There are still a handful of year-end films that will be considered upon viewing, but for now, here's my list:

1. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
2. Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
3. The Mudge Boy (Michael Burke)
4. Last Life of the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
5. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
6. Coffee & Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
7. Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
8. The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
9. A Home at the End of the World (Michael Mayer)
10. Springtime in a Small Town (Zhuangzhuang Tian)

Honorable mentions (in no particular order): Closer (Mike Nichols), Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston), Baadasssss! (Mario Van Pebbles), Vera Drake (Mike Leigh), Hero (Yimou Zhang), Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette), The Mother (Roger Michell), Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino), Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo), Birth (Jonathan Glazer), Young Adam (David Mackenzie), I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell), Undertow (David Gordon Green), Primer  (Shane Carruth), Hotel Rwanda (Terry George), The Incredibles (Brad Bird), The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci), Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore).