Washington Post movie critic Stephen Hunter’s list of the 10 best films of 2003:
1. Cold Mountain
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. Lost in Translation
5. 21 Grams
6. Bus 174
7. Shattered Glass
8. Dirty Pretty Things
9. Open Range
10. Bad Santa
Post critic Deeson Thomson’s top 10:
1. City of God
2. Capturing the Friedmans
3. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
4. Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara
5. Kill Bill, Vol. 1
6. Dirty Pretty Things
7. Lost in Translation
8. American Splendor
9. Thirteen
10. Mondays in the Sun
New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell:
1. Pirates of the Caribbean
2. 21 Grams
3. The Triplets of Belleville
4. Elephant
5. Capturing the Friedmans
6. Lost in Translation
7. Raising Victor Vargas
8. American Splendor
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
10. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Times critic A.O. Scott:
1. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2. Mystic River
3. The Son
4. Spellbound
5. The Barbarian Invasions
6. The Man Without a Past
7. The Triplets of Belleville
8. Finding Nemo
9. Bus 174
10. A Mighty Wind
And Times critic Stephen Holden:
1. Angels in America
2. Mystic River
3. The Fog of War
4. Capturing the Friedmans
5. Lost in Translation
6. House of Sand and Fog
7. The Barbarian Invasions
8. American Splendor
9. Thirteen
10. City of God