Best Albums of 2006

2006 was a pretty good year for music, in my opinion. I managed to listen to a decent amount of new stuff and got into some good older stuff. The bad thing about music is that there's too much stuff from the past I need to hear, but they keeping coming out with new stuff too fast as well. Muse and Incubus both had pretty good new albums in Black Holes and Revelations and Light Grenades, and I got introduced to Sonic Youth with Rather Ripped, which definitely has me interesting in checking out their older stuff.

Best of 2006

6. Cursive - Happy Hollow


Happy Hollow doesn't come close to replicating the absolute brilliance of their previous release, The Ugly Organ, but it really isn't too fair to compare anything to one of my favorite albums ever. In between records, Cursive lost a cellist and added horns to their sound, and while they still sound distinctive, it just isn't as darkly interesting. They can still do good songs they're just missing an edge musically.

Not that that edge isn't as present as ever in the lyrics. The entire album is a brutal condemnation of the hypocrisies and evils of modern Christianity, and sometimes it sounds like Tim Kasher is being controversial for its own sake. He makes good points though, and this is overall pretty good indie rock.

5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium


A bit of a letdown, to be honest. The Chili Peppers pumped out two great albums in a row with Californication and By the Way, and we've been anticipating something new for four years, and then we learn it's a double album, and it ends up being a good two hours of music, but it's lacking that something that makes it great. It's possible it's just a fault with the multi-album format, it's harder to maintain a high level of quality for something that lasts that long. There are plenty of great songs to be found, but because of the sheer number, a lot of them blend together into solid, but unremarkable funky-pop-rock-whatever. None of it's bad, it's just stretched a little thin. Flea can still play bass like no one's business, and John Frusciante continues to hone his craft as one of the best guitarists in the world, and Anthony Keidis can actually sing these days. What they need to do next is go back to focusing on a smaller, more focused project. Not that they have to, with the mountains of money they must be swimming in.

4. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere


Cee-lo, who I don't know much about, and Danger Mouse, who did the intriguing Grey Album, combine to form a band that isn't really hip-hop, but takes a lot of its best elements, adds in a distinctive, good voice and great, um... producing, and ends up making one of the best songs ever. No, really, "Crazy" is up there. It's just a good song. It's not the only one either, as every single track is at least catchy, and most are unique, well constructed, and truly interesting. I can see why it wouldn't be for everyone, but I enjoy the hell out of it.

I'll take the time now to explain how all the hip-hop-type stuff I listen too is weirdly related. Gnarls Barkley is comprised of Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse. Dangerdoom is comprised of Danger Mouse and MF Doom, and their album features Cee-Lo and Ghostface Killah. Demon Days by Gorillaz was produced by Danger Mouse and features MF Doom. I've been thinking about listening to some more rap lately and the first album to get that comes to find is the acclaimed Fishscale - by Ghostface Killah. Whatever.

3. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided


Trail of Dead fell out of the cushy position they had as a critical darling with Worlds Apart, which I thought was completely great (and introduced me to the band), and I couldn't really figure out why. I can see why someone would prefer Source Tags and Codes, but to say it's great and Worlds is bad... I just don't understand it. They're the same band. A little different, with less focus on songwriting and more on loudness and a bit of oddness, but still the same. So Divided was received a little better, though they still are far from where they were publically in 2002. I just hear a really good rock album, but I guess that's just me.

2. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain


This and Gnarls Barkley show me that I'm becoming more and more of a sucker for bands that aren't what I usually actually listen to. I'm nowhere near knowledgeable enough to describe what this band is like and why it's good, all I can tell you is that I just love listening to it. The mix of vocals is unique and interesting, the style totally works, and they're not half bad at just playing some rock. I really should be able to explain it better, but you should just listen if you don't. Also, make you sure you check out "Dry Drunk Emperor", which you should be able to find online for free. Not only is it a good song, it's a great condemnation of the presidency of George W. Bush (he's horrible).

1. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me


Some feared their follow-up to Deja Entendu might be too accoustic. They were wrong.

The Devil and God is hard as hell. Except for a couple tracks, every song is a balance between soft and hard, light and dark, good and evil, as the title implies. The heavy parts are made more powerful by the contrast with the downplayed strumming before it. It's not as lyrically clever as they were previously, but it's stronger musically, in my opinion. It's definitely cemented itself in the pantheon of my favorite albums, like, ever. It helps that I first listened to it under optimal conditions, in a car with a like-minded friend as the sun went down in late Autumn. Set the tone perfectly.

I don't think it's fair that Brand New still gets lumped with other emo bands it used to be closer to musically, like Taking Back Sunday. They were like that once, but that was long ago, they started shifting a few years ago, and now they've gone even further. I'm interested in seeing how they continue to develop and seperate themselves from other bands.

Delayed Entries

Audioslave - Audioslave

I'm not a huge fan of the band, but I really do think this is a great album. It's just completely full of good, hard rock songs. People say good things about Superunknown but I'd say this is the best thing anybody in this band's done that I've heard. I guess they've broken up now, though.

Clinic - Walking With Thee

Weird band, very distinctive vocals and different kind of sound that still sounds like rock, even when their aren't guitars. I'm not always in the mood for something like this, but it's a good change of pace.

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Their long-awaited double album, the first disk is pretty normal long, well-crafted prog metal, and the second is an epic, forty minute song (broken into several tracks) that sounds sometimes as much like the score to a musical as an album. Not really much metal there at all, but I really don't know what "normal" Dream Theater sounded like at that point, as Trains of Thought, which I got before this is supposed to be easily their hardest work. It doesn't really matter, it sounds good.

Dredg - El Cielo

I got into Dredg with 2005's Catch Without Arms, but I think I really fell in love with them with this. It has a lot of what made Catch great like the wonderful vocals and nice melodies combined with harder segments, but El Cielo is really more creative, different, and just better, I think. Just a fun listen at all times.

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

I didn't listen to Gorillaz much besides the singles until Demon Days, and that might have skewed me a bit, as a lot of people seem to prefer this, and I don't. It's still definitely very good though. It's a little less varied in sound and vocals than their follow-up, but has plenty of great hooks and sounds spread through the whole thing, and is just fun to listen to.

Longwave - There's a Fire

It's kind of hard to describe Longwave, since sometimes they're jamming in a totally dark, indie way, and sometimes it's pure pop rock. You should just listen to them and see what you think, since not many people do. They have elements of a lot of bands like U2, Interpol... I don't know, I don't really listen to bands like this a lot.

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Between Opeth and Dream Theater, I should be able to get my fill of progressive metal for the rest of time. The guy's voice is seriously amazing, one minute he's giving you perfect death growls, and the next he's singing in a truly pleasant, normal tone. Hard, pounding metal combines with great musicianship and softer moments.

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

They're only progressive, not metal, but since the guy produced Opeth at some point, I guess that's hardcore enough. It wasn't as well received as In Absentia, so I better check that out, since I think this is really good on its own. Some of the songs take a while but I'm never bored, it's very well crafted and plenty catchy in spots. Pretty damn good background music.

Radiohead - Kid A

I guess that since I liked this, I'll like pretty much anything Radiohead does. It's not rock music anymore, but it's still very interesting to listen to, and as electronic as it is, it still manages to seem to have a soul. I prefer their sound before the turn of the century, but it's still good now.

Best Movies of 2006

I saw several decent movies in 2006, such as The Good Shepherd (Well acted, interesting subject matter, way too slow), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Pretty much the right amount of stupid), Superman Returns (Admirably crafted but wallows in the superhero movie pit of too many special effects and not enough real action) and X-Men: The Last Stand (Entertaining but unfocused and far from the greatness of the second). I consider the five below to be the best of the year.

Best of 2006

5. A Scanner Darkly

They've made a bunch of movies based on Phillip K. Dick's writings, and they usually seem to turn out pretty good. Paycheck didn't turn out so hot, but I loved Total Recall and Minority Report, and I still haven't seen Blade Runner but from what I heard that was good too. A Scanner Darkly is a little different though, instead of just being a normal science fiction movie, it's a much more personal story, as it's based on Dick's own experience dealing with drug addiction. It has some cool futuristic ideas like the suits that distort the wearer's appearance to be unidentifiable, but instead of having big action scenes, it focuses on Keanu Reeves' character and his internal struggle.

Near the end the plot gets a little tighter and actually has a twist or two, but most of the movie is the discussion between him and his boss and doctors, and humorous interactions with his drug buddies Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr., who both excellently portray uniquely hilarious and disturbed characters. They're more outwardly crazy than Reeves, but his character's addiction to the drug that's filled the streets is deeper, and he handles his role well for someone whose acting is so universally derided. You can't mention the movie without pointing out the animation that's applied over the entire picture, and I think it doesn't only look cool but also serves to illustrate the strangeness of Reeves' world. It was mostly overlooked, and I think that's a shame.


4. Little Miss Sunshine


What's interesting about this movie is how, despite the somewhat depressing state of dysfunction this family is in, it still manages to come out in the end with a good feeling. I love well-executed dark humor, and this movie is filled with sometimes painfully hilarious jabs at how crappy normal life can sometimes be. You can feel this family's frustration with each other, but they are all able to stick it out in order to bring some happiness to their youngest member. I really liked the acting, everybody seemed perfectly cast in their roles and did them well. I'm not sure Alan Arkin's work was really Oscar worthy, but he was the source of a lot of the best laughs.

3. Casino Royale


This is, in my opinion, the best James Bond movie. In my opinion, that's also not saying a lot, but it's still a good film. The James Bond series has always been about stupid fun, big action scenes, some good-looking women, cool gadgets and a few laughs. This tries to be a little more of a real movie, and it's still got a lot of the James Bond silliness, but I still think its style fits in more with the current era. I was a bit skeptical of Daniel Craig as Bond, as he didn't look the part to me, but that's kind of the point. The new Bond has a rougher edge and maybe's a little more brutal than he used to be, and is very well handled by Craig's skills. The plot is differently paced than usual as well, there are some solid action scenes, but a lot of it is focused on the characters, and the entire last act is a little unusual. Some of the characters' actions don't make much sense in retrospect, but I'd say overall the writing is pretty solid, and it's nice to look at too. Secret lairs in exotic locations will always have their place, but this is what today's James Bond should be.

2. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan


Question: How does a movie that's based on improvisation and real people who haven't even seen a script get an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay?

Answer: By being insanely hilarious and popular to the point that they probably felt they should recognize it somehow. I never really saw Sacha Baron Cohen's Da Ali G Show on HBO, but I feel like I probably should, since it's where the Borat character started. Cohen's a comedic genius, his ability to riff on people and get the perfect reactions out of them is amazing, in addition to just being great at creating a hilarious character. The movie has decent amounts of both planned out jokes and goofs on normal Americans that are played by ear, and it adds up to comedic gold. The theater was full and laughing its ass off the entire time. It's not the kind of movie that you talk about for its direction and contributions years later, but that's not what it wants to be.


1. The Departed

It's not the kind of movie I'd hang my hat on as a true, amazing, undisputed best picture of the year type thing, but it's still very good and deserving of this year's honor (Noting that I don't see a ton of movies every year). I'd like to see Infernal Affairs, the Hong Kong movie it's based on, and see how much of The Departed really came from that directly. The plot is a rock solid crime movie filled with double-crosses and whackings, and it's set in the gorgeously filmed city of Boston. Everyone pulls of their accents well, and manage to create one of the strongest ensemble casts I've ever seen. DiCaprio, Damon, Nicholson, Sheen, Wahlberg, Baldwin, and a good group of smaller names all bring their A game, and it's really just an exceedingly fun to watch affair. The world needs more movies featuring likable, good actors betraying and beating the crap out of each other.

Delayed Entries

Again, these are movies worth mentioning that were released before 2006 but I didn't see until then.

Citizen Kane

I wouldn't go so far as others as to call this the greatest movie ever made, although I can see where that distinction would come from. The directing and cinematography are amazing, every shot is beautifully planned and rendered. It really is a how-to video of interesting and meaningful filmwork. It's also brilliantly acted, all of the main players are good, and Orson Welles is great as both a young entrepreneur and an old curmudgeon. I think it definitely drags in the latter half, and I can't bring myself to honestly say I like it more than some less stately, but more enjoyable other movies.

Annie Hall

I've never been a huge Woody Allen fan, but this is definitely a terrific movie. The dialogue is very funny, and it creates a whole lot of things that will become staples of off-beat comedies in the future, like subtitled translations of what people are really saying, and breaking the fourth wall as the star directly confers with the audience. It's not just a comedy though, it's a well-filmed and acted story of love and how it can go wrong. It's not your typical story where everything turns out right in the end, it's a realistic examination of human relationships, and really admirable in its execution.

My guess is there's other movies that belong here that just haven't come to mind.

Best Games of 2006

It's a little late for yearly picks, but it took me this long to finish some of the games I wanted to play. No arbitrary number of selections, just my personal list of notable, great games. It came out to a round number anyway, but that's not a guarantee.

Best of 2006

5. Bully (PS2)


This is partly a feel-good choice, but I just really liked that Rockstar was able to put out a game this enjoyable, and you can't even kill anyone. Sure, you can beat the crap out of people and threaten them and hit them with bottle rockets, but no dying. Seriously, it's funny as hell, charming, and honestly a lot of fun to play.

4. Gears of War (360)


A lot of things about Gears are imperfect besides the graphics, making it really hard for a shooter, already limited by its genre, to do much better than this, so it's quite a rousing success. I wanted to play Gears for a long time, and then I got the chance, enjoyed it while it lasted, and then moved on. I marveled at the presentation. I laughed at a lot of things, like the probably-too-frequent glitching, the throwaway taunting dialogue ("Eat shit and die!"), the bizarre moment where Marcus and his pal turn from grizzled war vets into Vaudeville characters slipping down a wet incline, and the ridiculous carnage of a chainsaw to the face. I wondered about the lack of good weapon selection - there are two assault rifles, one of which blows; a shotgun I never saw as valuable since being in close combat was so dangerous; and a few situation-specific weapons that didn't have enough available ammunition to really spend time playing with. I also wondered why they tried so hard to make a completely harmless enemy like the Grub seem scary. I did have a lot of fun running for cover and shooting ugly dudes in the face, though.

3. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)


Twilight Princess is a great game that still manages to be overrated. When I hear Jeremy Parish say things like (slightly paraphrasing) "It's like Ocarina of Time, but much better," I literally cringe. Yeah, TP improves on OoT in a number of ways, most notably in graphics and difficulty of block pushing puzzles. But Ocarina of Time was freaking revolutionary. You can easily bring up how much A Link to the Past influenced that one, and I won't argue with you because I didn't play it, but OoT still set the formula for what three-dimensional Zelda games are, and more importantly, how three-dimensional action adventures in general are basically supposed to work. TP doesn't surpass that just because it managed to set the franchise record for most elements and mechanics directly lifted from previous games in the series.

I don't completely agree with Jeff Gerstmann's score, but he's totally right in his points that it's a well-designed, well-executed game that doesn't stray from a formula that's worked in the past but is maybe a little dated. And just because they haven't done voices in the past doesn't mean that's a defining Zelda characteristic. People said the same thing about Metal Gear Solid's camera until they realized the one in Subsistence was much better. I'm probably bashing my number three game too much, so I'll stop. Excellently crafted game, not the best.

2. Okami (PS2)


I kind of wanted this to be my game of the year, though I must admit it isn't. It is a tremendous game though. Amazing art, excellent use of traditional Japanese music sty le and storytelling, great level and gameplay design. Like Zelda, it was too easy, but at least it seemed to be challenging in spots. The faster pace of combat and more clever use of brush techniques instead of a large inventory made it more satisfying, and the final boss at least seemed daunting, even if it really wasn't. It really is a shame games like this don't get played, but at least the will of its developers lives on in SEEDS.

1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC)


No game from 2006 gave me more entertainment than Oblivion did. It's not just a quantity thing though, I didn't calculate this by hours of enjoyment. When it came out, I played the crap out of it, and I played the crap out of it again on two other occasions during the year. I still intend to go back and play the crap out of it some more, since there's plenty of quests I haven't finished. I haven't been a vampire, or even got that far in the main storyline. There's just so much to do and it's all so well realized. The melee combat is spotty in places but quite good for an RPG, the stealth is as good as you'd want, and the depth of the magic system is great. So much of the crap that you don't need is thrown out, but there if you want it. A lot of Morrowind fans preferred that game, and I won't argue against them because I didn't play it, but I can't imagine myself doing so, since Oblivion does so much in terms of the technology that it would probably feel ancient. It's not a big choice for favorite, but it's definitely mine.

Notable Exception

Half-Life 2: Episode One (PC)

I had a great time with it, but as much as I liked it, I can't bring myself to include something that only lasted four hours in a real "game of the year" discussion.

Delayed Entries

These are games that were released before 2006 but I didn't get around to playing until then and warrant mentioning.

Beyond Good and Evil (PS2)

The fact that not enough people played it caused people who did to overcompensate by talking it up too much, which I contributed to. The same thing happened with ICO. Both very good games, both not quite deserving of their adulation.

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (PS2)

I actually played the Special Edition, which came out in 2006, but I don't count rereleases. It rightly brought respect back to the franchise, as it's quite the slick, fun, challenging action game. The thing is, it has to reinvent itself a little more fully and seperate from the whole survival horror thing/vibe completely. That was cool when Resident Evil still sucked, but times have changed.

God of War (PS2)

Another good game I think is overrated by most. Yeah, the combat looks cool, but any joker off the street can pull off a sweet looking combo. Just because the animations look nicer doesn't make your combat deeper than a normal button masher.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2)

Again, I actually played Subsistence, but I don't count rereleases. Great story, really good gameplay, I'm really glad I didn't have to play with the other camera (except for the final battle for some reason).

Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)

The Colossus battles were totally, completely awesome, and the story was interesting, reserved, and well-presented. The rest of the game could have been better.

I actually played a ton of great games in 2006. A landmark year, really. I'll also do posts like this for music and movies, but not baseball moments of games or anything like that, for two reasons.

1) I don't watch enough non-Yankee games for it not to turn out horribly biased.
2) Even with just Yankee games, there weren't that many amazing moments last year. They left early in the playoffs, and it's kind of hard to have strong, memorable moments during the regular season, in fact, I can only think of one that really stands out, and it's not the five games in four days massacre of the Red Sox in August, which was horribly painful to watch. I've never seen so much mediocre pitching in such a short time.

No, I'm thinking of a game against Texas back in May, when they Yankees were behind 9 to 0 in the second and game back to win on their final at bat. It was amazing in several ways.

1) Obviously, the huge come-from-behind win.
2) I actually predicted this would happen when they were losing 9-0. Proof.
3) They won the game despite three of their starters being out with injuries (still leaving them with 6 all-stars, huge payroll, I know, shut up).
4) They actually had to come back twice. They took an 11-10 lead, but lost that and were down 12-11 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
5) Jorge Posada was absolutely ridiculous. He blocked the plate and got absolutely plowed by Mark Teixera, but he held on and saved the run. This isn't a huge deal, but he stayed in the game, and drove in five runs, including two on a walkoff home run that won it. It was the only time all season I actually shouted in joy when the Yankees won.

Anyway, yeah, that was the Yankees season.

Book Lists

Updated 12/7/24
Note: Comics are only added once I finish reading them

Best Books of the 2010s
1. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2. Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson
3. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
4. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
5. The Crippled God by Steven Erikson
6. The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
7. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
8. Moonglow by Michael Chabon
9. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
10. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
11. The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
12. Dear Life by Alice Munro
13. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
14. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
15. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
16. Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb
17. The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham
18. Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
19. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
20. Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb
21. The King's Blood by Daniel Abraham
22. Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb
23. A Legacy of Spies by John le Carre
24. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
25. The Tyrant's Law by Daniel Abraham

Best Books of the 2000s
1. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
2. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
3. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
4. Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson
5. Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
7. The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
8. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
9. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
10. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
11. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
12. The Scar by China Mieville
13. Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
14. An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham
15. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
16. A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham
17. Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
18. A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
19. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
20. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
21. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
22. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
23. Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb
24. The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson
25. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

Best Books of the 90s
1. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
2. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
3. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
4. A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
5. Imajica by Clive Barker
6. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
7. Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
8. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
9. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
10. Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
11. Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
12. Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
13. Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
14. The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
15. Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
16. Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
17. Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin
18. Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
19. The Secret Pilgrim by John Le Carre
20. Pronto by Elmore Leonard
21. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
22. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
23. The Crocodile Bird by Ruth Rendell
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
25. Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb

Best Books of the 80s
1. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
2. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
3. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
4. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
5. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
6. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
7. Madouc by Jack Vance
8. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
9. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
10. The Green Pearl by Jack Vance
11. A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
12. Weaveworld by Clive Barker
13. Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance
14. Books of Blood, Volumes 1-3 by Clive Barker
15. Mort by Terry Pratchett
16. City Primeval by Elmore Leonard
17. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
18. The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
19. Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6 by Clive Barker
21. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
22. The White Rose by Glen Cook
23. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
24. Cugel's Saga by Jack Vance
25. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Best Books Year by Year
1976. Swag by Elmore Leonard
1977. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
1978. The Switch by Elmore Leonard
1979. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1980. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
1981. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
1982. Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
1983. Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance
1984. Books of Blood, Volumes 1-3 by Clive Barker
1985. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
1986. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
1987. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
1988. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
1989. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
1990. Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
1991. Imajica by Clive Barker
1992. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
1993. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
1994. In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
1995. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
1996. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
1997. Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
1998. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
1999. Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
2000. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
2001. The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
2002. The Scar by China Mieville
2003. Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
2004. Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson
2005. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
2006. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2007. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
2008. An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham
2009. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2010. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
2011. The Crippled God by Steven Erikson
2012. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2013. The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
2014. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
2015. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2016. Moonglow by Michael Chabon
2017. Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
2018. Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
2019. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
2020. The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
2021. The God Is Not Willing by Steven Erikson
2022. Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins
2023. Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham

Best New Comics of 2023
1. G.O.D.S.
2. Ultimate Invasion
3. Doctor Strange
4. Avengers Inc.
5. Thunderbolts
6. Wasp
7. Blade
8. Red Goblin
9. Joe Fixit
10. Marvel Unleashed

Best New Comics of 2022
1. Daredevil
2. Ghost Rider
3. Strange
4. Immortal X-Men
5. The Variants
6. Punisher
7. Carnage
8. X-Men: Red
9. Defenders: Beyond
10. Invincible Iron Man

Best New Comics of 2021
1. Moon Knight
2. Inferno
3. Eternals
4. Devil's Reign
5. Defenders
6. Hulk
7. Shang-Chi
8. Death of Doctor Strange
9. Black Panther
10. Avengers Forever

Best New Comics of 2020
1. Black Widow
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. S.W.O.R.D.
4. Thor
5. Black Cat
6. Hellions
7. Cable
8. Star Wars: Bounty Hunters
9. X-Factor
10. Iron Man

Best New Comics of the 2010s
1. Daredevil (2011)
2. Immortal Hulk
3. Batman (2011)
4. Hawkeye (2012)
5. New Avengers (2013)
6. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015b)
7. Uncanny X-Force
8. Avengers (2012)
9. Astro City (2013)
10. Paper Girls
11. House of X/Powers of X
12. Journey into Mystery (2011)
13. Thor: God of Thunder
14. Uncanny Avengers
15. Ms. Marvel (2014)
16. Gideon Falls
17. Daredevil (2019)
18. Captain America (2012)
19. Venom (2018)
20. Black Science
21. The Fade Out
22. FF
23. X-Men (2019)
24. Mighty Thor (2015)
25. Criminal (2019)

Best New Comics of 2019
1. House of X/Powers of X
2. Daredevil
3. X-Men
4. Criminal
5. Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
6. Black Cat
7. X-Force
8. Invaders
9. Captain Marvel
10. King Thor

Best New Comics of 2018
1. Immortal Hulk
2. Gideon Falls
3. Venom
4. Avengers
5. Captain America
6. Amazing Spider-Man
7. West Coast Avengers
8. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest
9. Fantastic Four
10. Doctor Strange

Best New Comics of 2017
1. Mister Miracle
2. Runaways
3. Astonishing X-Men
4. Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man
5. Star Wars: Darth Vader
6. Royals
7. Marvel 2-in-One
8. Batman: White Knight
9. All-New Guardians of the Galaxy
10. Black Bolt

Best New Comics of 2016
1. Seven to Eternity
2. Black Widow
3. Avengers
4. Star Wars: Doctor Aphra
5. Hawkeye
6. Black Panther
7. Moon Knight
8. Thanos
9. Ultimates 2
10. Old Man Logan

Best New Comics of 2015
1. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015b)
2. Paper Girls
3. Mighty Thor
4. Star Wars: Darth Vader
5. Secret Wars
6. Ms. Marvel
7. Star Wars
8. Vision
9. Daredevil
10. Ultimates

Best New Comics of 2014
1. Ms. Marvel
2. The Fade Out
3. Loki: Agent of Asgard
4. Daredevil
5. Magneto
6. Grayson
7. Amazing Spider-Man
8. Black Widow
9. Punisher
10. Moon Knight

Best New Comics of 2013
1. New Avengers
2. Astro City
3. Black Science
4. Young Avengers
5. Superior Spider-Man
6. Superior Foes of Spider-Man
7. Uncanny X-Men
8. Mighty Avengers
9. Guardians of the Galaxy
10. Sandman: Overture

Best New Comics of 2012
1. Hawkeye
2. Avengers
3. Thor: God of Thunder
4. Uncanny Avengers
5. Captain America
6. Batman Incorporated
7. Winter Soldier
8. All-New X-Men
9. Captain Marvel
10. Iron Man

Best New Comics of 2011
1. Daredevil
2. Batman
3. Journey Into Mystery
4. FF
5. Venom
6. Punisher
7. Batgirl
8. Criminal: The Last of the Innocent
9. Fantastic Four
10. Wolverine and the X-Men

Best New Comics of 2010
1. Uncanny X-Force
2. Secret Avengers
3. Batman Incorporated
4. Wolverine
5. Astro City: The Dark Age - Book Four
6. Avengers
7. Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
8. S.H.I.E.L.D.
9. New Avengers
10. Avengers Academy

Best New Comics of the 2000s
1. Captain America (2004)
2. Gotham Central
3. All-Star Superman
4. Thor (2007)
5. Criminal
6. Immortal Iron Fist
7. Y: The Last Man
8. X-Factor (2005)
9. Scott Pilgrim
10. Invincible Iron Man
11. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2002)
12. New Avengers
13. Irredeemable
14. She-Hulk
15. X-Statix
16. Ex Machina
17. Alias
18. Secret Warriors
19. Criminal (2008)
20. Guardians of the Galaxy (2008)
21. The Walking Dead
22. Wolverine (2003)
23. Runaways
24. Punisher (2009)
25. 52

Best New Comics of the 90s
1. Preacher
2. Bone
3. Batman: The Long Halloween
4. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
5. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
6. Astro City (1996)
7. Batman: Dark Victory
8. Uzumaki
9. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
10. Astro City
11. Promethea
12. Black Panther (1998)
13. Preacher: Saint of Killers
14. Kingdom Come
15. Top 10
16. Squee!
17. Give Me Liberty
18. Sin City
19. Superman for All Seasons
20. Marvels
21. Sin City: That Yellow Bastard
22. Batman: Black and White
23. Thrillkiller
24. Martha Washington Goes to War
25. Inhumans (1998)

Best New Comics Year by Year
1993: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
1994: Marvels
1995: Preacher
1996: Batman: The Long Halloween
1997. Squee!
1998. Uzumaki
1999. Batman: Dark Victory
2000. Robin: Year One
2001. Alias
2002. Gotham Central
2003. The Walking Dead
2004. Captain America
2005. All-Star Superman
2006. Criminal
2007. Thor
2008. Invincible Iron Man
2009. Irredeemable
2010. Uncanny X-Force
2011. Daredevil
2012. Hawkeye
2013. New Avengers
2014. Ms. Marvel
2015. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015b)
2016. Seven to Eternity
2017. Mister Miracle
2018. Immortal Hulk
2019. House of X/Powers of X
2020. Black Widow
2021. Moon Knight
2022. Daredevil
2023. G.O.D.S.

TV Lists

Updated 11/5/24
Note: Shows are only added once I finish watching them

Best New Shows of the 2010s
1. Better Call Saul
2. Succession
3. The Leftovers
4. The Americans
5. Justified
6. The Good Place
7. The Knick
8. Barry
9. Review
10. Mindhunter
11. Chernobyl
12. Rectify
13. Game of Thrones
14. Boardwalk Empire
15. Watchmen
16. Key & Peele
17. Steven Universe
18. Nathan for You
19. Legion
20. Hannibal
21. Over the Garden Wall
22. The Last Man on Earth
23. Broad City
24. The Deuce
25. Adventure Time

Best New Shows of 2019
1. Chernobyl
2. Watchmen
3. Demon Slayer
4. Russian Doll
5. Tuca & Bertie
6. Steven Universe Future
7. Unbelievable
8. When They See Us
9. Too Old to Die Young
10. Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer

Best New Shows of 2018
1. Succession
2. Barry
3. The Haunting of Hill House
4. The Little Drummer Girl
5. A.P. Bio
6. Escape at Dannemora
7. Waco
8. Star Wars Resistance
9. Cloak & Dagger
10. FLCL

Best New Shows of 2017
1. Mindhunter
2. Legion
3. The Deuce
4. The Vietnam War
5. Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
6. Manhunt
7. The Punisher
8. The Gifted
9. My Brother, My Brother and Me
10. Runaways

Best New Shows of 2016
1. The Good Place
2. The Night Of
3. O.J.: Made in America
4. The Night Manager
5. Erased
6. Westworld
7. Animal Kingdom
8. Hap and Leonard
9. The Grand Tour
10. Vinyl

Best New Shows of 2015
1. Better Call Saul
2. The Last Man on Earth
3. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
4. Documentary Now!
5. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
6. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
7. One-Punch Man
8. Daredevil
9. Jessica Jones
10. The Grinder

Best New Shows of 2014
1. The Leftovers
2. The Knick
3. Review
4. Over the Garden Wall
5. Broad City
6. True Detective
7. Star Wars Rebels
8. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
9. Decker
10. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Best New Shows of 2013
1. The Americans
2. Rectify
3. Steven Universe
4. Nathan for You
5. Hannibal
6. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
7. Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories
8. Attack on Titan
9. Inside Amy Schumer
10. Top of the Lake

Best New Shows of 2012
1. Key & Peele
2. Veep
3. The Legend of Korra
4. Gravity Falls
5. The Bletchley Circle
6. Psycho-Pass
7. The Greatest Event in Television History
8. Hatfields & McCoys
9. Magic City
10. Revolution

Best New Shows of 2011
1. Game of Thrones
2. Enlightened
3. Workaholics
4. Homeland
5. Eagleheart
6. The Heart, She Holler
7. NTSF:SD:SUV::
8. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
9. The Killing
10. The Hour

Best New Shows of 2010
1. Justified
2. Boardwalk Empire
3. Adventure Time
4. Terriers
5. Treme
6. Louie
7. Regular Show
8. The Pacific
9. Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule
10. Sherlock

Best New Shows of the 2000s
1. The Wire
2. Breaking Bad
3. Mad Men
4. Firefly
5. Band of Brothers
6. Arrested Development
7. Six Feet Under
8. Deadwood
9. The Shield
10. Community
11. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
12. Lost
13. Veronica Mars
14. The Venture Bros.
15. Parks and Recreation
16. Pushing Daisies
17. Rome
18. 30 Rock
19. The Office (2005)
20. Scrubs
21. Friday Night Lights
22. Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
23. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
24. Battlestar Galactica
25. Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Best New Shows of 2009
1. Community
2. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
3. Parks and Recreation
4. Dollhouse
5. Eastbound & Down
6. Party Down
7. Kings
8. White Collar
9. United States of Tara
10. Archer

Best New Shows of 2008
1. Breaking Bad
2. Delocated
3. Childrens Hospital
4. Fringe
5. Sons of Anarchy
6. Generation Kill
7. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
8. Spice and Wolf
9. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
10. Superjail!

Best New Shows of 2007
1. Mad Men
2. Pushing Daisies
3. Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
4. Flight of the Conchords
5. Gurren Lagann
6. Xavier: Renegade Angel
7. The Sarah Silverman Program
8. Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
9. Burn Notice
10. The Whitest Kids U' Know

Best New Shows of 2006
1. 30 Rock
2. Friday Night Lights
3. That Mitchell and Webb Look
4. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
5. Metalocalypse
6. Death Note
7. Dexter
8. The Unit
9. Saxondale
10. Frisky Dingo

Best New Shows of 2005
1. Rome
2. The Office
3. Avatar: The Last Airbender
4. The Thick of It
5. Squidbillies
6. Wonder Showzen
7. Extras
8. American Dad!
9. Blood+
10. Mushi-Shi

Best New Shows of 2004
1. Deadwood
2. Lost
3. Veronica Mars
4. The Venture Bros.
5. Battlestar Galactica
6. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
7. Tom Goes to the Mayor
8. Elfen Lied
9. Paranoia Agent
10. Monster

Best New Shows of 2003
1. Arrested Development
2. Chappelle's Show
3. Fullmetal Alchemist
4. Planetes
5. Star Wars: Clone Wars
6. Rumbling Hearts
7. Last Exile
8. Kino's Journey
9. Tsukihime: Lunar Legend
10. Scrapped Princess

Best New Shows of 2002
1. The Wire
2. Firefly
3. The Shield
4. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
5. RahXephon
6. Azumanga Daioh
7. Top Gear
8. Spooks
9. Look Around You
10. Full Metal Panic!

Best New Shows of 2001
1. Band of Brothers
2. Six Feet Under
3. Scrubs
4. Trailer Park Boys
5. Samurai Jack
6. Invader Zim
7. The Office
8. 24
9. Justice League
10. Undeclared

Best New Shows of 2000
1. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
3. Sealab 2021
4. FLCL
5. Black Books
6. The Corner
7. Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
8. X-Men: Evolution
9. Love Hina
10. Vandread

Best New Shows of the 90s
1. The Sopranos
2. Twin Peaks
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. Futurama
5. Oz
6. Freaks and Geeks
7. Homicide: Life on the Street
8. Prime Suspect
9. Spaced
10. Babylon 5
11. Batman: The Animated Series
12. Neon Genesis Evangelion
13. Angel
14. Mr. Show with Bob and David
15. South Park
16. The West Wing
17. Pride and Prejudice
18. Excel Saga
19. Home Movies
20. Cowboy Bebop
21. The Critic
22. Rocko's Modern Life
23. Giant Robo
24. The Civil War
25. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Best New Shows Year by Year
1982. Smiley's People
1983. Blackadder
1984. Fanny and Alexander
1985. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
1986. Dragon Ball
1987. Star Trek: The Next Generation
1988. Dekalog
1989. Seinfeld
1990. Twin Peaks
1991. Prime Suspect
1992. Batman: The Animated Series
1993. Homicide: Life on the Street
1994. The Critic
1995. Neon Genesis Evangelion
1996. Superman: The Animated Series
1997. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1998. Cowboy Bebop
1999. The Sopranos
2000. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2001. Band of Brothers
2002. The Wire
2003. Arrested Development
2004. Deadwood
2005. Rome
2006. 30 Rock
2007. Mad Men
2008. Breaking Bad
2009. Community
2010. Justified
2011. Game of Thrones
2012. Key & Peele
2013. The Americans
2014. The Leftovers
2015. Better Call Saul
2016. The Good Place
2017. Mindhunter
2018. Succession
2019. Chernobyl
2020. I May Destroy You
2021. Midnight Mass
2022. Ms. Marvel
2023. Scavengers Reign

Music Lists

Updated 6/5/24

Best Albums of 2023
1. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!
2. JPEGMafia & Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes
3. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
4. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
5. George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya
6. Gorillaz - Cracker Island
7. Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
8. Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
9. Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
10. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps

Best Albums of 2022
1. Alex G - God Save the Animals
2. Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
3. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
4. Nilufer Yanya - Painless
5. Yeule - Glitch Princess
6. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
7. Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
8. Animal Collective - Time Skiffs
9. Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa
10. Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow

Best Albums of 2021
1. The Armed - Ultrapop
2. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
3. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
4. Xenia Rubinos - Una Rosa
5. Black Midi - Cavalcade
6. Low - Hey What
7. Tyler, the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
8. Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
9. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
10. Turnstile - Glow On

Best Albums of 2020
1. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
2. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
3. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo
4. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
5. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
6. Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
7. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
8. The Microphones - Microphones in 2020
9. Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
10. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

Best Albums of the 2010s
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
3. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
4. Grizzly Bear - Shields
5. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
6. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
7. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
8. Tame Impala - Currents
9. Kanye West - Yeezus
10. Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
11. The National - High Violet
12. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
13. Spoon - They Want My Soul
14. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
15. CHAI - Punk
16. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
17. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
18. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
19. Panda Bear - Tomboy
20. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
21. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
22. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
23. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
24. Low - Double Negative
25. King Krule - The Ooz

Best Albums of 2019
1. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
2. Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
3. CHAI - Punk
4. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
5. Little Simz - Grey Area
6. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
7. (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar
8. Tyler, the Creator - Igor
9. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
10. Thom Yorke - ANIMA

Best Albums of 2018
1. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
2. Low - Double Negative
3. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
4. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
5. Vince Staples - FM!
6. Of Montreal - White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood
7. Saba - Care for Me
8. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
9. Robyn - Honey
10. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs

Best Albums of 2017
1. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
2. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
3. King Krule - The Ooz
4. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
5. Lorde - Melodrama
6. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
7. St. Vincent - Masseduction
8. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
9. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
10. SZA - CTRL

Best Albums of 2016
1. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
2. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
3. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
4. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
5. David Bowie - Blackstar
6. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
7. Solange - A Seat at the Table
8. Beyonce - Lemonade
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
10. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate

Best Albums of 2015
1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Tame Impala - Currents
3. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
4. Grimes - Art Angels
5. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
6. Vince Staples - Summertime '06
7. Jamie XX - In Colour
8. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style
9. Chvrches - Every Open Eye
10. Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves

Best Albums of 2014
1. Spoon - They Want My Soul
2. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
3. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
4. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
5. St. Vincent - Self-titled
6. Swans - To Be Kind
7. D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
8. FKA Twigs - LP1
9. Caribou - Our Love
10. Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek

Best Albums of 2013
1. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
2. Kanye West - Yeezus
3. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
4. The Flaming Lips - The Terror
5. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
6. Sigur Rós - Kveikur
7. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
8. Run the Jewels - Self-titled
9. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
10. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

Best Albums of 2012
1. Grizzly Bear - Shields
2. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
3. Beach House - Bloom
4. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
5. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
6. Tame Impala - Lonerism
7. Grimes - Visions
8. Swans - The Seer
9. Angel Olsen - Half Way Home
10. Twin Shadow - Confess

Best Albums of 2011
1. Panda Bear - Tomboy
2. The Antlers - Burst Apart
3. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
5. Real Estate - Days
6. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
7. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
8. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
9. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
10. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse

Best Albums of 2010
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. The National - High Violet
4. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
5. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
6. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
7. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
8. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
9. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
10. Beach House - Teen Dream

Best Albums of the 2000s
1. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
3. Dredg - El Cielo
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
6. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
7. Brand New - Deja Entendu
8. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
9. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
10. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
11. Portishead - Third
12. Department of Eagles - The Whitey on the Moon UK LP
13. The Antlers - Hospice
14. Muse - Absolution
15. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
16. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
17. Sigur Rós - ( )
18. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
19. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
20. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
21. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
22. Gorillaz - Demon Days
23. David Thomas Broughton - The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
24. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
25. The National - Alligator

Best Albums of 2009
1. The Antlers - Hospice
2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Fever Ray - Self-titled
5. St. Vincent - Actor
6. Dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
7. Brand New - Daisy
8. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. The xx - xx

Best Albums of 2008
1. Portishead - Third
2. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
3. Fleet Foxes - Self-titled
4. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
5. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
6. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
7. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
8. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
9. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
10. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

Best Albums of 2007
1. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
4. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
5. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
6. The National - Boxer
7. Apparat - Walls
8. Burial - Untrue
9. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
10. Kanye West - Graduation

Best Albums of 2006
1. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
4. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
5. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided
6. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
7. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
8. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
9. Califone - Roots & Crowns
10. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool

Best Albums of 2005
1. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
2. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
3. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
4. Gorillaz - Demon Days
5. David Thomas Broughton - The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
6. The National - Alligator
7. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
8. Sigur Rós- Takk...
9. Kanye West - Late Registration
10. Spoon - Gimme Fiction

Best Albums of 2004
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
3. Madvillain - Madvillainy
4. Kanye West - The College Dropout
5. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
6. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
7. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
8. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
9. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
10. Subtle - A New White

Best Albums of 2003
1. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2. Brand New - Deja Entendu
3. Department of Eagles - The Whitey on the Moon UK LP
4. Muse - Absolution
5. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
6. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
7. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
8. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
9. Opeth - Damnation
10. Jay-Z - The Black Album

Best Albums of 2002
1. Dredg - El Cielo
2. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
3. Sigur Rós - ( )
4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
6. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
7. Iron and Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
8. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
9. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
10. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight

Best Albums of 2001
1. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2. Gorillaz - Self-titled
3. Radiohead - Amnesiac
4. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
5. System of a Down - Toxicity
6. Daft Punk - Discovery
7. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
8. Fennesz - Endless Summer
9. Björk - Vespertine
10. Opeth - Blackwater Park

Best Albums of 2000
1. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
4. Deltron 3030 - Self-titled
5. OutKast - Stankonia
6. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
7. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
8. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
9. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
10. Deftones - White Pony

Best Albums of the 90s
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
4. Radiohead - The Bends
5. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
6. Fishmans - Long Season
7. Incubus - Make Yourself
8. Portishead - Dummy
9. Nas - Illmatic
10. Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya
11. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
12. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
13. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
14. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
15. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
16. OutKast - Aquemini
17. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
18. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
19. Dredg - Leitmotif
20. Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
21. Björk - Homogenic
22. Slint - Spiderland
23. Ween - Pure Guava
24. Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
25. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

Best Albums of 1999
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
2. Incubus - Make Yourself
3. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
4. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
5. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
6. Dredg - Leitmotif
7. Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
8. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
9. Wilco - Summerteeth
10. Blur - 13

Best Albums of 1998
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. OutKast - Aquemini
3. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
4. Air - Moon Safari
5. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
6. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
7. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
8. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
9. Cursive - The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song
10. System of a Down - Self-titled

Best Albums of 1997
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
3. Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya
4. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
5. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
6. Björk - Homogenic
7. Portishead - Self-titled
8. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
9. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞

Best Albums of 1996
1. Fishmans - Long Season
2. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
3. Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
4. OutKast - ATLiens
5. Beck - Odelay
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
7. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
8. Weezer - Pinkerton
9. Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
10. Ghostface Killah - Ironman

Best Albums of 1995
1. Radiohead - The Bends
2. Pulp - Different Class
3. Björk - Post
4. GZA - Liquid Swords
5. Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous
6. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
7. Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
8. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
9. Wilco - A.M.
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute

Best Albums of 1994

1. Portishead - Dummy

2. Nas - Illmatic

3. Blur - Parklife
4. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
5. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II

6. Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
7. Pulp - His 'n' Hers
8. Weezer - Self-titled
9. OutKast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

10. The Stone Roses - Second Coming

Best Albums of 1993

1. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville

2. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

3. Slowdive - Souvlaki

4. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

5. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
6. Yo La Tengo - Painless

7. Björk - Debut

8. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart

9. Palace Brothers - There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You

10. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Best Albums of 1992

1. Ween - Pure Guava

2. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

3. Rage Against the Machine - Self-titled
4. Sade - Love Deluxe

5. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

6. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
7. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

8. The Afghan Whigs - Congregation

9. The Flaming Lips - Hit to Death in the Future Head

10. Sonic Youth - Dirty

Best Albums of 1991

1. My Blood Valentine - Loveless

2. Slint - Spiderland

3. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

4. Nirvana - Nevermind

5. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
6. Pearl Jam - Ten

7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

8. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

9. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

10. Ween - The Pod

Best Albums of 1990
1. Depeche Mode - Violator
2. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
3. Fugazi - Repeater
4. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
5. Sonic Youth - Goo
6. Pixies - Bossanova
7. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo habitual
8. The Flaming Lips - In a Priest Driven Ambulance
9. Ween - God Ween Satan: The Oneness
10. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Best Albums of the 80s
1. Pixies - Doolittle
2. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
3. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
4. The Cure - Disintegration
5. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
6. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
7. Joy Division - Closer
8. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
9. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
10. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
11. This Heat - Deceit
12. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
13. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
14. The Smiths - Self-titled
15. Prince - Sign o' the Times
16. R.E.M. - Murmur
17. Michael Jackson - Thriller
18. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
19. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
20. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
21. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
22. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
23. The Stone Roses - Self-titled
24. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
25. Paul Simon - Graceland

Best Albums of the 70s
1. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
2. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
3. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
4. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
5. Neil Young - On the Beach
6. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
7. Joni Mitchell - Blue
8. The Clash - London Calling
9. Television - Marquee Moon
10. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
11. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
12. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
13. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
14. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
15. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
16. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
17. Brian Eno - Another Green World
18. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
19. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
20. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
21. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
22. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
23. Pink Floyd - Animals
24. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
25. Gang of Four - Entertainment!

Best Albums of the 60s
1. The Beatles - Self-titled
2. The Velvet Underground & Nico - Self-titled
3. The Beatles - Abbey Road
4. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
6. The Beatles - Revolver
7. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
8. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
10. Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
11. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
12. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
13. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
14. The Velvet Underground - Self-titled
15. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
16. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
17. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
18. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
19. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
20. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
21. Nina Simone - Wild Is the Wind
22. Led Zeppelin - Self-titled
23. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
24. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
25. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

Best Albums Year by Year
1959. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
1960. John Coltrane - Giant Steps 
1961. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
1962. The Supremes - Meet the Supremes
1963. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
1964. The Beatles - Hard Day's Night
1965. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
1966. The Beatles - Revolver
1967. The Velvet Underground & Nico - Self-titled
1968. The Beatles - Self-titled
1969. The Beatles - Abbey Road
1970. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
1971. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
1972. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
1973. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
1974. Neil Young - On the Beach
1975. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1976. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
1977. Television - Marquee Moon
1978. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
1979. The Clash - London Calling
1980. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1981. This Heat - Deceit
1982. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
1983. R.E.M. - Murmur
1984. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
1985. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
1986. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
1987. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
1988. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1989. Pixies - Doolittle
1990. Depeche Mode - Violator
1991. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1992. Ween - Pure Guava
1993. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
1994. Portishead - Dummy
1995. Radiohead - The Bends
1996. Fishmans - Long Season
1997. Radiohead - OK Computer
1998. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
2000. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2001. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2002. Dredg - El Cielo
2003. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2004. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
2006. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2007. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
2008. Portishead - Third
2009. The Antlers - Hospice
2010. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011. Panda Bear - Tomboy
2012. Grizzly Bear - Shields
2013. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
2014. Spoon - They Want My Soul
2015. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2016. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
2017. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
2018. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
2019. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
2020. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
2021. The Armed - Ultrapop
2022. Alex G - God Save the Animals
2023. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!

Movie Lists

Updated 12/7/24

Best Movies of 2023
1. Oppenheimer
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. Asteroid City
4. The Zone of Interest
5. May December
6. The Holdovers
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. Perfect Days
9. Poor Things
10. Anatomy of a Fall

Best Movies of 2022
1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Tar
4. Aftersun
5. RRR
6. The Northman
7. Pinocchio
8. Bones and All
9. Turning Red
10. Barbarian

Best Movies of 2021
1. The Green Knight
2. Drive My Car
3. Petite Maman
4. The Worst Person in the World
5. No Sudden Move
6. Titane
7. Judas and the Black Messiah
8. The Power of the Dog
9. Pig
10. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

Best Movies of 2020
1. Minari
2. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
4. Another Round
5. Shiva Baby
6. The Father
7. Possessor
8. The Empty Man
9. Soul
10. Da 5 Bloods

Best Movies of the 2010s
1. Drive
2. Inception
3. Her
4. Mandy
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Parasite
7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8. The Hateful Eight
9. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
10. The Man From Nowhere
11. Toy Story 3
12. Django Unchained
13. Hell or High Water
14. The Avengers
15. The Lighthouse
16. Green Room
17. The Favourite
18. Phantom Thread
19. Burning
20. Avengers: Infinity War
21. 20th Century Women
22. Call Me by Your Name
23. Arrival
24. Guardians of the Galaxy
25. Under the Skin

Best Movies of 2019
1. Parasite
2. The Lighthouse
3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
4. A Hidden Life
5. The Irishman
6. Uncut Gems
7. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
8. Midsommar
9. Avengers: Endgame
10. Knives Out

Best Movies of 2018
1. Mandy
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. The Favourite
4. Burning
5. Avengers: Infinity War
6. Annihilation
7. Mission: Impossible - Fallout
8. Black Panther
9. Dragged Across Concrete
10. Sorry to Bother You

Best Movies of 2017
1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2. Phantom Thread
3. Call Me by Your Name
4. Coco
5. Dunkirk
6. Brawl in Cell Block 99
7. Baby Driver
8. You Were Never Really Here
9. Lady Bird
10. John Wick: Chapter 2

Best Movies of 2016
1. Hell or High Water
2. 20th Century Women
3. Arrival
4. The Handmaiden
5. Manchester by the Sea
6. Moonlight
7. Swiss Army Man
8. Captain America: Civil War
9. Sing Street
10. The Nice Guys

Best Movies of 2015
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Hateful Eight
3. Green Room
4. Inside Out
5. Anomalisa
6. The Witch
7. Spotlight
8. The Martian
9. Tangerine
10. The Invitation

Best Movies of 2014
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Whiplash
3. Gone Girl
4. Ex Machina
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
6. The Raid 2
7. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. Nightcrawler
10. The Lego Movie

Best Movies of 2013
1. Her
2. Under the Skin
3. Short Term 12
4. Gravity
5. The Wolf of Wall Street
6. Blue Ruin
7. The World's End
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Upstream Color
10. 12 Years a Slave

Best Movies of 2012
1. Django Unchained
2. The Avengers
3. The Act of Killing
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Looper
6. Lincoln
7. The Master
8. Argo
9. Zero Dark Thirty
10. The Hunt

Best Movies of 2011
1. Drive
2. A Separation
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Warrior
5. The Raid: Redemption
6. 50/50
7. Super 8
8. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
9. Hugo
10. Contagion

Best Movies of 2010
1. Inception
2. The Man From Nowhere
3. Toy Story 3
4. The Social Network
5. Winter's Bone
6. Beginners
7. Shutter Island
8. The King's Speech
9. Blue Valentine
10. True Grit

Best Movies of the 2000s
1. Memento
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Amélie
5. Spider-Man 2
6. Tokyo Godfathers
7. Brick
8. City of God
9. Oldboy
10. Gangs of New York
11. Let the Right One In
12. Pan's Labyrinth
13. Minority Report
14. Wall-E
15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16. Children of Men
17. Juno
18. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
19. Adaptation.
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
21. There Will Be Blood
22. A Prophet
23. You Can Count On Me
24. Ratatouille
25. Memories of Murder

Best Movies of 2009
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. A Prophet
3. A Serious Man
4. Mother
5. The White Ribbon
6. The Informant!
7. The Messenger
6. Mary and Max
8. Up in the Air
9. (500) Days of Summer

Best Movies of 2008
1. Let the Right One In
2. Wall-E
3. The Dark Knight
4. Synecdoche, New York
5. Milk
6. The Hurt Locker
7. Slumdog Millionaire
8. Happy-Go-Lucky
9. Waltz with Bashir
10. Taken

Best Movies of 2007
1. Juno
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Ratatouille
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
6. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
7. Eastern Promises
8. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
9. The Bourne Ultimatum
10. Zodiac

Best Movies of 2006
1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Children of Men
3. The Prestige
4. Casino Royale
5. The Lives of Others
6. The Departed
7. United 93
8. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
9. Blood Diamond
10. Paprika

Best Movies of 2005
1. Brick
2. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
3. Caché
4. Munich
5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
6. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
7. A History of Violence
8. Batman Begins
9. Match Point
10. Grizzly Man

Best Movies of 2004
1. Spider-Man 2
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. The Incredibles
4. Shaun of the Dead
5. The Aviator
6. Primer
7. Collateral
8. Kill Bill Volume 2
9. Vera Drake
10. A Very Long Engagement

Best Movies of 2003
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Tokyo Godfathers
3. Oldboy
4. Memories of Murder
5. The Station Agent
6. Kill Bill Volume 1
7. X2: X-Men United
8. Finding Nemo
9. Mystic River
10. Touching the Void

Best Movies of 2002
1. City of God
2. Gangs of New York
3. Minority Report
4. Adaptation.
5. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. The Pianist
8. Spider-Man
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10. The Bourne Identity

Best Movies of 2001
1. Amélie
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. Mulholland Drive
4. The Man Who Wasn't There
5. Donnie Darko
6. The Royal Tenenbaums
7. Spirited Away
8. Y Tu Mamá También
9. The Piano Teacher
10. Millennium Actress

Best Movies of 2000
1. Memento
2. You Can Count On Me
3. Snatch
4. Yi Yi
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
6. In the Mood for Love
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. Traffic
9. Gladiator
10. Almost Famous

Best Movies of the 90s
1. The Matrix
2. Fight Club
3. The Big Lebowski
4. The End of Evangelion
5. Princess Mononoke
6. L.A. Confidential
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Magnolia
9. The Usual Suspects
10. The Silence of the Lambs
11. Casino
12. La Haine
13. Se7en
14. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
15. Fargo
16. Saving Private Ryan
17. American Beauty
18. Boogie Nights
19. Close-Up
20. Unforgiven
21. The Insider
22. Trainspotting
23. The Thin Red Line
24. Eyes Wide Shut
25. Schindler's List

Best Movies of 1999
1. The Matrix
2. Fight Club
3. Magnolia
4. American Beauty
5. The Insider
6. Eyes Wide Shut
7. Being John Malkovich
8. All About My Mother
9. The Iron Giant
10. The Straight Story

Best Movies of 1998
1. The Big Lebowski
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Thin Red Line
4. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
5. After Life
6. American History X
7. Rushmore
8. The Celebration
9. A Simple Plan
10. Out of Sight

Best Movies of 1997
1. The End of Evangelion
2. Princess Mononoke
3. L.A. Confidential
4. Boogie Nights
5. Cure
6. Chasing Amy
7. Good Will Hunting
8. Perfect Blue
9. The Game
10. Lost Highway

Best Movies of 1996
1. Fargo
2. Trainspotting
3. Secrets & Lies
4. Hard Eight
5. Breaking the Waves
6. Kolya
7. Bottle Rocket
8. Sling Blade
9. Citizen Ruth
10. Waiting for Guffman

Best Movies of 1995
1. The Usual Suspects
2. Casino
3. La Haine
4. Se7en
5. Heat
6. Braveheart
7. 12 Monkeys
8. Dead Man
9. Get Shorty
10. Kicking and Screaming

Best Movies of 1994
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Léon
3. Three Colors: Red
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Forrest Gump
6. Chungking Express
7. Pom Poko
8. Heavenly Creatures
9. Ed Wood
10. Three Colors: White

Best Movies of 1993
1. Schindler's List
2. Jurassic Park
3. Three Colors: Blue
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas
5. True Romance
6. Dazed and Confused
7. Naked
8. Groundhog Day
9. Manhattan Murder Mystery
10. Gettysburg

Best Movies of 1992
1. Unforgiven
2. Porco Rosso
3. Glengarry Glen Ross
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Malcolm X
6. The Long Day Closes
7. Howards End
8. Husbands and Wives
9. Hard Boiled
10. Aladdin

Best Movies of 1991
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. Raise the Red Lantern
4. Delicatessen
5. Night on Earth
6. A Brighter Summer Day
7. The Double Life of Veronique
8. Europa
9. Barton Fink
10. Only Yesterday

Best Movies of 1990
1. Close-Up
2. Cyrano de Bergerac
3. Miller's Crossing
4. Goodfellas
5. La Femme Nikita
6. Mo' Better Blues
7. Edward Scissorhands
8. Wild at Heart
9. The Nasty Girl
10. Dreams

Best Movies of the 80s
1. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Akira
3. Raging Bull
4. The Princess Bride
5. Back to the Future
6. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Aliens
8. Once Upon a Time in America
9. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
10. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
11. Blue Velvet
12. The Verdict
13. Amadeus
14. The King of Comedy
15. Kiki's Delivery Service
16. Das Boot
17. Possession
18. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
19. Come and See
20. The Thing
21. Airplane!
22. The Terminator
23. Die Hard
24. The Fly
25. Little Shop of Horrors

Best Movies of 1989
1. Kiki's Delivery Service
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Do the Right Thing
4. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
5. The Killer
6. Sex, Lies, and Videotape
7. Say Anything...
8. Mystery Train
9. Batman
10. Crimes and Misdemeanors

Best Movies of 1988
1. Akira
2. Die Hard
3. The Land Before Time
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. The Vanishing
6. The Last Temptation of Christ
7. Dead Ringers
8. Bull Durham
9. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
10. Distant Voices, Still Lives

Best Movies of 1987
1. The Princess Bride
2. Predator
3. Raising Arizona
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Planes, Trains & Automobiles
6. Wall Street
7. Angel Heart
8. Withnail and I
9. Evil Dead II
10. Wings of Desire

Best Movies of 1986
1. Aliens
2. Blue Velvet
3. The Fly
4. Little Shop of Horrors
5. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
6. Hannah and Her Sisters
7. Stand By Me
8. The Sacrifice
9. The Green Ray
10. Down By Law

Best Movies of 1985
1. Back to the Future
2. Come and See
3. Brazil
4. Shoah
5. The Time to Live and the Time to Die
6. My Life as a Dog
7. The Color Purple
8. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
9. Ran
10. The Breakfast Club

Best Movies of 1984
1. Once Upon a Time in America
2. Amadeus
3. The Terminator
4. This Is Spinal Tap
5. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
6. Paris, Texas
7. Stop Making Sense
8. Night of the Comet
9. Ghostbusters
10. Blood Simple

Best Movies of 1983
1. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
2. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
3. Nostalghia
4. L'Argent
5. The Dead Zone
6. Sans Soleil
7. Trading Places
8. Scarface
9. Videodrome
10. A Christmas Story

Best Movies of 1982
1. The Verdict
2. The King of Comedy
3. The Thing
4. Blade Runner
5. Fanny and Alexander
6. Tootsie
7. Deathtrap
8. Veronika Voss
9. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
10. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Best Movies of 1981
1. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Das Boot
3. Possession
4. Prince of the City
5. The Woman Next Door
6. The Evil Dead
7. An American Werewolf in London
8. Time Bandits
9. Mad Max 2
10. Thief

Best Movies of 1980
1. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raging Bull
3. Airplane!
4. Ordinary People
5. The Elephant Man
6. Kagemusha
7. The Shining
8. The Blues Brothers
9. Dressed to Kill
10. Caddyshack

Best Movies of the 70s
1. The Godfather
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. Annie Hall
4. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. The Godfather: Part II
7. Stalker
8. Blazing Saddles
9. Taxi Driver
10. The Sting
11. Young Frankenstein
12. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
13. The Last Picture Show
14. Network
15. Chinatown
16. Scenes from a Marriage
17. The Conformist
18. All the President's Men
19. Alien
20. Manhattan
21. Barry Lyndon
22. The Deer Hunter
23. The Conversation
24. Days of Heaven
25. Patton

Best Movies of 1979
1. Stalker
2. Alien
3. Manhattan
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Monty Python's Life of Brian
6. Kramer vs. Kramer
7. The Tin Drum
8. Nosferatu the Vampyre
9. Being There
10. Arrebato

Best Movies of 1978
1. The Deer Hunter
2. Days of Heaven
3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
4. Autumn Sonata
5. The Tree of Wooden Clogs
6. The Driver
7. Animal House
8. Halloween
9. Coming Home
10. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

Best Movies of 1977
1. Annie Hall
2. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
3. High Anxiety
4. The Ascent
5. House
6. A Bridge Too Far
7. Stroszek
8. That Obscure Object of Desire
9. Suspiria
10. Eraserhead

Best Movies of 1976
1. Taxi Driver
2. Network
3. All the President's Men
4. Rocky
5. Carrie
6. Harlan County, USA
7. Kings of the Road
8. The Tenant
9. Face to Face
10. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Best Movies of 1975
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Jaws
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. The Man Who Would Be King
6. Picnic at Hanging Rock
7. Fox and His Friends
8. Deep Red
9. Night Moves
10. Dog Day Afternoon

Best Movies of 1974
1. The Godfather: Part II
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Chinatown
5. Scenes from a Marriage
6. The Conversation
7. A Woman Under the Influence
8. The Phantom of Liberty
9. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
10. Alice in the Cities

Best Movies of 1973
1. The Sting
2. Badlands
3. Serpico
4. The Mother and the Whore
5. Papillon
6. American Graffiti
7. Day for Night
8. Paper Moon
9. The Spirit of the Beehive
10. The Exorcist

Best Movies of 1972
1. The Godfather
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
3. Solaris
4. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
5. Cries and Whispers
6. The Getaway
7. Dirty Money
8. The Candidate
9. Fist of Fury
10. Child's Play

Best Movies of 1971
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Last Picture Show
3. The French Connection
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
5. Harold and Maude
6. Duck, You Sucker
7. Fiddler on the Roof
8. The Devils
9. Two English Girls
10. A Touch of Zen

Best Movies of 1970
1. The Conformist
2. Patton
3. Le Cercle Rouge
4. MASH
5. Claire's Knee
6. Tristana
7. Two Mules for Sister Sara
8. Catch-22
9. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
10. Wanda

Best Movies of the 60s
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Harakiri
3. The Graduate
4. The Producers
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6. High and Low
7. The Apartment
8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
9. The Hustler
10. Army of Shadows
11. Rosemary's Baby
12. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
13. Hud
14. Le Trou
15. Bonnie and Clyde
16. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
17. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
18. 2001: A Space Odyssey
19. Lawrence of Arabia
20. Persona
21. Le Samourai
22. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
23. Repulsion
24. Goldfinger
25. Yojimbo

Best Movies of 1969
1. Army of Shadows
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. The Wild Bunch
4. My Night at Maud's
5. Z
6. Kes
7. The Milky Way
8. Take the Money and Run
9. Midnight Cowboy
10. Topaz

Best Movies of 1968
1. Rosemary's Baby
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Bullitt
4. Shame
5. Memories of Underdevelopment
6. The Odd Couple
7. Hour of the Wolf
8. Once Upon a Time in the West
9. Where Eagles Dare
10. If....

Best Movies of 1967
1. The Graduate
2. The Producers
3. Bonnie and Clyde
4. Le Samourai
5. Play Time
6. Cool Hand Luke
7. The Dirty Dozen
8. In the Heat of the Night
9. Marketa Lazarova
10. Mouchette

Best Movies of 1966
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. Persona
4. The Battle of Algiers
5. Blow-Up
6. A Man for All Seasons
7. Batman
8. Au hasard Balthazar
9. Daisies
10. How to Steal a Million

Best Movies of 1965
1. Repulsion
2. The Sound of Music
3. Le Bonheur
4. The Hill
5. Pierrot le fou
6. Doctor Zhivago
7. Chimes at Midnight
8. I Knew Her Well
9. The Collector
10. Simon of the Desert

Best Movies of 1964
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
3. Goldfinger
4. Fail-Safe
5. Woman in the Dunes
6. Diary of a Chambermaid
7. Gertrud
8. Charulata
9. The Train
10. The Pawnbroker

Best Movies of 1963
1. High and Low
2. Hud
3. The Great Escape
4. Winter Light
5. El Verdugo
6. The Birds
7. The Servant
8. Tom Jones
9. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
10. The House Is Black

Best Movies of 1962
1. Harakiri
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Jules and Jim
6. Le Doulos
7. L'Eclisse
8. Ivan's Childhood
9. The Exterminating Angel
10. An Autumn Afternoon

Best Movies of 1961
1. The Hustler
2. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
3. Yojimbo
4. One, Two, Three
5. The Innocents
6. Judgment at Nuremberg
7. Viridiana
8. La Notte
9. Through a Glass Darkly
10. Accattone

Best Movies of 1960
1. The Apartment
2. Le Trou
3. The Magnificent Seven
4. The Virgin Spring
5. The Bad Sleep Well
6. Eyes Without a Face
7. Peeping Tom
8. Rocco and His Brothers
9. Spartacus
10. L'avventura

Best Movies of the 50s
1. 12 Angry Men
2. The Wages of Fear
3. Rear Window
4. Vertigo
5. Wild Strawberries
6. North by Northwest
7. High Noon
8. Anatomy of a Murder
9. Sweet Smell of Success
10. Witness for the Prosecution
11. Rio Bravo
12. Umberto D.
13. The Cranes are Flying
14. Night and Fog
15. All About Eve
16. Marty
17. The 400 Blows
18. Diabolique
19. Ikiru
20. Paths of Glory
21. Seven Samurai
22. Sunset Boulevard
23. The Killing
24. A Man Escaped
25. Some Like It Hot

Best Movies of 1959
1. North by Northwest
2. Anatomy of a Murder
3. Rio Bravo
4. The 400 Blows
5. Some Like It Hot
6. Hiroshima Mon Amour
7. Ben-Hur
8. Pickpocket
9. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
10. Imitation of Life

Best Movies of 1958
1. Vertigo
2. Ivan the Terrible Part 2
3. The Music Room
4. Mon Oncle
5. Elevator to the Gallows
6. Some Came Running
7. Touch of Evil
8. The Magician
9. Ashes and Diamonds
10. The Big Country

Best Movies of 1957
1. 12 Angry Men
2. Wild Strawberries
3. Sweet Smell of Success
4. Witness for the Prosecution
5. The Cranes are Flying
6. Paths of Glory
7. The Seventh Seal
8. Throne of Blood
9. The Bridge on the River Kwai
10. A Face in the Crowd

Best Movies of 1956
1. Night and Fog
2. The Killing
3. A Man Escaped
4. Written on the Wind
5. Aparajito
6. Baby Doll
7. The Man Who Knew Too Much
8. The Searchers
9. Giant
10. Bob le Flambeur

Best Movies of 1955
1. Marty
2. Diabolique
3. The Night of the Hunter
4. Pather Panchali
5. Ordet
6. Rififi
7. All That Heaven Allows
8. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
9. Kiss Me Deadly
10. Smiles of a Summer Night

Best Movies of 1954
1. Rear Window
2. Seven Samurai
3. La Strada
4. Dial M for Murder
5. On the Waterfront
6. The Crucified Lovers
7. Johnny Guitar
8. Hobson's Choice
9. Sansho the Bailiff
10. Sabrina

Best Movies of 1953
1. The Wages of Fear
2. Roman Holiday
3. Tokyo Story
4. Ugetsu
5. From Here to Eternity
6. Shane
7. The Earrings of Madame de...
8. El
9. Stalag 17
10. Sawdust and Tinsel

Best Movies of 1952
1. High Noon
2. Umberto D.
3. Ikiru
4. Singin' in the Rain
5. The Life of Oharu
6. Casque d'Or
7. The Quiet Man
8. Europa '51
9. Waiting Women
10. Le Plaisir

Best Movies of 1951
1. Early Summer
2. The African Queen
3. A Place in the Sun
4. Detective Story
5. Strangers on a Train
6. Ace in the Hole
7. A Streetcar Named Desire
8. The Day the Earth Stood Still
9. An American in Paris
10. Miracle in Milan

Best Movies of 1950
1. All About Eve
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. In a Lonely Place
4. The Asphalt Jungle
5. Rashomon
6. Harvey
7. Scandal
8. Stromboli
9. The Gunfighter
10. The Young and the Damned

Best Movies of the 40s
1. Casablanca
2. Double Indemnity
3. The Big Sleep
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
5. Citizen Kane
6. Late Spring
7. It's a Wonderful Life
8. Mrs. Miniver
9. Rebecca
10. Out of the Past
11. Brief Encounter
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. Bicycle Thieves
14. His Girl Friday
15. The Third Man
16. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
17. A Matter of Life and Death
18. Arsenic and Old Lace
19. Children of Paradise
20. Notorious
21. The Red Shoes
22. The Shop Around the Corner
23. White Heat
24. Sullivan's Travels
25. Rope

Best Movies of 1949
1. Late Spring
2. The Third Man
3. White Heat
4. Twelve O'Clock High
5. The Passionate Friends
6. Stray Dog
7. The Heiress
8. All the King's Men
9. Adam's Rib
10. On the Town

Best Movies of 1948
1. Bicycle Thieves
2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. The Red Shoes
4. Rope
5. Germany Year Zero
6. Key Largo
7. Drunken Angel
8. Fort Apache
9. Hamlet
10. Call Northside 777

Best Movies of 1947
1. Out of the Past
2. Monsieur Verdoux
3. Miracle on 34th Street
4. Black Narcissus
5. Gentleman's Agreement
6. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
7. Dark Passage
8. Gran Casino
9. The Lady from Shanghai
10. The Paradine Case

Best Movies of 1946
1. The Big Sleep
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. A Matter of Life and Death
4. Notorious
5. The Best Years of Our Lives
6. Paisan
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Gilda
9. The Stranger
10. Great Expectations

Best Movies of 1945
1. Brief Encounter
2. Children of Paradise
3. Rome, Open City
4. Mildred Pierce
5. The Lost Weekend
6. Detour
7. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
8. I Know Where I'm Going!
9. They Were Expendable
10. Spellbound

Best Movies of 1944
1. Double Indemnity
2. Arsenic and Old Lace
3. Ivan the Terrible Part 1
4. Lifeboat
5. Gaslight
6. To Have and Have Not
7. Laura
8. A Canterbury Tale
9. Meet Me in St. Louis
10. Going My Way

Best Movies of 1943
1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. Day of Wrath
4. I Walked with a Zombie
5. Meshes of the Afternoon
6. Air Force
7. Sanshiro Sugata
8. The Outlaw
9. This Is the Army
10. The Nazis Strike

Best Movies of 1942
1. Casablanca
2. Mrs. Miniver
3. Yankee Doodle Dandy
4. To Be or Not to Be
5. The Palm Beach Story
6. The Major and the Minor
7. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
8. The Pride of the Yankees
9. The Magnificent Ambersons
10. Bambi

Best Movies of 1941
1. Citizen Kane
2. Sullivan's Travels
3. The Lady Eve
4. How Green Was My Valley
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. Ball of Fire
7. Suspicion
8. The 47 Ronin
9. 49th Parallel
10. The Little Foxes

Best Movies of 1940
1. Rebecca
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. His Girl Friday
4. The Shop Around the Corner
5. The Letter
6. The Philadelphia Story
7. The Great Dictator
8. Foreign Correspondent
9. The Thief of Bagdad
10. Fantasia

Best Movies of the 30s
1. It Happened One Night
2. Duck Soup
3. Grand Illusion
4. Bringing Up Baby
5. M
6. The Thin Man
7. The Rules of the Game
8. City Lights
9. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
10. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
11. My Man Godfrey
12. Stagecoach
13. Madchen in Uniform
14. Ninotchka
15. Make Way for Tomorrow
16. Tabu
17. Mutiny on the Bounty
18. Only Angels Have Wings
19. The Informer
20. The Adventures of Robin Hood
21. The Awful Truth
22. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
23. Modern Times
24. The Lady Vanishes
25. The Wizard of Oz

Best Movies of 1939
1. The Rules of the Game
2. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
4. Stagecoach
5. Ninotchka
6. Only Angels Have Wings
7. The Wizard of Oz
8. Young Mr. Lincoln
9. Gunga Din
10. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Best Movies of 1938
1. Bringing Up Baby
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood
3. The Lady Vanishes
4. Jezebel
5. You Can't Take It with You
6. La Bete Humaine
7. Alexander Nevsky
8. Carefree
9. Room Service
10. Four Men and a Prayer

Best Movies of 1937
1. Grand Illusion
2. Make Way for Tomorrow
3. The Awful Truth
4. A Day at the Races
5. The Life of Emile Zola
6. Young and Innocent
7. Lost Horizon
8. Shall We Dance
9. Dead End
10. The Hurricane

Best Movies of 1936
1. My Man Godfrey
2. Modern Times
3. The Crime of Monsieur Lange
4. Dodsworth
5. After the Thin Man
6. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7. Swing Time
8. Secret Agent
9. These Three
10. Come and Get It

Best Movies of 1935
1. Mutiny on the Bounty
2. The Informer
3. A Night at the Opera
4. Captain Blood
5. Barbary Coast
6. Top Hat
7. The 39 Steps
8. Bride of Frankenstein
9. The Phantom Light
10. Steamboat Round the Bend

Best Movies of 1934
1. It Happened One Night
2. The Thin Man
3. L'Atalante
4. The Scarlet Empress
5. The Lost Patrol
6. The Man Who Knew Too Much
7. The Gay Divorcee
8. Red Ensign
9. The World Moves On
10. Man of Aran

Best Movies of 1933
1. Duck Soup
2. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
3. Design for Living
4. Land Without Bread
5. She Done Him Wrong
6. King Kong
7. Little Women
8. The Invisible Man
9. Zero for Conduct
10. Lady for a Day

Best Movies of 1932
1. Vampyr
2. Trouble in Paradise
3. Horse Feathers
4. Freaks
5. I Was Born, But...
6. Boudu Saved from Drowning
7. Grand Hotel
8. Scarface
9. Forbidden
10. The Mummy

Best Movies of 1931
1. M
2. City Lights
3. Madchen in Uniform
4. Tabu
5. Monkey Business
6. La Chienne
7. Platinum Blonde
8. Limite
9. The Skin Game
10. The Public Enemy

Best Movies of 1930
1. All Quiet on the Western Front
2. L'Age d'Or
3. A Propos de Nice
4. People on Sunday
5. Earth
6. The Blue Angel
7. Animal Crackers
8. Up the River
9. Ladies of Leisure
10. Murder!

Best Movies of the 20s
1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
2. Safety Last!
3. Sherlock, Jr.
4. Nosferatu
5. Battleship Potemkin
6. Man With a Movie Camera
7. The Last Laugh
8. The General
9. Faust
10. October
11. The Circus
12. Our Hospitality
13. Four Sons
14. The Passion of Joan of Arc
15. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
16. Metropolis
17. Pandora's Box
18. Seven Chances
19. The Cameraman
20. The Thief of Bagdad
21. The Kid
22. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
23. The Phantom Carriage
24. The Iron Horse
25. Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Best Movies Year by Year
1918. A Dog's Life
1919. Broken Blossoms
1920. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921. The Kid
1922. Nosferatu
1923. Safety Last!
1924. Sherlock, Jr.
1925. Battleship Potemkin
1926. The General
1927. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1928. The Circus
1929. Man With a Movie Camera
1930. All Quiet on the Western Front
1931. M
1932. Vampyr
1933. Duck Soup
1934. It Happened One Night
1935. Mutiny on the Bounty
1936. My Man Godfrey
1937. Grand Illusion
1938. Bringing Up Baby
1939. The Rules of the Game
1940. Rebecca
1941. Citizen Kane
1942. Casablanca
1943. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1944. Double Indemnity
1945. Brief Encounter
1946. The Big Sleep
1947. Out of the Past
1948. Bicycle Thieves
1949. Late Spring
1950. All About Eve
1951. Early Summer
1952. High Noon
1953. The Wages of Fear
1954. Rear Window
1955. Marty
1956. Night and Fog
1957. 12 Angry Men
1958. Vertigo
1959. North by Northwest
1960. The Apartment
1961. The Hustler
1962. Harakiri
1963. High and Low
1964. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965. Repulsion
1966. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1967. The Graduate
1968. Rosemary's Baby
1969. Army of Shadows
1970. The Conformist
1971. A Clockwork Orange
1972. The Godfather
1973. The Sting
1974. The Godfather: Part II
1975. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1976. Taxi Driver
1977. Annie Hall
1978. The Deer Hunter
1979. Stalker
1980. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1981. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982. The Verdict
1983. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1984.Once Upon a Time in America
1985. Back to the Future
1986. Aliens
1987. The Princess Bride
1988. Akira
1989. Kiki's Delivery Service
1990. Close-Up
1991. The Silence of the Lambs
1992. Unforgiven
1993. Schindler's List
1994. Pulp Fiction
1995. The Usual Suspects
1996. Fargo
1997. The End of Evangelion
1998. The Big Lebowski
1999. The Matrix
2000. Memento
2001. Amélie
2002. City of God
2003. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004. Spider-Man 2
2005. Brick
2006. Pan's Labyrinth
2007. Juno
2008. Let the Right One In
2009. Inglourious Basterds
2010. Inception
2011. Drive
2012. Django Unchained
2013. Her
2014. Guardians of the Galaxy
2015. Mad Max: Fury Road
2016. Hell or High Water
2017. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2018. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2019. Parasite
2020. Minari
2021. The Green Knight
2022. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023. Oppenheimer