Every film I saw for the first time in 2005:

1) Enduring Love - Problematic.
2) Vera Drake - Impressive but somehow irrelevant abortion drama. Imelda Staunton is not as good as the reviews would suggest, in fact the male actors are probably the most interesting thing about the film.
3) Ju-on - Yeah, pretty scary.
4) Freddie Got Fingered - Astonishingly crude gross out "comedy" that is more endurance test than filmic experience. Relentlessly overbearing and almost bereft of narrative it is astounding that this film was ever made. Destined to become a cult classic.
5) Primer - Excellent.
6) Steamboy - Gorgeous animated children's steampunk aided by sure-footed comedic touches and impaired by wild plot silliness and longeurs.
7) The Machinist - Fight Club meets Jacob's Ladder meets very low calorific intake.
8) Starsky And Hutch - So ironic it's in danger of collapsing into a singularity. Features Har Mar Superstar.
9) La Niña Santa - Dreamy.
10) The Fog Of War - Unsettling.
11) I, Robot - Arse.
12) Enigma - Maths is cool and saves lives! Good, spiky script from Tom Stoppard. Could have done without the flashbacks though.
13) The Piano Teacher - Corrosive, oddly paced study of self-deception, degradation and, let's be frank, catastrophic mental illness. Congratulations due to the actors for their dedication.
14) The Motorcycle Diaries - pretty, trite and hard to dislike. It is lovingly shot with a pair of highly engaging leads and its heart in the right place but it is nonetheless a rather hamfisted affair. One example of this is the use of non-actors, which whilst fitting is imbued with a whiff of ethical tourism in the hands of Salles. The most interesting thing about the film is the fact that gorgeous Gael García Bernal is pointedly less charismatic than Rodrigo De la Serna in what would usually be the sidekick/comic relief role. A perfect double act scuppered by the political bludgeon Salles applies.
15) Downfall - It is almost inappropriate to treat this as art so I will confine myself to saying it is a film to be seen.
16) Dogville - What to say? Long, wonderfully acted ensemble piece inspired by Thornton Wilder's Our Town. The philosophical underpining is rather slippery. Critique of Christianity? Assault on capitalism? Sticking two fingers up at the US? A bit off all three but there is no clear way of mapping this allegory directedly onto the real world. James Caan gives the best performance of his career in a climactic scene with Kidman that saves the film just when it looks like it is going to veer of in a simplistic direction. A extremely interesting film.
17) I'm So-So... - Fascinating but curiously framed documentary about Krystof Kieslowski made by some of his regular crew.
18) A Mighty Wind - Mildly humourous mockumentary with some great improvised performances.
19) Goodbye Lenin! - Well judged GDR comedy with a deadpan voice over that is probably even better if you speak German.
20) Garden State - Zack Branf deserves praise but perhaps got a little too much. This film reveals that he is a better writer than actor. Natalie Portman is excellent.
21) Paycheck - Turd.
22) Revenge Of The Sith - As predicted this was a big pile of shit. I want to break into Lucus's editing suite and smash up his big box of cheesy wipes with an axe. Preferably whilst his head is on it.
23) Dodgeball - Highly anticipated by me and repeatedly laugh out loud funny.
24) The Butterfly Effect - Dark, odd and rather good.
25) Donnie Darko - Like The Butterfly Effect but better.
26) Russian Ark - A curio and no mistake.
27) Mysterious Skin - Unremarkable slice of New Queer cinema. Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives an excellent, physical central performance. Michelle Trachtenberg is slightly rubbish but has an underwritten role and the most unwieldy lines. I remain unconvinced by Araki as a director.
28) Natural City - Korean cyberpunk love story about selfishness and redemption. One for fans of Ghost In the Shell. Slightly cheesy score.
29) Sin City - Hyperstylised hardboiled wankfest. Utterly gratuitous and slightly repulsive. Jessica Alba's breasts were sorely missing.
30) Breakfast At Tiffany's - lovely, and occasionally fierce, boy-meets-girl story. Sharp, stylish, modern. Shame about Mickey Rooney.
31) Spider - Cronenburg's latest sunk without a trace which is shame. Beautifully framed psychological study of a schizophrenic man. For added bonus points it was filmed just down the road from me in Hackney.
32) Felcia's Journey - Hillariously The Sun have place of prominence on the cover of this macarbe drama from Atom Egoyan. Bob Hoskins switches from avuncular to satanic in the wink of an eye and he carries the film. Not in the first rank of Egoyan though. Could have done without the Celts R Us warbling as well.
33) Batman Begins - Not Memento obviously but a highly entertaining resurrection of the franchise. The right blend of banter and angst and Bale makes a perfect Wayne/Batman. It is a bit wonkily paced and would have worked better as TV series (as would many films.) It is also another Hollywood film about fathers and sons with precious little in the way female characterisation.
34) Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow - I'm astonished this film was made, so blatant and unrelenting is its homage. Still it's a great deal better and more honest than those homages of George Lucas. Not to say it is a good film, the story - even taking into account the fact this is partly deliberate - is risible and I hated the lighting. Great ending though.
35) The Incredibles - Incredible! I heart Pixar beyond words.
36) Punishment Park - Timeless.
37) Chopper - Morally bankrupt but fucking funny.
38) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Great! I had severe doubts about this but it was really good, except for the songs which were bollocks. Goody two-shoes Charlie is a little annoying but its a very hard film to begrudge. Well done Burton.
39) Aurora - If Primer is the example of how to make good low budget SF then this is the antithesis. Terrible CGI wedded to a survivalist story that might just as well have been set in Antarctica, replete with stupid happy ending.
40) Dancer In The Dark - Set in a nameless period America this shares obvious similarities with Dogville but is a much less misanthropic work. Its targets for attack are familiar (consumerism, McCarthyism, the death penalty) but it is more concerned with the story than the message. Bjork is excellent in the musical sections but struggles in the acting sections, especially when she shares the screen with Deneuvre.
41) Casshern - Well, that was mental, wasn't it?
42) Pitch Black - Refreshingly cliche free, spiky characters, plausible spaceship, equal opportunities monster munching. Good stuff.
43) The Bourne Identity - susumu described this as being "what a modern James Bond film ought to be like if they cut out all the CGI gadget nonsense." I like the CGI nonsense of modern Bond but this is indeed a superior version of the spying game (with some SF lurking unexplained in the background.) The camera is sometimes a little tight but Doug Liman makes a good transition to the mainstream. Want to see Mr & Mrs Smith now.
44) Serenity - I like. A lot.
45) House Of Flying Daggers - Long, slow, silly, pretty. Oh, look it's started snowing. Er, what happened to the ending?
46) Dirty Dancing - Whatever.
47) Morvern Callar - Dreamy, almost narrativeless follow up to Ratcatcher from Lynne Ramsey. Mostly about composition of shot and attention to detail.
48) Closer - Faithful adaptation of Marber's uncomfortable play. It is the play rather than the film that is of interest but Clive Owen deserves the honours here.
49) The Matrix Revolutions - Reloaded was a bunch of decent action scenes strung together with vapid psuedo-philosophic speechifying. This is similar nonsense. Once again slightly enlivened by Lambert Wilson's accent and Monica Bellucci's cleavage.
50) Dark Water - Where was the horror exactly? It was moderately suspenseful but pretty dull. Surely the remake must be better.
51) The Brotherhood Of The Wolf - melodramatic French martial arts secret history. Unusual, colourful but not really all that good.
52) Don't Look Now - ingeniously edited film by Roeg that makes full use of its Venice location. Compelling and disquieting, if a little melodramatic towards the end. The famous sex scene is as good as its press.
53) Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire - The best yet.
54) Gattaca - Very well done, though slightly implausible, mild dystopia. Perhaps slightly over stylised but otherwise top notch, with good Nyman score. Jude Law actually turns in a decent performance.
55) The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou - More self-consciously oddball revisiting of the themes (and actors) from The Royal Tennebaums. Great Portuguese Bowie soundtrack.
56) King Kong - It's a mental idea, isn't it? A love story between a woman and a giant gorilla. It works though, despite being too long. As with LotR Jackson brings meta-narrative centre stage.
57) Mr & Mrs Smith - Enjoyable, domestically sexy chick flick/action movie hybrid. I'll be surprised if Hollywood doesn't try to exploit this "all things to all people" formula again.
58) Napoleon Dynamite - One of those small, odd pictures that comes out of nowhere. I did laugh out loud quite a few times and respect is due to Jon Heder.
59) Spy Kids - By some yardage the best thing Rodriguez has ever done. Nice performaces by the two young leads who were self-possessed without being stage schooly.
60) Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story - Not as funny as Family Guy.
61) Team America World Police - As funny as South Park
62) Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Just shit. I find it hard to believe they even had a script.
63) Signs - The usual M. Night Shyamalan story: very competent, very mechanical, fucking awful ending.
64) Tomb Raider - Kicking and shooting and padded bras and time travel. Toss.
65) Underworld - Nowhere near as bad as I'd been lead to believe. Plot stupidity abounds but a fun Blade-esque flick.
66) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Slightly rubbish acting, slightly rubbish special effects, awful soundtrack. I just found the whole story quite stupid which I guess means I have killed my childhood.

All originally posted on 52filmchallenge. Do join up if you are interested because at the moment only me and greengolux are keeping it going.

However, writing this post I realised I also saw Code 46 but it some how slipped through the net. I don't have a pithy one-liner but here is Matt Cheney's review.