Newsweek's Best & Worst of the Year

From David Ansen of Newsweek:

Top 10 2004:
1. Sideways
2. Before Sunset
3. Osama
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. Bad Education
6. The Aviator
7. Friday Night Lights (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
8. The Manchurian Candidate
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
10. Kinsey

Best Performances - Male:
Jeff Bridges - The Door In the Floor
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
Jamie Foxx - Ray
Paul Giamatti - Sideways

Best Performances - Female
Annette Being - Being Julia
Julie Delpy - Before Sunset
Nicole Kidman - Birth (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake

Worst Movies of 2004:
1. The Village
2. Van Helsing
3. Alexander
4. The Alamo
5. Dogville
6. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
7. Silver City
8. A Very Long Engagement
9. The Terminal
10. De-Lovely

(SIDENOTE: Most publications like to make "controversial" top 10 worst lists. They like to put things on that aren't necessarily bad, but rather failures. If you read why they put the films on the list, they never say the film is bad, in fact it just sounds like a slight negative review. Hence why you won't see Catwoman, White Chicks, Garfield, Surviving Christmas or Christmas With the Kranks on many worst lists.)

SIDENOTE #2: What the FUCK happened to the Eternal Sunshine love?