So this meme has been going around for a while and I thought I’d throw my hat into the ring because this could be interesting. N.B. the meme sez “favorite” and not “best” and also, I’ve got a moderate amount of years to get through here, so I wasn’t particularly choosy, picking the first movie that really jumped out at me. Sometimes I’m really boring, sometimes… not.
- 1978 – Halloween
- 1979 – Phantasm
- 1980 – Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
- 1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
- 1982 – The Thing
- 1983 – Trading Places
- 1984 – The Terminator
- 1985 – Real Genius
- 1986 – Aliens
- 1987 – The Princess Bride
- 1988 – Midnight Run
- 1989 – Field of Dreams
- 1990 – The Hunt for Red October
- 1991 – The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992 – Sneakers
- 1993 – The Fugitive
- 1994 – Pulp Fiction
- 1995 – Heat
- 1996 – Fargo
- 1997 – Contact
- 1998 – Pi
- 1999 – The Blair Witch Project
- 2000 – The Way of the Gun
- 2001 – Spirited Away
- 2002 – Adaptation.
- 2003 – Kill Bill: Vol. 1
- 2004 – The Incredibles
- 2005 – A History of Violence
- 2006 – Brick
- 2007 – Grindhouse
- 2008 – Mad Detective
- 2009 – Fish Story
- 2010 – Inception
- 2011 – Rubber
- 2012 – Detention
- 2013 – Upstream Color
- 2014 – The Grand Budapest Hotel
- 2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road
- 2016 – Arrival
- 2017 – Get Out
I appear to have some biases. That was harder than expected and I’m absolutely positive that I’m leaving out tons of great films that would probably have made the list if the quick searches for each year revealed them (particularly foreign films)…