He's making a list, checking it twice.... (A list of every film I've seen this year).

Ah, top ten lists. It's the one way many a critic can either raise or lower him or herself in my opinion, which is why I take my own very seriously.

So to make sure this year's list is in tip-top shape, I've drafted this list of every movie I've seen this year and broken them down in the categories of "Excellent," meaning the films that will most likely make up my top ten list; "Very Good," or the films that almost made it to my top ten list contention; "Good," which is for the movies I liked but not enough to consider mid-December; "Meh" for films I could do without one way or the other; "Bad," for movies that made a serious blunder or two too many; and "Terrible," for the God-awful films that were made with a total contempt for filmgoing audiences, made me angry, or drained my soul.

If you can think of any movies I should seriously check out (meaning movies that have a shot at cracking my "Excellent" or "Very Good" lists this year, let me know.

Excellent
The Dark Knight
Let The Right One In
Man on Wire
Rachel Getting Married
Synedoche, New York
Paranoid Park
Snow Angels
The Fall
Kung-Fu Panda
Wall-E
Encounters at the End of the World

Very Good
Shotgun Stories
Slumdog Millionaire
Australia
Bolt
Frost/Nixon
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Then She Found Me
Iron Man
Son of Ranbow
Mongol
The Wackness
American Teen
Brideshead Revisited
The Dutchess
Pineapple Express
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Burn After Reading
I.O.U.S.A.

Good
Tropic Thunder
Step Brothers
Lakeview Terrace
Appaloosa
Sex Drive
W
Soul Men
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Redbelt
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Strangers
The Foot Fist Way
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Hancock

Just Meh
Quantum of Solace
Sex and the City The Movie
Get Smart
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Mamma Mia!
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Hamlet 2
Eagle Eye
Miracle at St. Anna
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Be Kind, Rewind
Cloverfield
Rambo
Charlie Bartlett
Semi-Pro
Incredible Hulk
Nim's Island
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden

Bad
Twilight
Death Race
The Visitor
The Secret Life of Bees
Changeling
Leatherheads
What Happens in Vegas
My Blueberry Nights
Religulous
Jumper
Run, Fatboy, Run
Baby Mama
Superhero Movie
Drillbit Taylor

Terrible:
The Love Guru
Bangkok Dangerous
Babylon A.D.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Pride and Glory
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Max Payne
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Doomsday
Speed Racer
The Happening
Transsiberian
Hell Ride
Wanted
Ashes of Time Redux

Movies I Want to See, But Haven't Had the Chance
The Wrestler
Milk
Doubt
Defiance
Revolutionary Road
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Towelhead
Hounddog
Trouble in the Water
Battle in Seattle
Choke
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Tale of Despereaux