Top 5 Conservative Films of 2004

Good year for conservative films: Jim Hubbard's American Film Renaissance organization, which puts on the conservative American Film Fest, collected the Top 10 lists of three dozen conservative critics. Here's their Top 5. 2004 wasn't a very good year overall for movies overall, but a respectable one for conservative-leaning films.

Best Film

1. The Passion of the Christ
2. The Incredibles
3. Team America
4. The Aviator
5. Miracle

I'd add Bright Young Things, Stephen Fry's overlooked but sprightly version of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies. And Hero was magnificent and conservative, although not my kind of conservative.

Now that I think of it, 2003 was a pretty good year for conservative films, too, with The Return of the King and Master and Commander as the standard-bearers, Open Range a strong old-fashioned cowboy movie, and with the Waugh-influenced Lost in Translation arguably making the list.

Maybe conservative films are the wave of the future? Hollywood certainly needs to do something to get out of its rut.