I don't have a running list of my favorite movies; there's no good reason for that, given my propensity to obsessively keep running lists for decades. Sort of off the top of my head, I decided to create a "here are my 100 favorite movies". I stopped at 80 to allow for my recollection to be refreshed of movies that I'm just currently overlooking. Like 10 years ago in this space I discussed an Entertainment Weekly piece about the top 100 movies over the past 25 years, this is done without reflection of that.
This is not in order of preference and there is zero claim that these are the best movies ever made.
Midnight Run
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Absence of Malice
Annie Hall
Wrestling With Shadows
Saturday Night Fever
All the Presidents Men
Adaptation
Better off Dead
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
American Movie
The Princess Bride
A Fish Called Wanda
Rocky
Raising Arizona
Blood Simple
Fargo
Goodfellas
Short Cuts
Swingers
Jackie Brown
Three Kings
Being John Malkovich
Election
Rushmore
You Can Count on Me
Memento
High Fidelity
Bowling for Columbine
Anchorman
Boogie Nights
Pulp Fiction
Clerks
Creed
Reservoir Dogs
Do the Right Thing
The Social Network
Before Sunrise
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Bull Durham
Broadcast News
ET
The Color of Money
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Die Hard
Godfather
Godfather II
The Fisher King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Graduate
The Grifters
Adventureland
500 Days of Summer
When Harry Met Sally
The Wolf of Wall St
Groundhog Day
Heathers
The Usual Suspects
Tootsie
This is Spinal Tap
The Thin Blue Line
House of Games
Glengarry Glen Ross
Stop Making Sense
Silence of the Lambs
The Last Picture Show
Leaving Los Vegas
Roger & Me
Bob Roberts
Risky Business
Lost in America
Short Cuts
The Player
Norma Rae
The Accidental Tourist
Manhattan
