This past year has been a great year for movies, and it was really hard to get down to just 10 for the top. It wasn’t hard though to figure out what was the worst 10 of the 113 movies I watched this year.

The top three are the only ones I had at 5/5 this year, and even with those three, the gap between Oppenheimer and Holdovers is not small. Holdovers felt like a warm hug, while Oppenheimer felt like someone shook you, slapped you, and told you the world is doomed. All that really worked for me, and it’s still my guess for Best Picture this year. Speaking of the Oscars, John Wick Chapter 4 is the prime example of why there needs to be a category for Best Stunt Work.

Moving down the Top list, Anatomy of a Fall was really a gripping courtroom drama that I wish more people would see. Spider-Verse was even better than the first one, and I can’t wait for the cliffhanger to be resolved in the third one, whenever that comes out. Toho gave us a Godzilla film that makes all the Hollywood ones look like garbage, and it solved an issue that I always have with monster movies. You actually care about the humans in it, and I was hoping nothing bad would happen to them. It was nice to feel that way for once in one of those movies.

Up next on the list is The Iron Claw. You can read my thoughts on that one on my review last week. After that is Flower Moon, an while I really did enjoy it, I did feel like it could have been cut down a little, much like The Irishman a couple years ago. That ending though was something I wasn’t expecting, in a good way. Dream Scenario might just be the scariest film I watch this year. It isn’t a horror movie, but the possibility of what happens Matthews actually happening in real life is terrifying. Closing out the Top 10 is Creed 3. I know I’m a little higher on this one than others, but this series just works for me. The addition of Majors into the storyline was excellent.

This is getting wordy, so I’ll keep the right side breakdown of the list shorter. The Son at #107 really made me mad about their treatment of depression. If I get bored enough one day, I’ll elaborate on my feelings for that film. Six out of the bottom ten were streaming movies, so you can draw a connection there if you want to. 65 had a good premise on paper, but the execution was just terrible. Spinning Gold was just a pathetic biopic in my opinion too, and while I like weird movies, Beau if Afraid was just way too weird for me, and it was just painful to sit through after awhile.

The bottom spot though goes to Good Burger 2. When I was a kid, I loved All That. I loved Kenan & Kel. I thought the first Good Burger movie was cool. Time marched forward though, and I’m now 36 when the sequel comes out. The humor is still what I would have enjoyed if I was 8 again, and I understand that this movie wasn’t really for me. It was a kid’s movie. However, if the marketing is directing to hit millennial’s nostalgia, then it’s fair game for me to be harsher on it than I was for Trolls Band Together or Wish.

Tomorrow, I’ll go over what is on my radar for next year. I know earlier I said this was getting “wordy”, but today’s post walked so tomorrow’s could run.