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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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