Every year in film
Every film here carries twenty emotional readings. Averaged by year and set against the decade around it, each year turns out to have a signature — one reading on which it departs further from its neighbours than any other. Not the best films of the year: what the year felt like.
2020s
2010s
- 2019the most connected year of its era
- 2018the most paranoid year of its era
- 2017the most cerebral year of its era
- 2016the least romantic year of its era
- 2015the most intimate year of its era
- 2014the least hopeful year of its era
- 2013the most beautiful year of its era
- 2012the most nostalgic year of its era
- 2011the least violent year of its era
- 2010the most violent year of its era
2000s
- 2009the most strange year of its era
- 2008the least intimate year of its era
- 2007the most cerebral year of its era
- 2006the least ambiguous year of its era
- 2005the most spiritual year of its era
- 2004the most romantic year of its era
- 2003the least cerebral year of its era
- 2002the most melancholy year of its era
- 2001the most romantic year of its era
- 2000the most beautiful year of its era
1990s
- 1999the most spiritual year of its era
- 1998the most connected year of its era
- 1997the most paranoid year of its era
- 1996the least beautiful year of its era
- 1995the most existentially heavy year of its era
- 1994the least existentially heavy year of its era
- 1993the least energetic year of its era
- 1992the most tense year of its era
- 1991the most beautiful year of its era
- 1990the most paranoid year of its era
1980s
- 1989the most spiritual year of its era
- 1988the least beautiful year of its era
- 1987the least ambiguous year of its era
- 1986the least spiritual year of its era
- 1985the most energetic year of its era
- 1984the most strange year of its era
- 1983the least energetic year of its era
- 1982the most strange year of its era
- 1981the most violent year of its era
- 1980the least cerebral year of its era
1970s
- 1979the most existentially heavy year of its era
- 1978the least ambiguous year of its era
- 1977the most strange year of its era
- 1976the most intimate year of its era
- 1975the least romantic year of its era
- 1974the least spiritual year of its era
- 1973the most spiritual year of its era
- 1972the least hopeful year of its era
- 1971the most cerebral year of its era
- 1970the most ambiguous year of its era