Best & Worst Films 0f 2003

[kittiwake]

And in the same vein as my book post, here are the best and worst films I've seen at the cinema this year. However I'm only including new films, as I've seen some fantastic older films at Broadway this year, and I'd never be able to keep it down to five favourites if I included them.

My top five, in the order I saw them:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Johnny Depp & Orlando Bloom in a tale of pirates, gold and ghost ships
Goodbye Lenin!
Poignant German film
Down with Love
Funny sixties pastiche
Spirited Away
Very pretty Japanese anime
Cypher
Futuristic industrial espionage thriller

My bottom five, also in viewing order:
Final Destination 2
A bad case of sequelitis - and it didn't make sense
DareDevil
Too much back-story - not enough plot
Heart of Me
Too sad for my tastes - all the characters are unhappy (sob)
Russian Ark
Just boring - nearly sent me to sleep
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Another case of sequelitis