January 04, 2006 — Leonard’s list of 2005’s must see films:
(In alphabetical order)

1 Capote
2 Good Night, and Good Luck
3 Grizzly Man
4 Look at Me
5 Match Point
6 Nobody Knows
7 Paradise Now
8 Saraband
9 Separate Lies
10 The Squid and the Whale
11 The World

Films Leonard saw, but didn’t include in his best of the best list:

Brokeback Mountain
Crash
2046

Films that have made many lists, but that Leonard hasn’t seen yet himself:

The Best of Youth
King Kong
Munich
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Cache

Lisa Schwartzbaum’s top ten films:

1 A History of Violence
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 The Best of Youth
4 King Kong
5 Munich
6 The World
7 Me and You and Everyone We Know
8 Crash
9 2046
10 Look At Me

Gene Seymour’s top ten list

1 A History of Violence
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 Darwin's Nightmare
4 Capote
5 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
6 Howl's Moving Castle
7 Good Night, and Good Luck
8 Look at Me (Comme une Image)
9 Crash
10 The 40-Year-Old Virgin