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Film Retrospective

 

 The best of 2006 ?

Every year, the KFS likes to offer you a compendium of opinions as to the best films distributed the previous year.
We'd like to think that, in our own Little Theatre sort of way, we've helped broaden the cinematic horizons by doing our part to bring at least a few of these titles to town.
If you'd like to submit your Top Ten titles to this page (with or without your name) we'd be delighted to add them.  We're sure the world would be equally delighted to see your selections as well.

Thanks for making us part of your groove scene.

                                           

Stephanie Zacharek / Salon.com
1 Army of Shadows
2 Days of Glory
3 Casino Royale
4 Pan's Labyrinth
5 (tie) The Queen / Marie Antoinette
6 (tie) Dave Chappelle's Block Party / Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
7 Idlewild
8 The Painted Veil
9 The Notorious Bettie Page
10 A Prairie Home Companion

Stephen Rea / The Philadelphia Inquirer

Army of Shadows

Babel

Curse of the Golden Flower

The Departed

Letters from Iwo Jima

Little Children

Pan's Labyrinth

The Proposition

The Queen
United 93

Glenn Kenny /  Premiere Magazine
1 Army of Shadows
2 Inland Empire
3 Volver
4 The Departed
5 Clean
6 Pan's Labyrinth
7 L'Enfant
8 Marie Antoinette
9 The Fountain
10 The Queen

John Hartl /  MSNBC

Army of Shadows

Children of Men

Deliver Us From Evil

The Departed

Flags of Our Fathers

Letters from Iwo Jima

Little Children

Little Miss Sunshine

The Queen
United 93

 

Jonathon Rosenbaum  /  Chicago Reader

1 Cafe Lumiere

2 Army of Shadows

3 The War Tapes

4 Cuadecuc-Vampir

5 Find Me Guilty

6 Citadel

7 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

8 Ask The Dust

9 Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinema
10 Fast Food Nation

 

Michael Sragow  /  Baltimore Sun

1 United 93

2 Army of Shadows

3 Neil Young: Heart of Gold

4 Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing

5 Heading South

6 The Queen

7 Borat

8 The Departed

9 The History Boys
10 Dreamgirls

 

Richard Schickel / Time Magazine
1 Letters from Iwo Jima
2 The Departed
3 The Queen
4 Le Petit Lieutenant
5 Flags of our Fathers
6 The Good Shepherd
7 Army of Shadows
8 District B13
9 Notes on a Scandal
10 Little Children

 

James Sanford  / The Kalamazoo Gazette

1 The Queen

2 Little Children

3 Volver

4 The Departed

5 Little Miss Sunshine

6 Half Nelson

7 United 93

8 Jesus Camp

9 Slither
10 Dreamgirls

 

Stephen Holden /  The New York Times

1 Babel

2 Pan's Labyrinth

3 Heading South

4 The Queen

5 Letters from Iwo Jima

6 United 93

7 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

8 Volver

9 A Prairie Home Companion
10 Little Miss Sunshine

 

A.O. Scott  /  The New York Times

1 Letters from Iwo Jima

2 Pan's Labyrinth

3 L'Enfant (The Child)

4 Days of Glory

5 Little Miss Sunshine

6 Three Times

7 51 Birch Street

8 Volver

9 Little Children
10 A Prairie Home Companion

 

The American Film Institute
Babel
Borat
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Half Nelson
Happy Feet
Inside Man
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
United 93

David Edelstein / NPR
1. The Queen
2.
(tie)Iraq documentaries: Blood of My Brother, Iraq in Fragments, Iraq for Sale, and The War Tapes
3. Our Brand is Crisis
4.
(tie)Pan's Labyrinth / Children of Men
5.
(tie)Flags of Our Fathers / Letters from Iwo Jima
6. Days of Glory
7 Neil Young: Heart of Gold
8.
(tie)Religious documentaries: Jonestown, Jesus Camp, Deliver Us From Evil
9. A Prairie Home Companion
10. United 93

Kenneth Turan  /  Los Angeles Times
1 (tie) Letters from Iwo Jima /  Flags of our Fathers
2 (tie) The Ground Truth /  Iraq in Fragments /  My Country, My Country /  The War Tapes
3 (tie) Friends with Money /  Half Nelson
4 (tie) The Queen /  Venus
5 (tie) The Lives of Others / L'Enfant
6 (tie) Little Miss Sunshine /  Thank You for Smoking
7 Volver
8 (tie) Pan's Labyrinth /  Children of Men
9 Dreamgirls
10 Sweet Land

Lawrence Toppman  / The Charlotte Observer
1 United 93
2 The Prestige
3 Pan's Labyrinth
4 Thank You for Smoking
5 Little Miss Sunshine
6 An Inconvenient Truth
7 The Queen
8 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
9 Hard Candy
10 Why We Fight

Ty Burr   /  The Boston Globe

1 Borat

2 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

3 United 93

4 Old Joy

5 Letters from Iwo Jima

6 The Departed

7 Children of Men

8 Duck Season

9 The Queen
10 Pan's Labyrinth

 

Claudia Puig  /  USA Today

1 Letters from Iwo Jima

2 United 93

3 Flags of our Fathers

4 The Queen

5 Little Miss Sunshine

6 Volver

7 Pan's Labyrinth

8 Babel

9 The Departed
10 Borat

 

Ann Hornaday  /  Washington Post

1 Children of Men

2 Pan's Labyrinth

3 United 93

4 Half Nelson

5 Notes on a Scandal

6 The Departed

7 The Heart of the Game

8 Neil Young: Heart of Gold

9 My Country, My Country
10 The War Tapes

 

Joel Siegel  /  ABC News

The Departed

Charlotte's Web

United 93

The Queen

Dreamgirls

Borat

Little Miss Sunshine

Pan's Labyrinth

Volver
Letters from Iwo Jima

 

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

Akeelah & the Bee

Babel

Flags of Our Fathers / Letters From Iwo Jima

Joyeux Noel

Little Miss Sunshine

Miss Potter

The Pursuit of Happyness

Sophie Scholl

The Painted Veil
United 93

 

Steve / Republican With A Vengeance

1. Rocky Balboa

2. Little Miss Sunshine

3. The Proposition

4. Pan’s Labyrinth

5. Borat

6. Superman Returns

7. Thank You For Smoking

8. Casino Royale

9. Inside Man
10. Saw 3

 

 

Manohla Dargis  / The New York Times
1 Army of Shadows
2 Letters from Iwo Jima
3 Inland Empire
4 Our Daily Bread
5 L’Enfant
6 Children Of Men
7 Three Times
8 Miami Vice
9 Brand Upon The Brain!
10 Borat

David Ansen  / Newsweek Magazine
1 Army of Shadows
2 Little Miss Sunshine
3 The Queen
4 Letters from Iwo Jima
5 The Departed
6 Half Nelson
7 Borat
8 Dreamgirls
9 Venus
10 Volver

Scott Foundas  / Village Voice
1 Army of Shadows
2 United 93
3 Letters from Iwo Jima
4 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
5 Happy Feet
6 Inland Empire
7 Climates
8 Children of Men
9 A Prairie Home Companion
10 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Wesley Morris  /  Boston Globe

1 Shortbus

2 Army of Shadows

3 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

4 Children of Men

5 Inland Empire

6 Half Nelson

7 Inside Man

8 Dave Chappelle's Block Party

9 Borat
10 Old Joy

 

Stephen Hunter  /  Washington Post

1 Flags of our Fathers

2 Little Miss Sunshine

3 Army of Shadows

4 Lady Vengeance

5 The Departed

6 Notes on a Scandal

7 Borat

8 Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

9 Casino Royale
10 The Descent

 

Shawn Levy  /  Portland Oregonian

1 Pan's Labyrinth

2 United 93

3 (tie) Letters from Iwo Jima /  Flags of our Fathers

4 Army of Shadows

5 Neil Young: Heart of Gold

6 The Queen

7 Notes on a Scandal

8 Little Children

9 Volver
10 Venus

 

Marjorie Baumgarten  /  Austin Chronicle

1 Pan's Labyrinth

2 Volver

3 United 93

4 Letters from Iwo Jima

5 Army of Shadows

6 The Queen

7 Borat

8 A Prairie Home Companion

9 The Proposition
10 Apocalypto

 

Michael Wilmington / The Chicago Tribune

1 Flags of our Fathers

2 Letters from Iwo Jima

3 A Prairie Home Companion

4 The Departed

5 Pan's Labyrinth

6 Happy Feet

7 Babel

8 Army of Shadows

9 The Queen
10 Casino Royale

Peter Rainer /  The Christian Science Monitor
A Scanner Darkly
Borat
Children of Men
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Happy Feet
The History Boys
Letters from Iwo Jima
Notes on a Scandal
The Queen
The Road to Guantanamo

Scott Tobias  /  The Onion

1 The Departed

2 Children of Men

3 United 93

4 Old Joy

5 Brick

6 Volver

7 L'Enfant

8 The Devil and Daniel Johnston

9 Neil Young: Heart of Gold
10 Half Nelson

 

Owen Glieberman  / Entertainment Weekly

1 Casino Royale

2 United 93

3 The Good Shepherd

4 Sherrybaby

5 Dave Chappelle's Block Party

6 Deliver Us from Evil

7 Infamous

8 Sweet Land

9 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
10 Cars

 

Peter Travers / Rolling Stone

1 The Departed

2 Dreamgirls

3 (tie) Letters from Iwo Jima /  Flags of our Fathers

4 Volver

5 Babel

6 United 93

7 The Queen

8 Borat

9 Little Miss Sunshine
10 A Prairie Home Companion

 

Richard Corliss /  Time
1 Pan's Labyrinth

2 Borat

3 Volver

4 United 93

5 Various documentaries

6 Gabrielle

7 Cars

8 Curse of the Golden Flower

9 (tie) Superman Returns /  V for Vendetta
10 Shortbus

 

Joe Morgenstern  / Wall Street Journal

Deliver Us from Evil

The Departed

The History Boys

The Last King of Scotland

Letters from Iwo Jima

Little Miss Sunshine

Pan's Labyrinth

The Queen

United 93
Volver

 

Lisa Schwartzbaum  /  Entertainment Weekly

1 Letters from Iwo Jima

2 Borat

3 Pan's Labyrinth

4 Half Nelson

5 The Departed

6 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

7 The Proposition

8 Old Joy

9 The Queen
10 Days of Glory

 

Andrew O'Hehir  /  Salon.com

1 Pan's Labyrinth

2 Agnes and His Brothers

3 Half Nelson

4 Volver

5 The Proposition

6 Friends with Money

7 Duck Season

8 Lady Vengeance

9 Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
10 Rolling Family

 

William Arnold  /  Seattle Post-Intelligencer

1 The Queen

2 (tie) Cars / Happy Feet

3 Casino Royale

4 Flags of our Fathers

5 An Inconvenient Truth

6 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

7 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

8 Water

9 United 93
10 Little Children

 

Stephen King

1. Pan's Labyrinth

2. United 93

3. The Departed

4. Casino Royale

5. The Descent

6. The Illusionist

7. Snakes on a Plane

8. Waist Deep

9. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
10. The World's Fastest Indian

 

Jonas At The Movies

1.  Brick

2.  Dreamgirls

3.  Little Miss Sunshine

4.  Casino Royale

5.  Miss Potter

6.  Little Children

7.  Thank You For Smoking

8.  Volver

9.  The Queen
10. Notes On A Scandal

         

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