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TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2020

1. Sonic the Hedgehog
2. A Quiet Place Part II
3. Superman: Man of Tomorrow
4. Peninsula
5. Nine Days
6. Soul
7. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
8. Palm Springs
9. Vivarium
10. Wonder Woman 1984
11. Tenet
12. Black Box
13. Onward
14. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabuolous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
15. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
16. Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons
17. Superman: Red Son
18. Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
19. The Hunt
20. Lost Girls
21. Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
22. The Devil All the Time
23. Antebellum
24. Run
25. Nocturne
26. The New Mutants

Note: I realized in May of 2026 that I hadn't put every movie on this list like I had done with other years, so I retroactively placed things on here. Because of that, some of the rankings might be slightly off. In a general sense, I have things listed in other means and grouped together in tiers, so I have an idea of where I would place them (as in, I know what I liked and didn't like), but each individual movie on the midway point lower could possibly be rearranged. For example, I couldn't tell you 6 years later if I liked Runor Nocturne better, as I didn't like either of them.

The only movie I really took away from this year loving for the most part was Sonic the Hedgehog. Then again, this was the year of a full-blown shutdown with movies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost nothing came out.

Superman: Man of Tomorrow wasn't a theatrical release, and I enjoyed that quite a bit, and Justice League Dark: Apokolips War was a wild ride that was far more brutal than I ever would have imagined.

Retroactively, I did end up seeing a few other movies that were solid and I liked to varying degrees like Palm Springsand Nine Days and Soul, but I'm not sure how I'd rank them on a big scale. 

That's why you'll see something like Tenet here, which I was super disappointed with compared to how much I've always loved Inception and Memento and some other Christopher Nolan movies. But holy shit did I still overall appreciate it more than Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) which just actively pissed me off, or The New Mutants, which was about as terrible of a pilot episode of a CW reject show as you could get.

Blind Spot Movies = Guns Akimbo, Mulan, Project Power and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2021

1. Spider-Man: No Way Home
2. Zack Snyder's Justice League
3. The Suicide Squad
4. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
5. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
6. No Time to Die
7. Black Widow
8. Nobody
9. Godzilla vs. Kong
10. Free Guy
11. Batman: The Long Halloween (Part One and Part Two)
12. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
13. The King's Man
14. Mass
15. Marvel's Eternals
16. Vacation Friends
17. Red Notice
18. Injustice
19. Mortal Kombat
20. Encanto
21. Ron's Gone Wrong
22. Luca
23. After Yang
24. The Guilty
25. The Humans
26. F9: The Fast Saga
27. Jungle Cruise
28. Old
29. The Innocents
30. Red Dot
31. The Tomorrow War
32. Stowaway
33. Last Night in Soho
34. No Man of God
35. Batman: Soul of the Dragon
36. The Matrix Resurrections
37. Army of the Dead
38. Nightmare Alley
39. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
40. Justice Society: World War II
41. Things Heard & Seen
42. Hypnotic
43. Rumble
44. Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms
45. Space Jam: A New Legacy
46. A House on the Bayou
47. How It Ends
48. Lamb

Note: Like with 2020, anything from the grey and red list could possibly be rearranged as I added a good amount of these movies in 2026 retroactively and cannot remember which ones I specifically would rank above each other within those tiers.

With more movies coming back into theaters this year, you can see the big difference. This year actually had some heavy hitters and some genuinely fun movies I'll be watching for years to come.

No Way Home was a wild ride. Zack Snyder's Justice League is certainly way better than the Joss Whedon cut. The Suicide Squad follows that format in being a massive improvement. And Shang-Chi was one of the best parts of this phase of the MCU.

I really enjoyed some of what Ghostbusters: Afterlife had to offer, even though it is a shell of the first movie and falls short of the second by a mile, too.

Black Widow was disappointing, as was Free Guy and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and even The King's Man, but I still enjoyed them.

If we're talking disappointments, though, No Time to Die......but it is still a James Bond film, so it gets some priority placement.

Shout out to some movies like Ron's Gone Wrong and Mass and Encanto that don't make the cut, and a surprise in Vacation Friends that I enjoyed more than I thought I would.

Blind Spot Movies = National Champions, The Protege and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2022

1. The Batman
2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
3. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
4. Bullet Train
5. Everything Everywhere All At Once
6. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
7. The Menu
8. Nope
9. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
10. Top Gun: Maverick
11. Prey
12. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
13. Thor: Love and Thunder
    
14. The Black Phone
15. Clerks III
16. The Whale
17. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
18. The Bad Guys
19. Barbarian
20. Death on the Nile
21. DC League of Super-Pets
22. Jackass Forever
23. Amsterdam
24. Jurassic World Dominion
25. The Adam Project
    
26. Lightyear
27. Soft & Quiet
28. Elvis
29. Spiderhead
30. Bodies Bodies Bodies
31. Breaking
32. Don't Worry Darling
33. Attachment
34. Black Adam
35. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
36. Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons
37. Green Lantern: Beware My Power
38. Morbius
39. Catwoman: Hunted
40. Pearl
41. X
42. Fresh
43. Prey for the Devil
44. Monolith
45. Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind
46. Umma
47. Watcher
48. Samaritan
49. Pinocchio
50. Choose or Die
51. Men

Note: Like with 2020 and 2021, anything from the grey and red list could possibly be rearranged as I added a good amount of these movies in 2026 retroactively and cannot remember which ones I specifically would rank above each other within those tiers. 

Great stuff in the top three, with Bullet Train just narrowly behind. That was a blast to sit through. As was Everything Everywhere All at Once even though I think that won't be the type of movie I want to sit down and watch here and there on a whim.

I really enjoyed The Menu and Nope, and was surprisingly thumbs up on Top Gun: Maverick, as well as Prey. Obviously. These movies were rock solid. And Sonic 2 was good, but I think the first was better. The same goes for Glass Onion. And for how Thor: Love and Thunder went WAY too far into the ridiculous aspects that I still think were a little overbearing in Ragnarok, even.

I was disappointed in Clerks III. I was surprised by how fun Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was. Also, The Black Phone did its job quite well and I enjoyed that. But a movie like that isn't going to be a favorite of mine, nor will Amsterdam or the others in gray. So while I appreciate a movie for having a great performance like The Whale, I'm not going to rewatch it.

Boy did Black Adam and Morbius suck. Yikes. But Men was the movie you'd see at the bottom of this list if I ranked EVERY movie that I watched per year. Maybe I'll start doing that with 2023. That was just such absolute trash. [Post-edit: As mentioned, I did start doing this and retroactively added things, and a movie that gives Mena tie for the worst of the year is Choose or Die, which was just horrendous and may even be worse, but I can't really pick between them.]

Blind Spot Movies = The 355, Ambulance, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Outfit, Turning Red and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2023

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4. The Holdovers
5. The Iron Claw
6. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
7. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
8. They Cloned Tyrone
9. Knock at the Cabin
10. John Wick: Chapter 4
11. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
    
12. The Flash
13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
14. Oppenheimer
15. Saltburn
16. Barbie
17. Dream Scenario
18. Leave the World Behind
19. Renfield
20. A Haunting in Venice
21. M3gan
22. The Marvels
23. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
24. Missing
25. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
26. Haunted Mansion
27. Blue Beetle
28. The Zone of Interest
29. What You Wish For
30. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
31. Shazam! Fury of the Gods
32. Talk to Me
33. 65
34. Five Nights at Freddy's
35. Saw X
36. Fast X
37. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
38. Merry Little Batman
39. The Creator
40. When Evil Lurks
41. Hypnotic
42. Paradise
43. All of Us Strangers
    
44. Cobweb
45. Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match
46. The Meg 2: The Trench
47. Vacation Friends 2
48. The Pale Blue Eye
49. You'll Never Find Me 
50. Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
51. The Pope's Exorcist
52. Hidden Strike
53. Justice League: Warworld

Considering how many comic book films were underwhelming this year, and how a few other movies were surprisingly higher up than I anticipated, this is not at all the list that I was expecting heading into 2023, that's for sure!

Across the Spider-Verse was naturally awesome. Godzilla was SO good, which blew my mind. GOTG wasn't as good as the first, but I think there are elements that are better than the second, and it was a good way to finish the trilogy. I don't have an attachment to Indiana Jones in the same way some others do when they saw the first three as kids, but I did enjoy Dial of Destiny quite a bit, even if it feels a bit unnecessary in the grand scheme.

Holdovers and Oppenheimer are the two "best" movies of the year in terms of Oscar caliber Best Picture nominations, with Saltburn just behind them. I enjoyed Barbie while watching it, but the more I think about it after the fact, the less staying power it has. I can't imagine watching it a second time.

Knock at the Cabin was a very early "wow" for me that eventually was just overtaken by other movies, but for a while, sat at the top of the list.

When you tap into my childhood and you do a pretty good job at pulling it off, I have to give a thumbs up to Super Mario and TMNT, although while Mario far exceeds its 90s movie precursor, Mutant Mayhem is a shell of the 1990 Ninja Turtles film, which remains one of my favorites of all time.

The Marvels, The Flash, Shazam, Quantumania, Blue Beetle...what are we doing? Woof. The general idea was that all of these movies had some good ideas and some potential, but just weren't good. The execution was just not what it could have been. Frankly, I'm being kinder to some of them than I would be if they were the exact same films, but of a different genre. They're lucky I love superhero flicks. Unless it was Justice League: Warworld, which was just beyond dissatisfying.

Renfield was fun, as was Haunted Mansion and M3GAN, for random examples. I even enjoyed Talk to Me more than most horror films. The Creator was a bust, though. Very disappointing.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2024

1. Civil War
2. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
3. Deadpool and Wolverine
4. My Old Ass
5. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
6. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One
7. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Three
   
8. A Quiet Place: Day One
9. Late Night with the Devil
10. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
11. Alien: Romulus
12. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
    
13. Blink Twice
    
14. Saturday Night
15. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 
16. Kraven the Hunter
17. Venom: The Last Dance
18. Abigail
    
19. Challengers
20. Conclave
21. I'm Still Here
    
22. Humane
23. Monkey Man
    
24. Never Let Go
    
25. It's What's Inside
    
26. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Two
    
27. Cuckoo
28. Speak No Evil
29. Carry-On
    
30. Heretic
31. Exhuma
    
32. Transformers One
    
33. Twisters
34. Y2K
35. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
    
36. Gladiator II
37. Nosferatu
38. Maxxine
39. The Park Maniac (Maníaco do Parque)
40. Ricky Stanicky
    
41. Joker: Folie à Deux
42. Beekeeper
43. Argylle
44. Road House
45. Trap
    
46. Immaculate
47. The I.S.S.
48. Longlegs
    
49. Imaginary
50. Oddity
    
51. The Front Room
    
52. The First Omen
53. Madame Web
    

Overall, I was quite disappointed with this year. A film like Civil War (which I'm disappointed to see was more prophetic than I expected in real life...) isn't something I'll ever want to watch again, but it's the one film I would suggest for Best Picture that I've seen. Even something like Saturday Night was fun for its impressions, but the film itself isn't something I can praise to the heavens. For Challengers to be one of the stronger films of the year is not putting this on par with 1994 or whatever.

As a comic book type movie fan geek, we had some solid things like Deadpool and Wolverine, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Godzilla x Kong, but those are the best ones, and even those aren't SUPER high up on my list for a lot of reasons. For instance, Deadpool ranks #28 right now on my all-time MCU ranking, rather than something monumental like a top 10. That's in part because we had less MCU projects and instead, THREE different Sony films. That means when Kraven is the best between Venom: The Last Dance and the atrocious Madame Web, but we ALSO had the extremely disappointing Joker: Folie a Deux...yikes. At least Alien: Romulus was solid, but I'm not the biggest fan of that franchise enough for that to measure up as much to me as Marvel and DC projects and other things from my childhood like Beetlejuice and Ghostbusters and Godzilla would.

Twisters and Gladiator II and Transformers One and so on were nostalgic-esque, but again, didn't hit super well. I always thought the first Gladiator was overrated and I was never particularly gaga over Twister back in the day. Transformers One had the most horrendous exposition-based dialogue in a film I think I've ever seen.

Most of this year's list of new films felt very generic. Ricky Stanicky is just John Cena doing the same character he's done in Vacation Friends and we've seen in plenty other films. It's an attempt at doing early 2000s comedies. Y2K felt like it would've been better off coming out 10+ years ago, too. Beekeeper is a generic Jason Statham thing. Every single horror film my wife wanted me to see felt like it was just a modern indie flick with that pompous air about itself, or it was just as generic as the redo of the action films. I've seen how many movies exactly like Immaculate now? Even the semi-decent ones like Cuckoo and Never Let Go just didn't wow me as much as even Knock at the Cabin did last year. I did dig some aspects of Late Night with the Devil, though, and Abigail was fun to watch with people and chuckle about.

Conclave was by the numbers and I wanted something more out of it. I did dig My Old Ass way more than I thought I would. But holy shit was Argylle a disappointment, and Trap really did trap me into thinking it could be good, only to be 1/3 interesting, 2/3 other shitty movie. Some movies like Blink Twice and Humane made for interesting watches, but I do hope that we see these 2024 movies fall significantly down the Top of the 2020s decade list because it means 2025 has so much more to offer.

Blind Spot Movies = The Fall Guy, IF, Inside Out 2, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Megalopolis, Moana 2, Mufasa: The Lion King, Paddington in Peru, Red One, The Substance, The Watchers and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2025

1. Superman
2. The Life of Chuck
3. Sinners
4. Companion
5. Thunderbolts
6. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
7. Ballerina
8. The Long Walk
9. The Black Phone 2
10. No Other Choice
11. Captain America: Brave New World
12. M3GAN 2.0
13. Predator: Badlands
14. 28 Years Later
15. Frankenstein
16. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
17. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
18. The Fantastic 4: First Steps
19. Black Bag
20. Relay
21. Weapons
22. Together
23. Presence
24. Final Destination: Bloodlines
25. The Naked Gun
26. Happy Gilmore
27. Bone Lake
28. The Running Man
29. Bring Her Back
30. Shelby Oaks
31.  The Conjuring: Last Rites
32. Wolf Man
33. The Woman in Cabin 10
34. The Secret Agent
35. Mickey 17
36. Keeper

As talked about in the 2025 Fanboys Film Awards and indicated above, my biggest standouts this year were definitely Superman, The Life of Chuck, and Sinners. Those are the only movies I watched more than once, and enjoyed them just as much (if not more) on the second time around, even.

The Life of Chuck was what resonated with me the most. It might not for you, but it GOT me. A rare cry, and in-theater on top of that, which puts that film in a group of only I think five movies ever.

Superman was far and above the best comic book film, as while I enjoyed Thunderbolts in a lot of ways, movies like Captain America: Brave New World and The Fantastic 4: First Steps under-delivered and matched the typical disappointing nature of post-Endgame MUC. Captain America was half-baked and I can't tell if reshoots would have been better than hacking it to pieces or if it was doomed from the start, but it certainly didn't land well, and I've never been the absolute biggest F4 fan, so while that was true to its nature, that was still on a bit of a sliding scale for me. I'm still hoping 2026 actually delivers on the superhero front.

Predator: Badlands was a lot of fun. Mission Impossible was a solid ending to the franchise, and handled better than how No Time to Die finished Daniel Craig's James Bond series run. Ballerina was also a lot of fun, as was M3GAN 2.0 as sometimes, movies are just pure entertainment.

Companion was an early favorite and a standout, and was leading the pack until Sinners came around and usurped it for a while. I would say that was my wife's favorite movie of this year, too, as she's still singing some of the songs from Sinners today. Speaking of her, she's the reason all the horror stuff is on the list, essentially, and some of those were obviously not hitting at all for me. Keeper proved to me that I just won't like Osgood Perkins, I guess, after not liking Longlegs either. But something like Final Destination was fun to watch in theaters.

A few random watches like Blind Bag and Relay were solid one-shots, and The Long Walk was a great one.

Boy were some of these remakes or sequels bad. The original Naked Gun is in my top 5 favorite comedies of all time (maybe ranked #2 behind Robin Hood: Men in Tights), but YIKES that was bad. The Running Man was somehow worse than the original, which isn't a 'good' movie, but at least was more fun and less obnoxious. Happy Gilmore 2? Not happy about that. I didn't even feel motivated enough to see the sequels for Nobody, The Accountant, The Bad Guys, Tron: Ares, Zootopia and Jurassic World Rebirtheven though I liked the other movies.

I hope I never have to sit through something as awkwardly bad as Mickey 17 again. That and Keeper were the two movies this year where I was actively squirming in my chair at AMC wishing the movie would end and I could get out of there.

Technically, I didn't watch No Other Choice until January 3rd of 2026, but since it goes into this year's category, I've retroactively added it into the mix. Good film, but outranked by some others.

Blind Spot Movies = The Accountant 2, The Bad Guys 2, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, How to Train Your Dragon, Jurassic World Rebirth, Karate Kid: Legends, Nobody 2, Novocaine, Tron: Ares, Zootopia 2 and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2026

This year is obviously ongoing, so my list will be adjusted here and there as I see more movies.

1. Project Hail Mary
2. Exit 8
3. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
4. Crime 101
5. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
6. They Will Kill You
7. Obsession 
8. Mortal Kombat II
9. Send Help
10. Backrooms 
11. Dead Man's Wire
12. Undertone
13. Hokum
14. Lee Cronin's The Mummy

Here's hoping this is a great year for movies that makes it tough to just pick only 10!

TOP 100+ FAVORITE FILMS OF 2020s DECADE (so far)
BONUS ROUND

Note: Some of these will be in a different order from what their yearly ranking was. That is because I tend to rank things on a more "lifetime" scale when it comes to the decade list. Effectively, I might have thought Civil War was one of the better movies of the decade, but I'm not going to rank that as high as movies I would be more willing to rewatch multiple times, necessarily. The decade list is even more of a combination of rewatchability+quality+fandom.

1. Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
2. The Batman (2022)
3. Superman (2025)
4. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
5. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
   
6. The Suicide Squad (2021)
7. The Life of Chuck (2025)
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
9. Sinners (2025)
10. Godzilla Minus One (2023)
11. The Holdovers (2023)
12. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
    
13. Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
14. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
15. Bullet Train (2022)
16. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
17. Civil War (2024)
18. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
19. Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)
20. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
21. Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
22. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
23. Batman: The Long Halloween (Part One and Part Two) (2021)
24. Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)
25. Project Hail Mary (2026)
26. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)
27. The Menu (2022)
28. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
29. No Time to Die (2021)
30. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
31. Companion (2025)
32. Thunderbolts (2025)
    
33. My Old Ass (2024)
34. Nope (2022)
35. Prey (2022)
36. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023)
37. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
38. Knock at the Cabin (2023)
39. John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
40. Ballerina (2025)
41. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
42. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
43. The Long Walk (2025)
44. Exit 8 (2026)
45. The Flash (2023)
46. The Iron Claw (2023)
47. Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
48. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
    
49. Saltburn (2023)
50. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
51. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One (2024)
52. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Three (2024)
53. Nine Days (2020)
    
54. The Black Phone (2022)
55. The Black Phone 2 (2025)
56. No Other Choice (2025)
57. Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
58. M3GAN 2.0 (2025)
59. Predator: Badlands (2025)
60. A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
61. They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
62. Renfield (2023)
63. Soul (2020)
64. Oppenheimer (2023)
65. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
66. Crime 101 (2025)
67. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026)
68. They Will Kill You (2026)
69. Nobody (2021)
70. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
    
71. Dream Scenario (2023)
72. Barbie (2023)
73. A Haunting in Venice (2023)
74. Death on the Nile (2022)
75. 28 Years Later (2025)
76. Frankenstein (2025)
77. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
78. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025)
79. The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)
80. Black Widow (2021)
81. The Marvels (2023)
82. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
83. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
84. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
85. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
86. M3gan (2023)
87. Free Guy (2021)
88. Clerks III (2022)
89. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
90. Peninsula (2020)
91. Palm Springs (2020)
92. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)
93. Blink Twice (2024)
94. Alien: Romulus (2024)
95. A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
96. The Zone of Interest (2023)
97. Send Help (2026)
98. The Bad Guys (2022)
99. Leave the World Behind (2023)
100. Missing (2023)
101. Saturday Night (2024)
102. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 
103. Kraven the Hunter (2024)
     
104. Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
105. Talk to Me (2023)
     
106. Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
107. Haunted Mansion (2023)
108. The King's Man (2021)
109. Black Bag (2025)
110. Relay (2025)
111. Obsession (2026) 
112. DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
113. Jackass Forever (2022)
114. Challengers (2024)
115. Amsterdam (2022)
116. Abigail (2024)
117. Late Night with the Devil (2024)
118. Weapons (2025)
119. Together (2025)
120. Marvel's Eternals (2021)
121. Mortal Kombat II (2026)
122. Mortal Kombat (2021)
123. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
124. Vacation Friends (2021)
125. Red Notice (2021)

Obviously, this decade list is a work in progress. I'll be updating it every few months or so, any time I remember to put in a new film that I've liked enough to put somewhere on the list.

What are your favorite movies from every year?
Drop your thoughts in the comments below!

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2010

1. Inception
2. Kick-Ass
3. Iron Man 2
4. TRON: Legacy
5. Batman: Under the Red Hood
6. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
7. Toy Story 3
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
9. Jackass 3D
10. How to Train Your Dragon
11. RED

I really wish Inception had won Best Picture this year. It deserved to break ground like that.

Kick-Ass instantly became a favorite of mine. Iron Man 2 is nowhere near as good as the first, but it builds the world of the MCU really well and is a fun ride. TRON: Legacy is INFINITELY better than the first one, and I don't care if you find that sacrilegious to say.

Under the Red Hood and Crisis on Two Earths are among the best of the DCAU.

Toy Story 3 doesn't hold a candle to the first, but I think it is about on par with the second.

Scott Pilgrim is the type of movie I can imagine most people having in their top 10. While it isn't anywhere close to that for me, it is definitely super fun.

There are a handful of movies this year that I liked, but they don't even find themselves in the top 100 for "favorite" consideration, like Love & Other Drugs and Easy A and The Man from Nowhere. If you're counting soundtracks, Monsters has some of the best music in any movie with its score.

This year houses the first time I've ever fallen asleep in a movie theater with the movie Hereafter. That was totally marketed as a different type of movie than what it actually was.

Blind Spot Movies = Charlie St. Cloud, Despicable Me, Jonah Hex, The Karate Kid, MacGruber, The Other Guys, Predators, Shrek Forever After, True Grit and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2011

1. Thor
2. Captain America: The First Avenger
3. The Adjustment Bureau
4. X-Men: First Class
5. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
6. Batman: Year One
7. Green Lantern
8. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
10. Limitless

Over time, I've softened on my thoughts for Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. While they don't rank in the top range of the MCU for me, they're super easy rewatches I've grown to appreciate more as time goes on.

The Adjustment Bureau is a fun concept and the type of movie I recommend to people who are into that genre of low-stakes sci-fi-esque thriller fantasy drama.

Ghost Protocol was a step up once more in the Mission: Impossible franchise.

Movies like Green Lantern and Transformers: Dark of the Moon aren't good. By almost any means. But I gotta fill the top 10 somehow, and even though there are movies that I found interesting, I haven't had the urge to rewatch any of them, but I'd at least give Batman: Year One another shot, likely, and I liked the Limitless television show way more than the movie.

Blind Spot Movies = A Dangerous Method, The Artist, Attack the Block, Bad Teacher, Cars 2, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Hangover Part II, The Help, Hugo, Kung Fu Panda 2, Moneyball, Puss in Boots, Rango, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Sucker Punch, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Your Highness and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2012

1. The Avengers
2. Skyfall
3. 21 Jump Street
4. Chronicle
5. Paperman (short film)
6. The Amazing Spider-Man
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Justice League: Doom
9. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
10. Superman vs. The Elite
11. Dredd
    

Man. Look at that top three. So, so, so good, and movies I can rewatch over and over.

Chronicle took me by surprise when I first saw it, and it is definitely a movie I recommend to a lot of people.

Paperman is something I actually force some to watch. Yes, it is a short film, but I'm counting it, because it isn't as though this year has tons and tons of options to pick from.

The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises are great examples of movies that I would love way more as a kid, but as an adult with more options in the genre that do it better, they pale in comparison.

Shout out to Les Misérables for being what I wanted to win Best Picture. But I'm surely not rewatching that maybe ever again. Something like The Hunger Games was interesting enough to get me to watch the sequels, and Looper was cool, and even Wreck-It-Ralph

Blind Spot Movies = The Bourne Legacy, Brave, Cloud Atlas, Hotel Transylvania, Jack Reacher, John Carter, Lincoln, Magic Mike, Men in Black 3, Robot & Frank, Seven Psychopaths, This is 40, Total Recall and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2013

1. Man of Steel
2. Kick-Ass 2
3. Iron Man 3
4. Thor: The Dark World
5. Star Trek Into Darkness
6. Oblivion
7. The Wolverine
8. White House Down
9. Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
10. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2

Not a strong year. This is one of those times where everything is a lesser sequel in many ways. But the top 4 are movies I can rewatch (and have), and Star Trek Into Darkness was rock solid when I saw it, and Oblivion did its job, too.

Shout out to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 for being one of my more enjoyed movies where I got to hear a bunch of puns like shrimpanzees. Those marshmallows were adorable, too.

Also, shout out to Coherence, which I watched after making this list. It doesn't top 2013, but it was still super neat.

Blind Spot Movies = 12 Years a Slave, After Earth, Captain Phillips, Despicable Me 2, Ender's Game, Fruitvale Station, The Great Gatsby, The Hangover Part III, Inside Llewyn Davis, Monsters University, Much Ado About Nothing, Pacific Rim, Planes, RED 2, World War Z and more. I honestly can't remember if I've seen Elysium, for instance.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2014

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past
4. 22 Jump Street
5. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
6. A Long Way Down
7. Edge of Tomorrow
8. Justice League: War
9. Let's Be Cops
10. The Purge: Anarchy
11. The Lego Movie
12. John Wick
    

Let's goooooooo! Look at that top four!

Amazing Spider-Man 2 is super flawed. A Long Way Down is too much of a downer to rewatch, but it hit me. Edge of Tomorrow was cool. Let's Be Cops is one of those movies I genuinely found fun and funny, and I don't know if anyone else has even seen it, let alone liked it. And you've got The Purge: Anarchy which was so much better than the first one that it set the tone for the series to follow, and for me to enjoy the stuff that came after it, except for The Forever Purge, which I shut off after a few minutes. But even the TV show was cool.

It's a shame Interstellar isn't more like Inception. Or that Nightcrawler isn't more rewatchable, as that was good, but I can't say it would be a favorite.

Update: I've seen John Wick since publishing this list. Very cool. It has to go on the list, but not immediately jumping straight up. We'll see how that changes over time.

Blind Spot Movies = American Sniper, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Equalizer, Foxcatcher, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Ride Along, and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2015

1. Kingsman: The Secret Service
2. Avengers: Age of Ultron
3. Ant-Man
4. Spectre
5. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. Creed
8. Jurassic World
9. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
10. Batman vs Robin

How bad was that Fant4stic movie and a lot of other things this year, right? I really wish I would have liked The Hateful Eight more.

But you've got Kingsman this year, which instantly became one of my favorite movies. Age of Ultron is underrated. Ant-Man is a lot of fun. Spectre is a super flawed James Bond film, but it is still 007.

Of course, Rogue Nation hits the mark. I was surprised at how much I liked Mad Max: Fury Road.

I wasn't surprised at how much I didn't like Terminator Genisys. Also, screw you, The Force Awakens. The sequel trilogy is terrible and I tried so hard to love this, only to realize in retrospect how it is just not good.

Shout out to a few other movies like Room, The Intern, Inside Out and The Revenant, but they aren't favorites by a long shot.

Blind Spot Movies = Hitman: Agent 47, It Follows, Paddington, Project Almanac, Self/Less, Sicario, Victor Frankenstein and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2016

1. Captain America: Civil War
2. Deadpool
3. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition)
4. Doctor Strange
5. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
6. Suicide Squad
7. Split
8. Star Trek Beyond
9. Arrival
10. Train to Busan
11. The Jungle Book
12. Inferno
13. La La Land
14. The Purge: Election Year
15. Swiss Army Man
16. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
17. X-Men: Apocalypse
18. 10 Cloverfield Lane
19. Zootopia

Major shout out to those top 3. I maintain that BvS in Ultimate Edition form is a 75% masterful movie with 25% flaws that could easily have been fixed by just not having Batman as a murderer and not casting Jesse Eisenberg for Lex Luthor.

The rest...meh. Look. We all know Suicide Squad is really awful. But I'd rather watch that again than tons of other things that came out this year.

Shout out to a few "good" movies that aren't favorites, like Fences and Hidden Figures and Hell or High Water.

Blind Spot Movies = A Monster Calls, Eddie the Eagle, The Founder, Hardcore Henry, Jason Bourne, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Magnificent Seven, The Nice Guys and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2017

1. Spider-Man: Homecoming
2. The Lego Batman Movie
3. Thor: Ragnarok
   
4. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
5. Power Rangers
6. Logan
7. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
   
8. I, Tonya
9. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
10. It
11. Get Out
12. Justice League
13. Wonder Woman
14. Kong: Skull Island
15. John Wick: Chapter 2
16. Murder on the Orient Express
17. Radius
    

I don't think I really need to explain anything on this list except maybe I, Tonya, right? But that movie was so easy to watch and was fun on the second go-around, too.

#TheLastJediSucks

I don't think The Mummy is as bad as everyone else thought. It's not great, but it could have been a fine start to the Dark Universe crossover movies.

Blind Spot Movies = A Cure for Wellness, The Belko Experiment, Blade Runner 2049, Coco, The Dark Tower, The Greatest Showman, The Lego Ninjago Movie, Molly's Game, Sleight, The Space Between Us, The Snowman, War for the Planet of the Apes and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2018

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Black Panther
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. Ant-Man and the Wasp
5. Mission: Impossible - Fallout
6. A Quiet Place
7. Deadpool 2
8. Creed II
9. Game Night 
10. Venom
11. Bao (short film) and The Incredibles 2 --- tie
12. Aquaman
13. The First Purge
14. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
15. Bumblebee
16. Searching
17. Ready Player One
18. Solo: A Star Wars Story
    

C'mon. Look at the top three up there. Nuff said.

I'm cheating when it comes to Bao and Incredibles 2 because one was a short leading into the other. Cry all you want. It's my site and my list and my rules. Plus, I rank them in the decade list anyway.

Blind Spot Movies = Annihilation, BlacKkKlansman, Crazy Rich Asians, First Man, Tomb Raider, Vice and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2019

1. Avengers: Endgame
   
2. Spider-Man: Far From Home
3. Joker
4. Knives Out
5. Pokemon: Detective Pikachu
6. Parasite
7. Shazam!
8. Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
9. Batman: Hush
10. Zombieland: Double Tap
11. Glass
12. Jumanji: The Next Level
13. It Chapter Two
14. Captain Marvel
15. Richard Jewell
16. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
17. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
    

This was a damn good year overall. While it isn't made up of entirely S-tier stuff like Avengers: Endgame, you're better off watching any of these than many other years. A lot of B+ type candidates here and some A-tier stuff, too, to boot.

Shout out to some good movies like Ford v Ferrari, 1917, Jojo Rabbit, Us, and definitely, definitely not Terminator: Dark Fate. Giant middle finger to that movie, as well as The Rise of Skywalker for continuing the trend of the bad sequel films and putting such little effort into it to have lines like "Somehow, Palpatine has returned."

Blind Spot Movies = Abominable, Alita: Battle Angel, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Booksmart, Hellboy, Hustlers, The Lighthouse, Men in Black: International, Midsommar, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Uncut Gems and more.

TOP 100 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2010s DECADE
BONUS ROUND

1. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
2. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
3. The Avengers (2012)
4. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
6. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
7. Skyfall (2012)
8. Inception (2010)
9. Kick-Ass (2010)
10. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
11. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
12. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition) (2016)
13. Black Panther (2018)
14. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
15. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
16. 21 Jump Street (2012)
17. 22 Jump Street (2014)
18. Deadpool (2016)
19. Man of Steel (2013)
20. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
21. Iron Man 2 (2010)
22. TRON: Legacy (2010)
23. The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
24. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
25. Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
26. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
27. Thor (2011)
28. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
29. Ant-Man (2015)
30. Chronicle (2012)
31. Joker (2019)
32. Knives Out (2019)
33. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (2017)
34. Power Rangers (2017)
35. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
36. Iron Man 3  (2013)
37. Doctor Strange (2016)
38. Spectre (2015)
39. Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
40. The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
41. X-Men: First Class (2011)
42. Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
43. Paperman (short film) (2012)
44. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
45. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
46. Thor: The Dark World (2013)
47. Justice League (2017)
48. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
49. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
50. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
51. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
52. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)
53. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
54. Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019)
55. Batman: Hush (2019)
56. I, Tonya (2017)
57. Game Night (2018) 
58. Venom (2018)
59. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
60. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
61. Logan (2017)
62. A Quiet Place (2018)
63. Deadpool 2 (2018)
64. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
65. Suicide Squad (2016)
66. Shazam! (2019)
67. Bao (short film) (2018)
68. Incredibles 2 (2018)
69. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
70. Toy Story 3 (2010)
71. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
72. The Lego Movie (2014)
73. Justice League: Doom (2012)
74. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
75. Kong: Skull Island (2017)
76. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
77. Creed (2015)
78. Creed II (2018)
79. Jurassic World (2015)
80. Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
81. Aquaman (2018)
82. Wonder Woman (2017)
83. Captain Marvel (2019)
84. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
85. Arrival (2016)
86. Train to Busan (2016)
87. A Long Way Down (2014)
88. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
89. Parasite (2019)
90. Oblivion (2013)
91. Split (2016)
92. Justice League: War (2014)
93. Let's Be Cops (2014)
94. The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
95. John Wick (2014) * 
96. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) *
97. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) *
    
98. Richard Jewell (2019)
99. The Wolverine (2013)
100. Star Trek Beyond (2016)
101. The Jungle Book (2016)
102. Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
103. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
104. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
     

As you can tell, there is an abundance of superhero films. That comes with not only the explosion of the genre (particularly with the MCU starting in 2008) but also because I'm a huge fan of superheroes and their comedic/action nature makes them SIGNIFICANTLY rewatchable compared to heavy dramas.

But with that in mind, it is interesting to see how many superhero flicks DON'T make the cut. For instance, X-Men: Apocalypse. They just aren't good enough for me to want to watch them again and again. Some of them weren't even good enough for me to enjoy the first time around.

When it gets to the tail end, I was struggling to figure out what to put here. I almost put White House Down for how I was shocked at how much fun I had watching it in theaters, but I never watched even a clip of it a second time. So points go to Murder on the Orient Express for being good enough that I was interested to watch its follow-up a few years later.

That top range is so tight. Kingsman is one of my favorite movies of all time, and for it to not rank #1 is saying a lot for how much I enjoy the MCU and the Avengers major crossovers in particular.

* John Wick was added after this list was made, and I should probably rank it quite a bit higher.

This is a fantastic group of a top 100, for sure.

What are your favorite movies from every year?
Drop your thoughts in the comments below!

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2000

1. American Psycho
   
2. Scary Movie
3. Memento
4. X-Men
5. The Way of the Gun
   
6. Unbreakable
   
7. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
8. Mission: Impossible II
   
9. Cast Away
10. Traffic
11. Pay It Forward
12. Battle Royale
    

I distinctly remember walking out of U-571 in theaters because of how bored I was, and rolling my eyes at What Lies Beneath for every jump scare I could see coming from a mile away. And boy, was a teenage me disappointed when I went to see Coyote Ugly in theaters.

So many movies these year just don't stand up to my memory, like The Whole Nine Yards and Best in Show or The Skulls or Reindeer Games or Animal Factory.

Blind Spot Movies = Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Emperor's New Groove, Miss Congeniality, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Rules of Engagement, Space Cowboys and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2001

1. K-PAX
   
2. Not Another Teen Movie
   
3. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
   
4. Hannibal
   
5. Rush Hour 2
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
7. Wet Hot American Summer
   
8. Donnie Darko
9. 3000 Miles to Graceland
10. The Score
11. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
12. Scary Movie 2
13. Ocean's Eleven
14. Heartbreakers
15. Blow
16. American Pie 2
17. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
18. Pearl Harbor
19. I Am Sam
20. Jurassic Park III
21. The Fast and the Furious
    

This year had Black Hawk Down, Behind Enemy Lines and Enemy at the Gates. I saw all three and can't remember more than a scene or two from any of them. Good music from Hans Zimmer in the former, though. Also, Bandits and Heist gave me the same vibes.

Want to talk about a massively disappointing movie? Mulholland Drive is your answer.

I'm curious if I were to rewatch Vanilla Sky if I would be thoroughly underwhelmed like I was walking out of the theater, or if I would actually like it now after 20 years.

No, I'm not nuts over Shrek or Zoolander. Sorry.

Blind Spot Movies = Ghost World, A Knight's Tale, Legally Blonde, Spy Kids, Super Troopers and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2002

1. Spider-Man
   
2. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
3. Catch Me If You Can
   
4. Die Another Day
   
5. Death to Smoochy
   
6. Phone Booth
   
7. Austin Powers in Goldmember
   
8. Minority Report
9. Jackass: The Movie
10. Red Dragon
11. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
12. An Evening with Kevin Smith
13. National Lampoon's Van Wilder
14. Road to Perdition
15. John Q
16. Insomnia
17. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
18. One Hour Photo
19. The Bourne Identity
20. Bowling for Columbine
    
21. 28 Days Later
22. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
23. The Ring

Of course Spider-Man tops the list. But while I fully acknowledge Catch Me If You Can is above Die Another Day and Attack of the Clones as far as quality of the film goes, I have to give special credit to Episode II for being the movie I've seen the most in theaters by far. I think I went something like 7 times. Catch Me If You Can is easily the superior film above it, but again, this is a list of favorites, not best.

Loooove Death to Smoochy. Phone Booth is an overlooked really solid flick. While Goldmember isn't the strongest of the three Austin Powers films, it still has its fair share of chuckles. And Minority Report is really good.

This is a strong year. To get to the 14th spot before I reach some movies that I wouldn't mind bumping off is impressive. But I still need to rewatch Insomnia again. I might like it better the second time around. The same goes for The Bourne Identity.

Blind Spot Movies = 8 Mile, The Count of Monte Cristo, Ice Age, Lilo & Stitch, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Panic Room and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2003

1. Matchstick Men
   
2. X2: X-Men United
   
3. Kill Bill: Volume 1
   
4. Scary Movie 3
   
5. Bad Santa
   
6. Big Fish
   
7. Identity
   
8. Old School
   
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
11. Daredevil
12. Finding Nemo
    
13. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
14. Hulk
15. The Matrix Revolutions
16. The Matrix Reloaded
17. Oldboy
18. Elf

I think it is criminal Matchstick Men is a movie most people don't know. Also, Scary Movie 3 is supremely underrated in the spoof genre.

Those films up in bold are so good and most people wouldn't mention them at all, which is a shame. X2 was one of the best comic book films ever until the genre stepped it up a notch. Kill Bill is awesome. Bad Santa is hilarious. Big Fish and Identity are two movies I never hear people talk about, but I always recommend. And high school me thought Old School was a laugh riot for sure. I've watched that movie so many times.

The other films have some pretty decent spots on here, too. But there is a distinct drop-off. For instance, there are a few elements of Terminator 3 that I like, and I've seen the movie way more times than it needs to be seen, but that was mostly to try to convince myself it was better than what it was. Hulk is in similar territory. At the time, I enjoyed parts of it enough to watch it more than once, but I've always known that it wasn't good, and as time goes on, my criticism gets harsher and harsher. Oldboy was great for a one-time watch. I couldn't say it is a favorite, but it is good. That's a distinction that has to be factored in a lot more on this list.

This was the year of The Room. That movie is horrendous and by proxy, a fantastic watch.

I need to rewatch Love Actually at some point.

Blind Spot Movies = Cheaper by the Dozen and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2004

1. Collateral
   
2. Team America: World Police
   
3. Kill Bill: Volume 2
   
4. Spider-Man 2
   
5. Garden State
   
6. The Terminal
7. The Incredibles
8. National Treasure
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. Saw

I'm not as gaga over Shaun of the Dead like most people. It was fine. The Notebook didn't do it for me.

But I am totally nuts over Collateral. I think it is one of the most criminally overlooked movies of the past 20-some years. It is fantastic.

Team America is brilliant. Kill Bill 2 is awesome. Spider-Man 2 has a few flaws, but it is still one of the better overall movies in the franchise. My opinions on Garden State get lower as time goes on, but I still loved it. I definitely need to rewatch The Terminal, but I loved it at the time I saw it.

This is a good list, for sure. Even Saw is something that I was super fond of enough that I watched the next two movies and got annoyed at how the franchise fell off when it started from such a good place.

Blind Spot Movies = Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Aviator, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Friday Night Lights, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Hotel Rwanda, Ocean's Twelve, Million Dollar Baby, Ray, Shrek 2 and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2005

1. Batman Begins
   
2. The Island
   
3. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
4. V for Vendetta
5. Sin City
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
7. Fantastic 4
8. Wedding Crashers
9. Saw II
   
10. Sky High
    

Batman Begins is probably my favorite overall Batman film, if you ignore all the years as a kid that built up '89 and Returns.

The Island is super underrated, and a movie I recommend to a lot of people.

Solid marks all around for Revenge of the Sith, V for Vendetta and Sin City.

There's a drop for Harry Potter, Fantastic 4, and Wedding Crashers. Then, another drop for Saw II and Sky High.

What a shame King Kong and War of the Worlds weren't better.

Blind Spot Movies = The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Be Cool, Brokeback Mountain, Crash, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Legend of Zorro, Memoirs of a Geisha, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2006

1. Stranger Than Fiction
2. Casino Royale
   
3. Clerks II
   
4. The Da Vinci Code
   
5. The Prestige
6. Mission: Impossible III
7. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
8. Superman Returns
9. Jackass Number Two
10. Grandma's Boy

Casino Royale is arguably the very best James Bond film and a strong contender to top the year, if it wasn't for Stranger Than Fiction, which I absolutely adore. It is one of my go-to comfort films that I recommend to EVERYBODY. I can't sing enough praises. Easily one of my favorites of all time, as you'll see on the decade list.

Clerks II is nowhere near as strong as the first, but still makes me laugh. The Da Vinci Code and The Prestige are about tied. MI3 was a big improvement that really started this trend of each film in the series matching or surpassing the previous one.

There are a handful of movies from this year that I remember enjoying to an extent, but not enough to watch a second time, and I can't really recall too much of them. For instance, Inside Man and Lucky Number Slevin. The same goes for The Holiday and Wristcutters: A Love Story. But since this is a list of FAVORITE movies, I can't reasonably put them on this list with that in mind.

I was so disappointed when X-Men: The Last Stand sucked.

Blind Spot Movies = Apocalypto, Beerfest, Blood Diamond, Cars, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Idiocracy, Little Miss Sunshine, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2007

1. Superbad
   
2. Transformers
   
3. The Mist
4. I Am Legend
5. Spider-Man 3
6. Zodiac
7. Jackass 2.5
8. Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
9. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
10. Sunshine
    
11. Superman: Doomsday

This is a weaker year, all things considered. While Superbad is hilarious and I still maintain that the first Transformers movie is legitimately good as well, and I enjoyed the overall ride for The Mist and even I Am Legend (the third movie ever to make me cry), and of course, my fandom has Spider-Man 3 in a weird spot where I hate it, but it's still Spider-Man...some of the other movies are lacking.

Zodiac is in that range of "I liked it a lot when I saw it, but I've never felt the urge to watch it a second time."

So many movies like Hot Fuzz, Fracture, In the Land of Women, Disturbia, Vacancy, The Bucket List,  Shoot 'Em Up, Smokin' Aces and more are just non-factors here. I can't even remember if I saw 30 Days of Night and many others, but I doubt they would have made the top 10 anyway.

You would think I would have seen Hannibal Rising, but I didn't. I never bothered to see Sweeney Todd, either, despite liking the Neil Patrick Harris version I had seen a few years prior.

Blind Spot Movies = 300, 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, The Bourne Ultimatum, Gone Baby Gone, Hannibal Rising, Hitman, Juno, Knocked Up, Lars and the Real Girl, Ocean's Thirteen, Shrek the Third, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, There Will Be Blood and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2008

1. Iron Man
2. The Dark Knight
   
3. The Incredible Hulk
   
4. Hancock
   
5. Cloverfield
   
6. Quantum of Solace
   
7. WALL-E
8. Gran Torino
9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
10. Punisher: War Zone

The Dark Knight and Iron Man are phenomenal and essentially tied in my book, but at the end of the day, the one that I've seen more at this point is Iron Man, so it narrowly ekes out the top spot. The Incredible Hulk is underrated, but not on par. I really like Hancock and Cloverfield. Unfortunately, Quantum of Solace is one of my least favorite Bond films.

Boy, was I disappointed that Superhero Movie had nothing to laugh at. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a big let down, among some others, too.

Blind Spot Movies = Get Smart, The Happening, In Bruges, Kung Fu Panda, Milk, Rambo, Speed Racer and more.

TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2009

1. Star Trek
2. Zombieland
3. Terminator Salvation
4. Watchmen
5. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
6. Angels & Demons
7. Moon
8. Ink
9. I Love You, Man
10. (500) Days of Summer
11. Timer
12. The Time Traveler's Wife
13. Sherlock Holmes

I was never a Star Trek fan, but the movie is awesome. Zombieland is a ton of fun. Terminator Salvation has some major problems, but it was still a better attempt at T3 than Rise of the Machines.

Upon a second watch, I liked Watchmen a lot more than the first time around.

Moon and Ink are movies I haven't had the urge to watch a second time, but they wowed me when I saw them.

There's a trio up there of (500) Days of Summer, Timer and The Time Traveler's Wife that I watched all around the same time and was really in the feels, and loved. But all three of them were one-time views.

Blind Spot Movies = The Blind Side, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Paranormal Activity, Sunshine Cleaning, Taken and more.

TOP 100 FAVORITE FILMS OF 2000-2009 DECADE
BONUS ROUND

1. American Psycho (2000)
2. Iron Man (2008)
3. Batman Begins (2005)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
   
5. Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
6. Casino Royale (2006)
7. Spider-Man (2002)
8. Collateral (2004)
9. K-PAX (2001)
10. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
11. Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
12. Matchstick Men (2003)
13. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
14. The Island (2005)
15. Team America: World Police (2004)
16. Superbad (2007)
17. Scary Movie (2000)
18. X2: X-Men United (2003)
19. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
20. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
21. Transformers (2007)
22. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
23. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
24. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
25. Die Another Day (2002)
26. Death to Smoochy (2002)
27. Scary Movie 3 (2003)
28. Bad Santa (2003)
29. Memento (2000)
30. Big Fish (2003)
31. Clerks II (2006)
32. Identity (2003)
33. Old School (2003)
34. X-Men (2000)
35. The Way of the Gun (2000)
36. Unbreakable (2000)
37. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
38. Hancock (2008)
39. Hannibal (2001)
40. Cloverfield (2008)
41. The Da Vinci Code (2006)
42. The Prestige (2006)
43. Star Trek (2009)
44. Quantum of Solace (2008)
45. Garden State (2004)
46. Phone Booth (2002)
47. Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
48. Zombieland (2009)
49. Terminator Salvation (2009)
50. Watchmen (2009)
51. Mission: Impossible III (2006)
52. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)
53. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
54. Minority Report (2002)
55. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
56. Jackass: The Movie (2002)
57. Angels & Demons (2009)
58. Moon (2009)
59. Ink (2009)
60. I Love You, Man (2009)
61. V for Vendetta (2005)
62. Rush Hour 2 (2001)
63. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
64. Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
65. Mission: Impossible II (2000)
66. The Terminal (2004)
67. The Incredibles (2004)
68. Sin City (2005)
69. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
70. An Evening with Kevin Smith (2002)
71. Red Dragon (2002)
72. (500) Days of Summer (2009)
73. Timer (2009)
74. The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
75. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
76. National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
77. Donnie Darko (2001)
78. The Mist (2007)
79. Superman Returns (2006)
80. I Am Legend (2007)
81. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
82. Grandma's Boy (2006)
83. Jackass Number Two (2006)
84. Jackass 2.5 (2007)
85. Wedding Crashers (2005)
86. WALL-E (2008)
87. Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
88. Fantastic 4 (2005)
89. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
90. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
91. Daredevil (2003)
92. Road to Perdition (2002)
93. Cast Away (2000)
94. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
95. Saw (2004)
96. Finding Nemo (2003)
97. Zodiac (2007)
98. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
99. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
100. National Treasure (2004)
101. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
     

I hate how low I have to rank some of my more favorite movies. Look at how low Death to Smoochy is. You'd think I wasn't so high on it, but I love it. The same for Hannibal, for example.

Right at the tail end there, you can essentially combine the two National Treasure movies into one and insert something like the first few minutes of Up (but not the rest of the movie), and I'm sure if I rewatched a few like Tropic Thunder they might end up on there. But you can also just say "all the Harry Potter movies" combined, because they're all about equal to each other in my mind, and while none of them are high enough to crack this list, the franchise as a whole definitely would be.

What are your favorite movies from every year?
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