Movie Roundup: Meh, Casey Kotchman Edition


It’s a Gift – WC Fields as a henpecked grocer who decides to buy an orange grove and move his family to California. As a movie, it’s not much, mostly just an excuse for elaborate Fields set pieces (a baby loose in his store while an irate man demands cumquats, Fields trying to get to get back to sleep on his porch, the family having a picnic). It’s often hilarious, but more built around physical comedy than the later Fields I’ve seen, The Bank Dick (which I liked better) and My Little Chickadee (which I did not). He’s a funny man. The #10 film of 1934.


The Freshman – Harold Lloyd, though, I just am not impressed by. I liked this more than the other film of his I’ve seen (Speedy), but not because it’s funnier (both have some good moments, but fewer than I’d like), rather because it seems more heartfelt. Despite the corniness of Lloyd’s geek character’s patheticness, by the end of the film, I couldn’t help but feel for him. It helps that the last half hour of the film is by far the best (the end of a party sequence and the climactic football game, which at times almost reaches hilarity). It’s not fair to compare him to Chaplin and Keaton (or the Marxes and Fields) (it’s not fair to compare anyone to those guys) but I can’t help but look at a scene in a Lloyd film and think they would have had ten jokes where Lloyd has one. The #4 film of 1925.


Hallelujah, I’m a Bum – A really wonderful musical from 1933 directed by Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front, Ocean’s Eleven) and starring Al Jolson. This is the first time I’ve seen Jolson in anything, and he’s pretty great here, charming and funny, he reminded me of Gene Kelly more than anything else (without the dancing, of course). He plays the “Mayor of Central Park”, the leader of a pack of bums that happens to be friends with New York’s actual mayor, Frank Morgan (yet another wonderful performance by one of my favorite supporting actors). Morgan has a fight with his showgirl girlfriend, who tries to kill herself, only to be rescued by Jolson, suffer amnesia and fall in love (in that order). Will Jolson give up his commitment to homeless life and get a real job? Will the regretful Morgan find his girl? Will she recover her memory, and if so, which Mayor will she choose? There’s much hilarity from the supporting cast, including Edgar Connor as Jolson’s “valet”, and silent film stars Chester Conklin and Harry Langdon, who particularly stands out as a Bolshevik trash collector endlessly haranguing the homeless for not being workers and instead getting fat off the leftovers of the corrupt capitalist system. The songs are pretty good too: not the best stuff by Rodgers and Hart, but not bad at all. The #3 film of 1933.


Summer Hours – Hmmm . . . needs more Binoche. This seems miles away from the last Olvier Assayas film I saw (the Asia Argento techno-thriller Boarding Gate, which was great), being instead a leisurely, episodic story of the last days of a familial home. It’s not nearly as apocalyptic as it might have been in lesser hands (think a heavy-handed metaphor about the decline of civilization from the likes of Michael Haneke), instead it’s elegiac: we drift through the scenes not with an urgent foreboding, but rather the calm realization that all things (and families) come to an end and that this is as it should be. This is conveyed most effectively by Assayas’s visual style, all long, wandering hand-held shots, the best of which is the film’s magnificent final scene, a wandering trip through the house as a group of kids enjoy its many charms for their (but not the house’s, surely) last time. As for the objects that are at the heart of the film’s story, the things the family must to decide how to deal with, they have value, but what kind and how much depends on the valuer, I suppose. Objects are just objects, its people that give them meaning. A museum values a vase because it’s unique and exquisitely crafted by a master artist, an old woman because it holds flowers and memories of her friend. In the end, the film is on the side of the old woman, and so am I. The #4 film of 2008.

Top Films of All-Time Index

This is an index of my Top Films of All-Time lists. Every year around Labor Day I make a new one.

My Top 150 Films – 2008
My Top 250 Films – 2009
My Top 600 Films – 2010
My Top 1000 Films – 2011
A Top 100 Films – 2012
A Top 100 Films – 2013
A Top 100 Films – 2014
A Top 100 Films – 2015
A Top 100 Films – 2016
A Top 100 Films – 2017
A Top 100 Films – 2018
A Top 100 Films – 2019
A Top 100 Films – 2020
A Top 100 Films – 2021
A Top 100 Films – 2022

Index of Old Stuff

This is an index of a bunch of things I did a long time ago. Some of it is worth reading, but it’s mostly just lists and some very short not-even-capsule reviews.


Best Movies of the Decade

This is an index of the Best of the Decade lists I made between 2008 and 2009.

Movies of the 10s & 20s  Aug 10, 2009
Movies of the 30s  Jun 15, 2009
Movies of the 40s  May 11, 2009
Movies of the 50s  Apr 27, 2009
Movies of the 60s  Mar 24, 2009
Movies of the 70s  Jan 26, 2009
Movies of the 80s  Dec 20, 2008
Movies of the 90s  Dec 08, 2008
Movies of the 00s  Dec 02, 2008
Movies of the 00s (updated) Dec 30, 2009

Best Years of the Decade

This is an index of the lists of Best Movie Years of Each Decade that I made during the summer of 2008.

Best Years of the 40s  Sep 16, 2008
Best Years of the 50s  May 12, 2008
Best Years of the 60s  June 11, 2008
Best Years of the 70s  July 02, 2008
Best Years of the 80s  July 16, 2008
Best Years of the 90s  Aug 19, 2008


Movies of the Year Index

This is an index of the Movies of the Year posts I made between 2005 and 2008.  I managed to cover from 1946-the present before losing momentum.  Most of them are totally obsolete at this point.

1946  Nov 18, 2008
1947  Aug 25, 2008
1948  Aug 06, 2008
1949  June 25, 2008
1950  June 05, 2008
1951  Jan 24, 2008
1952  Sep 26, 2007
1953  June 13, 2007
1954  Apr 12, 2007
1955  Jan 20, 2007
1956  Dec 21, 2006
1957  Oct 25, 2006
1958  Oct 04, 2006
1959  Sep 27, 2006
1960  Sep 04, 2006
1961  July 26, 2006
1962  July 26, 2006
1963  July 19, 2006
1964  June 13, 2006
1965  May 17, 2006
1966  Apr 23, 2006
1967  Apr 02, 2006
1968  Mar 22, 2006
1969  Mar 19, 2006
1970  Mar 15, 2006
1971  Mar 15, 2006
1972  Mar 03, 2006
1973  Mar 01, 2006
1974  Feb 10, 2006
1975  Feb 08, 2006
1976  Aug 31, 2005
1977  Aug 31, 2005
1978  Sep 01, 2005
1979  Sep 02, 2005
1980  Sep 02, 2005
1981  Sep 04, 2005
1982  Sep 12, 2005
1983  Sep 17, 2005
1984  Sep 18, 2005
1985  Sep 24, 2005
1986  Sep 25, 2005
1987  Oct 01, 2005
1988  Oct 05, 2005
1989  Oct 09, 2005
1990  Oct 16, 2005
1991  Oct 29, 2005
1992  Oct 30, 2005
1993  Nov 02, 2005
1994  Nov 06, 2005
1995  Nov 11, 2005
1996  Nov 16, 2005
1997  Nov 21, 2005
1998  Dec 07, 2005
1999  Dec 11, 2005
2000  Dec 15, 2005
2001  Jan 15, 2006
2002  Jan 25, 2006
2003  Jan 27, 2006
2004  Feb 07, 2006
2005  Feb 08, 2006
2006 (part one)  Jan 14, 2007
2006 (part two)  Dec 31, 2006
2007 (part one)  Jan 07, 2008
2007 (part two)  Jan 16, 2008
2008 (part one)  Dec 29, 2008
2008 (part two)  Feb 03, 2009
2009 (part one)  Mar 08, 2010
2009 (part two)  Mar 07, 2010
2010 (part one)  Dec 31, 2010
2010 (part two)  Jan 05, 2011
2011 (part one)  Dec 31, 2011

Rankings: 2010-2019

2010:
2010 Endy Awards

1. Oki’s Movie
2. Certified Copy
3. Meek’s Cutoff
4. Let the Bullets Fly
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
6. Unstoppable
7. Love in a Puff
8. Carlos
9. Mysteries of Lisbon
10. 607
11. Hahaha
12. Resident Evil: Afterlife
13. Boxing Gym
14. Shutter Island
15. Thomas Mao
16. The Social Network
17. I Wish I Knew
18. Another Year
19. Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
20. Dream Home
21. The Legend is Born: Ip Man
22. Film Socialisme
23. Nostalgia for the Light
24. Day and Night
25. True Grit
26. Gallants
27. Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
28. Black Swan
29. Get Out of the Car
30. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
31. The Sleeping Beauty
32. 13 Assassins
33. The Strange Case of Angelica
34. Poetry
35. Enthiran
36. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
37. Exit Through the Gift Shop
38. Easy A
39. The Illusionist
40. If You Are the One 2
41. 127 Hours
42. Greenberg
43. Who Killed Captain Alex?
44. Reign of Assassins
45. Robin Hood
46. The Secret World of Arrietty
47. The Drunkard
48. Strange Powers
49. The Trip
50. Centurion
51. Made in Dagenham
52. Bill Cunningham, New York
53. Winter’s Bone
54. Toy Story 3
55. Undisputed III: Redemption
56. Wishful Drinking
57. Ip Man 2
58. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
59. Senna
60. The Promise
61. The Ghost Writer
62. Merry-Go-Round
63. My Film and My Story
64. Crossing the Mountain
65. Predators
66. Tiny Furniture
67. Skyline
68. Ong Bak 3
69. Never Let Me Go
70. Sweetgrass
71. A Cat in Paris
72. The Fourth Portrait
73. Tees Maar Khan
74. Iron Man 2
75. The King’s Speech
76. Inception
77. Restrepo
78. Hot Tub Time Machine
79. Kick Ass
80. Inhalation
81. The Indian Boundary Line
82. Icarus Under the Sun
83. Machete
84. Casino Jack and the United States of Money
85. Rumination
86. The Kids are All Right
87. The Tiger Factory
88. Green Zone
89. The Last Airbender

2011:
2011 Endy Awards

1. The Tree of Life
2. The Day He Arrives
3. Damsels in Distress
4. The Deep Blue Sea
5. Margaret
6. Romance Joe
7. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
8. List
9. Girl Walk // All Day
10. Wuxia
11. Life Without Principle
12. Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown
13. The Three Musketeers
14. George Harrison: Living in the Material World
15. K-On! the Movie
16. Ex
17. The Grey
18. War Horse
19. Hugo
20. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
21. Moneyball
22. A Separation
23. Pina
24. Bernie
25. The Raid
26. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
27. The Turin Horse
28. Crazy Horse
29. The Color Wheel
30. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
31. Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
32. The Kid with a Bike
33. Weekend
34. Scream 4
35. We Need to Talk About Kevin
36. La Luna
37. J. Edgar
38. A Dangerous Method
39. The Story of Film: An Odyssey
40. The Cabin in the Woods
41. Company
42. The Muppets
43. Winnie the Pooh
44. Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
45. Thor
46. Carnage
47. A Fish
48. Super 8
49. East Meets West
50. Captain America
51. Midnight in Paris
52. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
53. Young Adult
54. The Adventures of Tintin
55. Conan the Barbarian
56. Drive
57. The Artist
58. Take Shelter
59. 1990-2006: The Never-Ending Narrative
60. Final Destination 5
61. Fast Five
62. Take this Waltz
63. Headshot
64. The Guard
65. 50/50
66. Attack the Block
67. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
68. Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
69. Don’t Expect Too Much
70. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
71. The Adjustment Bureau
72. X-Men: First Class
73. Page One: Inside the New York Times
74. Rango
75. Overheard 2
76. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
77. Cedar Rapids
78. These Amazing Shadows

2012:
2012 Endy Awards

1. Romancing in Thin Air
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Wolf Children
4. Like Someone in Love
5. The Master
6. Lincoln
7. Resident Evil: Retribution
8. Drug War
9. In Another Country
10. Pitch Perfect
11. Eega
12. Mekong Hotel
13. Ace Attorney
14. Night Across the Street
15. Viola
16. Frances Ha
17. Tabu
18. Leviathan
19. Holy Motors
20. To the Wonder
21. It’s Such a Beautiful Day
22. When Night Falls
23. The Last Time I Saw Macao
24. Memories Look at Me
25. Three Sisters
26. Four Ways to Die in My Hometown
27. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
28. Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo
29. Zero Dark Thirty
30. People’s Park
31. Much Ado About Nothing
32. Walker
33. Something in the Air
34. Tai Chi Zero
35. Emperor Visits the Hell
36. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
37. Neighboring Sounds
38. Motorway
39. Vamps
40. The Act of Killing
41. Blancanieves
42. Room 237
43. Love in the Buff
44. Museum Hours
45. Thursday Till Sunday
46. Dredd
47. Everybody in Our Family
48. Reconversão
49. El Gringo
50. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
51. Django Unchained
52. Cosmopolis
53. Looper
54. Tai Chi Hero
55. Bachelorette
56. The Dark Knight Rises
57. Shut Up and Play the Hits
58. The Avengers
59. Cold War
60. Gebo and the Shadow
61. 9 Muses of Star Empire
62. Cloud Atlas
63. It’s a Disaster
64. The Unlikely Girl
65. Prometheus
66. This is 40
67. Mother
68. Brave
69. Diva
70. In Search of Haydn
71. Mystery
72. The Angels’ Share
73. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
74. Crossfire Hurricane
75. Hello I Must Be Going
76. Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
77. Good Vibrations
78. Antiviral
79. Flight
80. Beautiful 2012
81. Red Flag
82. The King’s Body
83. Spring Breakers
84. Wreck-It Ralph
85. GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
86. Silver Linings Playbook
87. Sleepwalk With Me
88. Jack Reacher
89. Amour
90. A Mere Life
91. The Five-Year Engagement
92. Moksha; the World, or I, How Does that Work?
93. Save the Date
94. Argo
95. Skyfall
96. Game Change
97. Rock of Ages
98. Les Misérables

2013:
2013 Endy Awards

1. The Grandmaster
2. Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
3. Blind Detective
4. La última película
5. The Missing Picture
6. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
7. A Touch of Sin
8. Seventh Code
9. Dusty Stacks of Mom
10. The Wind Rises
11. Stray Dogs
12. The Wolf of Wall Street
13. Our Sunhi
14. Computer Chess
15. Only Lovers Left Alive
16. At Berkeley
17. Inside Llewyn Davis
18. Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
19. The Immigrant
20. Hard to Say
21. The Lone Ranger
22. The World’s End
23. Just in Time
24. Ip Man: The Final Fight
25. Yumen
26. Young Detective Dee and the Rise of the Sea Dragon
27. The Garden of Words
28. Trap Street
29. Miss and the Doctors
30. The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
31. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
32. Bastards
33. Before Midnight
34. The Great Passage
35. Under the Skin
36. A Fuller Life
37. 12 Years a Slave
38. The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
39. The Three Disasters
40. All is Lost
41. Boundless
42. Man of Steel
43. Her
44. 50:50
45. Snowpiercer
46. Iron Man 3
47. Unbeatable
48. So Young
49. Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
50. Mahjong
51. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
52. Chennai Express
53. Six by Sondheim
54. Blue Jasmine
55. New World
56. Distant
57. Gravity
58. Top of the Lake
59. Finding Mr. Right
60. Frozen
61. Enough Said
62. Burn Release Explode The Invincible
63. Bends
64. Night Moves
65. The Great Gatsby
66. Star Trek Into Darkness
67. My First Love
68. The Owners
69. Redemption
70. Grigris
71. Longing for the Rain
72. Drinking Buddies
73. Pain & Gain
74. 42
75. The White Storm
76. Blue is the Warmest Color
77. Anatomy of a Paperclip
78. Unforgiven
79. Fast & Furious 6
80. Thor: The Dark World
81. The Great Beauty
82. My Lucky Star
83. Hear My Train A-Comin’
84. 130919: A Portrait of Marina Abramovic
85. The Spider’s Lair
86. Camille Claudel 1915
87. Anchorman 2
88. American Hustle
89. Cinesapiens

2014:
2014 Endy Awards

1. Super Bowl XLVIII
2. The Midnight After
3. Inherent Vice
4. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2
5. Journey to the West
6. National Gallery
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. Hill of Freedom
9. Ballet 422
10. A Matter of Interpretation
11. The Crossing Part One
12. Jauja
13. Phoenix
14. Obvious Child
15. Adieu au langage
16. Pompeii
17. The Taking of Tiger Mountain
18. Gone with the Bullets
19. She’s Funny That Way
20. Horse Money
21. Tokyo Tribe
22. Noah
23. Actress
24. Gone Girl
25. Hit 2 Pass
26. The Coffin in the Mountain
27. White, Heat, Lights
28. Highway
29. Eden
30. Beyond Zero: 1914-1918
31. Here’s to the Future!
32. Two Days, One Night
33. Camera falls from airplane and lands in pig pen–MUST WATCH END!!
34. Gyeongju
35. La Sapienza
36. Heaven Knows What
37. Little Forest: Summer/Autumn
38. The Golden Era
39. Uncertain Relationships Society
40. Welcome to New York
41. John Wick
42. The Princess of France
43. Mr. Turner
44. The Rehearsal
45. When Marnie was There
46. Flowers of Taipei: New Taiwan Cinema
47. Into the Woods
48. Lucy
49. American Sniper
50. Happy New Year
51. Happy Christmas
52. Girlhood
53. The Clouds of Sils Maria
54. Guardians of the Galaxy
55. The Duke of Burgundy
56. Blanket Statement #2: It’s All or Nothing
57. Black Coal, Thin Ice
58. Jersey Boys
59. Selma
60. Whiplash
61. The Look of Silence
62. Approaching the Elephant
63. The Iron Ministry
64. Draft Day
65. Listen Up Philip
66. While We’re Young
67. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
68. Winter Sleep
69. Maps to the Stars
70. Dear White People
71. Boyhood
72. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
73. The LEGO Movie
74. Dearest
75. Natural History
76. Temporary Family
77. The Last Five Years
78. Top Five
79. Wild Tales
80. Women Who Know How to Flirt are the Luckiest
81. Inside Voices
82. A Hard Day
83. Transformers: Age of Extinction
84. Crazy World
85. X-Men: Days of Future Past
86. The Raid 2
87. Transformers: The Premake
88. Ned Rifle
89. The Teacher’s Diary
90. Rise of the Legend
91. Jia Zhangke: A Guy from Fenyang
92: The Admiral: Roaring Currents
93. Nightcrawler
94. Amour fou
95. Golden Chickensss
96. Aberdeen
97. Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
98. January
99. Regarding Susan Sontag
100. Song of the Sea
101. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
102. Kung Fu Jungle
103. A Girl at My Door
104. Back to the Soil
105. From Vegas to Macau
106. Ow
107. Edge of Tomorrow
108. The Babadook
109. Too Many Cooks
110. Exodus: Gods and Kings
111. Everything Will Be
112. They Came Together
113. Virtuosity
114. The Monkey King
115. Lava
116. Life Itself
117. Snow on the Blades
118. The Furthest End Awaits
119. Haemoo
120. The Dream of Shahrazad
121. And the Oscar Goes To …
122. Veronica Mars
123. Magnificent View
124. The Imitation Game
125. Overheard 3
126. Exit
127. The Theory of Everything
128. Broken Palace
129. Black Comedy
130. Love is All

2015:
2015 Endy Awards:

1. The Assassin
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Arabian Nights
4. Mountains May Depart
5. The Royal Road
6. Blackhat
7. Cemetery of Splendour
8. Baahubali: The Beginning
9. The Forbidden Room
10. SPL 2: A Time for Consequences
11. Kaili Blues
12. Happy Hour
13. Mistress America
14. World of Tomorrow
15. Murmur of the Hearts
16. The Case of Hana and Alice
17. Tamasha
18. Carol
19. Sunset Song
20. Office
21. Sixty Six
22. Knight of Cups
23. Jupiter Ascending
24. 88:88
25. Night Without Distance
26. In Jackson Heights
27. Port of Call
28. La La La at Rock Bottom
29. Detective Chinatown
30. The Thoughts That Once We Had
31. Heart of a Dog
32. Taxi
33. Tangerine
34. Creed
35. Right Now, Wrong Then
36. Li Wen at East Lake
37. Veteran
38. A Tale of Three Cities
39. O Kadhal Kanmani
40. Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton
41. Go Away, Mr. Tumor
42. The Force Awakens
43. Results
44. Little Forest: Winter/Spring
45. The Martian
46. Bridge of Spies
47. The Witch
48. Behemoth
49. Close Range
50. Spotlight
51. No No Sleep
52. The Hateful 8
53. The Visit
54. The Intern
55. Ocean Falls
56. 45 Years
57. Junun
58. Piku
59. De Palma
60. The Mend
61. Crimson Peak
62. Topophilia
63. Forget Me Not
64. Sleeping with Other People
65. Bitter Lake
66. Roads Rapidly Changing
67. In the Shadow of Women
68. Hitchcock/Truffaut
69. Queen of Earth
70. My Golden Days
71. The Pearl Button
72. The Fits
73. Tig
74. Concerto: A Beethoven Journey
75. Anomalisa
76. Wild City
77. Eisenstein in Guanajuato
78. Thithi
79. Experimenter
80. The Treasure
81. Greed; Ghost Light
82: Age of Ultron
83. Bone Tomahawk
84. The Exquisite Corpus
85. Yakuza Apocalypse
86. By the Sea
87. Pitch Perfect 2
88. Shaun the Sheep Movie
89. Brooklyn
90. Tag
91. Aloha
92. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
93. Francofonia
94. The Chinese Mayor
95. Dead Slow Ahead
96. Furious 7
97. Chi-Raq
98. Mustang
99. Ant-Man
100. Bad at Dancing
101. The Island Funeral
102. The Crossing Part 2
103. Inside Out
104. Judy Judy Judy
105. Ten Years
106. Manifesto
107. Macbeth
108. Sisters
109. The Peanuts Movie
110. Delusional Mandala
111. Sicario
112. Spectre
113. The Revenant
114. 2015 Rolling
115. Xiao Kang
116. Trainwreck
117. Far From the Madding Crowd
118. Ip Man 3
119. The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin
120. Mr. Six
121. Ex Machina
122. Monster Hunt
123. Wondrous Boccaccio
124. 7 Days in Hell
125. Wolf Warriors
126. A Bigger Splash
127. Love and…
128. Smog Journeys
129. Paradise
130. The Big Short
131. Amy
132. Digging for Fire
133. Straight Outta Compton
134. Magicarena
135. Memories of the Sword
136. A Ballerina’s Tale
137. The Final Master
138. Steve Jobs
139. Queen of the Desert
140. What Happened in Past Dragon Year
141. Wild Card
142. Unexpected
143. The Wolfpack
144. From Vegas to Macau II
145. Concussion
146. The American Ballet Theatre: A History
147. It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
148. Alice in Earnestland
149. Magic Mike XXL
150. Dragon Blade
151. Dreams Rewired
152. Tandem
153. Mojin: The Lost Legend
154. The Beautiful Kokonor Lake
155. The Transporter Refueled
156. Argentina
157. Chatty Catties

2016:
2016 Endy Awards

1. Paterson
2. Yourself & Yours
3. Dawson City: Frozen Time
4. Toni Erdmann
5. Love & Friendship
6. A Silent Voice
7. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
8. Shin Godzilla
9. Silence
10. Things to Come
11. Your Name.
12. The Last Poems Trilogy
13. The Hedonists
14. By the Time It Gets Dark
15. Sully
16. HyperNormalization
17. A Quiet Passion
18. Moonlight
19. I Am Not Your Negro
20. In this Corner of the World
21. Yellowing
22. The Age of Shadows
23. Rogue One
24. Crosscurrent
25. The Wasted Times
26. Everybody Wants Some!!
27. Hermia & Helena
28. Three
29. Fan
30. Let Your Heart Be Light
31. Elle
32. The Mermaid
33. A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
34. The Edge of Seventeen
35. Creepy
36. Train to Busan
37. Certain Women
38. A Quiet Dream
39. Bad Black
40. Aquarius
41. Debra Paget, For Example
42. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
43. Lemonade
44. Hail, Caesar!
45. Soulmate
46. Nocturama
47. I Am Not Madame Bovary
48. The Shallows
49. Tower
50. Trivisa
51. The Love Witch
52. Never Eat Alone
53. Personal Shopper
54. Wet Woman in the Wind
55. Curses
56. Dangal
57. Boyka: Undisputed IV
58. Rat Film
59. Pop Song
60. OJ: Made in America
61. Short Stay
62. The Monkey King 2
63. Kékszakállú
64. Manchester by the Sea
65. The Lost City of Z
66. Split
67. My Beloved Bodyguard
68. The Movieland Movie
69. Lifeline
70. One Day in Our Lives Of. . .
71. A Train Arrives at the Station
72. Mrs. K
73. Cave of Sighs
74. Nine Behind
75. Cameraperson
76. The Intestine
77. After the Storm
78. Kedi
79. One Night Only
80. Call of Heroes
81. Indefinite Pitch
82. Kill Time
83. The Wailing
84. La La Land
85. My Journey through French Cinema
86. The Unknown Girl
87. Daguerreotype
88. Chongqing Hot Pot
89. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
90. I, Daniel Blake
91. Old Stone
92. Still Night, Still Light
93. The Mobfathers
94. Civil War
95. 20th Century Women
96. Nutag – Homeland
97. The Ornithologist
98. Two
99. Those Who Remains
100. The Promise
101. Godspeed
102. Garfunkel & Oates: Trying to Be Special
103. See You Tomorrow
104. Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids
105. The Girl Without Hands
106. Over the Fence
107. A Chinese Odyssey Part 3
108. 🌲🌲🌲
109. Suffering of Ninko
110. The Human Surge
111. The Handmaiden
112. Leap!
113. Tales of Two Who Dreamt
114. 10 Cloverfield Lane
115. The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio
116. The Weaving of a Dream
117. 13th
118. The Seasons in Quincy
119. Mad World
120. Arrival
121. Doctor Strange
122. Soul on a String
123. Railroad Tigers
124. Mamie
125. Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait
126. The Great Wall
127. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
128. Sword Master
129. Allied
130. A Dragon Arrives!
131. 13 Hours
132. Operation Mekong
133. X-Men: Apocalypse
134. Hidden Figures
135. Lo and Behold: Reveries of a Connected World
136. Hell or High Water
137. Free Fire
138. Suicide Squad
139. Hamilton’s America
140. Sing
141. The Road to Mandalay
142. Maudite Poutine
143. Neruda
144. Phantom Detective
145. Harmonium
146. Cold War 2
147. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
148. David Lynch: The Art Life
149. Weeds on Fire
150. Somewhere in Kamakura
151. Deadpool
152. Sky on Fire
153. Blood of Youth
154. Ghostbusters
155. Fish
156. Maliglutit
157. Star Trek Beyond
158. From Vegas to Macau III
159. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
160. For a Few Bullets
161. The Secret Life of Pets
162. Someone To Talk To
163. Confirmation
164. Maybe If It Were a Nice Room
165. Dama Wang Who Lives on Happiness Alone
166. The Cameraman
167. In a Valley of Violence
168. Srorrim
169. Get a Job

2017:
2017 Endy Awards

1. Baahubali: the Conclusion
2. Claire’s Camera
3. 120 Beats per Minute
4. On the Beach at Night Alone
5. Mother!
6. Bad Genius
7. Maison du bonheur
8. Night is Short, Walk On Girl
9. Hanagatami
10. The Last Jedi
11. Our Time Will Come
12. Phantom Thread
13. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
14. 24 Frames
15. Faces Places
16. Lady Bird
17. The Florida Project
18. Let the Sunshine In
19. Song to Song
20. Get Out
21. Angels Wear White
22. 1987: When the Day Comes
23. The Day After
24. Hit the Night
25. The Village of No Return
26. The Green Fog
27. Tremble All You Want
28. Love and Goodbye and Hawaii
29. Love Education
30. Pumpkin Movie
31. 77 Heartbreaks
32. The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts
33. Downsizing
34. Fail to Appear
35. Call Me By Your Name
36. Columbus
37. Lucky
38. SPL: Paradox
39. Legend of the Demon Cat
40. This is Not What I Expected
41. Thor: Ragnarok
42. Prototype
43. Before We Vanish
44. Sekigahara
45. Chang-ok’s Letter
46. Western
47. Zama
48. One Cut of the Dead
49. Wrath of Silence
50. Lu Over the Wall
51. The Empty Hands
52. Journey to the West: Demons Strike Back
53. The Outlaws
54. John Wick Chapter 2
55. Spider-man: Homecoming
56. The Great Buddha+
57. Wasteland No. 1: Ardent Verdant
58. Youth
59. The Rider
60. The Running Actress
61. The Death of Stalin
62. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
63. The American Epic
64. Kaatru Veliyidai
65. Shock Wave
66. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
67. Trouble No More
68. Mr. Long
69. Wonderstruck
70. Long Strange Trip
71. From Nine to Nine
72. Savage Dog
73. Landline
74. Scaffold
75. Love Off the Cuff
76. The Hidden Sword
77. In the Intense Now
78. Manhunt
79. Ismael’s Ghosts
80. AlphaGo
81. Person to Person
82. The Little Hours
83. Microhabitat
84. The Sleep Curse
85. Dunkirk
86. Let the Corpses Tan
87. The Third Murder
88. Transformers: The Last Knight
89. Baby Driver
90. A Ghost Story
91. Ingrid Goes West
92. The Work
93. Good Manners
94. First Reformed
95. A Beautiful Star
96. Our House
97. Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky
98. Napping Princess
99. Oh Hello: On Broadway
100. Cielo
101. Duckweed
102. I’ve Got the Blues
103. Good Time
104. Wherever You Go, There We Are
105. Forest Movie
106. Amiko
107. You Were Never Really Here
108. Father
109. Paddington 2
110. The Shape of Water
111. Pitch Perfect 3
112. Meow
113. The Looming Storm
114. The Post
115. Mary and the Witch’s Flower
116. Golden Exits
117. Have a Nice Day
118. The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
119. Pendular
120. Blade of the Immortal
121. Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
122. Girls Trip
123. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
124. Justice League
125. The Brink
126. Once Upon a Time
127. Black Cop
128. God of War
129. The Problem with Apu
130. The Reagan Show
131. Hengyoro
132. The Incredible Jessica James
133. The Greatest Showman
134. Guardians of Martial Arts
135. Wolf Warrior 2
136. The Big Sick
137. The Meyerowitz Stories
138. Vampire Cleanup Department
139. The Paris Opera
140. The LEGO Batman Movie
141. Murder on the Orient Express
142. Trainspotting 2
143. Chasing the Dragon
144. Alien: Covenant
145. Extraordinary Mission
146. Idizwadidiz
147. Maineland
148. Table 19
149. Last Flag Flying
150. The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful
151. The Adventurers
152. The Gangster’s Daughter
153. Logan
154. Goldbuster
155. My Little Pony: The Movie
156. Molly’s Game
157. Wonder Woman
158. The Thousand Faces of Dunjia
159. Whitney: Can I Be Me
160. Wind River
161. Meditation Park
162. Beauty and the Beast
163. The Disaster Artist
164. Wu Kong
165. The Sinking City: Capsule Odyssey
166. I, Tonya
167. The Fate of the Furious
168. The Legend of the Naga Pearls
169. Shepherd’s Purse
170. Cook Up a Storm
171. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
172. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
173. Kung Fu Yoga
174. Hostiles
175. Descendants 2
176. Despicable Me 3
177. Caniba

2018:
2018 Endy Awards

1. Ash is Purest White
2. Liz and the Blue Bird
3. Amanda
4. Asako I & II
5. Grass
6. Support the Girls
7. Blackkklansman
8. The Grand Bizarre
9. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
10. Little Forest
11. Peterloo
12. Ode to the Goose
13. The Other Side of the Wind
14. John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
15. No. 1 Chung Ying Street
16. Transit
17. Cold War
18. If Beale Street Could Talk
19. Last Letter
20. The Kamagasaki Cauldron war
21. Non-Fiction
22. Dead Pigs
23. Blue
24. Burning
25. Shirkers
26. Hotel by the River
27. Bisbee ’17
28. The 15:17 to Paris
29. Hidden Man
30. What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?
31. The Crossing
32. A Simple Favor
33. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
34. Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
35. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
36. La cartographe
37. Monrovia, Indiana
38. Chinese Portrait
39. The Debt Collector
40. Veslemøy’s Song
41. Minding the Gap
42. Norman Norman
43. Avengers: Infinity War
44. Suburban Birds
45. Madeline’s Madeline
46. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
47. Mirai
48. Venom
49. Cam
50. Every Day a Good Day
51. Operation Red Sea
52. Sorry to Bother You
53. Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes
54. Classical Period
55. Tourism
56. Ballet Now
57. Teen Titans Go! to the Movies
58. Black Panther
59. Mangoshake
60. Animal World
61. How Long Will I Love U
62. Girls Always Happy
63. Aquaman
64. The Night Comes for Us
65. Her Smell
66. Where
67. The Eyes of Orson Welles
68. An Elephant Sitting Still
69. A Star is Born
70. The Image Book
71. Spice It Up
72. Roy Thomson
73. Us and Them
74. Diamantino
75. Shoplifters
76. A Land Imagined
77. Den of Thieves
78. Shadow
79. The Wolf House
80. Destination Wedding
81. The Monkey King 3
82. They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
83. Skate Kitchen
84. Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
85. Bumblebee
86. Happy as Lazzaro
87. And Your Bird Can Sing
88. Hereditary
89. Matangi/Maya/MIA
90. The Gilligan Manifesto
91. Eighth Grade
92. Killing
93. The Sisters Brothers
94. Ant-Man and the Wasp
95. The Third Wife
96. House of Hummingbird
97. Deadpool 2
98. Vanishing Days
99. Suspiria
100. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
101. A Quiet Place
102. The Great Buster
103. Storm in My Heart
104. Turbine
105. At Eternity’s Gate
106. The Wild Pear Tree
107. In Search of Ozu
108. Roma
109. The Island
110. Lush Reeds
111. Manta Ray
112. A Cool Fish
113. Song Lang
114. What is Democracy?
115. Hole
116. A Family Tour
117. Detective Chinatown 2
118. The Old Man & His Gun
119. Blockers
120. The Widowed Witch
121. The Favourite
122. The Commuter
123. Ramen Shop
124. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
125. World of Ursula K. Le Guin
126. The Leakers
127. Jam
128. The Shadow Play
129. Solo
130. The Great Battle
131. Game Night
132. Mission: Impossible–Fallout
133. The Darling
134. Accident Man
135. Three Husbands
136. Isle of Dogs
137. Annihilation
138. Ready Player One
139. Mojin: The Worm Valley
140. Widows
141. Savage
142. People’s Republic of Desire
143. From Across the Street and Through Two Sets of Windows
144. Springsteen on Broadway
145. Won’t You be My Neighbor?
146. Project Gutenberg
147. Peter Rabbit
148. Hard-Core
149. Destroyer
150. Illang: The Wolf Brigade
151. Mary Queen of Scots
152. Bohemian Rhapsody
153. Barbara Rubin & the Exploding NY Underground
154. A Better Tomorrow
155. The Soft Space
156. Waiting for April
157. Set It Up
158. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
159. Monster Hunt 2
160. Freak and Geeks: The Documentary
161. Ocean’s 8
162. Rampant
163. Crazy Rich Asians
164. Fat Buddies
165. Golden Job
166. Green Book
167. Big Brother
168. 7A
169. Men on the Dragon
170. The Cloverfield Paradox
171. House of the Rising Sons
172. Vox Lux
173. Invest in Failure (Notes on Film 06-C, Monologue 03)
174. Seder-Masochism
175. Paddock
176. Vice

2019:
2019 Endy Awards

1. Little Women
2. The Irishman
3. Labyrinth of Cinema
4. First Love
5. To the Ends of the Earth
6. Fourteen
7. Bacurau
8. Ride Your Wave
9. Jallikattu
10. Chasing Dream
11. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
12. Lynch: A History
13. A Home with a View
14. First Cow
15. Uncut Gems
16. Dark Waters
17. The New King of Comedy
18. Ham on Rye
19. Rolling Thunder Revue
20. Parasite
21. My Sweet Grappa Remedies
22. The Vast of Night
23. The Dead Don’t Die
24. Jeux de plage
25. Fukuoka
26. Furie
27. Martin Eden
28. Dolemite is My Name
29. A Voluntary Year
30. Promare
31. A Hidden Life
32. Subject to Review
33. Avengement
34. Fagara
35. Atlantics
36. The Wild Goose Lake
37. My Prince Edward
38. The Lighthouse
39. Deadwood: the Movie
40. MS Slavic 7
41. The Fable
42. Weathering with You
43. Heart
44. Synonyms
45. Demolition Girl
46. Alita: Battle Angel
47. The Bob Emergency
48. John Wick 3: Parabellum
49. Missbehavior
50. Varda by Agnès
51. Ford v Ferrari
52. To Live to Sing
53. Marriage Story
54. Farmageddon
55. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
56. Wet Season
57. Sound! Euphonium: The Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day
58. Pegasus
59. Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
60. Better Days
61. White Snake
62. Apollo 11
63. Spring Tide
64. Richard Jewell
65. Clifton Hill
66. The White Storm 2: Drug Lords
67. Murder Mystery
68. Hydra
69. Anne at 13,000 Ft.
70. Knives Out
71. Mister America
72. Lupin III: The First
73. The Whistlers
74. Triple Threat
75. The Invincible Dragon
76. Wasp Network
77. Avengers: Endgame
78. Booksmart
79. Us
80. Toy Story 4
81. Hustlers
82. The Farewell
83. The Captain
84. Who You Think I Am
85. Young Ahmed
86. Archiving Time
87. The Twentieth Century
88. Last Christmas
89. Spider-man: Far from Home
90. Aquí y Allá
91. The Wandering Earth
92. Abduction
93. Midsommar
94. Always Be My Maybe
95. Midnight Diner
96. White Lie
97. Capital in the 21st Century
98. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
99. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
100. The Booksellers
101. Only Cloud Know
102. Ip Man: The Finale
103. Downton Abbey
104. Joker
105. Blue Hour
106. The Sky is Clear and Blue Today
107. JoJo Rabbit
108. Ridge
109. Killer Queen
110. Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
111. Captain Marvel
112. Send Me to the Clouds
113. Integrity
114. Special Actors
115. The Rise of Skywalker
116. Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch
117. The Good Liar
118. Hail Satan?
119. The Journalist
120. Bombshell
121. 1917
122. Dark Phoenix
123. Joan of Arc

Rankings: 2000-2009

2000:
2000 Endy Awards

1. La Commune (Paris 1871)
2. Platform
3. In the Mood for Love
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5. Yi yi
6. Durian Durian
7. Time and Tide
8. The Heart of the World
9. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
10. The House of Mirth
11. Tears of the Black Tiger
12. Battle Royale
13. Wonder Boys
14. Suzhou River
15. Devils on the Doorstep
16. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
17. State and Main
18. Unbreakable
19. Mission to Mars
20. Needing You. . .
21. Bring It On
22. Almost Famous
23. Mysterious Object at Noon
24. Mission: Impossible II
25. Songs from the Second Floor
26. Jiang Hu: The Triad Zone
27. Best in Show
28. The Beach
29. Help!!!
30. Scream 3
31. Chicken Run
32. The Tao of Steve
33. Jeff Buckley: Live in Chicago
34. You Can Count On Me
35. High Fidelity
36. Hamlet
37. Gladiator
38. Where the Heart Is
39. Memento
40. X-Men
41. Romeo Must Die
42. Final Destination
43. Chunhyang
44. Center Stage
45. Dancer in the Dark
46. American Psycho
47. Traffic
48. George Washington
49. Charlie’s Angels
50. Erin Brockovich
51. The Perfect Storm
52. Gen-Y Cops
53. Escaflowne: The Movie
54. Loser

2001:
2001 Endy Awards

1. Millennium Mambo
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. The Fellowship of the Ring
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Lagaan
6. Spirited Away
7. What Time is it There?
8. Shaolin Soccer
9. AI: Artificial Intelligence
10. Visible Secret
11. Pulse
12. All About Lily Chou-Chou
13. Running Out of Time 2
14. From the Queen to the Chief Executive
15. Gosford Park
16. Take Care of My Cat
17. Ali
18. Suicide Club
19. Wet Hot American Summer
20. You Shoot, I Shoot
21. Ghosts of Mars
22. Moulin Rouge!
23. The Others
24. Love on a Diet
25. Ocean’s Eleven
26. Hollywood Hong Kong
27. The Man Who Wasn’t There
28. Zoolander
29. If I Should Fall from Grace
30. Trouble Every Day
31. Waking Life
32. Black Hawk Down
33. Toutes les nuits
34. Wu Yen
35. Vanilla Sky
36. Hit Team
37. Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham
38. The Cat’s Meow
39. Amélie
40. Fulltime Killer
41. Metropolis
42. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
43. Monsters, Inc.
44. Knocking on Heaven’s Door
45. Ghost World
46. Replicant
47. The Fast and the Furious
48. In Public
49. Legally Blonde
50. Pearl Harbor
51. Zu Warriors
52. Pootie Tang
53. Y tu mamá también
54. 61*
55. Spy Kids
56. Musa: The Warrior
57. Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within
58. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
59. The Princess Diaries
60. A Beautiful Mind
61. Not Another Teen Movie
62. Shrek
63. American Pie 2
64. Bridget Jones’s Diary
65. The Condition of Dogs
66. Hannibal
67. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

2002:
2002 Endy Awards

1. Hero
2. My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
5. Unknown Pleasures
6. Fat Choi Spirit
7. Blissfully Yours
8. The Two Towers
9. Golden Chicken
10. Chinese Odyssey 2002
11. Russian Ark
12. Friday Night
13. Infernal Affairs
14. Windtalkers
15. Morvern Callar
16. Minority Report
17. Princess D
18. Bright Future
19. July Rhapsody
20. The Century of the Self
21. Resident Evil
22. Signs
23. So Close
24. Our Time, Our Story
25. The Truth About Charlie
26. Catch Me If You Can
27. Gangs of New York
28. Public Toilet
29. New Blood
30. Adaptation
31. Attack of the Clones
32. The Bourne Identity
33. Springtime in a Small Town
34. The 25th Hour
35. 8 Women
36. City of God
37. 24 Hour Party People
38. Zhou Yu’s Train
39. Spider-Man
40. Far From Heaven
41. Scooby-Doo
42. 8 Mile
43. Talk To Her
44. The Transporter
45. Bowling For Columbine
46. Bend it Like Beckham
47. Spellbound
48. The Hours
49. Face to Face
50. 28 Days Later
51. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
52. About Schmidt
53. Black Mask 2: City of Masks
54. Solaris
55. U-Man
56. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
57. The Business of Fancydancing
58. The Slow Century
59. Woody Allen: A Life in Film
60. Frida
61. Chicago
62. The Trials of Henry Kissinger
63. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
64. Ice Age
65. Austin Powers: Goldmember
66. Sweet Home Alabama
67. Red Dragon

2003:
2003 Endy Awards

1. Running on Karma
2. Los Angeles Plays Itself
3. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
4. PTU
5. Last Life in the Universe
6. Kill Bill Vol. 1
7. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
8. Memories of Murder
9. Café Lumière
10. Down with Love
11. Return of the King
12. Turn Left, Turn Right
13. Pirates of the Caribbean
14. Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
15. Golden Chicken 2
16. Matrix Reloaded
17. Looking for Mr. Perfect
18. School of Rock
19. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
20. Hulk
21. Jade Goddess of Mercy
22. In the Cut
23. Something’s Gotta Give
24. Masked and Anonymous
25. 2 Fast 2 Furious
26. Drunken Monkey
27. Feel Like Going Home
28. The Triplets of Belleville
29. Coffee and Cigarettes
30. Infernal Affairs II
31. Finding Nemo
32. Matrix Revolutions
33. Madness in the Desert
34. Paycheck
35. X2
36. The Mindscape of Alan Moore
37. Love for All Seasons
38. The Fog of War
39. Cinema Hong Kong
40. Lost in Translation
41. Camp
42. Elf
43. Wheel of Time
44. Oldboy
45. Final Destination 2
46. The Saddest Music in the World
47. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. . . and Spring
48. Old School
49. Gods and Generals
50. In Hell
51. Heroic Duo
52. The Animatrix
53. A Decade Under the Influence
54. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
55. Angels in America
56. Underworld
57. The Corporation
58. Shattered Glass
59. The Smile
60. A Mighty Wind
61. Intolerable Cruelty
62. Love Actually
63. Daredevil
64. American Wedding

2004:
2004 Endy Awards

1. Tropical Malady
2. Throw Down
3. 2046
4. Hana and Alice
5. Kung Fu Hustle
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. The World
8. House of Flying Daggers
9. The Power of Nightmares
10. 20 30 40
11. Alexander
12. Kill Bill Vol. 2
13. Anchorman
14. Breaking News
15. Man on Fire
16. Collateral
17. Yesterday Once More
18. Shaun of the Dead
19. Main Hoon Na
20. Sideways
21. Kings and Queen
22. Spider-Man 2
23. Howl’s Moving Castle
24. Love Battlefield
25. Mind Game
26. Les Pont des Arts
27. L’intrus
28. One Night in Mongkok
29. Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque
30. Fantasia
31. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
32. The Incredibles
33. Hellboy
34. The Village
35. Alien vs. Predator
36. Mean Girls
37. Before Sunset
38. Friday Night Lights
39. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
40. Ocean’s Twelve
41. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
42. Dodgeball
43. Woman is the Future of Man
44. The Aviator
45. Jiang Hu
46. A Very Long Engagement
47. Dumplings
48. The Bourne Supremacy
49. I Heart Huckabees
50. Primer
51. Troy
52. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
53. In Good Company
54. The Death Curse
55. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
56. Team America: World Police
57. Night Watch
58. Fahrenheit 9/11
59. Million Dollar Baby
60. Spartan
61. Scooby-Doo 2
62. The Stepford Wives
63. Incident at Loch Ness
64. Melinda and Melinda
65. Napoleon Dynamite
66. Beautiful Dreamer
67. Closer
68. Lollilove
69. Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
70. Starsky & Hutch
71. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton
72. Garden State
73. Ray
74. Jersey Girl
75. The Hunting of the President
76. Bush’s Brain
77. Outfoxed
78. Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
79. King Arthur
80. Crash

2005:
2005 Endy Awards

1. Linda Linda Linda
2. The New World
3. Three Times
4. Revenge of the Sith
5. Tale of Cinema
6. Princess Raccoon
7. War of the Worlds
8. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
9. Election
10. Oxhide
11. A History of Violence
12. No Direction Home
13. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
14. Perhaps Love
15. A Bittersweet Life
16. Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75
17. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
18. Domino
19. My Dad is 100 Years Old
20. Munich
21. Wings for Wheels
22. Himalaya Singh
23. The 40 Year Old Virgin
24. SPL (Sha Po Lang)
25. Mutual Appreciation
26. Land of the Dead
27. Brick
28. Seven Swords
29. King Kong
30. Constantine
31. Kingdom of Heaven
32. Red Eye
33. Serenity
34. The Squid and the Whale
35. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
36. The Protector
37. Grizzly Man
38. Corpse Bride
39. Broken Flowers
40. Brokeback Mountain
41. Worldly Desires
42. Sin City
43. Curse of the Were-Rabbit
44. Elizabethtown
45. Batman Begins
46. Cigarette Burns
47. Good Night and Good Luck
48. Me & You & Everyone We Know
49. Shopgirl
50. Walk the Line
51. The Aristocrats
52. The Proposition
53. Man Push Cart
54. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
55. Match Point
56. Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
57. Unleashed
58. One Man Band
59. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
60. V for Vendetta
61. Capote
62. 9
63. Cache
64. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
65. Transporter 2
66. Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind
67. Thank You for Smoking
68. Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood
69. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
70. Why We Fight
71. Memoirs of a Geisha
72. Syriana
73. Brothers Grimm
74. Reel Paradise
75. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
76. Cry Wolf
77. The Dukes of Hazzard
78. Aeon Flux
79. Fever Pitch
80. The Chronicles of Narnia
81. Fantastic Four
82. The Legend of Zorro

2006:
2006 Endy Awards

1. Miami Vice
2. Still Life
3. Syndromes and a Century
4. The Wind that Shakes the Barley
5. Exiled
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
7. Déjà Vu
8. Election 2
9. Southland Tales
10. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
11. The Departed
12. Private Fears in Public Places
13. Isabella
14. Crank
15. The Host
16. The Shopaholics
17. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
18. Flags of Our Fathers
19. The Lake House
20. Inland Empire
21. The Anthem
22. Marie Antoinette
23. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
24. The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
25. A Prairie Home Companion
26. Woman on the Beach
27. Paprika
28. The Holiday
29. Letters from Iwo Jima
30. Climates
31. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
32. Fearless
33. Akeelah and the Bee
34. Dong
35. Fay Grim
36. Borat
37. 1966-1978: After the Crash
38. Belle toujours
39. Cocktail
40. Idiocracy
41. Superman Returns
42. A Scanner Darkly
43. Final Destination 3
44. The Devil Wears Prada
45. Rocky Balboa
46. The Fall
47 The Lady in the Water
48. Mission: Impossible III
49. Rescue Dawn
50. The Fountain
51. United 93
52. Inside Man
53. After This, Our Exile
54. Leonard Cohen: Under Review: 1934-1977
55. The Break-Up
56. Wordplay
57. Summer Palace
58. Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
59. Curse of the Golden Flower
60. Tom Waits: Under Review
61. Casino Royale
62. Children of Men
63. In Search of Mozart
64. Paris je t’aime
65. The Lives of Others
66. Talladega Nights
67. The Prestige
68. Step Up
69. Clerks II
70. Snakes on a Plane
71. Pan’s Labyrinth
72. The Banquet
73. Cars
74. The TV Set
75. The Namesake
76. The Good Shepherd
77. The Black Dahlia
78. X-Men: The Last Stand
79. Friends with Money
80. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
81. This Film is not yet Rated
82. Little Miss Sunshine
83. Nacho Libre
84. The DaVinci Code

2007:
2007 Endy Awards

1. Flight of the Red Balloon
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Om Shanti Om
4. I’m Not There
5. 5 Centimeters per Second
6. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
7. Zodiac
8. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
9. The Sun Also Rises
10. No Country for Old Men
11. Mad Detective
12. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
13. Resident Evil: Extinction
14. Ratatouille
15. My Blueberry Nights
16. My Winnipeg
17. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days . . .
18. Grindhouse
19. Hot Fuzz
20. The Mist
21. Lust, Caution
22. Eye in the Sky
23. Boarding Gate
24. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream
25. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
26. Useless
27. Spider-man 3
28. Paranoid Park
29. You, the Living
30. The Darjeeling Limited
31. Triangle
32. Sukiyaki Western Django
33. The Rebel
34. The Other Side of the Mirror
35. Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone
36. Chop Shop
37. Assembly
38. Flash Point
39. Chacun son cinéma
40. Wonderful Town
41. Encounters at the End of the World
42. Helvetica
43. Margot at the Wedding
44. Paranormal Activity
45. Rocket Science
46. Superbad
47. Eastern Promises
48. Waitress
49. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
50. The Simpsons Movie
51. Luminous People
52. Knocked Up
53. Stardust
54. Ocean’s Thirteen
55. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
56. Transformers
57. Lars and the Real Girl
58. Exodus
59. Sunshine
60. Once
61. Viva
62. Silent Light
63. The King of Kong
64. Hilary Hahn: A Portrait
65. Val Lewton: Man in the Shadows
66. The Rest is Silence
67. Across the Universe
68. Hot Rod
69. No End in Sight
70. The Ten
71. Juno
72. Becoming John Ford
73. Michael Clayton
74. 300
75. 3:10 to Yuma
76. 28 Weeks Later
77. Into the Wild
78. American Gangster
79. Snow Angels
80. Sicko
81. Mongol
82. Bienvenue a Cannes
83. The Bourne Ultimatum
84. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
85. In the Mood for Doyle
86. Atonement
87. Spielberg on Spielberg
88. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
89. Beowulf
90. Hitman

2008:
2008 Endy Awards

1. Speed Racer
2. Sparrow
3. 35 Shots of Rum
4. Red Cliff
5. Tokyo Sonata
6. Love Exposure
7. 24 City
8. Two Lovers
9. Sita Sings the Blues
10. WALL-E
11. A Christmas Tale
12. Happy Go Lucky
13. Jerichow
14. Rachel Getting Married
15. Night and Day
16. Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
17. Cry Me a River
18. Still Walking
19. Summer Hours
20. The Happening
21. Medicine for Melancholy
22. The Hurt Locker
23. Cloverfield
24. The Good, the Bad, the Weird
25. Rembrandt’s J’Accuse
26. The Beaches of Agnes
27. If You are the One
28. The Headless Woman
29. Missing
30. Me and Orson Welles
31. You Think You’re the Prettiest, but You are the Sluttiest
32. All About Women
33. Wendy and Lucy
34. Good Cats
35. Burn After Reading
36. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
37. Step Up 2 The Streets
38. The Brothers Bloom
39. Liverpool
40. Che
41. Linger
42. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
43. Waltz with Bashir
44. Tulpan
45. Ballast
46. Iron Man
47. Milk
48. 1978-1989: Both Ends of the Rainbow
49. Hellboy II
50. Synecdoche, New York
51. High Noon
52. Ong Bak 2: The Beginning
53. The Equation of Love and Death
54. Ip Man
55. Beast Stalker
56. Vampire
57. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
58. In Bruges
59. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
60. The Incredible Hulk
61. Let the Right One In
62. Redbelt
63. The Dark Knight
64. The Clone Wars
65. Run Papa Run
66. Australia
67. Of Time and the City
68. Pineapple Express
69. Death Race
70. Gran Torino
71. Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
72. Pelléas and Mélisande: The Song of the Blind
73. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
74. The Wrecking Crew!
75. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
76. Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired
77. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
78. Slumdog Millionaire
79. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
80. Recount
81. Open City
82. Dakota Skye
83. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
84. Tropic Thunder
85. Man on Wire
86. Baby Mama
87. Way of Nature
88. Twilight
89. Kung Fu Panda
90. The Forbidden Kingdom
91. Thriller in Manilla
92. The Order of Myths
93. W.
94. Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
95. Frost/Nixon
96. Valkyrie
97. The Business of Being Born
98. Dear Zachary
99. Quantum of Solace
100. The Mummy 3

2009:
2009 Endy Awards

1. Oxhide II
2. La danse
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. Wild Grass
5. Phantoms of Nabua
6. It Felt Like a Kiss
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. Bluebeard
9. The Limits of Control
10. Bright Star
11. Accident
12. Like You Know It All
13. Public Enemies
14. Adventureland
15. Written By
16. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
17. Eccentricities of a Blond-Haired Girl
18. Lost in the Mountains
19. Police, Adjective
20. 575 Castro St.
21. Valhalla Rising
22. Drag Me To Hell
23. Universal Soldier: Regeneration
24. Vengeance
25. Avatar
26. A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
27. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
28. The Hole
29. A Serious Man
30. Up
31. Love Aaj Kal
32. Star Trek
33. Around a Small Mountain
34. Summer Wars
35. In the Loop
36. Gamer
37. Clash
38. Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance
39. Air Doll
40. Alamar
41. Visage
42. Haiku
43. Woman on Fire Looks for Water
44. Looking for Eric
45. The Secret of Kells
46. I Am Love
47. Coraline
48. Let the Wind Carry Me
49. (500) Days of Summer
50. In Search of Beethoven
51. Emma
52. Sophie’s Revenge
53. The Taking of Pelham 123
54. Bodyguards & Assassins
55. Unmade Beds
56. Moon
57. The Exploding Girl
58. Mother
59. Hamlet
60. Black Dynamite
61. Overheard
62. Micmacs
63. Crank: High Voltage
64. Double Take
65. The September Issue
66. The Art of the Steal
67. The Young Victoria
68. Sweetgrass
69. Funny People
70. My Queen Karo
71. Everyone Else
72. Fast & Furious
73. Broken Embraces
74. Of Love and Other Demons
75. Ninja
76. Up in the Air
77. ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
78. For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
79. Food, Inc
80. An Education
81. The Final Destination
82. Where the Wild Things Are
83. 1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year
84. Watchmen
85. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
86. The Cove
87. District 9
88. Kamui
89. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
90. Harry Potter VI
91. Queer China, ‘Comrade’ China
92. Humpday
93. Wolverine

Movies of the 2000s


Over at the Metro Classics website, Mike and I wrote about our combined Top 72 films of the decade, check it out. Here’s my personal Top 100.

1. Millennium Mambo
2. The New World
3. Kill Bill
4. The Wind that Shakes the Barley
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. The Royal Tenenbaums
7. WALL-E
8. Inglourious Basterds
9. In the Mood for Love
10. Punch-Drunk Love
11. Mulholland Dr.
12. I’m Not There
13. There Will Be Blood
14. 2046
15. House of Flying Daggers
16. Three Times
17. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
18. Last Life in the Universe
19. Sita Sings the Blues
20. My Winnipeg
21. Ratatouille
22. Still Life
23. No Country for Old Men
24. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. . .
25. Spirited Away


26. Oxhide II
27. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
28. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
29. Tropical Malady
30. The World
31. Miami Vice
32. Hero
33. Fantastic Mr. Fox
34. The Limits of Control
35. What Time is it There?
36. Yi yi
37. Platform
38. Grindhouse
39. Climates
40. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
41. The Departed
42. Syndromes and a Century
43. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
44. Morvern Callar
45. Kings and Queen
46. Flight of the Red Balloon
47. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
48. Almost Famous
49. Howl’s Moving Castle
50. Waltz With Bashir


51. Like You Know It All
52. AI: Artificial Intelligence
53. Anchorman
54. A History of Violence
55. Unbreakable
56. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. . . and Spring
57. Kung Fu Hustle
58. Sparrow
59. Blissfully Yours
60. Happy-Go-Lucky
61. My Blueberry Nights
62. Written By
63. O Brother Where Art Thou?
64. Mad Detective
65. Master and Commander
66. A Christmas Tale
67. Eccentricities of a Blond-Hair Girl
68. Woman on the Beach
69. Friday Night
70. Up
71. Amèlie
72. Grizzly Man
73. Rachel Getting Married
74. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
75. Infernal Affairs


76. The Incredibles
77. Talk To Her
78. Café Lumière
79. Two Lovers
80. Far From Heaven
81. Paranoid Park
82. Chop Shop
83. Munich
83. A Prairie Home Companion
84. All About Lily Chou-chou
85. Wet Hot American Summer
86. Bluebeard
87. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
88. Signs
89. 8 Women
90. Rescue Dawn
91. The 25th Hour
92. Minority Report
94. City of God
95. Silent Light
96. Once
97. Flags of Our Fathers
98. Cloverfield
99. Ballast
100. Election 2