The Top Ten Project

Welcome to my collection of annual best-of lists, inspired by a similar project from Ed Gonzalez at Slant Magazine. After I feel I have seen and reviewed a sufficient number of films from a specific year, I will post a list. Where applicable, you may follow a link to an in-depth review of a film.

Lists will unranked, alphabetical, and aimed for ten (but I don't believe in limiting oneself if there are more than ten great films or filling out a list if there are less). Onward from 1998 — the year I began publishing reviews in newspapers and on websites — films will fall under their U.S. release dates. Otherwise, dates will correspond with the Internet Movie Database.

Check back for regular updates.
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2000
• Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
• George Washington (David Gordon Green)
• High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
• Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen)
• Thirteen Days (Roger Donaldson)
• Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
• The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
• Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
• Yi Yi (Edward Yang)

2001
• Ali (Michael Mann)
• Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
• Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
• In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
• In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
• Memento (Christopher Nolan)
• Monsters, Inc. (Peter Docter)
• Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
• Waking Life (Richard Linklater)

2002
• Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
• Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
• Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
• Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
• Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
• The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
• Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
• Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
• Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
• Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuaron)

2003
• American Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman)
• Angels in America (Mike Nichols)
• City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
• Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
• Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
• The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
• The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
• Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
• School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
• The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet) 

2008

• Ballast (Lance Hammer)

• Boy A (John Crowley)

• Che (Steven Soderbergh)

• Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)

• The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)

• The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsein)
• Frozen River (Courtney Hunt)
• Hunger (Steve McQueen)

• In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)

• Milk (Gus Van Sant)

• Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)

• Wall•E (Andrew Stanton)

• The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)