- Coco
- It Comes At Night
- Okja
- Wonder Woman
- Logan
- Hidden Figures
- Baby Driver
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
Showing posts with label best of the year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label best of the year. Show all posts
3/19/18
Best Movies of 2017
Best Picture Nominees 2018
A typical mix of great movies, good movies, and not-so-good ones.
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Darkest Hour
- Get Out
- The Shape of Water
- Phantom Thread
- The Post
- Lady Bird
- Dunkirk
- Call Me by Your Name
Best Picture Nominees 2017
A decent year. A couple clunkers, a couple mediocre, but we've seen worse. A very strong top 4.
- Hell or High Water
- Hidden Figures
- Manchester by the Sea
- Arrival
- Hacksaw Ridge
- La La Land
- Fences
- Lion
- Moonlight
Best Picture Nominees 2016
Wow. Great year. Every movie nominated was great and deserving. A rarity.
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Martian
- Spotlight
- Room
- The Revenant
- The Big Short
- Brooklyn
- Bridge of Spies
Best Picture Nominees 2015
Not so terrible this year. Not a list of my favorite movies, but I only hated one.
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Imitation Game
- Boyhood
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
- Whiplash
- Selma
- American Sniper
- The Theory of Everything
Best Picture Nominees 2014
So-so year this year. I liked most of these movies but didn't love them.
- Her
- Philomena
- Gravity
- Nebraska
- Captain Phillips
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- 12 Years a Slave
- American Hustle
- Dallas Buyers Club
Best Picture Nominees 2013
Much better crop than last year, as you can probably tell from my personal best of the year list. The wrong winner, but when is that not the case?
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Les Miserables
- Lincoln
- Django Unchained
- Argo
- Life of Pi
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Amour
Best Picture Nominees 2012
Not a great year. I was not a fan of a lot of these movies. I only think the top three are deserving.
1/28/11
Best Picture Nominees 2011
A pretty good crop this year. I don't have any big complaints except for Toy Story 3D. It wasn't even the best animated movie this year.
1/17/11
1/24/10
Best Movies of 2010
1. True Grit
2. Tangled 3D
3. Inception
4. How to Train Your Dragon 3D
5. Black Swan
6. Countdown to Zero
7. Let Me In
8. The Ghost Writer
9. The King's Speech
10. The Square
2. Tangled 3D
3. Inception
4. How to Train Your Dragon 3D
5. Black Swan
6. Countdown to Zero
7. Let Me In
8. The Ghost Writer
9. The King's Speech
10. The Square
12/18/09
Best Movies of the Decade - '00s
This was a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. We have reached the end of another decade and so many magazines and shows were putting together top ten lists for the decade and I decided, why not take a whack at it? It was not even anywhere remotely near easy. When I looked down at the bloody victors at my feet after I had so ruthlessly hacked away at the thousands of films that I have seen over the past ten years and the hundreds that deserved a spot on this list, there were so measly few remaining standing, but that number was still 35. I had to still deny 25 masterpieces eternal glory to reach the arbitrary number of "top ten". It was like killing babies. So I apologize to all the movies that didn't manage to make it to the final roundup. It was nothing personal.
Now, a word about how I made the list. I hate people who make lists and then choose their spots not by which movies they liked better than another, but rather which was the best of a genre, or some other capricious rule. For example, "I need to pick a Pixar movie on my list, which was the best?". If all ten of the best films of the decade happen to be made by Pixar, that is no reason to punish Pixar by canceling itself out of contention. It is very tempting to do, but categorically unfair. I started with a list that was nothing but a list of the films I liked best and narrowing it down using a bracket-like system until I had what I deemed the best. I was as surprised as anybody possibly could be.
So without further ado:
1. Children of Men (2006)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
3. Hot Fuzz (2007)
4. There Will Be Blood (2007)
5. Finding Nemo (2003)
6. Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
7. Crash (2005)
8. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
10. Frozen River (2008)
Now, a word about how I made the list. I hate people who make lists and then choose their spots not by which movies they liked better than another, but rather which was the best of a genre, or some other capricious rule. For example, "I need to pick a Pixar movie on my list, which was the best?". If all ten of the best films of the decade happen to be made by Pixar, that is no reason to punish Pixar by canceling itself out of contention. It is very tempting to do, but categorically unfair. I started with a list that was nothing but a list of the films I liked best and narrowing it down using a bracket-like system until I had what I deemed the best. I was as surprised as anybody possibly could be.
So without further ado:
1. Children of Men (2006)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
3. Hot Fuzz (2007)
4. There Will Be Blood (2007)
5. Finding Nemo (2003)
6. Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
7. Crash (2005)
8. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
10. Frozen River (2008)
2/15/09
2/4/09
12/30/08
11/18/08
11/17/08
10/12/08
9/28/08
Best Movies of 2005
1. Crash
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. King Kong
4. Grizzly Man
5. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
6. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
7. Batman Begins
8. The Matador
9. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
10. La Marche de l'empereur (March of the Penguins)
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. King Kong
4. Grizzly Man
5. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
6. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
7. Batman Begins
8. The Matador
9. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
10. La Marche de l'empereur (March of the Penguins)
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