We've listed our top films. Now it's your turn. What are your favorite films of the year?

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Montalbano is assistant news editor.
Beloved films from years past
1970s: "Godfather II"
1980s: "The Decalogue"
1990s: "The End of Violence"
2000s: "Office Space"

Top Five of 2005
1. "The Squid and the Whale" -- The way we were. Like "The Virgin Suicides," it re-created the texture of a decade.

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Salem is business editor.
Beloved films from years past
1970s: "Harold and Maude"
1980s: "Blood Simple"
1990s: "The Player"
2000s: "City of God"

Best of 2005
1. "Junebug" -- Talented newcomer Phil Morrison gives us the messy but touching tale of a one-dimensional sophisticate who crosses paths with simple country folk who are anything but.

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Renfroe is news editor.
Beloved films from the past
1970s: "Chinatown"
1980s: "The Untouchables"
1990s: "Unforgiven"
2000s: "The Incredibles"

Top five for 2005
1. "Capote" -- Deep, grim and adult.

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Posted by Don Renfroe at 09:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Barol is La Vida editor.
Beloved films from years past
1970s: "The Way We Were
1980s: "Out of Africa"; pretty much any John Hughes film
1990s: "The English Patient"; "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
2000s: "Moulin Rouge"; "Garden State"

Top five of 2005
1. "Munich" -- With Steven Spielberg behind the lens, we're brutally reminded how the war on terror amplifies terror.
2. "March of the Penguins"
3. "Crash"

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Casaus is The Tribune's editor.
Beloved films of the past
1970s: "Patton"
1980s: "Reds" and "The Big Chill"
1990s: "Dazed and Confused"
2000s: "Friday Night Lights"

Top five of 2005
1. "Crash" -- A haunting look into our national soul.
2. "Good Night, and Good Luck" -- Another parable about our time, this one set in the black-and-white (and gray) 1950s.

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Page is a copy editor.
Beloved films from the past
1970s: "Chinatown"
1980s: "Babette's Feast"
1990s: "Braveheart"
2000s: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

Top five of 2005
1. "Capote" -- Excellent, sincere performances and a superb evocation of the early '60s.
2. "Lord of War"
3. "Grizzly Man"

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McBride is a page designer and TV critic.
Beloved films from years past
1970s: "Star Wars"
1980s: "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"
1990s: "The Cutting Edge"
2000s: "Bridget Jones's Diary"

Top five of 2005
1. "Batman Begins" -- Renewed my love for the Caped Crusader after "Batman & Robin" (1997) crushed it into teeny pieces.

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Parker is an assistant sports editor.
Beloved movies from years past
1970s: "The Godfather"
1980s: "Aliens" and "Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back"
1990s: "Pulp Fiction"
2000s: "Memento"

Bestof 2005

1. "King Kong" -- What movie theaters were made for.

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Posted by Phil Parker at 09:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Beloved films from the past
1970s: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
1980s: "Stand By Me"
1990s: "The Shawshank Redemption"
2000s: "Amelie" and "Best in Show"

Best of 2005
1. "Crash" -- Riveting and stomach-turning all at once. From start to finish, I was fascinated and challenged.

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