2003 movies by grade

    A

    A-

  • Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2002) 88
  • Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) 87
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) 82

    • B+

  • The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2002) 81
  • demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002) 80
  • The Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph, 2002) 79
  • Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002) 78
  • Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) 77
  • Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki) 75
  • In My Skin (Marina de Van, 2002) 74
  • Bus 174 (Felipe Lacerda, 2002) 74
  • Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff) 73

    • B

  • City of God (Fernando Meirelles, 2002) 71
  • Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki, 2001) 70
  • The Company (Robert Altman) 70
  • Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001) 69
  • Injury to One, An (Travis Wilkerson, 2002) 69
  • The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, 2002) 68
  • Finding Nemo (Lee Unkrich) 68
  • The Weather Underground (Bill Siegel, 2002) 68
  • The School of Rock (Richard Linklater) 68
  • Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach, 2002) 68
  • To Be and to Have (Nicolas Philibert, 2002) 68
  • Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002) 67
  • Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott) 67
  • Stevie (Steve James) 67
  • The Good Thief (Neil Jordan, 2002) 66
  • Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin, 2001) 66
  • Shattered Glass (Billy Ray) 66
  • Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski) 66
  • In America (Jim Sheridan, 2002) 66
  • Millennium Mambo (Hsiao-hsien Hou, 2001) 66
  • The Hunted (William Friedkin) 65
  • American Splendor (Robert Pulcini) 65
  • Charlotte Sometimes (Eric Byler, 2002) 65
  • 21 Grams (Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu) 65
  • Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett, 2002) 64
  • Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, 2001) 64
  • Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, 2002) 64

    • B-

  • Down With Love (Peyton Reed) 63
  • Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen) 63
  • The Fog of War (Errol Morris) 63
  • X2 (Bryan Singer) 62
  • 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002) 62
  • All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green) 61
  • Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz, 2002) 61
  • Winged Migration (Jacques Perrin, 2001) 61
  • Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) 60
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir) 60
  • 10 (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002) 60
  • The Matrix Reloaded ( The Wachowski Brothers) 59
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Donnacha O'Briain) 58
  • Japón (Carlos Reygadas, 2002) 57
  • Stuck on You (Bobby Farrelly) 57
  • Sister Helen (Rob Fruchtman, 2002) 56
  • Monster (Patty Jenkins) 56
  • The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet) 56
  • Lost in La Mancha (Louis Pepe, 2002) 55

    • C+

  • The Flower of Evil (Claude Chabrol) 54
  • Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella) 52
  • Hulk (Ang Lee) 51
  • Spider (David Cronenberg, 2002) 50
  • Elephant (Gus Van Sant) 50
  • Le Divorce (James Ivory) 49
  • Lilya 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002) 48
  • Identity (James Mangold) 47
  • The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy) 47

    • C

  • Mighty Wind, A (Christopher Guest) 45
  • Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski) 45
  • House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman) 45
  • Seabiscuit (Gary Ross) 43

    • C-

  • Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher, 2002) 15

    • D-

    F