A selection of films I enjoyed from the year when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, Twitter was launched and Pauline Fowler shuffled off this mortal coil.
300 (Zack Snyder)
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (Jonathan Levine)
Apocalypto (Mel Gibson)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Scott Glosserman)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
Cold Prey (Roar Uthaug)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
Exiled (Johnnie To)
The Foot Fist Way (Jody Hill)
The Hills Have Eyes (Alexandre Aja)
Idiocracy (Mike Judge)
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
Silent Hill (Christophe Gans)
Them (Xavier Palud & David Moreau)
In hindsight, 2006 was a vintage year for cinema.
According to my Letterboxd, I also liked this lot: Bug (William Friedkin); Cocaine Cowboys (Billy Corben); The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky); and Jonestown; The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Stanley Nelson). I haven't revisited them in ages, though, and I have no idea if they still hold up.
Glaring blindspot - Littleman.