My Rating Scale

• ****: Masterpiece.
• ***½: Great.
• ***: Good.
• **½: Decent.
• **: Bad.
• *½: Terrible.
• *: Like, really  terrible.
• Not rateable: The film is too short, or I haven’t seen it in a long time, or for whatever reason I don’t feel like I can give it a fair assessment.
• Titles in italics are short films (under 50 minutes).

2012

1. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino) ****
2. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson) ***
3. Skyfall (Sam Mendes) **½
4. Brave (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell) **
5. Holy Motors (Leos Carax) **

2011

1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) ****
2. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius) ***½
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson) ***½
4. The Turin Horse (Ágnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr) ***½
5. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (Steven Spielberg) ***
6. The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) ***
7. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi) ***
8. Bridesmaids (Paul Feig) **½
9. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn) **½
10. La Luna (Enrico Casarosa) **½
11. Melancholia (Lars von Trier) **½
12. Rango (Gore Verbinski) **½
13. Immortals (Tarsem Singh) *½
14. My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis) *½
15. War Horse (Steven Spielberg) *½

2010

1. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami) ****
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) ****
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy) ***½
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright) ***½
5. Somewhere (Sofia Coppola) ***½
6. Day & Night (Teddy Newton) ***
7. Let Me In (Matt Reeves) ***
8. Poetry (Chang-Dong Lee) ***
9. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky) **½
10. Devil (John Erick Dowdle) **½
11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (David Yates) **½
12. How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders) **½
13. Inception (Christopher Nolan) **½
14. The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper) **½
15. Senna (Asif Kapadia) **½
16. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) **½
17. True Grit (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) **½
18. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik) **½
19. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (Zack Snyder) **
20. Megamind (Tom McGrath) **
21. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Michael Apted) *½
22. Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier) *½
23. Easy A (Will Gluck) *½
24. Red (Robert Schwentke) *½

Not rateable:

• The Book of Eli (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes)
• Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
• The Social Network (David Fincher)

2009

1. Antichrist (Lars von Trier) ****
2. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) ****
3. Bright Star (Jane Campion) ***½
4. Dogtooth (Giorgios Lanthimos) ***½
5. Mother (Joon-Ho Bong) ***½
6. A Serious Man (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) ***½
7. Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor) ***½
8. Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn) ***
9. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp) **½
10. Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira) **½
11. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates) **½
12. Law Abiding Citizen (F. Gary Gray) **½
13. Moon (Duncan Jones) **½
14. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard) **½
15. The Secret of Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella) **½
16. Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie) **½
17. A Single Man (Tom Ford) **½
18. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams) **½
19. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman) **½
20. Watchmen (Zack Snyder) **½
21. Avatar (James Cameron) **
22. Crank: High Voltage (Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor) **
23. The Hangover (Todd Phillips) **
24. Observe and Report (Jody Hill) **
25. Terminator: Salvation (McG) **
26. Partly Cloudy (Peter Sohn) *½
27. The Rebound (Bart Freundlich) *½
28. Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer) *½
29. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier) *
30. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay) *

Not rateable:

• The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
• The Soloist (Joe Wright)
• Up (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson)
• Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
• The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

2008

1. The Class (Laurent Cantet) ****
2. Two Lovers (James Gray) ****
3. WALL·E (Andrew Stanton) ****
4. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel) ***½
5. Presto (Doug Sweetland) ***½
6. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas) ***½
7. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) ***
8. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) ***
9. Lorna’s Silence (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) ***
10. Man on Wire (James Marsh) ***
11. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt) ***
12. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis) **½
13. Burn After Reading (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) **½
14. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin) **½
15. Cloverfield (Matt Reeves) **½
16. Doomsday (Neil Marshall) **½
17. Hancock (Peter Berg) **½
18. Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne, John Stevenson) **½
19. Quarantine (John Erick Dowdle) **½
20. RocknRolla (Guy Ritchie) **½
21. Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle) **½
22. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson) **
23. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg) **
24. Speed Racer (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski) **
25. The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan) *½
26. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke) *
27. Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Kevin Smith) *

Not rateable:

• Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
• Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
• Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
• Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
• Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
• Milk (Gus Van Sant)
• Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
• Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
• Shine a Light (Martin Scorsese)
• Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
• The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)

2007

1. There Will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) ****
2. Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas) ***½
3. Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino) ***½
4. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright) ***½
5. The Man from London (Ágnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr) ***½
6. Secret Sunshine (Chang-Dong Lee) ***½
7. We Own the Night (James Gray) ***½
8. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass) ***
9. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) ***
10. You, the Living (Roy Andersson) ***
11. Halloween (Rob Zombie) **½
12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates) **½
13. I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence) **½
14. Juno (Jason Reitman) **½
15. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava) **½
16. [REC] (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza) **½
17. Sicko (Michael Moore) **½
18. Stardust (Matthew Vaughn) **½
19. Fracture (Gregory Hoblit) **
20. Freedom Writers (Richard LaGravenese) **
21. Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli) **
22. Transformers (Michael Bay) *

Not rateable:

• 28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
• 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold)
• 88 Minutes (Jon Avnet)
• Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
• American Gangster (Ridley Scott)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
• Atonement (Joe Wright)
• The Blue Wolf: To the Ends of the Earth and the Sea (Shinichirô Sawai)
• The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
• Elite Squad (José Padilha)
• Funny Games U.S. (Michael Haneke)
• Hotel Chevalier (Wes Anderson)
• The Hunting Party (Richard Shepard)
• Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
• The Kingdom (Peter Berg)
• Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
• Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
• The Mist (Frank Darabont)
• Mr. Brooks (Bruce A. Evans)
• My Blueberry Nights (Kar Wai Wong)
• No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
• The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona)
• Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
• El Pasado (Hector Babenco)
• Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Gore Verbinski)
• The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)
• The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman)
• Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi)
• Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
• Superbad (Greg Mottola)
• Surf’s Up (Ash Brannon, Chris Buck)
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
• La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan)
• Zodiac (David Fincher)

2006

1. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch) ****
2. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola) ****
3. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) ****
4. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón) ***½
5. The Host (Joon-Ho Bong) ***½
6. Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran) ***½
7. Lifted (Gary Rydstrom) ***½
8. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt) ***½
9. Once (John Carney) ***½
10. Paprika (Satoshi Kon) ***½
11. Still Life (Jia Zhangke) ***½
12. United 93 (Paul Greengrass) ***½
13. Crank (Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor) ***
14. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro) ***
15. The Good German (Steven Soderbergh) **½
16. Happy Feet (Warren Coleman, George Miller, Judy Morris) **½
17. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan) **½
18. Slither (James Gunn) **½
19. Final Destination 3 (James Wong) **
20. Lady in the Water (M. Night Shyamalan) **
21. Cars (John Lasseter, Joe Ranft) *½
22. Colour Me Kubrick: A True…ish Story (Brian W. Cook) *½
23. Ice Age: The Meltdown (Carlos Saldanha) *½
24. Clerks II (Kevin Smith) *
25. School for Scoundrels (Todd Phillips) *
26. Venus (Roger Michell) *

Not rateable:

• 300 (Zack Snyder)
• Apocalypto (Mel Gibson)
• Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
• The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)
• Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick)
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazahstan (Larry Charles)
• The Boss of It All (Lars von Trier)
• Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
• The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard)
• The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
• Déjà Vu (Tony Scott)
• The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel)
• Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)
• Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)
• Firewall (Richard Loncraine)
• Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood)
• The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
• Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter)
• Idiocracy (Mike Judge)
• The Illusionist (Neil Burger)
• An Inconvenient Truth (David Guggenheim)
• Inside Man (Spike Lee)
• The Last King of Scotland (Kevin MacDonald)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
• Little Children (Todd Field)
• Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
• The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
• Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
• Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski)
• A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
• The Queen (Stephen Frears)
• A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
• Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
• Time (Ki-Duk Kim)
• Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)

2005

1. The New World (Terrence Malick) ****
2. L’Enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) ***½
3. Munich (Steven Spielberg) ***½
4. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg) ***½
5. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box, Nick Park) ***
6. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan) **½
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell) **½
8. Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas) **½
9. Something Like Happiness (Bohdan Sláma) **½
10. Aliens of the Deep (James Cameron, Steven Quale) **
11. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson) **
12. Hostel (Eli Roth) **
13. One Man Band (Mark Andrews, Andrew Jimenez) **
14. Ellie Parker (Scott Coffey) *½
15. Mozart and the Whale (Petter Næss) *½
16. Revolver (Guy Ritchie) *½
17. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (Robert Rodriguez) *
18. The Island (Michael Bay) *

Not rateable:

• The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
• The Bow (Ki-Duk Kim)
• Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
• Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
• Bubble (Steven Soderbergh)
• Caché (Michael Haneke)
• Capote (Bennett Miller)
• Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)
• The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles)
• Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, Mike Johnson)
• The Descent (Neil Marshall)
• The Devil’s Rejects (Rob Zombie)
• Elsa & Fred (Marcos Carnevale)
• Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
• Jarhead (Sam Mendes)
• Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
• King Kong (Peter Jackson)
• Madagascar (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath)
• Manderlay (Lars von Trier)
• Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Rob Marshall)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman)
• Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
• The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
• Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Zhang Yimou)
• Separate Lies (Julien Fellowes)
• Serenity (Joss Whedon)
• Sin City (Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez)
• The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
• Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park)
• Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
• V for Vendetta (James McTeigue)
• Walk the Line (James Mangold)
• The Weather Man (Gore Verbinski)
• The World’s Fastest Indian (Roger Donaldson)

2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) ****
2. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel) ****
3. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) ****
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino) ***½
5. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright) ***½
6. The Village (M. Night Shyamalan) ***½
7. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass) ***
8. District B13 (Pierre Morel) ***
9. The Butterfly Effect (Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber) **½
10. Clean (Olivier Assayas) **½
11. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner) **½
12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón) **½
13. The Incredibles (Brad Bird) **½
14. L’Intrus (Claire Denis) **½
15. The Ladykillers (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) **½
16. Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston) **½
17. Palindromes (Todd Solondz) **½
18. Starsky & Hutch (Todd Phillips) **½
19. Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock) **½
20. The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich) **
21. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore) **
22. Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro) **
23. Luna de Avellaneda (Juan José Campanella) **
24. The Terminal (Steven Spielberg) **
25. Jersey Girl (Kevin Smith) *½
26. AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Paul W.S. Anderson) *
27. Troy (Wolfgang Petersen) *
28. Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers) *

Not rateable:

• 3-Iron (Ki-Duk Kim)
• The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
• Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
• Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
• Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
• Closer (Mike Nichols)
• Collateral (Michael Mann)
• Crash (Paul Haggis)
• Finding Neverland (Marc Forster)
• Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg)
• Garden State (Zach Braff)
• House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
• Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
• I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
• Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Brad Silberling)
• The Libertine (Laurence Dunmore)
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
• The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
• Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
• Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
• Millions (Danny Boyle)
• The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
• Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
• Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
• The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson)
• The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis)
• Primer (Shane Carruth)
• Prologue (Ágnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr)
• Ray (Taylor Hackford)
• Saw (James Wan)
• The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
• Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon)
• Sideways (Alexander Payne)
• Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
• Suspect Zero (E. Elias Merhige)
• The Syrian Bride (Eran Riklis)
• Taking Lives (D.J. Caruso)
• Team America: World Police (Trey Parker)

2003

1. Elephant (Gus Van Sant) ****
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) ****
3. Memories of Murder (Joon-Ho Bong) ****
4. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki) ***½
5. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich) ***½
6. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris) ***½
7. Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon) ***½
8. Bad Boys II (Michael Bay) **½
9. Boundin’ (Bud Luckey) **½
10. Intolerable Cruelty (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) **½
11. The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray) **½
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) **
13. Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Robert Rodriguez) **
14. Party Monster (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato) **
15. The Rundown (Peter Berg) **
16. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow) **
17. Duplex (Danny DeVito) *½
18. Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis) *½
19. Ghosts of the Abyss (James Cameron) *½
20. Underworld (Len Wiseman) *½
21. House of 1000 Corpses (Rob Zombie) *
22. Old School (Todd Phillips) *

Not rateable:

• 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
• All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
• The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand)
• Big Fish (Tim Burton)
• Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella)
• The Company (Robert Altman)
• Dogville (Lars von Trier)
• The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
• The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick)
• Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
• Monster (Patty Jenkins)
• Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
• Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park)
• Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)
• The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
• The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
• The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
• Since Otar Left (Julie Bertucelli)
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (Ki-Duk Kim)
• Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke)
• The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
• Undermind (Nevil Dwek)
• The United States of Leland (Matthew Ryan Hoge)
• X2 (Bryan Singer)

2002

1. Bus 174 (Felipe Lacerda, José Padilha) ****
2. Oasis (Chang-Dong Lee) ****
3. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) ****
4. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh) ****
5. The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) ****
6. The Man without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki) ***½
7. 8 Women (François Ozon) ***
8. Catch Me if You Can (Steven Spielberg) ***
9. Demonlover (Olivier Assayas) ***
10. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) ***
11. 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson) **½
12. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) **½
13. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass) **½
14. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman) **½
15. Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh) **½
16. Insomnia (Christopher Nolan) **½
17. Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson) **½
18. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) **½
19. May (Lucky McKee) **½
20. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan) **½
21. Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne) **½
22. Ice Age (Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge) **
23. Lilo & Stitch (Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders) **
24. Attack of the Clones (George Lucas) *½
25. Friday Night (Claire Denis) *½
26. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus) *½
27. Resident Evil (Paul W.S. Anderson) *½
28. Star Trek: Nemesis (Stuart Baird) *½
29. Rollerball (John McTiernan) *
30. Swept Away (Guy Ritchie) *
31. A Walk to Remember (Adam Shankman) *

Not rateable:

• 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
• 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
• Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
• Auto Focus (Paul Schrader)
• Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
• Chicago (Rob Marshall)
• City of God (Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Reynolds)
• El Bonaerense (Pablo Trapero)
• Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori)
• Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears)
• Dog Soldiers (Neil Marshall)
• Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (Guy Maddin)
• Embrassez qui Vous Voudrez (Michel Blanc)
• Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
• The Hours (Stephen Daldry)
• In America (Jim Sheridan)
• Irreversible (Gaspar Noé)
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Joel Zwick)
• Nine Lives (Andrew Green)
• Panic Room (David Fincher)
• The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
• Red Dragon (Brett Ratner)
• Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
• Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park)
• Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
• Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
• Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)

2001

1. Artificial Intelligence: AI (Steven Spielberg) ****
2. La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel) ****
3. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) ****
4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki) ****
5. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) ***½
6. Time Out (Laurent Cantet) ***½
7. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis) ***½
8. Frailty (Bill Paxton) ***
9. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich) ***
10. A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard) **½
11. The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro) **½
12. From Hell (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes) **½
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson) **½
14. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon) **½
15. The Pledge (Sean Penn) **½
16. Training Day (Antoine Fuqua) **½
17. Son of the Bride (Juan José Campanella) **
18. Wendigo (Larry Fessenden) **
19. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Woody Allen) *½
20. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Chris Columbus) *½
21. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith) *
22. Jurassic Park III (Joe Johnston) *
23. The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers) *
24. Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay) *
25. Spy Kids (Robert Rodriguez) *

Not rateable:

• Ali (Michael Mann)
• Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
• Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
• Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
• Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
• Human Nature (Michel Gondry)
• In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
• Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
• The Last Kiss (Gabriele Muccino)
• Memórias Póstumas (André Klotzel)
• Metropolis (Rintaro)
• The Mexican (Gore Verbinski)
• Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann)
• No Man’s Land (Denis Tanovic)
• The Others (Alejandro Amenábar)
• The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
• Plan B (Greg Yaitanes)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
• The Score (Frank Oz)
• Shrek (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson)
• Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (Jan Harlan)
• Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
• Swordfish (Dominic Sena)
• Y tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón)

2000

1. The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin) ****
2. In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong) ****
3. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan) ****
4. Werckmeister Harmonies (Ágnes Hranitzky, Béla Tarr) ****
5. For the Birds (Ralph Eggleston) ***½
6. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) ***½
7. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson) ***½
8. Barking Dogs Never Bite (Joon-Ho Bong) ***
9. Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) ***
10. Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute) ***
11. Dude, Where’s My Car? (Danny Leiner) **½
12. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh) **½
13. The Patriot (Roland Emmerich) **½
14. Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen) **½
15. Snatch. (Guy Ritchie) **½
16. The Weight of Water (Kathryn Bigelow) **
17. Dr. T and the Women (Robert Altman) *½
18. Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood) *½
19. Dinosaur (Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag) *
20. Final Destination (James Wong) *
21. Road Trip (Todd Phillips) *

Not rateable:

• Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
• American Psycho (Mary Harron)
• Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
• The Beach (Danny Boyle)
• Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel)
• Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
• The Cell (Tarsem Singh)
• Chocolat (Lasse Hallström)
• Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
• Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
• The Emperor’s New Groove (Mark Dindal)
• George Washington (David Gordon Green)
• Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
• JSA: Joint Security Area (Chan-Wook Park)
• Malèna (Giuseppe Tornatore)
• Memento (Christopher Nolan)
• Pantaleón y las Visitadoras (Francisco J. Lombardi)
• Platform (Jia Zhangke)
• The Princess and the Warrior (Tom Tykwer)
• Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
• Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige)
• Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
• Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
• Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
• X-Men (Bryan Singer)
• Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
• You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonergan)

1999

1. Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano) ****
2. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson) ****
3. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola) ****
4. Beau Travail (Claire Denis) ***½
5. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick) ***½
6. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) ***½
7. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan) ***
8. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. (Errol Morris) **½
9. The Mummy (Stephen Sommers) **½
10. Tea with Mussolini (Franco Zeffirelli) **½
11. Toy Story 2 (Ash Brannon, John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich) **½
12. True Crime (Clint Eastwood) **½
13. Dogma (Kevin Smith) **
14. Double Jeopardy (Bruce Beresford) **
15. The Phantom Menace (George Lucas) *½
16. Tarzan (Chris Buck, Kevin Lima) *½
17. Wild Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld) *

Not rateable:

• 8½ Women (Peter Greenaway)
• All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar)
• American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
• Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
• The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)
• Boys Don’t Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
• Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders)
• The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallström)
• Fight Club (David Fincher)
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
• The Green Mile (Frank Darabont)
• The Insider (Michael Mann)
• The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
• The Matrix (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski)
• Office Space (Mike Judge)
• Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker)
• The Straight Story (David Lynch)
• Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)
• Three Kings (David O. Russell)
• Virus (John Bruno)
• The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
• The World is Not Enough (Michael Apted)

1998

1. The Big Lebowski (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) ****
2. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) ****
3. Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas) ***½
4. Lick the Star (Sofia Coppola) ***½
5. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon) ***½
6. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg) ***½
7. A Bug’s Life (John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton) **½
8. Bunny (Chris Wedge) **½
9. City of Angels (Brad Silberling) **½
10. The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez) **½
11. Following (Christopher Nolan) **½
12. Happiness (Todd Solondz) **½
13. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie) **½
14. The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell) **½
15. Shakespeare in Love (John Madden) **½
16. Very Bad Things (Peter Berg) **½
17. Celebrity (Woody Allen) **
18. The Negotiator (F. Gary Gray) *½
19. Star Trek: Insurrection (Jonathan Frakes) *½
20. Armageddon (Michael Bay) *
21. Godzilla (Roland Emmerich) *

Not rateable:

• Another Day in Paradise (Larry Clark)
• Antz (Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson)
• Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodysson)
• Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuarón)
• The Legend of 1900 (Giuseppe Tornatore)
• Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Medem)
• More (Mark Osborne)
• Pi (Darren Aronofsky)
• Psycho (Gus Van Sant)
• Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)
• Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
• The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
• Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute)

1997

1. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson) ****
2. Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano) ****
3. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute) ****
4. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki) ****
5. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris) ***½
6. Geri’s Game (Jan Pinkava) ***½
7. Happy Together (Kar Wai Wong) ***½
8. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino) ***½
9. Lost Highway (David Lynch) ***½
10. Titanic (James Cameron) ***½
11. Amistad (Steven Spielberg) **½
12. The Big One (Michael Moore) **½
13. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith) **½
14. Hercules (Ron Clements, John Musker) **½
15. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) **½
16. Ossos (Pedro Costa) **½
17. Alien: Resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) **
18. Anaconda (Luis Llosa) *
19. Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher) *

Not rateable:

• The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo)
• Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
• The Game (David Fincher)
• Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
• Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage)
• L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
• Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Clint Eastwood)
• The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
• A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (Roger Spottiswoode)

1996

1. Fargo (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) ****
2. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) ****
3. Crash (David Cronenberg) ***½
4. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas) ***½
5. Kids Return (Takeshi Kitano) ***½
6. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle) ***½
7. From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez) ***
8. Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson) ***
9. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise) ***
10. Star Trek: First Contact (Jonathan Frakes) **½
11. The Rock (Michael Bay) **
12. Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton) *½
13. Independence Day (Roland Emmerich) *

Not rateable:

• Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
• The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
• The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)
• Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)
• The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway)
• Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
• Shine (Scott Hicks)
• Stealing Beauty (Bernardo Bertolucci)

1995

1. A Close Shave (Nick Park) ***½
2. The White Balloon (Jafer Panahi) ***½
3. La Haine (Mathieu Kassowitz) ***
4. Toy Story (John Lasseter) ***
5. Babe (Chris Noonan) **½
6. Clueless (Amy Heckerling) **½
7. Desperado (Robert Rodriguez) **½
8. Four Rooms (Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino) **½
9. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo) **½
10. Mallrats (Kevin Smith) **
11. Bad Boys (Michael Bay) *½
12. Canadian Bacon (Michael Moore) *½
13. Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher) *
14. Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg) *

Not rateable:

• Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
• Assassins (Richard Donner)
• Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
• Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
• The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
• Casino (Martin Scorsese)
• The City of Lost Children (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
• Crimson Tide (Tony Scott)
• Fallen Angels (Kar Wai Wong)
• Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii)
• GoldenEye (Martin Campbell)
• Heat (Michael Mann)
• Kiss of Death (Barbet Schroeder)
• Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen)
• O Qu4trilho (Fábio Barreto)
• Restoration (Michael Hoffman)
• Se7en (David Fincher)
• Two Much (Fernando Trueba)
• Underground (Emir Kusturica)
• Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)

1994

1. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr) ****
2. Cold Water (Olivier Assayas) ***½
3. The Hudsucker Proxy (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) ***½
4. Chungking Express (Kar Wai Wong) ***
5. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) ***
6. Ashes of Time (Kar Wai Wong) **½
7. Clerks (Kevin Smith) **½
8. Getting Any? (Takeshi Kitano) **½
9. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (Neil Jordan) **½
10. The Lion King (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff) **½
11. Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle) **½
12. Swimming with Sharks (George Huang) **½
13. Star Trek: Generations (David Carson) **
14. Stargate (Roland Emmerich) *½
15. True Lies (James Cameron) *½

Not rateable:

• Black Ice (Stan Brakhage)
• Crooklyn (Spike Lee)
• The Crow (Alex Proyas)
• Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell)
• Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
• Fresa y Chocolate (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tobía)
• Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
• Killing Zoe (Roger Avary)
• Maverick (Richard Donner)
• Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
• Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
• The Professional (Luc Besson)
• Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
• The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
• Speed (Jan de Bont)
• The Specialist (Luis Llosa)
• Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
• Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
• Wyatt Earp (Lawrence Kasdan)

1993

1. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater) – ****
2. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) – ****
3. The Piano (Jane Campion) – ****
4. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg) – ****
5. Menace II Society (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes) – ***½
6. Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano) – ***½
7. The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park) – ***½
8. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm) – **½
9. The Man Without a Face (Mel Gibson) – **½
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick) – **½
11. Naked (Mike Leigh) – *½

Not rateable:

• The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
• Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)
• Faraway, So Close (Wim Wenders)
• Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
• In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
• Last Action Hero (John McTiernan)
• Three Colors: Blue (Krzsysztof Kieslowski)
• Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos)

1992

1. Batman Returns (Tim Burton) – ***½
2. Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki) – ***½
3. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley) – ***
4. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino) – ***
5. Aladdin (Ron Clements, John Musker) – **½
6. Deep Cover (Bill Duke) – **½
7. El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez) – **½
8. Universal Soldier (Roland Emmerich) – *

Not rateable:

• 1492: Conquest of Paradise (Ridley Scott)
• Alien³ (David Fincher)
• Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
• Careful (Guy Maddin)
• The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
• Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)
• A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
• Fortress (Stuart Gordon)
• Indochine (Régis Wargnier)
• The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
• Orlando (Sally Potter)
• Parenti Serpenti (Mario Monicelli)
• The Player (Robert Altman)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)
• Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)

1991

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron) – 9
2. Barton Fink (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) – 8
3. Life, and Nothing More… (Abbas Kiarostami) – 8
4. Slacker (Richard Linklater) – 7
5. A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris) – 7
6. A Scene at the Sea (Takeshi Kitano) – 7
7. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg) – 7
8. Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton) – 6
9. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise) – 6
10. Jungle Fever (Spike Lee) – 6
11. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow) – 5
12. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Nicholas Meyer) – 5
13. Hook (Steven Spielberg) – 4
14. Fried Green Tomatoes (Jon Avnet) – 4
15. Bedhead (Robert Rodriguez) – 3
16. Bugsy (Barry Levinson) – NR
17. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzsysztof Kieslowski) – NR
18. Europa (Lars von Trier) – NR
19. JFK (Oliver Stone) – NR
20. Mediterraneo (Gabriele Salvatores) – NR
21. The Rocketeer (Joe Johnston) – NR
22. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) – NR
23. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott) – NR

1990

1. Days of Being Wild (Kar Wai Wong) – 9
2. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami) – 9
3. Miller’s Crossing (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) – 8
4. Wild at Heart (David Lynch) – 8
5. Bullet in the Head (John Woo) – 7
6. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion) – 7
7. Mo’ Better Blues (Spike Lee) – 7
8. The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola) – 6
9. Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano) – 6
10. Predator 2 (Stephen Hopkins) – 4
11. Archangel (Guy Maddin) – NR
12. Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis) – NR
13. Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner) – NR
14. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton) – NR
15. Ghost (Jerry Zucker) – NR
16. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese) – NR
17. The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan) – NR
18. Internal Affairs (Mike Figgis) – NR
19. Nikita (Luc Besson) – NR

1989

1. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway) – 9
2. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) – 9
3. Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki) – 9
4. O Sangue (Pedro Costa) – 9
5. Darkness/Light/Darkness (Jan Svankmajer) – 8
6. Roger & Me (Michael Moore) – 8
7. A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit (Nick Park) – 8
8. Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano) – 8
9. Creature Comforts (Nick Park) – 8
10. The Killer (John Woo) – 7
11. Sweetie (Jane Campion) – 7
12. Knick Knack (John Lasseter) – 6
13. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg) – 5
14. Batman (Tim Burton) – 5
15. The Abyss (James Cameron) – 5
16. The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements, John Musker) – 5
17. All Dogs Go to Heaven (Don Bluth) – 4
18. The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito) – 4
19. Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow) – 4
20. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (William Shatner) – 3
21. Always (Steven Spielberg) – 3
22. Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis) – NR
23. Black Rain (Ridley Scott) – NR
24. Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone) – NR
25. Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir) – NR
26. Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford) – NR
27. Island of Flowers (Jorge Furtado) – NR
28. License to Kill (John Glen) – NR
29. When Harry Met Sally… (Rob Reiner) – NR

1988

 

1. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki) ****
2. Damnation (Béla Tarr) ***½
3. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg) ***½
4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis) ***½
5. As Tears Go By (Kar Wai Wong) ***
6. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies) ***
7. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata) ***
8. The Land Before Time (Don Bluth) ***
9. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris) ***
10. Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos) **½
11. Tin Toy (John Lasseter) **½

Not rateable:

• Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo)
• Another Woman (Woody Allen)
• Beetle Juice (Tim Burton)
• Bird (Clint Eastwood)
• Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
• Die Hard (John McTiernan)
• D.O.A. (Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton)
• A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
• Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
• Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
• A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
• The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar)

1987

1. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) – 9
2. Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg) – 9
3. Raising Arizona (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) – 8
4. The Dante Quartet (Stan Brakhage) – 8
5. Predator (John McTiernan) – 8
6. Where is the Friend’s Home? (Abbas Kiarostami) – 7
7. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven) – 7
8. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow) – 6
9. Red’s Dream (John Lasseter) – 5
10. A Better Tomorrow II (John Woo) – 5
11. Radio Days (Woody Allen) – 4
12. September (Woody Allen) – 4
13. The Brave Little Toaster (Jerry Rees) – 3
14. Jaws: The Revenge (Joseph Sargent) – 1
15. Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi) – NR
16. Hope and Glory (John Boorman) – NR
17. Intervista (Federico Fellini) – NR
18. Law of Desire (Pedro Almodóvar) – NR
19. The Living Daylights (John Glen) – NR
20. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner) – NR
21. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma) – NR
22. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders) – NR

1986

1. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky) – 10
2. Blue Velvet (David Lynch) – 9
3. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen) – 9
4. Aliens (James Cameron) – 8
5. Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki) – 8
6. The Fly (David Cronenberg) – 8
7. Jean de Florette (Claude Berri) – 7
8. Luxo Jr. (John Lasseter) – 6
9. She’s Gotta Have It (Spike Lee) – 5
10. A Better Tomorrow (John Woo) – 5
11. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes) – 4
12. An American Tail (Don Bluth) – 3
13. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Leonard Nimoy) – 3
14. The Decline of the American Empire (Denys Arcand) – NR
15. F/X (Robert Mandel) – NR
16. Ginger and Fred (Federico Fellini) – NR
17. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer) – NR
18. Manhunter (Michael Mann) – NR
19. Matador (Pedro Almodóvar) – NR
20. The Mission (Roland Joffé) – NR
21. Platoon (Oliver Stone) – NR
22. Short Circuit (John Badham) – NR
23. Stand by Me (Rob Reiner) – NR

1985

1. Tampopo (Jûzô Itami) – 9
2. Come and See (Elem Klimov) – 7
3. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller, George Ogilvie) – 7
4. Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood) – 7
5. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero) – 6
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen) – 6
7. The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg) – 5
8. Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone) – 1
9. After Hours (Martin Scorsese) – NR
10. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis) – NR
11. Brazil (Terry Gilliam) – NR
12. A Chorus Line (Richard Attenborough) – NR
13. Commando (Mark L. Lester) – NR
14. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Jack Sholder) – NR
15. Ran (Akira Kurosawa) – NR
16. A View to a Kill (John Glen) – NR
17. Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino) – NR

1984

1. Blood Simple (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) – 9
2. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen) – 8
3. The Terminator (James Cameron) – 7
4. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki) – 7
5. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg) – 6
6. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone) – 6
7. The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier) – 6
8. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman) – 6
9. The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé) – 6
10. Gremlins (Joe Dante) – 5
11. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Leonard Nimoy) – 4
12. Dune (David Lynch) – 2
13. The Adventures of André and Wally B. (Alvy Ray Smith) – UR
14. Amadeus (Milos Forman) – NR
15. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven) – NR
16. Repo Man (Alex Cox) – NR
17. Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis) – NR

1983

1. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky) – 9
2. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker) – 9
3. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand) – 7
4. Videodrome (David Cronenberg) – 6
5. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg) – 6
6. Twilight Zone: The Movie (Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller, Steven Spielberg) – 5
7. Staying Alive (Sylvester Stallone) – 1
8. Jaws 3-D (Joe Alves) – 1
9. And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini) – NR
10. The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura) – NR
11. Blue Thunder (John Badham) – NR
12. Go for It (Enzo Barboni) – NR
13. The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones) – NR
14. Never Say Never Again (Irvin Kershner) – NR
15. Octopussy (John Glen) – NR
16. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer) – NR
17. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman) – NR
18. Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola) – NR
19. Trading Places (John Landis) – NR

1982

1. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio) – 9
2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg) – 8
3. The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth) – 8
4. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling) – 8
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer) – 6
6. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper) – 6
7. TRON (Steven Lisberger) – 4
8. Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer) – 4
9. Airplane II: The Sequel (Ken Finkleman) – 1
10. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott) – NR
11. The Draughtman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway) – NR
12. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog) – NR
13. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough) – NR
14. A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (Woody Allen) – NR
15. Porky’s (Bob Clark) – NR
16. Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone) – NR
17. The Thing (John Carpenter) – NR
18. Vincent (Tim Burton) – NR

1981

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg) – ****
2. Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris) – ****
3. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski) – ***½
4. The Road Warrior (George Miller) – ***
5. Scanners (David Cronenberg) – **½
6. Clash of the Titans (Desmond Davis) – **
7. Piranha II: The Spawning (James Cameron) – *

Not rateable:

• Bolero (Claude Lelouch)
• Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
• Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
• Escape from New York (John Carpenter)
• The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
• For Your Eyes Only (John Glen)
• Heavy Metal (Gerald Potterton)

1980

1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick) – 10
2. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) – 8
3. The Blues Brothers (John Landis) – 8
4. From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman) – 7
5. The Elephant Man (David Lynch) – 7
6. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Les Blank) – 7
7. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma) – 6
8. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker) – 4
9. Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) – 3
10. City of Women (Federico Fellini) – NR
11. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese) – NR
12. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen) – NR

1979

1. Alien (Ridley Scott) – 9
2. Manhattan (Woody Allen) – 9
3. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky) – 8
4. The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raoul Ruiz) – 7
5. Mad Max (George Miller) – 7
6. The Brood (David Cronenberg) – 6
7. The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki) – 6
8. Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel) – 6
9. 1941 (Steven Spielberg) – 4
10. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise) – 3
11. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola) – NR
12. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton) – NR
13. Life of Brian (Terry Jones) – NR
14. Love on the Run (François Truffaut) – NR
15. Moonraker (Lewis Gilbert) – NR
16. Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night (Werner Herzog) – NR
17. Orchestra Rehearsal (Federico Fellini) – NR
18. Rocky II (Sylvester Stallone) – NR

1978

1. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick) – 10
2. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman) – 9
3. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris) – 9
4. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero) – 7
5. Midnight Express (Alan Parker) – 6
6. Halloween (John Carpenter) – 6
7. Piranha (Joe Dante) – 6
8. Interiors (Woody Allen) – 5
9. Jaws 2 (Jeannot Szwarc) – 4
10. Animal House (John Landis) – 1
11. Grease (Randal Kleiser) – 1
12. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino) – NR
13. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese) – NR
14. Superman (Richard Donner) – NR
15. A Wedding (Robert Altman) – NR

1977

1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg) – 10
2. Eraserhead (David Lynch) – 9
3. Stroszek (Werner Herzog) – 9
4. Annie Hall (Woody Allen) – 9
5. The Serpent’s Egg (Ingmar Bergman) – 8
6. Star Wars (George Lucas) – 7
7. Rabid (David Cronenberg) – 5
8. A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough) – 5
9. Allegro non Troppo (Bruno Bozzetto) – NR
10. Fun with Dick and Jane (Ted Kotcheff) – NR
11. Saturday Night Fever (John Badham) – NR
12. The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert) – NR

1976

1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) – 10
2. Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman) – 8
3. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter) – 5
4. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula) – NR
5. Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby) – NR
6. Carrie (Brian De Palma) – NR
7. Cría Cuervos (Carlos Saura) – NR
8. The Omen (Richard Donner) – NR
9. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) – NR
10. Rocky (John G. Avildsen) – NR

1975

1. Nashville (Robert Altman) – 10
2. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky) – 10
3. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick) – 9
4. Jaws (Steven Spielberg) – 9
5. Amici Miei (Mario Monicelli) – 7
6. Shivers (David Cronenberg) – 7
7. The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman) – 5
8. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet) – NR
9. A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe (Damiano Damiani) – NR
10. Love and Death (Woody Allen) – NR
11. Monty Pithon and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) – NR
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman) – NR
13. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni) – NR
14. Posse (Kirk Douglas) – NR
15. Rollerball (Norman Jewison) – NR
16. Three Days of the Condor (Sidney Pollack) – NR

1974

1. Chinatown (Roman Polanski) – 10
2. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola) – 9
3. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog) – 7
4. The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg) – 7
5. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino) – 4
6. The Amputee (David Lynch) – 1
7. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese) – NR
8. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks) – NR
9. The Man with the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton) – NR
10. Profumo di Donna (Dino Risi) – NR
11. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper) – NR
12. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks) – NR

1973

1. Badlands (Terrence Malick) – 10
2. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman) – 9
3. Fantastic Planet (René Laloux) – 7
4. High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood) – 6
5. Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner) – 5
6. Breezy (Clint Eastwood) – 4
7. Amarcord (Federico Fellini) – NR
8. American Graffiti (George Lucas) – NR
9. The Exorcist (William Friedkin) – NR
10. F for Fake (Orson Welles) – NR
11. Live and Let Die (Guy Hamilton) – NR
12. Magnum Force (Ted Post) – NR
13. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese) – NR
14. My Name is Nobody (Tonino Valerii) – NR
15. Sleeper (Woody Allen) – NR
16. The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice) – NR

1972

1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog) – 10
2. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman) – 10
3. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) – 9
4. Cabaret (Bob Fosse) – NR
5. Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer) – NR
6. Deliverance (John Boorman) – NR
7. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen) – NR
8. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock) – NR
9. The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah) – NR
10. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) – NR

1971

1. Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog) – 9
2. Duel (Steven Spielberg) – 7
3. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick) – 7
4. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins) – 7
5. Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog) – 7
6. The Touch (Ingmar Bergman) – 7
7. In the Name of the Italian People (Dino Risi) – 6
8. Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood) – 5
9. Duck, You Sucker (Sergio Leone) – 4
10. Bananas (Woody Allen) – 2
11. Diamonds Are Forever (Guy Hamilton) – NR
12. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel) – NR
13. The French Connection (William Friedkin) – NR
14. Le Mans (Lee H. Katzin) – NR
15. THX 1138 (George Lucas) – NR
16. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart) – NR

1970

1. The Grandmother (David Lynch) – 7
2. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog) – 7
3. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica) – 5
4. MASH (Robert Altman) – 5
5. Bed & Board (François Truffaut) – NR
6. Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer) – NR
7. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson) – NR
8. Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto (Elio Petri) – NR
9. My Name is Trinity (Enzo Barboni) – NR
10. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner) – NR
11. Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel) – NR
12. Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh) – NR
13. Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni) – NR

1969

1. The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman) – 8
2. Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen) – 6
3. The Rite (Ingmar Bergman) – 6
4. The Italian Job (Peter Collinson) – 5
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill) – NR
6. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper) – NR
7. My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer) – NR
8. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt) – NR
9. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah) – NR
10. Z (C0sta-Gavras) – NR

1968

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick) – 10
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone) – 10
3. Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman) – 10
4. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero) – 8
5. Shame (Ingmar Bergman) – 8
6. Amblin’ (Steven Spielberg) – 7
7. The Alphabet (David Lynch) – 6
8. Signs of Life (Werner Herzog) – 6
9. Yellow Submarine (George Dunning) – 2
10. Barbarella (Roger Vadim) – NR
11. Coogan’s Bluff (Don Siegel) – NR
12. Girl with a Pistol (Mario Monicelli) – NR
13. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner) – NR
14. The Producers (Mel Brooks) – NR
15. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone) – NR
16. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski) – NR
17. Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut) – NR

1967

1. The Graduate (Mike Nichols) – 9
2. Mouchette (Robert Bresson) – 6
3. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer) – 5
4. Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage) – UR
5. La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer) – NR
6. Death Rides a Horse (Giulio Petroni) – NR
7. The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski) – NR
8. The Firemen’s Ball (Milos Forman) – NR
9. Play Time (Jacques Tati) – NR
10. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville) – NR
11. Who’s That Knocking at My Door (Martin Scorsese) – NR
12. You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert) – NR

1966

1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman) – 10
2. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky) – 10
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone) – 9
4. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson) – 9
5. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez) – 8
6. Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel) – 8
7. L’Armata Brancaleone (Mario Monicelli) – 5
8. Charlie Brown’s All Stars! (Bill Melendez) – 4
9. Batman: The Movie (Leslie H. Martinson) – 4
10. What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen) – 3
11. Six Figures Getting Sick (David Lynch) – UR
12. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni) – NR
13. How to Steal a Million (William Wyler) – NR
14. The Professionals (Richard Brooks) – NR
15. The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto) – NR
16. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols) – NR

1965

1. The War Game (Peter Watkins) – 9
2. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone) – 6
3. A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez) – 5
4. Thunderball (Terence Young) – 2
5. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard) – NR
6. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles) – NR
7. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (Chuck Jones) – NR
8. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer) – NR
9. Help! (Richard Lester) – NR
10. Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini) – NR
11. The Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman) – NR
12. Repulsion (Roman Polanski) – NR
13. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or: How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (Ken Annakin) – NR

1964

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick) – 10
2. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara) – 9
3. A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone) – 7
4. All These Women (Ingmar Bergman) – 6
5. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy) – 6
6. Dog Star Man: Part III (Stan Brakhage) – 6
7. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton) – 5
8. Dog Star Man: Part IV (Stan Brakhage) – 3
9. A Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard) – NR
10. Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha) – NR
11. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer) – NR
12. I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov) – NR
13. Marriage, Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica) – NR
14. The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni) – NR