bozy

http://www.suntimes.com/output/roepe...-roeper29.html

"Gangs of New York"
"25th Hour"
"Minority Report"
"Y Tu Mama Tambien"
"Adaptation"
"Signs"
"Rabbit-Proof Fence"
"About Schmidt"
"One Hour Photo"
"About A Boy"
"Insomnia"
"Evelyn"
"Far From Heaven"
"Bloody Sunday"
"The Quiet American"
"Monsoon Wedding"
"Panic Room"
"We Were Soldiers"
"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"
"13 Conversations About One Thing"
"Unfaithful"
"Changing Lanes"
"The Pianist"
"Catch Me If You Can"
"Chicago"

Geofferson

Looks like a solid list to me - not sure about Gangs of N.Y. being #1 though.

Meatpants

His 25 aren't in any kind of order

[email protected]

Signs and We Were Soldiers shouldn't be on the list.

GuessWho

you hate mel gibson?

blackfog

where is The Two Towers?

silentbob007

No room for opinion, eh?

Geofferson

Not sure about the last 15, but his top 10 coincide with his picks here: http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/top_10/index.html

lesterlong

"Roeper sucks" - Another intelligent remark by lesterlong

calhoun07

I totally understand why Signs wasn't liked by all, but I thought it was a great movie, worthy of much discussion. And I tend to like the types of movies that make you think after you see them, and you don't stop thinking about them or what they were trying to say after you watched them.

grunter

Both Roeper's and Ebert's critical hard-ons for "Minority Report" are instantly suspect.

The Antipodean

The phrase 'critical hard-on' just gave me one.

grunter

pics?

Ginwen

I wouldn't put all those on my top 25 (I didn't even really like Changing Lanes), but not a bad list.

cooper2000

We were Soldiers, suprisingly was on the s.F Chronicles Top Ten too. Hmmm.
I dont think Signs belongs on any Top Ten list.
Decent movie totally runined by another one of Shamalans (sp?) endings.

Wheres xxx?

badger1997

Both We Were Soldiers and Signs are on my top 10 list so I wasn't surprised at all. As much as Roeper is made fun of and hated around here, I would take his list over Ebert's because it fits more closely with what I liked this year.

I remember seeing someone's picks for Oscars and they had Mel Gibson and We Were Soldiers heavily picked. I laughed and then saw the film a week later and liked it a lot and almost (notice I said almost) had to agree with them.

Overall, great list in my opinion, even though it's missing a few I would have put on there. Getting sick and tired of all the adoration over Adaptation, but that's just me, and I can't understand the love by both Ebert and Roeper for Minority Report, which I caught as a matinee during the summer and walked out disappointed about.

clemente

Reoper was one of the lone voices of dissent on the first one, so I wouldn't expect him to be bowled over by part two.

geek

I think it's a good list including not jsut artsy farty stuff but also films with good entertainment value.

El-Kabong

Signs over Spirited Away? Please pass the crack pipe, Roeper - I'd like a BIG hit off of whatever you're smoking. M Night Shamalamadingdong isnt even worthy to wipe Miyazaki's ass let alone trounce his movie like that.

Worst. List. Ever.

The Antipodean

Um, do you ever read before you post? See the part where it said the list is in no particular order?

jfoobar

I'll answer for him.

No.

Coral

Actually, Roeper really liked TTT.

He probably just feels that it doesn't rank in the best 25 films of the year.

badger1997

Actually, as others have pointed out, the list is in no particular order. That said, I would pick Signs over Spirited Away easily.....and I'm not taking a hit off any crack pipe......at least not right now.

vdadlani219

No Igby Goes Down? Any 2002 Top 25 list without that movie is crap

Drexl

I'll answer for him too. Even though the list is in no particular order, Spirited Away isn't on the list at all. So, despite what the real order is (if he even bothered to rank them, even just in his head), the fact is that Roeper is saying he thinks Signs is a better movie than SA.