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Seen: 127 (43.5%)
See Again: 0 (0.0%)
Unseen: 165 (56.5%)

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AV Club Best of Lists

The 50 Best Films of the 90's

 
1. Goodfellas (1990)
2. Pulp Fiction (1994)
3. Toy Story 2 (1999)
4. Dazed and Confused (1993)
5. Chungking Express (1994)
6. Out of Sight (1998)
7. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
8. Unforgiven (1992)
9. Rushmore (1998)
10. Being John Malkovich (1999)
11. Barton Fink (1991)
12. Miller's Crossing (1990)
13. Boogie Nights (1997)
14. Hoop Dreams (1994)
15. Groundhog Day (1993)
16. The Big Lebowski (1998)
17. Safe (1995)
18. Schindler's List (1993)
19. Exotica (1994)
20. Red (1994)
21. Fargo (1996)
22. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
23. Carlito's Way (1993)
24. Crumb (1995)
25. Fight Club (1999)
 
 
26. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
27. Short Cuts (1993)
28. Election (1999)
29. Irma Vep (1996)
30. The Thin Red Line (1998)
31. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills (1996)
32. Close-Up (1990)
33. The Matrix (1999)
34. Seven (1995)
35. Naked (1993)
36. L.A. Confidential (1997)
37. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
38. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
39. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
40. Trainspotting (1996)
41. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
42. All About My Mother (1999)
43. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
44. Metropolitan (1990)
45. The Limey (1999)
46. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
47. Starship Troopers (1997)
48. Ed Wood (1994)
49. American Movie (1999)
50. Dead Man (1995)
 

Orphans, Outliers, and Personal Favorites (alphabetical)

 
After Life (1998)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Beyond the Mat: Unrated Director's Cut (1999)
Buenos Aires Affair (1997)
Buffalo 66 (1998)
The Cable Guy (1996)
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
Face/Off (1997)
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)
Fearless (1993)
Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
The Iron Giant (1999)
The Last Seduction (1994)
Lone Star (1996)
Malcolm X (1992)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Miami Blues (1990)
A Moment of Innocence (1996)
Office Space (1999)
The Piano (1993)
The Player (1992)
Point Break (1991)
Quiz Show (1994)
The Rapture (1991)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Satantango (1994)
Slacker (1991)
Trust (1990)
Velvet Goldmine (1998)

Year in Film 2001

 
1. In the Mood For Love (2000)
2. Mulholland Drive (2001)
3. Waking Life (2001)
4. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
5. Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (2001)
6. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
7. Ali (2001)
8. Gosford Park (2001)
9. Ghost World (2001)
10. Together (2000)

The Next Five (alphabetical)

 
Amores Perros (2000)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Memento (2000)
Under the Sand (2000)
Vanilla Sky (2001)

Year in Film 2002

 
1. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
2. Far From Heaven (2002)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
4. About Schmidt (2002)
5. Time Out (2001)
6. Spirited Away (2001)
7. Adaptation (2002)
8. 25th Hour (2002)
9. Talk To Her (2002)
10. Femme Fatale (2002)

The Next Five (alphabetical)

 
24 Hour Party People (2002)
Gangs of New York (2002)
Morvern Callar (2002)
Punch Drunk Love (2002)
Solaris (2002)

Year in Film 2003 (hypothetical)

 
American Splendor (2003)
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Dogville (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
The Fog of War (2003)
Owning Mahowny (2003)

Year in Film 2004

 
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
3. I Heart Huckabees (2004)
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
5. The Incredibles (2004)
6. Red Lights (2004)
7. Crimson Gold (2003)
8. Slasher (2004)
9. Sideways (2004)
10. Vera Drake (2004)

The Next Five (alphabetical)

 
Bright Leaves (2003)
Collateral (2004)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (2003)

Year in Film 2005

 
1. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
2. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
3. Cinderella Man (2005)
4. Mysterious Skin (2004)
5. My Summer of Love (2004)
6. Cache (2005)
7. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
8. Nobody Knows (2004)
9. Tony Takitani (2004)
10. A History of Violence (2005)

The Next Five (alphabetical)

 
Bin-Jip (2004)
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Head-On (2004)
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Sky High (2005)

Year in Film 2007

 
1. No Country For Old Men (2007)
2. Once (2007)
3. There Will Be Blood (2007)
4. Zodiac (2007)
5. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
6. Atonement (2007)
7. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
8. Into the Wild (2007)
9. Offside (2006)
10. Gone Baby Gone (2007)

Year in Film 2008

 
1. WALL*E (2008)
2. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
3. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Milk (2008)
6. Paranoid Park (2007)
7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007)
8. Man On Wire (2008)
9. Wendy and Lucy (2008)
10. Surfwise (2007)

Outliers (on one list, but no others; alphabetical)

 
Burn After Reading (2008)
Let the Right One In (2008)
Independent Lens: Operation Filmmaker (2008)
The Fall (2008)
Funny Games (2007)

Year in Film 2009

 
1. The Hurt Locker (2009)
2. A Serious Man (2009)
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
4. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
5. Brothers and Sisters: Julia (2009)
6. In the Loop (2009)
7. Humpday (2009)
8. Duplicity (2009)
9. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
10. The Informant! (2009)
11. Up (2009)
12. Big Fan (2009)
13. Collapse (2009)
14. Antichrist (2009)
15. Gomorrah (2008)
16. Still Walking (2008)
17. Summer Hours (2008)
18. Passing Strange (2009)
19. 35 Shots of Rum (2009)
20. Coraline (2009)

Best of 2000's

 
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. 25th Hour (2002)
3. There Will Be Blood (2007)
4. No Country For Old Men (2007)
5. Memento (2000)
6. Spirited Away (2001)
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
8. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
9. The New World (2005)
10. Children of Men (2006)
11. Time Out (2001)
12. Before Sunset (2004)
13. Grizzly Man (2005)
14. Talk To Her (2002)
15. Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
16. Almost Famous (2000)
17. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
18. Mulholland Drive (2001)
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
20. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
21. Zodiac (2007)
22. United 93 (2006)
23. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
24. Yi Yi (2000)
25. Together (2000)
 
 
26. The Incredibles (2004)
27. What Time Is It There? (2001)
28. Morvern Callar (2002)
29. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
30. WALL*E (2008)
31. In the Mood For Love (2000)
32. Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (2001)
33. Punch Drunk Love (2002)
34. American Psycho (2000)
35. Waking Life (2001)
36. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
37. A History of Violence (2005)
38. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (2003)
39. The Prestige (2006)
40. City of God (2002)
41. The Dark Knight (2008)
42. L'Enfant (2005)
43. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
44. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007)
45. Audition (1999)
46. Adaptation (2002)
47. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
48. Crimson Gold (2003)
49. Gerry (2002)
50. Oldboy (2003)
 

Orphans, Outliers, and Personal Favorites (alphabetical)

 
The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
About Schmidt (2002)
Amelie (2001)
American Splendor (2003)
The Aviator (2004)
Big Fan (2009)
Brick (2005)
Dogville (2003)
The Fall (2006)
Far From Heaven (2002)
The Fog of War (2003)
Friday Night (2002)
Gosford Park (2001)
Idiocracy (2006)
In the Loop (2009)
Minority Report (2002)
Owning Mahowny (2003)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Sideways (2004)
Slasher (2004)
State and Main (2000)
Under the Sand (2000)
You Can Count On Me (2000)

Year in Film 2010

 
1. Winter's Bone (2010)
2. The Social Network (2010)
3. Black Swan (2010)
4. Inception (2010)
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
6. Toy Story 3 (2010)
7. Mother (2009)
8. Carlos (2010)
9. A Prophet (2009)
10. True Grit (2010)
11. Greenberg (2010)
12. Dogtooth (2009)
13. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
14. Shutter Island (2010)
15. The Kids Are All Right (2010)

Outliers (alphabetical)

 
Another Year (2010)
Blue Valentine (2010)
Everyone Else (2009)
The Illusionist (2010)
Rabbit Hole (2010)

Year in Film 2011

 
1. The Tree of Life (2011)
2. Certified Copy (2010)
3. A Separation (2011)
4. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
5. Meek's Cutoff (2011)
6. Drive (2011)
7. The Future (2011)
8. The Skin I Live In (2011)
9. Hugo (2011)
10. Margaret (2011)
11. Weekend (2011)
12. Tabloid (2010)
13. The Arbor (2010)
14. The Interrupters (2011)
15. Submarine (2010)

Outliers (alphabetical)

 
Another Earth (2011)
Carnage (2011)
House of Pleasures
Into the Abyss (2011)
Terri (2011)
War Horse (2011)
Win Win (2011)

Year in Film 2012

 
1. The Master (2012)
2. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
3. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
4. Holy Motors (2012)
5. The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
6. The Loneliest Planet (2011)
7. Amour (2012)
8. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
9. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
10. Wuthering Heights (2011)
11. The Cabin In the Woods (2012)
12. Looper (2012)
13. Life of Pi (2012)
14. Lincoln (2012)
15. Only the Young (2012)
16. The Queen of Versailles (2012)
17. Killer Joe (2011)
18. Miss Bala (2011)
19. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
20. I Wish (2011)

Outliers (alphabetical)

 
Django Unchained (2012)
The Imposter (2012)
The Kid With a Bike (2011)
Middle of Nowhere (2012)
Photographic Memory (2011)
This Is Not a Film (2011)
The Turin Horse (2011)
Where Do We Go Now? (2011)