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. The Help
2. Moneyball
3. The Descendants
4. Midnight in Paris
5. The Artist
6. Hugo
7. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
8. War Horse
9. The Tree of Life

X-Men

While we're on a superhero kick, let's rank the X-Men films. One of the greatest series ever made. Very few missteps here. Really, you could randomly list the first four movies in any order and I wouldn't be upset. X-Men: The Last Stand is the only terrible movie here.

1. X-Men: First Class (2011)
2. X2 (2003)
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
4. Logan (2017)
5. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
6. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
7. X-Men (2000)
8. Deadpool (2016)
9. The Wolverine (2013)
10. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

Spider-Man

Since that pesky web-slinger doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon, I thought it'd be fun to start ranking his feature film outings.

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
2. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
3. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
4. Spider-Man (2002)
5. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
6. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
7. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
8. Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Marvel Movies

Well, it's been long enough. I figure it's time to rank the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). I do not tend to agree with popular opinion, so I expect this will be quite controversial.

1. Iron Man 3 (2013)
2. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
3. Iron Man (2008)
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
5. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
6. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
7. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
8. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
9. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
10. Black Panther (2018)
11. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
12. Doctor Strange (2016)
13. Captain Marvel (2019)
14. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
15. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
16. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
17. Ant-Man (2015)
18. Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
19. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
20. Iron Man 2 (2010)
21. Thor: The Dark World (2013)
22. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
23. Thor (2011)

Best Courtroom Movies

Nothings better than a good courtroom movie, so I don't know why it took me so long to make this list. These are movies where the main plot and majority of the action are all predicated on the trial in question.

1. My Cousin Vinny (1992)
2. Paradise Lost: The Childhood Murders at Hollywood Hills (1996)
3. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
4. 12 Angry Men (1957)
5. A Time to Kill (1996)
6. Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)
7. Adam's Rib (1949)
8. Absence of Malice (1981)
9. The Reader (2008)
10. The Verdict (1982)

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.  Inception (tie)
2. True Grit (tie)
3. Black Swan
4. The King's Speech
5. The Fighter
6. The Social Network
7. 127 Hours
8. The Kids Are All Right
9. Winter's Bone
10. Toy Story 3

Best Movies of 2011

1. Warrior
2. Take Shelter
3. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
4. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
5. TrollHunter
6. X-Men: First Class
7. Martha Marcy May Marlene
8. Attack the Block
9. Bridesmaids
10. Hanna