The wait, gentle reader, is over. After hours of serious deliberation and careful review, I have winnowed down the 46 movies distributed in 2006 that I have seen over the last 14 months. Eighteen of those movies received grades in the A range. For all my concern in 2006 that it wasn't a very good year, it turns out it was one of the better years in recent memory for movies. I saw a lot of worthy pictures last year, ones that challenged me, ones that made me laugh, ones that made my scratch my head. Even so, I can tell these movies are going to be with me for a long time.As always, the list is sort of rank ordered and sort of alphabetical. I will tell you one thing: the first movie truly was the best picture of the year.
- Children of Men
- The Lives of Others
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Half Nelson
- The Prestige
- Brick
- A Prairie Home Companion
- The Departed
- V for Vendetta
- The Science of Sleep
Honourable mention goes to La Règle du Jeu, which I swore I read about before I saw, although I cannot find proof that it was redistributed in the last year or so.
What have we here? Three foreign language films, a comic book adaptation, dueling magicians, a genre pic, and a genre defying noir. How could I have doubted the greatness of last year's films?
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