Best Movies of the Half-Year: “Sin City”; “Fever Pitch"; “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,”; “Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,”; “Batman Begins.”
Best Albums of the Half-Year: Coldplay- “X&Y”; Weezer- “Make Believe; The Hold Steady- “Separation Sunday”; Bruce Springsteen- "Devils & Dust"; Beck- “Guero."