It's OK, Over the Hedge is in your top 10.

I thought this thread was to post critics 10 best lists (?) But oh well, here are mine

1) Superman Returns
2) The Departed
3) Little Miss Sunshine
4) The Illusionist
5) Stranger Than Fiction
6) The Prestige
7) The Queen
8) District B13
9) Volver
10) Slither

Have yet to see Pan's Labyrinth or Curse of the Golden Flower. I'm sure one or both will end up on this list. Or close.

Here's mine, since everyone else is doing it:

1-The Departed
2-The Fountain
3-Pirates 2
4-The Prestige
5-Apocalypto
6-Rocky Balboa
7-V for Vendetta
8-Clerks II
9-Maria Antionette
10-Eight Below

Remember this is a list out of all I've paid to see out of 34 films I went to see. My market is okay, but haven't seen Children of Men, good German, Perfume, Pan's, Letters from Iwo Jima/Flags, ect.

I'd say first half of 06: C year Second half B- year.

Honorable Mentions: Science of Sleep, This Film is Not Yet Rated, and The Descent.

Very well. Here is my Top 10 list (theatrical only, as I had not graded any DVD viewings).

1. PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
2. V FOR VENDETTA
3. UNDERWORLD EVOLUTION
4. APOCALYPTO
5. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3
6. DEJA VU
7. X-MEN 3
8. MIAMI VICE
9. CRANK
10. SAW III

I'm surprised 'Blood Diamond' isn't on my lists! Saw it last night and was blown away by how powerful and strong this film was. The trailer doesn't do it justice.

It's a good film but it pales to last year's political thrillers The Constant Gardener and Syriana. I think the movie could've done better if the trailer wasn't cut so idiotically: I guarantee you they could've sold $1MM more in tickets if they didn't show DiCaprio say "In America it's bling bling, but out here, it's bling bang." Which is actually not even a bad line in the context of the movie (he's trying to act funny to pick up Jennifer Connelly). But in the trailer it reeks of cheese.

Maybe for North America and South Korea, but the rest of the world stepped it up this year.

I don't think I can even do a top 10 with the movies I saw this year:

1) United 93
2) Casino Royale
3) Thank You For Smoking
4) V for Vendetta
5) Rocky Balboa
6) Borat
7) An Inconvienant Truth
8) The Good Shephard

That's about it.

It's been a great year for movies - some really memorable flicks that actually saw theatrical release around me.

1. The Descent (I'm a sucker for this movie)
2. Casino Royale
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Little Miss Sunshine
5. Apocalypto
6. The Departed
7. Children of Men
8. The Prestige
9. Superman Returns
10. Severance (It isn't a great movie from a technical standpoint, but I was in a great mood during and after it, so it gets some slight bias.)

Honorable Mention: V for Vendetta, Slither, The Illusionist, Snakes on a Plane (as an overall movie-going experience), Flushed Away, A Scanner Darkly, Borat

There's still numerous movies I've yet to see (Letters from Iwo Jima, Inland Empire, Flags of our Fathers, Thank You For Smoking, Volver, Venus, Curse of the Golden Flower, Dreamgirls, Blood Diamond, Little Children, Babel, Perfume, The Good Shepherd, etc; ) so I've got a lot to look forward to yet.

Now if only I could strike the massive disappointments that were X3 and Pirates 2.

Lots of love for United 93, yet not one Top 10 List included World Trade Center.

I've seen neither, but for those who have - do you agree with loving United 93 and dismissing World Trade Center?

Here are my favorite movies from 2006, but they are not in any order of importance.

1. apocalypto
2. The departed
3. Miami Vice
4. The Hills have Eyes
5. Blood Diamond
6. V for Vendetta
7. Casino Royale
8. Mission Impossible 3
9. The descent
10. Clerks 2

1. Inland Empire
2. Little Children
3. The Fountain tied with Pan's Labyrinth
5. The Prestige
6. A Scanner Darkly
7. The Departed
8. V for Vendetta
9. Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
10. Rocky Balboa


The rest in order: Little Miss Sunshine, Clerks II, Flushed Away, The Illusionist, Borat, Cars, Stranger Than Fiction, Brick, A Good Year, Slither, Jackass Number Two, Over the Hedge, Miami Vice, Nacho Libre, Da Vinci Code, X-men 3, Hard Candy

The only films I didn't dig so much were X-men and Hard Candy. They both disappointed me greatly. Hard Candy especially because I feel it had a lot going for it, but it ultimately just fell apart. I expected and average film from Da Vinci code and got it.

My list will change once I get a chance to see some of the remaining Indie films. I have a feeling the top 3 will remain the same, however.

1. The Departed
2. The Descent
3. United 93
4. World Trade Center
5. The Fountain
6. The Queen
7. Superman Returns
8. Casino Royale
9. Little Miss Sunshine
10. Inside Man

My list:

1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. The Prestige
3. V for Vendetta
4. Children of Men
5. The Illusionist
6. Flushed Away
7. X-Men 3
8. Underworld Evolution
9. Inside Man
10. Superman Returns

(I haven't seen A Scanner Darkly yet, mostly out of fear. I love PKD but have a love/hate relationship with most film adaptations of his work.)

I finally got around to seeing most of the films I wanted to see and judge before doing a Top 10 List (well, except one, see below), so here is mine. Firstly, however:

Glaring Omission That's Only Missing Because It's Yet To Be Released Here
Letters From Iwo Jima. Clint Eastwood is among my favourite directors and I thought Flags Of Our Fathers was a really good thought provoking war drama, if a little underwhelming. I'd say once I see this there'll be little doubt that it would still not find a place on my Top 10, but it won't see a wide release here until Feb 22, a few days before the Oscars.

Honorable Mentions
Superman Returns, Inside Man, Brick, Little Children, The Queen. All very good films.

Anyway, let's get started:

10. Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glrious Nation of Kazakhstan
A surprise film for me, in the depth and intelligence of satire that can be found within the otherwise toilet humour. Borat at the rodeo is quite possibly the most biting and hilarious scene in movies this year.

9. Children Of Men
A technically brilliant film with the most gorgeously atmospheric cinematography and fully realised art direction of the year, and a substantial, thought provoking story to compliment this. The 10-minute unedited warfare sequence is breathtaking, and Cuaron knows exactly where to end the picture for maximum impact.

8. Cars
Dismissed for being a "lesser" Pixar picture, people tend to forget that even that would be ahead of any other company churning out animated animal comedies. This is seriously underrated - and another in a long line of Pixar films that touch your heart, make you laugh and entertain you, all the while bringing you the most gorgeous computer animation ever comitted to film.

7. Babel
Inarritu's most ambitious and mature work, Babel was the one of the most emotionally complex and moving films of the year. Rinko Kikuchi breaks your heart, and the haunting score is worthy of back-to-back Oscars for composer Gustavo Santaolalla.

6. The Prestige
Another one I thought was quite underrated, the tension, anticipation and excitement that Nolan built throughout the film kept me absolutely spellbound. Bale gives a teriffic performance in this fascinating study of character and vengeance.

5. Little Miss Sunshine
Wonderfully enjoyable indie film that's as funny as it is poignant and emotional. The end of the movie was an unexpected, but very welcome, slap in the face for every pretentious beauty pageant out there and had me in tears. Breslin is a revelation, and the supporting cast all turn in great performances.

4. Casino Royale
It's remarkable how many films on my list are surprises - in that they totally blew away my expectations - and here's yet another one. I loved that the centrepiece was a game of cards - A game of cards! - and one so overblown and stylish, at that, that it became the most compelling aspect of the movie. This is a vastly different Bond driven by character, but not lacking at all in the action department and in subtle humour. Daniel Craig, in my opinion, is the Best Bond Ever - a title also befitting the film itself.

3. Pan's Labyrinth
What an enchanting and beautiful film. Del Toro visualises his ideas like a painter would. The storytelling is compelling, the fantasy aspects filled with wonder, the violence a forceful and brutal counterpoint. The ending was a masterfully accomplished emotional gut-punch, the kind I haven't experienced since I sat through the devastating final 10 minutes of United 93. Speaking of which ...

2. United 93
Breathtaking and intense. This film starts like any other day and I love Greengrass's patience in the way he lets the growing tension play out and create the drama. Everyone knows what's going to happen before they even sit down to watch this, but the film is not about the suspense that that creates. I don't think, even knowing all of that, that anybody could anticipate the feeling of just having the wind sucked out of you at the end. It's that forceful and visceral.

1. The Departed
This was the most enjoyable time I had at the movies all year - a film with masterful direction, a great script and unanimously brilliant performances. Not since Pulp Fiction has a film just kicked so much butt and taken so many names. Psychological depth, brash humour, and dense character development is added to the good, but not great original film. This is my favourite director back at the top of his game, aided by Thelma Schoonmaker with the best essay in the use of film editing to tell stories this year. 150 minutes flew by like an hour. This is the best mesh of popular and critical success, and artistic and technical filmmaking brilliance to be released in 2006, and that's why it's my favourite - and the best - film of the year.

1. The Proposition
Everyone who doesn't have this on their list sucks and has poor taste in movies.

2. The Prestige
3. Apocalypto
4. Rocky Balboa
5. The Last King of Scotland
6. Brick
7. Casino Royale
8. United 93
9. Thank You For Smoking
10. The Departed

I guess the media hasnt forgiven Mel yet.

Miami Vice, Happy Feet, and Nanny McPhee...but no Apocalypto.

United 93 for me was the best film of the year. Not even close. I have to formulate the rest of my list. I wasn't surprised by the FOREIGN Press not nominating United 93 for a Golden Globe. NO Way were they going to award a movie that strokes American's flames about 9/11 by simply telling an accurate account of what happened.

Best:
1. V for Vendetta
2. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
3. Casino Royale
4. When The levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts
5. Children Of Men
6. The Fountain
7. Inside Man
8. The Departed
9. The proposition
10. Little Children

Worst
(That I have seen)
1. Lady In the Water
2. Running With Scissors
3. UltraVilolet
4. Miami Vice
5.Slither

5.

My Top 10:

1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Children of Men
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. The Prestige
5. Clerks 2
6. Casino Royale
7. Jackass 2
8. Rocky Balboa
9. Pirates of the Caribbean 2
10. Nacho Libre

And a lot of movies I felt weren't as good as I hoped: Borat, Fast Food Nation, DaVinci Code, XMen 3, The Departed, a bunch of others that escape me.

A more comprehensive list of critics' Top Ten lists

And the current critics' Top Ten:

1. United 93
2. The Queen
3. The Departed
4. Letters From Iwo Jima
5. Pan's Labyrinth
6. Borat
7. Little Miss Sunshine
8. Babel
9. Little Children
10. Children of Men

I agree with you and have included it on my list. But technically, it's a 2005 film.

Here's mine...

1) The Proposition
2) The Departed
3) Pan's Labyrinth
4) United 93
5) Casino Royale
6) Little Miss Sunshine
7) Stranger Than Fiction
8) Children of Men
9) The Prestige
10) Little Children