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'05 Online Top Ten Lists
compiled by Nathaniel R
for more extensive top ten listings (including more famous print and television critics), please see the amazing geninn site "the 2005 gathering." This page is just meant to be a guide to who's out there online talking about the movies.This will be the last year where I do this particular list. It was meant as a way of drawing attention to online writers. And the online world is doing just fine years later --with or without my help ;)
Online Bloggers / Critics / Columnists Weigh in on the Year's Best
page 1 (A-G)/ page 2 (H-L) / page 3 (M-R) / page 4 (S-Z)Kerry Bailey, Mugwump
(random order)
Grizzly Man
Brokeback Mountain
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Broken Flowers
Mysterious Skin
The Squid and the Whale
Capote
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Good Night, and Good Luck.honorable mention: Munich, The Aristocrats, Serenity
James Berardinelli, reelviews
01 Munich
02 Syriana
03 King Kong
04 3-Iron
05 Downfall
06 Match Point
07 Grizzly Man
08 Pride & Prejudice
09 Frank Millers Sin City
10 The 40 Year-Old Virginhonorable mention: Capote, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Good Night, and Good Luck, Innocent Voices, Mad Hot Ballroom, Proof, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Jeffrey Chen, Window to the Movies
01 Brokeback Mountain
02 Good Night, and Good Luck.
03 Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
04 Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
05 King Kong
06 Grizzly Man
07 Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
08 The Aristocrats
09 A History of Violence
10 2046honorable mention: The New World, Kung Fu Hustle, The Squid and the Whale, Pride & Prejudice, Howl's Moving Castle, Nobody Knows, 3-Iron, Ong Bak: Thai Warrior, Pulse, Tropical Malady, Oldboy
Cinemarati (Consensus List)
02 A History of Violence
03 Good Night, and Good Luck.
04 Capote
05 2046
06 King Kong
07 Grizzly Man
08 The Squid and the Whale
09 The New World
10 Tropical Maladyhonorable mention: Syriana, Caché, Sin City, Pride & Prejudice, Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Kung Fu Hustle, 3-Iron, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Oldboy, Howl's Moving Castle
Cinematical (Consensus List)
01 Match Point
02 A History of Violence
03 Pride & Prejudice
04 The New World
05 The Beat That My Heart Skipped
06 Grizzly Man
07 Mysterious Skin
08 Brokeback Mountain
09 Mutual Appreciation
10 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Robin Clifford, Reeling Reviews
01 Downfall
02 Good Night, and Good Luck.
03 Syriana
04 Pride & Prejudice
05 Brokeback Mountain
06 Caché
07 The Constant Gardener
08 The Squid and the Whale
09 King Kong
10 Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbithonorable mention: Murderball, Grizzly Man, Hustle & Flow, Winter Solstice, Cinderella Man, The Devil's Rejects, Capote, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Three Burials of Melquides Estrada
Laura Clifford, Reeling Reviews
02 Downfall
03 Junebug
04 Brokeback Mountain
05 Pride & Prejudice
06 Nobody Knows
07 The Constant Gardener
08 (tie) Syriana / Good Night, and Good Luck.
09 (tie) The Devil's Rejects / Hustle & Flow
10 King Konghonorable mention: Murderball, Grizzly Man, Brothers, Three Burials of Melquides Estrada, The Squid and the Whale, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Kings and Queen, The Chronicles of Narnia, Last Days, Capote
Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
01 Good Night, and Good Luck
02 The Constant Gardener
03 Mysterious Skin
04 A History of Violence
05 Paradise Now
06 Crash
07 The New World
08 3-iron
09 Downfall
10 Broken Flowers
01 Brokeback Mountain
02 Munich
03 A History of Violence
04 Walk the Line
05 The Weather Man
06 Crash
07 Syriana
08 Lord of War
09 Jarhead
10 Sin Cityhonorable mention: The Matador, King Kong, Everything is Illuminated
Nick Davis, Nicks Flick Picks
01 Grizzly Man
02 Junebug
03 The New World
04 The Beat That My Heart Skipped
05 Palindromes
06 The Holy Girl
07 The Squid and the Whale
08 Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
09 Pride & Prejudice
10 Kings and Queenhonorable mention: Capote, Tropical Malady, Last Days, Murderball, Wolf Creek.
Mike D'Angelo , the man who viewed too much
01 Tropical Malady
02 Who's Camus Anyway?
03 The Wayward Cloud
04 3-Iron
05 Grizzly Man
06 Frank Miller's Sin City
07 Sky High
08 Whisky
09 Land of the Dead
10 Head-On
Marcy Dermansky, World / Independent Film
01 My Summer of Love
02 Head On
03 The Constant Gardener
04 Kings and Queen
05 Look at Me
06 A Tout de Suite
07 Down to the Bone
08 Capote
09 Nobody Knows
10 Walk the Line
David Edelstein, Slate
02 Junebug
03 Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
04 Me, You, and Everyone We Know
05 War of the Worlds
06 (double-bill) The Aristocrats & Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
07 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
08 Grizzly Man
09 (double-bill) Skeleton Key & Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
10 Nobody Knows
Jurge Fauth, World/Independent Film
01 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
02 Downfall
03 Munich
04 Darwin's Nightmare
05 My Summer of Love
06 Head On
07 The Constant Gardener
08 Look at Me
09 Paradise Now
10 The Warrior
Lexi Feinberg, Cinema Blend
02 Capote
03 Crash
04 The 40 Year Old Virgin
05 A History of Violence
06 2046
07 Murderball
08 The Constant Gardener
09 Jarhead
10 Hustle & Flowhonorable mention: King Kong, Mysterious Skin, Chronicles of Narnia, Transamerica, Loggerheads, Batman Begins, March of the Penguins, Millions
Scott Feinberg, And the Winner Is...
02 Crash
03 March of the Penguins
04 Cinderella Man
05 Pride & Prejudice
06 Ballet Russes
07 Munich
08 Murderball
09 Sin City
10 The Constant Gardener
Ed Gonzalez, slant magazine
01 The New World
02 The Best of Youth
03 Tropical Malady
04 A History of Violence
05 Pulse
06 Wolf Creek
07 Mysterious Skin
08 Nobody Knows
09 The White Diamond
10 Crimen Ferpecto
honorable mention: Last Days, Machuca, Private, Schultze Gets the Blues, Junebug, Fever Pitch, HellBent, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Red Eye, and Darwin's Nightmare.
Scott Gwin, Cinema Blend
01 Crash
02 Pride & Prejudice
03 Oliver Twist
04 Cinderella Man
05 Elizabethtown
06 March of the Penguins
07 Stay
08 Madagascar
09 Casanova
10 Hostage
honorable mention: Millions , King Kong , The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe , The Family Stone , Fantastic Four The Island
Bloggers / Critics / Columnists on the Year's Best
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