2004 Critics and Other Organizations Top 10 Lists (1 Viewer)

[ZacharyTait]

Mike Clark's Best and Worst of 2004 (USA Today)

Top 10 of 2004

1. Sideways
2. The Aviator
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. The Incredibles
6. Intimate Strangers
7. Spiderman 2
8. Vera Drake
9. Collateral
10. A Very Long Engagement

5 Worst of 2004
1. The Village
2. Envy
3. Twisted
4. Catwoman
5. Alexander

Mike Clark's Best and Worst of 2004 with Commentary

 

[ZacharyTait]

The Village Voice

J. Hoberman's Best of 2004

1. Star Spangeled to Death
2. Dogville
3. Notre Musique
4. Cowards Bend the Knew
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Before Sunset
7. Springtime in a Small Town
8. Goodbye Dragon Inn
9. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
10. Anatomy of Hell

Runnerups
Blissfully Yours
Crimson Gold
Greendale
House of Flying Daggers
Moolaade
Infernal Affairs
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Purple Butterfly
A Talking Picture
Vera Drake

J. Hoberman's Best of 2004 with Commentary

Dennis Lim's Best of 2004

1. I Heart Huckabees
2. Primer
3. Before Sunset
4. Dogville
5. Blissfully Yours
6. Goodbye Dragon Inn
7. Infernal Affairs
8. Son Frere
9. A Talking Picture
10. Code 46 and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Runnerups
The Brown Bunny
Birth
The Saddest Music in the World
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Farenheit 9/11
Kill Bill Volume 2
Oasis
Strayed
The Agronomist
Crimson Gold

Dennis Lim's Best of 2004 with Commentary

Michael Atkinson's Best of 2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Time of the Wolf
3. Oasis
4. Before Sunset
5. Cowards Bend the Knee
6. The Outskirts
7. The Trilogy
8. Birth
9. Notre Musique
10. Goodbye Dragon Inn

Runnerups
A Very Long Engagement
Bright Leaves
Team America: World Police
Napolean Dynamite
The Saddest Music in the World
The Twilight Samurai
Blissfully Yours
Crimson Gold
The Return
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
Vodka Lemon
Farenheit 9/11
Sideways
Vera Drake
The Manchurian Candidate
Since Otar Left...
End of the Century
The Big Bounce
Hellboy

Michael Atkinson's Best of 2004 with Commentary

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

Keep them coming, Zachary.

~Edwin

 

[ZacharyTait]

Artforum

John Waters' Top 10 of 2004

1. Tarnation
2. Baadasssss!
3. The Mother
4. Bad Education
5. The Brown Bunny
6. The Dreamers
7. Kill Bill, Volume 2
8. Saddest Music In The World
9. Before Sunset
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Amy Taubin's Top 10 of 2004

1. Before Sunset
2. The Big Red One
3. Internal Affairs Trilogy
4. A Talking Picture
5. Primer
6. Cowards Bend the Knee
7. Café Lumière
8. Fahrenheit 9/11
9. Arna's Children
10. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

James Quandt's Top 10 of 2004

1. The World
2. Notre Musique
3. 10e Chambre
4. Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
5. Café Lumière
6. Tropical Malady
7. Vento di terra
8. La Blessure
9. The Big Red One
10. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow

Chrissie Iles' Top 10 of 2004

1. Five
2. Notre Musique
3. ()
4. Michelangelo Eye to Eye
5. Not Yet
6. The Uncles
7. Going Upriver
8. Memory Bucket
9. Top Spot
10. Luke

Jonathan Romney's Top 10 of 2004

1. Innocence
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Goodbye Dragon Inn
4. 5x2
5. The Consequences of Love
6. Five
7. Tarnation
8. Aaltra
9. The Incredibles
10. Collateral

ArtForum's Critics Top 10 for 2004 with Commentary

 

[ZacharyTait]

Slant Magazine

Ed Gonzalez's Top 10 of 2004

1. Bad Education
2. Crimson Gold
3. Twentynine Palms
4. Dogville
5. Secret Things
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. Son Free
8. Raja
9. The Keys to the House
10. When Will I be Loved

Nick Schager's Top 10 of 2004

1. The House of Flying Daggers
2. Bad Education
3. The Big Red One
4. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
5. Million Dollar Baby
6. Crimson Gold
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Sideways
9. Zatoichi
10. Team America: World Police

Slant Magazine's Critics Top 10 with Commentary

 

[ZacharyTait]

Phil Villareal (Arizona Daily Star)

Top 10 of 2004

1. Before Sunset
2. The Aviator
3. Sideways
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Kill Bill: Volume 2
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. Hero
8. In Good Company
9. Torque
10. The Sea Inside

 

[ZacharyTait]

Shawn Edwards (Fox-TV)

Top 10 of 2004

1. Ray
2. Spider-Man 2
3. Hotel Rwanda
4. Team America: World Police
5. Napolean Dynamite
6. The Manchurian Candidate
7. Collateral
8. Saved!
9. Kill Bill: Volume 2
10. Fade to Back

This guy's list is actually pretty decent considering he's quoted in the TV ads for just about every movie released.

 

[ZacharyTait]

Ken Tucker (New York Magazine)

Top 10 of 2004

1. Sideways
2. The Incredibles
3. How to Draw a Bunny
4. Collateral
5. House of Flying Daggers
6. End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Kill Bill Volume 2
9. A Very Long Engagement
10. Fahrenheit 9/11

Ken Tucker's Top 10 with Commentary

 

[ZacharyTait]

John Hartl (MSNBC)

Top 10 of 2004 in alphabetical order

The Aviator
Before Sunset
Blind Shaft
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Incredibles
Kinsey
Maria Full of Grace
Sideways
Strayed
Touching the Void

John Hartl's Top 10 of 2004 with Commentary

 

[ZacharyTait]

Gary Dretzka (Movie City News)

Top 10 of 2004

1. Sideways
2. The Motorcycle Diaries
3. Saved!
4. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
5. A Love Song for Bobby Long
6. Hero/House of Flying Daggers
7. Super Size Me
& half-dozen other documentaries
8. The Door in the Floor
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. Before Sunset

 

[ZacharyTait]

Stephen King (Do we really need to identify who he is? )

Top 10 of 2004

1. Maria Full of Grace
2. Dawn of the Dead
3. The Manchurian Candidate
4. Fahrenheit 9/11
5. Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban
6. Shrek 2
7. The Incredibles
8. Collateral
9. The Bourne Supremacy
10. Red Lights

Stephen King's Top 10 of 2004 with Commentary

 

[ZacharyTait]

Shlomo Schwartzberg's Top 10 of 2004 (Box Office Magazine)

1. Before Sunset
2. Code 46
3. In This World
4. Infernal Affairs
5. Spider-Man 2
6. Stage Beauty
7. Team America: World Police
8. Touching The Void
9. Vera Drake
10. A Very Long Engagement

Shawn Levy's Top 10 of 2004 (Oregonion)

1. The Motorcycle Diaries
2. Million Dollar Baby
3. Before Sunset
4. Bad Education
5. Vera Drake
6. The Aviator
7. Hero
8. The Incredibles
9. Love Me If You Dare
10. Shaun of the Dead

Rob Butler's Top 10 of 2004 (Defactoweb)

1. Sideways
2. Kill Bill Volume 2
3. Million Dollar Baby
4. Closer
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. The House of Flying Daggers
7. Bad Education
8. Dogville
9. Fahrenheit 9/11
10. Passion of the Christ

Tom Long's Top 10 of 2004 (Detroit News)

1. Before Sunset
2. Finding Neverland
3. Sideways
4. Kill Bill Volume 2
5. Garden State
6. A Very Long Engagement
7. Kinsey
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. The Aviator
10. Hero

Tom Long's Top 10 of 2004 with Commentary

Ron Henriques' Top 10 of 2004 (Latino Review)

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. The Incredibles
3. Hotel Rwanda
4. Ghost in the Shell
5. The Aviator
6. Sideways
7. Dogville
8. Team America: World Police
9. House of Flying Daggers
10. The Dreamers

Ron Henriques' Top 10 of 2004 with Commentary

Kevin Courrier's Top 10 of 2004 (CBC Radio/Box Office Magazine)

1. Stage Beauty
2. A Very Long Engagement
3. Before Sunset
4. Sideways
5. Touching The Void
6. The Triplettes of Belleville
7. Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban
8. House of Flying Daggers
9. In This World
10. Spider-Man 2

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

Do we really need to include him?

~Edwin

 

[ZacharyTait]

I'm taking these lists from MCN Awards Centers. I'm only 4 pages into their Top 10 lists. If any of the above lists are dupes, post saying so and I'll edit accordingly. I realize it would be easier just to provide links, but where is the fun in that?

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

This is what I mean. When does it stop? That's why its called the "Top 10". Not the "Top 11" or "Top 15" or however many other films one wants to include in their Top 10.

For that matter, one can put 30 films in their Top 10 in a multi-way tie! Ridiculous.

~Edwin

 

[ZacharyTait]

Time Magazine

Peter Keough's Top 10 of 2004

1. House of Flying Daggers
2. The Life Aquatic
3. Crimson Gold
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Sideways
6. Before Sunset
7. Kinsey
8. The Aviator
9. Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban
10. Open Water

Peter Keough's Top 10 of 2004 with Commentary

 

[ZacharyTait]

John Anderson (NY Newsday)

1. Vera Drake
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. The Five Obstructions
4. Sideways
5. Goodbye Dragon Inn
6. Notre Musique
7. Free Radicals
8. Born into Brothels
9. The Aviator
10. Million Dollar Baby

John Anderson's Top 10 of 2004 with Commentary

Scott Foundas (LA Weekly)

1. Star Spangled to Death/Notre Musique
2. Kill Bill Volume 2
3. Dogville
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. Moolaade
6. Vera Drake
7. Distant
8. Before Sunset
9. Kinsey
10. Collateral/Los Angeles Plays Itself

Scott Foundas' Top 10 of 2004 with Commentary

Neil Smith (Virgin.net)

1. Before Sunset
2. The Bourne Supremacy
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Fahrenheit 9/11
5. The Incredibles
6. Lost in Translation
7. The Motorcycle Diaries
8. Shaun of the Dead
9. Shrek 2
10. Spider-Man 2

Neil Smith's Top 10 of 2004 with Commentary

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

Current Tally: The Top 15 (thru Post # 115)

Current Spot; Spot In Last Tally; Name Of Film (In Bold = Higher Spot From Last Tally); # of Mentions - 1st paren.; # of Mentions as #1 - 2nd paren.

1. (#1) Sideways (50)(24-#1)
2. (#2) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (38)(3-#1)
3. (#3) Million Dollar Baby (31)(4-#1)
4. (#6) Before Sunset (28)(5-#1)
...(#5) Incredibles, The (28)(1-#1)
6. (#4) Aviator, The (27)(5-#1)
7. (#6) Maria Full Of Grace (20)(1-#1)
8. (#10) House of Flying Daggers (18)(3-#1)
...(#8)Kinsey (18)
10. (#9) Vera Drake (17)(1-#1)
11. (#15) Collateral (15)
12. (#14) Bad Education (13)(2-#1)
13. Fahrenheit 9/11 (12)
.....(#12) Hotel Rwanda (12)(1-#1)
.....Very Long Engagement, A (12)

~Edwin

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

Zach, Time's Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel's lists have previous been posted. Thanks.

~Edwin

 

[ZacharyTait]

African American Film Critics Association's Top 10 of 2004 via Oscarwatch

1. Ray
2. Hotel Rwanda
3. Finding Neverland
4. Aviator
5. Sideways
6. Baadasssss!
7. Brother to Brother
8. Woman Thou Art Loosed
9. Million Dollar Baby
10. Collateral

Seattle Film Critics via Oscarwatch Forums

Best Film
Million Dollar Baby

Best Director
Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)

Best Actor
Jamie Foxx (Ray)

Best Actress
Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake)

Best Supporting Actor
Thomas Haden Church (Sideways)

Best Supporting Actress
Virginia Madsen (Sideways)

Best Original Screenplay
Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (Sideways)

Best Documentary
Control Room and Touching the Void (tie)

Best Animated Film
The Incredibles

Best Foreign-Language Film
Maria Full of Grace

Living Treasure Award
Henry Bumstead

Special Citation
Brian Jamieson and Richard Schickel