| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| Black Swan | 2010 | 100 | 1 | (full review) |
| Winters Bone | 2010 | 100 | 1 | (full review) |
| Boyhood | 2014 | 95 | 3 | (full review) - Boyhood is not an easy film. But it is a great one. |
| 127 Hours | 2010 | 90 | 4 | (full review) |
| American Hustle | 2013 | 90 | 4 | (full review) - One of my favorite films of 2013. |
| Arrival | 2016 | 90 | 4 | (full review) - Brilliant and wonderful science fiction |
| Artist, The | 2011 | 90 | 4 | (full review) |
| Birdman | 2014 | 90 | 4 | - The film is occasionally pretentious but, in the end, it's still a triumph of pure cinema. |
| Brooklyn | 2015 | 90 | 4 | (full review) - A great and wonderfully romantic film! |
| Grand Budapest Hotel, The | 2014 | 90 | 4 | (full review) - Flawed by fascinating |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | 90 | 4 | - One of the year's greatest surprises. An exciting and thought-provoking film. |
| Moonlight | 2016 | 90 | 4 | (full review) - One of the best of 2016 |
| Room | 2015 | 90 | 4 | (full review) - The movie made my cry and cry and I mean that in a good way. |
| Argo | 2012 | 86 | 14 | (full review) |
| Whiplash | 2014 | 86 | 14 | (full review) - J.K. Simmons kicks ass. |
| Black Panther | 2018 | 85 | 16 | - One of the best Marvel films so far. |
| Fighter, The | 2010 | 85 | 16 | (full review) |
| Hacksaw Ridge | 2016 | 85 | 16 | (full review) - An anti-war masterpiece |
| Hell or High Water | 2016 | 85 | 16 | (full review) - Foster, Bridges, and Pine -- oh my! |
| The Revenant | 2015 | 80 | 20 | (full review) - Intense |
| True Grit (2010) | 2010 | 80 | 20 | (full review) - Probably the most straight-forward movie ever made by the Coen Brothers. |
| Bridge of Spies | 2015 | 75 | 22 | (full review) - Good but very conventional. By this point, Steven Spielberg doesn't have a subversive bone in his body. |
| The Theory of Everything | 2014 | 75 | 22 | (full review) - A good film but the true story is far more complex and challenging. |
| Spotlight | 2015 | 70 | 24 | (full review) - Well-made but a bit too conventional. |
| The Martian | 2015 | 65 | 25 | (full review) - Entertaining but definitely overrated. |
| Descendants, The | 2011 | 60 | 26 | (full review) |
| Kids Are All Right, The | 2010 | 60 | 26 | (full review) - Glib and overrated. |
| The Big Short | 2015 | 25 | 28 | (full review) - Destined to be remembered as one of the worst films ever nominated for best picture. |
| Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close | 2011 | 20 | 29 | (full review) |
