All-Time Favorite Movies
Here are some of the movies that changed my life, made me laugh, or made me change my major in college. Embarrassing, but true. Missed one? I welcome your suggestions.
Top 5
- Moonlight
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
- Magnolia
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Rounding Out the Top 58



- 20th Century Women
- Aftersun
- American Splendor
- Angels in America
- Away We Go
- The Big Lebowski
- Boyhood
- Call Me By Your Name
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Empire of Light
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Florida Project
- Gods and Monsters
- Groundhog Day
- Heart of a Dog
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- The Hours
- Judas and the Black Messiah
- Juno
- La La Land
- Lady Bird
- Lars and the Real Girl
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- The Lego Movie
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Lives of Others
- Lost in Translation
- Lovely and Amazing
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Moulin Rouge
- My Beautiful Laundrette
- My Octopus Teacher
- O, Brother Where Art Thou?
- One Night in Miami
- Parasite
- Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
- Raising Arizona
- Rivers and Tides
- Rushmore
- The Sound of Metal
- The Sound of Music
- Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
- The Tree of Life
- Twelve Years a Slave
- Traffic
- Up
- Up in the Air
- The Usual Suspects
- Waitress
- Where the Wild Things Are
- You and Me and Everyone We Know
- You Can Count on Me