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IMDB (rank followed by name, by year, by average rating, by total number of votes)
Top 25 IMDB
1 Bowling for Columbine (2002) 9.0 6503
2 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) 8.9 31936
3 Pianist, The (2002) 8.7 2059
4 Chicago (2002) 8.5 2604
5 Talk to Her (2002) (International: English title) 8.2 2765
6 About Schmidt (2002) 8.1 2204
7 Far from Heaven (2002) 8.1 1697
8 Road to Perdition (2002) 8.0 10842
9 Equilibrium (2002) 8.0 886
10 Minority Report (2002) 8.0 22381
10 Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) 8.0 4938
11 Hours, The (2002) 7.9 1046
12 Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 7.9 4009
13 Adaptation. (2002) 7.9 2614
14 Kid Stays In the Picture, The (2002) 7.8 307
15 Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) 7.8 791
16 25th Hour (2002) 7.8 845
17 Catch Me If You Can (2002) 7.8 4996
18 About a Boy (2002) 7.7 6453
19 Ararat (2002) 7.7 2118
20 Spider-Man (2002) 7.7 31207
21 Quiet American, The (2002) 7.6 324
22 Frida (2002) 7.6 1383
23 Ring, The (2002) 7.6 6457
24 My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) 7.6 8156
25 Crimen del padre Amaro, El (2002) 7.6 428
25 Lilo & Stitch (2002) 7.6 4902
Using the IMDB's top 250 formula (which weights based on total number of votes), Two Towers is #1, followed 100 places later by The Pianist, then Chicago, the Minority Report, then Road to Perdition, then Talk with Her, then Y Tu Mama Tambien, then About Schmidt. These are the only 2002 movies that made the all-time Top 250.
Critical Consensus Top 27 (rank, name/director, total points):
1 Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón) 796
2 Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes) 660
3 Talk To Her (Pedro Almodóvar) 544
4 Adaptation. (Spike Jonze) 515
5 Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) 449
6 Gangs Of New York (Martin Scorsese) 431
7 Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki) 416
8 The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) 403
9 About Schmidt (Alexander Payne) 384
10 Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore) 361
11 Chicago (Rob Marshall) 352
12 The Pianist (Roman Polanski) 322
13 The Hours (Stephen Daldry) 319
14 Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) 287
15 Road To Perdition (Sam Mendes) 275
16 About A Boy (Paul and Chris Weitz) 250
17 Time Out (Laurent Cantet) 240
18 Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) (Zacharias Kunuk) 232
19 Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce) 219
20 Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass) 215
21 Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) 213
22 The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce) 205
23 Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair) 190
24 Sunshine State (John Sayles) 186
25 Spider-Man (Sam Raimi) 165
26 The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke) 164
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan) 146
The Critical Consensus formula simply involves taking the top ten lists and assigning them points based on an inverse relationship to their ranking (that is, if a movie is ranked #1, it gets 10 points, and ranked 10, it gets 1 point).
From From Heaven was actually on far more top ten lists than Y Tu Mama Tambien, but Y Tu Mama Tambien was consistently ranked higher and so got the most posts. Adaptation was on the third most Top Ten lists, Talk to Her was fourth and About Schmidt was fifth. I don't really have time right now to calculate which movie was listed first the most times, but I think it was Y Tu Mama Tambien.
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