This is a list of the Best Movies of 2002 according to John Farr. I find his site hard to navigate, so I create summary lists like this one.
English-language movies:
28 Days Later
About Schmidt
About a Boy
Adaptation
All or Nothing
Bloody Sunday
Dirty Pretty Things
Insomnia
One Hour Photo
Path to War
Rabbit Proof Fence
Raising Victor Vargas
Road to Perdition
Skins
Sweet Sixteen
The Bourne Identity
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Gathering Storm
The Hours
The Magdalene Sisters
The Pianist
Thirteen
Foreign-language movies:
Behind the Sun (Portuguese)
Chi-hwa-seon: Painted Fire (Korean)
City of God (Portuguese)
Distant (Turkish)
Dolls (Japanese)
Good Bye Lenin! (German)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (French)
Hero (Mandarin)
Infernal Affairs (Cantonese)
L'Auberge Espagnole (French)
Oasis (Korean)
Russian Ark (Russian)
Talk To Her (Spanish)
Ten (Farsi)
The Clay Bird (Bengali)
The Cuckoo (Russian)
The Lady and the Duke (French)
The Man Without a Past (Finnish)
The Son (French)
The Twilight Samurai (Japanese)
When the Last Sword is Drawn (Japanese)
Yossi & Jagger (Hebrew)
English-language documentaries:
7 Days in September
9/11
Ansel Adams: a Documentary Film
Bowling for Columbine
Bukowski: Born into This
Decasia: The State of Decay
Dig!
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Elaine Stritch: At Liberty
Lost in La Mancha
My Flesh and Blood
Prisoner of Paradise
Smothered
Spellbound
Stevie
The Agronomist
The Last Game
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
Foreign-language documentaries:
Balseros (Spanish)
Blind Spot (German)
To Be and To Have (French)