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Here’s an updated version of this list, including movies I saw in 2016.

Best of the best

• 50/50
• About Time
• The Adjustment Bureau
• American Hustle
• Arrival
• Barney’s Version
• The Boxtrolls
• Brooklyn
• The Call
• Captain Fantastic
• Crazy, Stupid, Love.
• Deadpool
• The Descendants
• Despicable Me
• Detachment
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Ex Machina
• Gone Girl
• Gravity
• Her
• How to Train Your Dragon
• The Imitation Game
• In a World…
• Inception
• Inside Out
• The Intern
• The Judge
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• The Lego Movie
• Looper
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
• Moonrise Kingdom
• The Next Three Days
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green
• One Day
• The One I Love
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Predestination
• The Rewrite
• Romantics Anonymous
• Saving Mr. Banks
• Skyfall
• Warm Bodies
• The Way Back
• What If
• What We Did on Our Holiday
• Win Win
• X-Men: Days of Future Past

Runner ups

• 42
• Advantageous
• The Age of Adaline
• Anna
• Ant-Man
• Argo
• The Artist
• Attack the Block
• The Avengers
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
• Barefoot
• Begin Again
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Big Eyes
• Birdman
• The Book of Life
• The Bourne Legacy
• Brave
• Bridge of Spies
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Captain America: Civil War
• Chinese Puzzle
• Chronicle
• Cloud Atlas
• Colombiana
• The Company Men
• Conviction
• The Croods
• Dark Places
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Don Jon
• The East
• Easy A
• Elysium
• Ender’s Game
• Enough Said
• The Equalizer
• Equals
• Extraordinary Measures
• Family Weekend
• Far From the Madding Crowd
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Finding Dory
• Flight
• Frozen
• The Garden of Words
• The Ghost Writer
• Ginger & Rosa
• The Good Dinosaur
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• A Hologram for the King
• How I Live Now
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Hugo
• I Origins
• In Time
• In Your Eyes
• Interstellar
• Iron Man 3
• It’s Kind of a Funny Story
• Jack of the Red Hearts
• Jack Reacher
• Janie Jones
• Jurassic World
• The Kings of Summer
• The King’s Speech
• Knight and Day
• Laggies
• Larry Crowne
• A Late Quartet
• Let Me In
• Liberal Arts
• Life of Pi
• A Long Way Down
• The Lorax
• Love is All You Need
• The Magic of Belle Isle
• Maleficent
• Man of Steel
• Megamind
• Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
• Monsters University
• Morning Glory
• Mr. Holmes
• Mr. Right
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Mud
• The Muppets
• My Week with Marilyn
• Never Let Me Go
• The November Man
• Now is Good
• Oblivion
• Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
• People Like Us
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits
• Pitch Perfect
• Pitch Perfect 2
• Please Give
• Promised Land
• Rango
• RED
• RED 2
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Robin Hood
• Robot & Frank
• Ruby Sparks
• Safety Not Guaranteed
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
• Salt
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
• Self/less
• Shaun the Sheep Movie
• Side Effects
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Snowpiercer
• The Social Network
• Source Code
• The Spectacular Now
• St. Vincent
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Star Trek Beyond
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• The Story of Luke
• Super 8
• Take This Waltz
• Tangled
• That’s What I Am
• Thor: The Dark World
• Tomorrowland
• The Town
• Toy Story 3
• Tracks
• Trouble with the Curve
• True Grit
• Unstoppable
• The Way Way Back
• We Bought a Zoo
• Wish I Was Here
• World War Z
• Wreck-It Ralph
• X-Men: First Class
• X-Men: Apocalypse
• The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
• Your Sister’s Sister
• Zootopia

Honourable mentions

• Adult World
• Anomalisa
• Another Earth
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
• Beautiful Lies
• Big Hero 6
• A Birder’s Guide to Everything
• Byzantium
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Chappie
• Clouds of Sils Maria
• The Congress
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Despicable Me 2
• Europa Report
• Everything Must Go
• Frankenweenie
• Frequencies
• Hail, Caesar!
• Hanna
• Haphead
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Hotel Transylvania
• The Illusionist
• Into the Woods
• Iron Man 2
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
• Jason Bourne
• Limitless
• Men in Black 3
• Midnight in Paris
• Midnight Special
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman
• Muppets Most Wanted
• Now You See Me
• Olympus Has Fallen
• ParaNorman
• Prometheus
• Safe House
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• Sound of My Voice
• Spectre
• Thor
• Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy
• Transfer
• White Bird in a Blizzard
• The Zero Theorem

Worth watching once

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Horns
• The Huntsman: Winter’s War
• The Signal
• The Wolverine