The Movie of the Year List is a pretty self explanatory title. On this list are movies that we believed to have been the best movie of the respective year. This list accompanies theVade List, as we hope our predictions from there ultimately make it on here. Films of the current year are subject to change until the coming of the new year. All these films are subject to opinion and are sorted by year in descending order.
2017:
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 sci-fi/thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve and is a sequel to the classic Blade Runner (1982). The film stars Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista and Jared Leto. The film is set 30 years after the events of the original film, as a new blade runner unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into utter chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former L.A.P.D. blade runner who has since been missing for 30 years.
2016:
Rogue One
Rogue One is a 2016 adventure/sci-fi film directed by Gareth Edwards and written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy. This is the 8th film in the franchise and is the first Star Wars Anthology film, which takes place shortly before the events of the original Star Wars; Episode IV: A New Hope. Rogue One stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jiang Wen, and Forest Whitaker, and follows a group of Rebel spies on a mission to steal design schematics for the Galactic Empire’s new superweapon, the Death Star.
2015:
The Martian
The Martian is a 2015 sci-fi/drama film directed by Ridley Scott, and based on Andy Weir's 2011 novel The Martian. The film stars Matt Damon as an astronaut who is mistakenly presumed dead and left behind on Mars; and depicts his struggle to survive and others' efforts to rescue him.
2014:
Ex Machina
Ex Machina is a 2014 mystery/sci-fi film directed and written by Alex Garland in his directorial debut. The film stars Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, and Oscar Isaac as it follows a young programmer who is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid A.I.
2013:
Her
Her is a 2013 romance/sci-fi film directed and written by Spike Jonze. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Scarlett Johansson as it follows a lonely writer who develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
2012:
Looper
Looper is a 2015 action/sci-fi film directed and written by Rian Johnson. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt. The film takes place in 2074, where criminal syndicates use contracted killers to kill victims sent through time travel.
2011:
Drive
Drive is a 2011 crime/drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, and stars Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Oscar Isaac. The events follow a mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic who works as a getaway driver and finds himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbor.
2010:
Inception
Inception is a 2010 sci-fi/action film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious, and is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for a task seemingly-impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.