Top 10: 2004
By: No-Limb Joe
Honorable Mention: Collateral (Michael Mann), Crimen Ferpecto* (Alex de la Iglesia), The Incredibles (Brad Bird), Kung Fu Hustle* (Stephen Chow), The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme), Primer (Shane Carruth), Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi), Undertow (David Gordon Green), Vera Drake (Mike Leigh), The White Diamond* (Werner Herzog)
Special Honorable Mention: The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (Samuel Fuller)
Gone but Not Forgotten: Mean Girls, Hellboy, Shrek 2, Fahrenheit 9/11, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Garden State, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Layer Cake, Cellular, Shark Tale, Team America: World Police, Ray, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Aviator, Super Size Me, Darwin’s Nightmare, Kinsey, The Machinist, House of Flying Daggers, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Double Dare, Sideways, Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, Bergman Island*, Catwoman(!)
*-new entry
(!)-bad movie
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01Richard Linklater
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02Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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03Gregg Araki
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04Pedro Almodóvar
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05Michel Gondry
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06Clint Eastwood
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07Joshua Marston
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08Ousmane Sembène
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09Claire Denis
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10Quentin Tarantino