A+ Pantheon
Friday Night (Denis)
A Masterpieces
A- Great
Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki)
A-/B+ Near Great
The Fog of War (Morris)
The Man Without a Past (Kaurismaki)
The Company (Altman)
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Maddin)
The Son (Dardenne & Dardenne)
City of God (Meirelles)
The Five Obstructions (von Trier & Leth)
B+ Must See
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir)
Demonlover (Assayas)
Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Tarantino) [originally: B+/B]
House of Sand and Fog (Perelman)
Cold Mountain (Minghella)
Shattered Glass (Ray)
School of Rock (Linklater)
The Secret Lives of Dentists (Rudolph)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson)
Dallas 362 (Caan)
Bad Santa (Zwigoff)
Down with Love (Reed)
B+/B Strongly Recommended
All the Real Girls (Green)
Bus 174 (...)
Graveyard of Honour (Miike)
Brown Bunny (Gallo)
Pistol Opera (Suzuki)
Lost in Translation (Coppola)
To Be and to Have (Philibert)
Finding Nemo (Stanton)
Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak)
L'Histoire de Julien et Marie (Rivette)
Millennium Mambo (Hou)
The Good Thief (Jordan)
Spellbound (Glitz)
La Trilogie: An Amazing Couple (Belvaux)
B Recommended
American Splendor (Bergman/Pulcini)
Charlotte Sometimes (Byler)
Full Time Killer (To)
In the Cut (Campion)
Irreversible (Noe)
Lost in La Mancha (Fulton/Pepe)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Verbinski)
Raising Victor Vargas (Sollett)
B/B- Recommended with minor reservations
Better Luck Tomorrow (Lin)
Carnages (Gleize)
Divine Intervention (Suleiman)
A Good Lawyer's Wife (Im)
Ichi the Killer (Miike)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines(Mastow)
Ten (Kiarostami)
La Trilogie: On the Run (Belvaux)
Les Triplettes des Bellville (Chomet)
B- Recommended with major reservations
The Barbarian Invasions (Arcand)
Gozu (Miike)
Intolerable Cruelty(Coen)
Les Sentiments (Lvovsky)
C+ Not Recommended but with redeeming values
Elephant (Van Sant)
Des plumes dans la tete (De Thier)
Monster (Jenkins)
Mystic River (Eastwood)
Nine Souls (Toyoda)
PTU (To)
21 Grams (Inarritu)
C Poor
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Rodriguez)
Purple Butterfly (Lou)
Seabiscuit (Ross)
C- Crap
Undead (Sperig & Sperig)
D Foul, disgusting crap
F Burn the negative
*Movies with Grades B+/B or above ranked. All others alphabetical within the grade.
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Priority 2003 movies missed thus far:
Unknown Pleasures
28 Days Later
Swimming Pool
Sweet Sixteen
In My Skin
The Matrix Reloaded
Dirty Pretty Things
A Mighty Wind
Winged Migration
The Housekeeper
X2
Spider
The Flower of Evil
Girl with the Pearl Earring
In America
Big Fish
My Architect
Friday Night (Denis)
A Masterpieces
A- Great
Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki)
A-/B+ Near Great
The Fog of War (Morris)
The Man Without a Past (Kaurismaki)
The Company (Altman)
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Maddin)
The Son (Dardenne & Dardenne)
City of God (Meirelles)
The Five Obstructions (von Trier & Leth)
B+ Must See
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir)
Demonlover (Assayas)
Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Tarantino) [originally: B+/B]
House of Sand and Fog (Perelman)
Cold Mountain (Minghella)
Shattered Glass (Ray)
School of Rock (Linklater)
The Secret Lives of Dentists (Rudolph)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson)
Dallas 362 (Caan)
Bad Santa (Zwigoff)
Down with Love (Reed)
B+/B Strongly Recommended
All the Real Girls (Green)
Bus 174 (...)
Graveyard of Honour (Miike)
Brown Bunny (Gallo)
Pistol Opera (Suzuki)
Lost in Translation (Coppola)
To Be and to Have (Philibert)
Finding Nemo (Stanton)
Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak)
L'Histoire de Julien et Marie (Rivette)
Millennium Mambo (Hou)
The Good Thief (Jordan)
Spellbound (Glitz)
La Trilogie: An Amazing Couple (Belvaux)
B Recommended
American Splendor (Bergman/Pulcini)
Charlotte Sometimes (Byler)
Full Time Killer (To)
In the Cut (Campion)
Irreversible (Noe)
Lost in La Mancha (Fulton/Pepe)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Verbinski)
Raising Victor Vargas (Sollett)
B/B- Recommended with minor reservations
Better Luck Tomorrow (Lin)
Carnages (Gleize)
Divine Intervention (Suleiman)
A Good Lawyer's Wife (Im)
Ichi the Killer (Miike)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines(Mastow)
Ten (Kiarostami)
La Trilogie: On the Run (Belvaux)
Les Triplettes des Bellville (Chomet)
B- Recommended with major reservations
The Barbarian Invasions (Arcand)
Gozu (Miike)
Intolerable Cruelty(Coen)
Les Sentiments (Lvovsky)
C+ Not Recommended but with redeeming values
Elephant (Van Sant)
Des plumes dans la tete (De Thier)
Monster (Jenkins)
Mystic River (Eastwood)
Nine Souls (Toyoda)
PTU (To)
21 Grams (Inarritu)
C Poor
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Rodriguez)
Purple Butterfly (Lou)
Seabiscuit (Ross)
C- Crap
Undead (Sperig & Sperig)
D Foul, disgusting crap
F Burn the negative
*Movies with Grades B+/B or above ranked. All others alphabetical within the grade.
____________________________________
Priority 2003 movies missed thus far:
Unknown Pleasures
28 Days Later
Swimming Pool
Sweet Sixteen
In My Skin
The Matrix Reloaded
Dirty Pretty Things
A Mighty Wind
Winged Migration
The Housekeeper
X2
Spider
The Flower of Evil
Girl with the Pearl Earring
In America
Big Fish
My Architect
