film | 2020

January
(1+16)

Homecoming: Season 1 (Sam Esmail, 2018, USA) [7]
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen, 1976, USA) [5]
Rollerball (Norman Jewison, 1975, UK | USA | Canada) [5]
Royal Warriors [aka. In the Line of Duty] (David Chung, 1986, Hong Kong) [7]
Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966, Italy | Spain) [6]
Suicide Club (Sion Sono, 2001, Japan) [6]
Mr. Freedom (William Klein, 1968, France) [6]
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan, 1997, Hong Kong) [6]
Edge of the Axe (José Ramón Larraz, 1988, Spain | USA) [5]
High Hopes (Mike Leigh, 1988, UK) [8]
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974, West Germany) [6]
Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973, USA) [9]
The Sun in a Net (Stefan Uher, 1962, Czechoslovakia) [9]
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987, USA) [7]
Once a Thief (John Woo, 1991, Hong Kong) [7]
City Of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1989, Hong Kong | Taiwan) [8]
Black Moon (Louis Malle, 1975, France | West Germany) [7]

February
(3+15)
Uncut Gems (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, 2019, USA) [9]
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985, Soviet Union) [8]
Road (Alan Clarke, 1987, UK) [8]
For Sama (Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts, 2019, UK | Syria) [7]
Space Jam (Joe Pytka, 1996, USA) [8]
Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989, Japan) [8]
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992, Japan) [8]
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988, USA) [8]
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992, Taiwan) [10]
The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle, 1970, USA) [9]
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujirô Ozu, 1947, Japan) [7]
Return to Oz (Walter Murch, 1985, UK | USA) [7]
Phantasm II (Don Coscarelli, 1988, USA) [7]
Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, 1969, USA) [9]
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968, Italy | France) [7]
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991, Japan) [6]
A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018, USA) [5]
Ocean Waves (Tomomi Mochizuki, 1993, Japan) [6]

March
(0+35)
Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990, UK) [8]
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986, Japan) [8]
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988, Japan) [9]
What Did Jack Do? (David Lynch, 2017, USA) [7]
Predator (John McTiernan, 1987, USA | Mexico) [7]
Cobra (George P. Cosmatos, 1986, USA) [8]
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World (Clifton Ko, 1987, Hong Kong) [8]
Abracadabra (Peter Mak, 1986, Hong Kong | Taiwan) [5]
My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata, 1999, Japan) [7]
The Ear (Karel Kachyna, 1970/1990, Czechoslovakia) [8]
Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969, France | Algeria) [8]
The Kid with the Golden Arm (Chang Cheh, 1979, Hong Kong) [6]
One-Armed Boxer (Jimmy Wang Yu, 1972, Taiwan | Hong Kong) [7]
Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan, 1993, USA) [7]
Ransom (Ron Howard, 1996, USA) [6]
Predator 2 (Stephen Hopkins, 1990, USA) [6]
The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010, Japan) [8]
Justice, My Foot! (Johnnie To, 1992, Hong Kong) [7]
Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995, USA) [6]
The Cat Returns (Hiroyuki Morita, 2002, Japan) [8]
Frailty (Bill Paxton, 2001, USA | Germany) [6]
The Pyjama Girl Case (Flavio Mogherini, 1978, Italy | Spain | Australia) [5]
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984, Japan | USA) [8]
Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan, 1988, Hong Kong) [9]
Uncle Buck (John Hughes, 1989, USA) [6]
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986, USA) [7]
Five Elements Ninjas (Chang Cheh, 1982, Hong Kong) [7]
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001, Japan) [8]
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 1961, USA) [7]
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green, 2008, USA) [7]
The Boss (Fernando Di Leo, 1973, Italy) [8]
I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence, 2007, USA) [5]
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987, USA) [8]
Murder Unincorporated (Haruyasu Noguchi, 1965, Japan) [7]
The Beast to Die (Tôru Murakawa, 1980, Japan) [8]

April
(1+8+(6)+(1))
The Thirteenth Floor (Josef Rusnak, 1999, USA | Germany) [7]
American Factory (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, 2019, USA) [8]
Jaws 2 (Jeannot Szwarc, 1978, USA) [6]
Broadchurch: Series 1 (Cr. Chris Chibnall, 2013, UK) [7]
The Wire: Season 1 (Cr. David Simon, 2002, USA) [9]
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975, USA) [8]
Jaws: The Revenge (Joseph Sargent, 1987, USA) [5]
The Wire: Season 2 (Cr. David Simon, 2003, USA) [9]
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1979, Japan) [8]
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondô, 1995, Japan) [8]
The Wire: Season 3 (Cr. David Simon, 2004, USA) [8]
Better Call Saul: Season 5 (Cr. Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, 2020, USA) [9]
The Wire: Season 4 (Cr. David Simon, 2006. USA) [9]
Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro, 2004, USA) [7]
The Wire: Season 5 (Cr. David Simon, 2008. USA) [8]
Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988, USA) [x]

May
(3+(8))
Top of the Lake (Jane Campion, Gerard Lee, 2013, UK | Australia | New Zealand | USA) [8]
Top of the Lake: China Girl (Jane Campion, Gerard Lee, 2017, UK | Australia | New Zealand | USA) [9]
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, USA) [10]
The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA) [10]
The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990, USA) [8]
Roots (Written by Alex Haley, 1977, USA) [8]
Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004, Japan) [8]
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008, Japan) [8]
Matilda (Danny DeVito, 1996, USA) [7]
12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995, USA) [8]
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999, UK | USA) [9]

June
(x)
Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris, 1992, USA) [7]
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995, USA) [7]
The Naked Gun (David Zucker, 1988, USA) [7]
Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020, USA) [6]
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980, West Germany | Italy) [8]
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958, Egypt) [8]
Sholay (Ramesh Sippy, 1975, India) [10]
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (Shinji Sômai, 1981, Japan) [8]
Ten Years (Various Directors, 2015, Hong Kong) [7]
Pin (Sandor Stern, 1988, Canada) [6]
Love to Kill (Siu-Hung Chung, Kirk Wong, 1993, Hong Kong) [7]
Cemetery Man [Dellamorte Dellamore] (Michele Soavi, 1994, Italy | France | Germany) [8]
The Sinner: Season 1-3 (Cr. Derek Simonds, 2017-2020, USA) [8]
Rampage (Brad Peyton, 2018, USA) [7]
Community (Cr. Dan Harmon, 2009-2015, USA) [9]
Devs (Alex Garland, 2020, UK | USA) [8]
Search Party: Season 2-3 (S. Bliss, C. Rogers, M. Showalter, 2017-2020, USA) [8]
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972, West Germany) [8]
Dark (Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, 2017-2020, Germany | USA) [9]

July
(3)
Les Misérables (Ladj Ly, 2019, France) [7]
Ju-on: Origins (Sho Miyake, 2020, Japan) [8]
Kingdom (Kim Seong-hun, 2019, South Korea) [8]

August
(6+7)
Monos (Alejandro Landes, 2019, Colombia | Argentina | Netherlands | ...) [8]
Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, 2019, North Macedonia) [10]
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019, USA) [8]
Wasao (Yoshinari Nishikôri, 2011, Japan) [8]
Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin, 1999, USA | Mexico) [8]
Scooby-Doo (Raja Gosnell, 2002, USA | Australia) [7]
The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yi'nan, 2019, China | France) [9]
Bacurau (Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2019, Brazil | France) [8]
Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998, Australia) [7]
The Other Guys (Adam McKay, 2010 | USA) [7]
Two Champions of Shaolin (Chang Cheh, 1980, Hong Kong) [7]
Forbidden City Cop (Stephen Chow, Vincent Kok, 1996, Hong Kong) [8]
Asako I & II (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2018, Japan | France) [9]

September
(8+6)
Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020, USA | Canada | Italy) [7]
The First Purge (Gerard McMurray, 2018, USA) [7]
My Lucky Stars (Sammo Hung, 1985, Hong Kong) [8]
Devil (John Erick Dowdle, 2010, USA) [4]
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22 (R. Kelly, Victor Mignatti, Jim Swaffield, 2005, 2007, USA) [?]
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, 2020, USA) [8]
Feels Good Man (Arthur Jones, 2020, USA) [7]
Coup 53 (Taghi Amirani, 2019, UK | Iran) [8]
Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood, 2019, USA) [8]
The Mad Monk (Ching Siu-Tung, Johnnie To, 1993, Hong Kong) [7]
Legend of the Dragon (Danny Lee, Lee Lik-Chi, 1991, Hong Kong) [8]
Challenger: The Final Flight (Steven Leckart, Glen Zipper, 2020, USA) [8]
Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1984, USA) [8]
Tokyo Idol (Kyoko Miyake, 2017, UK | Canada | Japan) [7]

October
(19+9)
La llorona (Jayro Bustamante, 2019, Guatemala | France) [7]
Hard Target (John Woo, 1993, USA) [6]
Urban Legend (Jamie Blanks, 1998, USA | Canada) [6]
Raised by Wolves (Cr. Aaron Guzilkowski, 2020, USA) [8]
Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarevic, 2019, Netherlands | Bosnia and Herzegovina) [7]
Technoboss (João Nicolau, 2019, Portugal | France) [7]
Mortal Kombat (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1995, USA) [7]
Disturbia (D.J. Caruso, 2007, USA) [6]
Fresh (Boaz Yakin, 1994, USA | France) [8]
Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux, 2019, France) [8]
Donbass (Sergey Loznitsa, 2018, Germany | Ukraine | France | Netherlands | ...) [6]
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Radu Jude, 2018, Romania | Germany |...) [6]
The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis, 2002, UK) [9]
So Long, My Son (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2019, China) [9]
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (Vikram Jayanti, 2003, Canada | UK) [8]
Waves (Trey Edward Shults, 2019, USA | Canada) [7]
Art of the Devil Series (Puthipong Saisrikaew, 2020, Thailand) [8]
La Flor (Mariano Llinás, 2018, Argentina) [9]
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello, 2019, Italy | France | Germany) [9]
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner, 2020, UK | USA) [6]
I Was at Home, But (Angela Schanelec, 2019, Germany | Serbia) [6]
Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2018, Portugal | France | Brazil) [7]
House of Hummingbird (Bora Kim, 2018, South Korea) [8]
A White, White Day (Hlynur Palmason, 2019, Iceland | Denmark | Sweden) [8]
AlphaGo (Greg Kohs, 2017, USA) [6]
Robotrix (Jamie Luk, 1991, Hong Kong) [6]
The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, 2020, USA) [8]
Annabelle: Creation (David F. Sandberg, 2017, USA) [6]

November
(1+4+(3))
The Haunting of Bly Manor (Cr. Mike Flanagan, 2020, USA) [7]
The Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan, 2018, USA) [7]
The Hills Have Eyes (Alexandre Aja, 2006, USA | France | Romania) [6]
The Hills Have Eyes Part II (Wes Craven, 1984, USA) [5]
Apostle (Gareth Evans, 2018, UK | USA) [7]
Hotel for Dogs (Thor Freudenthal, 2009, Germany | USA) [5]
Train of the Dead (Sukhum Mathawanit, 2007, Thailand) [4]
Ozark: Season 1 (Cr. Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams, 2017, USA) [7]

December
(12+1)
System Crasher (Nora Fingscheidt, 2019, Germany) [6]
Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg, 2020, UK | Canada) [7]
The Hunt (Craig Zobel, 2020, USA | Japan) [8]
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, 2020, USA | UK) [6]
Ema (Pablo Larraín, 2019, Chile) [7]
White Lie (Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas, 2019, Canada) [7]
Tenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020, UK | USA) [6]
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988, USA) [8]
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019, Portugal) [8]
American Murder: The Family Next Door (Jenny Popplewell, 2020, USA) [7]
The Painted Bird (Václav Marhoul, 2019, Czech Republic | Slovakia | Ukraine) [8]
Echo (Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2019, Iceland | France | Switzerland | Denmark | Finland) [7]
Wormwood (Errol Morris, 2017, USA) [7]