The Best Movies (Per Year) Of The Past 25 Years

2012: Chronicle (dir. Josh Trank) [The year is obviously still young]

2011: Drive (dir. Nicholas Winding Refn)
     Close Runner Up: Young Adult (dir. Jason Reitman)

2010: Inception (dir. Christopher Nolan)
     Close Runner Up: The Social Network (dir. David Fincher)

2009: Inglorious Basterds (dir. Quentin Tarantino)

2008: The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan)
     Close Runner Up: Wall-E (dir. Andrew Stanton)

2007: There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

2006: Little Miss Sunshine (dir. Jonathan Dayton and Valarie Faris)
     Close Runner Up: The Departed (dir. Martin Scorsese)

2005: Sin City (Robert Rodriguez)

2004: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry)

2003: Mystic River (dir. Clint Eastwood)

2002: Minority Report (dir. Steven Spielberg)

2001: Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan)
     Close Runner Up: Black Hawk Down (dir. Ridley Scott)

2000: Requiem For A Dream (dir. Darren Aronifsky)
     Close Runner Up: Gladiator (dir. Ridley Scott)

1999: The Matrix (dir. The Wachowski Brothers)
     Close Runner Up: The Sixth Sense (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)

1998: Saving Private Ryan (dir. Steven Spielberg)

1997: Good Will Hunting (dir. Gus Van Sant)

1996: Fargo (Joel Coen)

1995: Toy Story (dir. John Lasseter)

1994: The Shawshank Redemption (dir. Frank Darabont)
     Close Runner Up: Pulp Fiction (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
     Close Runner Up: Forrest Gump (dir. Robert Zemeckis)

1993: Schindler's List (dir. Steven Spielberg)

1992: My Cousin Vinny (dir. Jonathan Lynn)
     Close Runner Up: A Few Good Men (dir. Rob Reiner)

1991: The Silence Of The Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme)

1990: Goodfellas (dir. Martin Scorsese)

1989: Batman (dir. Tim Burton)
     Close Runner Up: Glory (dir. Edward Zwick)

1988: Die Hard (dir. John McTiernan)
     Close Runner Up: Rain Man (dir. Barry Levinson)

1987: Full Metal Jacket (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
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