Best Movies of 2003

1. Finding Nemo
2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. Elf
5. Love Actually
6. Secondhand Lions
7. Big Fish
8. Whale Rider
9. The School of Rock
10. X2

Best Family Films

I left all the animated ones off this list, because they would dominate it, but at least this time all the movies are appropriate for every member of the family.

1. Babe (1995)
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
3. Fly Away Home (1996)
4. Elf (2003)
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
6. Secondhand Lions (2003)
7. My Dog Skip (2000)
8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
9. Iron Will (1994)
10. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

Best Animated Movies

In honor of Thanksgiving, I am doing a family theme. After all, let's face it. There are so few Thanksgiving movies and even fewer quality ones. So I decided to do animation. Be warned, these are not all appropriate for all ages, but about 70% or so are, just by the constraints of the genre. Update: my list has just been scrubbed of all Pixar movies since I gave them their own list and its really not fair to compare.

1. The Iron Giant (1999)
2. The Lion King (1994)
3. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
4. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
5. The Simpsons Movie (2007)
6. Corpse Bride (2005)
7. Antz (1998)
8. The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
9. Aladdin (1992)
10. A Goofy Movie (1995)

This is Melissa's list:

1. The Lion King (1994)
2. Finding Nemo (2003)
3. Toy Story (1995)
4. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
5. Mulan (1998)
6. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
7. The Little Mermaid (1989)
8. Ratatouille (2007)
9. The Incredibles (2004)
10. Aladdin (1992)

Best Movies of 2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Million Dollar Baby
3. Hotel Rwanda
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. The Incredibles
6. Der Untergang
7. Maria Full of Grace
8. Spider-Man 2
9. Super Size Me
10. Mean Girls

Best Horror Movies

In honor of the month of October, I'll do a list of horror movies. This time its the quality ones, not neccesarily the scariest ones. I already made that list. These are the oscar-caliber horror movies (or at least as close to that as you can get with horror movies)

1. Halloween (1978)
2. Psycho (1960)
3. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
4. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
5. The Omen (1976)
6. 28 Days Later... (2002)
7. Signs (2002)
8. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
9. The Sixth Sense (1999)
10. Scream (1996)

Equal Sequels

As small as the list of better-than-the-original sequels are, the following list is even smaller. These are sequels that are not better than the original, because the originals are equally great films. So they stand together in the genre of greatness for lesser men to argue over which is better, but I will do one better. Make a list (albeit a short one):

1. Toy Story 2 (1999)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
4. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
5. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Best Movies of 2005

1. Crash
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. King Kong
4. Grizzly Man
5. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
6. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
7. Batman Begins
8. The Matador
9. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
10. La Marche de l'empereur (March of the Penguins)