Ranking Only the Best (and the Very Worst) of a Movie Year Project

[CinemaInternational]

Now back for a triple dip into the 21st century with 2005, 2016, and 2021. Next up, as a counterbalance will be a joint exploration of 1920, 1921, 1922, and 1923.

2005

Films Seen: 53

The Best:


1 The New World
2 Memoirs of a Geisha
3 In Her Shoes
4 The Producers
5 North Country
6 Joyeux Noel
7 Junebug
8 Capote
9 Pride and Prejudice
10 Cinderella Man
11 Brokeback Mountain
12 Mrs. Henderson Presents
13 Boynton Beach Club
14 Proof
15 The White Countess
16 Hustle and Flow
17 Prime
18 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
19 The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
20 An Unfinished Life
21 Elizabethtown
22 Dreamer
23 Shopgirl


The Worst:

1 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2 Racing Stripes
3 Madagascar
4 Chicken Little
5 The Squid and the Whale
6 Valiant
7 Herbie: Fully Loaded

2016

Films Seen: 64

The Best:

1 20th Century Women
2 Their Finest
3 Paterson
4 Zootopia
5 Jackie
6 Hidden Figures
7 Sing Street
8 Your Name.
9 A Quiet Passion
10 Florence Foster Jenkins
11 Silence
12 Manchester by the Sea
13 Hell or High Water
14 Moana
15 Bridget Jones's Baby
16 Pete's Dragon
17 Loving
18 Things to Come
19 Paris Can Wait
20 Fences
21 Everybody Wants Some!!
22 Hail Caesar!
23 Lion
24 La La Land
25 Denial
26 Finding Dory
27 Money Monster
28 Rules Don't Apply

The Worst:

1 Captain Fantastic
2 The Founder
3 10 Cloverfield Lane
4 Nocturnal Animals
5 Elle
6 The Jungle Book
7 Genius

2021

Films Seen: 27

The Best:

1 Nightmare Alley
2 C'mon C'mon
3 The Lost Daughter
4 Belfast
5 Parallel Mothers
6 Cyrano
7 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
8 Respect
9 The Last Duel
10 West Side Story

The Worst:

1 Don't Look Up
2 Spenser
3 Last Night in Soho
4 The Eyes of Tammy Faye
5 The Little Things
6 Tick..Tick..Boom

[LawrenceA]

2005

Favorite
Batman Begins

Least Favorite
Exterminator City

[LawrenceA]

2016

Favorite
Silence

Least Favorite
Bad Black

[LawrenceA]

2021

Favorite
Dune

Least Favorite
Megalodon Rising

[Swithin]

A few favorites

2005

Brokeback Mountain
Good Night and Good Luck
Match Point
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
The New World

2016
Love & Friendship
Manchester by the Sea

(The Lobster would be on my list, but I hated the ending.)

2021

Belfast
Benediction
Coda
The Dig
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side story

[Detective Jim McLeod]

2005 films seen-62

The Best

The Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe
The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
Broken Flowers
A History Of Violence
Green Street Hooligans
Capote
Lady Vengeance
The Skeleton Key
Thank You For Smoking
Pierrepoint The Last Hangman
Thumbsucker
New York Doll
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The Worst
Hostel
Monster In Law
Dear Wendy

[Feinberg]

2005

Of the 116 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ...

L'enfant
Brokeback Mountain
A History of Violence
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The World's Fastest Indian
March of the Penguins
King Kong
Grizzly Man
Ballets Russes
Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Wolf Creek
Corpse Bride
Kingdom of Heaven
North Country
Munich
Memoirs of a Geisha
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Moolaade
Transamerica
Hostel

and here are the ones that I didn't care for at all ...

Crash
The Other Side of Welles
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Four Brothers
The Secret Life of Words
Tideland
The Wild Blue Yonder
Conversations With Other Women
Oxhide

[Feinberg]

2016

Of the 122 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ...

Silence
The Salesman
Nocturnal Animals
The Handmaiden
Elle
Denial
Train to Busan
The Edge of Seventeen
Florence Foster Jenkins
Before the Flood
Manchester by the Sea
Gold
Paris Can Wait
Captain Fantastic
Julieta
Deepwater Horizon
May God Save Us
Tramontane
Anthropoid
Jason Bourne
The Girl on the Train
Hail Caesar!
I, Daniel Blake
Strangled
The Take
Lady Macbeth

and here are two that I didn't not care for at all ....

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Solange and the Living

[Feinberg]

2021

Of the 164 films that I have seen from this year these are my favourites ranked in order ...

Getting Away With Murder(s)
The Rescue
The White Tiger
The Mauritanian
Don't Look Up
Tick, Tick ... Boom
Nitram
Ennio
Encounter
Leave No Traces
CODA
I'm Your Man
The Last Duel
Parallel Mothers
A Hero
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
The Alleys
No Time to Die
The Worst Person In the World
Escape From Mogadishu
Ninjababy
West Side Story
Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story
House of Gucci
Lingui The Sacred Bonds
The Velvet Underground
Tina

and here are some that I did not care for at all ..

The Souvenir Part II
Annette
Mothering Sunday
Memoria
Silent Night
The Humans
Cow
The Matrix Resurrections
Censor
Scarborough
A Bird Flew In
The Feast
She Will
Hit the Road
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

[Detective Jim McLeod]

2016 films seen-23

The Best

LaLa Land
Deadpool
Nocturnal Animals
Moonlight
Fences
Toni Erdmann
Maudie
Christine


The Worst

Hail Ceasar
Wiener Dog

[Detective Jim McLeod]

2021 films seen-16

The Best

Drive My Car
No Time To Die
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Lost Leonardo
Playground
The Automat

The Worst

The Many Saints Of Newark

[CinemaInternational]

As promised, a trip back to over 100 years ago. No worst films for me in these lists, only best.


The next year up will be 1948.

1920 (Films Seen:16)
1 Way Down East
2 The Love Flower
3 Pollyanna
4 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligeri
5 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6 Nurse Marjorie
7 Leaves from Satan's Book


1921 (Films Seen: 26)
1 Orphans of the Storm
2 The Kid
3 The Wild Cat
4 The Affairs of Anatol
5 The Blot
6 Miss Lulu Bett
7 The Phantom Carriage


1922 (Films Seen: 28)
1 Grandma's Boy
2 Saturday Night
3 The Toll of the Sea
4 Salome
5 The Bride's Play
6 Dr. Jack
7 Foolish Wives
8 The Three Must-Get-Theres
9 Robin Hood
10 When Knighthood was in Flower


1923 (Films Seen: 22)
1 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
2 Safety Last!
3 A Woman of Paris
4 Souls for Sale
5 The Covered Wagon
6 Little Old New York
7 The Ten Commandments
8 The White Sister
9 Zaza

[LawrenceA]

Favorites
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

Least Favorites
Deerslayer (1920)
The Island of the Lost (1921)
The Headless Horseman (1922)
Haldane of the Secret Service (1923)

[Swithin]

Favorites of 1920-1923

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Indian Tomb 2 parts: Part I: The Mission of the Yogi; Part II: The Tiger of Bengal (German: Die Sendung des Yoghi; Der Tiger von Eschnapur). (One of my favorite silent films.)
Nosferatu
Orphans of the Storm
Salome
Way Down East

[kingrat]

As promised, a trip back to over 100 years ago. No worst films for me in these lists, only best.


The next year up will be 1948.

1948!! What a wonderful year. The unlisted merely "OK" films from this year would be "Also liked" in many a year. Stinky the Skunk may stay in his burrow and re-watch Who Is Harry Kellerman . . . .