All-Time Favorite Movies

Here are some of the movies that changed my life, made me laugh, or made me change my major in college. Embarrassing, but true. I welcome your nominations.

Top 5

  • Away We Go
  • Moonlight
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Rounding Out the Top 58

20th Century Women

Aftersun

American Splendor

Angels in America

The Big Lebowski

Boyhood

Call Me By Your Name

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Empire of Light

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Florida Project

Gods and Monsters

Groundhog Day

Heart of a Dog

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The Hours

Judas and the Black Messiah

Juno

La La Land

Lady Bird

Lars and the Real Girl

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Lego Movie

Little Miss Sunshine

The Lives of Others

Lost in Translation

Lovely and Amazing

Magnolia

Moonrise Kingdom

Moulin Rouge

My Beautiful Laundrette

My Octopus Teacher

O, Brother Where Art Thou?

One Night in Miami

Parasite

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

Raising Arizona

Rivers and Tides

Rushmore

The Sound of Metal

The Sound of Music

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

The Tree of Life

Twelve Years a Slave

Traffic

Up

Up in the Air

The Usual Suspects

Waitress

Where the Wild Things Are

You and Me and Everyone We Know

You Can Count on Me