No. 1 Favorites of the 21st Century

My Top 6 Yearly Favorites:

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2025:

#1 One Battle After Another

#2 No Other Choice

#3 Sentimental Value

#4 Hamnet

#5 Marty Supreme

#6 Sinners

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2024:

#1 Memoir of a Snail

#2 Anora

#3 No Other Land

#4 Nosferatu

#5 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

#6 Conclave

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2023:

#1 Past Lives

#2 Oppenheimer

#3 The Boy and the Heron

#4 Killers of the Flower Moon

#5 The Holdovers

#6 The Zone of Interest

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2022:

#1 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

#2 Everything Everywhere All at Once

#3 The Banshees of Inisherin

#4 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

#5 Decision to Leave

#6 Aftersun

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2021:

#1 Bo Burnham: Inside

#2 C'mon C'mon

#3 Petite Maman

#4 Spencer

#5 The Tragedy of Macbeth

#6 Parallel Mothers

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2020:

#1 Nomadland

#2 I'm Thinking of Ending Things

#3 Minari

#4 Song Without a Name

#5 Sound of Metal

#6 Sound of Metal

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2019:

#1 Parasite

#2 The Lighthouse

#3 Portrait of a Lady on Fire

#4 Little Women

#5 The Farewell

#6 The Irishman

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2018:

#1 ROMA

#2 The Rider

#3 Paddington 2

#4 Burning

#5 Eighth Grade

#6 If Beale Street Could Talk

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2017:

#1 Faces Places

#2 The Shape of Water

#3 Lady Bird

#4 Blade Runner: 2049

#5 The Florida Project

#6 Dunkirk

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2016:

#1 The Handmaiden

#2 La La Land

#3 Moonlight

#4 Manchester by the Sea

#5 Loving

#6 Sing Street

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2015: 

#1 The Revenant

#2 Mad Max: Fury Road

#3 Spotlight

#4 Son of Saul

#5 Inside Out

#6 Brooklyn

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2014:  

#1 The Grand Budapest Hotel

#2 Boyhood

#3 Birdman

#4 Ida

#5 Whiplash

#6 Gone Girl

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2013:

#1 Inside Llewyn Davis

#2 12 Years a Slave

#3 Before Midnight

#4 Her

#5 Short Term 12

#6 Fruitvale Station

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2012:

#5 ​Life of Pi

#4 Moonrise Kingdom

#3 ​The Secret World of Arrietty

#2 Skyfall

#1 ​Rust and Bone

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2011:

#5 The Descendants

#4 A Separation

#3 Hugo

#2 The Artist

#1 Drive

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2010: 

#5 Black Swan

#4 Inception

#3 Toy Story 3

#2 The Social Network

#1 127 Hours

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