2003

Please note these are my ranking only of films I've seen. Any films you think should be on this list may be due to the fact I've yet to watch them. I welcome any recommendations of films which should be included.

1. Seabiscuit

2. Finding Nemo

3. The Last Samurai

4. Lost in Translation

5. Big Fish

6. The Fog of War

7. Shattered Glass

8. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

9. I'm Not Scared

10. The Italian Job

Honorable Mention - The Agronomist, American Splendor, The Barbarian Invasions, The Beat, Cold Mountain, Down with Love, Elf, Freaky Friday, Ginger and Cinnamon, Holes, I Capture the Castle, Infernal Affairs II,  Intolerable Cruelty, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Last Life in the Universe, Love Actually, Master and Commander; The Far Side of the World, The Missing, My Life Without Me, Mystic River, Oldboy, Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, Open Range, Osama, Owning Mahowny, Pieces of April, Radio, School of Rock, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, The Snow Walker, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring, The Station Agent, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Stuck on You, SWAT, Swimming Pool, Tokyo Godfathers, The Triplets of Belleville, X2: X-Men United, Zatoichi

Noteworthy films I haven't seen yet - 21 Grams, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Alexandra's Project, All the Real Girls, Angels in America, The Animatrix, Azumi, Baadasssss!, The Best of Youth, Camp, Capturing the Friedmans, Carandiru, Casa de los Babys, Code 46, Come and Go (aka Coming and Going), The Company, Control, The Corporation, Cowards Bend the Knee, Crimson Gold, Dogville, The Dreamers, Elephant, Evil, Facing Windows, Fear and Trembling, Festival Express, The Five Obstructions, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Godforsaken, Goodbye Lenin!, Good Morning Night, His Brother, The Human Stain, Inheritance, Kal Ho Naa No (aka Tomorrow May Never Come), Kitchen Stories, Kounandi, The Letter, The Life of David Gale, Memories of Murder, The Memory of a Killer (The Alzheimer Case), The Miracle of Bern, Monsieur Ibrahim, Monster, My Architect: A Son's Journey, My Flesh and Blood, New Guy, Northfork, Off the Map, El Polaquito, Power Trip, The Return, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The Saddest Music in the World, The Same River Twice, Saraband, Save the Green Planet, Schulze Gets the Blues, Since Otar Left, South from Granada, Strayed, Take My Eyes, A Tale of Two Sisters, Tarnation, Thirteen, Touching the Void, Tupac Resurrection, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Young Adam

Films I think are overrated: Bad Santa, Blind Shaft, Bon Voyage, Coffee and CIgarettes, Confidence, The Cooler, House of Sand and Fog, Identity, Matchstick Men, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, A Mighty Wind, Old School, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Peter Pan, Pirates of the Caribbean, Runaway Jury, Secondhand Lions, The Shape of Things, Something's Gotta Give, A Talking Picture, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines