TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1989

1. Do the Right Thing

2. Drugstore Cowboy

3. My Left Foot

4. Sex, lies, and videotape

5. Driving Miss Daisy

6. High Hopes

7. Chocolat (Claire Denis)

8. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

9. Dead Poets Society

10. Say Anything

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): The Big Picture, Cousins, Crimes and Misdemeanors,  The Fabulous Baker Boys, Field of Dreams, Heathers, New York Stories,  Roger & Me, Sea of Love, Sweetie

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1988

1. A World Apart

2. High Tide

3. A Cry in the Dark

4. Big

5. Another Woman

6. Wings of Desire

7. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

8. The Accidental Tourist

9. The Thin Blue Line

10.Salaam Bombay!

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Au Revoir les Enfants, Bagdad Cafe, Dead Ringers, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, Distant Voice Still Lives, Gorillas in the Mist, Hairspray, Pelle the Conqueror, Running on Empty, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1987

1. My Life as a Dog

2. The Dead

3. Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring

4. Moonstruck

5. Full Metal Jacket

6. The Last Emperor

7. Broadcast News

8. Prick Up Your Ears

9. I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

10. September

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Anna, Barfly, Fatal Attraction, Hope & Glory, House of Games, Maurice, Personal Services, Radio Days, Street Smart, Withnail & I

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1986

1. Blue Velvet

2. Hannah and Her Sisters

3. Room With a View

4. ‘Round Midnight

5.  Mother Teresa

6. Sherman’s March

7. Vagabond

8. True Stories

9. The Fly

10. My Beautiful Laundrette

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Down By Law, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Marlene, Little Shop of Horrors, Louie Bluie, Mosquito Coast, She’s Gotta Have It, Sid & Nancy, 28 Up, Twist and Shout

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1985

1. Prizzi’s Honor

2. Witness

3. Brazil

4. Ran

5. Purple Rose of Cairo

6. Out of Africa

7. Wetherby

8. Smooth Talk

9. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

10. After Hours

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Blood Simple, Cocoon, Dance with a Stranger, Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, Dreamchild, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Mala Noche, Mask, A Trip to Bountiful, 28 Up

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1984

1. Stranger Than Paradise

2. The Times of Harvey Milk

3. The Killing Fields

4. Stop Making Sense

5. A Passage to India

6. Broadway Danny Rose

7. Amadeus

8. Paris, Texas

9. Places in the Heart

10. The Bostonians

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): All of Me, The Brother From Another Planet, Carmen, George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey, Ghostbusters, Love Streams, Moscow on the Hudson, Purple Rain, Splash, This Is Spinal Tap

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1983

1. Fanny and Alexander

2. The Year of Living Dangerously

3. The Big Chill

4. The Right Stuff

5. The Dresser

6. The Dead Zone

7. Never Cry Wolf

8. Silkwood

9. Zelig

10. Rumble Fish

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Heat and Dust; In the White City; The King of Comedy; Local Hero; Pauline at the Beach; Say Amen, Somebody; Star 80; Tender Mercies; Trading Places; Under Fire; Yentl

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 1982

1. Tootsie

2. Blade Runner

3. Sophie’s Choice

4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

5. Missing

6. The Return of Martin Guerre

7. Burden of Dreams

8. The Verdict

9. Moonlighting

10. The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time

Honorable mention (alphabetical order): Another Way, Coup de Torchon, Fast Times at Ridgement High, Frances, Gandhi, The Grey Fox, One From the Heart, Personal Best, The State of Things, The World According to Garp