Best of the Decade: Year 2004

Welcome to Part V of the Best of the Decade Project.  Each few days I will name my choices for the best films of each particular year in the aforementioned decade.  This will culminate just after the new year with my list of the 50 greatest films of the decade.  So without further ado I give you my top ten for the year 2004.

1. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)

2. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino) 

3. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)

4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) 

5. Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder)

6. Primer (Shane Carruth)

7. Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
8. Sideways (Alexander Payne)

9. Collateral (Michael Mann) 

10. Closer (Mike Nichols)