Best & Worst Lists
Matt's Best & Worst List - 2001
| Best | Rank | Worst |
| Requiem For A Dream | 1 | Glitter |
| Traffic | 2 | Ghosts Of Mars |
| LOTR: The Fellowship Of The Ring | 3 | Head Over Heels |
| Nurse Betty | 4 | Freddie Got Fingered |
| Memento | 5 | Crocodile Dundee In L.A. |
| Almost Famous | 6 | Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch |
| The Pledge | 7 | Dungeons & Dragons |
| Moulin Rouge | 8 | The Forsaken |
| You Can Count On Me | 9 | Scary Movie 2 |
| A.I. | 10 | Heartbreakers |
| Total films reviewed - 158 |
Matt's Best & Worst List - 2000
| Best | Rank | Worst |
| Billy Elliot | 1 | Kevin & Perry Go Large |
| Magnolia | 2 | Down To You |
| American Beauty | 3 | Urban Legends: Final Cut |
| The Insider | 4 | Boys And Girls |
| Topsy-Turvy | 5 | Mission To Mars |
| The Grinch | 6 | Deuce Bigalow |
| Wonder Boys | 7 | The Next Best Thing |
| Frequency | 8 | Dudley Do-Right |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | 9 | The Bachelor |
| The Cider House Rules | 10 | The Thirteenth Warrior |
| Total films reviewed - 168 |
Best & Worst Lists
At the end of each year, I take great pleasure in compling a list of the best and worst films from the last 12 months. It provides "closure". I can encapsulate the cinematic year by listing 10 exceptional films and 10 horrendous films. It's fun looking back at years past and it can provide a good reference point when comparing year to year. Of the more than 6,000 films that I have reviewed, my favourite is Billy Elliot.
Here then are the links to my best and worst lists from 1996 to the current date. You can click on each year for the full list. Are there some films that you haven't seen before? If so, get off your butt and watch them!
| Year | Best Film |
| 1996 | Romeo & Juliet |
| 1997 | Titanic |
| 1998 | The Sweet Hereafter |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich |
| 2000 | Billy Elliot |
| 2001 | Requiem For A Dream |
| 2002 | Mulholland Drive |
| 2003 | Chicago |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind |
| 2005 | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2006 | Capote |
| 2007 | The Lives Of Others |
| 2008 | Juno |
| 2009 | The Wrestler |
| 2010 | Inception |
| 2011 | Another Year |
| 2012 | Shame |
| 2013 | Life Of Pi |
| 2014 | Boyhood |
| 2015 | Inside Out |
| 2016 | Brooklyn |
| 2017 | Call Me by Your Name |
| 2018 | Phantom Thread |
| 2019 | If Beale Street Could Talk |
| 2020 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always |
| 2021 | Riders of Justice |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2023 | Close |
Matt's Best & Worst List - 1999
| Best | Rank | Worst |
| Being John Malkovich | 1 | Teaching Mrs. Tingle |
| Gods And Monsters | 2 | Entrapment |
| Election | 3 | Jawbreaker |
| Snow Falling On Cedars | 4 | Urban Legend |
| Pleasantville | 5 | Inspector Gadget |
| The Thin Red Line | 6 | Dead Man On Campus |
| Go | 7 | The Astronaut's Wife |
| Eyes Wide Shut | 8 | The Mummy |
| Bulworth | 9 | Wild Wild West |
| Shakespeare In Love | 10 | Baby Geniuses |
| Total films reviewed - 173 |
Matt's Best & Worst List - 1998
| Best | Rank | Worst |
| The Sweet Hereafter | 1 | Tarzan & The Lost City |
| Saving Private Ryan | 2 | The Avengers |
| Mulan | 3 | Spice World: The Movie |
| Jackie Brown | 4 | The Second Jungle Book |
| Dark City | 5 | Mortal Kombat: Annihilation |
| Life Is Beautiful | 6 | Hope Floats |
| The Impostors | 7 | Money Talks |
| Deep Impact | 8 | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer |
| Good Will Hunting | 9 | Lost In Space |
| Primary Colours | 10 | Welcome To Woop Woop |
| Total films reviewed - 176 |
Matt's Best & Worst List - 1997
| Best | Rank | Worst |
| Titanic | 1 | The Stupids |
| The Ice Storm | 2 | Thinner |
| The People Vs. Larry Flynt | 3 | A Very Brady Sequel |
| Marvin's Room | 4 | High School High |
| Breaking The Waves | 5 | Fire Down Below |
| Face/Off | 6 | A Life Less Ordinary |
| L.A. Confidential | 7 | Diana And Me |
| Hamlet | 8 | The Glimmer Man |
| The English Patient | 9 | Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion |
| Mother | 10 | Buddy |
| Total films reviewed - 167 |
Matt's Best & Worst List - 1996
| Best | Rank | Worst |
| Romeo & Juliet | 1 | The Crow: City Of Angels |
| Leaving Las Vegas | 2 | Homeward Bound 2 |
| Fargo | 3 | Vampire In Brooklyn |
| Shine | 4 | Jingle All The Way |
| Mr. Holland's Opus | 5 | Sunset Park |
| Secrets And Lies | 6 | Dead Man |
| Hoop Dreams | 7 | Screamers |
| Dead Man Walking | 8 | The Quest |
| Ransom | 9 | Maximum Risk |
| Copycat | 10 | The Juror |
| Total films reviewed - 167 |