Here are Cinephile Corner’s picks for the 10 best movies of 2006, ranked:
10. Children of Men
9. Inland Empire
Inland Empire is not nearly the best David Lynch movie, but it sure is the strangest. It bounces from loosely connected vignettes at a moments notice. Lynch finds a groove with help from a trio of solid performances, headlined by Laura Dern as the main character capable of morphing when required.
Read our review of Inland Empire
8. Casino Royale
7. Mission: Impossible III
6. Jackass Number Two
5. The Host
Bong Joon-ho’s The Host is a genre-bending monster movie that blends sci-fi horror, political satire, and family drama into one of the most distinctive creature features of the 21st century. Deeply influenced by the Godzilla franchise, Bong crafts a cautionary tale about environmental recklessness and government incompetence, opening with an American scientist dumping bottles of formaldehyde into Seoul’s Han River. Years later, this reckless act results in the emergence of a massive, mutated amphibian that terrorizes the city.
4. Marie Antoinette
3. The Departed
2. A Scanner Darkly
1. The Prestige
