
Which is to say: if you’re pissed or elated about anything being on here or not being on here, then chances are at least one Paste Movies staff writer agrees with you.įor example: A Cure for Wellness, our #50 film, was despised by a few staff members, but it was Oktay Ege Kozak’s favorite movie of the year.

The goal was and has always been to provide an overview of staff tastes, however much individual lists differed.

Each staff writer put together a top 20 of their favorite movies of the year, contributing to an aggregate list based on points assigned according to where each film ranked.

One idea to ultimately keep in mind, as you count down the best movies of the year with us, is that this list is the result of math.
