Films seen in 2005: Ranked

  • 5.0

  • Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
  • Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
  • His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
  • Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
  • Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962)
  • 4.5

  • Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, 1955)
  • Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967)
  • Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
  • The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)
  • M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)
  • Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
  • Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
  • Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
  • 4.0

  • About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)
  • Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
  • The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
  • Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1959)
  • Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992)
  • The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963)
  • The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
  • Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
  • L'Âge d'or (Luis Buñuel, 1930)
  • Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943)
  • The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
  • Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, 1983)
  • Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
  • The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
  • 3.5

  • After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)
  • The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller, 1964)
  • The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
  • Capote (Bennett Miller, 2005)
  • Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz, 1935)
  • Dangerous Female (AKA The Maltese Falcon) (Roy Del Ruth, 1931)
  • It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
  • The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)
  • Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947)
  • Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
  • The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942)
  • Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953)
  • Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
  • Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
  • The Ruling Class (Peter Medak, 1972)
  • The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, 2004)
  • Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel, 1965)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
  • Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme, 1987)
  • That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977)
  • Touching the Void (Kevin McDonald, 2003)
  • Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934)
  • 3.0

  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
  • The Aviator (Martin Scorcese, 2004)
  • Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004)
  • Chain Camera (Kirby Dick, 2001)
  • The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979)
  • Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, 2003)
  • The Corporation (Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar, 2003)
  • Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
  • DiG! (Ondi Timoner, 2004)
  • The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich, 1967)
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney, 2005)
  • A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988)
  • Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod, 1932)
  • Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004)
  • In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell, 1992)
  • Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004)
  • Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2005)
  • The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder, 1942)
  • Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston, 2004)
  • The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, 2004)
  • Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004)
  • Osama (Siddiq Barmak, 2003)
  • Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (Robert Greenwald, 2004)
  • Portait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948)
  • Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears, 1987)
  • Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004)
  • Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen, 1969)
  • Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
  • The 40 Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow, 2005)
  • The War Room (Chris Hedegus, D.A. Pennebaker, 1993)
  • 2.5

  • The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Mueller, 2004)
  • Bad News Bears (Richard Linklater, 2005)
  • Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005)
  • The Call of the Wild (William Wellman, 1935)
  • Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004)
  • The Daytrippers (Greg Mottola, 1996)
  • The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams, 2004)
  • Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (AJ Schnack, 2002)
  • Happy Endings (Don Roos, 2005)
  • Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings, 2005)
  • I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004)
  • If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (Sarah Share, 2001)
  • In Good Company (Paul Weitz, 2004)
  • Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen, 2003)
  • Kinsey (Bill Condon, 2004)
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)
  • My Bodyguard (Tony Bill, 1980)
  • Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh, 2004)
  • Ray (Taylor Hackford, 2004)
  • Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1988)
  • Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993)
  • Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, 2005)
  • This Old Cub (Jeff Santo, 2004)
  • Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin, 2005)
  • 2.0

  • Backbeat (Iain Softley, 1994)
  • Beach Blanket Bingo (William Asher, 1965)
  • Bush's Brain (Joseph Mealey, Michael Shoob, 2004)
  • Cactus Flower (Gene Saks, 1969)
  • The Day after Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich, 2004)
  • Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, 2004)
  • The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978)
  • Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003)
  • The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Stephen Hopkins, 2004)
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004)
  • Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004)
  • Railroaded! (Anthony Mann, 1947)
  • Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975)
  • The Silencers (Phil Karlson, 1966)
  • The Split (Gordon Flemyng, 1968)
  • The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz, 2004)
  • Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, 2004)
  • Two Guys from Milwaukee (David Butler, 1946)
  • The Yes Men (Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith, 2003)
  • 1.5

  • Miss Pinkerton (Lloyd Bacon, 1932)
  • Party Girl (Daisy von Scherler Mayer, 1995)
  • Wimbledon (Richard Loncraine, 2004)
  • 1.0

  • Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
  • Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner, 2004)
  • Walking Tall (Kevin Bray, 2004)
  • 0.5

  • Catwoman (Pitof, 2004)
  • Worse than 0.5

  • Alone in the Dark (Uwe Boll, 2005)