RANK | FILM | DIRECTOR | POINTS |
1 | Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | 91 |
2 | There Will Be Blood* | Paul Thomas Anderson | 85 |
3 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | 62 |
4 | Brokeback Mountain* | Ang Lee | 54.5 |
5 | No Country for Old Men | Joel and Ethan Coen | 54 |
Zodiac | David Fincher | 54 | |
6 | Yi Yi | Edward Yang | 52 |
7 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | 50 |
The Lord of the Rings | Peter Jackson | 50 | |
8 | Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | 48 |
9 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass | 36.5 |
Y Tu Mamá También | Alfonso Cuarón | 36.5 | |
10 | Sideways* | Alexander Payne | 31.5 |
11 | Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | 30.5 |
Talk to Her | Pedro Almodóvar | 30.5 | |
WALL-E* | Andrew Stanton | 30.5 | |
12 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* | Ang Lee | 30 |
I'm Not There | Todd Haynes | 30 | |
13 | The Incredibles | Brad Bird | 28.5 |
14 | Memento | Christopher Nolan | 27.5 |
15 | Synecdoche, New York | Charlie Kaufman | 27 |
16 | Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | 26 |
Waltz With Bashir | Ari Folman | 26 | |
17 | City of God | Fernando Meirelles | 23.5 |
18 | The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 23 |
19 | Caché | Michael Haneke | 22.5 |
20 | The Best of Youth | Marco Tullio Giordana | 21.5 |
In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | 21.5 | |
21 | Letters From Iwo Jima* | Clint Eastwood | 21 |
22 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel | 20.5 |
Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | 20.5 | |
23 | The New World | Terrence Malick | 20 |
24 | Adaptation | Spike Jonze | 19.5 |
25 | The Hurt Locker* | Kathryn Bigelow | 17.5 |
The White Ribbon | Michael Haneke | 17.5 | |
The World | Jia Zhangke | 17.5 | |
26 | Far From Heaven | Todd Haynes | 17 |
27 | The Pianist | Roman Polanski | 16.5 |
28 | Secret Sunshine | Lee Chang-dong | 16 |
29 | Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore | 15.5 |
Dogville | Lars von Trier | 15.5 | |
Head-On | Fatih Akin | 15.5 | |
In Vanda's Room | Pedro Costa | 15.5 | |
La Commune (Paris, 1871) | Peter Watkins | 15.5 | |
Platform | Jia Zhangke | 15.5 | |
The Secret of the Grain | Abdellatif Kechiche | 15.5 | |
30 | Ratatouille | Brad Bird | 14.5 |
Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | 14.5 | |
Star Spangled to Death | Ken Jacobs | 14.5 | |
31 | Amélie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 13.5 |
Syndromes and a Century | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 13.5 | |
32 | American Splendor* | Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini | 13 |
33 | Before Sunset | Richard Linklater | 12.5 |
34 | Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe | 12 |
Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog | 12 | |
35 | 2046 | Wong Kar-wai | 11.5 |
Crash | Paul Haggis | 11.5 | |
Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | 11.5 | |
Time Out | Laurent Cantet | 11.5 | |
36 | Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | 11 |
Once | John Carney | 11 | |
37 | Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | 10.5 |
28 Days Later | Danny Boyle | 10.5 | |
38 | Babel | Alejandro González Inarritu | 10 |
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | Tsai Ming-liang | 10 | |
Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith | George Lucas | 10 | |
39 | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | Cristi Puiu | 9.5 |
40 | La Libertad | Lisandro Alonso | 9 |
The Fast Runner | Zacharias Kunuk | 9 | |
41 | Munich | Steven Spielberg | 8.5 |
The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach | 8.5 | |
42 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Andrew Dominik | 8 |
Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | 8 | |
Memories of Murder | Bong Joon-ho | 8 | |
The Supplement | Krzysztof Zanussi | 8 | |
The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky | 8 | |
43 | Irréversible | Gaspar Noé | 7.5 |
Together | Lukas Moodysson | 7.5 | |
44 | Casino Royale | Martin Campbell | 7 |
The Fog of War | Errol Morris | 7 | |
The Heart of the World | Guy Maddin | 7 | |
In the City of Sylvia | José Luis Guerín | 7 | |
Kill Bill | Quentin Tarantino | 7 | |
Son Frère | Patrice Chéreau | 7 | |
3-Iron | Kim Ki-duk | 7 | |
The Widow of St. Pierre | Patrice Leconte | 7 | |
45 | Avatar | James Cameron | 6.5 |
46 | Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 6 |
Dahmer | David Jacobson | 6 | |
Elephant | Gus Van Sant | 6 | |
The House of Sand | Andrucha Waddington | 6 | |
The Intruder | Claire Denis | 6 | |
Regular Lovers | Philippe Garrel | 6 | |
The Royal Tenenbaums | Wes Anderson | 6 | |
Russian Ark | Alexander Sokurov | 6 | |
Tomorrow Night | Louis C.K. | 6 | |
47 | About Schmidt* | Alexander Payne | 5.5 |
After the Wedding | Susanne Bier | 5.5 | |
Amores Perros | Alejandro González Inarritu | 5.5 | |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Sidney Lumet | 5.5 | |
Blame It on Fidel | Julie Gavras | 5.5 | |
Blissfully Yours | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 5.5 | |
Born Into Brothels | Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman | 5.5 | |
Chop Shop | Ramin Bahrani | 5.5 | |
Climates | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 5.5 | |
The Constant Gardener | Fernando Meirelles | 5.5 | |
Darwin's Nightmare | Hubert Sauper | 5.5 | |
Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | 5.5 | |
Election / Triad Election | Johnnie To | 5.5 | |
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones | Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia | 5.5 | |
Everlasting Moments | Jan Troell | 5.5 | |
Friday Night | Claire Denis | 5.5 | |
Gosford Park | Robert Altman | 5.5 | |
Gran Torino | Clint Eastwood | 5.5 | |
Grindhouse | Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino | 5.5 | |
I Heart Huckabees | David O. Russell | 5.5 | |
Il Divo | Paolo Sorrentino | 5.5 | |
In Praise of Love | Jean-Luc Godard | 5.5 | |
Inland Empire | David Lynch | 5.5 | |
Lemon Tree | Eran Riklis | 5.5 | |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Peter Jackson | 5.5 | |
Manufactured Landscapes | Jennifer Baichwal | 5.5 | |
No Man's Land | Danis Tanovic | 5.5 | |
Quills | Philip Kaufman | 5.5 | |
Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | 5.5 | |
Rize | David LaChapelle | 5.5 | |
Séraphine | Martin Provost | 5.5 | |
Son of the Bride | Juan José Campanella | 5.5 | |
Superbad | Greg Mottola | 5.5 | |
Sweet Sixteen | Ken Loach | 5.5 | |
Team America: World Police | Trey Parker | 5.5 | |
Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | 5.5 | |
Under the Sand | François Ozon | 5.5 | |
Up | Pete Docter | 5.5 | |
Up in the Air | Jason Reitman | 5.5 | |
Va Savoir | Jacques Rivette | 5.5 | |
Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | 5.5 | |
The Wind Will Carry Us | Abbas Kiarostami | 5.5 | |
You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan | 5.5 | |
48 | Billy Elliot | Stephen Daldry | 5 |
The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan | 5 | |
The Duchess of Langeais | Jacques Rivette | 5 | |
Femme Fatale | Brian De Palma | 5 | |
Iraq in Fragments | James Longley | 5 | |
Junebug | Phil Morrison | 5 | |
Kinsey | Bill Condon | 5 | |
Public Enemies | Michael Mann | 5 | |
The Return | Andrei Zvyagintsev | 5 | |
Right Now | Benoît Jacquot | 5 | |
To Be and to Have | Nicolas Philibert | 5 | |
49 | Brothers of the Head | Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe | 4 |
Divine Intervention | Elia Suleiman | 4 | |
The Edge of Heaven | Fatih Akin | 4 | |
Jackass Number Two | Jeff Tremaine | 4 | |
La Vie en Rose | Olivier Dahan | 4 | |
The Paper Will Be Blue | Radu Muntean | 4 | |
300 | Zack Snyder | 4 | |
The Triplets of Belleville | Sylvain Chomet | 4 | |
12:08 East of Bucharest | Corneliu Porumboiu | 4 | |
50 | The Corporation | Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott | 3 |
Fateless | Lajos Koltai | 3 | |
Kingdom of Heaven | Ridley Scott | 3 | |
L'Enfant | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 3 | |
Los Angeles Plays Itself | Thom Andersen | 3 | |
Paranoid Park | Gus Van Sant | 3 | |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Joel and Ethan Coen | 3 | |
Springtime in a Small Town | Tian Zhuangzhuang | 3 | |
Wild Grass | Alain Resnais | 3 | |
51 | The Band's Visit | Eran Kolirin | 2 |
The Bourne Ultimatum | Paul Greengrass | 2 | |
Colossal Youth | Pedro Costa | 2 | |
Moolaadé | Ousmane Sembene | 2 | |
Not on the Lips | Alain Resnais | 2 | |
Requiem for a Dream | Darren Aronofsky | 2 | |
52 | Audition | Takashi Miike | 1 |
Brick | Rian Johnson | 1 | |
The Circle | Jafar Panahi | 1 | |
The Gleaners and I | Agnes Varda | 1 | |
Monster | Patty Jenkins | 1 | |
My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin | 1 | |
Offside | Jafar Panahi | 1 | |
The Room | Tommy Wiseau | 1 | |
RR | James Benning | 1 | |
Shaun of the Dead | Edgar Wright | 1 | |
The Silence Before Bach | Pere Portabella | 1 | |
Summer Hours | Olivier Assayas | 1 | |
Suzhou River | Lou Ye | 1 | |
Tropical Malady | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 1 | |
Unbreakable | M. Night Shyamalan | 1 | |
Wonder Boys | Curtis Hanson | 1 |