Best movies of 2002

Actors : Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson, Barry Pepper,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.

Actors : Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman,
Directors : George Lucas,

Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé, while Obi-Wan investigates an assassination attempt on the Senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.

Actors : Mike Myers, Beyoncé Knowles, Seth Green, Michael York,
Directors : Jay Roach,

Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the aptly named villain Goldmember - who is working with Dr. Evil.

Actors : George Clooney, Ulrich Tukur, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

Actors : Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith, Connie Nielsen, Robin Williams,
Directors : Mark Romanek,

A mentally unstable photo developer begins to attack a middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.

Actors : Keisha Castle-Hughes, Cliff Curtis, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton,
Directors : Niki Caro,

A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Actors : Samantha Morton, Djimon Hounsou, Paddy Considine, Sarah Bolger,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

Actors : Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike,
Directors : Lee Tamahori,

James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul who is funding the development of an international space weapon.

Actors : Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Naomi Watts, Brian Cox,
Directors : Gore Verbinski,

A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.

Actors : Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Brett Ratner,

A retired F.B.I. Agent with psychological gifts, is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him, is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Mel Gibson, Sam Elliott,
Directors : Randall Wallace,

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.

Actors : Anupam Kher, Keira Knightley, Parminder Nagra, Jonathan Rhys Meyers,
Directors : Gurinder Chadha,

The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism and joins a football team.

Actors : Goran Visnjic, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Denis Leary,

Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Drew Barrymore,
Directors : George Clooney,

An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.

Actors : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Sergi López,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life.

Actors : Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff,
Directors : Peter Mullan,

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

Actors : Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Radha Mitchell, Forest Whitaker,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle.

Actors : Deborah Rush, Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mike White,
Directors : Miguel Arteta,

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Kim Staunton, Ben Affleck,
Directors : Roger Michell,

The story of what happens one day in New York City, when a young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident on F.D.R. Drive, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.

Actors : Nicholas Farrell, Tim Pigott-Smith, Allan Gildea, James Nesbitt,
Directors : Paul Greengrass,

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.