Best/Favorite Films of the 2000s

1. House of Sand and Fog (2003)

2. The New World (2005)

3. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

4. Atonement (2007)

5. Almost Famous (2000)

6. No Country For Old Men (2007)

6. There Will Be Blood (2007)

8. A.I. (2001)

8. Mulholland Dr. (2001)

10. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

10. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

12. Across the Universe (2007)

13. A Serious Man (2009)

14. Russian Ark (2002)

15. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

15. Hipsters (2008)

17. The Passion of the Christ (2004)

18. Elizabethtown (2005)

19. I Served the King of England (2006)

20. Shattered Glass (2003)

21. Dan in Real Life (2007)

22. The Pianist (2002)

23. The Lives of Others (2006)

24. Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

25. Munich (2005)

26. The Return (2003)

27. Moonlight Mile (2002)

28. Zodiac (2007)

29. O Brother Where Art Thou (2000)

30. Casino Royale (2006)

also good: Inland Empire, Inglourious Basterds, Punch-Drunk Love, Sideways, The Station Agent, Syndromes and a Century, Uzak (Distant), The Village, About Schmidt, A Beautiful Mind, Big Fish, Bright Star, Bright Young Things, Burn After Reading, Cast Away, A Christmas Tale, Cold Souls, The Departed, Everything is Illuminated, Fantastic Mr. Fox, 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, In the Mood for Love, Intolerable Cruelty, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lust/Caution, The Machinist, Margot at the Wedding, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, Nine, Panic Room, Road to Perdition, Small Crime, Spider-man 2, Still Walking, Thank You for Smoking, Up in the Air, The White Ribbon, The World, Yi Yi

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Best/Favorite Films of the 1990s

1. Three Colors (trilogy) (1993-94)

2. Goodfellas (1990)

3. Breaking the Waves (1996)

4. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

5. Schindler’s List (1993)

6. The Red Violin (1998)

7. Magnolia (1999)

8. Barcelona (1994)

9. The Ice Storm (1997)

10. Barton Fink (1991)

10. Miller’s Crossing (1990)

12. The Stolen Children (1992)

13. Braveheart (1995)

14. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990)

15. The Double Life of Veronique (1991)

16. Rushmore (1998)

17. The Game (1997)

18. Jerry Maguire (1996)

19. The Fisher King (1991)

19. Twelve Monkeys (1995)

21. Metropolitan (1990)

22. The Joy Luck Club (1993)

23. Life is Beautiful (1997)

24. Fargo (1996)

25. Avalon (1990)

26. Autumn Tale (1998)

27. Lamerica (1994)

28. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

29. Damage (1992)

30. Where the Heart Is (1990)

also good: After Life, Beyond Rangoon, The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, Bottle Rocket, A Bronx Tale, Burnt By the Sun, Chaplin, The Comfort of Strangers, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Ed Wood, The Exorcist III (Legion), Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club, The Godfather Part III, Hamlet, Jackie Brown, Jungle Fever, Kicking and Screaming, King of the Hill, L.A. Confidential, Little Buddha, A Little Princess, Lone Star, Much Ado About Nothing, Nelly et M. Arnaud, Night on Earth, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, Raise the Red Lantern, Rendezvous in Paris, Ride with the Devil, The Rocketeer, Sense and Sensibility, Smoke, A Summer’s Tale, Texasville, The Thin Red Line, The Truman Show, Wind

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Best/Favorite Films of 2017

1. Phantom Thread

(special mention: Twin Peaks [The Return] 18-hour television film/miniseries)

2. The Meyerowitz Stories

3. Song to Song

4. Baby Driver

5. The Square

6. Blade Runner 2049

7. Wonderstruck

8. Last Flag Flying

9. Dunkirk

10. Maria by Callas

11. The Third Murder

American Assassin

Brad’s Status

Darkest Hour

The Disaster Artist

Downsizing

First Reformed

A Ghost Story

Goodbye Christopher Robin

Lady Bird

The Last Jedi

Murder on the Orient Express

The Only Living Boy in New York

The Sense of an Ending

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Wonder Wheel

The Zookeeper’s Wife

———–still need to see:

The Circle

The Current War

Euphoria

Ex Libris

First They Killed My Father

Golden Exits

Granite Mountain

Happy End

Mudbound

On Chesil Beach

Our Souls at Night

The Private Life of a Modern Woman

Redoubtable

The Rider

Stronger

Submergence

Suburbicon

Super Dark Times

Tulip Fever

Wind River

You Were Never Really Here

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Best/Favorite Films of 2016

1. La La Land

2. Paterson

3. Silence

4. Hail, Caesar!

5. Patriots Day

6. The Light Between Oceans

6. Lion

8. The Salesman

9. Certain Women

10. Love & Friendship

11. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

12. Cafe Society

13. Frank & Lola

14. Hidden Figures

15. Pete’s Dragon

16. Fences

16. Hacksaw Ridge

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

The BFG

Beyond the Gates

Christine

Everybody Wants Some!!!

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

The Founder

Genius

Hell or High Water

A Hologram for the King

Kedi

Manchester By the Sea

Moonlight

The Neon Demon

The Nice Guys

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall…

Our Kind of Traitor

Personal Shopper

The Promise

Rogue One

Split

20th Century Women

Under the Shadow

Zoolander 2

——————still need to see:

After the Storm

Afterimage

Alone in Berlin

Aquarius

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

Collateral Beauty

The Correspondence

The Night Stalker

The Odyssey

On the Milky Road

Paradise

Snowden

The Son of Joseph

Swiss Army Man

The Unknown Girl

Voyage of Time

The Weekend Sailor

While the Women Are Sleeping

The VVitch

Yourself and Yours

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Best Films of the 2010s so far

1. The Tree of Life (Malick 2011)

2. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson 2012)

3. Inside Llewyn Davis (the Coens 2013)

4. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson 2012)

5. The Great Beauty (Sorrentino 2013)

6. Inception (Nolan 2010)

7. La La Land (Chazelle 2016)

8. Winter Sleep (Ceylan 2014)

9. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson 2017)

10. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Tarantino 2019)

11. The Irishman (Scorsese 2019)

11. Roma (Cuaron 2018)

13. Frances Ha (Baumbach 2012)

14. The Descendants (Payne 2011)

15. Joy (David O. Russell 2015)

16. Paterson (Jarmusch 2016)

17. Damsels in Distress (Stillman 2011)

18. Shutter Island (Scorsese 2010)

19. The Past (Farhadi 2013)

20. Mood Indigo (Gondry 2013)

21. Low Down (Preiss 2014)

22. The Artist (Hazanavicius 2011)

23. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Ceylan 2011)

24. Silence (Scorsese 2016)

25. The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann 2013)

26. Song to Song (Malick 2017)

27. Whiplash (Chazelle 2014)

also: Aloha, ArgoBaby Driver, Bad Times at the El Royale, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Best Offer, The Better Angels, The Big Year, Birdman, Biutiful, Blade Runner 2049, Blue Valentine, Brooklyn, Burning, Cemetery of Splendor, Certain Women, Chasing Mavericks, Cold War, Date Night, Devil, Dunkirk, Every Thing Will Be Fine, Everybody Knows, Everything Must Go, Ex Machina, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Footnote, Foxcatcher, The Gambler, The Ghost Writer, Glass, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Greenberg, Hail, Caesar!, A Hidden Life, Hugo, The Hunt (2012), Inherent Vice, Into the Woods, Isle of Dogs, Knight of Cups, Les Miserables, The Light Between Oceans, Lion, Love & Friendship, Lucky Them, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Marriage Story, Microbe et Gasolin, Midsommar, Mississippi Grind, Moneyball, Mountains May Depart, Nebraska, Neighboring SoundsNever Let Me GoPatriots Day, Phoenix, The Place Beyond the Pines, Queen and Country, Right Now Wrong Then, The Salesman, A Separation, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, She’s Funny That Way, Silver Linings Playbook, The Social Network, Somewhere, Split, The Square, Take This Waltz, Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyTo the Wonder, Trollhunter, True Grit, Umimachi Diary, Under the Silver Lake, The Walk, War Horse, The Way Back, The Way Way Back, We Bought a Zoo, The Wild Pear Tree, Wild Tales, The Woman in the Fifth, Wonderstruck, Work Without Author

 

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Best/Favorite Films of 2015

1. Joy

2. Knight of Cups

3. Microbe et Gasoil

4. Brooklyn

5. The Walk

6. Cemetery of Splendor

7. Aloha

8. Umimachi Diary

9. Mississippi Grind

10. Every Thing Will Be Fine

11. Ex Machina

12. Mountains May Depart

13. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

14. Bone Tomahawk

15. Right Now, Wrong Then

16. Wild City

The Age of Adaline

By the Sea

Dheepan

The Hateful Eight

Irrational Man

Mia Madre

The Revenant

7 Chinese Brothers

Mistress America

Cinderella

City of Gold

Danny Collins

Everest

Experimenter

Hitchcock/Truffaut

The Intern

Jurassic World

The Lobster

Love & Mercy

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

The Sea of Trees

Sicario

Spectre

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Wolf Totem

———-still need to see:

Alone

Black Mass

The Complexity of Happiness

Crimson Peak

Dark Places

Demolition

Don Verdean

Free in Deed

La Giovinezza

God Willing (Se Diovuole)

I Saw the Light

The Island Funeral

It’s Always Tomorrow in Hong Kong

Life

Maggie’s Plan

The Measure of a Man

Mr. Holmes

Mojave

Mon roi

99 Homes

Queen of Earth

Queen of the Desert

Son of Saul

Spy Time

Thithi

Truman

Warehoused

Wondrous Boccaccio

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Best/Favorite Films of 2014

1. Winter Sleep

2. Phoenix

3. The Better Angels

4. The Grand Budapest Hotel

5. Inherent Vice

6. Low Down

7. Whiplash

8. Gone Girl

9. Foxcatcher

10. Mr. Turner

11. Into the Woods

12. Queen and Country

13. Wild Tales

14. A Most Violent Year

15. Interstellar

16. The Gambler

17. Nightcrawler

17. While We’re Young

Arrete ou je continue

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

She’s Funny That Way

Black Coal, Thin Ice

Boyhood

Chef

The Cobbler

Cold in July

Force Majeure

La French [The Connection]

God’s Pocket

Kumiko the Treasure Hunter

The Last Five Years

Life of Riley

Listen Up Philip

Magic in the Moonlight

Maps to the Stars

The Maze Runner

The Monuments Men

Stonehearst Asylum

Two Days, One Night

The Two Faces of January

Unbroken

Winter’s Tale

Yves Saint Laurent

————–  still need to see:

American Heist

American Sniper

Calvary

Clouds of Sils Maria

Cut Bank

The Drop

The Homesman

Jauja

The Judge

Latin Lover

National Gallery

The Search

Selma

Stratos

3 Hearts

Timbuktu

When the Game Stands Tall

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Best/Favorite Films of 2013

1. Inside Llewyn Davis

2. The Great Beauty

3. The Past

4. Mood Indigo

5. The Great Gatsby

6. The Way Way Back

7. The Best Offer

8. Lucky Them

9. Blue Jasmine

10. Only Lovers Left Alive

11. Like Father, Like Son

12. Nebraska

13. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

14. Viva la liberta

15. Saving Mr. Banks

16. American Hustle

17. The Zero Theorem

18. A Field in England

Before Midnight

Clear History

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

The Double

The French Minister

Grand Piano

Gravity

Her

Ida

Ilo Ilo

The Immigrant

Jellyfish Eyes

Only God Forgives

Prince Avalanche

The Rocket

The Strange Little Cat

Upstream Color

The World’s End

———————still need to see:

After Earth

All Is Lost

Big Sur

The Call

The Canyons

Family United

Final Recipe

The Lunchbox

The Spectacular Now

This is Martin Bonner

Two Lives

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Best/Favorite Films of 1925

1. The Gold Rush

2. The Freshman

3. Phantom of the Opera

4. The Eagle

———–still need to see:

The Battleship Potemkin

Ben-Hur

The Big Parade

Braveheart

The Circle

Le fantome du Moulin-Rouge

Go West

Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

Lady Windermere’s Fan

The Merry Widow

Paris Qui Dort

The Pleasure Garden

Quo Vadis

Sally of the Sawdust

Seven Chances

Tumbleweeds

The Unholy Three

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Best/Favorite Films of 1926

1. The General

— films I haven’t yet seen, but look promising:

Battling Butler

The Black Pirate

Faust

Flesh and the Devil

The Great Gatsby

Kid Boots

Mother

Nana

Rien que les heures

The Son of the Sheik

A Woman of the Sea

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