| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| Hurt Locker, The | 2008 | 96 | 1 | - What Platoon was to Vietnam, Hurt Locker is to Iraq. Beautifully done. Keeps you fully engrossed and never falls into the temptation of giving you a political perspective on the war. |
| Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | 94 | 2 | - The characters are a little formulaic, but the acting gets better as the movie progresses and, like Maggie Fitzgerald on Frankie Dunn, 'Million Dollar Baby' grows on you to the point where you love it. |
| Departed, The | 2006 | 92 | 3 | - Scorcese at his best. There's a reason this one put him over the top. A near-perfect film! |
| Gladiator | 2000 | 90 | 4 | - It's an action flick, it's an epic. It's one very awesome movie. |
| No Country for Old Men | 2007 | 89 | 5 | - The slow-building thriller relies on brilliant cinematography and flawless performances to deliver all the tension. |
| Lord of the Rings: Return of the King | 2003 | 81 | 6 | - Epic in nearly every way...including runtime. |
| Crash | 2004 | 80 | 7 | - A tough, raw story about the gaps in social statuses, racism, and the fears we admit to no one. |
| A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | 72 | 8 | - Anyone whose ever battled mental illness or known someone who has will not be able to forget this movie. |
| Chicago | 2002 | 69 | 9 | - It's not a musical just for the sake of being a musical, and that's a welcomed surprise. |
| Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | 55 | 10 | - Boyle's high-adrenaline, psychedellic vision for the film gets in the way of what would have otherwise been a fairly impressive script. |
