I watched two-hundred and twenty one movies this year. Here are my top 25 and bottom 7 picks for the year. This is based simply on the movies I watched this year, not on what was released this year. My top list is robust because I decided to watch a bunch of my all time favorite movies so I could review them for the site.
Check out the previous year-end reviews.
I frequently forget to catalog the best scenes. The faux phone call scene in Before Sunrise is an amazing plot device that allows the characters freedom to express feelings they wouldn't normally reveal. Unbreakable has an amazing moment when David Dunn begins to embrace his destiny as a super hero in a train station. In Portrait of a Lady on Fire when Marianne exhibits her Orpheus and Eurydice painting, that scene captures what the movie is about effortlessly.
