Top 10 Lists

Best Movies 2009

Up in the Air - Julie and Julia - Precious - The Hurt Locker - Inglourious Basterds - The Hangover - The Blind Side - Up - 500 Days of Summer - Invictus   

Best Movies 2008

Benjamin Button - Slumdog Millionaire - Frost/Nixon - Wall E - Revolutionary Road - Doubt - Tropic Thunder - The Dark Knight - The Visitor - Iron Man  

Best Movies 2007

No Country for Old Men - There Will Be Blood - American Gangster - Juno - Atonement - The Kite Runner - Ratatouille - Into the Wild - Charlie Wilson’s War - Michael Clayton  

Best Movies 2006

Little Miss Sunshine - The Queen - Dreamgirls - A Prairie Home Companion - The Departed - Letters from Iwo Jima - Borat - The Illusionist - Happy Feet/Cars - The Devil Wears Prada

Best Movies 2005

Capote - Good Night and Good Luck - Brokeback Mountain - Syriana - Crash - Walk the Line -The Wedding Crashers - March of the Penguins - The 40 Year old Virgin - Cinderella Man 

Best Movies 2004

Sideways - Finding Neverland - The Aviator - Milllion Dollar Baby - Ray - Garden State -  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -  Dodgeball Maria Full of Grace   

Best Movies 2003

Mystic River - Lord of the Rings 3 - The Fog of War - Bend it Like Beckham - Whale Rider -Swimming Pool - Lost in Translation - Pirates of the Caribbean - Finding Nemo -Seabiscuit 

Best Movies 2002

My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Road to Perdition - Adaptation - Real Women Have Curves -  Standing in the Shadows of Motown - Igby Goes Down - The Rookie - Antwone Fisher -   Monsoon Wedding - Chicago 

Best Movies 2001

Shrek - Memento - The Man Who Wasn’t There - In the Bedroom - Ghost World - Harry Potter Amelie - The Royal Tannenbeums - Bridget Jones diary - Monsters Inc. 

Best Movies - 2000 

Gladiator - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Traffic - East is East - Remember the Titans - Girl on the Bridge - Almost Famous - Billy Elliott - Erin Brockovich - Meet the Parents

Best Movies - 1999

American Beauty - Being John Malkovich - Buena Vista Social Club - The Green Mile - The Limey - Toy Story 2 - October Sky - The Insider - The Straight Story - The 6th Sense  

Best Movies 1998

Saving Private Ryan - Shakespeare in Love - Smoke Signals - Elizabeth - The Impostors -  A Bug’s Life - Simon Birch - Slam - Waking Ned Devine - The Truman Show  

Best Movies 1997

Contact - Wings of the Dove - L.A. confidential - Shall We Dance - Face Off - Eve’s Bayou - Amistad - As Good As It Gets - Air Force One - The Full Monty 

Best Movies 1996

Big Night - The English Patient - Ransom - Fargo - The Spitfire Grill - Secrets and Lies -  Shine - Mr. Holland’s Opus - Dead man Walking - Twister

Best Movies 1995

Apollo 13 - Nixon - The American President - Sense and Sensibility - Babe - Toy Story - The Brothers McMullen - The Postman - Heat - The Usual Suspects

Best Movies 1994

Forrest Gump - Hoop Dreams - Four Weddings and a Funeral - Ed Wood - Quiz Show -  The Shawshank Redemption - Speed - The Lion King - Clear and Present Danger - Pulp Fiction

Best Movies 1993

Schindler’s List - Like Water for Chocolate - The Joy Luck Club - The Fugitive - Strictly Ballroom - What’s Love Got to do with It? - Benny and Joon - Sleepless in Seattle - Much Ado About Nothing - Ground Hog Day

Best Movies 1992

A League of their Own - Unforgiven - Fried Green Tomatoes - Aladdin - The Crying Game - Malcolm X - Howard’s End - The Player - Glengarry Glen Ross - A River Runs through It

Best Movies 1991

Silence of the Lambs - Bugsy - Truly Madly Deeply - City Slickers - Dead Again - Boyz n the  Hood - The Commitments - Rambling Rose - The Vanishing - Barton Fink

Best Movies 1990

Avalon - Cinema Paradisio - Dances with Wolves - Presumed Innocent - Memphis Belle - Ghost - Goodfellas - Godfather III - Postcards from the Edge - Hunt for Red October

Best Movies 1989

Field of Dreams - When Harry met Sally - Sex Lies and Videotape - Batman - Lethal Weapon2 - Do the Right Thing - Dangerous Liaisons - Indiana Jones III - Driving Miss Daisy - Steel Magnolias

Best Movies 1988

Big - Babbette’s Feast - Bull Durham - Who Framed Rober Rabbit? - Moonstruck - The Accused - Crossing Delancey - The Thin Blue Line - A Fish Called Wanda - Working Girl

Best Movies 1987

Fatal Attraction - Hope and Glory - Roxanne - the Last Emperor - Full Metal Jacket - Tin Men - Dirty Dancing - The Princess Bride - Broadcast News - Jean De Florette/Manon of the Spring

Best Movies 1986

A Room with a View - Little Shop of Horrors - Aliens - Hannah and her Sisters - Crocodile Dundee - Children of a Lesser God - Peggy Sue Got Married - The Color of Money - Stand by Me - Star Trek IV

Best Movies 1985

The Color Purple - Back to the future - The Killing Fields - Mask - Witness - Silverado - Prizzi’s Honor - Sweet Dreams - George Stevens:  A Filmmakers Journey

Best Movies 1984

Amadeus - Places in the Heart - A Soldier’s Story - Bizet’s Carmen - The Cotton Club - Romancing the Stone - The Natural - The Karate Kid - Country - Beverly Hills Cop

Best Movies 1983

Terms of Endearment - Risky Business - Wargames - A Christmas Story - Local hero - La Traviata - The Grey Fox - The Right Stuff - Return of the Jedi - The Big Chill

Best Movies 1982

E.T. - An Officer and a Gentleman - Tootsie - On Golden Pond - 48 Hours - Diner - Diva - Missing - The Verdict - The Poltergeist

Best Movies 1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark - Breaker Morant - Atlantic City - Body Heat - Arthur - The Four Seasons - Chariots of Fire - Whose Life is it Anyway? - Melvin and Howard - The Great Muppet Caper

Classics 

Casablanca - Vertigo - Citizen Kane - The Godfather - It’s a Wonderful Life - The Wizard of Oz - The Last Picture Show - Being There - Annie Hall - Gone with the Wind