| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| Dark Knight, The | 2008 | 97 | 1 | - Solid summer super hero blockbuster. Sad to see him go, but Heath Ledger definitely extended us a gem from beyond the grave. |
| Memento | 2000 | 93 | 2 | - Watch this without knowing anyone or anything behind it and you'll say, "where has this movie been all my life?" Then discover Christopher Nolan's name and say "Ah, that explains it all." |
| Departed, The | 2006 | 92 | 3 | - Scorcese at his best. There's a reason this one put him over the top. A near-perfect film! |
| Good Will Hunting | 1997 | 92 | 3 | - The blended cast of Robin Williams and Ben Affleck and Matt Damon symbolizes the handing of the torch in Hollywood from one generation to another. And both are equally brilliant. |
| Crazy, Stupid, Love | 2011 | 89 | 5 | - I will defend my manhood 'till my last dying breath, but I loved this refreshingly complex, easy-on-the-sap romantic comedy |
| Old School | 2003 | 87 | 6 | - Old School, like a college student, is crude, silly, energetic, and often intoxicated...and doesn't have any regrets about it. |
| Ex Machina | 2015 | 84 | 7 | - It's fascinating how such a seemingly simple story can evoke such complex themes. |
| Frequency | 2000 | 84 | 7 | - This is the kind of magic movies are supposed to be made of. It doesn't all have to fit logically, it just has to be fun. |
| Sandlot | 1993 | 84 | 7 | - Set in the '50's, it's hard to call 'The Sandlot' a tale of nostalgia. Then again, as the movie so eloquently points out, some things just never change. |
| Shes Out Of My League | 2010 | 83 | 10 | - An underrated comedy. We'll look back at this as the spawn of T.J. Miller's film career. |
| Grand Budapest Hotel, The | 2014 | 82 | 11 | - One of Wes Anderson's best works yet. |
| Scream | 1996 | 82 | 11 | - The no-frills teens slasher knows what its about and doesn't deviate from a solid concept. It's a low-risk, moderate-reward plan that leads to glass-ceiling success. |
| American Hustle | 2013 | 77 | 13 | - As far as David O. Russell's last three films go, his personal own "Oscar trilogy", this is by far the weakest. |
| Sing Street | 2016 | 77 | 13 | - Cute little coming-of-age movie, if you can call it that. |
| School of Rock, The | 2003 | 76 | 15 | - In his career, Richard Linklater has alternated between making films for the cinephiles and the mainstream. This good-not-great comedy is the latter. |
| Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | 2015 | 72 | 16 | - What starts out as a sharp, funny take on the traditional high school film fades into a dull, depressing teen dramedy. |
| Forgetting Sarah Marshall | 2008 | 71 | 17 | - Jason Segal and Mila Kunis are memorable. Kristen Bell and Russell Brandt are regrettable. |
| Point Break | 1991 | 71 | 17 | - There are good parts and bad parts. The good parts show Bigelow's early potential as a film maker. The bad parts show it couldn't escape much of the cheesiness that plagued hit movies of the '80's. |
| Safety Not Guaranteed | 2012 | 70 | 19 | - It's a cute little comedy, even if its concepts and plot are plainly obvious as soon as the film begins. |
| Rushmore | 1998 | 67 | 20 | - Typical Wes Anderson. |
| Seven | 1995 | 63 | 21 | - It's not nearly the philosophical essay on morals that it thinks it is. |
| Mr. Right | 2016 | 61 | 22 | - A disappointing project for Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell to have their names forever tied to. |
| The Drop | 2014 | 58 | 23 | - Sadly, 'The Drop' will be remembered as Gandolfini's last film to hit theaters. Which is actually good for the film itself, I suppose, because on it's own merits it was simply going to be forgotten. |
| Kubo and the Two Strings | 2016 | 54 | 24 | - Ultimately, it's forgettable. |
| Bottle Rocket | 1996 | 50 | 25 | - It's not quarky so much as idiosyncratic. There's odd-funny and then there's just odd, and 'Bottle Rocket' is definitely the latter. |
