Storytelling (Todd Solondz) -- 4
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang) -- 9
The Mothman Prophecies (Mark Pellington) -- 7
The Believer (Henry Bean) -- 9
Blade II (Guillermo Del Toro) -- 7
Panic Room (David Fincher) -- 8
E.T. 20th Anniversary Edition (Steven Spielberg) -- 6
Amadeus Redux (Milos Forman) -- 10
Time Out (Laurent Cantet) -- 7
Frailty (Bill Paxton) -- 3
CQ (Roman Coppola) -- 7
Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili) -- 7
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (Peter Care) -- 7
Undercover Brother (Malcolm D. Lee) -- 6
Windtalkers (John Woo) -- 4
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) -- 9
The Good Girl (Miguel Artera) -- 5
Orange County (Jake Kasdan) -- 4
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time In India (Ashutosh Gowariker) -- 8
Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard) -- 6
Austin Powers In Goldmember (Jay Roach) -- 7
Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh) -- 8
Signs (M. Night Shyamalan) -- 7
Possession (Neil LaBute) -- 5
Sex and Lucia (Julio Medem) -- 9
Birthday Girl (Jez Butterworth) -- 4
Blue Crush (John Stockwell) -- 6
Simone (Andrew Niccol) -- 8
The Cat's Meow (Peter Bogdanovich) -- 3
Spun (Jonas Akerlund) -- 2
Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) -- 6
Gerry * (Gus Van Sant) -- 10
Ken Park (Larry Clark & Ed Lachman) -- [see comments]
11'9"01 (various; see comments) -- 5
Life or Something Like It (Stephen Herek) -- 2
Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers) -- 8
Kissing Jessica Stein (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld) -- 5
Welcome To Collinwood (Anthony & Joe Russo) -- 6
8 Women (Francois Ozon) -- 7
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki) -- 9
Heaven (Tom Tykwer) -- 6
Moonlight Mile (Brad Silberling) -- 8
The Rookie (John Lee Hancock) -- 7
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes) -- 9
The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary) -- 7
The Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Reynolds) -- 6
The Sum of All Fears (Phil Alden Robinson) -- 3
Big Trouble (Barry Sonnenfeld) -- 4
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan) -- 3
All Or Nothing (Mike Leigh) -- 7
Death To Smoochy (Danny DeVito) -- 7
The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme) -- 4
City of God * (Fernando Meirelles) -- 8
Harvard Man (James Toback) -- 3
Crossroads (Tamra Davis) -- 1
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh) -- 8
Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore) -- 9
Irreversible * (Gaspar Noe) -- 9
About Schmidt (Alexander Payne) -- 4
The Lord of the Rings: The Second One (Peter Jackson) -- 6
Spider (David Cronenberg) -- 8
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese) -- 7
Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) -- 8
Chicago (Rob Marshall) -- 7
The Hours (Stephen Daldry) -- 8
Human Nature (Michel Gondry) -- 7
Narc (Joe Carnahan) -- 8
13 Conversations About One Thing (Jill Sprecher) -- 4
Secretary (Steven Shainberg) -- 6
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass) -- 5
Tadpole (Gary Winick) -- 5
Van Wilder (Walt Becker) -- 3
Undisputed (Walter Hill) -- 4
Super Troopers (Jay Chandrasekhar) -- 4
Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine) -- 6
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader) -- 5
Two Weeks Notice (Marc Lawrence) -- 6
I Spy (Betty Thomas) -- 4
The Transporter (Corey Yuen) -- 7
The Crime of Father Amaro (Carlos Carrera) -- 5
Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill) -- 5
White Oleander (Peter Kosminsky) -- 3
Frida (Julie Taymor) -- 6
Ararat (Atom Egoyan) -- 3
Hollywood Ending (Woody Allen) -- 5
High Crimes (Carl Franklin) -- 4
Lilo & Stitch (Dead DeBlois & Chris Sanders) -- 4
Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike) -- 6
The Slaughter Rule (Alex & Andrew J. Smith) -- 7
40 Days and 40 Nights (Michael Lehmann) -- 4
* Not released commercially in 2002 (hence ineligible for top ten lists, etc.)
