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Top 20 of 2021

russman

The best films I have seen that were released in 2021 so…

  • The Worst Person in the World
  • C'mon C'mon
  • The Souvenir: Part II
  • West Side Story
  • The Green Knight
  • The Last Duel
  • President
  • Saloum
  • Licorice Pizza
  • Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  • All Light, Everywhere
  • After Yang
  • Flee
  • Judas and the Black Messiah
  • Pig
  • Encanto
  • A Tale of Love and Desire
  • Yuni
  • Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
  • Mass

Top 20 of 2020

russman

The best films I have seen that were released in 2020 so…

  • Minari
  • David Byrne's American Utopia
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Mangrove
  • Soul
  • Lovers Rock
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • The Father
  • The Killing of Two Lovers
  • Wolfwalkers
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
  • Quo vadis, Aida?
  • The History of the Seattle Mariners
  • Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
  • Emma.
  • The Night House
  • Nomadland
  • Feels Good Man
  • Undine

Top 20 of 2019

russman

The best films I have seen that were released in 2019 so…

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Parasite
  • Ad Astra
  • Knives Out
  • Invisible Life
  • Sorry We Missed You
  • The Irishman
  • Fourteen
  • Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
  • Sound of Metal
  • Midsommar
  • Booksmart
  • Bacurau
  • The Australian Dream
  • Uncut Gems
  • Ford v Ferrari
  • John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
  • Clemency
  • Luce
  • Queen of Hearts

Top 20 of 2018

russman

The best films I have seen that were released in 2018 so…

  • Burning
  • Bathtubs Over Broadway
  • Eighth Grade
  • Cold War
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Shoplifters
  • The Other Side of the Wind
  • Annihilation
  • An Elephant Sitting Still
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Birds of Passage
  • The Favourite
  • Roma
  • Hereditary
  • Free Solo
  • Dragged Across Concrete
  • Mission: Impossible - Fallout
  • Blindspotting
  • Three Identical Strangers
  • Petra

Top 20 of 2017

russman

The best films I have seen that were released in 2017 so…

  • Phantom Thread
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Coco
  • On Body and Soul
  • The Big Sick
  • One Cut of the Dead
  • Jane
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Get Out
  • mother!
  • Wind River
  • Shoah: Four Sisters
  • Brigsby Bear
  • The Rider
  • Faces Places
  • Dunkirk
  • Custody
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • Thelma
  • The Wife

Top 20 of 2016

russman

The best films I have seen that were released in 2016 so…

  • Arrival
  • Moonlight
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  • A Woman, a Part
  • Blue Jay
  • Manchester by the Sea
  • Equity
  • Toni Erdmann
  • Jackie
  • Silence
  • Always Shine
  • Tower
  • Hell or High Water
  • Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
  • Love & Friendship
  • The Edge of Seventeen
  • The Ornithologist
  • Your Name.
  • O.J.: Made in America
  • Paterson

Top 20 of 2015

russman

The best films I have seen that were released in 2015. I…

  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Spotlight
  • Embrace of the Serpent
  • In Transit
  • Carol
  • The Survivalist
  • Inside Out
  • Catch Me Daddy
  • The Big Short
  • The Invitation
  • 45 Years
  • Sicario
  • Ex Machina
  • Mustang
  • The Witch
  • Sunset Song
  • Call Me Lucky
  • The Gift
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Sherpa

Top 20 of 2014

russman

I go by years listed on Letterboxd.

  • Boyhood
  • Mommy
  • Whiplash
  • Breathe
  • Winter Sleep
  • Citizenfour
  • Nightcrawler
  • Something, Anything
  • The Look of Silence
  • The Duke of Burgundy
  • Blind
  • Force Majeure
  • Over the Garden Wall
  • Gone Girl
  • Wild Tales
  • Two Days, One Night
  • Hillsborough
  • Kajaki
  • Song of the Sea
  • Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Top 20 of 2013

russman

Still haven't seen everything, so this list will evolve over time

  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Her
  • Han Gong-ju
  • A Touch of Sin
  • Before Midnight
  • Patema Inverted
  • Gravity
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Ida
  • Side Effects
  • Enemy
  • Words and Pictures
  • For Those in Peril
  • American Hustle
  • Blue Jasmine
  • Philomena
  • The Last of the Unjust
  • All Is Lost
  • The Wind Rises
  • Camille Claudel, 1915

2012 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the remaining 4.5 star movies…

  • Amour
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Paradise: Love
  • Skyfall
  • Stories We Tell
  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • The Act of Killing
  • Arbitrage
  • Barbara
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Beyond the Hills
  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • The Dark Knight Rises
  • Ernest & Celestine
  • FDR: American Badass!
  • Frances Ha
  • Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  • The Gatekeepers
  • A Hijacking
  • The House I Live In

2011 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Hugo
  • Frozen Planet
  • Girl Walk // All Day
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene
  • Melancholia
  • A Separation
  • The Artist
  • The Color Wheel
  • Crime After Crime
  • Damsels in Distress
  • Delicacy
  • The Descendants
  • Drive
  • Earthflight
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Give Up Tomorrow
  • How to Die in Oregon
  • Human Planet
  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi
  • Killer Joe

2010 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Toy Story 3
  • 127 Hours
  • Black Swan
  • Certified Copy
  • Exit Through the Gift Shop
  • The Ghost Writer
  • In a Better World
  • Incendies
  • Inception
  • The King's Speech
  • Poetry
  • Shutter Island
  • Temple Grandin
  • Animal Kingdom
  • Blue Valentine
  • Despicable Me
  • Robot
  • The Fighter
  • Flamenco Flamenco
  • How I Ended This Summer

2009 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Black Dynamite
  • Coraline
  • The Cove
  • Last Train Home
  • Life
  • City of Life and Death
  • Crazy Heart
  • The Damned United
  • Dark and Stormy Night
  • District 9
  • An Education
  • Everyone Else
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Hachi: A Dog's Tale
  • I Killed My Mother
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • The Loved Ones
  • The Maid
  • The Messenger

2008 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 5 and 4.5 star…

  • Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
  • The Dark Knight
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • WALL·E
  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil
  • In Bruges
  • Changeling
  • The Class
  • Departures
  • Doubt
  • Felon
  • Frost/Nixon
  • The Good, The Bad, The Weird
  • Gran Torino
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  • Ip Man
  • Iron Man
  • I've Loved You So Long
  • Julia

2007 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 5 and 4.5 star…

  • Hot Fuzz
  • No Country for Old Men
  • There Will Be Blood
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • Gone Baby Gone
  • Hot Rod
  • Lars and the Real Girl
  • Ratatouille
  • The Savages
  • Shoot 'Em Up
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
  • Atonement
  • The Band's Visit
  • Bliss
  • The Bourne Ultimatum
  • Charlie Wilson's War
  • Death at a Funeral
  • Eastern Promises
  • The Edge of Heaven

2006 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 5 and 4.5 star…

  • The Prestige
  • The Departed
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • Planet Earth
  • Babel
  • Children of Men
  • The Last King of Scotland
  • V for Vendetta
  • 300
  • Away from Her
  • Black Book
  • Black Snake Moan
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  • Bug
  • Cars
  • Casino Royale
  • Clerks II
  • Click
  • Climates
  • Crank

2005 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Brick
  • Batman Begins
  • Cinderella Man
  • A History of Violence
  • Serenity
  • Sin City
  • Thank You for Smoking
  • The 40 Year Old Virgin
  • The Aura
  • The Child
  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
  • Double Down
  • Grizzly Man
  • Hard Candy
  • Life in the Undergrowth
  • Match Point
  • The Meaning of Life
  • Street Fight
  • Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
  • The Weather Man

2004 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • My Summer of Love
  • Before Sunset
  • Downfall
  • Finding Neverland
  • The Incredibles
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  • Million Dollar Baby
  • The Staircase
  • Turtles Can Fly
  • 2046
  • 3-Iron
  • The Aviator
  • Brothers
  • The Butterfly Effect
  • Clean
  • Crash
  • DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Head-On

2003 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 5 and 4.5 star…

  • Dogville
  • Oldboy
  • The Forest for the Trees
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  • Los Angeles Plays Itself
  • Memories of Murder
  • Mystic River
  • The Return
  • The Room
  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
  • Tarnation
  • X2
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Capturing the Friedmans
  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  • High Tension
  • The Last Samurai
  • Runaway Jury
  • The Rundown
  • Since Otar Left

2002 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put 4.5 star movies ahead of…

  • City of God
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • Road to Perdition
  • Roger Dodger
  • Talk to Her
  • The Twilight Samurai
  • 8 Mile
  • Adaptation.
  • Ben & Arthur
  • Bloody Sunday
  • The Bourne Identity
  • Far from Heaven
  • High Crimes
  • Insomnia
  • Oasis
  • The Pianist
  • Secretary
  • Spider-Man
  • Stevie
  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

2001 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put 4.5 star movies ahead of…

  • Spirited Away
  • Amélie
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • The Blue Planet
  • No Man's Land
  • Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.
  • Bandits
  • Band of Brothers
  • Boys Klub
  • The Devil's Backbone
  • Donnie Darko
  • The Experiment
  • The Fast and the Furious
  • Hardball
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • In the Bedroom
  • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
  • Kandahar
  • L.I.E.
  • The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

2000 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put 4.5 star movies ahead of…

  • La Commune (Paris, 1871)
  • Dancer in the Dark
  • Memento
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Almost Famous
  • American Psycho
  • Amores Perros
  • Chocolat
  • Chuck & Buck
  • In God We Trust
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  • Pitch Black
  • Remember the Titans
  • The Whole Nine Yards
  • X-Men
  • Yi Yi

1999 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put 4.5 star movies ahead of…

  • Fight Club
  • American Beauty
  • The Green Mile
  • Audition
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Boys Don't Cry
  • Galaxy Quest
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  • The Insider
  • Kikujiro
  • The Matrix
  • My Neighbors the Yamadas
  • Outer Space
  • Persian Series #2
  • Rosetta
  • A Visitor from the Living
  • The War Zone

1998 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 5 and 4.5 star…

  • The Celebration
  • Dark City
  • American History X
  • The Life of Birds
  • Run Lola Run
  • After Life
  • Blade
  • Buffalo '66
  • Croupier
  • The Decline of Western Civilization Part III
  • Happiness
  • The Last Days of Disco
  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Show Me Love

1997 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • L.A. Confidential
  • In the Company of Men
  • Life Is Beautiful
  • Open Your Eyes
  • Breakdown
  • The Castle
  • Children of Heaven
  • Comingled Containers
  • Eve's Bayou
  • The Game
  • Gattaca
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Gummo
  • Hercules
  • The Ice Storm
  • Lost Highway
  • Perfect Blue
  • Princess Mononoke

1996 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • A Moment of Innocence
  • Fargo
  • Secrets & Lies
  • Big Night
  • Breaking the Waves
  • Close-Up Long Shot
  • The English Patient
  • Freeway
  • Irma Vep
  • Jerry Maguire
  • The Promise
  • A Summer's Tale
  • The Watermelon Woman
  • When We Were Kings

1995 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Se7en
  • Before Sunrise
  • Heat
  • Braveheart
  • Casino
  • A Close Shave
  • Dead Man
  • Fallen Angels
  • La Haine
  • I Take These Truths
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • Major Payne
  • Toy Story
  • Twelve Monkeys
  • Whisper of the Heart

1994 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Pulp Fiction
  • Hoop Dreams
  • Léon: The Professional
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Three Colors: Red
  • Black Ice
  • Chungking Express
  • Clerks
  • Fist of Legend
  • The Lion King
  • Once Were Warriors
  • Queen Margot
  • Shallow Grave
  • Three Colors: White
  • To Live

1992 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Baraka
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Unforgiven
  • Untitled (For Marilyn)
  • Aladdin
  • Boulder Blues and Pearls and...
  • Brother's Keeper
  • A Few Good Men
  • A Heart in Winter
  • Lessons of Darkness
  • Rebels of the Neon God
  • Scent of a Woman
  • Sleepwalkers
  • The Story of Qiu Ju
  • White Men Can't Jump

1990 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • GoodFellas
  • Close-Up
  • Troll 2
  • Dances with Wolves
  • Frankenhooker
  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch
  • Jacob's Ladder
  • Miller's Crossing
  • Misery
  • Roller Coaster Rabbit

1989 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Santa Sangre
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • UHF
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Decalogue I
  • Decalogue III
  • Decalogue IV
  • Decalogue VI
  • Decalogue IX
  • Decalogue X
  • Field of Dreams
  • For All Mankind
  • Glory
  • Interrogation
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
  • Monsieur Hire

1988 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 5 star movies ahead…

  • Mac and Me
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Die Hard
  • A Fish Called Wanda
  • Grave of the Fireflies
  • The Land Before Time
  • Midnight Run
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
  • Rain Man
  • A Short Film About Love
  • The Thin Blue Line
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1987 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Babette's Feast
  • Boyfriends and Girlfriends
  • The Brave Little Toaster
  • Broadcast News
  • Cobra Verde
  • The Dante Quartet
  • Hard Ticket to Hawaii
  • The Hidden
  • The Last Emperor
  • Nayakan
  • The Princess Bride
  • Swimming to Cambodia
  • Where Is My Friend's House?
  • Wings of Desire
  • Yeelen

1986 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 5 and 4.5 star…

  • The Green Ray
  • Castle in the Sky
  • Aliens
  • Betty Blue
  • Down by Law
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Jean de Florette
  • Manon of the Spring
  • Platoon
  • Stand by Me
  • True Stories

1985 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Ran
  • Shoah
  • After Hours
  • Back to the Future
  • Hail Mary
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo
  • Re-Animator
  • Return to Oz
  • Witness

1984 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Once Upon a Time in America
  • Amadeus
  • Stop Making Sense
  • The Killing Fields
  • Love Streams
  • Paris, Texas
  • The Terminator

1981 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Das Boot
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Blow Out
  • The Decline of Western Civilization
  • My Dinner with Andre
  • Time Bandits

1980 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • The Shining
  • Airplane!
  • Caddyshack
  • The Elephant Man
  • The Falls
  • Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
  • Hopscotch
  • My American Uncle
  • Raging Bull

1979 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Marriage of Maria Braun
  • Being There
  • All That Jazz
  • Alien
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
  • Rock 'n' Roll High School
  • Stalker
  • Vengeance Is Mine

1978 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Autumn Sonata
  • The Deer Hunter
  • The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
  • Days of Heaven
  • Drunken Master
  • The Last Waltz

1977 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Opening Night
  • Star Wars
  • Annie Hall
  • Cross of Iron
  • Hospital
  • Sorcerer
  • The Spy Who Loved Me
  • Stroszek
  • Suspiria

1976 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • All the President's Men
  • Taxi Driver
  • Cría cuervos…
  • Insiang
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales
  • Rocky

1975 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • The Man Who Would Be King
  • Deep Red
  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  • Three Days of the Condor

1974 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Godfather: Part II
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  • Blazing Saddles
  • Chinatown
  • A Woman Under the Influence
  • Alice in the Cities
  • Animals Are Beautiful People
  • The Conversation

1973 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Scenes from a Marriage
  • Day for Night
  • Paper Moon
  • The Sting
  • Badlands
  • Charley Varrick
  • The Holy Mountain
  • The Last of Sheila
  • Robin Hood
  • Serpico
  • Spend It All
  • Touki Bouki
  • The Wicker Man

1972 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Godfather
  • Cries and Whispers
  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  • Deliverance
  • The Heartbreak Kid
  • Love in the Afternoon
  • The New Land
  • Play It Again, Sam
  • Roma

1971 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Two-Lane Blacktop
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • The French Connection
  • The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
  • The Beguiled
  • The Decameron
  • Duel
  • The Emigrants
  • The Last Picture Show
  • A New Leaf
  • Macbeth
  • Out 1
  • Two English Girls
  • Cuadecuc, Vampir
  • Wake in Fright

1970 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Patton
  • Bed and Board
  • The Butcher
  • Le Cercle Rouge
  • The Confession
  • Gimme Shelter
  • King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1969 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Z
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • The Sorrow and the Pity
  • The Big Cube
  • Funeral Parade of Roses
  • My Night at Maud's
  • The Passion of Anna
  • Salesman
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  • The Wild Bunch

1968 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • The Great Silence
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Head
  • if....
  • Mandabi
  • Rachel, Rachel
  • Shame
  • Targets

1967 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Le Samouraï
  • Belle de Jour
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • The Dirty Dozen
  • Eye Myth
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • The Jungle Book
  • The Musical Pig
  • Point Blank
  • Samurai Rebellion
  • Wait Until Dark
  • Warrendale
  • Zatoichi's Cane Sword

1966 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • 7 Women
  • The Face of Another
  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Persona
  • Seconds
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Au Hasard Balthazar
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Come Drink with Me
  • Daisies
  • Le Deuxième Souffle
  • Django
  • Masculin Féminin
  • Patriotism
  • The Round-Up
  • The Sand Pebbles

1965 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Shop on Main Street
  • For a Few Dollars More
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • Le Bonheur
  • The Cincinnati Kid
  • The Collector
  • The Hill
  • Juliet of the Spirits
  • The Loved One
  • Loves of a Blonde
  • Red Beard
  • Simon of the Desert
  • The Sons of Katie Elder
  • Tokyo Olympiad

1964 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Woman in the Dunes
  • The Americanization of Emily
  • Dog Star Man: Part IV
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Band of Outsiders
  • Charulata
  • Diary of a Chambermaid
  • Faces of November
  • Fail Safe
  • A Fistful of Dollars
  • Gertrud
  • Goldfinger
  • Kwaidan
  • The Naked Kiss
  • Red Desert
  • Seduced and Abandoned
  • A Shot in the Dark
  • The Train
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1963 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Silence
  • The Big City
  • Muriel, or the Time of Return
  • 8½
  • Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
  • Dry Summer
  • The Fiancés
  • From Russia with Love
  • The Great Escape
  • The Haunting
  • High and Low
  • The House Is Black
  • New Tale of Zatoichi
  • Winter Light

1962 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Harakiri
  • Cape Fear
  • Carnival of Souls
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • Ivan's Childhood
  • Jules and Jim
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Pitfall
  • Prelude: Dog Star Man
  • Sanjuro
  • Il Sorpasso
  • The Suitor
  • Sundays and Cybele
  • The Tale of Zatoichi
  • Vive Le Tour
  • Vivre Sa Vie
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1961 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Yojimbo
  • The Hustler
  • Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Last Year at Marienbad
  • Blast of Silence
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Chronicle of a Summer
  • The Guns of Navarone
  • Léon Morin, Priest
  • Il Posto
  • Victim
  • Viridiana
  • West Side Story

1960 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Breathless
  • The Apartment
  • The Bad Sleep Well
  • Psycho
  • Le Trou
  • The Fugitive Kind
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Kapo
  • L'Avventura
  • Peeping Tom
  • Purple Noon
  • Rocco and His Brothers
  • Le Sourire
  • Tunes of Glory
  • The Virgin Spring
  • The Warped Ones

1959 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 5 and 4.5 star…

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • North by Northwest
  • Ben-Hur
  • Window Water Baby Moving
  • Ballad of a Soldier
  • The Bridge
  • Day of the Outlaw
  • Floating Weeds
  • The World of Apu

1958 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Touch of Evil
  • Big Deal on Madonna Street
  • Free Radicals
  • The Hidden Fortress
  • The Magician
  • Man of the West
  • Murder by Contract
  • A Night to Remember
  • No Time for Sergeants
  • Vertigo

1957 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Cranes Are Flying
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Nights of Cabiria
  • Paths of Glory
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • 12 Angry Men
  • 3:10 to Yuma
  • Edge of the City
  • Letter from Siberia
  • Night of the Demon
  • Le Notti Bianche
  • N.Y., N.Y.
  • Pyaasa
  • The Seventh Seal
  • The Tall T
  • The Tarnished Angels
  • Three Little Bops
  • Throne of Blood
  • What's Opera, Doc?

1956 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Bigger Than Life
  • All the World's Memory
  • Aparajito
  • Bob le Flambeur
  • Gervaise
  • Great Day in the Morning
  • The Killing
  • The Wrong Man

1955 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Diabolique
  • The Court Jester
  • The Ladykillers
  • Night and Fog
  • Rififi
  • The Big Combo
  • East of Eden
  • The Far Country
  • House of Bamboo
  • The Man from Laramie
  • The Naked Dawn
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • One Froggy Evening
  • Ordet
  • Rebel Without a Cause
  • Smiles of a Summer Night

1954 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Seven Samurai
  • On the Waterfront
  • La Strada
  • The Caine Mutiny
  • Dial M for Murder
  • French Cancan
  • Johnny Guitar
  • Journey to Italy
  • Rear Window
  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • Sound of the Mountain

1953 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Wages of Fear
  • Pickup on South Street
  • The Big Heat
  • Duck Amuck
  • Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
  • The Moon Is Blue
  • The Naked Spur
  • Robot Monster
  • Roman Holiday
  • Thérèse Raquin
  • Welcome Mr. Marshall!

1952 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Umberto D.
  • Ikiru
  • The Bad and the Beautiful
  • Clash by Night
  • Duck and Cover
  • The Lusty Men
  • The Narrow Margin
  • Scaramouche
  • Sudden Fear

1950 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

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Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • All About Eve
  • In a Lonely Place
  • Rashomon
  • Caged
  • The Flowers of St. Francis
  • Gun Crazy
  • The Gunfighter
  • Orpheus
  • Rabbit of Seville
  • The Sound of Fury

1949 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Third Man
  • The Heiress
  • All the King's Men
  • Intruder in the Dust
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • Late Spring
  • On the Town
  • The Passionate Friends
  • The Set-Up
  • Thieves' Highway
  • White Heat

1948 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • The Red Shoes
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • The Big Clock
  • Buccaneer Bunny
  • The Fallen Idol
  • Key Largo
  • The Pirate
  • Portrait of Jennie
  • Rope

1946 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Shoeshine
  • The Big Sleep
  • Cluny Brown
  • Gilda
  • The Killers
  • Notorious
  • Racketeer Rabbit
  • Two Sisters from Boston

1939 Films I Have Given 4 or More Stars

russman

Only #1 is ranked, though I put the 4.5 star movies ahead…

  • Gone with the Wind
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Le Jour Se Lève
  • The Man in the Iron Mask
  • Only Angels Have Wings
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Wuthering Heights

By release year

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Highest rated decades

1960s
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Le Trou
The Americanization of Emily
7 Women
Muriel, or the Time of Return
Dog Star Man: Part IV
The Big City
Seconds
Last Year at Marienbad
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Shop on Main Street
The Silence
Woman in the Dunes
The Face of Another
Persona
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
For a Few Dollars More
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1950s
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Cranes Are Flying
Seven Samurai
North by Northwest
The Court Jester
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Free Radicals
Window Water Baby Moving
Ace in the Hole
Pickup on South Street
Rififi
Night and Fog
In a Lonely Place
Bigger Than Life
The Ladykillers
Ben-Hur
On the Waterfront
Rashomon
Ikiru
The Wages of Fear
2020s
The Worst Person in the World
David Byrne's American Utopia
Minari
Nope
The Black Phone
Top Gun: Maverick
Encanto
The Northman
Everything Everywhere All at Once
After Yang
X
The Batman
Robin Robin
Flee
Licorice Pizza
West Side Story
All Light, Everywhere
The Last Duel
Mass
President

Featured lists

Favorite Movie Per Director

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This list has my favorite movie per director with a minimum of…

  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • News from Home
  • Head-On
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Fantasia
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo
  • Talk to Her
  • 3 Women
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Resident Evil
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Rabbit's Moon
  • Quartet
  • L'Avventura
  • The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
  • Suspiria
  • Black Swan
  • Being There
  • Pygmalion
  • A Prophet