These are top ten lists I made for favorite films every year back to 1990

 

2012

 

1. Moonrise Kingdom

2. The Kid With a Bike

3. Coriolanus

4. The Avengers

5. Haywire

6. Margaret

7. Jeff, Who Lives at Home

8. Damsels in Distress

9. Blue Like Jazz

10. Hemingway and Gellhorn

 

 

2011

 

1. The Tree of Life

2. Certified Copy

3. Of Gods and Men

4. Cave of Forgotten Dreams

5. Moneyball

6. The Mill and the Cross

7. Summer Wars

8. Rango

9. Hugo

10. The Muppets

 

 

2010

 

1. The KingÕs Speech

2. WinterÕs Bone

3. The Social Network

4. Inception

5. True Grit

6. Toy Story 3

7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

8. 127 Hours

9. The Secret of Kells

10. Exit Though the Gift Shop

 

 

2009

 

1. Up

2. Sugar

3. District 9

4. The Fantastic Mr. Fox

5. The Brothers Bloom

6. Summer Hours

7. The Class

8. A Serious Man

9. In the Loop

10. (500) Days of Summer

 

 

2008

 

1. Wall-E

2. The Wrestler

3 . Man on Wire

4. Slumdog Millionaire

5. The Dark Knight

6. Rachel Getting Married

7. In Bruges

8. My Winnipeg

9. Speed Racer

10. The Visitor

 

 

 

2007

 

1. Once

2. Paprika

3. Ratatouille

4. Into the Wild

5. Michael Clayton

6. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

7. Lars and the Real Girl

8. Juno

9. The Edge of Heaven

10. Gone Baby Gone

 

 

 

2006

 

 

1. United 93

2. Sophie Scholl

3 . LÕ Enfant

4. The Fountain

5. The Three Burials of Melquiedes Estrada

6. The Science of Sleep

7. Brick

8. Cars

9. The Prestige

10. Inside Man

 

 

 

2005

 

1. Mirrormask

2. Millions

3. Good Night and Good Luck

4. Batman Begins

5. Born into Brothels

6. Serenity

7. Munich

8. Tony Takitani

9. Grizzly Man

10. A History of Violence

 

 

 

2004

 

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. The Incredibles

3 . Hero

4. House of Flying Daggers

5. The Passion of the Christ

6. Million Dollar Baby

7. Hotel Rwanda

8. Before Sunset

9. The Saddest Music in the World

10. Moolaade

 

 

2003

 

1. The Son

2. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King:

3. Lost in Translation

4. The Station Agent

5. In America

6. A Mighty Wind

7. Bubba Ho-Tep

8. Master and Commander

9. School of Rock

10. Dirty Pretty Things

 

 

2002

 

1. Spirited Away

2. Spiderman

3. Adaptation

4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

5. X-Men 2

6. The Bourne Identity

7. Minority Report

8. Signs

9. Bloody Sunday

10. Roger Dodger

 

 

2001

 

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2. Memento

3. Code Unknown

4. Moulin Rouge

5 . Gosford Park

6. Chaos

7. Ghost World

8. No ManÕs Land

9. Startup, Inc

10. Amelie

 

 

2000

 

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2. Almost Famous

3. High Fidelity

4. Traffic

5. Wonder Boys

6. Best in Show

7. O Brother Where Art Thou

8. X-Men

9. The Princess and the Warrior

10. Dancer in the Dark

 

 

1999 ( An unusually good year)

 

1.  Run Lola Run

2 . Princess Mononoke

3 .  Magnolia

4.  Being John Malkovich

5 . The Iron Giant

6 . Rosetta

7.  The Straight Story

8.  The Matrix

9 . The Limey

10. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

11. Toy Story 2

12. The Sixth Sense

13. Galaxy Quest

14 . Office Space

15.  Fight Club

16.  EXistenZ

17.  Three Kings

18.  Go

19.  Bowfinger

20. Election

 

 

1998

 

1.  Ronin

2.  Rushmore

3.  Bulworth

4.  The Truman Show

5.  Henry Fool

6.  Saving Private Ryan

7  Out of Sight

8.  The Big Lebowski

9.  The Last Days of Disco

10. The Wedding Singer

 

 

1997

 

1.  Grosse Pointe Blank

2.  Good Will Hunting

3.  The Apostle

4.  Jackie Brown

5.  LA Confidential

6.  The Full Monty

7.  Wag the Dog

8.  The Truman Show

9.  Brassed Off

10.  The End of Violence

 

 

1996

 

1.  Waiting for Guffman

2.  Jerry Maguire

3.  Romeo + Juliet

4.  Fargo

5.  La Promesse

6.  Pi

7.  Lone Star

8.  Citizen Ruth    

9.  Breaking the Waves

10.  Kingpin

 

 

1995

 

1. The Usual Suspects

2.  Underground

3.  Heat

4.  Braveheart

5.  Crimson Tide

6.  While You Were Sleeping

7.  Toy Story

8.  Mr. HollandÕs Opus

9.  Seven

10.  Apollo 13

 

 

1994

 

1. The Shawshank Reception

2.  Three Colors: Blue

3.  Barcelona

4.  Pulp Fiction

5.  Ed Wood

6.  Three Colors: Red

7.  Forest Gump

8.  Speed

9.  Three Colors: White

10. Lamerica  

 

 

1993

 

1. SchindlerÕs List

2. The Fugitive

3. The Nightmare Before Christmas

4. Iron Monkey

5. Fearless

6. Short Cuts

7. Jurassic Park

8. Dave

9. Grumpy Old Men

10. Philadelphia

 

 

1992

 

1. A Few Good Men

2. My Cousin Vinny

3. Strictly Ballroom

4. Singles

5. Guelwaar

6. The Player

7. The Last of the Mohicans

8. Glengarry Glen Ross

9. Unforgiven

10. Honeymoon in Vegas

 

 

1991

 

1. The Fisher King

2. The Silence of the Lambs

3. Only Yesterday

4. Terminator 2

5. Point Break

6. What About Bob

7. The Double Life of Veronique

8. City Slickers

9. LA Story

10. Barton Fink

 

 

1990

 

1. Goodfellas

2. The Hunt for Red October

3. Metropolitan

4. Gremlins 2

5 . Misery

6. JacobÕs Ladder

7. Edward Scissorhands

8. Dances With Wolves

9. Die Hard 2

10. Rocky V