1. Something New: This trailer had everything. It established the film with enough brevity and humor to be appealing, and enough left unsaid to make the whole movie a delicious Valentine's Day surprise. Including the intensely appealing Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker didn't hurt one damn bit either. Watch the Trailer

2. Dave Chappelle's Block Party: The year's rockingest documentary had Chappelle's dry humor and the combined musical talents of its outstanding contributors in its favor. The only thing missing was Michel Gondry's unique visual style. Watch the Trailer

3. Inside Man: Spike Lee's nearly perfect heist film had a nearly perfect trailer, stylish and minimalist. Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, and Jodie Foster are all cool, deadly, and at the top of their games. Watch the Trailer • Read the Review

4. Slither: James Gunn's criminally overlooked zombie splatterfest had an arrogantly provocative teaser and a disgustingly hilarious trailer, reflecting the movie's low budget balance of funny and revolting. And how many horror trailers did you see this year with Air's "Every Woman in the World" on the soundtrack? Watch the Trailer

5. Brick: Sexy. Gritty. Like Seven grafted onto Fast Times at Ridgemont High. One of the best movies set in a high school, ever, had one of the year's most intriguing previews. Read the Review • Watch the Trailer

6. X-Men: The Last Stand: In the face of obscenely high expectations, Brett Ratner delivered a trailer that maintained the spirit of the Bryan Singer X-Men movies (an Ian McKellen voiceover will do that) while cranking up the sexy with Dark Phoenix and handing off the series to the young mutants. Not bad for two minutes. Read the Review • Watch the Trailer

1. Firewall: A sleepwalking nightmare, featuring a bored Harrison Ford rattling off excruciating expositional dialogue. Paul Bettany does his best with great bloody mouthfuls of scenery, but the whole thing is about computer hacking and senior citizen Ford can't even look convincing doing stunts in the trailer. Gah. Read the Review • Watch the Trailer

2. Basic Instinct 2: This disastrous sequel had a trailer that could only be described as icky. Affable Brits David Thewlis and David Morrissey both look ridiculous, and Sharon Stone slinks about cartoonishly spouting pay-cable porn dialogue. The even filthier European trailers may as well have had gonorrhea dripping off the screen. Watch the Trailer

3. Mission: Impossible III: Dear Tom Cruise, Here's a hint: When your relationship with a tall, blank-eyed brunette has been scrutinized for a year-and-a-half, it's not a good idea to cast a tall, blank-eyed brunette as your love interest and drool on her in the trailer. We can see that on Access Hollywood for free. Read the Review • Watch the Trailer

4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Bloated and bombastic, just like the movie, the trailer included many of the film's best bits, which is always, always, always a crap idea. Read the Review • Watch the Trailer

5. Little Man: I didn't think it was possible to make a movie more foully crass than White Chicks. Not only was it possible, the Wayans brothers out-stupided their last attempt in less than two minutes. Read the Review • Watch the Trailer

6. Lady in the Water: The only thing more boring than M. Night Shyamalan's masturbatory fantasy trailers are the movies themselves. Wanky, dull, and all the worse for their omnipresence last June. Watch the Trailer