RANKINGS

A magnificent year of cinema overall. 2014 encompassed innovative works of spine-tingling horror (see heart-stopping mumblegore It Follows, for example, and the bone-chilling The Babadook) as well as some spectacularly well-crafted sci-fi stories like Christopher Nolan's jaw-droppingly ambitious Interstellar, and Predestination, the latter an...

2015's excellent crop of films provided some sublime scripts, most notably Charlie Kaufman's beautifully existentialist Anomalisa, the quintessentially Sorkin-esque Steve Jobs, and Adam McKay's witty yet sobering examination of The Financial Crash (The Big Short). Meanwhile, jet-black satire Er Ist Wieder Da (Look Who's Back) and extraordinary...

A highly mixed year, 2016 featured a host of mediocre franchise films like X-Men: Apocalypse and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as well as some gems. There were thrilling, tense horrors such as Lights Out, Train to Busan, and Don't Breathe. Meanwhile, the likes of Arrival, Your Name, and A Monster Calls combined heartfelt drama with...

2017 was a wonderful year for cinema, featuring fascinating original stories like Phantom Thread, mother!, and A Ghost Story, some truly killer comedy scripts such as The Death of Stalin, T2 Trainspotting, The Lego Batman Movie, and The Disaster Artist, spectacular action sequels (War for the Planet of the Apes, John Wick: Chapter 2), ...

2018 was a solid year, with 'true-story' films like Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Vice, and BlacKkKLansman proving award-winningly popular amongst sci-fi works such as Annihilation and Bird Box. Disney managed to further cement their stranglehold on the box office with the runaway success of Black Panther and Incredibles 2, while the...