Twenty Consensus Manny Perry Movie Club Favorites
(Since 2004, I’ve participated in a weekly movie club, about which you can read more here. Recently, on the occasion of our 1000th movie, each of the club’s members filled out a ballot ranking our twenty favorite and least favorite movies from the entire array of choices. These are the group’s consensus favorites, in ranked order, with the voting points they garnered from our nine members: 20 points for each first choice, 19 for each second choice, etc. You can find my personal ballot here and the complete list of 1000 here.)
1. Children of Men (directed by Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) (60.5 points)
2. Paddington 2 (directed by Paul King, 2017) (56 points)
3. The Lives of Others (directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006) (54.5 points)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (directed by Michel Gondry, 2004) (53.5 points)
5. Moon (directed by Duncan Jones, 2009) (43 points)
6. Gone Baby Gone (directed by Ben Affleck, 2007) (41 points)
7. Get Out (directed by Jordan Peele, 2017) (38 points)
Searching for Sugar Man (directed by Malik Bendjelloul, 2012) (38 points)
8. Enemy (directed by Denis Villeneuve, 2013) (32 points)
9. Red Army (directed by Gabe Polsky, 2014) (31 points)
10. Riders of Justice (directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, 2020) (30 points)
11. Tell No One (directed by Guillaume Canet, 2006) (29.5 points)
12. Enola Holmes (directed by Harry Bradbeer, 2020) (28.5 points)
13. Brooklyn (directed by John Crowley, 2015) (25.5 points)
14. Primer (directed by Shane Carruth, 2004) (25 points)
15. Juno (directed by Jason Reitman, 2007) (24 points)
Knives Out (directed by Rian Johnson, 2019) (24 points)
16. Crip Camp (directed by Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht, 2020) (23 points)
Parasite (directed by Bong Joon-ho, 2019) (23 points)
17. Moonlight (directed by Barry Jenkins, 2016) (22.5 points)
18. The Florida Project (directed by Sean Baker, 2017) (20.5 points)
19. The Eclipse (directed by Conor McPherson, 2009) (20 points)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022) (20 points)
Rocky (directed by John G. Avildsen, 1976) (20 points)
20. Brokeback Mountain (directed by Ang Lee, 2005) (19.5 points)
— October 7, 2024