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The following list averages the opinions of my favorite critics plus mine.
Foreign movies show sometimes a year later, so if you can't find a title, check last year's ratings.
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Special section: The 2002 Film Festivals
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Ratings for the 2002 season
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MUST SEE...:
8.0 Zhang Yimou: Ying Xiong/ Hero 7.5 Juan Carlos Fresnadillo: Intacto 7.3 Alexander Sokurov: Russian Ark 7.1 John Sayles: Sunshine State 7.1 Aki Kaurismaki: The Man Without a Past 7.0 Pedro Almodovar: Talk To Her 7.0 Takeshi Kitano: Dolls 7.0 Lee Chang-dong: Oasis 7.0 Abderrahmane Sissako: Waiting for Happiness 7.0 Chang Tso-chi: The Best Of Times 7.0 Lucas Belvaux: Trilogy I, II, III 7.0 Zacharias Kunuk: The Fast Runner/ Atanarjuat 7.0 Rebecca Miller: Personal Velocity 7.0 Michael Moore: Bowling for Columbine 7.0 Lee Chang-dong: Oasis 7.0 Peter Kosminsky: White Oleander 7.0 Werner Herzog: Invincible 7.0 Kim Ki-Duk: The Isle 7.0 Rob Cohen: XXX 7.0 Francois Ozon: Huite Femmes/ Eight Women 7.0 Tom Tykwer: Heaven 7.0 Atom Egoyan: Ararat 7.0 Elia Suleiman: Intervention Divine 7.0 Marco Bellochio: L'ora di religione/ The Hour of Religion 7.0 Olivier Assayas: Les Destinees 7.0 Majid Majidi: Baran 7.0 Ake Sandgren: Et rigtigt menneske/ Truly Human 7.0 Achero Manas: El Bola 7.0 Przemyslaw Reut: Paradox Lake 7.0 Rintaro: Metropolis 7.0 Kang Je-Gyu: Shiri 7.0 Larry Fessenden: Wendigo 7.0 Lone Scherfig: Italian For Beginners 7.0 Henry Bean: The Believer 7.0 Dover Kosashvili: Late Marriage 7.0 Alexander Payne: About Schmidt 7.0 Hilary Birmingham: Tully 7.0 Todd Haynes: Far From Heaven 7.0 Steven Spielberg: Minority Report 7.0 Lynne Ramsay: Morvern Callar 7.0 Steven Spielberg: Catch Me if You 7.0 Stephen Daldry: The Hours 7.0 Satoshi Kon: Sennen Joyu/ Millennium Actress (2001) 7.0 Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Mysterious Object At Noon |
SO SO...:
6.9 Mani Ratman: A Peck on the Cheek 6.9 Brian DePalma: Femme Fatale 6.9 Andreas Dresen: "Halbe Treppe/ Grill Point" 6.9 Burr Steers: Igby Goes Down 6.9 Claude Miller: Alias Betty 6.9 Sam Mendes: The Road To Perdition 6.9 Francois Ozon: 8 Women 6.9 Mark Romanek: One Hour Photo 6.9 Christophe Gans: The Brotherhood Of The Wolf 6.9 Christopher Munch: The Sleepy Time Gal 6.9 Uwe Boll: Blackwoods 6.9 Dylan Kidd: Roger Dodger 6.9 Abbas Kiarostami: Ten 6.9 Alan Rudolph: Secret Lives of Dentists 6.8 Marion Briand: La Turbulence Des Fluides 6.8 Patrice Leconte: L'Homme du Train/ Man on the Train 6.8 Arturo Ripstein: La Virgen de la Lujuria/ Virgin of Lust 6.8 Larry Clark: Ken Park 6.8 Abderrahmane Sissako: Waiting For Happiness 6.8 Tony Pemberton: Beyond The Ocean 6.8 Bill Paxton: Frailty 6.8 Otar Iosseliani: Monday Morning/ Lundi Matin 6.8 Henry Barrial: Some Body 6.8 Takashi Ishii: Freeze Me 6.8 Peter Care: The Dangerous Life of Altar Boys 6.8 Kathryn Bigelow: K-19 The Widowmaker 6.8 Julie Davis: Amy's Orgasm 6.8 Oliver Hirshbiegel: Das Experiment 6.8 Eriq La Salle: Crazy as Hell 6.8 Spike Jonze: Adaptation 6.8 Olivier Assayas: Demonlover 6.8 David Cronenberg: Spider 6.7 Walter Hill: Undisputed 6.7 Tim McCann: Revolution No. 9 6.7 Paul Schrader: Auto Focus 6.7 Randall Wallace: We Were Soldiers 6.7 Sandra Nettelbeck: Mostly Martha 6.6 M. Night Shyamalan: Signs 6.6 Robert Rodriguez: Spy Kids 2 6.5 Mark Pellington: The Mothman Prophecies 6.5 Jill Sprecher: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 6.5 Michel Deville: Almost Peaceful 6.5 Ben Coccio: Zero Day 6.5 Claudio Assis: Mango Yellow 6.5 Martin Scorsese: Gangs Of New York 6.5 Shinsuke Sato: Shurayuki Hime/ The Princess Blade 6.5 Chen Kaige: Together 6.5 Chatrichalerm Yukol: Legend of Suriyothai 6.5 Chen Kuo-fu: Double Vision 6.5 Claire Denis: Friday Night (2001) 6.5 Fernando Meirelles: City of God 6.5 Joe Carnahan: Narc 6.5 Roman Polanski: The Pianist 6.5 Stephen Gaghan: Abandon 6.5 Nicole Garcia: Adversaire 6.5 Robert Guediguian: Marie-Jo and Her Two Loves 6.5 Steven Shainberg: Secretary 6.5 John Polson: Swimfan 6.5 Bille August: A Song for Martin 6.5 John Woo: Windtalkers 6.5 Dominik Graf: A Map Of The Heart/ Der Felsen 6.5 Silvio Soldini: Burning In The Wind/ Brucio Nel Vento 6.5 Paul Thomas Anderson: Punch-Drunk Love 6.5 Callie Khouri: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 6.5 Manoel De Oliveira: The Uncertainty Principle 6.5 Im Kwon-Taek: Chihwasean/ Painted Fire 6.5 Ken Loach: Sweet Sixteen 6.5 Claude Lelouche: And Now Ladies and Gentlemen 6.5 Mike Leigh: All or Nothing 6.5 Luc Dardenne: The Son 6.5 Nicole Holofcener: Lovely and Amazing 6.5 Michael Winterbottom: 24-Hour Party People 6.5 Amos Gitai: Kedma 6.5 Malcom Lee: Undercover Brother 6.5 Fred Schepisi: Last Orders 6.5 Harry Shearer: Teddy Bears' Picnic 6.5 Wally Wolodarsky: Sorority Boys 6.5 Ilya Chaiken: Margarita Happy Hour 6.5 Christine Jeffs: Rain 6.5 Clare Peploe: The Triumph of Love 6.5 Shunji Iwai: All About Lily Chou-Chou 6.5 Yvan Attal: My Wife Is An Actress 6.5 Joel Zwick: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 6.5 Gary Winick: Tadpole 6.5 Andrew Niccol: Simone 6.5 Anne Fontaine: How I Killed My Father 6.5 Steven Soderbergh: Full Frontal 6.5 Miguel Arteta: The Good Girl 6.5 Tim Story: Barbershop 6.5 Kaos: Ballistic 6.5 Rajat Mukherjee: Road 6.5 Chris Eyre: Skins 6.5 Andy Tennant: Sweet Home Alabama 6.5 Peter Mullan: The Magdalene Sisters 6.5 Patricia Cardoso: Real Women Have Curves 6.5 Julie Taymor: Frida 6.5 Curtis Hanson: 8 Mile 6.5 Pascale Bailly: God Is Great, I'm Not 6.5 Charles Stone III: Drumline 6.5 Jay Russell: Tuck Everlasting 6.5 George Lucas: Star Wars Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones 6.5 David Fincher: The Panic Room 6.5 Tim Blake Nelson: The Grey Zone 6.5 Charles Herman-Wurmfeld: Kissing Jessica Stein 6.5 Eytan Fox: Yossi and Jagger |
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Passable...:
6.4 Gary Burns: Waydowntown 6.4 Bertrand Tavernier: Safe Conduct/ Laissez-Passer 6.3 Babak Payami: Secret Ballot 6.3 Jia Zhang-Ke: Unknown Pleasures 6.3 Robert Evans: The Kid Stays In The Picture 6.3 Paul Greengrass: Bloody Sunday 6.3 Phillip Noyce: Rabbit-Proof Fence 6.2 Robert Connolly: The Bank 6.2 Jesse Peretz: The Chateau 6.2 Helene Angel: Skin of Man, Heart of Beast 6.1 Anthony and Joe Russo: Welcome to Collinwood 6.0 Debra Eisenstadt: Daydream Believer 6.0 Tian Zhuangzhuang: Springtime in a Small Town 6.0 JeanClaude Brisseau: Secret Things 6.0 Cedric Klapisch: L'Auberge Espagnole 6.0 Gurinder Chadha: Bend it Like Beckham 6.0 Veronica Chen: Vagon Fumador/ Smokers Only 6.0 Peter Jackson: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 6.0 Denzel Washington: Antwone Fisher 6.0 Jiang Wen: Devils on the Doorstep 6.0 Lee Jeong-Hyuang: The Way Home 6.0 Hong Sang-Soo: Turning Gate 6.0 Roger Avary: The Rules of Attraction 6.0 Cory Yuen: The Transporter 6.0 James Toback: harvard Man 6.0 Rob Bowman: Reign Of Fire 6.0 Ferzan Ozpetek: His Secret Life 6.0 Agni Varsha: The Fire and the Rain 6.0 Michael Snow: Corpus Callosum 6.0 Vicente Aranda: Mad Love 6.0 Juan Jose Campanella: Son Of The Bride 6.0 Jesse Vaughan: Juwanna Mann 6.0 David S. Goyer: ZigZag 6.0 Phil Alden Robinson: TYhe Sum Of All Fears 6.0 Bernard Rose: Ivans XTC 6.0 Nicole Garcia: Adversaire 6.0 Robert Guediguian: Marie-Jo and Her Two Loves 6.0 John Gianvito: The Mad Songs Of Fernando Hussein 6.0 Claire Kilner: Janice Beard 6.0 Adrian Lyne: Unfaithful 6.0 Ashutosh Gowariker: Lagaan 6.0 Denis Villeneuve: Maelstrom 6.0 Jean-Pierre Denis: Murderous Maids 6.0 Raja Amari: Satin Rouge 6.0 Bill Plympton: Mutant Aliens 6.0 Bart Freundlich: World Traveler 6.0 Barbet Schroeder: Murder by Numbers 6.0 Ethan Hawke: Chelsea Walls 6.0 Billy Morrissette: Scotland, Pa. 6.0 Michael Cacoyannis: The Cherry Orchard 6.0 Lone Scherfig: Bellissimo 6.0 Ramin Serry: Maryam 6.0 Peter Sheridan: Borstal Boy 6.0 Sara Sugarman: Very Annie Mary 6.0 Elie Chouraqui: Harrison's Flowers 6.0 Guillermo Del Toro: Blade 2 6.0 John Lee Hancock: The Rookie 6.0 Peter Bogdanovich: The Cat's Meow 6.0 Joseph Gai Ramaka: Karmen Gei 6.0 Benoit Jacquot: Sade 6.0 Ismail Merchant: Mystic Masseur 6.0 Bryan Johnson: Vulgar 6.0 Adam Rifkin: Night at the Golden Eagle 6.0 D.J. Caruso: The Salton Sea 6.0 Christopher Nolan: Insomnia 6.0 Jonathan Parker: Bartleby 6.0 Roman Coppola: CQ 6.0 Michael Apted: Enough 6.0 Dani Kouyate: Sia: The Dream of the Python 6.0 Paul McGuigan: Gangster No. 1 6.0 I-fan Quirk: Being Claudine 6.0 Gregor Schnitzer: What to Do in Case of Fire 6.0 Jay Roach: Austin Powers in Goldmember 6.0 Zhang Yimou: Happy Times 6.0 Stanley Kwan: Lan Yu 6.0 Claude Chabrol: Merci Pour le Chocolat 6.0 Matej Minac: All My Loved Ones 6.0 Neil Labute: Possession 6.0 Michael Caton-Jones: City by the Sea 6.0 Julio Medem: Sex And Lucia 6.0 Marco Bellocchio: My Mother's Smile 6.0 Van Fischer: Blink of an Eye 6.0 Philippe de Broca: On Guard 6.0 Godfrey Reggio: Naqoyqatsi 6.0 Betty Thomas: I Spy 6.0 Kathryn Bigelow: The Weight of Water 6.0 Holly Angell Hardman: Besotted 6.0 Somnath Sen: Leela 6.0 Abel Ferrara: 'R Xmas 6.0 Frank Novak: Better Housekeeping 6.0 Michael Hoffman: The Emperor's Club 6.0 Frank Reyes: Empire 6.0 Rob Marshall: Chicago |
YUCK!...:
5.9 Charles Addessi: Wannabes 5.9 Doug Liman: The Bourne Identity 5.8 Paul Anderson: Resident Evil 5.8 Danny DeVito: Death To Smoochy 5.5 Harry Ralston: The Last Man 5.5 Takashi Miike: Dead or Alive: Final 5.5 David Twohy: Below 5.5 Diane Kurys: Children Of The Century 5.5 Clint Eastwood: Blood Work 5.5 Oliver Parker: The Importance of Being Earnest 5.5 Jonathan Frakes: Clockstoppers 5.5 Jeong Jae Eun: Take Care Of My Cat 5.5 Pete Jones: Stolen Summer 5.5 Nick Cassavetes: John Q 5.5 Gregory Hoblit: Hart's War 5.5 Fabian Bielinski: Nine Queens 5.5 Anne-Sophie Birot: Girls Can't Swim 5.5 Mandel Holland: The Other Brother 5.5 Dirk Shafer: Circuit 5.5 Joel Schumacher: Bad Company 5.5 Karim Dridi: Cuba Feliz 5.5 Eight-Legged Freaks 5.5 Takashi Miike: The Happiness of the Katakuris 5.5 Gerard Krawczyk: Wasabi 5.5 Tian Zhuangzhuang: Springtime In A Small Town 5.5 Ryosuke Hashiguchi: Hush 5.5 Spike Lee: 25th Hour 5.0 James Bolton: Eban And Charley 5.0 Woody Allen: Hollywood Ending 5.0 Jonathan Demme: The Truth About Charlie 5.0 Steven Soderbergh: Solaris 5.0 Wes Craven: They 5.0 Lee Tamahori: Die Another Day 5.0 Phillip Noyce: The Quiet American 5.0 Marcus Raboy: Friday After Next 5.0 Carlos Carrera: El Crimen del Padre Amaro 5.0 Guy Ritchie: Swept Away 5.0 Edward Burns: Ash Wednesday 5.0 Shekhar Kapur: The Four Feathers 5.0 Bob Dolman: The Banger Sisters 5.0 Doug Miles: Don't Ask Don't Tell 5.0 Rich Murray: Snipes 5.0 Ruedi Gerber: Heartbreak Hospital 5.0 Adam Larson Broder: Pumpkin 5.0 Imogen Kimmel: Secret Society 5.0 Paul And Chris Weitz: About A Boy 5.0 Carl Franklin: High Crimes 5.0 Peter Cattaneo: The Full Monty 5.0 Jake Kasdan: Orange County 5.0 Joseph Cedar: Time Of Favor 5.0 Kevin Reynolds: The Count of Montecristo 5.0 Laurice Guillen: American Adobo 5.0 Jez Butterworth: Birthday Girl 5.0 Peter O'Fallon: A Rumor Of Angels 5.0 David Ondricek: Loners 5.0 Arliss Howard: Big Bad Love 5.0 Andrew Smith: The Slaughter Rule 5.0 Michael Kalesniko: How To Kill Your Neighbor's dog 5.0 Michael Rymer: Queen Of The Damned 5.0 Michael Lehmann: 40 Days And 40 Nights 5.0 Simon Wells: The Time Machine 5.0 Lieven Debrauwer: Pauline and Paulette 5.0 Tom Dey: Showtime 5.0 Michel Gondry: Human Nature 5.0 Michael Apted: Enigma 5.0 Sam Raimi: Spider-Man 5.0 Stephen Herek: Life or Something Like It 5.0 Jim Isaac: Jason X 5.0 John-Luke Montias: Bobby G. Can't Swim 5.0 Jo Sol: Tattoo Bar 5.0 Sandra Goldbacher: Me Without You 5.0 Timothy Linh Bui: Green Dragon 5.0 Perry Andelin Blake: The Master of Disguise 5.0 John Stockwell: Blue Crush 5.0 Gabriele Muccino: Last Kiss 5.0 Blair Treu: Little Secrets 5.0 Matthew Bright: Ted Bundy 5.0 Robert Siegel: Swimming 5.0 Fisher Stevens: Just a Kiss 5.0 Brad Silberling: Moonlight Mile 5.0 John Walsh: Pipe Dream 5.0 George Hickenlooper: The Man From Elysian Fields 5.0 Brett Ratner: Red Dreagon 5.0 Sherman Alexie: The Business of Fancydancing 5.0 Ronny Yu: Formula 51 5.0 Gore Verbinski: The Ring 5.0 Robert Connolly: The Bank 5.0 Ventura Pons: Food of Love Liliana Cavani: Ripley's Game 5.0 Steve Beck: Ghost Ship 5.0 Charles Stone: Paid in Full 5.0 Peter Mattei: Love In The Time of Money 5.0 Harold Ramis: Analyze That 5.0 Bruce Beresford: Evelyn 5.0 Frank Whaley: The Jimmy Show 5.0 Tom Brady: The Hot Chick |
GASP!...:
4.5 John McTiernan: Rollerball 4.5 Tom Shadyac: Dragonfly 4.5 Barry Sonnenfeld: Big Trouble 4.5 William Malone: Fear Dot Com 4.5 Finn Taylor: Cherish 4.5 Alan Taylor: The Emperor's New Clothes 4.5 Rajkumar Santoshi: The Legend of Bhagat Singh 4.5 Chris Ver Wiel: Who is Cletis Tout 4.5 Kevin Donovan: The Tuxedo 4.5 Tom Rice: The Rising Place 4.5 Wayne Wang: Maid in Manhattan 4.0 Brian Levant: Snow Dogs 4.0 Eric Schaeffer: Never Again 4.0 Steven Brill: Mr Deeds 4.0 Gregg Lachow: Money Buys Happiness 4.0 Gary Fleder: Impostor 4.0 Adam Shankman: A Walk To Remember 4.0 Dewey Nicks: Slackers 4.0 Andrew Davis: Collateral Damage 4.0 Shawn Levy: Big Fat Liar 4.0 Tamra Davis: Crossroads 4.0 Jay Chandrasekhar: Super Troopers 4.0 Kevin Bray: All About The Benjamins 4.0 Roger Mitchell: Changing Lanes 4.0 Zoe Clarke-Williams: New Best Friend 4.0 Mitch Davis: The Other Side of Heaven 4.0 Roger Kumble: The Sweetest Thing 4.0 Chuck Russell: The Scorpion King 4.0 Scott Kalvert: Deuces Wild 4.0 Higuchinsky: Uzumaki 4.0 Ed Decter: The New Guy 4.0 Raja Gosnell: Scooby-Doo 4.0 Ian McCrudden: Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler 4.0 Asia Argento: Scarlet Diva 4.0 Stefan Ruzowitzky: All the Queen's Men 4.0 Harry Dodge and Silas Howard: By Hook or by Crook 4.0 Don Michael Paul: Half Past Dead 4.0 Chris Columbus: "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" 4.0 Christian Duguay: Extreme Ops 4.0 Kurt Wimmer: Equilibrium 4.0 Stuart Baird: Star Trek Nemesis 4.0 Marc Lawrence: Two Weeks Notice 4.0 Roberto Benigni: Pinocchio 4.0 Nicolas Cage: Sonny |
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