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# Artist/Title Points Mentions
1 Before Sunset 564.9 49
2 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 483 43
3 Dogville 416 34
4 Sideways 381 40
5 Goodbye Dragon Inn 317 31
6 Notre Musique 302 28
7 Crimson Gold 261 26
8 I ♥ Huckabees 243 22
9 Vera Drake 213 20
10 Moolaadé 206 20
11 Million Dollar Baby 202 19
12 Bad Education 201 18
Blissfully Yours 201 18
14 Los Angeles Plays Itself 190 19
15 Kill Bill Vol. 2 178 19
16 Distant 177 17
17 Hero 169 15
18 The Aviator 163.9 17
19 House of Flying Daggers 161 15
20 Cowards Bend the Knee 145 14
21 The Saddest Music in the World 135 13
22 Tarnation 131 13
23 The Incredibles 126 13
24 Primer 122 12
25 Fahrenheit 9/11 116 11
26 The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou 107 11
27 The Five Obstructions 106 12
28 The Return 102 11
29 Collateral 101.9 11
30 The Brown Bunny 100 11
31 Kinsey 98 10
32 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 88 9
33 Since Otar Left... 87 10
34 Time of the Wolf 86 8
35 The Big Red One: The Reconstruction 84 8
36 Maria Full of Grace 80 9
37 Springtime in a Small Town 72 9
38 Star Spangled to Death 71 5
39 Birth 70 7
Last Life in the Universe 70 7
41 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster 68 9
42 Bright Leaves 67 7
43 Blind Shaft 62 7
The Corporation 62 7
45 The Passion of the Christ 61 5
46 Control Room 59 7
The Motorcycle Diaries 59 6
48 Son Frère 49 5
49 Infernal Affairs 46.9 5
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine 46.9 6
51 Spider-Man 2 46 6
52 The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi 40 5
53 Spartan 39 5
Team America: World Police 39 4
Twentynine Palms 39 3
56 Oasis 38 4
57 Hotel Rwanda 37 4
58 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead 35 4
59 The Sea Inside 33 3
60 Bright Future 32 3
Closer 32 3
62 The Terminal 31 3
63 Code 46 30 4
The Manchurian Candidate 30 5
65 Greendale 29 3
Napoleon Dynamite 29 3
67 The Story of the Weeping Camel 28 3
68 Shaun of the Dead 27 3
Touching the Void 27 4
70 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 26 3
Dolls 26 3
72 Father and Son 25 3
Red Lights 25 3
A Talking Picture 25 3
75 The Assassination of Richard Nixon 23 2
76 The Dreamers 21 2
Enduring Love 21 2
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence 21 2
A Thousand Clouds of Peace 21 2
Undertow 21 3
81 The Polar Express 20.9 2
82 The Clay Bird 20 2
The Twilight Samurai 20 2
84 Mean Creek 19 2
Ray 19 2
86 Strayed 18 2
A Very Long Engagement 18 2
We Don't Live Here Anymore 18 2
89 Anatomy of Hell 17 2
Gozu 17 2
91 Osama 16 2
92 Coffee and Cigarettes 15 2
In the Realms of the Unreal 15 2
Ocean's Twelve 15 2
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 15 2
Zero Day 15 1
97 Days of Being Wild 14 1
Facing Windows 14 1
Garden State 14 1
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 14 2
Young Adam 14 2
102 When Will I Be Loved 13.9 2
103 Beyond the Sea 13 1
Dig! 13 2
The Door in the Floor 13 1
Good Bye, Lenin! 13 1
107 An Amazing Couple 12 1
Rosenstrasse 12 1
A Tale of Two Sisters 12 1
The Village 12 1
111 A Home at the End of the World 11 1
Secret Things 11 1
113 The Agronomist 10 1
Baadasssss! 10 1
Bon Voyage 10 1
The Manson Family 10 1
Prisoner of Paradise 10 1
Shrek 2 10 1
The Woodsman 10 1
120 The Outskirts 9 1
121 Dawn of the Dead 8.9 1
122 Free Radicals 8 1
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle 8 1
The Mother 8 1
Mr. 3000 8 1
Open Water 8 1
Persons of Interest 8 1
The Trilogy 8 1
129 Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst 7 1
Hellboy 7 1
The Ladykillers 7 1
The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience 7 1
Raja 7 1
Sex is Comedy 7 1
Spanglish 7 1
136 Jesus, You Know 6 1
The Keys to the House 6 1
The Tracker 6 1
139 13 Going on 30 5 1
Brother to Brother 5 1
It's All About Love 5 1
Mean Girls 5 1
Rules of the Game
We asked each critic to cite 10 films, five lead performances, five supporting performances, 10 films without distributors, and one choice each for director, screenplay, cinematography, documentary, and first feature. As usual, participants were drawn mostly from alternative weeklies, online publications, and film journals (several Voice alumni were also invited). Each film and performance in an unranked ballot received 10 points. Ranked ballots were weighted as follows: For film 1 (15 points), 2 (14), 3 (13), 4 (12), 5 (11), 6 (9), 7 (8), 8 (7), 9 (6), 10 (5). For performance 1 (14), 2 (12), 3 (10), 4 (8), 5 (6). (Ties were allowed, and computed accordingly, hence the occasional ungainly decimal point.) We asked our voters to focus on films that opened for a U.S. theatrical engagement in 2004. Films that received votes in previous years (because of release-pattern differences) had points carried over if they scored at least as many points this year as in any earlier year. For performances that received votes in both lead and supporting, we shifted the points to the more popular category. We allowed splits in one-choice categories like director and screenplay.
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