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FILM RANKINGS
2004

[144 Films Screened]
2004 Films Seen * 2004 Reviews * 2004 Top 10 * Best of 2004 * Worst of 2004

note: my ranking system has changed somewhat since this year.

See my ranking system.


A+

  • Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) - [94]
  • Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang) - [93]


    A

  • The Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke) - [87]
  • Primer (Shane Carruth) - [85]


    A-

  • Birth (Jonathon Glazer) - [84]
  • Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) - [83]
  • Kill Bill, Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino) - [82]
  • The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo) - [79]
  • Anatomy of Hell (Catherine Breillat) - [78]


    B+

  • Vera Drake (Mike Leigh) - [76]
  • The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev) - [74]
  • Father and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov) - [74]
  • Twenty-Nine Palms (Bruno Dumont) - [73]
  • The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci) - [72]
  • Closer (Mike Nichols) - [72]
  • Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) - [71]


    B

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) - [70]
  • We Don't Live Here Anymore (John Curran) - [69]
  • Sideways (Alexander Payne)- [68]
  • Collateral (Michael Mann) - [67]
  • Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylon) - [67]
  • Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston) - [66]
  • Coffee & Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch) - [66]
  • House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou) - [65]
  • Hero (Zhang Yimou) - [65]
  • The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier) - [64]
  • Spartan (David Mamet) - [64]
  • Bad Education (Pedro Almadovar) - [64]
  • Young Adam (David McKenzie) - [63]
  • When Will I Be Loved (James Toback) - [63]
  • The Mother (Robert Michell) - [63]


    B-

  • The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams) - [62]
  • The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell) - [62]
  • Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder) - [62]
  • Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes) - [62]
  • Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi) - [61]
  • Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright) - [61]
  • Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran) - [60]
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson) - [60]
  • Sex is Comedy (Catherine Breillat) - [59]
  • Osama (Siddiq Barmak) - [59]
  • Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau) - [59]
  • Born into Brothels (Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman) - [58]
  • The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis) - [58]
  • Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi) - [58]
  • p.s. (Dylan Kidd) - [58]
  • Big Animal (Jerzy Stuhr) - [57]
  • Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) - [57]
  • Garden State (Zach Braff) - [57]
  • The Saddest Music in The World (Guy Maddin) - [57]
  • Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang) - [57]
  • Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore) - [56]
  • Moolaade (Ousmane Sembene) - [56]
  • Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay) - [56]
  • Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard) - [56]
  • Team America: World Police (Trey Parker) - [56]


    C+

  • Being Julia (István Szabó) - [55]
  • Mean Girls (Mark Waters) - [55]
  • Enduring Love (Roger Michell) - [55]
  • Hotel Rwanda (Terry George) - [55]
  • Red Lights (Cedric Kahn) - [54]
  • The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano) - [54]
  • Silver City (John Sayles) - [54]
  • The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Mueller) - [54]
  • A Tale of Two Sisters (Ji-woon Kim) - [54]
  • The Life & Death of Peter Sellers (Stephen Hopkins) - [54]
  • Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...and Spring (Kim Ki-Duk) - [53]
  • Fear & Trembling (Alain Corneau) - [53]
  • Danny Deckchair (Jeff Balsmeyer) - [53]
  • The Machinist (Brad Anderson) - [53]
  • I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell) - [52]
  • Intermission (John Crowley) - [52]
  • Trilogy: On The Run (Lucas Belvaux) - [52]
  • Alexander (Oliver Stone) - [51]
  • The Incredibles (Brad Bird) - [51]
  • Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón) - [51]
  • Open Water (Chris Kentis) - [50]
  • Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (Rawson Marshall Thurber) - [50]
  • The Passion of The Christ (Mel Gibson) - [49]
  • A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - [49]
  • End of The Century: The Story of The Ramones (Jim Fields & Michael Gramaglia)- [49]


    C

  • The Aviator (Martin Scorsese) - [48]
  • The Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada) - [47]
  • The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich) - [46]
  • Napoleon Dynomite (Jared Hess) - [46]
  • Vanity Fair (Mira Nair) - [45]
  • De-Lovely (Irwin Winkler) - [45]
  • Stage Beauty (Richard Eyre) - [45]
  • Laws of Attraction (Peter Howitt) - [44]
  • Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers) - [44]
  • 13 Going on 30 (Gary Winick) - [44]
  • Criminal (Gregory Jacobs) - [44]
  • A Dirty Shame (John Waters) - [44]
  • The Ladykillers (Joel Coen) - [44]
  • Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood) - [43]
  • In Good Company (Paul Weitz) - [43]
  • Intimate Strangers (Patrice Leconte) - [43]
  • Saved! (Brian Dannelly) - [43]
  • Bright Young Things (Stephen Fry) - [43]
  • Ray (Taylor Hackford) - [43]
  • Kinsey (Bill Condon) - [43]
  • The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass) - [43]
  • Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock) - [43]
  • The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles) - [43]
  • The Agronomist (Jonathan Demme) - [43]
  • The Terminal (Steven Spielberg) - [42]
  • Spanglish (James L. Brooks) - [42]
  • Finding Neverland (Marc Forster) - [42]
  • A Home at the End of the World (Michael Mayer) - [42]
  • The Chronicles of Riddick (David Twohy) - [41]
  • Almost Peaceful (Michel Deville) - [41]
  • Purple Butterfly (Lou Ye) - [41]
  • Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles) - [41]
  • Control Room (Jehane Noujaim) - [41]


    C-

  • The Phantom of The Opera (Joel Schumacher) - [39]
  • Troy (Wolfgang Petersen) - [39]
  • Catwoman (Pitof) - [38]
  • Wimbledon (Richard Loncraine) - [38]
  • Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (Robert Greenwald) - [37]
  • The Village (M. Night Shyamalan) - [37]
  • The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu) - [36]
  • King Arthur (Antoine Fuqua) - [36]
  • Divan (Pearl Gluck) - [35]
  • I, Robot (Alex Proyas) - [34]
  • Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson) - [34]


    D+

  • Exorcist: The Beginning (Renny Harlin) - [33]
  • New York Minute (Dennie Gordon) - [33]
  • Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Beeban Kidron) - [33]
  • Bon Voyage (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)- [32]
  • National Treasure (Jon Turtletaub) - [32]
  • The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar) - [32]
  • Bush's Brain (Joseph Mealey & Michael Shoob) - [31]
  • I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - [30]
  • Home on the Range (Will Finn & John Sanford) - [28]


    D

  • She Hate Me (Spike Lee)- [26]
  • The Forgotten (Joseph Ruben) - [20]


    D-

  • The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz) - [18]
  • Zhou Yu's Train (Zhou Sun) - [14]
  • Oasis (Chang-dong Lee) - [12]


    F

  • Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette) - [10]
  • What The Bleep Do We Know (William Arntz)- [7]
  • Garfield (Peter Hewitt) - [4]
  • Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed (Raja Gosnell) - [3]
  • White Chicks (Keenen Ivory Wayans) - [1]
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