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The Best Movies Ever | Chris Lambert

The best movies ever, according to me. This is a live list of all the movies I’ve watched since beginning this list in 2022. The movies within a tier are in alphabetical order. If you don’t see something on here, give it time. Use the comments to ask about anything or make a request or suggestion.

I favor scope, scale, and depth. If a movie is higher than you’d expect, it’s probably because it did one of those things very well. If something is lower than you’d expect, it’s probably because it frustrated me.

Updated: 1/11/25

Newly Added: Mickey 17, Sorcerer, The Descent, Captain America: Brave New World, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Note: movies in each tier are in alphabetical order

 My Favorites

  1. Alien (1979)
  2. American Psycho (2000)
  3. Any Given Sunday (1999)
  4. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  5. Beau is Afraid (2023)
  6. Black Swan (2010)
  7. Blade Runner (1982)
  8. Brazil (1985)
  9. Casino Royale (2006) 
  10. Chungking Express (1994)
  11. Cloverfield (2008)
  12. Dune: Part Two (2024)
  13. Fight Club (1999)
  14. Jurassic Park (1993)
  15. Parasite (2019)
  16. Past Lives (2023)
  17. Possession (1981)
  18. Prisoners (2013)
  19. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
  20. The Princess Bride (1987)
  21. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  22. The Substance (2024)
  23. The Wailing (2016)
  24. The Zone of Interest (2023)
  25. There Will Be Blood (2007)
  26. Too Late (2015)

Wow 

  1. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
  2. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
  3. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
  4. Barbarian (2022)
  5. Batman v Superman: Ultimate Edition (2016)
  6. Donnie Darko (2001)
  7. Fire of Love (2022)
  8. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  9. Nickel Boys (2024)
  10. Poor Things (2023)
  11. Sorcerer (1977)
  12. Triangle of Sadness (2022)
  13. Under the Skin (2013)
  14. X (2022)

Impressive 

  1. Aftersun (2022)
  2. All the President’s Men (1976)
  3. Anora (2024)
  4. Babylon (2022)
  5. Barbie (2023)
  6. Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 
  7. Bottoms (2023)
  8. Challengers (2024)
  9. Die Hard (1988)
  10. Drive (2011)
  11. Enemy (2013)
  12. Get Out (2017)
  13. Hereditary (2018)
  14. Joker (2019)
  15. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
  16. Knives Out (2019)
  17. Mad God (2022)
  18. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
  19. MaXXXine (2024)
  20. Melancholia (2011)
  21. Mulholland Drive (2001)
  22. Napoleon (2023)
  23. RoboCop (1987)
  24. RRR (2022)
  25. Scream (1996)
  26. Scream 2 (1997)
  27. Showgirls (1995)
  28. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
  29. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
  30. TÁR (2022)
  31. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
  32. The Batman (2022)
  33. The Brutalist (2024)
  34. The Lighthouse (2019)
  35. The Others (2001)
  36. Trap (2024)

Enjoyable 

  1. Alien: Romulus (2024)
  2. Babygirl (2024)
  3. Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
  4. Beast (2022)
  5. BlackBerry (2023)
  6. Blow Out (1981)
  7. Bones and All (2022)
  8. Bullet Train (2022)
  9. Cosmopolis (2011)
  10. Crimes of the Future (2022)
  11. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 
  12. Dune: Part One (2021)
  13. Elvis (2022)
  14. Falling Down (1993)
  15. Fast X (2023)
  16. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
  17. Gladiator II (2024)
  18. Gone Baby Gone (2007)
  19. Hit Man (2024)
  20. Jawan (2023)
  21. John Wick (2014)
  22. Kneecap (2024)
  23. Mean Girls (2004)
  24. Mickey 17 (2025)
  25. Mission: Impossible (1996)
  26. Nosferatu (2024)
  27. Nope (2022)
  28. Pearl (2022)
  29. Prometheus (2012)
  30. Queer (2024)
  31. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  32. Saltburn (2023)
  33. Scream 6 (2023)
  34. Society of the Snow (2023)
  35. Sound of Metal (2019)
  36. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
  37. The Adam Project (2022)
  38. The Black Phone (2022)
  39. The Fast and the Furious (2001)
  40. The Holdovers (2023)
  41. The Natural (1984)
  42. The Northman (2022)
  43. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
  44. Theater Camp (2023)
  45. Top Gun Maverick (2022)
  46. Transformers One (2024)
  47. True Grit (2010)
  48. Turning Red (2022)
  49. Your Name (2016)

Positives 

  1. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
  2. A Ghost Story (2017)
  3. Abigail (2024)
  4. About Time (2013)
  5. Air (2023)
  6. Alien: Covenant (2017)
  7. American Fiction (2023)
  8. Blink Twice (2024)
  9. Civil War (2024)
  10. Cocaine Bear (2023)
  11. Conclave (2024)
  12. Creed III (2023)
  13. Decision to Leave (2022)
  14. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022)
  15. Dumb Money (2023)
  16. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
  17. Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
  18. Fast Five (2011)
  19. Fresh (2022)
  20. Girl, Interrupted (1999)
  21. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
  22. Heretic (2024)
  23. Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
  24. Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022)
  25. Hustle (2022)
  26. I Used to Be Funny (2023)
  27. Insomnia (2002)
  28. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
  29. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
  30. Joy Ride (2023)
  31. Knock at the Cabin (2023)
  32. Late Night with the Devil (2024)
  33. Mad Max (1979)
  34. May December (2023)
  35. Midsommar (2019)
  36. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
  37. No Hard Feelings (2023)
  38. No Time to Die (2021)
  39. Oppenheimer (2023) 
  40. Polite Society (2023)
  41. Prey (2022)
  42. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  43. Saturday Night (2024)
  44. Smile 2 (2024)
  45. Talk To Me (2023)
  46. Terrifier 3 (2024)  
  47. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
  48. The Killer (2023)
  49. The Lost City (2022)
  50. The Menu (2022)
  51. The Mist (2007)
  52. The Whale (2022)
  53. Twisters (2024)
  54. Us (2019)
  55. Vanilla Sky (2001)
  56. Vengeance (2022)
  57. Violent Night (2022)
  58. Watchmen (2009)
  59. West Side Story (2021)
  60. You Hurt My Feelings (2023)

Neutral 

  1. 2046 (2004)
  2. A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
  3. Am I OK? (2022)
  4. Anyone But You (2023)
  5. Bad Boys: Ride of Die (2024)
  6. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
  7. Blue Beetle (2023)
  8. Breaking (2022)
  9. Bros (2022)
  10. Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
  11. Death on the Nile (2022)
  12. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
  13. I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
  14. Infinity Pool (2023)
  15. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
  16. Longlegs (2024) 
  17. Megalopolis (2024)
  18. Scream (2022)
  19. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
  20. Strange Darling (2024)
  21. Tenet (2020)
  22. Terrifier 2 (2022)
  23. The Bob’s Burgers Movie (2022)
  24. The House That Jack Built (2023)
  25. Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
  26. Troll (2022)
  27. Twister (1996)
  28. We Live in Time (2024)
  29. White Noise (2022)

Almost 

  1. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
  2. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
  3. Companion (2025)
  4. Cuckoo (2024)
  5. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
  6. Dune (1984)
  7. Emilia Perez (2024)
  8. Fast & Furious (2009)
  9. Flora and Son (2023)
  10. Hypnotic (2023)
  11. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
  12. Inside Out 2 (2024)
  13. Interstellar (2014)
  14. Kinds of Kindness (2024)
  15. Joker: Folie á Deux (2024)
  16. La La Land (2016)
  17. Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) (1981)
  18. M3GAN (2023)
  19. Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) 
  20. Mission: Impossible III (2004)
  21. Scream 3 (2000)
  22. Scream 4 (2011)
  23. Smile (2022)
  24. The Bikeriders (2023)
  25. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
  26. The Creator (2023)
  27. The Descent (2025)
  28. The Fall Guy (2024)
  29. The Marvels (2023)
  30. The Pale Blue Eye (2023)
  31. Uncharted (2022)
  32. Under Paris (2024)
  33. Venom (2018)
  34. Wicked (2024)

Not Quite

  1. Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
  2. Do Revenge (2022)
  3. Furious 7 (2013)
  4. Immaculate (2024)
  5. Inside Out (2015)
  6. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) 
  7. Minions: Rise of Gru (2022)
  8. Monkey Man (2024)
  9. Primer (2004)
  10. The Fate of the Furious (2017)
  11. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
  12. Wolf Man (2025)
  13. You People (2023)

Not For Me 

  1. 65 (2023)
  2. Black Adam (2022)
  3. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
  4. Despicable Me 4 (2024)
  5. Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
  6. Fourth of July (2022)
  7. Immaculate (2024)
  8. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
  9. Leave the World Behind (2023)
  10. Morbius (2022)
  11. The Flash (2023)
  12. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
  13. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

Really Not For Me

  1. A Family Affair (2024)
  2. Argylle (2024)
  3. Asteroid City (2023)
  4. F9 (2021)
  5. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
  6. Goodnight Mommy (2022)
  7. Halloween Ends (2022)
  8. In a Violent Nature (2024)
  9. Inland Empire (2006)
  10. Madame Web (2024)
  11. Mean Girls (2024)
  12. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022)
  13. White Men Can’t Jump (2023)
Chris Lambert
Chris Lambert

Chris Lambert is the co-founder and lead writer of Film Colossus. He specializes in film interpretation, narrative structure, and explaining how movies use story, imagery, and technique to create meaning. His work on Film Colossus has reached millions of readers, with more than 500 articles covering films ranging from Fight Club and Black Swan to Perfect Blue and The Odyssey.

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Will Skyfall eventually at least make the “enjoyable” list? Surprised not to see it here.
And original Austrian “Goodnight Mommy” was in my opinion creepy and well done.

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Omg why is Interstellar an Almost? Genuinely curious.

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I get an update with Travis’ picks every Friday. How do I get yours, too?

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Have you signed up for our newsletter? That should provide updates for both of us!

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You’re young, so you might not know any of my generation’s favorite action movies – but if you do, what’s your opinion of those old “Men on a Mission” movies? Like Where Eagles Dare, Kelly’s Heroes, The Dirty Dozen, The Guns of Navarone, etc… Or any Sean Connery Bond movie. Nothin’ serious, of course. Just popcorn stuff. I would be interested to know what you youngins think of those old gems.

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Hey Jerry! I have not seen any of those. But I’ll put them on the watch list. I’m trying to catch up on some bigger ending explanation movies and current year movies. Then want to start taking requests for all-time rankings. I should go through all the Bonds one day and make a ranking of those.

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