Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2005.
In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.
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Red = Treasures
Purple = Favorites
Blue = Achievements
Gray = Decent/Noteworthy
Green = Unseen or Undecided
* = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.
- Into Great Silence*
- Junebug
- L’Enfant*
- A History of Violence (review)
- Mirrormask (review)
- Three Times*
- The Sun*
- Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
- Munich
- Caché
- Brick
- The Proposition*
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu*
- Batman Begins
- Pride and Prejudice
- Capote
- Broken Flowers
- No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
- Serenity
- Star Wars, Episode Three – Revenge of the Sith
- Last Days
- The White Diamond*
- Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Grizzly Man
- Joyeux Noël*
- Kingdom of Heaven
- The Ballad of Jack and Rose
- Sweet Land*
- The Squid and the Whale
- Adam’s Apples
- Good Night and Good Luck
- Don’t Come Knocking
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada*
- Blue in Green*
- March of the Penguins
- Corpse Bride
- Match Point
- Thank You for Smoking
- Walk the Line
- Touch the Sound*
- 49 Up
- Everything is Illuminated
- Bubble
- Heading South
- Tsotsi*
- Brokeback Mountain
- Syriana
- Lassie
- Shopgirl
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- The Descent
- The Puffy Chair
- Murderball
- War of the Worlds
- The Constant Gardener
- In Her Shoes
- Duma
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