[Update - Oscar nominations announced http://www.oscars.org/79academyawards/noms.html]
Little Miss Sunshine is my favorite movie of 2006.
Just your typical black comedy about a dysfunctional family that goes on a roadtrip to enter their child in a beauty pageant. Death, Nitzsche, drugs, failed suicide attempts, and motivational speakers were never this darkly funny
Half Nelson
Ryan Gosling shines in this look at a drug addict who is a teacher at an inner city school
The Departed
While I still prefer the original Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs on which Scorcese based this movie, this was quite possibly the best movie of 2006
United 93
Moving and extremely well done, which points out the breakdowns in communication on 9/11 and serves as an homage to the passengers on this airplane (the only one of the 4 hijacked planes not to reach its target)
Borat
Wa wa wee wa! I like this cinemafilm very much. If you were Youtubing every scene before seeing the movie, it may not have lived up to expectations. This was a movie you needed to see early in a packed theater.
Babel
Intricate layered film that looks at how connected the world now is, while questioning the larger war on terror
Children of Men
Bleak vision of the future which actually takes a hard look at the current governments in power and terrorism
Pan's Labyrinth
A fairy tale for adults that intersperses a disturbing story about World War II with a darkly fantastic tale of a princess, a faun, fairies, and a monster.
Volver
I'm a big fan of Almadovar's movies and this was my favorite foreign film of the year. Penelope Cruz shines in this movie (as she always does in Spanish-language films).
An Inconvenient Truth
Best documentary of the year that is a must-see to understand global warming
Thank You for Smoking
Darkly funny and very politically incorrect
V for Vendetta
The movie I most anticipated in the early part of 2006 was a topical, intelligent take on the comic adaptation
Brick
Film noir (nods to Maltese Falcon) in a modern high school setting
Hard Candy
A disturbing, psychological thriller that heralds the emergence of Ellen Page
Just your typical black comedy about a dysfunctional family that goes on a roadtrip to enter their child in a beauty pageant. Death, Nitzsche, drugs, failed suicide attempts, and motivational speakers were never this darkly funny
Half Nelson
Ryan Gosling shines in this look at a drug addict who is a teacher at an inner city school
The Departed
While I still prefer the original Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs on which Scorcese based this movie, this was quite possibly the best movie of 2006
United 93
Moving and extremely well done, which points out the breakdowns in communication on 9/11 and serves as an homage to the passengers on this airplane (the only one of the 4 hijacked planes not to reach its target)
Borat
Wa wa wee wa! I like this cinemafilm very much. If you were Youtubing every scene before seeing the movie, it may not have lived up to expectations. This was a movie you needed to see early in a packed theater.
Babel
Intricate layered film that looks at how connected the world now is, while questioning the larger war on terror
Children of Men
Bleak vision of the future which actually takes a hard look at the current governments in power and terrorism
Pan's Labyrinth
A fairy tale for adults that intersperses a disturbing story about World War II with a darkly fantastic tale of a princess, a faun, fairies, and a monster.
Volver
I'm a big fan of Almadovar's movies and this was my favorite foreign film of the year. Penelope Cruz shines in this movie (as she always does in Spanish-language films).
An Inconvenient Truth
Best documentary of the year that is a must-see to understand global warming
Thank You for Smoking
Darkly funny and very politically incorrect
V for Vendetta
The movie I most anticipated in the early part of 2006 was a topical, intelligent take on the comic adaptation
Brick
Film noir (nods to Maltese Falcon) in a modern high school setting
Hard Candy
A disturbing, psychological thriller that heralds the emergence of Ellen Page
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