Best Movies Watched Journal

A list of the best movies I've seen and would recommend, or the best movies I've watched each month. Highlighted titles are ones I plan to add to my collection. Green titles are movies that are currently in my collection.

November 2020

Rewind (documentary)

Borat 2

Earlier in 2020

Dark Waters

The Social Dilemma

The Way Back

The Gentlemen

Parasite

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

1917 (saw in the theater)

Knives Out

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Tom Hanks)

2019

Yesterday

Ad Astra (saw in the theater)

Rocketman

Bohemian Rhapsody

January 2015
Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Boyhood

December 2014
Interstellar
Days of Heaven
Barry Lyndon
It's a Wonderful Life
White Christmas

November 2014
Gone Girl
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
Logan's Run
The Station Agent
A Most Wanted Man


October 2014
Locke

Not Suitable for Children
Jodorowsky's Dune (Documentary)
The Grand Budapest Hotel

September 2014
Blue Ruin
Dan in Real Life
The Rover
Nebraska
Noah


August 2014
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Side by Side (documentary)


July
Submarine
Joe


June
Lone Survivor
Edge of Tomorrow
Safety Not Guaranteed
22 Jump Street

May 2014
Her
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Captain America 2: Winter Solider

March 2014
Dallas Buyers Club
Much Ado About Nothing
More Than Honey (Documentary)
Perks of Being a Wildflower
Five Broken Cameras
Wolf of Wall Street

February 2014
Blue Jasmine
Enough Said
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Queen of Versailles
About Time
12 Years a Slave
Wikileaks Documentary

January 2014
Frozen
Saving Mr. Banks
Rampart
Primer
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Don Jon
Bellflower
Captain Phillips
Stuck in Love
Pain and Gain


December 2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (3-D HFR)
Prisoners
Prince Avalanche
Blue Valentine
American Hustle

November 2013
Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Before Midnight
The Way Way Back

October 2013
Gravity (3-D)
Warren Buffet: Bloomberg Game Changers

September 2013
The Legend of Ron Jeremy
Barney's Version
Trance
Kings of Summer

August 2013
The World's End
In the Loop
The Place Beyond the Pines

July 2013


June 2013
In July
Robot and Frank
Monsieur Lazhar
Match Point
Cloud Atlas
TBP AFK
Side Effects

May 2013
The Master
Liberal Arts
Mud
Margin Call
Maria Full of Grace
Star Trek: Into Darkness

April 2013
Coriolanus
Moonrise Kingdom

March 2013
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (documentary)
Lars and the Real Girl
The Sessions

Feburary 2013
Silver Linings Playbook
American Movie
Flight
Like Crazy
Lost in La Mancha

January 2013
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables
Premium Rush
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Looper
The King's Speech

December 2012 
Django Unchained
Russian Dolls
The Hobbit

November 2012
Skyfall
Greenberg
The Artist
Lincoln

October 2012
Argo

September 2012
End of Watch

July 2012
The Dark Knight Rises
Bernie

June 2012
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Prometheus (3D)

May 2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Avengers

April 2012
The Hoax

March 2012
The Hunger Games
21 Jump Street

February 2012
Limitless
50/50
 
January 2012
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Ajami
War Horse
Midnight in Paris

December 2011
Friends with Benefits
Horrible Bosses

November 2011
Captain America
Infernal Affairs

October 2011
The Ides of March
 
September 2011
The Tree of Life

August 2011

Source Code

The Lincoln Lawyer

July 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

June 2011
Red Cliff
Chungking Express
X-Men: First Class
Narc
Frozen River

May 2011
Training Day

Uncertainty

127 Hours
 
April 2011
Hereafter
Antwone Fisher

March 2011
It's Kind of a Funny Story
The Fighter
Goodbye Solo
Babel
Syriana

January 2011

InterMission

Insomnia
Black Swan
Unforgiven

December 2010

The Town

Inception

Easy A
Waking Life

November 2010
Gone Baby Gone
Shutter Island
The Edukators
Casino

October 2010
M

The Social Network

September 2010
Some Like it Hot

August 2010
The Sword in the Stone
Nobody Knows
Shine

Ghost Writer

July 2010
Kramer vs. Kramer
Pride and Prejudice
Cold Souls
O Brother Where Art Thou
Koyla
The Color Purple
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Toy Story 3

June 2010
The Insider
12 Angry Men
The Karate Kid (2010)
American Teen
Europa Europa
Into the Wild
Bad Lieutenant
Field of Dreams (had not seen since my pre-teen years)

May 2010
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Husbands and Wives
Trucker
Cashback
Bonnie and Clyde
The Sting
Hotel Rwanda

April 2010
Waltz With Bashir
Amores Perros
Serpico
Junebug
Mystic River
An Education
The Wrestler

March 2010
Brothers
Precious
Up in the Air  
The Hurt Locker

February 2010
All the President's Men
A Serious Man
Donnie Brasco
Food, Inc.

January 2010
Moon
Good Bye, Lenin
Chinatown
Why We Fight
Amreeka

December 2009
500 Days of Summer
District 9
Savages
Rendition
 
November 2009
The Apartment
Up

October 2009
Sin Nombre
Shattered Glass
Nothing But the Truth
American Violet
Zodiac

September 2009
Pan's Labyrinth
Reservoir Dogs
Rachel Getting Married
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Silence of the Lambs
State of Play

August 2009
North By Northwest
The Graduate

July 2009
Singin' in the Rain
The Half Blood Prince
The French Connection
Seven Pounds

June 2009
Annie Hall

April 2009
Doubt
Vicky Christina Barcelona

March 2009
Goodfellas
Flash of Genius
Assassination of Jesse James

February 2009
Gran Torino

January 2009
Benjamin Button
Slumdog Milionaire
The Counterfeiters
 
October 2008
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
 
August 2008
Enchanted
Joyeux Noel

July 2008
Pulp Fiction
The Dark Knight
The Talented Mr. Ripley
A Few Good Men

June 2008
The Fountain
American Gangster
Michael Clayton
 
May 2008 
Iron Man
Lost in Translation
 
April 2008
Glengarry Glenross
Brokeback Mountain
There Will Be Blood
 
March 2008
The Lives of Others
No Country for Old Men
Before Sunset
 
February 2008
Juno