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6. BlacKKKlansman (2018) BlacKKKlansman is an exhilirating experience. Based on the true story of Ron Stallworth, a black police officer...

7. Toy Story 3 (2010) A moment occurs in the final scene of Toy Story 3 that was as emotionally devastating as anything I've wathed in a...

8. Wonder Woman (2017) I wanted her to be real. Gal Gadot so embodies Diana Prince in Wonder Woman that I left the cinema longing for her...

9. Gone Girl (2014) I read Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl over the course of two flights and struggled to find the last time a novel had...

10. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) I saw the original Star Wars movie at least three times during the summer of 1977. I was there for...

11. The Witch (2016) Robert Eggers doesn't call his film a horror movie. Rather, he describes it as a New England folk tale. I won't...

12. The Social Network (2010) This decade has been defined by social media. News articles are dedicated to Twitter reactions to some...

13. Winter's Bone (2010) The characters in Winter's Bone live in remote areas of the Missouri Ozarks eeking out an existence in a setting...

I tried to write this yesterday but the whole piece got deleted. I spent several paragraphs waxing philosophic about my love for film...

1. "All Your Favorite Bands," Dawes I often signed my high school classmates' yearbooks with song lyrics. Someone quoted Billy Joel's...

2. "She Used To Be Mine," Sara Bareilles (2014) Two notes. Sara Bareilles hits two notes in "She Used To Be Mine" that are so pure and...

3. "Howling at Nothing," Nathaniel Rateliffe and the Night Sweats (2015) First of all, Nathaniel Rateliffe and the Night Sweats is an...

4. "Still Into You," Paramore (2013) November 18th of this year marked 30 years of marriage for me and my wife. The first song that comes...

5. "Lost Stars," Adam Levine (2014) Also, a version by Keira Knightly Begin Again is one of the most underrated movies of the decade....

6. "Dancing's Not A Crime," Panic! At The Disco (2018) HIgh school dances for me were about the dancing. I went to every dance I could...

7. "Follow Your Arrow," Kacey Musgraves (2013) Same Trailer, Different Park is one of my favorite albums, period, regardless of decade....

8. "Set Fire To The Rain," Adele (2011) Back in 2012, I included Adele's "Set Fire To The Rain" in my list of 100 Favorite Songs of All...

9. "Uptown Funk," Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars (2014) "Uptown Funk" is just plain fun, a throwback to the funk sound of the 70s and 80s....

10. "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark," Fallout Boy (2013) How do you sleep at night when someone tells you their songs know what...

11. "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)," Kelly Clarkson (2012) If what Kelly Clarkson says is true, then Cap'n Crunch has not killed me,...