Movies (Corliss)
Movies (Schickel)
- Mystic River
- American Splendor
- Finding Nemo
- The Human Stain
- Gloomy Sunday
- Man on the Train
- Seabiscuit
- Veronica Guerin
- House of Sand and Fog
- The Barbarian Invasions
- (Worst) Cold Mountain
- Talk to Her, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
- Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese, U.S.
- Russian Ark, Alexander Sokurov, Russia
- Devdas, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, India
- Minority Report, Steven Spielberg, U.S.
- Time Out, Laurent Cantet, France
- Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, U.S.
- Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, Japan
- The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson, New Zealand
- The Quiet American, Phillip Noyce, Australia-Vietnam
Television
Fiction Books
Non-Fiction Books
Music
- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by Outkast
- Elephant by The White Stripes
- Thickfreakness by The Black Keys
- Get Rich or Die Tryin' by 50 Cent
- Hail to the Thief by Radiohead
- Rounds by Four Tet
- Room on Fire by The Strokes
- Chain Gang of Love by The Raveonettes
- World Without Tears by Lucinda Williams
- Fever to Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Theater
Sports
Comics
- Blankets by Craig Thompson
- The Fixer by Joe Sacco
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Buddha Vols. 1 and 2 by Osamu Tezuka
- Nightmare Alley Adapted by Spain
- Louis Riel by Chester Brown
- Paul Has a Summer Job by Michael Rabagliati
- Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez
- League of Extraordinary Gentleman Vol.2 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
- The Yellow Jar by Patrick Atagnan
- (Worst) 1602 by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert
Fashion
- Louis Vuitton's Murakami Bag
- Isaac Mizrahi's Striped Shirts for Target
- Juicy Couture's $50 Million Sale to Liz Claiborne
- Ann Roth's Costumes for Cold Mountain
- Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
- Monograms
- Missy and Madonna's Gap Rap
- Alexander McQueen's Spring 2004 Runway Show
- Chandelier Earrings
- Renee Zellweger at Oscars 2003
- (Worst) UGG Boots
Epic times call for epic art, and nothing moved us more than The Return of the King. Other things we loved: Louis Vuitton, William Boyd and BBC's The Office And to the Atlanta group OutKast, we say "Stank you very much!"