Top 10 Lists (Movies)

This page will be a collection of all my top ten lists from 1980-present. At the bottom I list my 50 favorite films of all time.

2022

1. The Banshees of Inisherin (McDonagh)
2. The Northman (Eggers)
3. Top Gun: Maverick (Kosinski)
4. Athena (Gavras)
5. EO (Skolimowski)
6. TÁR (Field)
7. RRR (Rajamouli)
8. Decision To Leave (Park)
9. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Kwan & Scheinert)
10. Reflection (Vasyanovych)

2021

1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi)
2. Licorice Pizza (Anderson)
3. The French Dispatch (Anderson)
4. Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Greenbaum)
5. Stowaway (Penna)
6. The Rescue (Chin & Vasarhelyi)
7. The Green Knight (Lowery)
8. The Last Duel (Scott)
9. Don’t Look Up (McKay)
10. Pig (Sarnoski)

2020

1. The Devil All the Time (Campos)
2. Mangrove (McQueen)
3. Pieces of a Woman (Mondruczó)
4. Sound of Metal (Marder)
5. Lovers Rock (McQueen)
6. 7500 (Vollrath)
7. Possessor (Cronenberg)
8. Minari (Chung)
9. Soul (Docter)
10. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Kaufman)

2019

1. The Irishman (Scorsese)
2. 1917 (Mendes)
3. Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood (Tarantino)
4. Apollo 11 (Miller)
5. Leaving Neverland (Reed)
6. Parasite (Bong)
7. Uncut Gems (Safdie & Safdie)
8. Pain & Glory (Almodovar)
9. The Whistlers (Porumboiu)
10. Toy Story 4 (Cooley)

2018

1. BlacKkKlansman (Lee)
2. Arctic (Penna)
3. Her Smell (Perry)
4. Free Solo (Chin & Vasarhelyi)
5. Private Life (T. Jenkins)
6. Burning (Lee)
7. If Beale Street Could Talk (B. Jenkins)
8. Annihilation (Garland)
9. Sorry To Bother You (Riley)
10. Widows (McQueen)

2017

1. A Ghost Story (Lowery)
2. Dunkirk (Nolan)
3. Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino)
4. Lean On Pete (Haigh)
5. Okja (Bong)
6. Get Out (Peele)
7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (McDonagh)
8. Let the Corpses Tan (Cattet & Forzani)
9. You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay)
10. Phantom Thread (Anderson)

2016

1. 20th Century Women (Mills)
2. Everybody Wants Some!! (Linklater)
3. Fantastic Lies (Zenovich) & O.J.: Made In America (Edelman) [tie]
4. Allied (Zemeckis)
5. Nocturnal Animals (Ford)
6. The Handmaiden (Park)
7. Nocturama (Bonello)
8. Hell Or High Water (Mackenzie)
9. Manchester By the Sea (Lonergan)
10. Creepy (Kurosawa)

2015

1. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)
2. The Lobster (Lanthimos)
3. James White (Mond)
4. Sicario (Villeneuve)
5. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (McQuarrie)
6. The Hateful Eight (Tarantino)
7. Inside Out (Docter, Del Carmen)
8. The Big Short (McKay)
9. Victoria (Schipper)
10. Green Room (Saulnier)

2014

1. Boyhood (Linklater)
2. Love Is Strange (Sachs)
3. Two Days, One Night (Dardennes)
4. The Babadook (Kent)
5. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Lee)
6. Gone Girl (Fincher)
7. Force Majeure (Östlund)
8. The Skeleton Twins (Johnson)
9. ’71 (Demange)
10. Edge of Tomorrow (Liman)

2013

1. Under the Skin (Glazer)
2. Before Midnight (Linklater)
3. Blue is the Warmest Color (Kechiche)
4. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens)
5. The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese)
6. All Is Lost (Chandor)
7. The Grandmaster (Wong)
8. Snowpiercer (Bong)
9. Gravity (Cuaron)
10. Jodorowsky’s Dune (Pavich)

2012

1. Amour (Haneke)
2. Drug War (To)
3. Frances Ha (Baumbach)
4. Moonrise Kingdom (W. Anderson)
5. Compliance (Zobel)
6. The Imposter (Layton)
7. Killing Them Softly (Dominik)
8. Spring Breakers (Korine)
9. Django Unchained (Tarantino)
10. The Master (P.T. Anderson)

2011 

1. Shame (McQueen)
2. The Kid With a Bike (Dardennes)
3. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Ramsay)
4. Margaret (Lonergan, *DC*)
5. The Cabin in the Woods (Goddard)
6. Drive (Winding Refn)
7. Martha Marcy May Marlene (Durkin)
8. The Tree of Life (Malick)
9. Melancholia (Trier)
10. Take This Waltz (Polley)

2010

1. The Social Network (Fincher)
2. Beginners (Mills)
3. Inception (Nolan)
4. 13 Assassins (Miike)
5. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
6. Black Swan (Aronofsky)
7. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
8. Buried (Cortes)
9. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
10. The Last Exorcism (Stamm)

2009

1. Vengeance (To)
2. A Single Man (Ford)
3. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
4. Amer (Cattet & Forzani)
5. Duplicity (Gilroy)
6. Up (Docter)
7. Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
8. (500) Days of Summer (Webb)
9. Mother (Bong)
10. Away We Go (Mendes)

2008

1. Synecdoche, N.Y. (Kaufman)
2. Rachel Getting Married (Demme)
3. WALL*E (Stanton)
4. Red Cliff (Woo)
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher)
6. Felon (Waugh)
7. Iron Man (Favreau)
8. Milk (Van Sant)
9. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)
10. Julia (Zonca)

2007

1. There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
2. No Country For Old Men (Coens)
3. Grindhouse (Tarantino/Rodriguez)
4. Paranoid Park (Van Sant)
5. Charlie Wilson’s War (Nichols)
6. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
7. Hot Fuzz (Wright)
8. Joshua (Ratliff)
9. Zodiac (Fincher)
10. The Lookout (Frank)

2006

1. The Departed (Scorsese)
2. Children of Men (Cuaron)
3. Exiled (To)
4. Time (Kim)
5. Prairie Home Companion (Altman)
6. Little Children (Field)
7. 10 Items or Less (Silberling)
8. The Prestige (Nolan)
9. Inside Man (Lee)
10. Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro)

2005

1. L’Enfant (Dardennes)
2. Brokeback Mountain (Lee)
3. The New World (Malick)
4. Wolf Creek (McLean)
5. Munich (Spielberg)
6. Match Point (Allen)
7. The Baxter (Showalter)
8. Brick (Johnson)
9. The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach)
10. The Descent (Marshall)

2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
2. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang)
3. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Tarantino)
4. Birth (Glazer)
5. Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood)
6. Friday Night Lights (Berg)
7. Before Sunset (Linklater)
8. p.s. (Kidd)
9. I Heart Huckabees (Russell)
10. 3-Iron (Kim)

2003

1. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino)
2. Cold Mountain (Minghella)
3. Dogville (Trier)
4. Lost In Translation (Coppola)
5. Oldboy (Park)
6. Intolerable Cruelty (Coens)
7. Time of the Wolf (Haneke)
8. House of Sand and Fog (Perelman)
9. Love Actually (Curtis)
10. Bad Santa (Zwigoff)

2002

1. Gerry (Van Sant)
2. Femme Fatale (De Palma)
3. 25th Hour (Lee)
4. Spider-Man (Raimi)
5. Irreversible (Noe)
6. Adaptation (Jonze)
7. Far From Heaven (Haynes)
8. Bowling For Columbine (Moore)
9. 24 Hour Party People (Winterbottom)
10. Divine Intervention (Suleiman)

2001

1. Y Tu Mamá También (Cuarón)
2. Vanilla Sky (Crowe)
3. The Others (Amenabar)
4. Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann)
5. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Coens)
6. Donnie Darko (Kelly)
7. Ghost World (Zwigoff)
8. Wet Hot American Summer (Wain)
9. Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
10. Millennium Mambo (Hou)

2000

1. Requiem For a Dream (Aronofsky)
2. In the Mood For Love (Wong)
3. The Way of the Gun (McQuarrie)
4. Yi Yi (Yang)
5. Code Unknown (Haneke)
6. Cast Away (Zemeckis)
7. The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran)
8. Songs From the Second Floor (Andersson)
9. Bamboozled (Lee)
10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee)

1999

1. Fight Club (Fincher)
2. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Minghella)
3. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
4. The Limey (Soderbergh)
5. Notting Hill (Michell)
6. Magnolia (Anderson)
7. Toy Story 2 (Lasseter)
8. Ghost Dog (Jarmusch)
9. Ratcatcher (Ramsay)
10. The Road Home (Zhang)

1998

1. The Thin Red Line (Malick)
2. Happiness (Solondz)
3. Run Lola Run (Tykwer)
4. Buffalo ’66 (Gallo)
5. Dark City (Proyas)
6. Great Expectations (Cuaron)
7. Babe: Pig in the City (Miller)
8. The Emperor and the Asssassin (Chen)
9. The Dream Life of Angels (Zonca)
10. Meeting People Is Easy (Gee)

1997

1. Funny Games (Haneke)
2. Boogie Nights (Anderson)
3. Titanic (Cameron)
4. The Ice Storm (Lee)
5. Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
6. Love and Death on Long Island (Kwietniowski)
7. Deconstructing Harry (Allen)
8. Face/Off (Woo)
9. Fireworks (Kitano)
10. Live Flesh (Almodovar)

1996

1. Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann)
2. Mission: Impossible (De Palma)
3. Dead Man (Jarmusch)
4. The English Patient (Minghella)
5. Maborosi (Kore-eda)
6. Ridicule (Leconte)
7. Fargo (Coen)
8. Citizen Ruth (Payne)
9. Jerry Maguire (Crowe)
10. Trainspotting (Boyle)

1995

1. Before Sunrise (Linklater)
2. La Haine (Kassovitz)
3. Seven (Fincher)
4. Les Misérables (Lelouche)
5. Safe (Haynes)
6. A Little Princess (Cuaron)
7. Heat (Mann)
8. Peace Hotel (Wai)
9. Flirt (Hartley)
10. Shanghai Triad (Zhang)

1994

1. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson)
2. To Live (Zhang)
3. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
4. Chungking Express (Wong)
5. Ed Wood (Burton)
6. The Hudsucker Proxy (Coen)
7. Fresh (Yakin)
8. Before the Rain (Manchevski)
9. Ashes of Time (Wong)
10. Hoop Dreams (James)

1993

1. Naked (Leigh)
2. Blue (Kieslowski)
3. Short Cuts (Altman)
4. Farewell My Concubine (Chen)
5. Carlito’s Way (De Palma)
6. Sonatine (Kitano)
7. Fearless (Weir)
8. King of the Hill (Soderbergh)
9. Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh)
10. True Romance (Scott)

1992

1. Malcolm X (Lee)
2. Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley)
3. Hard Boiled (Woo)
4. The Living End (Araki)
5. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang)
6. Husbands and Wives (Allen)
7. Surviving Desire (Hartley)
8. Man Bites Dog (Belvaux/Bonzel/Poelvoorde)
9. Of Mice and Men (Sinise)
10. A Few Good Men (Reiner)

1991

1. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang)
2. Lovers on the Bridge (Carax)
3. Flirting (Duigan)
4. L.A. Story (Jackson)
5. Once a Thief (Woo)
6. Jungle Fever (Lee)
7. JFK (Stone)
8. Barton Fink (Coen)
9. Defending Your Life (Brooks)
10. Rush (Zanuck)
11. Cape Fear (Scorsese)

1990

1. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
2. Miller’s Crossing (Coen)
3. Dreams (Kurosawa)
4. Boiling Point (Kitano)
5. Ju Dou (Zhang)
6. Revenge (Scott)
7. Bullet in the Head (Woo)
8. Jacob’s Ladder (Lyne)
9. Quick Change (Murray & Franklin)
10. Trust (Hartley)

1989

1. Do the Right Thing (Lee)
2. Life Lessons (Scorsese)
3. The Killer (Woo)
4. The Abyss (Cameron)
5. Crimes & Misdemeanors (Allen)
6. Glory (Zwick)
7. Dead Poets Society (Weir)
8. Say Anything (Crowe)
9. Casualties of War (De Palma)
10. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Greenaway)

1988

1. Die Hard (McTiernan)
2. Midnight Run (Brest)
3. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton)
4. They Live (Carpenter)
5. The Boost (Becker)
6. Rain Man (Levinson)
7. Red Sorghum (Zhang)
8. Big (Marshall)
9. The Vanishing (Sluizer)
10. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)

1987

1. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
2. Angel Heart (Parker)
3. Evil Dead 2 (Raimi)
4. Broadcast News (Brooks)
5. Empire of the Sun (Spielberg)
6. Robocop (Verhoeven)
7. Raising Arizona (Coen)
8. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (Hughes)
9. The Princess Bride (Reiner)
10. The Last Emperor (Bertolucci)

1986

1. The Fly (Cronenberg)
2. Big Trouble in Little China (Carpenter)
3. Down By Law (Jarmusch)
4. Dust in the Wind (Hou)
5. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (MacNaughton)
6. The Color of Money (Scorsese)
7. Wisdom (Estevez)
8. Three Amigos! (Landis)
9. The Mosquito Coast (Weir)
10. Sid & Nancy (Cox)

1985

1. Ran (Kurosawa)
2. Lost In America (Brooks)
3. Come and See (Klimov)
4. Re-animator (Gordon)
5. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader)
6. Commando (Lester)
7. After Hours (Scorsese)
8. Back to the Future (Zemeckis)
9. The Breakfast Club (Hughes)
10. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (Burton)

1984

1. Amadeus (Forman)
2. The Times of Harvey Milk (Epstein)
3. Romancing the Stone (Zemeckis)
4. The Karate Kid (Avildsen)
5. Beverly Hills Cop (Brest)
6. Body Double (De Palma)
7. The Terminator (Cameron)
8. The Hit (Frears)
9. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
10. This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner)

1983

1. Lianna (Sayles)
2. Scarface (De Palma)
3. The 4th Man (Verhoeven)
4. Trading Places (Landis)
5. The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura)
6. Risky Business (Brickman)
7. Zelig (Allen)
8. Cujo (Teague)
9. Videodrome (Cronenberg)
10. National Lampoon’s Vacation (Ramis)

1982

1. The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
2. The World According To Garp (Hill)
3. Diner (Levinson)
4. The Verdict (Lumet)
5. 48 Hours (Hill)
6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg)
7. Poltergeist (Hooper)
8. Tootsie (Pollack)
9. The Thing (Carpenter)
10. Richard Pryor Live On the Sunset Strip (Layton)

1981

1. Gallipoli (Weir)
2. Blow Out (De Palma)
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
4. Modern Romance (Brooks)
5. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Rafelson)
6. Southern Comfort (Hill)
7. Ms. 45 (Ferrara)
8. Body Heat (Kasdan)
9. Possession (Zulawski)
10. Thief (Mann)

1980

1. The Shining (Kubrick)
2. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
3. Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
4. Melvin & Howard (Demme)
5. The Big Red One (Fuller)
6. Stardust Memories (Allen)
7. Airplane! (Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker)
8. Dressed to Kill (De Palma)
9. Superman 2 (Lester)
10. The Stunt Man (Rush)

Top 50 Films of All Time

1. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
3. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
4. The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)
5. Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
6. Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
7. I Am Cuba (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov)
8. Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
9. Requiem For a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
10. Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
11. Funny Games (1998, Michael Haneke)
12. Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater)
13. Gerry (2003, Gus Van Sant)
14. Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
15. Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang Yimou)
16. Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
17. Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
18. Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
19. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
20. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
21. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino)
22. Gallipoli (1981, Peter Weir)
23. Life Lessons (1989, Martin Scorsese)
24. Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
25. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Luis Bunuel)
26. Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks)
27. The Killer (1989, John Woo)
28. Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
29. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979, Chuck Jones)
30. Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
31. Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
32. Blue (1993, Krzysztov Kieslowski)
33. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
34. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984, Robert Epstein)
35. La Jetée (1962, Chris Marker)
36. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George Romero)
37. Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
38. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
39. A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan)
40. In the Mood For Love (2001, Wong Kar-wai)
41. Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
42. Dr. Zhivago (1965, David Lean)
43. Watermelon Man (1970, Mario Van Peebles)
44. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
45. City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)
46. Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson)
47. Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
48. Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)
49. The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)
50. Batman (1966, Leslie H. Martinson)