2010 Top 100 Movies List

I thought I would do something a little different this year - instead of going through the painstaking task of ranking films, I will simply list my top 100 in alphabetical order. Besides, how does one compare the Shining to Seven Samurai, or Heat to Duck Soup? It is emphatically subjective. You may notice some new additions to the list this year (Avatar, Up in the Air, Inglorious Basterds). I hope you enjoy, and appreciate your comments.

2001
A Clockwork Orange
A History of Violence
A Streetcar Named Desire
Alien
Aliens
All Quiet on the Western Front
American Beauty
American Graffiti
American History X
Animal House
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Avatar
Bonnie and Clyde
Boogie Nights
Braveheart
Brokeback Mountain
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Caddyshack
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Cool Hand Luke
Dazed and Confused
Deer Hunter
Dog Day Afternoon
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
E.T.
Empire Strikes Back
Enter the Dragon
Fargo
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Full Metal Jacket
Gladiator
Glory
Good Will Hunting
Heat
High Noon
Inglourious Basterds
It Happened One Night
It's a Wonderful Life
Jaws
LA Confidential
M.A.S.H
Modern Times
Mystic River
No Country for Old Men
North by Northwest
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Patton
Platoon
Primal Fear
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Return of the Jedi
Road to Perdition
Rocky
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface
Schindler's List
Se7en
Seven Samurai
Star Wars
Taxi Driver
The Apartment
The Big Lebowski
The Dark Knight
The Departed
The Exorcist
The Fellowship Of The Ring
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
The Graduate
The Manchurian Candidate
The Matrix
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sixth Sense
The Thing
The Wall
There Will Be Blood
This is Spinal Tap
Titanic
To Kill A Mockingbird
Tombstone
Training Day
Unforgiven
Up in the Air
Vertigo

Narrowly missing the list this year are the following films - they may rise in 2011.

Blade Runner
Copland
Crash
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Die Hard
In the Bedroom
Into the Wild
Milk
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Office Space
Return of the King
Slumdog Millionaire
The Hurt Locker
The Searchers
Traffic
True Romance
Usual Suspects