TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2009

1. The Hurt Locker

2. Bright Star

3. Let the Right One In

4. The White Ribbon

5. The Beaches of Agnes

6. The Cove

7. Food, Inc.

8. Up in the Air

9. An Education

10. Up

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): (500) Days of Summer, A Christmas Tale, Coraline, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Inglorious Basterds, Of Time and The City, Precious, The September Issue, A Serious Man, A Single Man

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2008

1. Milk

2. The Class

3. Happy-Go-Lucky

4. The Diving Bell & The Butterfly

5. The Visitor

6. Tell No One

7. The Band’s Visit

8. I’m Not There

9. Man on Wire

10. The Wrestler

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Burn After Reading, Eastern Promises, Encounters at the End of the World, Frozen River, In Bruges, Mamma Mia!, Taxi to the Dark Side, Vicki Cristina Barcelona, WALL-E, Wendy and Lucy

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2007

1. There Will Be Blood

2. Michael Clayton

3. Into the Wild

4. Juno

5. No Country for Old Men

6. Atonement

7. Away From Her

8. Once

9. Ratatouille

10. Waitress

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford; Chris and Don: A Love Story; Crazy Love; 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Hollywood Chinese; La Vie en Rose; Lars and the Real Girl; No End in Sight; The Savages; Sicko

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2006

1. The Lives of Others

2. United 93

3. Pan’s Labyrinth

4. Little Miss Sunshine

5. Children of Men

6. Half Nelson

7. Volver

8. Neil Young: Heart of Gold

9. An Inconvenient Truth

10. Little Children

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Babel, Casino Royale, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Fountain, Notes on a Scandal, Old Joy, The Queen, Sherrybaby, This Film Is Not Yet Rated

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2005

1. Brokeback Mountain

2. Head-On

3. The New World

4. The Motorcycle Diaries

5. Capote

6. Grizzly Man

7. The Constant Gardener

8. Good Night, and Good Luck

9. A History of Violence

10. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): The Corpse Bride, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, 51 Birch St., Junebug, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Murderball, Mysterious Skin, Palindromes, The Squid and the Whale, Walk the Line

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. Sideways

3. Million Dollar Baby

4. Vera Drake

5. Before Sunset

6. The Sea Inside

7. Kinsey

8. My Architect

9. Bad Education

10. Twist of Faith

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Down to the Bone, The Dreamers, Fahrenheit 9/11, Hustle & Flow, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Ray, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Tarnation, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2003

1. Lost in Translation

2. To Be and to Have

3. Spider

4. The Triplets of Belleville

5. American Splendor

6. Station Agent

7. Capturing the Friedmans

8. 21 Grams

9. Finding Nemo

10. My Life Without Me

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): A Mighty Wind, Monster, Mystic River, School of Rock, Shattered Glass, Something’s Gotta Give, Spellbound, The Stone Reader, Swimming Pool, Thirteen

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2002

1. The Pianist

2. Talk to Her

3. Rivers and Tides

4. Adaptation

5. Far From Heaven

6. Bloody Sunday

7. Chicago

8. Y Tu Mama Tambien

9. The Hours

10. Spirited Away

Honorable mention (alphabetical order):About Schmidt, City of God, 8 Mile, Insomnia, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Lovely and Amazing, Minority Report, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Road to Perdition, 25th Hour

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2001

1. The Royal Tenenbaums

2. Mulholland Drive

3. The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition

4. The Deep End

5. In The Bedroom

6. Amelie

7. A Beautiful Mind

8. Under the Sand

9. Big Eden

10. War Photographer

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Amores Perros, Ghost World, Home Movie, Iris, Memento, Millennium Mambo, My Voyage to Italy, No Man’s Land, Read My Lips, Time Out

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2000

1. Dancer in the Dark

2. Yi Yi

3. Before Night Falls

4. Beau Travail

5. Billy Elliot

6. The Color of Paradise

7. You Can Count on Me

8. Chicken Run

9. House of Mirth

10. Chuck & Buck

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Best in Show; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; High Fidelity; Judy Berlin; Nurse Betty; O Brother, Where Are Thou?; Requiem for a Dream; Shadow of the Vampire; Small Time Crooks; Traffic