-The Ring: the best, most intelligent horror film I've ever seen. Genuinely terrifying.
-The Grudge: 'The Ring Lite'. Less good in almost every way, but still worth gold.
-No Country for Old Men: an extremely exciting and original western thriller, where every single character is harsh and bad ass. Has a really cool unforgiving setting.
-There Will Be Blood: A film that takes 'slow' to the next level, but is still intriguing, and gradually works up to the best ending I have ever seen. You'll find yourself really getting emotionally involved with this movie and its characters.
-Pulp Fiction: One-liners, action, incredible dialogue, fantastic actors, humour: Pulp Fiction has all that and more. Probably the best film ever made.
-2001: A Space Odyssey: A hallucinant, trippy movie, which is so alienating that it's almost funny in places, yet had an undeniably strong symbolism. One of a kind.
-The Green Mile: 'Tearjerker' doesn't begin to describe it. This movie is like a fairytale, but a very sad and enchanting one at that.
-Atonement: I generally hate romantic movies, but this one was absolutely astonishing. The soundtrack contains some of the best music I've ever heard, and the integration of typewriters into the music is pure genius.
-Hot Fuzz: Maybe masterpiece isn't the right word, but it's certainly the best comedy I've ever seen.
-In Bruges: A very good soundtrack, great acting and over-the-top dialogue: what more can you wish for? On top of that, I have a (non-sexual) fetish for men in suits with guns and silencers, which is also the reason I'm such a Wesker fan, and this movie has a LOT of those guys.
-Happiness: Not everyone's cup of tea probably, but it's a fantastic black comedy that really shows how sick the human mind can get.
-The Ocean's Trilogy: I realize that they are very commercial movies that are hard to call a 'cinematic masterpiece', but the action is so fluent, the plot so impossible and the actors so cocky that these movies just make me happy. I really hate most blockbuster movies, but these ones are exceptions.
Also, while I don't want to offend anyone and respect your opinions, you can't call Transformers a masterpiece. If I had to put in into perspective, it'd rank top five of worst movies ever. There's no single way in which it's comparable to real masterpiece movies like Pulp Fiction (generally agreed to be one of the best films ever made).
I drink your milkshake.
