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'04 online Top Ten Lists

by Nathaniel R


Online Critics/Columnists Weigh in on the Year's Best Films...

 

page 1 (Berardinelli, Cozzi, D'Angelo, Gonzalez, and more...)
page 2
(Hernandez, Jardine, Johanson, Lapierre, and more...)
page 3 (Levy, Morgan, Novikov, Poland, and more...)
page 4 (
Shanks, Taylor, Tucker, Zacharek, and more...)

 

Emmanuel Levy, Emanuel Levy
01 Sideways
02 The Sea Inside
03 Bad Education
04 Notre Musique
05 House of Flying Daggers
06 Maria Full of Grace
07 The Incredibles
08 Before Sunset
09 The Aviator
10 Million Dollar Baby

honorable mention: The Bourne Supremacy, Closer, Collateral, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hotel Rwanda, Kinsey, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, The Motorcycle Diaries, Ray, Tarnation

 

Wilson Morales, blackfilm.com
01 Million Dollar Baby
02 The Aviator
03 Finding Neverland
04 Ray
05 Sideways
06 Hotel Rwanda
07 The Incredibles
08 Collateral
09 House of Flying Daggers
10 Infernal Affairs

honorable mention: Maria Full of Grace, Baadasssss!, Spider-Man 2, The Motorcycle Diaries, Stage Beauty, Shrek 2, Closer, The Sea Inside, The Phantom of the Opera, A Very Long Engagement

 

Kim Morgan, Movie Poop Shoot
01 I Huckabees
02 Dogville
03 Sideways
04 Kill Bill Vol. 2
05 Birth
06 Closer
07 The Passion of the Christ
08 Shaun of the Dead / Team Americca: World Police
09 House of Flying Daggers / Hero
10 Collateral / The Aviator

 

Eugene Novikov, film blather
01 The Village
02 Sideways
03 Vera Drake
04 Gunner Palace
05 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
06 P.S.
07 Spider-Man 2
08 The Return
09 The Bourne Supremacy
10 Kill Bill Vol. 2

honorable mention: Spartan, The Clearing

 

Nick Nunziata, CHUD
01 Million Dollar Baby
02 The Aviator
03 Collateral
04 Oceans 12
05 Sideways
06 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotlemss Mind
07 The Incredibles
08 Closer
09 Shaun of the Dead
10 OldBoy

honorable mention: Garden State, Hellboy, Maria Full of Grace, Kinsey, Spartan

 

David Poland, The Hot Button
01 Born into Brothels
02 Sideways
03 The Five Obstructions
04 The Motorcycle Diaries
05 Bad Education
06 Million Dollar Baby
07 The Polar Express (iMax 3D-format only)
08 Hero
09 The Bourne Supremacy
10 The Incredibles

honorable mention: Twist of Faith, Kinsey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tarnation, The Sea Inside, The House of Flying Daggers, Dodgeball, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Dogville, The Door in the Floor

 

Jon Popick , Planet Sick Boy
(alpha order)
Before Sunset
Dogville
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
House of Flying Daggers
The Incredibles
Kill Bill, Vol. 2
The Motorcycle Diaries
Primer
Sideways
Spider-Man 2

honorable mention: none listed

 

Anthony "Q", Awards Speculation
01 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
02 Sideways
03 Dogville
04 Kill Bill, Vol. 2
05 Before Sunset
06 Million Dollar Baby
07 Fahrenheit 9/11
08 Garden State
09 The Aviator
10 Bad Education

honorable mention:
Maria Full of Grace, Osama, Mean Creek, Napoleon Dynamite, Coffee & Cigarettes

 

Nathaniel R, The Film Experience (yes, that's moi)
01 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
02 Spider-Man 2
03 Vera Drake
04 Sideways
05 Before Sunset
06 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring
07 The Incredibles
08 Dogville
09
I Huckabees
10 Bad Education

honorable mention: The Aviator, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Mean Girls

 

Robert Rosado, efilmcritic.com
01 The Aviator
02 Kill Bill Volume 2
03 The Phantom of the Opera
04 Sideways
05 Before Sunset
06 Million Dollar Baby
07 Spider-Man 2
08 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
09 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
10 Mean Girls

honorable mention: none listed

 

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