Let's See It Again, Right Now
	1.	Collateral
	2.	Spider-Man 2
		Great comic-book movies are rare enough; rarer still are those that deserve that designation without the 'comic-book' qualifier. Sam Raimi, freed of the origin story baggage, expands the world and character of Spider-Man and makes the jokey character of Doctor Octopus into a real menace (with a ton of help from the magnificent Alfred Molina). Even the CGI is much improved here, with battles seeming to have real weight and not looking like characters in an XBox game. Second films seem to be the charms for Marvel superheros.
	3.	The Incredibles
	4.	Garden State
	5.	Kill Bill Vol. 2
		Justifies the split of the two films with a major change in tone; anyone looking for the Grand Gugniol display of the first will be disappointed but Tarantino makes the journey worth it if you're willing to go with him. Uma Thurman, great as before but David Carradine makes the most of his biggest role, well, ever. Perhaps QT's greatest skill will prove to be resurrecting careers of people that we never thought had one.
	6.	Shaun of the Dead
	7.	Dawn of the Dead
		Fast zombies, slow zombies... I don't really care as long as it produces as visceral an experience as this one. Certainly not the hollow exercise that most remakes end up being, Dawn actually thinks about its grim situation and from the amazing opening sequence through to the end credits presents and end of the world scenario that, if not realistic, is at least identifiable.
	8.	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
		I feel like I should be rating this higher, and who knows, once it comes out on DVD it could get a reassessment. Charlie Kaufman is just a bloody genius but this time instead of John Malkovich's head, he got into mine. I've had, almost verbatim, some of the conversations that happened in this film, so I spent a lot of it fighting back the heebie jeebies and wondering if another Jim Carrey film, The Truman Show, wasn't happening to me. But I digress. Carrey and Winslet brilliant, the central conceit used cleverly (you almost need to see it agin just to follow what Gondry is doing with the sets, in a sort of Altman-like fashion)and it all adds up to one of the more interesting grace notes I've seen in a film in some time.
	9.	Finding Neverland
	10.	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
	11.	Fahrenheit 9/11
	12.	The Girl Next Door
Flashes of Brilliance
	13.	Super Size Me
	14.	Dogville
	15.	Anchorman
	16.	Primer
	17.	The Bourne Supremacy
	18.	I Heart Huckabees
	19.	The Aviator
	20.	I, Robot
	21.	Miracle
	22.	The Corporation
	23.	The Saddest Music in the World
	24.	Silver City
	25.	The Manchurian Candidate
	26.	The Delicate Art of Parking
	27.	Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
	28.	Zhou Yu's Train
	29.	Hellboy
	30.	Spartan
I Want to Love You, But You Make it So Difficult
	31.	Ocean's Twelve
	32.	Shrek 2
	33.	Secret Window
	34.	Ray
	35.	50 First Dates
	36.	Man on Fire
	37.	Broken Lizard's Club Dread
	38.	Goodbye, Lenin!
	39.	The Ladykillers
	40.	The Motorcycle Diaries
	41.	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
	42.	The Terminal
	43.	Eurotrip
A Big Bag of 'Meh'
	44.	Starsky and Hutch
	45.	Closer
	46.	Napoleon Dynamite
	47.	The Village
	48.	Open Water
	49.	Troy
	50.	Hero
	51.	The Chronicles of Riddick
	52.	Shaolin Soccer
	53.	Stepford Wives
MST3K Time!
	54.	King Arthur
	55.	Alien vs. Predator

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