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When I consider my top ten movies of the year, it’s a list of my ten favorite movies, not the ten best per se. I saw 91 movies last year, but that’s hardly enough to qualify me to consider which might be the ten best. I would have had to have seen about 150 more movies, as well as films that are released in NY and LA only at the end of December. For example, The Hours, and Adaptation have not played here yet, and About Schmidt opened here on January 3rd. The alphabetical list below is the ten films I saw in 2002 for the first time that moved me the most in any number of ways, and brought me the most enjoyment I experienced going to the movies.

Bloody Sunday
Far From Heaven
Gangs of New York
The Grey Zone
In The Bedroom (2001 film released in 2002 in Edmonton)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Minority Report
Max
No Man’s Land
Rabbit-Proof Fence

Honorable mentions: Gosford Park, The Royal Tenebaums, Apocalypse Now Redux, Kissing Jessica Stein, Monsoon Wedding, Insomnia, Lovely and Amazing, Tadpole, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Good Girl, One Hour Photo, startup.com, Bowling for Columbine, Secretary, Tully, Igby Goes Down, Auto Focus, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Catch Me If You Can.

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