Empire's 50 Must See Movies of 2002

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It’s been a damn fine year for movies. Spielberg and Cruise got it together at last, Yoda made mincemeat of Count Dooku and Bond outshone a certain Mr Diesel just like we knew he would. But with such a smorgasbord of celluloid treasures laid out before you, did you rise to the cinematic challenge and bear proud witness to the vital movie events of the year? Or did you skulk in the shadows a Gollum-like husk of a creature only venturing forth for such ill-chosen turkeys as Killing Me Softly or, God forbid, Pluto Nash? Yep, steel yourselves because it’s time to test your cinema-going mettle and discover if you caught the 50 must-see movies of 2002.

  1. 1.
    24 Hour Party People
    by Michael Winterbottom

  2. 2.
    28 Days Later (Widescreen Special Edition)
    by Danny Boyle

  3. 3.
    About a Boy (Widescreen Edition)
    by Chris Weitz

  4. 4.
    Ali

  5. 5.
    Austin Powers in Goldmember
    by Jay Roach

  6. 6.
    A Beautiful Mind (2 Disc Awards Edition)
    by Ron Howard

  7. 7.
    Bend It Like Beckham (Widescreen Edition)
    by Gurinder Chadha

  8. 8.
    Black Hawk Down
    by Ridley Scott

  9. 9.
    Blade II (New Line Platinum Series)
    by Guillermo Del Toro

  10. 10.
    The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition)
    by Doug Liman

  11. 11.
    Bowling for Columbine

  12. 12.
    Die Another Day (Widescreen Special Edition)
    by Lee Tamahori

  13. 13.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Neil Marshall

  14. 14.

  15. 15.
    Donnie Darko (Widescreen Edition)
    by Richard Kelly

  16. 16.
    The Experiment (Das Experiment)
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

  17. 17.
    The Eye
    by Danny Pang

  18. 18.
    Eight Legged Freaks
    by Ellory Elkayem

  19. 19.
    From Hell (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Albert Hughes

  20. 20.
    Gosford Park
    by Robert Altman

  21. 21.
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Widescreen Edition)
    by Chris Columbus

  22. 22.
    Insomnia (Widescreen Edition)
    by Christopher Nolan

  23. 23.
    In the Bedroom
    by Todd Field

  24. 24.
    Iris

  25. 25.
    Lantana
    by Ray Lawrence

  26. 27.
    Lost in La Mancha

  27. 28.
    Men in Black II (Widescreen Special Edition)
    by Barry Sonnenfeld

  28. 29.
    Minority Report
    by Steven Spielberg

  29. 30.
    Monster's Ball
    by Marc Forster

  30. 31.
    Monsters, Inc. (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Silverman

  31. 32.
    Mulholland Dr.
    by David Lynch

  32. 33.
    My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    by Joel Zwick

  33. 34.

  34. 35.
    Panic Room
    by David Fincher

  35. 36.
    Red Dragon (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Brett Ratner

  36. 37.
    Road to Perdition (Widescreen Edition)
    by Sam Mendes

  37. 38.
    The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection)
    by Wes Anderson

  38. 39.
    Signs

  39. 40.
    Spider-Man 2 (Widescreen Special Edition)
    by Sam Raimi

  40. 42.
    The Sum of All Fears (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Phil Alden Robinson

  41. 43.
    Sweet Home Alabama
    by Andy Tennant

  42. 44.
    Sweet Sixteen
    by Ken Loach

  43. 45.
    Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
    by Pedro Almodóvar

  44. 46.
    Ten
    by Abbas Kiarostami

  45. 47.
    Training Day (Snapcase Packaging)
    by Antoine Fuqua

  46. 48.
    Vanilla Sky
    by Cameron Crowe

  47. 49.
    XXX (Widescreen Special Edition)
    by Rob Cohen

  48. 50.
    Y Tu Mama Tambien
    by Alfonso Cuarón

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Created by Chris Nolan.ca on Apr 02, 2006.
 

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