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THE CRITICS' PICKS OF 2002
A number
of prominent critics named their favorite movies of the year (and
a smaller number named their least favorite). Moviecrazed tabulated
the votes, assigning 10 points to a Number One choice, a single
point to a Number 10 choice, and so on. When movies were not listed
in order of preference, each movie on the list received one point.
Here are the winners and losers. (Never mind that "The Hours" is
both a winner and a loser. Whoever said that critics are supposed
to agree?)
THE BEST OF THE YEAR
TALK TO HER
FAR FROM HEAVEN
Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN
ADAPTATION
SPIRITED AWAY
ABOUT SCHMIDT; CHICAGO (Tie)
THE PIANIST
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
GANGS OF NEW YORK
THE HOURS
THE WORST OF THE YEAR
SWEPT AWAY
DEATH TO SMOOCHY
THE HOURS
THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH; THE SWEETEST THING (Tie)
THE FOUR FEATHERS; ROLLERBALL (Tie)
DRAGONFLY
ROAD TO PERDITION; THE RULES OF ATTRACTION (Tie)
FULL FRONTAL; SIMONE (Tie)
CHELSEA WALLS; SCOOBY-DOO (Tie)
MASTER OF DISGUISE; THE SUM OF ALL FEARS (Tie)
AND HERE'S HOW THEY VOTED...
THE BEST
Far From Heaven
Chicago
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
About a Boy
25th Hour
Frida
8 Women
Solaris
The Ring
Y Tu Mama Tambien
----THELMA ADAMS, Us
Talk to Her
Far From Heaven
Russian Ark
Solaris
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Spider-Man
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Catch Me If You Can
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Time Out
----JOHN ANDERSON, Newsday
Y Tu Mama Tambien
About Schmidt
Spirited Away
Talk to Her
The Pianist
Monsoon Wedding
Adaptation
Far from Heaven
About a Boy
Late Marriage
----DAVID ANSEN, Newsweek
What Time Is It There?
Russian Ark
Safe Conduct
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
In Praise of Love
The Piano Teacher
The Lady & the Duke
Punch-Drunk Love
Adaptation
All About Lily Chou-Chou
----MICHAEL ATKINSON, The Village Voice
Far From Heaven
Chicago
About Schmidt
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Gangs of New York
Spirited Away
The Pianist
Auto Focus
The Piano Teacher
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
----JAMI BERNARD, The New York Daily News
Bowling for Columbine
Gangs of New York
Y Tu MamE Tambien
Monsoon Wedding
Rabbit-Proof Fence.
Narc
Drumline
Changing Lanes
Real Women Have Curves
Igby Goes Down
----DWIGHT BROWN, Upscale
Chicago
Insomnia
The Piano Teacher
Minority Report
Talk to Her
Gangs of New York
About a Boy
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Bowling for Columbine
The Hours
----MIKE CLARK, USA Today
Talk to Her
Gangs of New York
Russian Ark
Devdas
Minority Report
Time Out
Bowling for Columbine
Spirited Away
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Quiet American
----RICHARD CORLISS, Time
About Schmidt
Blissfully Yours
Far From Heaven
Femme Fatale
In Praise of Love
Japon
The Pianist
The Piano Teacher
Time Out
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Minority Report
----MANOHLA DARGIS, The Los Angeles Times
Far From Heaven
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Piano Teacher
The Cockettes
Dahmer
Monsoon Wedding
Talk to Her
8 Women
Femme Fatale
The Hours
----DENNIS DERMODY, Paper
What Time Is It There?
Talk to Her
Morvern Callar
The 25th Hour
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Bloody Sunday
Igby Goes Down
Monsoon Wedding
Far From Heaven
Adaptation
----KAREN DURBIN, Elle
Minority Report
City of God
Adaptation
Far From Heaven
13 Conversations About One Thing
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Invincible
Spirited Away
All or Nothing
The Quiet American
----ROGER EBERT, Chicago Sun-Times
(In Alphabetical Order)
Bowling for Columbine
Chicago
Far from Heaven
Insomnia
Personal Velocity
Possession
The Quiet American
Talk to Her
White Oleander
Y Tu Mama Tambien
----STEPHEN FARBER, Movieline
The Hours
Adaptation
Far From Heaven
Bowling for Columbine
Road to Perdition
Gangs of New York
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Chicago
About Schmidt
About a Boy
----MARSHALL FINE, The Journal News
Catch Me If You Can; Monsoon Wedding (Tie)
Read My Lips
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Punch-Drunk Love
Adaptation
Frida
Chicago
About a Boy
Spider-Man
Barbershop
----JONATHAN FOREMAN, The New York Post
Far From Heaven
About Schmidt
Bowling for Columbine
Personal Velocity
8 Mile
Auto Focus
The Last Kiss
Unfaithful
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Nine Queens
OWEN GLEIBERMAN, Entertainment Weekly
Paris Commune, 1871
The Fast Runner
Russian Ark
Corpus Callosum
Far From Heaven
The Lady & the Duke
Solaris
What Time Is It There?
Adaptation
Late Marriage
----J. HOBERMAN, The Village Voice
Talk to Her
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Hours
About Schmidt
Adaptation
Far From Heaven
Chicago
Sunshine State
Gangs of New York
The Pianist
----STEPHEN HOLDEN, The New York Times
Adaptation
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Hours
Time Out
The Fast Runner
Unfaithful
24 Hour Party People
Talk to Her
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
The Quiet American
----HARLAN JACOBSON, Talk Cinema
Adaptation
Esther Kahn
The Fast Runner
Gangs of New York
The Pianist
Safe Conduct
Spirited Away
Talk to Her
24 Hour Party People
What Time Is It There?
----KENT JONES, Film Comment
Spirited Away
About Schmidt
Talk to Her
Punch-Drunk Love
Time Out
In Praise of Love
I'm Going Home
Mahagonny
Windtalkers
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
----DAVE KEHR, The New York Times
Russian Ark
Talk to Her
Punch-Drunk Love
What Time Is It There?
I'm Going Home
The Pianist
Eloge de l'amour
Storytelling
A Grin Without a Cat
----STUART KLAWANS, The Nation
About Schmidt
Adaptation
Catch Me If You Can
Chicago
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Road to Perdition
The Hours
The Quiet American
The 25th Hour
----JOANNA LANGFIELD, The Movie Minute
(In Alphabetical Order)
About Schmidt
Adaptaion
Bloody Sunday
Far From Heaven
The Fast Runner
Late Marriage
The Pianist
Talk to Her
Time Out
Y Tu Mama Tambien
----EMMANUEL LEVY
The Quiet American
Gangs of New York
Minority Report
The Hours
Sunshine State
About a Boy
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Chicago
Spider-Man
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
--JOE LEYDON, San Francisco Examiner
Esther Kahn
Punch-Drunk Love
Far From Heaven
Time Out
Gangs of New York
The Sleepy Time Gal
I'm Going Home
24 Hour Party People
Adaptation
What Time is it There?
----DENNIS LIM, The Village Voice
Far From Heaven
Bowling for Columbine
Spirited Away
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Insomnia
Tadpole; Kissing Jessica Stein (Tie)
Minority Report
Antwone Fisher
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Changing Lanes; 25th Hour (Tie)
----LOU LUMENICK, The New York Post
Spirited Away
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Chicago
Talk to Her
The Fast Runner
The Pianist
Bloody Sunday
Spider-Man
Far From Heaven
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
----JACK MATHEWS, The New York Daily News
Bloody Sunday
Catch Me If You Can
Morvern Callar
Paid in Full
Personal Velocity
Spirited Away
Talk to Her
24 Hour Party People
What Time Is It There?
Y Tu Mama Tambien
----ELVIS MITCHELL, The New York Times
Talk to Her; Y Tu Mama Tambien (Tie for Number 1)
(The Rest in Alphabetical Order)
8 Mile
The Good Girl
Heaven
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Punch-Drunk Love
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Spirited Away
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
----JOE MORGENSTERN, The Wall Street Journal
Talk to Her (Number 1)
(The Rest in No Particular Order)
Bowling for Columbine
The Isle
Femme Fatale
About Schmidt
The Son's Room
Far From Heaven
Punch-Drunk Love
Happy Times
Millennium Mambo
----V.A. MUSETTO, The New York Post
Time Out
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Pianist
Domestic Violence
Adaptation
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Spirited Away
Bloody Sunday
Tosca
The Quiet American
----PETER RAINER, New York
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Bowling for Columbine
About Schmidt
About a Boy
The Pianist
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Frailty
Alias Betty
Chicago
Lilo & Stitch; Spirited Away (Tie)
----STEPHEN SCHAEFER, The Boston Herald
Talk to Her
About Schmidt
Far From Heaven
Road to Perdition
Monsoon Wedding
About a Boy
Italian for Beginners
The Pianist
8 Mile
Safe Conduct
----RICHARD SCHICKEL, Time
Talk to Her
The Fast Runner
Adaptation
Far From Heaven
The Pianist
Spirited Away
Storytelling
Gangs of New York
Lovely & Amazing
----A.O. SCOTT, The New York Times
Spirited Away
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Lovely & Amazing
Talk to Her
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Time Out
8 Mile
Read My Lips
Spider-Man
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
----GENE SEYMOUR, Newsday
Chicago; The Hours (Tie)
Adaptation
Catch Me If You Can
Antwone Fisher
Far From Heaven
Narc
25th Hour
The Quiet American
About a Boy
Road to Perdition
----JOEL SIEGEL, ABC News
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Spirited Away
The Pianist
Chicago
All or Nothing
The Quiet American
The Triumph of Love
The Last Kiss; Femme Fatale (Tie)
Rabbit-Proof Fence
----MICHAEL SRAGOW, Baltimore Sun
(In Alphabetical Order)
The Believer
Far From Heaven
The Hours
In Praise of Love
Late Marriage
Punch-Drunk Love
The Quiet American
Russian Ark
24 Hour Party People
25th Hour
----DAVID STERRITT, Christian Science Monitor
Spider
In Praise of Love
Femme Fatale
Solaris
Far From Heaven
Corpus Callosum
The Fast Runner
I'm Going Home
Lovely & Amazing
Biggie and Tupac
----AMY TAUBIN, The Village Voice
Far From Heaven; The Good Girl (Tie)
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Piano Teacher; Merci Pour le Chocolat (Tie)
Ararat
24 Hour Party People
Real Women Have Curves; Barbershop (Tie)
Tully
Safe Conduct
Les Destinees
Chicago
----KEVIN THOMAS, The Los Angeles Times
Gangs of New York
Far From Heaven
Adaptation
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Chicago
Talk to Her
Road to Perdition
About Schmidt
8 Mile
----PETER TRAVERS, Rolling Stone
Bloody Sunday; Spirited Away (Tie)
Adaptation
The Hours
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Y Tu Mama Tambien
About Schmidt
Time Out; The Town Is Quiet (Tie)
The Fast Runner
Lovely & Amazing
The Quiet American; Road to Perdition (Tie)
----KENNETH TURAN, The Los Angeles Times
(In Alphabetical Order)
About Schmidt
Adaptation
Changing Lanes
Far From Heaven
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Monsoon Wedding
The Pianist
Road to Perdition
Sunshine State
Talk to Her
----STEPHEN WHITTY, Star-Ledger
The Pianist
Chicago
Sunshine State
Frida
Bloody Sunday
The Hours
Adaptation
Far From Heaven
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Talk to Her
----WILLIAM WOLF, Wolf Entertainment Guide.com
THE WORST
Dragonfly
Juwanna Mann
The Rules of Attraction
Death to Smoochy
Deuce's Wild
Double Whammy
Scooby-Doo
Reign of Fire
Empire
Femme Fatale
----THELMA ADAMS, Us
Swept Away
Dogtown and Z Boyz
The Four Feathers
The Hours
Maid in Manhattan
Blue Crush
The Sum of All Fears
Sweet Home Alabama
War Photographer
The Pianist
----JOHN ANDERSON, Newsday
The Sweetest Thing
The Rules of Attraction
Road to Perdition
The Four Feathers
Heaven
Hollywood Ending
The Emperor's Club
Big Bad Love
----DAVID ANSEN, Newsweek
Swept Away
Pumpkin
Two Weeks Notice
Dragonfly
25th Hour
----JAMI BERNARD, The New York Daily News
Swept Away
Death To Smoochy
The Four Feathers
White Oleander
Hart's War
Chelsea Walls
Full Frontal
Serving Sara
Adventures of Pluto Nash
Secretary
----DWIGHT BROWN, Upscale
Swept Away
The Sweetest Thing
Enough
Rollerball
I Spy
Death to Smoochy
Scooby-Doo
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Crossroads
Full Frontal; Solaris (Tie)
----MIKE CLARK, USA Today
Swept Away
Sonny
Death to Smoochy
Vulgar
Igby Goes Down
Windtalkers
Van Wilder
The Triumph of Love
The Sum of All Fears
The Man From Elysian Fields
----DENNIS DERMODY, Paper
(In No Particular Order)
Sweet Home Alabama
XXX
Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones
Big Bad Love
Frailty
Punch-Drunk Love
John Q
Simone
Igby Goes Down
The Four Feathers
----STEPHEN FARBER, Movieline
Swept Away; Crossroads (Tie)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Bad Company; I Spy (Tie)
8 Women
Unfaithful
Death to Smoochy
Serving Sara
----MARSHALL FINE, The Journal News
The Master of Disguise
Rollerball
Chelsea Walls
Dragonfly
Orange County
The Count of Monte Cristo
Stealing Harvard
The Sweetest Thing
Life or Something Like It
Enough
----JONATHAN FOREMAN, The New York Post
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Ararat
Death to Smoochy
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Simone
Love Liza
Hollywood Ending
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Read My Lips
Men in Black II
----OWEN GLEIBERMAN, Entertainment Weekly
Road to Perdition
The Hours
Simone
The Smith Family
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Frida
The Weight of Water
Bartleby
----KENT JONES, Film Comment
Death to Smoochy
Chicago
The Hours
Rollerball
Hart's War
Queen of the Damned
The Piano Teacher
Signs
Insomnia
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
----STUART KLAWANS, The Nation
(In Alphabetical Order)
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Big Trouble
Collateral Damage
Death to Smoochy
The Four Feathers
No Such Thing
The Rules of Attraction
The Sweetest Thing
Swept Away
The Time Machine
----EMMANUEL LEVY, Variety
Swept Away; The Adventures of Pluto Nash (Tie)
Solaris, Full Frontal (Tie)
The Sweetest Thing
Sonny
Igby Goes Down
Mr. Deeds; Punch-Drunk Love; Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (Tie)
The Time Machine
Nicholas Nickleby
jackass: the Movie
Enough
----LOU LUMENICK, The New York Post
Swept Away
jackass: the movie
The Master of Disguise
Formula 51
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
----JACK MATHEWS, The New York Daily News
The Hours
----RICHARD SCHICKEL, Time
(In Alphabetical order)
Analyze That
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Dragonfly
Moonlight Mile
Signs
Swept Away
We Were Soldiers
Windtalkers
XXX
----DAVID STERRITT, Christian Science Monitor
Swept Away
John Q
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
The Sum of All Fears
Scooby-Doo
Men in Black II
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Mr. Deeds
Two Weeks Notice
I Spy; Showtime; Adventures of Pluto Nash (Tie)
----PETER TRAVERS, Rolling Stone
(No Particular Order)
Serving Sara
Halloween: Resurrection
Ash Wednesday
Chelsea Walls
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
The Time Machine
Reign of Fire
Full Frontal
Scarlet Diva
Swept Away
----STEPHEN WHITTY, Star-Ledger
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