Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Critical Consensus: The Films Of 2003 (MCN)

Critic Top Ten Lists - 2003
compiled by Movie City News

1 Lost In Translation
2 Return of the King
3 Mystic River
4 American Splendor
5 Finding Nemo
6 In America
7 Capturing the Friedmans
8 Master and Commander
9 21 Grams
10 Kill Bill 1

11 City of God
12 Cold Mountain
13 Station Agent, The
13 Elephant
15 House of Sand & Fog
16 Whale Rider
17 Fog of War
18 Spellbound
19 Seabiscuit
20 School of Rock, The

21 Barbarian Invasions
22 Triplettes of Belleville
23 Big Fish
24 Dirty Pretty Things
25 A Mighty Wind
26 Irreversible
27 Magdalene Sisters, The
28 Raising Victor Vargas
29 Thirteen
30 Pirates of the Caribbean
30 Man Without A Past

32 Shattered Glass
33 Russian Ark
34 Son
34 Lilya 4-ever
36 Etre et avoir
37 Bus 174
38 Gerry
39 In This World
40 Winged Migration

41 All The Real Girls
42 Spider
42 Unknown Pleasures
44 28 Days Later
44 Pieces of April
46 Love Actually
47 Secret Lives of Dentists
48 Japon
49 Swimming Pool
50 Man on the Train, The


51 Bend It Like Beckham
51 Bad Santa
51 Monster
54 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
55 Last Samurai, The
56 Love & Diane
57 Demonlover
58 Angels In America
58 Ten (Kiarostami)
58 Company, The
58 Good Thief

62 Dancer Upstairs
63 Girl with a Pearl Earring
63 Looney Toons: Back In Action
65 Peter Pan
66 Open Range
66 Down With Love
68 Sweet Sixteen
69 Weather Underground
69 Pianist, The
69 Together

72 Something's Gotta Give
72 Medea
74 Divine Intervention
75 Laurel Canyon
76 Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The
76 Friday Night (Vendredi soir)
76 Platform
79 Northfork
79 Matrix Reloaded

81 Intolerable Cruelty
81 My Life Without Me
83 Blue Car
83 Phone Booth
83 Human Stain, The
86 X2
86 Carnage
86 In The Cut
86 Madam Sata
90 Rivers & Tides
90 Missing, The

92 Chihwaseon
92 Dark Blue
92 Gloomy Sunday
92 Mondays In The Sun
92 Old School
92 Waiting for Happiness
98 Tupac
98 My Architect
98 Stone Reader
98 Stuck On You

102 Matchstick Men
102 Morvern Callar
105 Stevie
105 Distant
109 Owning Mahowny
109 Dogville
111 Songs from the Second Floor
113 Holes

Data compiled January 1, 2004
A&F Top Ten Lists - 2003
compiled by Ron Reed

1 Return of the King 184.5
2 Finding Nemo 157.0
3 Lost In Translation 135.5
4 Master and Commander 106.0
5 Stevie 76.0
6 In America 64.0
7 Son 56.0
8 X2 55.0
9 Spellbound 54.5
10 28 Days Later 49.5

11 Pirates of the Caribbean 48.5
12 Winged Migration 48.0
12 Man Without A Past 48.0
14 Station Agent, The 42.0
15 In This World 41.0
15 American Splendor 41.0
17 House of Sand & Fog 40.5
17 Kill Bill 1 40.5
19 City of God 40.0
20 Dirty Pretty Things 39.0

21 Pieces of April 34.0
22 Whale Rider 32.5
23 Raising Victor Vargas 30.0
24 Triplettes of Belleville 29.0
25 A Mighty Wind 28.5
26 Man on the Train, The 28.0
27 Seabiscuit 26.0
28 Cold Mountain 24.5
29 School of Rock, The 24.0
30 Big Fish 23.5

31 Etre et avoir 23.0
32 Fog of War 21.0
33 Shattered Glass 20.0
33 Bus 174 20.0
33 Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The 20.0
36 Hulk 18.0
37 Angels In America 17.0
38 Open Range 15.0
38 Barbarian Invasions 15.0
38 Shape of Things, The 15.0
38 OT: Our Town 15.0

42 Bend It Like Beckham 14.0
42 Elephant 14.0
44 Holes 13.5
45 Thirteen 13.0
45 Rivers & Tides 13.0
45 All The Real Girls 13.0
48 Intolerable Cruelty 12.5
49 Distant 12.0
50 Drifters 11.0
50 Time of the Wolf 11.0


52 Bright Leaves 10.0
52 25th Hour 10.0
54 Owning Mahowny 9.0
54 Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary 9.0
54 Ten (Kiarostami) 9.0
54 Secret Lives of Dentists 9.0
58 Russian Ark 8.0
58 21 Grams 8.0
58 Northfork 8.0

61 Voices of a Distant Star 7.5
62 Magdalene Sisters, The 7.0
62 Bad Santa 7.0
62 Friday Night (Vendredi soir) 7.0
62 Distant Lights 7.0
66 Matchstick Men 6.5
67 Tears of the Sun 6.0
67 Under the Skin of the City 6.0
67 Levity 6.0
70 Springtime in a Small Town 5.0

71 Better Luck Tomorrow 4.0
71 Capturing the Friedmans 4.0
71 Love Actually 4.0
71 Girl with a Pearl Earring 4.0
71 Decay of Fiction, The 4.0
71 Gospel of John 4.0
71 Gerry 4.0

78 Spider 3.0
78 Bruce Almighty 3.0
78 Guys, The 3.0
78 Tunnel, The 3.0
78 The Cooler 3.0
78 Alien: Director's Cut 3.0
78 Chaos 3.0

85 Irreversible 2.0
85 Lilya 4-ever 2.0
85 Down With Love 2.0
85 Something's Gotta Give 2.0
85 Matrix Reloaded 2.0
85 Blue Car 2.0
85 Matrix Revolutions 2.0
85 Once Upon a Time In Mexico 2.0
85 Calendar Girls 2.0
85 Life of David Gale 2.0
85 Reconstruction 2.0
85 Terminator 3 2.0
85 Mystic River 2.0

98 Last Samurai, The 1.0
98 Nowhere In Africa 1.0
98 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not 1.0
98 Weather Underground 1.0
98 Derrida 1.0
98 Trials of Henry Kissinger 1.0

Last tabulation February 28, 2004