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FILM RANKINGS
2005

[112 films screened]
2005 Reviews * 2005 Films Seen * 2005 Top 10 * Best of 2005 * Worst of 2005

See my ranking system.


  • 2046 (Wong Kar-wai) - [93]
  • Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) - [92]
  • The New World (Terrence Malick) - [90]


  • Saraband (Ingmar Bergman) - [88]
  • A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) - [87]
  • Last Days (Gus Van Sant) - [84]
  • Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) - [83]
  • Caché (Michael Haneke) - [82]
  • Ma Mère (Christophe Honore) - [81]
  • Or (Mon Tresor) (Keren Yadeya) - [81]
  • Haute Tension (Alexandre Aja) - [80]


  • Kings & Queen (Arnaud Desplechin) - [79]
  • The Holy Girl (Lucretia Martel) - [78]
  • A Toute de Suite (Benoit Jacquot) - [78]
  • 5x2: Five Times Two (Francois Ozon) - [77]
  • Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright) - [76]
  • Kontroll (Nimrod Antal) - [76]
  • Nobody Knows (Kore-eda Hirokazu) - [76]
  • The World (Jia Zhang-ke) - [75]
  • Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad) - [75]
  • Ellie Parker (Scott Coffey) - [74]
  • Head-On (Fatih Akin) - [74]
  • The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles) - [74]
  • Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, 2004) - [74]
  • The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach) - [73]
  • Schizo (Gulshat Omarova) - [73]
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July) - [73]
  • My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski) - [73]
  • 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk) - [73]
  • Match Point (Woody Allen) - [72]
  • Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney) - [72]
  • Land of the Dead (George A. Romero) - [72]
  • Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsaio-hsien) - [72]
  • Moments Choisis: Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean Luc Godard) - [72]
  • Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch) - [71]
  • Brødre (Susanne Bier) - [71]
  • L'Intrus (Claire Denis) - [71]
  • Junebug (Phil Morrison) - [71]
  • Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki) - [70]
  • Dear Wendy (Thomas Vinterberg) - [70]
  • Eros (Wong Kar-wai, Soderbergh & Antonioni) - [70]
  • Shopgirl (Anand Tucker) - [70]


  • Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (Liam Lynch) - [69]
  • The Beat that my Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard) - [68]
  • Serenity (Josh Whedon) - [68]
  • Frank Miller's Sin City (Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez) - [67]
  • Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow) - [67]
  • Land of Plenty (Wim Wenders) - [66]
  • Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel) - [65]
  • Melinda & Melinda (Woody Allen) - [64]
  • Look at Me (Agnes Jaoui) - [61]


  • Happy Endings (Don Roos) - [58]
  • Syriana (Stephen Gaghan) - [56]
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney) - [56]
  • Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe) - [55]
  • Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin) - [54]
  • Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) - [54]
  • 10 on Ten (Abbas Kiarostami) - [53]
  • Prime (Ben Younger) - [53]
  • The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow) - [52]
  • Bride & Prejudice (Gurinder Chadha) - [51]
  • War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg) - [51]
  • King Kong (Peter Jackson) - [50]


  • Munich (Steven Spielberg) - [49]
  • Jarhead (Sam Mendes) - [49]
  • The Interpreter (Sydney Pollack) - [48]
  • Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Tim Burton & Mike Johnson) - [48]
  • The Ballad of Jack & Rose (Rebecca Miller) - [47]
  • Heights (Chris Terrio) - [47]
  • Walk on Water (Eytan Fox) - [46]
  • Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn) - [46]
  • Domino (Tony Scott) - [46]
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (A. Adamson) - [45]
  • Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan) - [45]
  • Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas) - [45]
  • Millions (Danny Boyle) - [45]
  • Inside Deep Throat (Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato) - [45]
  • North Country (Niki Caro) - [44]
  • Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman) - [44]
  • Constantine (Francis Lawrence) - [44]
  • Crash (Paul Haggis) - [43]
  • Capote (Bennett Miller) - [43]
  • Travellers & Magicians (Khyentse Norbu) - [43]
  • Rent (Chris Columbus) - [42]
  • Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton) - [42]
  • Fever Pitch (Bobby & Peter Farrelly) - [42]
  • Walk the Line (James Mangold) - [41]
  • Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan) - [40]


  • Bee Season (Scott McGehee & David Siegel) - [39]
  • March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet) - [38]
  • The Jacket (John Maybury) - [37]
  • The Dying Gaul (Craig Lucas) - [37]
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings) - [36]
  • Throw Down (Johnnie To) - [36]
  • JSA: Joint Security Area (Chan-wook Park) - [36]
  • Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer) - [33]
  • Bewitched (Nora Ephron) - [32]


  • Derailed (Mikael Hafstrom) - [29]
  • Hide & Seek (John Polson) - [27]
  • The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (Jane Anderson) - [26]
  • Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott) - [25]
  • Elektra (Rob Bowman) - [22]


  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ken Kwapis) - [18]
  • The Stratosphere Girl (M.X. Oberg) - [15]
  • The Ring Two (Hideo Nakata) - [13]
  • Proof (John Maddin) - [12]
  • Fantastic Four (Tim Story) - [11]


  • House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra) - [8]
  • White Noise (Geoffrey Sax) - [5]
  • The Dukes of Hazzard (Jay Chandrasekhar) - [1]


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