Oh. I didn't catch the last 5 years part. I was just doing the movie I saw this year. In that case....
1. Let The Right One In
2. Night At The Museum
3. Health Inspector
4. Trailer Park Boys The Movie
5. Changeling

I would have said District 9, but it sucks hard. Nothing original and a complete boring, snore inducing rip off from beginning to end. I was SO wanting to like it, but it was just stupid. You didn't care about any of the characters so you couldn't give less of a crap what they were fighting for. Same with Watchmen.

Now, if we were doing the worst movies of the last 5 years, I could give you a list long enough to reach from here to the moon.

Star Trek
Superman Returns
Never Let Me Go
District 9
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

So why would you have said it?

In Bruges (08)
Children of Men (06)
There Will Be Blood (08)
The Dark Knight (08)
Inception (10)

going with the "favorite" not the "best" wording...

shotgun stories
inglourious basterds
children of men
let the right one in
scott pilgrim vs. the world

I know. That threw me, too.

1. Goodbye Solo
2. The Secret in Their Eyes
3. Frozen River
4. Gone Baby Gone
5. Animal Kingdom

I usually dislike my own list shortly after making it, but those are the first five to come to mind.

^"The secret in their Eyes" is an Amazing movie! If you haven't seen it. Go watch it right now! It almost made my list, hell its as equally good as most of the movies named here (if not better)

TDK
Inception
District 9
The Departed
Shutter Island

I have been very critical of District 9 and would put it right up near or at the top of the list of the most overrated films of 2009. That being said, I would never have described it the way you just did. It wasn't remotely boring or "snore inducing."

2006: Children of Men
2007: Once
2008: Let The Right One In
2009: Inglorious Basterds
2010: Never Let Me Go

Funny... nobody seems to be mentioning "The King's Speech", "The Hurt Locker", or "Slumdog Millionaire".

I thought the first two of those were reasonable, but that last one... the Hollywood PC Consortium falling all over themselves to praise a brown movie, never mind how unbelievably insulting and borderline racist it was...

Great choices. I loved Never Let Me Go. I think it's criminally underrated.

While I very much enjoy all 3 . They're not my favorites, I've my own biased tastes. I do own THL and SM, I do very much enjoy them enough to own...but favorites? No no no...Favoritism need not represent quality, though they can be shared at times.

I thought The Hurt Locker was very good but not favorite material.
I have not seen The King's Speech.
Now as for Slumdog Millionaire, IMO that is just one giant cliche ridden piece of crap.

The Dark Knight is number 1, no question. After that, I've got Superbad, The Hangover, Toy Story 3 and probably HTTYD.

1) Pan's Labyrinth
2) There Will Be Blood
3) The Dark Knight
4) Let The Right One In
5) Zodiac

Honorable Mentions: Trick 'r Treat, The House Of The Devil

Watchmen
No Country For Old Men
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
Eastern Promises

The Departed, Casino Royale, and a few others are right there as well.

1. The Wrestler
2. The Lives of Others
3. I've Loved You So Long
4. Up
5. A Prophet

Best documentaries:

1. Waiting for Superman
2. Sicko
3. Last Train Home
4. Inside Job
5. God Grew Tired of Us

I rank my movies by how close I am to crying.

I actually love bad movies more and they tend to have more replay value. On my list of "best of" movies, i've never seen any of them more than once.

Are your best also your favorites?

1. Up in the Air
2. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
3. The Tree of Life
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Synecdoche, New York

I know sometimes people don't read the first post before posting, but not even the thread title?

what the hell is HTTYD?

EDIT: Nvm...it's How To Train Your Dragon.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Pretty amazing that people completely miss something like that.