The Guardian have published their random selection of a 100 films of the past 20 years. It certainly isn’t definitive. There’s only about a dozen the average cinema-goer would have had multiplex or streaming access to. That’s roughly the same amount that overlap with my own personal choices here. I reckon there are a lot more here the unpaid, amateur blockbuster fan will agree with, than not. Though their number one (There Will Be Blood – a great film) probably fell out of the list by only a few places. My own controversial preferences are here; only one Marvel Studios film, Moneyball in pole position, my love of unwieldy, much maligned, ambitious, adult blockbusters become mainstays from entry 38 onwards. Only 5 are from non-English speaking countries though that is very much my bad, though equally I am surprised there isn’t more horror. Happy disagreeing – just please remember about 50 of the best films ever were released in 1999 which is why X, Y and Z are ineligible for this list!

1. Moneyball
2. No Country For Old Men
3. Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
4. Dunkirk
5. Toy Story 3
6. The Fighter
7. Zodiac
8. Kill List
9. The Bourne Supremacy
10. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
11. The Bourne Identity
12. Mystic River
13. The Mist
14. The Royal Tenenbaums
15. Phantom Thread
16. La La Land
17. Memento
18. Amelie
19. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
20. The Dark Knight
21. Whiplash
22. The Prestige
23. 25th Hour
24. Gran Turino
25. Mad Max: Fury Road
26. Inception
27. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
28. A Prophet
29. High Fidelity
30. Children Of Men
31. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
32. Sightseers
33. Drive
34. Green Room
35. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
36. The Social Network
37. Black Swan
38. Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice
39. Bad Santa
40. The Illusionist
41. Battle of the Sexes
42. Ghost in the Shell
43. Whip It!
44. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
45. Brokeback Mountain
46. Quantum of Solace
47. American Psycho
48. Dragged Across Concrete
49. The Guard
50. Captain Philips
51. City of God
52. The Martian
53. Only God Forgives
54. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
55. The Old Man and the Gun
56. The Avengers: Infinity War
57. The Jungle Book
58. Casino Royale
59. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
60. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
61. Inside Man
62. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
63. Factotum
64. The Conjuring
65. X-Men: Days of Future Past
66. 28 Days Later
67. Unbreakable
68. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
69. Prometheus
70. Best in Show
71. The Wolf of Wall Street
72. Comedian
73. Punch Drunk Love
74. Dredd
75. Gone Baby Gone
76. Frozen
77. Way of the Gun
78. Spider-Man: Into the Spidey-Verse
79. Nine Queens
80. X-Men
81. Sexy Beast
82. Django Unchained
83. A Bittersweet Life
84. Crimson Peak
85. The Cabin in the Woods
86. The Lives of Others
87. Birdman
88. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
89. Ali
90. Atonement
91. Moonrise Kingdom
92. The Spectacular Now
93. Miami Vice
94. X-Men 2
95. In Bruges
96. Donnie Darko
97. It Follows
98. Open Range
99. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
100. Seabiscuit