2006 Top Ten List
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
Time (Kim Ki-duk)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
Container (Lukas Moodysson)
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)
The Boss of It All (Lars von Trier)
Offside (Jafar Panahi)
Additional 2006 Films By Rating
Falling (Barbara Albert)
Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Sleeping Dogs Lie. (Bobcat Goldthwait)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)
The Right of the Weakest (Lucas Belvaux)
The Last Communist (Amir Muhammad)
In Between Days (So Yong Kim)
Inside Man (Spike Lee)
The Good German (Steven Soderbergh)
Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
Failure to Launch (Tom Dey)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee)
drama/mex (Gerardo Naranjo)
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
Wordplay (Patrick Creadon)
Apocalypto (Mel Gibson)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick)
Retrieval (Slawomir Fabicki)
The Family Friend (Paolo Sorrentino)
Summer '04 (Stefan Krohmer)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
Poison Friends (Emmanuel Bourdieu)
To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die (Djamshed Usmonov)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
Seraphim Falls (David Von Ancken)
Once (John Carney)
12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Congorama (Philippe Falardeau)
Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
Quinceañera (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)
Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles)
Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)
Fay Grim (Hal Hartley)
The War Tapes (Deborah Scranton)
Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
We Go Way Back (Lynn Shelton)
Longing (Valeska Grisebach)
The Painted Veil (John Curran)
Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme)
Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Scoop (Woody Allen)
Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
Breaking and Entering (Anthony Minghella)
Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
Still Life (Jia Zhang-Ke)
Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence)
The Bothersome Man (Jens Lien)
The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel)
Subject Two (Philip Chidel)
This Is England (Shane Meadows)
Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter)
Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer)
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
Cars (John Lasseter)
Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood)
August Days (Mark Recha)
Exiled (Johnnie To)
Lucky Number Slevin (Paul McGuigan)
Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
The Beales of Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Ian Markiewicz)
The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)
Monster House (Gil Kenan)
A Very British Gangster (Donal MacIntyre)
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (Liam Lynch)
Friends With Money (Nicole Holofcener)
The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute)
The Hoax (Lasse Hallström)
Retribution (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin)
Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
The Situation (Philip Haas)
The Paper Will Be Blue (Radu Muntean)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
Find Me Guilty (Sidney Lumet)
All the King's Men (Steven Zaillian)
The Valet (Francis Veber)
Gardens in Autumn (Otar Iosseliani)
Chronicle of an Escape (Israel Adrián Caetano)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski)
Charlie Says (Nicole Garcia)
The Unknown Soldier (Michael Verhoeven)
The Dog Problem (Scott Caan)
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (Takashi Miike)
Right at Your Door (Chris Gorak)
Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)
Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurismäki)
Slither (James Gunn)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
The Namesake (Mira Nair)
Noise (Olivier Assayas)
Steel City (Brian Jun)
Flannel Pajamas (Jeff Lipsky)
Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine)
X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)
Bug (William Friedkin)
Days of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb)
The Magic Flute (Kenneth Branagh)
TV Junkie (Michael Cain)
Little Children (Todd Field)
Idiocracy (Mike Judge)
Superman Returns (Bryan Singer)
For Your Consideration (Christopher Guest)
Infamous (Douglas McGrath)
The Caiman (Nanni Moretti)
Luxury Car (Wang Chao)
Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye)
Reprise (Joachim Trier)
Slumming (Michael Glawogger)
Over the Hedge (Tim Johnson & Karey Kirkpatrick)
Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)
Election 2 (Johnnie To)
The Queen (Stephen Frears)
The Illusionist (Neil Burger)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang)
Venus (Roger Michell)
World Trade Center (Oliver Stone)
Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer)
Paris je t'aime (Various)
Happy Feet (George Miller)
Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)
The Singer (Xavier Giannoli)
After the Wedding (Susanne Bier)
Trapped Ashes (Various)
Stephanie Daley (Hilary Brougher)
The History Boys (Nicholas Hytner)
Destricted (Various)
300 (Zack Snyder)
Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
My Best Friend (Patrice Leconte)
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (Zacharias Kunuk & Norman Cohn)
Summer Palace (Lou Ye)
Toi et moi (Julie Lopes Curval)
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (Jonathan Levine)
Belle toujours (Manoel de Oliveira)
Deliver Us From Evil (Amy Berg)
Exterminating Angels (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)
Poseidon (Wolfgang Petersen)
The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
A Good Year (Ridley Scott)
The DaVinci Code (Ron Howard)
Hana (Hirokazu Kored-eda)
Somebodies (Hadjii)
The Tiger's Tail (John Boorman)
The Go Master (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Flanders (Bruno Dumont)
Inland Empire (David Lynch)
Puccini for Beginners (Maria Maggenti)
Man of the Year (Barry Levinson)
Bamako (Abderrahman Sissako)
The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden)
Firewall (Richard Loncraine)
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Ivan Reitman)
Bugmaster (Katsuhiro Otomo)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)