2006

By Brian

THE BEST: Pan’s Labyrinth; Army of Shadows; The Prestige; The Queen; Neil Young: Heart of Gold; Brick; Inside Man; Children of Men; Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story; The Lives of Others; United 93; Akeelah and the Bee; An Inconvenient Truth; World Trade Center; The Fountain; Sweet Land

VERY GOOD: Clean; Volver; Block Party; The Proposition; The Notorious Bettie Page; Little Miss Sunshine; The Departed; Paprika; Marie Antoinette; Tsotsi; L’Enfant (The Child); Sophie Scholl: The Final Days; Monster House; Old Joy; Fateless; Cars; A Prairie Home Companion; Cavite; The Heart of the Game; Idiocracy; Flannel Pajamas; Letters from Iwo Jima

ALSO GOOD, IF NOTHING SPECIAL: Casino Royale; Lemming; Half Nelson; Glory Road; Shortbus; Babel; Little Children; Rocky Balboa; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Le Petit Lieutenant; The Good Shepherd; Bubble; The Pursuit of Happyness; Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; Find Me Guilty; Down in the Valley; Duck Season; 13 Tzameti; The Dead Girl; The Good German; A Scanner Darkly; Factotum; Stranger Than Fiction; The Last King of Scotland; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World; Why We Fight; Running Scared; Eight Below; Thank You for Smoking; Wah-Wah; Strangers with Candy; Favela Rising; My Country My Country; Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles; The Bridesmaid; A Good Year; Come Early Morning; Fast Food Nation; Game 6; Wordplay; Darwin’s Nightmare

DOESN’T SUCK: Don’t Come Knocking; 16 Blocks; The Devil Wears Prada; The Painted Veil; Notes on a Scandal; Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos; Jesus Camp; Apocalypto; V for Vendetta; Ask the Dust; The History Boys; Venus; Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas); Lonesome Jim; Friends with Money; Art School Confidential; Sketches of Frank Gehry; Peaceful Warrior; Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man; The Illusionist; All the King’s Men; Renaissance; Curse of the Golden Flower; The Science of Sleep; Infamous; Deja Vu; The Nativity Story; Winter Passing; Breaking and Entering; Mission: Impossible III; Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest; The Da Vinci Code

SUCKS: Days of Glory; Lady Vengeance; Miami Vice; Drawing Restraint 9; Hollywoodland; Copying Beethoven; Catch a Fire; Factory Girl; Flags of Our Fathers; The Descent; X-Men: The Last Stand; Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; God Grew Tired of Us; Trust the Man; Hard Candy; Superman Returns; Dreamgirls; The Break-Up; The Lake House; Firewall; Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor); Blood Diamond; The Architect

REALLY BADLY SUCKS: Unknown White Male; Lady in the Water; Bobby; Miss Potter; Man of the Year; Poseidon; The King; La Moustache; For Your Consideration; Inland Empire; Running with Scissors

The full list is after the jump…

January
1. *Breakfast on Pluto – 7 – Angelika Dallas
2. *Match Point – 8 – Legacy
3. *The Producers – 12 – Inwood
4. *Fun with Dick and Jane – 14 – Galaxy
5. Glory Road – 15 – Legacy
6. *Mrs Henderson Presents – 19 – Angelika Dallas
7. *The White Countess – 20 – Inwood
8. *The Matador – 21 – Cityplace
9. *The New World – 22 – Legacy
10. *Transamerica – 26 – Magnolia
11. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World – 28 – Angelika Dallas
12. Bubble – 28 – Magnolia

February
13. *Caché (Hidden) – 2 – Angelika Dallas
– *Caché (Hidden) – 3 – Angelika Dallas
14. Darwin’s Nightmare – 4 – Angelika Dallas
15. *The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – 5 – Tinseltown Plano
16. Why We Fight – 16 – Angelika Dallas
17. *The World’s Fastest Indian – 17 – Inwood
18. Running Scared – 27 – Valley View

March
19. Neil Young: Heart of Gold – 1 – Magnolia
20. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story – 2 – Angelika Dallas
21. Eight Below – 3 – Legacy
22. Block Party – 4 – Legacy
23. 16 Blocks – 5 – Legacy
24. Firewall – 7 – Webb Chapel
25. Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) – 9 – Angelika Dallas
26. *The Libertine – 10 – Angelika Dallas
27. Winter Passing – 15 – Inwood
28. V for Vendetta – 16 – Galaxy
29. Tsotsi – 17 – Magnolia
30. Ask the Dust – 18 – Inwood
31. Find Me Guilty – 19 – Legacy
32. *The Boys of Baraka – 23 – Inwood
33. Unknown White Male – 25 – Angelika Dallas
34. Inside Man – 26 – Legacy
35. Duck Season – 30 – Magnolia
36. Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) – 31 – Magnolia

April
37. Thank You for Smoking – 1 – Magnolia
38. *Duma – 2 – Angelika Dallas
39. Fateless – 6 – Angelika Dallas
40. L’Enfant (The Child) – 11 – Inwood
41. *Elevator to the Gallows – 12 – Angelika Dallas
42. Don’t Come Knocking – 13 – Magnolia
43. Lonesome Jim – 14 – Angelika Dallas
44. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days – 16 – Inwood
45. Game 6 – 20 – Angelika Dallas
46. Poseidon – 26 – Tinseltown Plano
47. Brick – 27 – Magnolia
48. United 93 – 30 – Legacy

May
49. Hard Candy – 4 – Magnolia
50. Friends with Money – 6 – Legacy
51. The Notorious Bettie Page – 11 – Magnolia
52. Akeelah and the Bee – 12 – Inwood
53. Mission: Impossible III – 17 – Galaxy
54. Down in the Valley – 20 – Magnolia
55. The Da Vinci Code – 21 – Legacy
56. Art School Confidential – 23 – Legacy
57. Wah-Wah – 25 – Angelika Dallas
58. Lemming – 26 – Inwood
59. X-Men: The Last Stand – 28 – Legacy
60. Clean – 31 – Angelika Dallas

June
61. An Inconvenient Truth – 2 – Magnolia
62. The Break-Up – 6 – Legacy
63. The Proposition – 7 – Magnolia
64. Cars – 9 – Galaxy
65. A Prairie Home Companion – 11 – Legacy
66. The King – 15 – Angelika Dallas
67. Sketches of Frank Gehry – 16 – Angelika Dallas
68. The Lake House – 18 – Legacy
69. Drawing Restraint 9 – 22 – Magnolia
70. Superman Returns – 28 – Legacy
71. Peaceful Warrior – 29 – Magnolia
72. Wordplay – 30 – Magnolia

July
73. *The Fallen Idol – 1 – Angelika Dallas
74. The Devil Wears Prada – 2 – Legacy
75. Lady Vengeance – 6 – Angelika Dallas
76. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – 9 – Legacy
77. Cavite – 13 – Inwood
78. Strangers with Candy – 14 – Angelika Plano
79. A Scanner Darkly – 16 – Magnolia
80. Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man – 20 – Angelika Dallas
81. Army of Shadows – 21 – Angelika Dallas
82. Lady in the Water – 23 – Legacy
83. Monster House – 23 – Legacy
84. Favela Rising – 26 – Angelika Dallas
85. Miami Vice – 30 – Legacy

August
86. The Heart of the Game – 3 – Angelika Dallas
87. La Moustache – 4 – Angelika Dallas
88. *Belle de jour – 5 – Angelika Dallas
89. World Trade Center – 9 – Legacy
90. Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos – 10 – Inwood
91. Little Miss Sunshine – 11 – Angelika Plano
92. The Descent – 13 – Legacy
93. The Illusionist – 22 – Inwood
94. My Country My Country – 24 – Inwood
95. Factotum – 30 – Angelika Dallas

September
96. Idiocracy – 12 – Northpark
97. Trust the Man – 13 – Legacy
98. *Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – 14 – Angelika Dallas
99. *All About My Mother – 20 – Angelika Dallas
100. Half Nelson – 22 – Magnolia
101. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles – 27 – Inwood
102. *Law of Desire – 28 – Angelika Dallas
103. Hollywoodland – 29 – Tinseltown Plano

October
104. All the King’s Men – 1 – Vista Ridge
105. Jesus Camp – 2 – Inwood
106. *Matador – 5 – Angelika Dallas
107. The Last King of Scotland – 7 – Angelika Plano
108. The Departed – 8 – Vista Ridge
109. Renaissance – 12 – Inwood
110. The Science of Sleep – 15 – Magnolia
111. Shortbus – 19 – Angelika Dallas
112. The Queen – 20 – Angelika Plano
113. Little Children – 21 – Angelika Dallas
114. The Prestige – 22 – Legacy
115. Man of the Year – 23 – Valley View
116. Marie Antoinette – 24 – Tinseltown Plano
117. Flags of Our Fathers – 29 – Tinseltown Plano
118. Infamous – 30 – Magnolia

November
119. 13 Tzameti – 2 – Angelika Dallas
120. Babel – 4 – Angelika Plano
121. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan – 6 – Valley View
122. Catch a Fire – 9 – Magnolia
123. Running with Scissors – 10 – Legacy
124. The Bridesmaid – 16 – Angelika Dallas
125. Copying Beethoven – 17 – Magnolia
126. Casino Royale – 19 – Galaxy
127. A Good Year – 20 – Inwood
128. The Fountain – 22 – Legacy
129. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus – 25 – Angelika Dallas
130. Stranger Than Fiction – 26 – Tinseltown Plano
131. Come Early Morning – 27 – Magnolia
132. Fast Food Nation – 30 – Angelika Dallas

December
– The Fountain – 1 – Legacy
133. Bobby – 3 – Legacy
134. Deja Vu – 4 – Valley View
135. For Your Consideration – 7 – Angelika Dallas
136. The Nativity Story – 9 – Inwood
137. Blood Diamond – 10 – Tinseltown Plano
138. The Architect – 14 – Inwood
139. The Pursuit of Happyness – 17 – Legacy
140. The History Boys – 21 – Magnolia
141. Apocalypto – 22 – Legacy
142. The Good German – 23 – Angelika Dallas
143. Rocky Balboa – 24 – Legacy
144. Volver – 28 – Angelika Dallas
145. Children of Men – 30 – Angelika Dallas

* – released in US before 2006

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