Best Movies of 2001

1. Moulin Rouge!
2. Memento
3. Donnie Darko
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Vanilla Sky
6. Training Day
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. Black Hawk Down
9. The Others
10. Serendipity

Best Movies with a Christmas Setting

Now this list is of movies that are great films at take place at Christmastime. Some of them are considered holiday movies and some aren't, but Christmas itself could be taken out and the film would not skip a beat.

1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
2. Die Hard (1988)
3. We're No Angels (1955)
4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
5. Love Actually (2003)
6. The Thin Man (1934)
7. Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
8. Black Christmas (1974)
9. Go (1999)
10. Trapped in Paradise (1994)

Best Christmas Movies

Okay, this holiday season, I'm going to split Christmas movies into two categories. The first is straight-up Christmas movies. These are movies in which Christmas is a major theme or intregal to the plot. There are a lot more older movies on this chart than most of my lists, but, let's get real. How often does Hollywood put out a decent holiday movie these days?

1. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
2. Scrooge (1970)
3. The Bishop's Wife (1947)
4. A Christmas Story (1983)
5. Elf (2003)
6. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
7. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1938)
8. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
9. Home Alone (1990)
10. Prancer (1989)

Best Movies of 2002

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2. Road to Perdition
3. Bowling for Columbine
4. Rabbit-Proof Fence
5. Insomnia
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Chicago
8. Adaptation.
9. Signs
10. The Rookie

Best Musicals (Music)

Here's the other musical list. This one is based on the quality of their soundtracks:

1. Rent (2005)
2. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
3. A Goofy Movie (1995)
4. Newsies (1992)
5. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
6. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
7. Mulan (1998)
8. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
9. The Little Mermaid (1989)
10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Best Musicals (Film)

Melissa insisted that I make a list of movie musicals. I think she was mostly considering the soundtracks, whereas I tend to think of the filmmaking. So I'm going to compromise and make a list of each. Here are the movie musicals with the best filmmaking:

1. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
2. Fantasia (1940)
3. Chicago (2002)
4. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
5. The Lion King (1994)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
8. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
9. Newsies (1992)
10. Aladdin (1992)
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Best Movies of 2003

1. Finding Nemo
2. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. Elf
5. Love Actually
6. Secondhand Lions
7. Big Fish
8. Whale Rider
9. The School of Rock
10. X2