Inspired by watching a YouTube video by Alfo Media in which he talked about a favorite album for each year he’s been alive. I done something similar to this with songs, but I thought it would be even more interesting to do this with albums instead. And then I realized that I haven’t listened to enough albums from 2003 to now to warrant that type of list. Now I hope to eventually do that list, but for now, I will have to settle for doing a list like this on something I have plenty of options for which in my case is movies. Starting from 2003 to 2020, I will be picking my favorite movie for each respective year along with some honorable mentions to boot.

2003: Down With Love

I will forever praised and mentioned Down With Love whenever I get an opportunity to. Down With Love is one of my favorite romantic comedies, it’s funny and sweet, but surprisingly enough it’s smart. It’s rare for me to ever describe a romantic comedy as smart, but Down With Love is exactly that. It’s genuisly well made and written and I wish it was more well known.

Honorable Mentions:

• Identity

• The Italian Job

• Kill Bill

• Freaky Friday

• School of Rock

2004: The Incredibles

My first superhero movie (yes, it counts)! I watched The Incredibles way too many times as a child because of how much I loved it and I’m happy to say that I still love it as much as I did as a child as I do now.

Honorable Mentions:

• Before Sunset

• 13 Going on 30

• Mean Girls

• Spiderman 2

• The Bourne Supremacy

• Closer

2005: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

I talked about this movie before in Movies Watched in December 2019, but essentially I only just said that this is my favorite movie of all time. No big deal. Okay but seriously that statement is so hollow, because I haven’t seen every movie ever, so that statement doesn’t really mean much. But I will say that the first time I ever watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang I came away thinking that’s my favorite movie I have ever seen and I still come away with feeling every time I revisit it.

Honorable Mentions

• Imagine Me & You

• Hitch

• The Descent

• Walk the Line

2006: Rocky Balboa

I am a huge diehard Rocky fan. I marathon the entire franchise either two or three years ago for the first time and I was in love. It was so much fun discovering what would ultimately become one of my favorite franchises ever. And Rocky Balboa is one of my favorites from the series and I think it’s unfairly underlooked. It was the perfect sendoff for the original Rocky series after the terrible fifth movie and can be seen as a great standalone boxing movie as well.

Honorable Mentions

• Stick It

• United 93

• Mission Impossible 3

• The Devil Wears Prada

2007: Enchanted

Speaking of underlooked, look no further than Enchanted. The best Disney live action movie that you have probably never seen. Enchanted, no pun intended is enchanting. It is such a magical film to watch because it’s a mix of everything you need for a film to work comes together. A innovative story, great performances, and the entertainment value is sky high. I adore this movie.

Honorable Mentions

• Music & Lyrics

• Ratatouille

• The Bourne Ultimatum

• Atonement

2008: Iron Man

No matter how many years go by, Iron Man still is my favorite MCU film. I love the film itself and I love how much it represents for the franchise as a whole. You just don’t get to see how much a movie can make an impact like Iron Man did every day. It’s a once in a lifetime kinda thing.

Honorable Mentions

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall

• Kung Fu Panda

• The Wrestler

2009: Jennifer’s Body

I will be talking about Jennifer’s Body in-depth very soon, so I won’t say too much here except that Jennifer’s Body was far too ahead of it’s time to get the due respect that it so rightfully deserves. And I will stand by that for the rest of time.

Honorable Mentions

• Drag Me To Hell

• The Proposal

• 500 Days of Summer

2010: The Social Network

The first time I watched The Social Network I thought I would have hated it. A movie about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg? That sounds so boring and it very well could have been if it weren’t for David Fincher’s directing and Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay. The Social Network is phenomenal in every single way. The screenplay, performances, and dialogue. That combination makes one of my favorite movies of all time.

Honorable Mentions

• Shutter Island

• Toy Story 3

• Inception

• The Other Guys

• Black Swan

• Easy A

• The Town

• Tangled

2011: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

You know how I said earlier that the Rocky franchise was one of my favorite franchises ever? Yeah, well Mission Impossible is the other. The franchise is my favorite still going on currently. The series received a huge bump in quality with this fourth addition Ghost Protocol. It may or may not be my favorite from the series, I go back and forth between this one and Fallout. But either way, Ghost Protocol was a breath of fresh air that the franchise desperately needed and the franchise is so much better because of it.

Honorable Mentions

• Scream 4

• Bridesmaids

• Drive

• Crazy Stupid Love

• Warrior

• The Cabin in the Woods

2012: The Avengers

I have never been a comic book fan, but even I had to admit it was pretty cool to see all these superheroes we had seen in their own movies team-up since we had never seen anything like it before. It’s pretty nostalgic to go back to the first one ever and see just how far everything has come. It’s a beautiful thing.

Honorable Mentions

• 21 Jump Street

• Frances Ha

• Stuck In Love

• Looper

2013: Short Term 12

Another personal favorite of mines and one that will always have a place in my heart for several reasons. It’s at both times a heartbreaking and heartwarming film that will make you emotional without ever manipulating your feelings. I love how genuine it is, you forget it’s a movie sometimes while you’re watching. That’s how saddening realistic it is.

Honorable Mentions

• The Spectacular Now

• Before Midnight

• Evil Dead

• Iron Man 3

• Inside Lleweyn Davis

• Prisoners

• Enemy

• Her

2014: Gone Girl

I hate movies that are two hours. I hate movies that are somehow longer than two hours. My attention span was never meant to last that long. And yet I completely captivated by Gone Girl and it’s almost two and a half hours long! Gone Girl is special and because of that, it’s my exception. It also doesn’t hurt that it features one of the best performances I have ever seen by Rosamund Pike.

Honorable Mentions

• Whiplash

• Veronica Mars

• Captain America: Winer Solider

• Edge of Tomorrow

• Guardians of the Galaxy

• The One I Love

• Birdman

• Nightclawer

• Beyond the Lights

• Still Alice

• Laggies

• John Wick

• Paddington

2015: Creed

This is how to do a revival/reboot to an already well-beloved franchise and making it your own. I am always in awe of how well Creed was done. It could have gone completely south, but no it didn’t. Instead, it became the best reboot I have seen thus far in the history of reboots.

Honorable Mentions

• Mistress America

• The Invitation

• The Final Girls

• Furious 7

• Carol

• Inside Out

• Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

• Straight Outta Compton

• Room

• Spotlight

2016: The Nice Guys

What is it with Shane Black + two mismatched private detectives that make me instantly fall in love with his movies. Shane Black who is responsible for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is also responsible for another favorite movie of mines The Nice Guys. They are both similar to one another, but I don’t care. Why fix something that’s not broke? Even despite the two movie’s similarities, The Nice Guys more than enough holds it’s own. The chemistry between Gosling and Crowe is undeniable and it’s freaking hilarious! Ah, I love this movie…

Honorable Mentions

• Zootopia

• Don’t Breathe

• Julieta

• Captain America: Civil War

• Handmaiden

• Popstar: Next Stop Stopping

• La La Land

• Arrival

• Moonlight

• The Edge of Seventeen

• 20 Century Women

• Moana

2017: Get Out

Get Out reinvented the horror genre for the better. In a genre that began to stale, Get Out took modern-day racial themes and made an instant classic horror movie. It’s incredibly smart is just as timely as it was in 2017.

Honorable Mentions

• The Big Sick

• Ingrid Goes West

• Call Me By Your Name

• Logan

• Baby Driver

• Wonder Woman

• The Meyerowitz Stories

• Good Time

• You Were Never Really Here

• Logan Lucky

• Lady Bird

• Revenge

• Blade Runner 2049

• Thor Ragnarok

• Paddington 2

• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

2018: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

One of the best animation movies I have ever seen and I have seen a LOT of animation films. But this one stands out from the rest with how stunning it is and I don’t just mean how the film looks. The film itself is beautiful to look at, but Into the Spider-Verse also has plenty of heart to match its appearance.

Honorable Mentions

• The Hate U Give

• The Favourite

• Mission Impossible: Fallout

• Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again

• Shoplifters

• Upgrade

• Game Night

• Hereditary

• Eighth Grade

• Searching

• Blindspotting

2019: Ready or Not

I just watched Ready or Not for the first time last month, so how much I liked it may come from how fresh it is in my mind. However, it could be just because of how freaking good it is. I’m a sucker for a balance between humor and horror and I believe that Ready or Not is the quintessential example of how to do it and how to do it right.

PS, I haven’t seen Parasite yet.

Honorable Mentions

• Knives Out

• Hustlers

• Booksmart

• Fighting with My Family

2020: To Be Determined

Yeah, I don’t got a movie for 2020 yet. I have seen exactly 4 movies from this year and I don’t think that’s a good pool to pick a favorite from, so I’ll have to wait before I pick a 2020 favorite.

What’s your favorite movie from 2020 so far? Comment it down below.