2004

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. The Sea Inside

2. Sideways

3. Million Dollar Baby

4. Shrek 2

5. The World According to Bush

6. Hotel Rwanda

7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

8. Collateral

9. The Door in the Floor

10. Stage Beauty

Honorable Mention - 3-Iron, Around the World in 80 Days, The Aviator, Bad Education, Before Sunset, Beyond the Sea, Birth, The Bourne Supremacy The Chorus, Control Room, Crash, District B13, Fahrenheit 9/11, Finding Neverland, Garden State, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Hellboy, House of Flying Daggers, I Robot, The Incredibles, In Good Company, Intimate Strangers, Keane, Kinsey, Knots, Kung Fu Hustle, Ladder 49, Love's Brother, The Manchurian Candidate, Man on Fire, The Merchant of Venice, Miracle, The Motorcycle Diaries, My Date with Drew, Napoleon Dynamite, The Notebook, The Other Side of the Street, The Polar Express, Ray, Riding Giants, Samaritan Girl, Shaun of the Dead, Spartan, Spider-Man 2, Super Size Me, Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War, Uncovered: The War on Iraq

Noteworthy films I haven't seen yet - 20:30:40, 2046, Being Julia, Born Into Brothels, Brothers, Darwin's Nightmare, Dawn of the Dead, Dead Man's Shoes, Dear Frankie, Downfall, The Edukators, Exiles, Firecracker, The Gate of Sun, Going Upriver, Le Grande Voyage, Head-On, The Holy Girl, Howl's Moving Castle, In Your Hands, Iron Jawed Angels, Life is a Miracle (aka Hungry Heart), Look at Me (aka Like an Image), Lost Embrace, Machuca, Maria Full of Grace, Millions, Moolaade, Mysterious Skin, My Summer of Love, Nobody Knows, Our Country, Palindromes, The Passion of the Christ, The Phantom of the Opera, Purgatory House, Red Lights, Saving Face, Simon, Somersault, Something the Lord Made, Summer Storm, Tony Takitani, Touch the Sound, Tropical Malady, Turtles Can Fly, Vera Drake, A Very Long Engagement, Walk on Water, Whisky, The Woodsman, The World, Yes

Films I think are overrated: The Butterfly Effect, Closer, Friday Night Lights, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I Heart Huckabees, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Layer Cake, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Machinist, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Outfoxed, Saved!, Saw, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Team America: World Police, The Terminal, Troy