TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2019
Parasite
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Lighthouse
Joker
Pain & Glory
Marriage Story
Little Women
Diane
1917
The Farewell
Honorable mention (in alphabetical order):A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Dolemite is My Name, Jojo Rabbit, Knives Out, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Two Popes.
TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2018
1. Roma
2. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
4. Burning
5. RBG
6. Free Solo
7. Leave a Trace
8. The Ballad of Buster Scraggs
9. Three Identical Strangers
10. Green Book
Honorable mention (in alphabetical order): BlacKkKlansman; Blindspotting; The Cakemaker; The Favourite; The Great Buster: A Celebration; If Beale Street Could Talk; Maria Callas In Her Words; Minding the Gap; Never Look Away; A Quiet Place; Science Fair; Shirkers; Shoplifters; A Star Is Born; Tea with Dames
TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2017
1. The Shape of Water
2. Call Me By Your Name
3. Faces Places
4. Jane
5. Maudie
6. Phantom Thread
7. Loving Vincent
8. Lady Bird
9. Get Out
10. I Called Him Morgan
Honorable mention (in alphabetical order): The Big Sick; California Typewriter; Coco; Ex Libris: The New York Public Library; The Florida Project; God’s Own Country; I, Tonya; Kedi; Marjorie Prime; The Midwife; Obit; Victoria & Abdul
TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2016
1. La La Land
2. Manchester By the Sea
3. Moonlight
4. Lion
5. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
6. Hell or High Water
7. City of Gold
8. Loving
9. The Witch
10. 20th Century Women
Honorable mention (in alphabetical order): A Bigger Splash; Captain Fantastic; The Edge of Seventeen; Elle; Florence Foster Jenkins; Hidden Figures; I Am Not Your Negro; Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words; Julieta; Other People; Paterson; Weiner
TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2015
1. Spotlight
2. Timbuktu
3. Brooklyn
4. Carol
5. Amy
6. Love & Mercy
7. The Jinx
8. 45 Years
9. Hitchcock/Truffaut
10. Iris
Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): The Big Short; Bridge of Spies; The Danish Girl; The End of the Tour; Ex Machina; Far From the Madding Crowd; Grandma; Inside Out; Listen to Me Marlon; The Lady in the Van; 99 Homes; The Revenant; The Salt of the Earth; Trainwreck; Wild Tales
TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2014
1. Ida
2. Boyhood
3. Keep on Keepin’ On
4. Mr. Turner
5. The Imitation Game
6. Finding Vivian Maier
7. Wild
8. Foxcatcher
9. Love Is Strange
10. TIE: The Immigrant and Nightcrawler
Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): Alive Inside; Citizenfour; For No Good Reason; The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden; Jodorowsky’s Dune; Life Itself; Locke; Only Lovers Left Alive; Still Alice; Stranger by the Lake; The Theory of Everything; Two Days, One Night; Under the Skin.
TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2013
1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Stories We Tell
3. Philomena
4. 20 Feet From Stardom
5. Nebraska
6. Her
7. The Grandmaster
8. Dallas Buyers Club
9. Blackfish
10. Mud
Honorable mention (alphabetical order): After Tiller; Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clerc; All Is Lost; American Hustle; Captain Phillips; Cutie and the Boxer; Enough Said; 56 Up; Frances Ha; The Hunt; Saving Mr. Banks; The Way Way Back; What Maisie Knew; The Wolf of Wall Street
TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2012
1. Lincoln
2. Amour
3. Searching for Sugar Man
4. Oslo, August 31st
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. The Deep Blue Sea
7. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
8. The Master
9. Bernie
10. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Argo; Beasts of the Southern Wild; Beloved (France); The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; Bully; Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel; The Imposter; The Invisible War; The Island President; Neil Young Journeys; Quartet; Rust and Bone; The Sessions; Skyfall; Your Sister’s Sister
TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2011
1. The Tree of Life
2. A Separation
3. Hugo
4. Midnight in Paris
5. The Descendants
6. Jane Eyre
7. We Were Here
8. The Skin I Live In
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10. Moneyball
Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Beginners; A Better Life; Bill Cunningham New York; Bridesmaids; Buck; Cave of Forgotten Dreams; Coriolanus; Margaret; Melancholia; My Week with Marilyn; Pina; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2010
1. The Social Network
2. The King’s Speech
3. Another Year
4. Marwencol
5. Winter’s Bone
6. Temple Grandin
7. The Kids Are All Right
8. I Am Love
9. Black Swan
10. Blue Valentine
Honorable mention (alphabetical order): 127 Hours; Cairo Time; Greenberg; Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work; Please Give; Tiny Furniture; The Town; Toy Story 3; True Grit; White Material