There's still plenty of movies to watch before 2006 is wrapped up but here is the annual summary for the movies I've seen so far. The count is currently 35. Movies I hope to see follow.

4 stars
The Departed
Children of Men

3.5 stars
V for Vendetta
Stranger than Fiction
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Children
United 93
Letters from Iwo Jima

3 stars
Casino Royale
The Devil Wears Prada
The Da Vinci Code
Jet Li's Fearless
Lucky Number Slevin
Snakes on a Plane
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

2.5 stars
The Break-Up
Fast Food Nation
Friends with Money
The Guardian
Inside Man
School for Scoundrels
Scoop
The Sentinel

2 stars
Clerks 2
Deja Vu
The Last Kiss
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Superman Returns

1.5 stars
The Good Shepherd
Miami Vice
Mission Impossible III
X-Men 3

1 star
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Poseidon
Scary Movie 4

0.5 star
Firewall

0 stars
Date Movie

A partial list of what's left to see from 2006:

The Queen
Letters from Iwo Jima
Babel
Little Children
Volver
Blood Diamond
Curse of the Golden Flower
Rocky Balboa

The Illusionist
This Film is Not Yet Rated
World Trade Center
The Black Dahlia
Thank You For Smoking
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Sherrybaby
Trust the Man