Monday, January 02, 2006

My Top Ten Movies of 2005

In alphabetical order:
Broken Flowers
Capote
The Constant Gardener
Mysterious Skin
Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Munich
The Squid and the Whale
Syriana
Thumbsucker
2046
Runners Up: A History of Violence, War of the Worlds, Crash, Batman Begins, Good Night & Good Luck, Downfall, Jarhead

Overrated: Aristocrats, Sarah Silverman, King Kong (but still fun)

Might've made the list, but didn't get to see yet: Grizzly Man, Darwin's Nightmare, Murderball, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Munich, Brokeback Mountain, Junebug, Nine Lives, The Best of Youth, Cache, Bee Season - many of these didn't screen in Charlotte yet - grrr!

Still more I didn’t get to see, but which were often highly rated: Ballets Russes, Nobody Knows, Skeleton Key, William Eggleston in the Real World, Homecoming, The Holy Girl, Match Point, Funny Ha Ha, Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel, The New World, Good Morning, Night, and 40 Shades of Blue

Let me know what you recommend.

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