
- La Vallee Close (d: Jean-Claude Rousseau)
- Les Antiquites De Rome (d: Jean-Claude Rousseau)
- The Virgin Suicides (d: Sofia Coppola)
- The Insider (d: Michael Mann)
- Me, Myself & Irene (d: Farrelly Brothers)
- The Human Factor (d: Otto Preminger)
- L'Arche De Noe (d: Philippe Ramos)
- Doulaye Une Saison Des Pluies (d: Henri-Francois Imbert)
- Eureka (d: Shinji Aoyama)
[Steve Erickson]
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