Dexter: Season 1 (2006) ****

Weeds: Season 2 (2006) ***

24: Season 6 (2006) ***

The Sopranos: Season 6.1 (2006) ***

Slave Dolls 2 (2006) ***

Fuck Slaves (2006) ***

Norymberga (2006) *****

Fascinating Polish TV movie about a retired Communist secret service agent confessing his crimes.

Manhunters (2006) ***

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Lost: Season 3 (2006) ***

The Wire: Season 4 (2006) ***

In the Season 4, the focus moves to the school system, but politics remain front and center as well.

Silken Sleeves (2006) ***

V For Vendetta (2006) **

Strange allegory about terrorism, with a terrorist as a good guy. Never boring, but probably the most pro-Nazi film ever made in Hollywood, celebrating violence as the best way to overthrow a government. It's all about the triumph of the will of a single strong leader inspiring an army of faceless followers, and willing to terrorize not only the powerful, but the powerless as well. Andrew Klaven wrote a strong denunciation of the film's fascist sympathies here.

Bambi II (2006) **

A sequel to "Bambi".

An Inconvenient Truth (2006) **

The only inconvenient truth about this documentary is that while it raises a fascinating subject and is quite convincing in its arguments, it's simply not a very good movie, cinematographically-speaking. Most Michael Moore's documentaries (except for "Fahrenheit 9/11"), while equally committed to its ideals, are far more impressive cinematographically (and far more entertaining) than this undeserved Oscar-winner.

Hollywoodland (2006) **

Blood Diamond (2006) **

Miss Potter (2006) **

The Good Shepherd (2006) **

Poseidon (2006) *

Rather pointless remake of the 1972 film.

Borat (2006) *

A deeply misguided film that tries to denounce racism in America by creating vile racist stereotypes in Kazakhstan. It fails at the former, but unfortunately succeeds at the latter.

The Good German (2006) *

Flushed Away (2006) *

Superman Returns (2006) *

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) *

The Painted Veil (2006) *

Miami Vice (2006) *

Lady In The Water (2006) *

Top 10 Films of 2005

1. "Historias del desencanto" (Alejandro Valle, Felipe Gómez, Mexico)

2. "The Wayward Cloud" (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)

3. "Melissa P" (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)

4. "Sin City" (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, USA)

5. ''Lord Of War'' (Andrew Niccol, USA)

6. "Battle in Heaven" (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico)

7. "Where The Truth Lies" (Atom Egoyan, Canada)

8. "Play" (Alicia Scherson, Chile)

9. "Broken Flowers" (Jim Jarmusch, USA)

10. "House of Sand" (Andrucha Waddington, Brazil)

Other great films:

2 Girls (Turkey)

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Abducted By Daleks (UK)

L'Audition (Canada)
Batman Begins

Breakfast On Pluto (Ireland)

Bride And Prejudice (India)

Brokeback Mountain
The Brothers Grimm

Capote
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
Chicken Little

The Constant Gardener
Corpse Bride

Crash

C.R.A.Z.Y. (Canada)
The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (UK)

Dear Wendy (Denmark)

Delwende (Burkina Faso)

Domino

L'Enfant (Belgium)
Les États nordiques (Canada)
Familia (Canada)

God Save The King (Sweden)

Das Goebbels Experiment (Germany)

Good Night And Good Luck
The Great Raid

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

Havoc

Horloge biologique (Canada)

Hwal (South Korea)

In Her Shoes
It's All Gone Pete Tong

Jimmywork (Canada)

King Kong

Lie With Me (Canada)

Main Hoon Na (India)
Manners Of Dying (Canada)
La Marche de l'Empereur (France)
Mary Shelley
Match Point

Mrs Henderson Presents (UK)

Munich

Mysterious Skin

La Neuvaine (Canada)
La Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961 (France)

Perhaps Love (Hong Kong)

Petit Pow! Pow! Noël (Canada)

Pitbull (Poland)

Pour un seul de mes deux yeux (Israel)
Robots

Romance And Cigarettes

Sangre (Mexico)

Seven Swords (Hong Kong)
Sex And Philosophy (Tajikistan)

Shopgirl

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith

The Sun (Japan)

These Girls (Canada)

Three Times (Taiwan)

Transamerica

Tsotsi (South Africa)

The Upside Of Anger

La Vie avec mon père (Canada)

Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 2005:

1. "A History Of Violence" (David Cronenberg, New Line)

2. "Les Poupées russes" (Cédric Klapisch, France)

3. "Douches froides" (Antony Cordier, France)

4. "5X2" (François Ozon, France)

5. "Peindre ou faire l'amour" (Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu, France)

6. "The Zero Years" (Nikos Nikolaidis, Greece)

7. "Jestem" (Dorota Kedzierzawska, Poland)

8. "8MM 2" (J.S. Cardone, USA)

9. "All About Anna" (Jessica Nilsson, Nicolas Barbano, Denmark)

10. "Flower And Snake 2" (Takashi Ishii, Japan)

Short Top 3:

1. "Six Shooter" (Martin McDonagh, Ireland)

2. "Le Baiser" (Stefan Le Lay, France)

3. "Une Chapelle blanche" (Simon Lavoie, Canada)

Other great shorts:

L'Air de rien (Canada)

A mains nues (France)

Le Canape rouge (France)
Les Jouets (Canada)
La Méthode Morin (Canada)

Traumata

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Don't Cha" (Paul Hunter, The Pussycat Dolls)

2. "Speed Of Sound" (Mark Romanek, Coldplay)

3. "Believe" (Nic and Dom, The Chemical Brothers)

Other great music videos:

Hung Up
When I'M Gone

Top Commercial:

"Diet Pepsi Truck" (Joe Pytka, Pepsi)

Other great commercials:

Proceedings

TV Top 3:

1. "Lost: Season 2" (ABC)

2. "Rome: Season 1" (HBO)

3. "Weeds: Season 1" (Showtime)

Other great TV shows:

24: Season 5
Six Feet Under: Season 5

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello" (Anthony Lucas, Australia)

2. "The Moon And The Son" (John Canemaker, USA)

3. "One Man Band" (Mark Andrews, Andrew Jimenez, Pixar)

Other great cartoons:

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Dog's Life (Hungary)

Ninja: The Vengeance (Japan)

Weak films of 2005:

Aurore (Canada)
Be With Me (Singapore)
Les Boys IV (Canada)
Caché
The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe
Le Couperet (France)
Darwin's Nightmare (Belgium)
De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté (France)
Election (Hong Kong)
Elizabethtown
Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room

Les États-Unis d’Albert (Canada)
Idole instantanée (Canada)
Joyeux Noel (France)
Komornik (Poland)
Lemming (France)
Maman Last Call (Canada)
Maurice Richard (Canada)
Memoirs Of A Geisha
The New World
Le Petit Lieutenant (France)
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Prime
Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés (Canada)
Saint Ralph (Canada)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Germany)
La Suerta esta echada (Argentina)

Le Survenant (Canada)
Syriana

Va, vis et deviens (France)
Les Voleurs d'enfance (Canada)
Walk The Line
War Of The Worlds

Weak shorts:

Close Up (France)
L'Hiver longtemps (Canada)
Les Petits hommes vieux (France)
Le Rouge au sol (Canada)
Somewhere (France)
Tennessee (Canada)

Weak cartoons:

At The Quinte Hotel (Canada)
Badgered (UK)

Top Musical of 2005

"Main Hoon Na" (Farah Khan, India)

Melissa P (2005) *****

The Wayward Cloud (2005) *****