Monday, January 9, 2023

My Top 5 Films Per Year: 1977-2022

 DISCLAIMER: The following is subject to change as my opinions continue to evolve. 

So awhile ago I did a list of my favorite films per year from 1960 to 2022. Recently I got bored and thought it’d be fun to expand that list into a Top 5 for each year. That said, I decided to only go as far back as 1977 this time around, as I haven’t seen enough films prior to that to make Top 5’s for 1960-1976.

The majority of the films that made the cut are generally well-received, though I did also include some guilty pleasures (you will know them when you see them). I also snuck in a few honorable mentions…


This is a long-ass list, so let’s get going!


2022

1.The Batman

2.Avatar: The Way of Water

3.Top Gun: Maverick

4.Everything Everywhere All at Once

5.Death on the Nile


2021

1.Dune

2.The Suicide Squad

3.Free Guy

4.The Mitchells vs. the Machines

5.Cruella


2020

1.Onward

2.Soul

3.Sonic the Hedgehog

4.Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

5.Bill & Ted Face the Music


2019

1.Knives Out

2.Jojo Rabbit

3.1917

4.Ford v Ferrari

5.John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum


2018

1.Game Night

2.Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Score-Only Version

3.Mission: Impossible - Fallout

4.Avengers: Infinity War

5.Solo: A Star Wars Story

Honorable Mention - Feast of the Seven Fishes


2017

1.War for the Planet of the Apes

2.Logan (any version)

3.Wonder Woman

4.John Wick: Chapter 2

5.Thor: Ragnarok

Honorable Mention - Coco


2016

1.Arrival

2.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

3.Hidden Figures

4.Star Trek Beyond

5.Captain America: Civil War


2015

1.Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

2.The Martian

3.Mad Max: Fury Road

4.Inside Out

5.Star Wars: The Force Awakens


2014

1.Guardians of the Galaxy

2.Captain America: The Winter Soldier

3.Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

4.22 Jump Street

5.X-Men: Days of Future Past

Honorable Mention - The Imitation Game


2013

1.The Wolf of Wall Street

2.Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

3.Snowpiercer

4.Despicable Me 2

5.Gravity


2012

1.Django Unchained

2.Skyfall

3.The Avengers

4.21 Jump Street

5.Ted


2011

1.Midnight in Paris

2.Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

3.Rise of the Planet of the Apes

4.Arthur Christmas

5.The Muppets


2010

1.Inception

2.Toy Story 3

3.Despicable Me

4.The Other Guys

5.The Social Network


2009

1.Up

2.Nowhere Boy

3.Star Trek

4.The Road

5.Avatar


2008

1.Wall-E

2.The Dark Knight

3.Tropic Thunder

4.Iron Man

5.Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


2007

1.No Country for Old Men

2.The Bourne Ultimatum

3.Ratatouille

4.There Will Be Blood

5.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix


2006

1.The Departed

2.Casino Royale

3.Borat

4.Idiocracy

5.Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby


2005

1.Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2.Batman Begins

3.Serenity

4.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

5.Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith


2004

1.Team America: World Police

2.Spider-Man 2

3.The Bourne Supremacy

4.Shrek 2

5.Sideways


2003

1.School of Rock

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

3.Finding Nemo

4.The Room

5.Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl


2002

1.The Bourne Identity

2.Spider-Man

3.Minority Report

4.The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

5.Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (either version)


2001

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

2.Zoolander

3.Shrek

4.A Beautiful Mind

5.Ocean’s Eleven


2000

1.Cast Away

2.X-Men

3.Gladiator

4.Chicken Run

5.Memento


1999

1.Office Space

2.Toy Story 2

3.Fight Club

4.The Matrix

5.Star Wars: The Phantom Menace


1998

1.The Big Lebowski

2.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

3.Enemy of the State

4.The Truman Show

5.Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island


1997

1.The Fifth Element

2.Good Will Hunting

3.Liar Liar

4.Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

5.Titanic


1996

1.That Thing You Do!

2.Matilda

3.Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

4.From Dusk till Dawn

5.Independence Day


1995

1.Toy Story

2.GoldenEye

3.Apollo 13

4.Heat

5.Die Hard with a Vengeance


1994

1.Pulp Fiction

2.True Lies

3.Speed

4.The Lion King

5.Dumb and Dumber


1993

1.The Fugitive

2.Jurassic Park

3.Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

4.Groundhog Day

5.What’s Eating Gilbert Grape


1992

1.My Cousin Vinny

2.Batman Returns

3.Patriot Games

4.A Few Good Men

5.Home Alone 2: Lost in New York


1991

1.Silence of the Lambs

2.Terminator 2: Judgement Day

3.Reservoir Dogs

4.Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

5.Point Break


1990

1.Goodfellas

2.Home Alone

3.Back to the Future Part III

4.Total Recall

5.Dances with Wolves


1989

1.National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

2.Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

3.Batman

4.Honey I Shrunk the Kids

5.Back to the Future Part II


1988

1.Die Hard

2.Beetlejuice

3.Stand and Deliver

4.Funny Farm

5.My Neighbor Totoro


1987

1.The Princess Bride

2.Moonstruck

3.Lethal Weapon

4.The Living Daylights

5.Robocop


1986

1.Aliens

2.Platoon

3.Crocodile Dundee

5.Pretty in Pink

4.Ferris Bueller’s Day Off


1985

1.Back to the Future

2.Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

3.Clue

4.The Goonies

5.Ladyhawk


1984

1.Amadeus

2.The Terminator

3.Ghostbusters

4.Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

5.Star Trek III: The Search for Spock


1983

1.Scarface

2.Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

3.National Lampoon’s Vacation

4.A Christmas Story

5.WarGames


1982

1.E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

2.The Thing

3.Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

4.Blade Runner

5.The Dark Crystal


1981

1.Raiders of the Lost Ark

2.Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

3.Escape from New York

4.For Your Eyes Only

5.The Fox and the Hound


1980

1.The Shining (either version)

2.Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

3.The Blues Brothers

4.Airplane

5.Superman II


1979

1.Alien

2.Mad Max

3.Apocalypse Now

4.The Warriors

5.Hardcore


1978

1.Animal House

2.Superman: The Movie

3.Grease

4.Halloween

5.The Lord of the Rings


1977

1.Star Wars

2.Saturday Night Fever

3.Wizards

4.Close Encounters of the Third Kind

5.The Hobbit


Well that was fun!


Peace!


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