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Here’s an update to this list.

Best of the best

• 50/50
• About Time
• The Adjustment Bureau
• The Aeronauts
• American Hustle
• Arrival
• Avengers: Endgame
• Barney’s Version
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood
• The Big Sick
• Bird Box
• The Bookshop
• The Bourne Legacy
• The Boxtrolls
• Bridesmaids
• Brooklyn
• Butter
• The Call
• Captain Fantastic
• Cloud Atlas
• Collateral Beauty
• Crazy, Stupid, Love.
• Deadpool
• The Descendants
• Despicable Me
• Detachment
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Ex Machina
• First Man
• The Five-Year Engagement
• Freaks
• Game Night
• Gone Girl
• Gravity
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
• Her
• Hidden
• Hidden Figures
• How to Train Your Dragon
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• I Am Mother
• I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
• The Imitation Game
• In a World…
• Inception
• Inside Out
• The Intern
• Interstellar
• In Time
• It Had to Be You
• Jojo Rabbit
• The Judge
• Knight and Day
• Knives Out
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• La La Land
• Leave No Trace
• The Lego Batman Movie
• The Lego Movie
• The Light Between Oceans
• Little Women
• Long Shot
• Looper
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Martian
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
• Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
• Mission: Impossible — Fallout
• Moonrise Kingdom
• The Next Three Days
• Non-Stop
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green
• One Day
• The One I Love
• Parasite
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Predestination
• A Quiet Place
• Race
• Ready or Not
• The Rewrite
• Romantics Anonymous
• Saving Mr. Banks
• The Shape of Water
• A Simple Favor
• Sorry to Bother You
• Source Code
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Spider-Man: Far from Home
• Spy
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• The Theory of Everything
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Toy Story 4
• True Grit
• War for the Planet of the Apes
• Warm Bodies
• The Way Back
• Welcome to Marwen
• Welcome to Me
• What Happened to Monday
• What If
• What We Did on Our Holiday
• Win Win
• Wonder Woman
• X-Men: Days of Future Past

Runner ups

• 42
• The Addams Family
• Advantageous
• The Age of Adaline
• Alita: Battle Angel
• Always Be My Maybe
• Ana
• Anna
• Ant-Man
• Ant-Man and the Wasp
• Aquaman
• Argo
• The Artist
• Attack the Block
• The Avengers
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
• Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
• Batman: Hush
• Batman: Under the Red Hood
• Barefoot
• Begin Again
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Big Eyes
• Birdman
• Black Panther
• Blade Runner 2049
• The Book of Life
• Brave
• Bridge of Spies
• Bridget Jones’s Baby
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Captain America: Civil War
• Captain Marvel
• Chinese Puzzle
• Chronicle
• Coco
• Colombiana
• The Commuter
• The Company Men
• Conviction
• The Croods
• Dark Places
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Deadpool 2
• Doctor Strange
• Don Jon
• The East
• Easy A
• Elysium
• Ender’s Game
• Enough Said
• The Equalizer
• Equals
• Every Day
• Extraordinary Measures
• Family Weekend
• Far From the Madding Crowd
• The Fault in Our Stars
• The Favourite
• Finding Dory
• Flight
• The Foreigner
• Frozen
• The Garden of Words
• The Ghost Writer
• Gifted
• Ginger & Rosa
• The Girl on the Train
• Going in Style
• The Good Dinosaur
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• A Hologram for the King
• How I Live Now
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
• Hugo
• Incredibles 2
• I Origins
• In the Shadow of the Moon
• In Your Eyes
• Iron Man 3
• Isle of Dogs
• It’s Kind of a Funny Story
• Jack of the Red Hearts
• Jack Reacher
• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
• Janie Jones
• Jason Bourne
• Jurassic World
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
• Justice League
• The Kings of Summer
• The King’s Speech
• Lady Bird
• Laggies
• Larry Crowne
• Late Night
• A Late Quartet
• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
• Let Me In
• Liberal Arts
• Life of Pi
• Like Father
• Logan
• A Long Way Down
• The Lorax
• The Lost City of Z
• Love is All You Need
• The Magic of Belle Isle
• Maleficent
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
• The Man from UNCLE
• Man of Steel
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Megamind
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
• Moana
• Molly’s Game
• 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
• Ocean’s Eight
• Passengers
• Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
• People Like Us
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits
• Pitch Perfect
• Pitch Perfect 2
• Pitch Perfect 3
• Please Give
• Please Stand By
• The Pretty One
• Promised Land
• Puss in Boots
• Rango
• RED
• RED 2
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Robin Hood
• Robot & Frank
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Ruby Sparks
• Safety Not Guaranteed
• Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
• Salt
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Searching
• The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
• Self/less
• Set It Up
• Shaun the Sheep Movie
• A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
• Shazam!
• Shrek Forever After
• Side Effects
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Sing
• Skyfall
• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Snowpiercer
• The Social Network
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• The Spectacular Now
• Spectral
• Spectre
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Split
• The Spy Who Dumped Me
• St. Vincent
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Star Trek Beyond
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Storks
• The Story of Luke
• Super 8
• Take This Waltz
• Tangled
• That’s What I Am
• Thor: The Dark World
• Tolkien
• Tomorrowland
• The Town
• Toy Story 3
• Tracks
• Troop Zero
• Trouble with the Curve
• Unknown
• Unstoppable
• Venom
• Vivarium
• The Way Way Back
• We Bought a Zoo
• Welcome to Happiness
• Wind River
• Wish I Was Here
• World War Z
• Wreck-It Ralph
• X-Men: First Class
• X-Men: Apocalypse
• Yesterday
• Young Adult
• The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
• Your Name
• Your Sister’s Sister
• Zootopia

Honourable mentions

• Adult World
• Alien: Covenant
• Annihilation
• Anomalisa
• Another Earth
• ARQ
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Bad Times at the El Royale
• 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
• The Edge of Seventeen
• Europa Report
• Everything Must Go
• Frankenweenie
• Frequencies
• Frozen II
• Glass
• 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
• I Kill Giants
• I’ll Follow You Down
• The Illusionist
• Inferno
• Infinity Chamber
• Into the Woods
• Iron Man 2
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
• Life
• Limitless
• Men in Black 3
• Midnight in Paris
• Midnight Special
• Mirage
• Missing Link
• A Monster Calls
• Monsters
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman
• Muppets Most Wanted
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Next Gen
• Night Moves
• Now You See Me
• Okja
• Olympus Has Fallen
• OtherLife
• ParaNorman
• Prometheus
• Prospect
• Ralph Breaks the Internet
• Safe House
• The Secret Life of Pets
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The Secret World of Arietty
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• Smallfoot
• Sound of My Voice
• Speech & Debate
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• Thor
• Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy
• Transfer
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
• White Bird in a Blizzard
• The Zero Theorem

Worth watching once

• Coherence
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Horns
• The Huntsman: Winter’s War
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
• Mary and the Witch’s Flower
• Odd Squad: The Movie
• Ready Player One
• The Signal
• The Wolverine

I previously listed the best movies of the 2000s.