What an amazing year of movies. Especially the last four months here, just one good to great to spectacular movie after another! The box office numbers suggest that a lot of you missed a lot of these, so get renting! I highly recommend everything in the top 20 and all of the honorable mentions are top notch as well. The top 20 list is the movies that I was most affected by after walking out of the theater. All of them totally different experiences. Maybe over the next week or so I'll write up a little something about each one and put up the trailer to "push" them on you.

1. Lake of Fire
2. Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4. Margot at the Wedding
5. I’m Not There
6. 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Persepolis
9. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
10. The Namesake
11. Sicko
12. No Country for Old Men
13. Michael Clayton
14. Control
15. Lust, Caution
16. A Mighty Heart
17. No End in Sight
18. The Savages
19. The Ten
20. Sunshine

Honorable Mention: Brand Upon the Brain, Killer of Sheep, Black Book, Red Road, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, This is England, Boss of it All, Fay Grimm, Once, Darjeeling Limited, Crazy Love, Terror’s Advocate, Zoo, Knocked Up, Superbad, Deep Water, Rescue Dawn, Astronaut Farmer, The Host, In the Shadow of the Moon, Eastern Promises, Into the Wild, Gone Baby Gone, The Mist, Southland Tales, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, Juno, American Gangster