Stuart's List of Best 10 (or so) Movies
of Every Year I've been on Earth

The Real Best Pictures 1971-2000

1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000 2001 2002 2003
Brief selection of older films

1971 - The Year of My Birth
Bananas
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Diamonds Are Forever
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry

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1972
The Godfather
And Now for Something Completely Different
Cabaret
Deliverance

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1973
Papillon
Sleeper
Live and Let Die
The Fantastic Planet
Westworld
The Sting

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1974
Young Frankenstein
The Godfather Part II
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Chinatown
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Blazing Saddles
The Great Gatsby

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1975
Love and Death
Barry Lyndon
Jaws
Nashville
Tommy
Dog Day Afternoon
The Four Musketeers
Rollerball
Funny Lady

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1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Allegro Non Troppo
Silver Streak
The Big Bus
Rocky
Carrie
Logan's Run
King Kong

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1977
Star Wars
Annie Hall
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Kentucky Fried Movie
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
The Deep
Saturday Night Fever
The Spy Who Loved Me
Wizards

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1978
Superman
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Grease
Watership Down
The Boys from Brazil
Lord of the Rings
Midnight Express
Same Time, Next Year
Death on the Nile
The Buddy Holly Story

Most Over-rated - The Deer Hunter

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1979
All that Jazz
Life of Brian
Manhattan
Alien
Apocalypse Now
The Muppet Movie
Time After Time
Breaking Away
Being There
La Cage aux Folles
The Great Santini

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1980
The Empire Strikes Back
Airplane!
Stardust Memories
The Shining
Flash Gordon
Urban Cowboy
Somewhere in Time
Elephant Man
The Stunt Man
Coal Miner's Daughter

Most Over-rated - Private Benjamin

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1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Arthur
Chariots of Fire
Ragtime
Excalibur
The Great Muppet Caper
Dragonslayer
Stripes
Nighthawks
Clash of the Titans
Escape from New York
An American Werewolf in London

Most Over-rated - The French Leutenant's Woman

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1982
My Favorite Year
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
Gandhi
Tootsie
Poltergeist
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Conan the Barbarian
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Victor/Victoria
The World According to Garp
Blade Runner
The Dark Crystal
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Most Over-rated - The Verdict

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1983
Return of the Jedi
Scarface
Terms of Endearment
Monty Python and the Meaning of Life
Silkwood
The Right Stuff
The Dead Zone
Never Say Never Again
Trading Places
The Man with Two Brains
The Big Chill

Most Over-rated - To Be or Not To Be

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1984
The Natural
Top Secret!
Amadeus
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Ghostbusters
Once Upon a Time in America
Stop Making Sense
The Terminator
Gremlins
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Romancing the Stone
All of Me
Starman
The Last Starfighter

Most Over-rated - Police Academy

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1985
Back to the Future
The Color Purple
Prizzi's Honor
Brazil
Witness
Ladyhawke
Spies Like Us
The Goonies
Silverado
Jagged Edge

Most Over-rated - Cocoon

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1986
Aliens
Blue Velvet
Hoosiers
Hannah and Her Sisters
A Room with a View
Big Touble in Little China
Little Shop of Horrors
The Mission
Highlander
Labyrinth

Most Over-rated - Platoon

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1987
Raising Arizona
The Princess Bride
Full Metal Jacket
House of Games
Moonstruck
The Untouchables
The Last Emperor
The Name of the Rose
Stand and Deliver
Empire of the Sun

Most Over-rated - Broadcast News

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1988
Bull Durham
A Fish Called Wanda
Eight Men Out
Die Hard
Cinema Paradiso
Scrooged
Big
The Last Temptation of Christ
Dangerous Liasons
Akira
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Most Over-rated - The Accused

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1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Erik the Viking
Henry V
Parenthood
Driving Miss Daisy
Glory
Do the Right Thing
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Abyss
Batman
Roger & Me
The Fabulous Baker Boys

Most Over-rated - Born on the 4th of July/Dead Poet's Society

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1990
Miller's Crossing
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Hairdresser's Husband
Wild at Heart
Reversal of Fortune
Jacob's Ladder
Good Fellas
The Grifters
Gremlins 2:The New Batch
The Hunt for Red October
Back to the Future 3

Most Over-rated - Dances with Wolves/Pretty Woman/Ghost

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1991
Silence of the Lambs
L.A. Story
Barton Fink
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Defending Your Life
Bugsy
Kafka
The Rocketeer
The Fisher King
Toto Le Heros

Most Over-rated - Thelma & Louise

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1992
Strictly Ballroom
The Player
Raise the Red Lantern
Glengarry Glen Ross
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Reservoir Dogs
Noises Off
Husbands and Wives
Malcolm X
Chaplin
Belle Epoque

Most Over-rated - Unforgiven/A Few Good Men

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1993
Short Cuts
The Wedding Banquet
True Romance
Jurassic Park
Much Ado About Nothing
Farewell My Concubine
Six Degrees of Separation
Dave
Menace 2 Society
Schindler's List
The Fugitive

Most Over-rated - Indecent Proposal

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1994
The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Il Postino
The Ref
Bullets Over Broadway
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Madness of King George
Eat Drink Man Woman
Quiz Show
Hoop Dreams
Ed Wood
Four Weddings and a Funeral

Most Over-rated - Forrest Gump

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1995
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects
A Midwinter's Tale
Mighty Aphrodite
Get Shorty
Angels & Insects
Desperado
Restoration
Richard III
Leaving Las Vegas
Dead Man Walking

Most Over-rated - Braveheart

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1996
Fargo
The English Patient
Waiting for Guffman
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
Hard Eight
Shine
Lone Star
Jerry Maguire
Hamlet
Freeway
Breaking the Waves

Most Over-rated - Slingblade

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1997
Boogie Nights
L.A. Confidential
Good Will Hunting
The Ice Storm
As Good As it Gets
The Spanish Prisoner
Suicide Kings
Deconstructing Harry
The Apostle
Jackie Brown
Amistad
In the Company of Men

Most Over-rated - Chasing Amy

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1998
Rushmore
Shakespeare in Love
Pleasantville
Sliding Doors
Elizabeth
Run Lola Run
The Truman Show
The Red Violin
What Dreams May Come
Deep Impact

Most Over-rated - Armageddon/Saving Private Ryan

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1999
American Beauty
Magnolia
Being John Malkovich
Happy, Texas
Toy Story 2
Office Space
The Sixth Sense
The Matrix
The Cider House Rules
Election
The Insider

Most Over-rated - All About My Mother/The End of the Affair

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2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
O, Brother Where Art Thou?
Traffic
Gladiator
State and Main
The Big Kahuna
Shadow of the Vampire
Nurse Betty
Billy Elliot
Almost Famous
Quills

Most Over-rated - Erin Brockovich

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2001
Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Man Who Wasn't There
Memento
Mulholland Drive
The Others
Rush Hour 2
Bridget Jones' Diary

Most Over-rated - Shrek


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2002
The Two Towers
Chicago

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2003

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