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My Favorite Movies by Year
Also see: My Decade Lists
| Year | Favorite | Runner-Up | Third | Fourth | Fifth |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | The Covenant | Air | Dumb Money | Barbie |
| 2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Bullet Train | The Outfit | See How They Run | The Pale Blue Eye |
| 2021 | CODA | Wrath of Man | The Map of Tiny Perfect Things | Don't Look Up | Tick, Tick...Boom! |
| 2020 | Palm Springs | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Tenet | The Invisible Man | A Quiet Place Part II |
| 2019 | Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker | 1917 | Knives Out | The Gentlemen | Where'd You Go Bernadette? |
| 2018 | Upgrade | Green Book | A Quiet Place | A Star is Born | Tully |
| 2017 | Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Molly's Game | Dunkirk | Baby Driver |
| 2016 | Arrival | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | The Accountant | Hell or High Water | La La Land |
| 2015 | Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens | Ex Machina | Brooklyn | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | The Martian |
| 2014 | Interstellar | Whiplash | Dumb and Dumber To | Gone Girl | Nightcrawler |
| 2013 | About Time | Coherence | American Hustle | Captain Phillips | Star Trek Into Darkness |
| 2012 | Les Miserables | Silver Linings Playbook | Lincoln | Looper | Safety Not Guaranteed |
| 2011 | Source Code | Warrior | Kill the Irishman | The Skin I Live In | 50/50 |
| 2010 | Inception | The Fighter | Black Swan | The Town | True Grit |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Star Trek | The Hangover | Moon | 3 Idiots |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | The Dark Knight | 21 | In Bruges | The Bank Job |
| 2007 | No Country For Old Men | Hot Fuzz | There Will Be Blood | Superbad | Juno |
| 2006 | The Prestige | The Departed | Lucky Number Slevin | Inside Man | Pan's Labyrinth |
| 2005 | V For Vendetta | Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | Batman Begins | The 40-Year-Old Virgin | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Anchorman | Shaun of the Dead | Garden State | Saw |
| 2003 | Big Fish | Matchstick Men | Identity | Lord of the Rings: Return of the King | Kill Bill: Volume 1 |
| 2002 | Adaptation | Road to Perdition | City of God | Minority Report | Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
| 2001 | Donnie Darko | A Beautiful Mind | Ocean's Eleven | The Score | Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring |
| 2000 | Memento | Gladiator | Snatch | Meet the Parents | The Family Man |
| 1999 | Fight Club | Office Space | The Boondock Saints | Arlington Road | The Sixth Sense |
| 1998 | Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels | The Big Lebowski | Rounders | American History X | Fallen |
| 1997 | Life is Beautiful | L.A. Confidential | Nothing to Lose | Cube | Con Air |
| 1996 | Fargo | The Rock | Primal Fear | A Time to Kill | Scream |
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects | Seven | Casino | Braveheart | Heat |
| 1994 | Shawshank Redemption | Dumb & Dumber | Pulp Fiction | The Professional | Forrest Gump |
| 1993 | A Bronx Tale | Groundhog Day | True Romance | The Fugitive | Falling Down |
| 1992 | Reservoir Dogs | A Few Good Men | The Last of the Mohicans | Unforgiven | Malcolm X |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Hot Shots! | Barton Fink | JFK | Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Miller's Crossing | Edward Scissorhands | Back to the Future Part III | The Godfather Part III |
| 1989 | Do The Right Thing | Glory | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Batman | Major League |
| 1988 | Die Hard | Rain Man | Cinema Paradiso | A Fish Called Wanda | The Naked Gun |
| 1987 | Spaceballs | Full Metal Jacket | The Untouchables | The Princess Bride | Raising Arizona |
| 1986 | Platoon | Stand By Me | Hoosiers | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Top Gun |
| 1985 | Back to the Future | Goonies | Brazil | The Breakfast Club | Rocky IV |
| 1984 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | The Terminator | Once Upon a Time in America | Blood Simple | Ghostbusters |
| 1983 | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi | Scarface | A Christmas Story | Trading Places | National Lampoon's Vacation |
| 1982 | E.T. | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Blade Runner | Gandhi | Rocky III |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | History of the World Part I | Das Boot | Stripes | Chariots of Fire |
| 1980 | Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | Raging Bull | Caddyshack | Airplane! | The Shining |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Alien | Life of Brian | Rocky II | Escape from Alcatraz |
| 1978 | Animal House | The Deer Hunter | The Silent Partner | Halloween | Dawn of the Dead |
| 1977 | Star Wars | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Annie Hall | Slap Shot | Smokey and the Bandit |
| 1976 | Rocky | Taxi Driver | Marathon Man | Murder By Death | The Outlaw Josey Wales |
| 1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Jaws | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Barry Lyndon |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | Blazing Saddles | Chinatown | Young Frankenstein | The Conversation |
| 1973 | The Sting | Mean Streets | American Graffiti | My Name is Nobody | The Exorcist |
| 1972 | The Godfather | Sleuth | Deliverance | Frenzy | The Getaway |
| 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | The Last Picture Show | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Duck You Sucker | The French Connection |
| 1970 | Patton | MASH | They Call Me Trinity | Tora! Tora! Tora! | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes |
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | The Wild Bunch | Easy Rider | Midnight Cowboy | Sabata |
| 1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Once Upon a Time in the West | Planet of the Apes | The Odd Couple | Bullitt |
| 1967 | The Graduate | In Cold Blood | Cool Hand Luke | Bonnie and Clyde | In the Heat of the Night |
| 1966 | The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Torn Curtain | The Fortune Cookie | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| 1965 | For a Few Dollars More | The Cincinnati Kid | The Sound of Music | Doctor Zhivago | The Great Race |
| 1964 | A Fistful of Dollars | Dr. Strangelove | Mary Poppins | Marnie | Fail-Safe |
| 1963 | Charade | The Birds | The Great Escape | The Pink Panther | 8 1/2 |
| 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Lawrence of Arabia | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Cape Fear | The Manchurian Candidate |
| 1961 | The Hustler | Breakfast at Tiffany's | West Side Story | Judgment at Nuremberg | One, Two, Three |
| 1960 | Psycho | The Apartment | Spartacus | The Time Machine | The Magnificent Seven |
| 1959 | Some Like It Hot | North By Northwest | Anatomy of a Murder | Ben Hur | The 400 Blows |
| 1958 | Vertigo | Touch of Evil | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Run Silent Run Deep | The Fly |
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | Paths of Glory | Bridge on the River Kwai | Witness for the Prosecution | An Affair to Remember |
| 1956 | The Killing | The Man Who Knew Too Much | The Searchers | The Ten Commandments | Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| 1955 | Rififi | The Seven Year Itch | Les Diaboliques | The Night of the Hunter | Rebel Without a Cause |
| 1954 | Rear Window | On the Waterfront | Dial M for Murder | Sabrina | The Caine Mutiny |
| 1953 | Stalag 17 | Roman Holiday | The Wages of Fear | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | How To Marry a Millionaire |
| 1952 | High Noon | Singin' in the Rain | The Greatest Show on Earth | Umberto D. | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| 1951 | Strangers on a Train | A Streetcar Named Desire | The African Queen | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Ace in the Hole |
| 1950 | Sunset Blvd | The Asphalt Jungle | All About Eve | Cinderella | Harvey |
| 1949 | The Third Man | White Heat | Adam's Rib | Kind Hearts and Coronets | Sands of Iwo Jima |
| 1948 | Rope | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | The Bicycle Thief | Sorry, Wrong Number | Key Largo |
| 1947 | Miracle on 34th Street | Out of the Past | Brute Force | Good News | Ride the Pink Horse |
| 1946 | It's a Wonderful Life | The Big Sleep | Notorious | The Stranger | The Best Years of Our Lives |
| 1945 | Brief Encounter | And Then There Were None | Spellbound | Detour | The Lost Weekend |
| 1944 | Double Indemnity | Laura | Lifeboat | The Fighting Sullivans | Gaslight |
| 1943 | Shadow of a Doubt | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | The Ox-Bow Incident | ||
| 1942 | Casablanca | Holiday Inn | Yankee Doodle Dandy | The Magnificent Ambersons | Bambi |
| 1941 | Citizen Kane | The Maltese Falcon | Suspicion | Dumbo | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| 1940 | The Philadelphia Story | Rebecca | The Great Dictator | The Shop Around the Corner | Foreign Correspondent |
| 1939 | The Wizard of Oz | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Gone With the Wind | Ninotchka | Destry Rides Again |
| 1938 | The Lady Vanishes | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Bringing Up Baby | You Can't Take It With You | Little Miss Broadway |
| 1937 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarves | A Day at the Races | A Star is Born | Heidi | |
| 1936 | Modern Times | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | The Great Ziegfeld | Captain January | |
| 1935 | A Night at the Opera | The 39 Steps | Bride of Frankenstein | Curly Top | |
| 1934 | The Thin Man | It Happened One Night | |||
| 1933 | Duck Soup | King Kong | |||
| 1932 | Scarface | Horse Feathers | |||
| 1931 | M | City Lights | Frankenstein | The Public Enemy | Monkey Business |
| 1930 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Animal Crackers |