2006 List mania, vol. 3: Best & Worst

Best Narratives of 2006:
Marie Antoinette
the Descent
Inside Man
Bubble
Friends with Money
Sophie Scholl: the Final Days
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada/the Proposition
Ice Harvest/Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
the Departed
Lady Vengeance

Kind of a list of bummers (the funniest being Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, ouch) but still a group of films I could watch again and again.  And if you ever told me a horror movie would be on my top 10 list I would have scoffed. Let it be known 2006 was the year of surprisingly surpassed expectations.

Best Documentaries of 2006:
Our Brand is Crisis (full review here)
Deliver us From Evil
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Is it Really So Strange? (full review here)
After Innocence
American Hardcore
Power of Nightmares
Thin
the Great Pink Scare

Worst of 2006:
Derailed
Boondock Saints
Find Me Guilty
Sorry, Haters
Black Dahlia
Mini's First Time
Havoc
American Dreamz
the Illusionist
Ellie Parker
Deep Blue

Top 11 movies I didn't see:
Shut Up & Sing
Heading South
the Good German
Pan's Labyrinth
Shortbus
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Days of Glory
Letters from Iwo Jima
Why We Fight
Venus
Fast Food Nation

2006 Near Misses: (films I have some degree of affection for but inched themselves out of greatness [and in some cases even just goodness])
American Gun
Hacking Democracy
Strangers with Candy
Shadowboxer
Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
Down in the Valley
Freedomland