A list
of top ten lists I made for favorite films every year back to 1990
Top Films of the '00s
1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
2. The Son
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Spirited Away
5. Mirrormask
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Wall-E
8. Almost Famous
9. Once
10. United 93
2009:
1. Up
2. Sugar
3. District 9
4. The Brothers Bloom
5. Summer Hours
6. The Class
7. (500) Days of Summer
8. A Serious Man
9. In the Loop
10. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
2008:
1. Wall-E
2. The Wrestler
3. Man on Wire
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. In Bruges
6. The Dark Knight
7. Rachel Getting
Married
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. Juno
8. Lars and the
Real Girl
9. Gone Baby Gone
10. The Lookout & The Edge of Heaven?
2006:
1. Sophie Scholl
2. United 93
3. L' Enfant
4. The Three
Burials of Melquiedes Estrada
5. The Fountain
6. The Science of
Sleep
7. Brick
8. Cars
9. Inside Man
10. The Prestige
2005:
1. Mirrormask
2. Millions
3. Good Night and
Good Luck
4. Batman Begins
5. Born into
Brothels
6. Munich
7. Serenity
8. Tony Takitani
9. Grizzly Man
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) Lord of the
Rings: Return of the King:
2) Lost in
Translation
3) The Son
4) In America
5) A Mighty Wind
6) The Station
Agent
7) Master and
Commander
8) School of Rock
9) Dirty Pretty
Things
10) Bubba Ho-Tep
2002:
1 –
Spirited Away
2 –
Spiderman
3 –
Adaptation
4 – The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5 – The
Bourne Identity
6 – X-Men 2
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 – Moulin
Rouge
4 – Code
Unknown
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 – O
Brother Where Art Thou
7 – X-Men
8 – Dancer
in the Dark
9 – Best in
Show
10 –The
Princess and the Warrior
1999 ( An
unusually good year)
1 -
Run Lola Run (US Theatrical release in 1999)
2 -
Princess Mononoke (US Theatrical release in 1999)
3 -
Magnolia
4 -
Being John Malkovich
5 -
The Iron Giant
6 -
Rosetta
7 -
The Limey
8 -
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (US Theatrical release in 1999)
9 -
Toy Story 2
10
- The Sixth Sense
11
- Galaxy Quest
12
- Office Space
13
- EXistenZ
14
- Three Kings
15
- Fight Club
16
- The Matrix
17
- The Straight Story
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 – Toy
Story
4 – Crimson
Tide
5 –
Braveheart
6 – While
You Were Sleeping
7 – Apollo
13
8 – Mr.
HollandÕs Opus
9 – Heat
10 - Seven
1994
1 – The
Shawshank Reception
2 – Pulp
Fiction
3 –
Blue/White/Red
4 – Ed Wood
5 – Forest
Gump
6 – Speed
7 - Barcelona
8 – Clear
and Present Danger
9 - Lamerica
10 - The Road to Wellville
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 - Guelwaar
4 – The
Player
5 – The
Last of the Mohicans
6 – WayneÕs
World
7 –
Sneakers
8 –
Glengarry Glen Ross
9 – Under
Siege
10 –
Honeymoon in Vegas
1991
1 –
Terminator 2
2 – The Silence
of the Lambs
3 – Only
Yesterday
4 – Point
Break
5 – What
About Bob
6 – The
Fisher King
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 – Die
Hard 2
8 – Edward
Scissorhands
9 – Dances
With Wolves
10 – Rocky
V