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2005 Critics' Picks

Individual lists are displayed below, followed by a summary of all top ten lists.

Austin Chronicle
(Marjorie Baumgarten)
1 Brokeback Mountain
2 Caché
3 Mysterious Skin
4 Keane
5 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
6 Good Night, and Good Luck.
7 Nobody Knows
8 A History of Violence
9 King Kong
10 Murderball
Austin Chronicle
(Steve Davis)
1 Crash
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 Capote
4 Mysterious Skin
5 Pride & Prejudice
6 Good Night, and Good Luck.
7 The Aristocrats
8 Munich
9 A History of Violence
10 The Constant Gardener
Austin Chronicle
(Kimberley Jones)
1 Mysterious Skin
2 Nobody Knows
3 The Squid and the Whale
4 2046
5 Munich
6 Happy Endings
7 Head-On
8 The Aristocrats
9 Funny Ha Ha
10 The Constant Gardener
Austin Chronicle
(Marc Savlov)
1 Murderball
2 Oldboy
3 Brokeback Mountain
4 The Devil's Rejects
5 King Kong
6 The New World
7 Sin City
8 The Aristocrats
9 Sin City
10 War Of The Worlds
Baltimore Sun
(Chris Kaltenbach)
1 King Kong
2 The Constant Gardener
3 Me and You and Everyone We Know
4 The Sea Inside
5 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
6 Murderball
7 Walk The Line
8 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
9 Munich
10 Darwin's Nightmare

Baltimore Sun
(Michael Sragow)
1 The Sea Inside
2 House Of Flying Daggers
3 Hotel Rwanda
4 March Of The Penguins
5 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
6 Capote
7 The Constant Gardener
8 Howl's Moving Castle
9 Walk The Line
10 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Boston Globe
(Ty Burr)
1 Pride & Prejudice
2 Grizzly Man
3 2046
4 Broken Flowers
5 Munich
6 (tie) Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
(tie) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
7 Good Night, and Good Luck.
8 Touch The Sound
9 Head-On
10 The New World
Boston Globe
(Wesley Morris)
1 Jarhead
2 Head-On
3 The Squid and the Whale
4 The Beat That My Heart Skipped
5 Look At Me
6 The Holy Girl
7 Memories Of Murder
8 Kings and Queen
9 Pride & Prejudice
10 War Of The Worlds
Charlotte Observer
(Lawrence Toppman)
1 Black
2 Good Night, and Good Luck.
3 Turtles Can Fly
4 Brokeback Mountain
5 The Squid and the Whale
6 Howl's Moving Castle
7 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
8 Batman Begins
9 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
10 MirrorMask
Chicago Reader
(J.R. Jones)
1 Junebug
2 Gunner Palace
3 Lila Says
4 Grizzly Man
5 Me and You and Everyone We Know
6 Palindromes
7 My Summer Of Love
8 A History of Violence
9 The Best of Youth
10 The Devil's Rejects
Chicago Reader
(Jonathan Rosenbaum)
1 The World
2 Not On The Lips
3 A History of Violence
4 Ten Skies
5 Tropical Malady
6 (tie) Howl's Moving Castle
(tie) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7 (tie) Yes
(tie) Capote
8 (tie) Michelangelo Eye to Eye
(tie) Saraband
9 (tie) Broken Flowers
(tie) Me and You and Everyone We Know
10 (tie) The Girl From Monday
(tie) 2046
Chicago Sun-Times
(Roger Ebert)
1 Crash
2 Syriana
3 Munich
4 Junebug
5 Brokeback Mountain
6 Me and You and Everyone We Know
7 Nine Lives
8 King Kong
9 Yes
10 Millions
Chicago Tribune
(Michael Phillips)
1 Capote
2 King Kong
3 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
4 October 17, 1961
5 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
6 The Squid and the Whale
7 Junebug
8 Le Grand Voyage
9 Pride & Prejudice
10 Brokeback Mountain
Chicago Tribune
(Michael Wilmington)
1 King Kong
2 Saraband
3 The Best of Youth
4 A History of Violence
5 Brokeback Mountain
6 Oliver Twist
7 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
8 Howl's Moving Castle
9 The New World
10 Munich
Chicago Tribune
(Allison Benedikt)
1 The Squid and the Whale
2 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
3 Syriana
4 Me and You and Everyone We Know
5 Good Night, and Good Luck.
6 Brokeback Mountain
7 Capote
8 Layer Cake
9 Winter Solstice
10 Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Christian Science Monitor
(Peter Rainer)
  (listed alphabetically)
  The Beat That My Heart Skipped
  Brokeback Mountain
  Capote
  Howl's Moving Castle
  Mrs. Henderson Presents
  Oliver Twist
  Pride & Prejudice
  Saraband
  Schultze Gets the Blues
  The World
Entertainment Weekly
(Owen Gleiberman)
1 Munich
2 King Kong
3 Brokeback Mountain
4 The Century Of The Self
5 Match Point
6 Junebug
7 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
8 Hustle & Flow
9 In Her Shoes
10 Tony Takitani
Entertainment Weekly
(Lisa Schwarzbaum)
1 A History of Violence
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 The Best of Youth
4 King Kong
5 Munich
6 The World
7 Me and You and Everyone We Know
8 Crash
9 2046
10 Look At Me
Film Threat
(Staff Consensus)
1 Kung Fu Hustle
2 Batman Begins
3 Oldboy
4 King Kong
5 Me and You and Everyone We Know
6 A History of Violence
7 The Devil's Rejects
8 Godzilla: Final Wars
9 Breakfast On Pluto
10 Hellbent
LA Weekly
(Scott Foundas)
1 Caché
2 A History of Violence
3 Kings and Queen
4 Good Night, and Good Luck.
5 Land Of The Dead
6 The World
7 Munich
8 Tropical Malady
9 Duma
10 The Squid and the Whale
LA Weekly
(Ella Taylor)
1 A History of Violence
2 (tie) Howl's Moving Castle
(tie) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
(tie) Duma
(tie) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
3 Crash
4 Kings and Queen
5 The Beat That My Heart Skipped
6 Brokeback Mountain
789 (tie) 2046
  (tie) The World
  (tie) Tropical Malady
10 Junebug
Los Angeles Times
(Kenneth Turan)
1 The Best of Youth
and Duma
2 Paradise Now
and Syriana
3 The Squid and the Whale
and Brokeback Mountain
4 Howl's Moving Castle
and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
5 A History of Violence and Munich
6 Los Angeles Plays Itself and [various documentaries]
7 Capote and Good Night, and Good Luck.
8 Batman Begins and King Kong
9 Head-On and [various foreign films]
10 The Constant Gardener    
Los Angeles Times
(Carina Chocano)
  (listed alphabetically)
  2046
  Brokeback Mountain
  Capote
  The Corporation
  The Edukators
  Grizzly Man
  Head-On
  Junebug
  King Kong
  Last Days
  The Squid and the Whale
  Syriana
  Turtles Can Fly
Los Angeles Times
(Kevin Thomas)
1 Mysterious Skin
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 Crash
4 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
5 Garcon Stupide
6 Hustle & Flow
7 Ballets Russes
8 Tropical Malady
9 Keane
10 The Holy Girl
Miami Herald
(Rene Rodriguez)
1 Brokeback Mountain
2 A History of Violence
3 Capote
4 Grizzly Man
5 Cinderella Man
6 Match Point
7 Syriana
8 War Of The Worlds
9 The Weather Man
10 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
The New York Times
(Manohla Dargis)
  (in no particular order)
  A History of Violence
  Brokeback Mountain
  Caché
  Munich
  Regular Lovers
  The New World
  Kings and Queen
  2046
  Last Days
  Princess Raccoon
The New York Times
(Stephen Holden)
1 Brokeback Mountain
2 Caché
3 Nine Lives
4 A History of Violence
5 Grizzly Man
6 Downfall
7 Look At Me
8 Junebug
9 Saraband
10 The Squid and the Whale
The New York Times
(A.O. Scott)
1 The Best of Youth
2 The Aristocrats
3 Darwin's Nightmare
4 The Holy Girl
5 Match Point
6 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
7 Mysterious Skin
8 The Squid and the Whale
9 Funny Ha Ha
10 Munich
Newsweek
(David Ansen)
1 Head-On
2 Good Night, and Good Luck.
3 Kings and Queen
4 Brokeback Mountain
5 The Best of Youth
6 Capote
7 Caché
8 Munich
9 The Squid and the Whale
10 A History of Violence
The Onion
(Noel Murray)
1 The Squid and the Whale
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 Cinderella Man
4 Mysterious Skin
5 My Summer Of Love
6 Caché
7 Kung Fu Hustle
8 Nobody Knows
9 Tony Takitani
10 A History of Violence
The Onion
(Keith Phipps)
1 A History of Violence
2 The Squid and the Whale
3 King Kong
4 Brokeback Mountain
5 2046
6 Grizzly Man
7 Pride & Prejudice
8 Batman Begins
9 The New World
10 Oldboy
The Onion
(Nathan Rabin)
1 The Squid and the Whale
2 A History of Violence
3 My Summer Of Love
4 Me and You and Everyone We Know
5 Grizzly Man
6 Broken Flowers
7 Brokeback Mountain
8 Kung Fu Hustle
9 King Kong
10 Nobody Knows
The Onion
(Tasha Robinson)
1 Oldboy
2 Grizzly Man
3 The Squid and the Whale
4 Pride & Prejudice
5 Howl's Moving Castle
6 Nobody Knows
7 Kontroll
8 Broken Flowers
9 Sin City
10 Munich
The Onion
(Scott Tobias)
1 Brokeback Mountain
2 Munich
3 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
4 Memories Of Murder
5 The Devil's Rejects
6 Grizzly Man
7 A History of Violence
8 The Squid and the Whale
9 Tropical Malady
10 Caché
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Steven Rea)
  (listed alphabetically)
  Brokeback Mountain
  Brothers
  Capote
  The Constant Gardener
  A History of Violence
  Kings and Queen
  Munich
  Paradise Now
  Shopgirl
  The Squid and the Whale
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Carrie Rickey)
  (listed alphabetically)
  Capote
  Cinderella Man
  Grizzly Man
  A History of Violence
  Look At Me
  Munich
  The New World
  Paradise Now
  Syriana
  Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Portland Oregonian
(Shawn Levy)
1 The Best of Youth
2 Capote
3 Brokeback Mountain
4 Oldboy
5 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
6 Breakfast On Pluto
7 The Constant Gardener
8 The Real Dirt on Farmer John
9 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
10 A History of Violence
Portland Oregonian
(Marc Mohan)
1 The Century Of The Self
2 Schultze Gets The Blues
3 Capote
4 Saraband
5 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
6 Last Days
7 Match Point
8 2046
9 Funny Ha Ha
10 Mail Order Wife
Portland Oregonian
(Mike Russell)
1 Hustle & Flow
2 Oldboy
3 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
4 Serenity
5 Brokeback Mountain
6 Postmen in the Mountains
7 The Upside of Anger
8 The Squid and the Whale
9 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
10 The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Reelviews
(James Berardinelli)
1 Munich
2 Syriana
3 King Kong
4 3-Iron
5 Downfall
6 Match Point
7 Grizzly Man
8 Pride & Prejudice
9 Sin City
10 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Rolling Stone
(Peter Travers)
1 A History of Violence
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 Syriana
4 Good Night, and Good Luck.
5 Munich
6 Capote
7 The Squid and the Whale
8 The Constant Gardener
9 Crash
10 (tie) King Kong
(tie) Wedding Crashers
Salon
(Andrew O'Hehir)
1 Kings and Queen
2 Innocence
3 My Summer Of Love
4 The Power Of Nightmares
5 Saraband
6 The World
7 Forty Shades Of Blue
8 2046
9 The Syrian Bride
10 Land Of Plenty
Salon
(Stephanie Zacharek)
1 Kings and Queen
2 The Best of Youth
3 Pride & Prejudice
4 Oldboy
5 Tropical Malady
6 The Beat That My Heart Skipped
7 Breakfast On Pluto
8 (tie) Skeleton Key
(tie) Land Of The Dead
9 (tie) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
(tie) Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
10 King Kong
San Francisco Chronicle
(Mick LaSalle)
1 The New World
2 The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
3 The Best of Youth
4 Match Point
5 Cinderella Man
6 Capote
7 The Dying Gaul
8 Brokeback Mountain
9 I Am A Sex Addict
10 Ballets Russes
San Francisco Chronicle
(Ruthe Stein)
1 Brokeback Mountain
2 Cinderella Man
3 Pride & Prejudice
4 Good Night, and Good Luck.
5 A History of Violence
6 Match Point
7 Capote
8 The Constant Gardener
9 My Summer Of Love
10 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(William Arnold)
1 King Kong
2 Munich
3 Brokeback Mountain
4 Good Night, and Good Luck.
5 In Her Shoes
6 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
7 The Interpreter
8 Proof
9 Capote
10 Cinderella Man
Slate
(David Edelstein)
1 Munich
2 Junebug
3 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
4 Me and You and Everyone We Know
5 War Of The Worlds
6 The Aristocrats
7 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
8 Ballets Russes
9 Grizzly Man
10 Nobody Knows
Time
(Richard Schickel)
1 Grizzly Man
2 Downfall
3 Memory Of A Killer
4 The Weather Man
5 Munich
6 Caché
7 The Beat That My Heart Skipped
8 Crash
9 Cinderella Man
10 Ballets Russes
Time
(Richard Corliss)
1 The White Diamond
2 Saraband
3 2046
4 The Squid and the Whale
5 Caché
6 The New World
7 The Constant Gardener
8 Kung Fu Hustle
9 Memoirs Of A Geisha
10 (tie) Chicken Little
(tie) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
(tie) Millions
USA Today
(Mike Clark)
1 Saraband
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 Good Night, and Good Luck.
4 Grizzly Man
5 A History of Violence
6 Cinderella Man
7 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
8 Match Point
9 Pride & Prejudice
10 King Kong
USA Today
(Claudia Puig)
1 Good Night, and Good Luck.
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 The Constant Gardener
4 Munich
5 Pride & Prejudice
6 Capote
7 Crash
8 The Squid and the Whale
9 March Of The Penguins
10 Innocent Voices
Variety
(Robert Koehler)
1 Caché
2 The World
3 A History of Violence
4 Kings and Queen
5 The Holy Girl
6 La Commune (Paris 1871)
7 Tropical Malady
8 Poetry And Truth
9 Funny Ha Ha
10 Head-On
Village Voice
Take 7 Poll

(Composite of 104 film
critics surveyed)
1 A History of Violence
2 2046
3 Kings and Queen
4 Grizzly Man
5 The World
6 Tropical Malady
7 The Squid and the Whale
8 Caché
9 The Holy Girl
10 Last Days
Village Voice
(Michael Atkinson)
1 2046
2 Innocence
3 The Weeping Meadow
4 Brokeback Mountain
5 Tropical Malady
6 Caché
7 Keane
8 Turtles Can Fly
9 Café Lumière
10 The World
Village Voice
(J Hoberman)
1 A History of Violence
2 Last Days
3 Café Lumière
4 Grizzly Man
5 Kings and Queen
6 The World
7 2046
8 The Holy Girl
9 The Squid and the Whale
10 Tropical Malady
Village Voice
(Dennis Lim)
1 Café Lumière
2 The Power Of Nightmares
3 A History of Violence
4 Tropical Malady
5 Caché
6 The Century Of The Self
7 Last Days
8 Kings and Queen
9 The Intruder
10 (tie) Darwin's Nightmare
(tie) Mondovino
(tie) Chain
(tie) The World
Wall Street Journal
(Joe Morgenstern)
1 Brokeback Mountain
  (2-9 listed alphabetically)
  Caché
  Capote
  Grizzly Man
  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  Head-On
  Junebug
  Millions
  Walk The Line
  Wedding Crashers
Washington Post
(Ann Hornaday)
1 Capote
2 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
3 The Constant Gardener
4 Syriana
5 Hustle & Flow
6 Grizzly Man
7 Good Night, and Good Luck.
8 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
9 Junebug
10 March Of The Penguins
Washington Post
(Stephen Hunter)
1 Capote
2 Murderball
3 The Constant Gardener
4 Crash
5 Downfall
6 Pride & Prejudice
7 King Kong
8 The Great Raid
9 March Of The Penguins
10 Sin City
Washington Post
(Desson Thomson)
1 The Squid and the Whale
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 Capote
4 Hustle & Flow
5 A History of Violence
6 Grizzly Man
7 Kung Fu Hustle
8 Off The Map
9 Junebug
10 Me and You and Everyone We Know

Summary of 2005 Critics Top Ten Lists

On how many Top 10 lists did each movie appear? What better way to find out than with a histogram!
Note that an asterisk indicates that a film was mentioned on a Top 10 list that did not rank films in a particular order.

3-Iron
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2046
The Aristocrats
Ballets Russes
Batman Begins
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
The Best of Youth
Black
Breakfast On Pluto
Brokeback Mountain
Broken Flowers
Brothers
Caché
Café Lumière
Capote
The Century Of The Self
Chain
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chicken Little
The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
Cinderella Man
La Commune (Paris 1871)
The Constant Gardener
The Corporation
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Crash
Darwin's Nightmare
The Devil's Rejects
Downfall
Duma
The Dying Gaul
The Edukators
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Forty Shades Of Blue
Funny Ha Ha
Garcon Stupide
The Girl From Monday
Godzilla: Final Wars
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Le Grand Voyage
The Great Raid
Grizzly Man
Gunner Palace
Happy Endings
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Head-On
Hellbent
A History of Violence
The Holy Girl
Hotel Rwanda
House of Flying Daggers
Howl's Moving Castle
Hustle & Flow
I Am A Sex Addict
In Her Shoes
Innocence
Innocent Voices
The Interpreter
The Intruder
Jarhead
Junebug
Keane
King Kong
Kings and Queen
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kontroll
Kung Fu Hustle
Land Of Plenty
Land Of The Dead
Last Days
Layer Cake
Lila Says
Look At Me
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Mail Order Wife
March Of The Penguins
Match Point
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Memoirs Of A Geisha
Memories Of Murder
Memory Of A Killer
Michelangelo Eye to Eye
Millions
MirrorMask
Mondovino
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Munich
Murderball
My Summer Of Love
Mysterious Skin
The New World
Nine Lives
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Nobody Knows
Not On The Lips
October 17, 1961
Oldboy
Off The Map
Oliver Twist
Palindromes
Paradise Now
Poetry And Truth
Postmen in the Mountains
The Power Of Nightmares
Pride & Prejudice
Princess Raccoon
Proof
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Regular Lovers
Saraband
Schultze Gets the Blues
The Sea Inside
Serenity
Shopgirl
Sin City
Skeleton Key
The Squid and the Whale
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The Syrian Bride
Syriana
Ten Skies
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Tony Takitani
Touch The Sound
Tropical Malady
Turtles Can Fly
The Upside of Anger
Walk The Line
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
War Of The Worlds
The Weather Man
Wedding Crashers
The Weeping Meadow
The White Diamond
Winter Solstice
The World
Yes

 

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