Matt’s Picks

Matt’s Picks

**This page is for my personal rankings.

2020

Top 10 Films
1. Sound of Metal (Marder)
2. Minari (Chung)
3. Nomadland (Zhao)
4. Another Round (Vinterberg)
5. One Night in Miami (King)
6. Promising Young Woman (Fennell)
7. The Vast of Night (Patterson)
8. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Hittman)
9. Soul (Docter, Powers)
10. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Sorkin)

Top 10 Series
1. BoJack Horseman S6 (Netflix)
2. Ted Lasso S1 (Apple TV)
3. Tales From the Loop LS (Amazon)
4. Midnight Gospel S1 (Netflix)
5. Queen’s Gambit, The LS (Netflix)
6. Search Party S3 (HBO Max)
7. Real Bros. of Simi Valley S3 (Facebook Watch)
8. Tiger King LS (Netflix)
9. F is For Family S4 (Netflix)
10. McMillions (HBO Max)

2019

Top 10 Films
1. Parasite (Joon-Ho)
2. The Irishman (Scorsese)
3. Pain & Glory (Almodovar)
4. 1917 (Mendes)
5. Her Smell (Perry)
6. Honey Boy (Har’el)
7. Jallikattu (Pellissery)
8. Joker (Phillips)
9. Little Women (Gerwig)
10. Uncut Gems (Safdie, Safdie)

Top 10 Series
1. Chernobyl LS (HBO)
2. Love, Death & Robots S1 (Netflix)
3. Barry S2 (HBO)
4. Undone LS (Amazon)
5. The Righteous Gemstones S1 (HBO)
6. Silicon Valley S6 (HBO)
7. The Mandalorian S1 (Disney+)
8. Letterkenny S7 (Crave/Hulu)
9. When They See Us LS (Netflix)
10. Schitt’s Creek S5 (CBC)

2018

Top 10 Films
1. Roma (Cuaron)
2. If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins)
3. Mid90s (Hill)
4. Sorry to Bother You (Riley)
5. Blindspotting (Estrada)
6. Capernaum (Labaki)
7. Eighth Grade (Burnham)
8. Burning (Lee)
9. You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay)
10. Bodied (Kahn)

Top 10 Series
1. Atlanta S2 (FX)
2. BoJack Horseman S5 (Netflix)
3. Maniac LS (Netflix)
4. Succession S1 (HBO)
5. Barry S1 (HBO)
6. Real Bros. of Simi Valley S2 (Facebook Watch)
7. Ugly Delicious S1 (Netflix)
8. Sharp Objects LS (HBO)
9. GLOW S2 (Netflix)
10. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia S13 (FX)

Top 10 Films of 2017
1. The Florida Project (Baker)
2. A Ghost Story (Lowery)
3. Lady Bird (Gerwig)
4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (McDonagh)
5. Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve)
6. Call Me by Your Name (Guadagnino)
7. Dunkirk (Nolan)
8. Get Out (Peele)
9. Phantom Thread (Anderson)
10. Mudbound (Rees)

Top 10 Films of 2016
1. The Red Turtle (Dudok de Wit)
2. Moonlight (Jenkins)
3. La La Land (Chazelle)
4. Everybody Wants Some!! (Linklater)
5. Silence (Scorsese)
6. The VVitch (Eggers)
7. Hacksaw Ridge (Gibson)
8. Hell or High Water (Mackenzie)
9. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Edwards)
10. Arrival (Villeneuve)

Top 10 Films of 2015

1. The Revenant (Iñárritu)
2. Anomalisa (Johnson, Kaufman)
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams)
4. When Marnie Was There (Yonebayashi)
5. The Big Short (McKay)
6. Beasts of No Nation (Fukunaga)
7. It Follows (Mitchell)
8. The Boy and the World (Abreu)
9. Mustang (Ergüven)
10. Inside Out (Docter, Del Carmen)

Top 10 Films of 2014

1. The Lego Movie (Lord, Miller)
2. Whiplash (Chazelle)
3. Boyhood (Linklater)
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson)
5. Birdman (Iñárritu)
6. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Takahata)
7. Calvary (McDonagh)
8. Gone Girl (Fincher)
9. A Most Violent Year (Chandor)
10. The Babadook (Kent)

Top 10 Films of 2013

1. The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese)
2. The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Cynn)
3. Her (Jonze)
4. Rush (Howard)
5. Spring Breakers (Korine)
6. 12 Years a Slave (McQueen)
7. American Hustle (Russell)
8. Nebraska (Payne)
9. Trance (Boyle)
10. The World’s End (Wright)

Top 10 Films of 2012

1. Les Miserables (Hooper)
2. Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson)
3. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Zeitlin)
4. Lincoln (Spielberg)
5. Cloud Atlas (Tykwer, Wachowski, Wachowski)
6. The Grey (Carnahan)
7. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow)
8. Safety Not Guaranteed (Trevorrow)
9. Argo (Affleck)
10. Indie Game: The Movie (Pajot, Swirsky)

Top 10 Films of 2011

1. Attack the Block (Cornish)
2. Melancholia (von Trier)
3. The Descendants (Payne)
4. Midnight in Paris (Allen)
5. The Muppets (Bobin)
6. Hugo (Scorsese)
7. 50/50 (Levine)
8. Terri (Jacobs)
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (Yates)
10. Trust (Schwimmer)

Top 10 Films of 2010

1. The Social Network (Fincher)
2. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
3. Enter the Void (Noe)
4. Black Swan (Aronofsky)
5. Inception (Nolan)
6. Kick-Ass (Vaughn)
7. How to Train Your Dragon (DeBlois, Sanders)
8. 127 Hours (Boyle)
9. Winter’s Bone (Granik)
10. The Town (Affleck)

Top 10 Films 2000 -2009

1. The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson)
2. Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze)
3. Into the Wild (Penn)
4. Big Fish (Burton)
5. Up (Docter, Peterson)
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson)
7. Wall-E (Stanton)
8. Moon (Jones)
9. Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro)
10. A Serious Man (Coen, Coen)

Top 10 Films 1990 – 1999

1. The Truman Show (Weir)
2. Fargo (Coen, Coen)
3. Schindler’s List (Spielberg)
4. The Lion King (Allens, Minkoff)
5. American Beauty (Mendes)
6. The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
7. Titanic (Cameron)
8. Groundhog Day (Ramis)
9. Jurassic Park (Spielberg)
10. Rushmore (Anderson)

Top 15 Television Shows of All Time 

Last Update: 07/14/20

1. Breaking Bad
2. The Leftovers
3. Community
4. King of the Hill
5. BoJack Horseman
6. Avatar: The Last Airbender
7. The Sopranos
8. Malcolm in the Middle
9. Futurama
10. Rick & Morty

11. Maniac
12. Atlanta
13. Game of Thrones
14. Hey Arnold!
15. Battlestar Galactica

Top 10 Video Games of All Time

Last Update: 07/14/20

1. Mass Effect Trilogy
2. Left 4 Dead 2
3. Pokemon Red/Yellow/Blue
4. Halo Trilogy
5. Prince of Persia Trilogy
6. Super Smash Bros. Melee
7. Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of Wisps
8. Rock Band
9. Batman Arkham Trilogy
10. Donkey Kong 64

11. Hollow Knight
12. Stardew Valley
13. Borderlands 2
14. Rocket League
15. The Sims