Roger Ebert Top Lists
These ten best lists for movie critic Roger Ebert have been collected from various postings in the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies and other sources. The earlier lists come from the Chicago Sun-Times or the best of the year TV show. The later ones are from rogerebert.com.
This page includes Ebert's top lists for 1967, 1968, 1999, and 2006 on. Other years are at this site's Movie Lists page.
1967
| Roger Ebert |
|---|
| 1. Bonnie and Clyde |
| 2. Ulysses |
| 3. Blowup |
| 4. The Graduate |
| 5. A Man for All Seasons |
| 6. The War Game |
| 7. Reflections in a Golden Eye |
| 8. Cool Hand Luke |
| 9. Elvira Madigan |
| 10. In the Heat of the Night |
1968
| Roger Ebert |
|---|
| 1. The Battle of Algiers |
| 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| 3. Falstaff |
| 4. Faces |
| 5. The Two of Us |
| 6. The Producers |
| 7. Oliver! |
| 8. The Fifth Horseman Is Fear |
| 9. Rachel, Rachel |
| 10. Romeo and Juliet |
1999
| Roger Ebert |
|---|
| 1. Being John Malkovich |
| 2. Magnolia |
| 3. Three Kings |
| 4. Boys Don't Cry |
| 5. Bringing Out the Dead |
| 6. Princess Mononoke |
| 7. The War Zone |
| 8. American Beauty |
| 9. Topsy-Turvy |
| 10. The Insider |
The Decade (1990s)
| Roger Ebert |
|---|
| 1. Hoop Dreams |
| 2. Pulp Fiction |
| 3. Goodfellas |
| 4. Fargo |
| 5. Blue / White / Red |
| 6. Schindler's List |
| 7. Breaking the Waves |
| 8. Leaving Las Vegas |
| 9. Malcolm X |
| 10. JFK |
2006
| Roger Ebert |
|---|
| 1. Pan's Labyrinth |
| 2. Bubble |
| 3. Children of Men |
| 4. The Departed |
| 5. The Lives of Others |
| 6. United 93 |
| 7. Flags of Our Fathers |
| 8. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer |
| 9. Babel |
| 10. Man Push Cart |
2007
| Roger Ebert |
|---|
| 1. Juno |
| 2. No Country for Old Men |
| 3. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead |
| 4. Atonement |
| 5. The Kite Runner |
| 6. Away From Her |
| 7. Across the Universe |
| 8. La Vie en Rose |
| 9. The Great Debaters |
| 10. Into the Wild |
2008
| Roger Ebert's best films listed alphabetically |
|---|
| Ballast |
| The Band's Visit |
| Che |
| Chop Shop |
| The Dark Knight |
| Doubt |
| The Fall |
| Frost/Nixon |
| Frozen River |
| Happy-Go-Lucky |
| Iron Man |
| Milk |
| Rachel Getting Married |
| The Reader |
| Revolutionary Road |
| Shotgun Stories |
| Slumdog Millionaire |
| Synecdoche, New York |
| W. |
| WALL-E |
| Roger Ebert's Special Jury Prize (2008) |
| My Winnipeg |
| Roger Ebert's best documentaries (2008) listed alphabetically |
| Encounters at the End of the World |
| I.O.U.S.A. |
| Man on Wire |
| Standard Operating Procedure |
| Trouble the Water |
| Roger Ebert's best foreign-language films (2008) listed alphabetically |
| A Christmas Tale |
| The Duchess of Langeais |
| The Edge of Heaven |
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days |
| A Girl Cut in Two |
| I've Loved You So Long |
| The Last Mistress |
| Let the Right One In |
| Tell No One |
| XXY |
2009
| Roger Ebert's top 10 mainstream films listed alphabetically |
|---|
| Bad Lieutenant |
| Crazy Heart |
| An Education |
| The Hurt Locker |
| Inglourious Basterds |
| Knowing |
| Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire |
| A Serious Man |
| Up in the Air |
| The White Ribbon |
| Roger Ebert's top 10 independent films (2009) listed alphabetically |
| Departures |
| Disgrace |
| Everlasting Moments |
| Goodbye Solo |
| Julia |
| Silent Light |
| Sin Nombre |
| Skin |
| Trucker |
| You, the Living |
| Roger Ebert's ten best documentaries (2009) listed alphabetically |
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
| Beaches of Agnes |
| Collapse |
| Food, Inc |
| Must Read After My Death |
| Of Time and the City |
| The September Issue |
| Tyson |
| We Live in Public |
| What's the Matter With Kansas? |
| Roger Ebert's best foreign films (2009) listed alphabetically |
| Broken Embraces |
| The Class |
| Coco Before Chanel |
| Gomorrah |
| Lorna's Silence |
| Munyurangabo |
| O'Horton |
| Paris |
| Police, adjective |
| Revanche |
| Seraphine |
| Still Walking |
| Summer Hours |
| Tokyo Sonata |
| Tulpan |
| Roger Ebert's ten best animated films (2009) listed alphabetically |
| A Christmas Carol |
| Coraline |
| The Fantastic Mr. Fox |
| Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs |
| 9 |
| Ponyo |
| The Princess and the Frog |
| Sita Sings the Blues |
| Up |
| Waltz with Bashir |
The Decade (2000s)
| Roger Ebert |
|---|
| 1. Synecdoche, New York |
| 2. The Hurt Locker |
| 3. Monster |
| 4. Juno |
| 5. Me and You and Everyone We Know |
| 6. Chop Shop |
| 7. The Son |
| 8. The 25th Hour |
| 9. Almost Famous |
| 10. My Winnipeg |
| The remaining films for the decade (2000s) listed alphabetically |
| Adaptation |
| The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans |
| City of God |
| Crash |
| Kill Bill Vols.1 and 2 |
| Minority Report |
| No Country for Old Men |
| Pan's Labyrinth |
| Silent Light |
| Waking Life |
2010
| Roger Ebert's best feature films |
|---|
| 1. The Social Network |
| 2. The King's Speech |
| 3. Black Swan |
| 4. I Am Love |
| 5. Winter's Bone |
| 6. Inception |
| 7. The Secret in their Eyes |
| 8. The American |
| 9. Kids Are All Right |
| 10. The Ghost Writer |
| Roger Ebert's Special Jury Award (2010) |
| 127 Hours |
| Roger Ebert's second ten best films (2010) listed alphabetically |
| All Good Things |
| Carlos |
| Chloe |
| Greenberg |
| Hereafter |
| Monsters |
| Never Let Me Go |
| Rabbit Hole |
| Secretariat |
| Solitary Man |
| Roger Ebert's best documentaries (2010) listed alphabetically |
| 45365 |
| A Small Act |
| Art of the Steal |
| Best Worst Movie |
| Collapse |
| Cropsey |
| Exit Through the Gift Shop |
| Inside Job |
| Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work |
| Last Train Home |
| Restrepo |
| Scrappers |
| Tabloid |
| Vincent: A Life in Color |
| Waiting for Superman |
| Winebago Man |
| Roger Ebert's 10 best foreign films (2010) listed alphabetically |
| 35 Shots of Rum |
| Biutiful |
| Cell 211 |
| The Chaser |
| Father of My Children |
| Home |
| Life, Above All |
| Mother |
| Vincere |
| White Material |
| Roger Ebert's best animated films (2010) listed alphabetically |
| Despicable Me |
| The Elephant in the Room |
| How to Train Your Dragon |
| The Illusionist |
| My Dog Tulip |
| The Secret of Kells |
| A Town Called Panic |
| Toy Story 3 |
2011
| Roger Ebert's best films |
|---|
| 1. A Separation |
| 2. Shame |
| 3. The Tree of Life |
| 4. Hugo |
| 5. Take Shelter |
| 6. Kinyarwanda |
| 7. Drive |
| 8. Midnight in Paris |
| 9. Le Havre |
| 10. The Artist |
| 11. Melancholia |
| 12. Terri |
| 13. The Descendants |
| 14. Margaret |
| 15. Martha Marcy May Marlene |
| 16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 |
| 17. Trust |
| 18. Life, Above All |
| 19. The Mill and the Cross |
| 20. Another Earth |
| Roger Ebert's best documentaries (2011) |
| 1. The Interrupters |
| 2. Bill Cunningham New York |
| 3. Into the Abyss |
| 4. Tabloid |
| 5. Resurrect Dead |
| 6. Cave of Forgotten Dreams |
| 7. Pina |
| 8. Garbo the Spy |
| 9. The Last Mountain |
| 10. Louder than a Bomb |
| 11. Page One: Inside the New York Times |
| 12. One Lucky Elephant |
| 13. Buck |
| 14. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop |
| 15. Strongman |
| 16. Project Nim |
| 17. Waste Land |
| 18. Phunny Business |
| 19. Make Believe |
| 20. Being Elmo |
2012
| Roger Ebert's best films |
|---|
| 1. Argo |
| 2. Life of Pi |
| 3. Lincoln |
| 4. End of Watch |
| 5. Arbitrage |
| 6. Flight |
| 7. The Sessions |
| 8. Beasts of the Southern Wild |
| 9. Oslo, August 31 |
| 10. A Simple Life |
| Roger Ebert's Grand Jury Prizes (2012) listed alphabetically |
| Central Park Five |
| Cloud Atlas |
| Impossible |
| In the Family |
| Last Ride |
| A Late Quartet |
| The Master |
| Paradise Lost 3 |
| Prometheus |
| Rampart |
| Searching for Sugar Man |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin |
| West of Memphis |