Each year has a corresponding Dispatch episode (
http://www.theworldofcinema.com/) that gives an overview of the year in film that was...
As asserted in the 2004 Yearbook episode of WOC, this was a fantastic year of film that rivals 1999 in my book. I divided up this year’s best into four categories and each category is ranked.
2004
Drama
1. Primer
2. Before Sunset
3. The Aviator
4. We Don’t Live Here Anymore
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Madness and Genius
7. Kinsey
8. Sideways
9. Spartan
10. The Village
Comedy
1. I Heart Huckabees
2. Team America: World Police
3. Club Dread
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
5. Silver City
6. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
7. Mean Girls
8. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
9. In Good Company
10. Saved!
Documentary
1. The Corporation
2. Control Room
3. In the Realms of the Unreal
4. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
5. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
6. Super Size Me
7. Farmingville
8. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
9. The Agronomist
10. The Fourth World War
Foreign
1. Last Life in the Universe
2. Maria Full of Grace
3. Kopps
4. Carandiru
5. The Motorcycle Diaries