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2003 Movies

2003 Movies (with grade from 1-10)
  --  In chronological order (scroll down for most recent); Click the link for commentary, and check the FAQ page for grade explanation.  And if you want to see the films arranged by grade, no problem.

Spun (Jonas Akerlund) -- 2
Gerry (Gus Van Sant) -- 10
Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman) -- 9
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach) -- 8
Lilya 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson) -- 7
City of God (Fernando Meirelles) -- 8
Irreversible (Gaspar Noe) -- 9
Confidence (James Foley) -- 4
All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green) -- 8
Dark Blue (Ron Shelton) -- 7
The Life of David Gale (Alan Parker) -- 3
Old School (Todd Phillips) -- 7
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz) -- 8
Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha) -- 2
Fulltime Killer (Johnnie To & Wai Ka Fai) -- 8
The Good Thief (Neil Jordan) -- 7
Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher) -- 7
The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) -- 4
Killing Me Softly (Chen Kaige) -- 3
A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest) -- 5
Better Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin) -- 6
Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett) -- 8
Identity (James Mangold) -- 4
Owning Mahowny (Richard Kietniowski) -- 9
The Shape Of Things (Neil LaBute) -- 9
Blue Car (Karen Moncrieff) -- 5
L'Auberge espagnole (Cedric Klapisch) -- 7
The Matrix Reloaded (The Wachowski Brothers) -- 4
Down With Love (Peyton Reed) -- 7
Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki) -- 7
The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray) -- 6
Whale Rider (Niki Caro) -- 8
Friday Night (Claire Denis) -- 7
Ichi The Killer (Takashi Miike) -- 6
Cabin Fever (Eli Roth) -- 6
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle) -- 9
Hulk (Ang Lee) -- 4
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin) -- 8
Pirates of the Carribean (Gore Verbinski) -- 5
Elephant (Gus Van Sant) -- 7
The Recruit (Roger Donaldson) -- 4
Charlotte Sometimes (Eric Byler) -- 5
Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke) -- 8
May (Lucky McKee) -- 7
Freaky Friday (Mark Waters) -- 3
The Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph) -- 8
American Wedding (Jesse Dylan) -- 8
Bad Boys II (Michael Bay) -- 1 [but I walked out after 2 hours or so]
American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini) -- 7
Open Range (Kevin Costner) -- 4
Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis) -- 6
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (Jim Fall) -- 7  [sorry I doubted you, Sky!]
The Hunted (William Friedkin) -- 3
XX/XY (Austin Chick) -- 5
Once Upon a Time In Mexico (Robert Rodriguez) -- 4
Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott) -- 6
Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola) -- 9
Cold Creek Manor (Mike Figgis) -- 7
Dummy (Greg Pritikin) -- 5
Anything Else (Woody Allen) -- 8
Basic (John McTiernan) -- 3
Hollywood Homicide (Ron Shelton) -- 5
Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen) -- 9
The School of Rock (Richard Linklater) -- 6
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) -- 10*  [pending Vol 2., but so far, so awesome)
Veronica Guerin (Joel Schumacher) -- 2
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) -- 5
In America (Jim Sheridan) -- 7
Anger Management (Peter Segal) -- 5
In the Cut (Jane Campion) -- 5
Shattered Glass (Billy Ray) -- 7
Bus 174 (Jose Padilha) -- 3
Nicotina (Hugo Rodriguez) -- 5
Love Actually (Richard Curtis) -- 8
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff) -- 9
Master & Commander (Peter Weir) -- 6
Live Forever (John Dower) -- 6
The Company (Robert Altman) -- 6
Kops (Josef Fares) -- 3
21 Grams (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) -- 7
Gozu (Takashi Miike) -- 5
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer) -- 4
The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick) -- 6
House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman) -- 9
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton) -- 7
Gigli (Martin Brest) -- 3
Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte) -- 8
Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella) -- 9
Together (Chen Kaige) -- 4
The Dancer Upstairs (John Malkovich) -- 7
Dreamcatcher (Lawrence Kasdan) -- 2
Laurel Canyon (Lisa Cholodenko) -- 4
Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers) -- 4
Angels In America (Mike Nichols) -- 5
Paycheck (John Woo) -- 6
Stuck On You (Bobby and Peter Farrelly) -- 7
Big Fish (Tim Burton) -- 7
S.W.A.T. (Clark Johnson) -- 2
Monster (Patty Jenkins) -- 7
The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan) -- 8
An Injury To One (Travis Wilkerson) -- 6
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) -- 9
The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy) -- 6
The Fog Of War (Errol Morris) -- 7
Seabiscuit (Gary Ross) -- 3
So Close (Corey Yuen) -- 4
The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet) -- 4
Soldier's Girl (Frank Pierson) -- 7
Pieces Of April (Peter Hedges) -- 6
Swimming Pool (Francois Ozon) -- 4
Winged Migration (Jacques Perrin) -- 6
demonlover (Olivier Assayas) -- 7
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel) -- 5
Daredevil (Mark Steven Johnson) -- 1
Cradle 2 The Grave (Andrzej Bartkowiak) -- 4
Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt) -- 5
Out of Time (Carl Franklin) -- 6
Just Married (Shawn Levy) -- 3
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Donald Petrie) -- 2
The Room (Tommy Wiseau) -- 1
Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald) -- 5
Elf (Jon Favreau) -- 6

 

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