Chuck Mayer

Chuck's Favorite Films Of The Year:

1) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2) Equilibrium
T3) Minority Report
T3) Catch Me If You Can
5) Gangs of New York
6) The Bourne Identity
7) Chicago
8) Y Tu Mama Tambien
9) Frailty
10) We Were Soldiers

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Chuck

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Luc D

Though I've always felt that the formality of top 10 lists is a little silly, this has been a terrific year. Among some of the more remarkable and significant films released this year:

Storytelling
Heaven
24 Hour Party People
Spirited Away
Far From Heaven
Punch Drunk Love
Bowling for Columbine
Adaptation
The Two Towers
Gangs of New York


The most disappointing films I've seen this year (not necessarily bad films):

Panic Room
Minority Report
Signs
Invincible

It's probably not the right place to mention this, but as satisfying a year this has been I was depressed to read about different receptions a lot of films received this year. Solaris and Punch Drunk Love come to mind as films that were savaged audiences in general. Of course, not everybody is expected to like some of these films, but some of the reactions I've read goes to show just how unsophisticated most filmgoers really are.

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Martin Fontaine

Top 10 of 2002... 1, 2 and 3 pretty solid, 4 and 5 could move, 6 to 10 are slightly "Not necessairly in that order.

1. Kissing Jessica Stein
2. L'Odysee D'Alice Tremblay
3. Spirited Away
4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
5. Metropolis
6. About A Boy
7. Punch Drunk Love
8. Ice Age
9. Birthday Girl
10. Life Or Something LIke It

Other movies I really liked but just can't put in Top 10: Star Wars 2, Minority Report, Lord Of The Rings: 2 Towers, Harry Potter 2, Spiderman. It's strange but it's usually movies that I wasn't looking forward to, that I went to see on a sunday afternoon because I had nothing else to do that stood out the most.

Recaps of previous years:

Top 5 of 2001:

1. Amelie
2. Ghost World
3. Memento
4. Bridget Jones Diary
5. Josie And The Pussicats

Top 3 of 2000:

1. Magnolia
2. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
3. Dancer In The Dark

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Paul-Gunther

1. Catch Me If You Can
2. Road To Perdition
3. Adaptation
4. Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
5. Minority Report
6. Far From Heaven
7. Solaris
8. Punch Drunk Love
9. Chicago
10. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones

Kevin Clemons

Well, here goes nothing:
1: Minority Report
2: The Two Towers
3: Bowling For Columbine
4: Changing Lanes
5: Gangs of New York
6: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
7: Adaptation
8: The 25th Hour
9: About A Boy
10: Punch Drunk Love

Honorable Mentions: Catch Me If You Can, Solaris, Spirited Away, Lovely and Amazing, The Good Girl, Y Tu Mama Tambien, We Were Soldiers, Moonlight Mile, Red Dragon, Super Troopers, Chicago, About Schmidt, Panic Room

Kevin

Elizabeth S

My Top 10 of 2002:

1. Y Tu Mama Tambien
2. 13 Conversations About One Thing
3. Igby Goes Down
4. Late Marriage
5. The Man From Elysian Fields
6. Chicago
7. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
8. The 25th Hour
9. The Pianist
10. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys


Honorable mentions:

Rabbit Proof Fence
The Salton Sea
The Good Girl
Maelstrom
About Schmidt
Roger Dodger
One Hour Photo
Auto Focus
Nine Queens
Scotland, PA
Italian for Beginners
Unfaithful
Catch Me if You Can

Disappointments:

Adaptation
Punch Drunk Love
Far From Heaven
Heaven
Spirited Away
Solaris (but one of the most thought-provoking)
Gangs of New York
Road to Perdition

Have yet to see (and may affect the Top 10):

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Hours
Nicholas Nickleby
The Quiet American
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

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JonathanG

Here are my top ten films of 2002:

1. The Way Home
2. Nowhere in Africa*
3. The Kid Stays In the Picture
4. Chicago
5. Monsoon Wedding
6. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
7. Spirited Away
8. Nine Queens
9. Days (Giorni)*
10. Standing in the Shadows of Motown

Honourable mention goes to "The Devil's Backbone" and "Lantana" which got wide release in early 2002, even though NY/LA saw the release of these films in 2001.

* denotes special Festival screening.

The worst:

Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood - cringe inducing

Charlotte Gray - even the beautiful Cate Blanchard couldn't save a mess of a movie, "Heaven" was also disappointing.

Enigma - Again, the star power cast, couldn't save this mundane, forgettable movie.

Windtalkers - unfocused, violence for violence sake, a movie in search of a plot.

Reign of Fire - all the special effects in the world couldn't save this film, plot holes galore, never met it's potential.

Jason X - why?

Pinocchio - the godawful dubbing gave me a headache. Roberto Benigi creeped me out.

Scorpion King - completely mindless.

Kung Pow - wtf?

Bad Company - a waste of my time and money. What was Anthony Hopkins thinking... what was I thinking...

Top prize goes to a movie that sounded interesting but failed on every level: A British 2001 film called "Endgame" (*). Completely uninteresting characters, scenes that don't make any sort of sense. An unintentional comedic sadist cop. One can see why this hasn't been picked up a US distributor. This movie tried so hard to be daring and different, but lacked any coherency or believability.

Barry Woodward