Three locks:
Ghost World
City of God
No Country for Old Men
The remaining contenders (in order of release date):
American Psycho
Requiem for a Dream
Sexy Beast
Gosford Park
Y tu mamá también
21 Grams
Lost in Translation
Shattered Glass
Collateral
Team America: World Police
Brokeback Mountain
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Notes on a Scandal
Bourne Ultimatum
The Dark Knight
(I’m as surprised as you are that Tom Cruise and Batman made my list.)
Honorable mention:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Quills
Traffic
The Royal Tenenbaums
About a Boy
Adaptation
One Hour Photo
American Splendor
Elephant
Gladiator
Donnie Darko
The Constant Gardener
Thirteen
Match Point
Sideways
The Squid and the Whale
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
United 93
Jesus Camp
The Last King of Scotland
Strangers With Candy
Zodiac
Eastern Promises
There Will Be Blood
Your thoughts?
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I’ve seen almost all those and I agree with most of them. You have good taste.
I haven’t seen as many of these as I would like, but we just don’t see as many movies now that we have kids.
That said, I’m a big fan of Match Point, Thank You For Smoking and Gosford Park.
Time to fire up the DVD player and start a new Netflix queue.
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Notes On A Scandal was unreal.
The Lives of Others, The Black Book and Bad Education would also be good additions.
Good catch — I loved the lives of others, actually it’s a lock for my top 10, surprised I forgot that one.
Like all of them, but I can’t put Dark Knight or No Country in my Top 10.
Team America is genius on so many levels.
Jesus Camp wouldn’t make my Honorable Mention.
I would have to put “The Aristocrats” in the Honorable Mention, if not Top 10.
Other than that it’s pretty great.
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