The Best Movies of 2004
| BEST PICTURE | |
| Sideways | A+ |
| Garden State | A |
| Closer | A |
| Collateral | A |
| Napoleon Dynamite | A- |
| Before Sunset | A- |
| Million Dollar Baby | A- |
| Butterfly Effect, The | A- |
| I Heart Huckabees | B+ |
| Motorcycle Diaries, The | B+ |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | B+ |
| Ray | B+ |
| In Good Company | B |
| The Aviator | B |
| Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The | B |
| Girl Next Door, The | B |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | B |
| Shrek 2 | B |
| Hotel Rwanda | B |
| Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | B |
| Troy | B |
| What the #$*! Do We Know!? | B- |
| Bourne Supremacy, The | B- |
| I, Robot | B- |
| Kinsey | B- |
| Saved! | C+ |
| Mean Creek | C+ |
| Passion of the Christ, The | C+ |
| Saw | C+ |
| Terminal, The | C+ |
| Mean Girls | C+ |
| Man on Fire | C |
| Day After Tomorrow, The | C |
| 50 First Dates | C |
| Spider-Man 2 | C |
| Club Dread | C |
| Door in the Floor, The | C |
| Hellboy | C |
| Manchurian Candidate, The | C |
| Clearing, The | C- |
| Van Helsing | C- |
| Along Came Polly | C- |
| Fahrenheit 9/11 | N/A |
| Grudge, The | D |
| Chronicles of Riddick, The | D |
| Village, The | D |
| Dirty Shame, A | D- |
| Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | D- |
| Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | D- |
| Secret Window | D- |
| Resident Evil: Apocalypse | F |