Here's my list of favorite movies by year. I still haven't seen every movie so there may be some that you think are missing. You can check the movies I've seen by year simply by doing a search for the year and then going through the list on the left.

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Best of 2026	Best of 2025	Best of 2024
Best of 2023 Poor Things Oppenheimer Saltburn Barbie American Fiction	Best of 2022 Elvis All Quiet on the Western Front Nope The Menu Triangle of Sadness	Best of 2021 Don't Look Up Everything Everywhere All at Once King Richard The Protege The Little Things
Best of 2020 The Gentlemen Tenet Another Round Unhinged Promising Young Woman	Best of 2019 Joker Parasite Once Upon a Time in Hollywood The Irishman 1917	Best of 2018 Green Book Bad Times at the El Royale Bird Box A Star is Born Bohemian Rhapsody
Best of 2017 The Shape of Water Darkest Hour Get Out The Wife Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Best of 2016 La La Land Jason Bourne Manchester by the Sea Deadpool O.J.:Made in America	Best of 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant The Martian Spotlight Concussion
Best of 2014 Birdman Gone Girl Selma Guardians of the Galaxy Whiplash	Best of 2013 American Hustle Dallas Buyers Club Captain Phillips 12 Years a Slave Blue Jasmine Gravity	Best of 2012 Lincoln The Dark Knight Rises Silver Linings Playbook Les Miserables Skyfall
Best of 2011 Moneyball The Descendants The Help The Artist Contagion	Best of 2010 Inception The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The King's Speech True Grit Salt	Best of 2009 Avatar Up in the Air Precious Inglourious Basterds Crazy Heart
Best of 2008 The Dark Knight The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Slumdog Millionaire Iron Man Vicky Christina Barcelona	Best of 2007 3:10 to Yuma No Country for Old Men Michael Clayton 300 The Bourne Ultimatum	Best of 2006 The Departed The Inside Man Blood Diamond Casino Royale Little Miss Sunshine
Best of 2005 Crash Brokeback Mountain Capote Hotel Rwanda Walk the Line	Best of 2004 Million Dollar Baby Sideways Collateral The Bourne Supremacy Ray	Best of 2003 Lord of the Rings:       Return of the King Master and Commander:       The Far Side of the World The Matrix: Reloaded Mystic River Monster
Best of 2002 Lord of the Rings:       The Two Towers The Pianist Chicago Bowling for Columbine Gangs of New York	Best of 2001 Lord of the Rings:       The Fellowship of the Ring A Beautiful Mind Black Hawk Down Moulin Rouge Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Best of 2000 Gladiator Traffic High Fidelity Memento Erin Brockovich
Best of 1999 American Beauty Fight Club The Matrix The Sixth Sense Boy's Don't Cry	Best of 1998 Saving Private Ryan The Big Lebowski American History X Rounders Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Best of 1997 Titanic L.A. Confidential Good Will Hunting The Game As Good As It Gets
Best of 1996 The English Patient Sling Blade Star Trek: First Contact Swingers Mission Impossible	Best of 1995 Leaving Las Vegas Se7en Braveheart The Usual Suspects Bridges of Madison County	Best of 1994 Forrest Gump The Shawshank Redemption Pulp Fiction Lion King Clear and Present Danger
Best of 1993 Schindler's List Philadelphia The Pelican Brief The Piano Jurasic Park	Best of 1992 Unforgiven Basic Instinct Scent of a Woman A Few Good Men Malcom X	Best of 1991 The Silence of the Lambs JFK Thelma and Louise Cape Fear Sleeping With the Enemy
Best of 1990 Goodfellas Dances With Wolves Misery Ghost Edward Scissorhands	Best of 1989 Dead Poets Society Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Driving Miss Daisy Roger and Me Field of Dreams	Best of 1988 Rain Man The Accused Mississippi Burning A Fish Called Wanda Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Best of 1987 Full Metal Jacket Fatal Attraction Raising Arizona Wall Street Good Morning Viet Nam	Best of 1986 Hoosiers Platoon Ferris Bueller's Day Off Nine 1/2 Weeks The Color of Money	Best of 1985 Out of Africa The Breakfast Club Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Prizzi's Honor Back to the Future
Best of 1984 The Terminator The Killing Fields Indiana Jones and the       Temple of Doom Amadeus Footloose	Best of 1983 Star Wars: Episode VI -       Return of the Jedi The Big Chill Terms of Endearment The Right Stuff Vacation	Best of 1982 Gandhi Bladerunner E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Fast Times at Ridgemont High Rambo: First Blood
Best of 1981 Chariots of Fire Raiders of the Lost Ark Das Boot Mad Max: The Road Warrior Stripes	Best of 1980 Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Ordinary People Raging Bull Caddyshack The Elephant Man	Best of 1979 Apocalypse Now Kramer vs. Kramer Alien Mad Max Life of Brian
Best of 1978 The Deer Hunter Midnight Express Animal House Invasion of the Body Snatchers Grease	Best of 1977 Star Wars Close Encounters of the Third Kind Oh, God! Smokey and the Bandit Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo	Best of 1976 All the President's Men Rocky Taxi Driver Network The Omen
Best of 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jaws Monty Python and the Holy Grail Dog Day Afternoon The Rocky Horror Picture Show	Best of 1974 The Godfather, Part II Chinatown Young Frankenstein Death Wish The Great Gatsby	Best of 1973 The Sting American Graffiti Papillon The Exorcist The Way We Were
Best of 1972 The Godfather Dirty Harry Deliverance Conquest of the Planet of the Apes The Poseidon Adventure	Best of 1971 Brian's Song Harold and Haude The Last Picture Show The Omega Man The Fiddler on the Roof	Best of 1970 Patton M*A*S*H Love Story Catch 22 Beneath the Planet of the Apes