2006

1. Inland Empire (David Lynch)

2. Miami Vice (Michael Mann)

3. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

4. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)

5. Retribution (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

6. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)

7. Exiled (Johnnie To)

8. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)

9. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel)

10. This Is England (Shane Meadows)

Honorable mentions: Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff), The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma), Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck), Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood), Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola), and A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)