Top 10 and Bottom 10 Lists 2001-2007

Top 10 Lists are based on the release date of the film in the United States, and not their copyright years.

The Best Movies of 2001

1. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
2. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
3. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
4. A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
5. Monsters Inc (Pete Doctor)
6. Oceans Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
7. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
8. In the Bedroom (Todd Fields)
9. The Majestic (Frank Darabont)
10. Zoolander (Ben Stiller)

The Worst Movies of 2001

1. Out Cold (Brendan Malloy and Emmett Malloy)
2. Black Knight (Gil Junger)
3. Monkeybone (Henry Selick)
4. See Spot Run (John Whitesell)
5. Corky Ramano (Rob Pritts)
6. Max Keebles Big Move (Tim Hill)
7. Dr. Dolittle 2 (Steve Carr)
8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Chris Columbus)
9. Joe Somebody (John Pasquin)
10. Cats and Dogs (Lawrence Guterman)
-----------------------------------------------
The Best Movies of 2002

1. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
2. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
3. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
4. About a Boy (Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz)
5. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney)
6. Punch Drunk Love  (Paul Thomas Anderson)
7. Chicago (Rob Marshall)
8. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
9. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
10. Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)

The Worst Movies of 2002

1. The Master of Disguise (Perry Andelin Blake)
2. The Country Bears (Peter Hastings)
3. The Scorpion King (Chuck Russell)
4. Life or Something Like It (Stephen Herek)
5. The Tuxedo (Kevin Donovan)
6. Austin Powers in Goldmember (Jay Roach)
7. Juwanna Mann (Jesse Vaughn)
8. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Callie Khouri)
9. Changing Lanes (Roger Michell)
10. Clockstoppers (Jonathan Frakes)
-----------------------------------------------
The Best Movies of 2003

1. Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)
2. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
3. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
4. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
5. Kill Bill Volume One (Quentin Tarantino)
6. The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
7. 21 Grams (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu)
8. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
9. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
10. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)

The Worst Movies of 2003

1.House of the Dead (Uwe Boll)
2. A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest)
3. Timeline (Richard Donner)
4. Malibu's Most Wanted (John Whitesell)
5. Uptown Girls (Boaz Yakin)
6. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (Robert Rodriguez) 
7. 2 Fast 2 Furious (John Singleton)
8. Sylvia (Christine Jeffs)
9. 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
10. Dreamcatcher (Lawrence Kasdan)
-----------------------------------------------
The Best Movies of 2004

1. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
2. Kill Bill Volume Two (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
4. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
5. The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis
6. Kinsey (Bill Condon)
7. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
8. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
9. Closer (Miek Nicols)
10. Team America World Police (Trey Parker)

The Worst Movies of 2004

1. Darkness (Jaume Balaguero)
2. The Girl Next Door (Luke Greenfield)
3. Sleepover (Joe Nassbaum)
4. Catwoman (Pitof) 
5. The Chronicles of Riddick (David Twohy)
6. Thunderbirds (Jonathan Frakes)
7. Alien vs Predator (Paul W. S. Anderson)
8. My Baby's Daddy (Cheryl Dunye)
9. The Grudge (Takashi Shimuzu)
10. New York Minute (Dennie Gordon)
-----------------------------------------------
The Best Movies of 2005

1. Crash (Paul Haggis)
2. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
3. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Girodana)
4. King Kong (Peter Jackson)
5. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
6. Match Point (Woody Allen)
7. King's and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
8. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
9. The Weather Man (Gore Verkinski)
10. The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis)

The Worst Movies of 2005

1. The Cave (Bruce Hunt)
2. High Tension (Alexandre Aja)
3. The Dukes of Hazzard (Jay Chandrasekhar)
4. I Love Your Work (Adam Goldberg)
5. Stealth (Rob Cohen)
6. Bee Season (Scott McGehee and David Siegal)
7. Rent (Chris Columbus)
8. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman)
9. Last Days (Gus van Sant)
10. Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe)
-----------------------------------------------
The Best Movies of 2006

1. Little Children (Todd Field)
2. Children of Men (Alfonso Cueron)
3. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)
4. Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
5. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
6. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
7. The Last King of Scotland (Kevin MacDonald) 
8. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
9. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
10. Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)

The Worst Movies of 2006

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Jonathan Liebesman)
2. Little Man (Keenan Ivory Wayans)
3. The Return (Asif Kapadia)
4. The Oh in Ohio (Billy Kent)
5. Bobby (Emilio Estevez)
6. The Grudge 2 (Takashi Shimizu)
7. Date Movie (Aaron Seltzer)
8. Big Momma's House 2 (John Whitesell)
9. Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)
10. Running with Scissors (Ryan Murphy)
-----------------------------------------------
The Best Movies of 2007

1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
4. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
6. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
7. Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino)
8. King of California (Mike Cahill)
9. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
10. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)

The Worst Movies of 2007

1. Descent (Talia Lugacy)
2. Captivity (Roland Joffe)
3. Epic Movie (Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer)
4. Norbit (Brian Robbins)
5. Primeval (Michael Katleman)
6. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
7. Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
8. Lucky You (Curtis Hanson)
9. The Number 23 (Joel Schumacher)
10. Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)