Top Ten Films of...

[CinemaInternational]

As promised, the 1980s retrospectively.

 

1980

1. The Last Metro

2. Ordinary People

3. The Shining

4. Melvin and Howard

5. The Blues Brothers

6. The Elephant Man

7. Hopscotch

8. Resurrection

9. Coal Miner's Daughter

10. Atlantic City

 

Of note: Raging Bull, Stardust Memories, 9 to 5, The Competition, Tell Me a Riddle, Airplane!, Hide in Plain Sight, The Mirror Crack'd, Private Benjamin, The Empire Strikes Back, Seems Like Old Times, The Watcher in the Woods, The Formula

 

1981

1. One from the Heart

2. Pennies from Heaven

3. Chariots of Fire

4. Body Heat

5. On Golden Pond

6. The French Lieutenant's Woman

7. Only When I Laugh

8. Gregory's Girl

9. Absence of Malice

10. Raiders of the Lost Ark

 

Of note: Arthur, S.O.B., Reds, The Great Muppet Caper, All Night Long, Modern Romance, Rich and Famous, First Monday in October, For Your Eyes Only, Thief, The Fox and the Hound

 

 

1982

1. E.T.

2. Tootsie

3. Gandhi

4. Victor/Victoria

5. The World According to Garp

6. Missing

7. Sophie's Choice

8. Cannery Row

9. The Verdict

10. Fanny and Alexander

 

Of note: Shoot the Moon, The Year of Living Dangerously, An Officer and a Gentleman, Blade Runner, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The King of Comedy, My Favorite Year, Five Days One Summer, Tron, Annie, Night Crossing, Evil Under the Sun

 

1983

1. Tender Mercies

2. The Big Chill

3. Silkwood

4. Yentl

5. Local Hero

6. Terms of Endearment

7. Educating Rita

8. Something Wicked This Way Comes

9. Cross Creek

10. Confidentially Yours

 

Of note: Zelig, Risky Business, To Be or Not to Be, The Dresser, Max Dugan Returns, A Christmas Story, The Pirates of Penzance, Meantime, WarGames, Octopussy

 

1984

1. Paris, Texas

2. Amadeus

3. A Passage to India

4. The Natural

5. Country

6. Places in the Heart

7. Broadway Danny Rose

8. Blood Simple

9. A Soldier's Story

10. Choose Me

 

Of note: Mrs. Soffel, All of Me, Sixteen Candles, Splash, The Bostonians, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Garbo Talks, Micki + Maude, Swing Shift, Romancing the Stone, The NeverEnding Story, Falling in Love, The Karate Kid, Beverly Hills Cop, Under the Volcano, Ghostbusters, Top Secret!

 

1985

1. The Purple Rose of Cairo

2. Back to the Future

3. The Trip to Bountiful

4. Out of Africa

5. The Color Purple

6. Ran

7. A Room with a View

8. The Black Cauldron

9. My Life as a Dog

10. Lost in America

 

Of note: Witness, Murphy's Romance, Cocoon, Prizzi's Honor, The Journey of Natty Gann, Clue, Jagged Edge, Sweet Dreams, Turtle Diary, After Hours, Ladyhawke, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Plenty, A Chorus Line, Runaway Train, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Vagabond, The Breakfast Club, Marie, Desperately Seeking Susan, Mask

 

1986

1. Blue Velvet

2. Hannah and Her Sisters

3. Children of a Lesser God

4. Hoosiers

5. Mona Lisa

6. Little Shop of Horrors

7. The Color of Money

8. Stand by Me

9. Peggy Sue Got Married

10. The Great Mouse Detective

 

Of note: Aliens, Heartburn, Crimes of the Heart, Something Wild, The Mission, Labyrinth, The Morning After, That's Life, Ruthless People, Legal Eagles, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Crocodile Dundee, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty in Pink, Castle in the Sky, An American Tail, Every Time We say Goodbye, Platoon, The Adventures of Milo and Otis

 

1987

1. The Dead

2. Pelle the Conqueror

3. Radio Days

4. 84 Charing Cross Road

5. The Last Emperor

6. Hope and Glory

7. Au Revoir Les Enfants

8. House of Games

9. Broadcast News

10. The Whales of August

 

Of note: Cry Freedom, Moonstruck, Babette's Feast, Housekeeping, Nuts, Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Living Daylights, Fatal Attraction, Raising Arizona, September, Outrageous Fortune, Shy People, Roxanne, Baby Boom, Black Widow, Wall Street, The Princess Bride, Ironweed, Some Kind of Wonderful, Suspect

 

1988 (best year of the decade)

1. Running on Empty

2. Cinema Paradiso

3. My Neighbor Totoro

4. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

5. Madame Sousatzka

6. Another Woman

7. The Accidental Tourist

8. A Cry in the Dark

9. Stand and Deliver

10. Tucker: The Man and His Drean

 

Of note: Married to the Mob, Rain Man, Die Hard, Dangerous Liaisons, Working Girl, The Naked Gun, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,Grave of the Fireflies, A Fish Called Wanda, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Big, Mystic Pizza, Gorillas in the Mist, Biloxi Blues, Coming to America, A World Apart, Beaches, Things Change, Moon Over Parador, Scrooged, Bull Durham, Oliver and Company, The Milagro Beanfield War, Crossing Delancey, Mississippi Burning

 

1989

1. Kiki's Delivery Service

2. Do the Right Thing

3. Shirley Valentine

4. My Left Foot

5. Driving Miss Daisy

6. A Dry White Season

7. Say Anything

8. Enemies: A Love Story

9. The Little Mermaid

10. Dead Poets Society

 

Of note: In Country, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Parenthood, Steel Magnolias, When Harry Met Sally, Immediate Family, The Faulous Baker Boys, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Field of Dreams, New York Stories, Cookie, Ghostbusters II

[KilgoreTrout]

I can't help but find Can't Hairdly Wait appreciation amusing now. I did a small indie Western a few years ago with Ethan Embry and any time someone told him they liked that or Empire Records, he would react with a big "Nooooo" and get really into trying to talk them out of liking it and explain why he thought they were so terrible. I disliked it before then but now his impassioned pleas to fans of his work that that work sucks is all I can associate with either movie.

 

The Best Films of 1999

 

1. Magnolia


2. Being John Malkovich


3. Three Kings


4. Rosetta


5. Fight Club


6. Ratcatcher


7. Bringing Out the Dead


8. Cabaret Balkan


9. Topsy-Turvy


10. The Talented Mr. Ripley

 

Honorable mention: Man on the Moon, Eyes Wide Shut, Boys Don't Cry, My Voyage to Italy, American Beauty, The Blair Witch Project, The Straight Story, On the Ropes, The Insider, Dogma, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, American Movie, Bowfinger, Outer Space, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Cookie's Fortune, Get Ready, Twin Falls Idaho, Sweet and Lowdown, The Winslow Boy, Office Space, The Minus Man, October Sky

 

Worst

 

1.) Big Daddy

2.) Simon Sez

3.) Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants

4.) Superstar

5.) Chill Factor

6.) Breakfast of Champions (from one of my 5 favorite books of all-time, the bastards)

7.) Body Shots

8.) Virus

9.) Jawbreaker

10.) Play It to the Bone

 

Dishonorable mention: The Bone Collector, Please Kill Mr. Kinski, Lost & Found, Wild Wild West, Instinct, Wing Commander, Deuce Bigalow, Double Jeopardy, The Boondock Saints, The General's Daughter, The Other Sister, Bats, At First Sight, Outside Providence, The Corruptor, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, Held Up

 

Best Title

 

1-10.) Attack the Gas Station!

[LawrenceA]

TOP TEN FAVORITE FILMS OF 1999

 

1)  Fight Club

2)  Magnolia

3)  The Matrix

4)  The Insider

5)  The Sixth Sense

6)  Three Kings

7)  Galaxy Quest

8)  The Limey

9)  The Green Mile

10)  American Beauty

 

Runner-ups:  Ravenous, Sweet & Lowdown, Summer of Sam, Audition, and Election.

 

 

TEN WORST FILMS OF 1999 (overall)

 

1)  Simon Sez

2)  Foolish

3)  In the Woods

4)  Granny

5)  Terror Firmer

6)  The Omega Code

7)  Witchouse

8)  Murdercycle

9)  Headcrusher

10)  The Capitol Conspiracy

 

 

TEN WORST FILMS OF 1999 (wide release)

 

1)  Simon Sez

2)  Foolish

3)  Wing Commander

4)  Dudley Do-Right

5)  Wild Wild West

6)  Inspector Gadget

7)  My Favorite Martian

8)  The Haunting

9)  End of Days

10)  Universal Soldier: The Return

 

 

TOP TEN BOX-OFFICE OF 1999

 

1)  Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

2)  The Sixth Sense

3)  Toy Story 2

4)  The Matrix

5)  Tarzan

6)  The Mummy

7)  Notting Hill

8)  The World Is Not Enough

9)  American Beauty

10)  Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

[Bogie56]

My Top Ten Films of 1999

 

1.  Eyes Wide Shut

2.  American Beauty

3.  The Sixth Sense

4.  Man on the Moon

5.  Election

6.  The Color of Paradise

7.  The Matrix

8.  Topsy-Turvy

9.  Jakob the Liar

10. American Movie

[CinemaInternational]

1999, a distant memory for me as I was very young at the the time. I know that some say that it is one of the best movie years in recent history, but I remain unconvinced. Still, the best of the year are a fruitful, flavorful bunch, and the top two are among my 100 favorite films. And the year is much, much better than 2000.....

 

1. The Straight Story

2. Magnolia

3. The Insider

4. The Green Mile

5.Eyes Wide Shut

6. Notting Hill

7. Toy Story 2

8. The Sixth Sense

9. Tea with Mussolini

10. Election

 

Of note: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Galaxy Quest, Music of the Heart, Anna and the King, Girl Interrupted, Anywhere But Here, My Life So Far, Being John Malkovich, The Muse

 

I liked them when I was little: The Iron Giant, Fantasia 2000, Tarzan, Stuart Little, Muppets from Space, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

 

Overrated, I feel: American Beauty

 

Mixed Bags: Runaway Bride, The World is Not Enough, Bicentennial Man

 

Ordeal, but with a redeeming facet or two: The Other Sister

 

Forgotten: The Winslow Boy, Forces of Nature, Doug's First Movie

 

Tell Me, What Did I, What Did I, What Did I Do To Deserve This?: Baby Geniuses, Big Daddy, The Deep End of the Ocean, Inspector Gadget

[LawrenceA]

1999, a distant memory for me as I was very young at the the time. I know that some say that it is one of the best movie years in recent history, but I remain unconvinced. 

 

That first part makes me feel really old. 

 

As to the second, I actually agree that 1999 was the best year of the decade for films. Other than the 15 I listed among my favorites, I could add many that others have listed as movies that I regard highly, such as Eyes Wide Shut, The Talented Mr. Ripley, American Movie, The Straight Story, Notting Hill, Girl Interrupted, Being John Malkovich, Boys Don't Cry, Attack the Gas Station, Dogma, and October Sky.

[LawrenceA]

Talk of best year of the decade made me curious about how my ratings break down. Thanks to IMDb, where I rate all of the films that I've seen, I'm able to sift through the data and bring up some real numbers.

 

I've seen 13,793 movies in total. Out of those, I've only awarded 75 a 10/10 rating, the highest possible. Inversely, I've only given a 1/10, the lowest, to a scant 31 films.

 

Of those 75 10/10 scores, the decade breakdown is as follows:

 

1920's = 1

1930's = 4

1940's = 2

1950's = 6

1960's = 8

1970's = 17

1980's = 15

1990's = 11

2000's = 10

2010's = 1

 

Only one year from the 90's had more than one 10/10, and that was 1999: Fight Club and Magnolia.

[Bogie56]

Talk of best year of the decade made me curious about how my ratings break down. Thanks to IMDb, where I rate all of the films that I've seen, I'm able to sift through the data and bring up some real numbers.

 

I've seen 13,793 movies in total. Out of those, I've only awarded 75 a 10/10 rating, the highest possible. Inversely, I've only given a 1/10, the lowest, to a scant 31 films.

 

Of those 75 10/10 scores, the decade breakdown is as follows:

 

1920's = 1

1930's = 4

1940's = 2

1950's = 6

1960's = 8

1970's = 17

1980's = 15

1990's = 11

2000's = 10

2010's = 1

 

Only one year from the 90's had more than one 10/10, and that was 1999: Fight Club and Magnolia.

 

It would be interesting to read all 75 at some point.  I'm curious about the single ones from the 1920's and 2010's!

[shutoo]

1999 favorites:

 

​Election

The Insider

​The Blair Witch Project

Bowfinger

​Being John Malkovitch

Drop Dead Gorgeous

​The Talented Mr. Ripley

Stuart Little (awww..)

 

[CinemaInternational]

That first part makes me feel really old. 

 

As to the second, I actually agree that 1999 was the best year of the decade for films. Other than the 15 I listed among my favorites, I could add many that others have listed as movies that I regard highly, such as Eyes Wide Shut, The Talented Mr. Ripley, American Movie, The Straight Story, Notting Hill, Girl Interrupted, Being John Malkovich, Boys Don't Cry, Attack the Gas Station, Dogma, and October Sky.

Sorry! I don't mean to make anyone feel old!  I think that seeing more of the year's best offerings is in stroe for me. I've seen somewhere in the area of 2,400 feature-length films from the 1920s through the present, which I guess is pretty good for someone my age, although I have a long road of movie-watching ahead of me.

[JamesStewartFan95]

I can't help but find Can't Hairdly Wait appreciation amusing now. I did a small indie Western a few years ago with Ethan Embry and any time someone told him they liked that or Empire Records, he would react with a big "Nooooo" and get really into trying to talk them out of liking it and explain why he thought they were so terrible. I disliked it before then but now his impassioned pleas to fans of his work that that work sucks is all I can associate with either movie.

 

He said he hated those two movies, but he didn't mention Vegas Vacation? Weird!

[KilgoreTrout]

He said he hated those two movies, but he didn't mention Vegas Vacation? Weird!

I'm quite sure no one, on set during that production or in the world during his life, has ever told him they love Vegas Vacation.

[JamesStewartFan95]

I'm quite sure no one, on set during that production or in the world during his life, has ever told him they love Vegas Vacation.

 

[JamesStewartFan95]

Top 10

1999

1. Magnolia

2. The Green Mile

3. Election

4. American Beauty

5. The Straight Story

6. Toy Story 2

7. The Sixth Sense

8. Bowfinger

9. A Walk on the Moon

10. The Insider

Honorable Mentions: Being John Malkovich, Boys Don’t Cry, The Cider House Rules, Galaxy Quest, The Iron Giant, Notting Hill, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Three Kings, 10 Things I Hate About You

Guilty Pleasure: Fantasia 2000, Tarzan

[fxreyman]

Talk of best year of the decade made me curious about how my ratings break down. Thanks to IMDb, where I rate all of the films that I've seen, I'm able to sift through the data and bring up some real numbers.

 

I've seen 13,793 movies in total. Out of those, I've only awarded 75 a 10/10 rating, the highest possible. Inversely, I've only given a 1/10, the lowest, to a scant 31 films.

 

Of those 75 10/10 scores, the decade breakdown is as follows:

 

1920's = 1

1930's = 4

1940's = 2

1950's = 6

1960's = 8

1970's = 17

1980's = 15

1990's = 11

2000's = 10

2010's = 1

 

Only one year from the 90's had more than one 10/10, and that was 1999: Fight Club and Magnolia.

 

Can you please share with us the title of these 10/10 films?

[LawrenceA]

Can you please share with us the title of these 10/10 films?

 

Okay...looking at them again, I see I was wrong about 1999 being the only year of the 90's with two...1995 has 3! Keep in kind that I'm a genre fan, so my lists tend to lean heavily in the science fiction and horror direction. 

 

1920's

Metropolis (1927)

 

1930's  

M (1931)

King Kong (1933)

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

 

1940's

Casablanca  (1942)

Double Indemnity (1944)

 

1950's

Sunset Boulevard  (1950)

The Wages of Fear (1953)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Night of the Hunter  (1955)

Forbidden Planet (1956)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

 

1960's

Spartacus (1960)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Dr. Strangelove  (1964)

Kwaidan (1964)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Once Upon a Time in the West  (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

 

1970's

A Clockwork Orange  (1971)

The Godfather (1972)

The Exorcist  (1973)

Chinatown  (1974)

The Godfather Part II  (1974)

Jaws  (1975)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  (1975)

All the President's Men  (1976)

Taxi Driver  (1976)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Star Wars (1977)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Halloween (1978)

Alien (1979)

Apocalypse Now  (1979)

Being There (1979)

 

1980's

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Raging Bull (1980)

The Shining (1980)

Raiders of the Lost Ark  (1981)

The Road Warrior  (1981)

Blade Runner (1982)

Conan the Barbarian  (1982)

The Thing (1982)

The Right Stuff (1983)

The Terminator (1984)

This is Spinal Tap  (1984)

Brazil (1985)

Aliens (1986)

Predator (1987)

Raising Arizona (1987)

 

1990's

Goodfellas  (1990)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Unforgiven (1992)

Schindler's List (1993)

Braveheart (1995)

Heat (1995)

Toy Story  (1995)

L.A. Confidential  (1997)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Fight Club (1999)

Magnolia (1999)

 

2000's

Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)

Kill Bill, Vol. 1  (2003)

Children of Men (2006)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

There Will Be Blood (2007)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

 

2010's

12 Years a Slave  (2013)

[JamesStewartFan95]

You included Toy Story and Bride of Frankenstein. As William S. Preston in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure would say, "This list is most worthy!"

[LawrenceA]

You included Toy Story and Bride of Frankenstein. As William S. Preston in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure would say, "This list is most worthy!"

 

I usually don't like comparing live action scripted films with animated films or documentaries, which is why Toy Story wasn't in my top ten of 1995 list. It is my favorite animated film, though. 

[LawrenceA]

TOP TEN FAVORITE FILMS OF 2000

 

1)  Memento

2)  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

3)  Gladiator

4)  O Brother, Where Art Thou?

5)  Snatch

6)  The Gift

7)  American Psycho

8)  Sexy Beast

9)  Requiem for a Dream

10)  Chopper

 

Runner-ups:  The Contender, Nine Queens, Amores Perros, In the Mood for Love, and Traffic.

 

TEN WORST MOVIES OF 2000 (overall)

 

1)  Battlefield Earth

2)  Sanctimony

3)  Prison of the Dead

4)  The St. Francisville Experiment

5)  Dead7

6)  The House That Screamed

7)  Zombie Bloodbath 3: Zombie Armageddon

8)  Blood Red Planet

9)  Moh ying/The Devil Shadow

10)  Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood

 

TEN WORST MOVIES OF 2000 (wide release)

 

1)  Battlefield Earth

2)  3 Strikes

3)  Urban Legends: Final Cut

4)  Hanging Up

5)  The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

6)  Turn It Up

7)  The In Crowd

8)  Down to You

9)  Get Carter

10)  Ready to Rumble

 

TOP TEN BOX OFFICE OF 2000

 

1)  Mission: Impossible 2

2)  Gladiator

3)  Cast Away

4)  What Women Want

5)  Dinosaur

6)  How the Grinch Stole Christmas

7)  Meet the Parents

8)  The Perfect Storm

9)  X-Men

10)  What Lies Beneath

[CinemaInternational]

Ho-Hum 2000. I love a few, but there are less than 10 that I'm really over the moon about. Wonderful top 3 though. I need to see many of your top films.

 

1. In the Mood for Love

2. You Can Count on Me

3. Almost Famous

4. Erin Brockovich

5. Billy Elliot

6. Small Time Crooks

7. Gladiator

8. Pol!ock (censor can't make me spell it the usual way)

9. My Dog Skip

10. Miss Congeniality

 

Of note: Best in Show, Remember the Titans, Chicken Run, State and Main, The Emperor's New Groove, The Road to El Dorado, The Contender, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Chocolat, Remember the Titans, Wonder Boys, Return to Me

 

OK: The Taste of Others

 

Guilty Pleasure: Bring It On

 

Can't remember much from childhood: Rugrats in Paris, The Tigger Movie, The kid

 

No, thank you: Finding Forrester

 

Um....: Where the Heart Is

 

Rather nasty, but stylish: Hollow Man

 

Spare Me from these!: Snow Day, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Hanging Up, Woman on Top, 102 Dalmatians (minus Glenn Close, good even here, and two or three supporting players)

[LawrenceA]

I haven't seen My Dog Skip or The Taste of Others.

 

Among the top ten box office winners, I never watched What Women Want. It may be the only Mel Gibson film I haven't seen other than his newest couple. I never finished watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas as I was hating it too much. I don't recall anything about Dinosaur (I gave it a 5/10). If my worst of the year list went to top 20, both Mission: Impossible 2 and What Lies Beneath would be on there.

[CinemaInternational]

I haven't seen My Dog Skip or The Taste of Others.

 

Among the top ten box office winners, I never watched What Women Want. It may be the only Mel Gibson film I haven't seen other than his newest couple. I never finished watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas as I was hating it too much. I don't recall anything about Dinosaur (I gave it a 5/10). If my worst of the year list went to top 20, both Mission: Impossible 2 and What Lies Beneath would be on there.

My Dog Skip was really sweet. Basically the tale of a boy and his dog circa 1942, with good period flavor, and a good supporting cast. The ending is a real heartbreaker. Bittersweet and lovely.

 

The Taste of Others was a Rohmer-esque French comedy/drama, a bit talky but graceful. It's OK, worth a look. It was up for an Oscar.

 

I am tempted to see What Women Want because I hear its a throwback to screwball comedies. Need to see if it measures up.

 

How the Grinch Stole Christmas looked (as the British would say) bloody painful from what few clips I saw. And Yikes about MI2 and What Lies Beneath (which I still can't believe played on TCM once).

[JamesStewartFan95]

My Dog Skip was really sweet. Basically the tale of a boy and his dog circa 1942, with good period flavor, and a good supporting cast. The ending is a real heartbreaker. Bittersweet and lovely.

 

The Taste of Others was a Rohmer-esque French comedy/drama, a bit talky but graceful. It's OK, worth a look. It was up for an Oscar.

 

I am tempted to see What Women Want because I hear its a throwback to screwball comedies. Need to see if it measures up.

 

How the Grinch Stole Christmas looked (as the British would say) bloody painful from what few clips I saw. And Yikes about MI2 and What Lies Beneath (which I still can't believe played on TCM once).

 

I quite enjoyed My Dog Skip. I'm a sucker for those kind of films (Lassie, Old Yeller, Sounder).

[JamesStewartFan95]

2000

Top 10

 

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2. Almost Famous

​​3. Shadow of the Vampire

4. Best in Show

5. Remember the Titans

6. That one movie where Ed Harris plays a famous American painter

​7. Traffic

8. Gladiator

9. The Contender

10. High Fidelity
 

 

Honorable Mentions: Cast Away, Chocolat, Erin Brockovich, The Family Man, Finding Forrester, Meet The Parents, O Brother, Where Art Thou, X-Men

[KilgoreTrout]


The Best Films of 2000

 

1. Songs from the Second Floor


2. High Fidelity


3. George Washington


4. Yi Yi: A One and a Two


5. Wonder Boys


6. Almost Famous


7. Werckmeister Harmonies


8. The Heart of the World


9. Traffic


10. You Can Count On Me

 

Honorable mention: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Requiem for a Dream, The Wind Will Carry Us, Time Regained, Dark Days, Jesus' Son, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Contender, Panic, The Big Kahuna, The Target Shoots First, The Cell, PoIIock, American Psycho, Boiler Room, Unbreakable, Bamboozled, Thirteen Days, The Emperor's New Groove, Shadow of the Vampire, The Claim, Quills, Little Otik, Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly, Waking the Dead, Diamond Men, Joe Gould's Secret, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Farewell, Home Sweet Home

 

Worst

 

1.) Battlefield Earth

2.) Eye of the Beholder

3.) Supernova

4.) Little Nicky

5.) Hanging Up

6.) Drowning Mona

7.) How The Grinch Stole Christmas

8.) The St. Francisville Experiment

9.) Loser

10.) Gossip

 

Dishonorable mention: Screwed, Isn't She Great, Vertical Limit, Mission to Mars, Pay It Forward, Blair Witch Project 2, U-571, What Planet Are You From?, Pay It Forward, Where The Money Is, Me, Myself, & Irene, Hollow Man, Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, Road Trip, What Lies Beneath, X-Men, The 6th Day, Reindeer Games, The Isle, Cecil B. Demented, Rules of Engagement, Next Friday, Bless the Child

 

Several great titles listed by others will show up next year for me as they were 2001 US releases. Even without those, this is easily my favorite year of the decade.