The Critics' Lists 

Jim Ridley

Jim Ridley

1. Before Sunset

2. Dogville

3. Blissfully Yours

4. I [Heart] Huckabees

5. The Polar Express (IMAX 3-D)

6. Primer

7. Hero / House of Flying Daggers

8. Crimson Gold

9. Undertow

10. The Aviator

Honorable Mention The Brown Bunny; Cellular; Maria Full of Grace; The Return; Shaun of the Dead; Sideways; Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...Spring; Team America: World Police; the "Hell" and "Heaven" sections of Notre Musique; the amazing train chase and chicken run from Torque; and every extra second spent in Lee Marvin's company from The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

Noel Murray

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

3. I [Heart] Huckabees

4. Kill Bill Vol. 2

5. The Incredibles

6. Red Lights

7. Crimson Gold

8. Slasher

9. Sideways

10. Vera Drake

Honorable Mention The Aviator; Before Sunset; Bright Leaves; Collateral; Dawn of the Dead; Game Over: Kasparov & the Machine; Hero; Metallica: Some Kind of Monster; Miracle; Spider-Man 2; Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring; Starsky & Hutch; Tom Dowd and The Language of Music

Donna Bowman

1. Vera Drake

2. Bright Leaves

3. Beyond the Sea

4. Hero

5. Before Sunset

6. Kill Bill Vol. 2

7. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring

8. Dogville

9. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

10. Sideways

Honorable Mention Collateral; Crimson Gold; Infernal Affairs; Metallica: Some Kind of Monster; Primer; Red Lights; The Story of the Weeping Camel; Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

Scott Manzler

1. Before Sunset

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

3. Unknown Pleasures

4. Springtime in a Small Town

5. Keane

6. Vera Drake

7. The Saddest Music in the World

8. The Big Red One: The Reconstruction

9. Crimson Gold

10. Distant

Honorable Mention Bright Future; Broken Wings; The Company; The Corporation; House of Flying Daggers; Infernal Affairs 2; The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou; Millennium Mambo; Since Otar Left; The Twilight Samu

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