I’m very proud to share this list of Cinema Sugar’s Top 50 Movies of the 21st Century, something the team has worked on for months in anticipation of celebrating our favorite films from the last quarter century.

Please take a look (and share with other movie lovers!) for my short thoughts on Palm Springs, Lord of the Rings, Arrival, WALL-E, and a bunch of other movies dear to my heart.

We also picked our favorites in different subcategories. Here are mine…

Favorite film scores:

• Lord of the Rings, Howard Shore
• The Social Network, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
• The Village, James Newton Howard
• Interstellar, Hans Zimmer
• Brokeback Mountain, Gustavo Santaolalla

Favorite theatergoing experiences:

• Seeing Toy Story 3 with college friends right after graduation
• Dressing up with high school friends to see Ocean’s Twelve
• Seeing Her with my then-girlfriend (now wife) and discussing it afterward
• Going blindly into—and getting blindsided by—The LEGO Movie
• Getting sucked into the whirlwind of The Florida Project

Favorite performances:

• Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project
• Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
• Brendan Gleeson, Calvary
• David Oyelowo, Selma
• Florence Pugh, Little Women