Excellent article! I wrote one of those eleventy-thousand stupid articles a year or so ago, and looking back at it I am not surprised to find we match up on much of the ranking. Our Top 5 is the same, just in slightly different order:

1. The Empire Strikes Back (obviously)

2. Star Wars

3. The Last Jedi

4. Rogue One

5. Return of the Jedi ( it would be higher, but I hated the Ewoks when I saw this in the theater in '83 and still hate them today).