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The Best and Worst Films of the Year (So Far)

Needless to say, this is a list in progress. I feel sure that within a couple of years it will even out a little more, as the number of rated films per year increases. As of November 2005, I am over 30 for only four years and it's a tribute to 1939 that of the 38 films I've rated for that year, only one rates less than an OK.

By contrast there are five years for which I've rated less than five films, with 1979 at this extreme. For a long while, Rock 'n' Roll High School was the only film I'd rated for that year and was thus by default both my best and worst movie of 1979! Now at least there are two but I still rated both only OK, which hardly merits either a best or worst of the year!

I'm sure that within a couple of years there will be nothing lower than a Classic on my Best Films list and nothing higher than a Bad on my Worst, except maybe for 1929, as it seems so hard to find decent films from the first real year of sound in the movies.


Rating System | 1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic


Year

Best Film of the Year (So Far)

H

D

Worst Film of the Year (So Far)

H

D

1919

J'Accuse

7

Back to God's Country

4

1920

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

7

Stolen Moments

2

1921

The Kid

7

The Boat

4

1922

Tess of the Storm Country

7

My Wife's Relations

2

1923

Safety Last!

7

Oranges and Lemons

4

1924

Sherlock, Jr

7

April Fool

3

1925

The Gold Rush

7

7

The Caretaker's Daughter

2

1926

Flesh and the Devil

7

Enough to Do

2

1927

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

7

7

Old San Francisco

3

1928

The Passion of Joan of Arc

7

7

The Cowboy and the Girl

2

1929

Pandora's Box

7

My Bag o' Trix

2

1930

Westfront 1918

7

Anna Christie

2

1931

M

7

6

Ghost Parade

1

1932

Freaks

7

7

Strange Interlude

1

1

1933

King Kong

7

7

Going Hollywood

2

1934

It Happened One Night

7

7

We're Not Dressing

1

1

1935

Mutiny on the Bounty

7

7

Murder By Television

3

1936

My Man Godfrey

7

7

The Invisible Ray

2

3

1937

Grand Illusion

7

7

Parnell

2

1938

The Lady Vanishes

7

The Adventures of Marco Polo

2

2

1939

Goodbye, Mr Chips

7

The Return of Doctor X

2

3

1940

The Philadelphia Story

7

7

One Million BC

3

3

1941

Citizen Kane

7

7

Spooks Run Wild

3

1942

Casablanca

7

7

Once Upon a Honeymoon

2

1943

The Ox-Bow Incident

7

The Ape Man

1

1944

Double Indemnity

7

7

The Return of the Vampire

1

1

1945

Brief Encounter

7

7

The Adventures of Kitty O'Day

2

1946

The Big Sleep

7

7

The Notorious Lone Wolf

2

2

1947

Black Narcissus

7

6

The Sea of Grass

2

2

1948

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

7

7

Rope

3

5

1949

The Third Man

7

7

Bagdad

2

2

1950

Rashomon

7

7

Please Believe Me

3

1951

The Day the Earth Stood Still

7

7

The Man from Planet X

2

2

1952

Singin' in the Rain

7

7

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

1

1

1953

Mr Hulot's Holiday

7

6

Mesa of Lost Women

2

2

1954

Rear Window

7

7

The Black Knight

2

1955

Kiss Me Deadly

7

The Beast with a Million Eyes

1

1

1956

The Killing

7

7

Earth vs The Flying Saucers

3

3

1957

12 Angry Men

7

7

The Incredible Petrified World

1

1958

Touch of Evil

7

6

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

1

1

1959

Some Like It Hot

7

7

Plan 9 from Outer Space

1

1

1960

Psycho

7

7

Atom Age Vampire

3

1961

The Hustler

7

7

The Beast of Yucca Flats

1

1962

To Kill a Mockingbird

7

7

Reptilicus!

1

1963

The Great Escape

7

7

Blood Feast

2

1

1964

Dr Strangelove

7

7

The Creeping Terror

1

1

1965

The Shop on Main Street

7

Monster a Go-Go

1

1

1966

A Man for All Seasons

7

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula

1

1

1967

In the Heat of the Night

7

7

In the Year 2889

2

2

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

7

7

Witchcraft Through the Ages

2

1969

The Italian Job

7

7

It's Alive!

2

2

1970

The Cheyenne Social Club

7

7

Hercules in New York

2

1971

Two-Lane Blacktop

7

Slaughter Hotel

1

1

1972

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

7

Night of the Lepus

1

1

1973

The Sting

7

7

Santo vs Black Magic Woman

2

2

1974

Chinatown

7

6

Return of the Street Fighter

3

3

1975

Jaws

7

7

Terror of Mechagodzilla

3

1976

Network

7

7

Dr Black, Mr Hyde

2

2

1977

Annie Hall

7

6

High Anxiety

4

4

1978

Dawn of the Dead

7

5

Death of a Snowman

2

2

1979

Nosferatu the Vampyre

7

Meteor

3

4

1980

Inferno

6

Humanoids from the Deep

2

2

1981

Das Boot

7

7

Frankenstein Island

3

1982

Blade Runner

7

7

The Impossible Kid

2

1983

Educating Rita

7

7

The Big Chill

4

1984

This is Spinal Tap

7

7

Crackers

4

1985

Brazil

7

6

Ninja Terminator

2

1986

Manhunter

7

6

The Ninja Squad

1

1987

Hope and Glory

7

7

Tales from the Quadead Zone

1

1

1988

Wings of Desire

7

7

Another Woman

4

1989

Santa Sangre

7

5

Puppet Master

4

5

1990

Tremors

7

6

Miller's Crossing

4

5

1991

Dead Again

7

7

Highlander II: The Quickening

1

1

1992

Reservoir Dogs

7

7

The Guyver

2

2

1993

The Piano

7

6

Leprechaun

4

4

1994

The Last Seduction

7

Dumb & Dumber

2

1995

Dead Man

7

7

Mortal Kombat

3

4

1996

Fargo

7

7

Iron Monkey 2

3

3

1997

The Whole Wide World

7

7

Rebirth of Mothra II

3

1998

Gods and Monsters

7

7

Rebirth of Mothra III

2

1999

October Sky

7

7

The Boondock Saints

2

5

2000

Requiem for a Dream

7

6

Battlefield Earth

1

4

2001

Amelie

7

7

The Happiness of the Katakuris

2

2002

Infernal Affairs

7

7

On the Edge

2

2

2003

Big Fish

7

7

House of the Dead

1

1

2004

The Incredibles

7

7

Skeleton Man

1

1

2005

Sin City

7

7

Alone in the Dark

2

2

2006

Pan's Labyrinth

7

7

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

1

4

2007

Stardust

7

7

Revelation Nine

2

4


Last updated: 8 Dec 2008


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