film | 2023

January
(4+14)

Good Morning (Yasujirô Ozu, 1959, Japan) [9]
This Place Rules (Andrew Callaghan, 2022, USA) [8]
Tokyo Twilight (Yasujirô Ozu, 1957, Japan) [10]
Trafic (Jacques Tati, 1971, France) [7]
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946, France) [8]
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964, Japan) [10]
White Morning [Ako] (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964, Japan) [8]
The English (Hugo Blick, 2022, UK | USA) [8]
Late Autumn (Yasujirô Ozu, 1960, Japan) [9]
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Roy Rowland, 1953, USA) [8]
Black Bird (Cr. Dennis Lehane, 2022, USA) [8]
The End of Summer (Yasujirô Ozu, 1961, Japan) [9]
Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949, Japan) [9]
Early Summer (Yasujirô Ozu, 1951, Japan) [9]
Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953, Japan) [10]
Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008, France | Canada) [10]
M3GAN (Gerard Johnstone, 2022, USA | New Zealand) [8]
Thunderbolt (Gordon Chan, 1995, Hong Kong) [7]

February
(3+31)

Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931, Brazil) [8]
All Winners, All Losers (Azadeh Masihzadeh, 2019, Iran) [8]
Killers on Parade (Masahiro Shinoda, 1961, Japan) [7]
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler, 2022, USA) [7]
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1985, USA) [9]
Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984, USA) [10]
Angel Dust (Sogo Ishii, 1994, Japan) [8]
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971, USA) [8]
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, Taiwan) [10]
Bodies Bodies Bodies (Halina Reijn, 2022, USA) [7]
The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, 1963, Iran) [8] 
Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995, Iran) [7]
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944, USA) [9]
Christiane F. (Uli Edel, 1981, West Germany) [7]
12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006, Romania) [8]
Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980, USA) [8]
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994, Taiwan) [9]
Pixote (Hector Babenco, 1980, Brazil) [8]
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included (Jesús Franco, 1985, Spain) [7]
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991, USA | Germany) [7]
Rock 'n' Roll High School (Allan Arkush, 1979, USA) [8]
The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó, 1966, Hungary) [9]
In the Line of Duty IV (Yuen Woo-Ping, 1989, Hong Kong) [8]
Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1995, USA) [7]
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko,1977, Soviet Union) [9]
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961, Italy) [9]
Autumn's Tale (Mabel Cheung, 1987, Hong Kong) [8]
Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000, China | Hong Kong | Japan | France) [10]
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969, USA) [9]
Pearls of the Deep (Chytilová, Jires, Menzel, Nemec, Schorm, 1965, Czechoslovakia) [8]
Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985, France) [9]
To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990, USA) [9]
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992, Germany | France | Spain | UK) [7]
Duel to the Death (Ching Siu-Tung, 1983, Hong Kong) [8]

March
(5+37)

The Soldier (James Glickenhaus, 1982, USA) [6]
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (Grigori Kromanov, 1979, Soviet Union | Estonia) [8]
The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1975, Greece) [10]
Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1988, Greece | France | Italy) [10]
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (Les Blank, 1980, USA) [9]
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997, Japan) [10]
Fake (Thanakorn Pongsuwan, 2003, Thailand) [7]
Eternity and a Day (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1998, France | Italy | Greece | Germany) [8]
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Lam Nai-choi, 1991, Hong Kong) [8]
Peppermint Frappé (Carlos Saura, 1967, Spain) [8]
Dekalog: One (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988, Poland) [8]
Dekalog: Two (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988, Poland) [7]
The Inspector Wears Skirts (Wellson Chin, 1988, Hong Kong) [7]
Poker Face: Season 1 (Rian Johnson and more, 2023, USA) [8/8/8/7/6/6/7/8/8/7]
Viy (Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov, 1967, Soviet Union) [7]
Adoption (Márta Mészáros, 1975, Hungary) [9]
Dekalog: Ten (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988, Poland) [9]
Deadly Games [aka. 36.15 code Père Noël] (René Manzor, 1989, France) [8½]
Elephant (Alan Clarke, 1989, UK) [7]
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky, 2022, USA) [8]
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksey German, 1985, Soviet Union) [7]
The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001, France | Austria | Germany) [8½]
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001, Argentina | France | Spain | Japan) [9]
The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957, Soviet Union) [10]
The Last of Us: Season 1 (Various Directors, 2023, Canada | USA) [8]
Wings (Larisa Shepitko, 1966, Soviet Union) [9]
Larisa (Elem Klimov, 1980, Soviet Union) [-]
Dekalog: Nine (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988, Poland) [8]
Cocaine Bear (Elizabeth Banks, 2023, USA) [6]
I Killed My Mother (Xavier Dolan, 2009, Canada) [8½]
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950, USA) [8]
Wolf's Hole (Vera Chytilová, 1987, Czechoslovakia) [7]
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997, USA) [7]
Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton, 1991, USA) [8]
The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960, India) [8½]
Stand by Me (Rob Reiner, 1986, USA) [7]
The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969, Czechoslovakia) [9]
His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1986, Japan) [8½]
John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski, 2023, USA) [8]
Drunken Master (Yuen Woo-Ping, 1978, Hong Kong) [8]
Space Is the Place (John Coney, 1974, USA) [7]
Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967, USA) [8]

April
(5+32)

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962, France) [9]
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003, Iran) [8½]
Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970, USA) [7]
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (Tsui Hark, 1980, Hong Kong) [8½]
Electric Dragon 80.000 V (Gakuryu Ishii, 2001, Japan) [7]
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990, Iran) [7]
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, Italy | France | West Germany) [7]
Haru (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1996, Japan) [7]
Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1995, Japan) [8½]
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003, South Korea) [8½]
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997, Canada) [7]
Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000, France | Austria | Romania | Germany) [9]
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974, West Germany) [8½]
Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996, UK | Canada) [9]
The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki, 1990, Finland | Sweden) [8]
Paris, Texas (Win Wenders, 1984, West Germany | France) [9]
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999, Spain | France) [7]
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Pierre Leduc, 2023, USA | Japan) [8]
A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988, Poland) [7]
Torment [aka. L'enfer] (Claude Chabrol, 1994, France) [7]
Ariel (Aki Kaurismäki, 1988, Finland) [8]
Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2008, Japan) [8½]
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973, West Germany) [8]
The Mystery of Chess Boxing (Joseph Kuo, 1979, Taiwan | Hong Kong) [8]
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Peyton Reed, 2023, USA | Australia | Canada) [6]
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976, USA) [8]
Beef (Hikari, Jake Schreier, Lee Sung-jin, 2023, USA) [8]
Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica, 1988, Yugoslavia | Italy | UK) [8]
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959, Japan) [8½]
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959, Japan) [8]
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1961, Japan) [8½]
Scream VI (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, 2023, USA | Canada) [7]
The Fifth Seal (Zoltán Fábri, 1976, Hungary) [9]
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004, Thailand | France | Germany | Italy) [9]
Clearcut (Ryszard Bugajski, 1991, Canada) [7]
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973, India) [7]
Suzume (Makoto Shinkai, 2022, Japan) [8]

May
(2+25)

Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006, France | Poland | USA) [10]
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007, South Korea) [9]
On The Silver Globe (Andrzej Zulawski, 1988, Poland) [7]
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979, Poland) [8½]
The Demon (Brunello Rondi, 1963, Italy | France) [8]
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999, UK | France) [8]
3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk, 2004, South Korea | Japan) [9]
The Man Who Stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa, 1979, Japan) [8]
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, Soviet Union) [9]
After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998, Japan) [9]
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968, Italy | France) [7]
No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2007, USA) [8½]
The Aviator's Wife (Éric Rohmer, 1981, France) [9]
Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais, 1968, France) [8]
The Lovers On The Bridge (Leos Carax, 1991, France) [8]
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Éric Rohmer, 1987, France) [9]
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (Wayne Wang, 1985, USA) [7]
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007, USA) [9]
Humanity (Bruno Dumont, 1999, France) [8]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn, 2023, USA | New Zealand | France | Canada) [8]
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (Piotr Szulkin, 1985, Poland) [7]
Evil Dead Rise (Lee Cronin, 2023, USA | New Zealand | Ireland) [6]
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968, Italy | USA) [9]
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970, UK | West Germany) [8½]
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964, Cuba | Soviet Union) [8]
Je Tu Il Elle (Chantal Akerman, 1974, Belgium | France) [7]
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999, Japan) [8]

June
(2+37)

El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983, Spain | France) [9]
The Man Who Sleeps (Georges Perec, Bernard Queysanne, 1974, France | Tunisia) [8]
Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller, 1975, Italy) [8]
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968, Italy) [7]
In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1994, USA) [8]
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971, USA) [9]
Christine (John Carpenter, 1983, USA) [7]
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949, UK) [8]
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959, USA) [9]
The Young and the Damned (Luis Buñuel, 1950, Mexico) [9]
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964, India) [8]
Fast X (Louis Leterrier, 2023, USA | China) [3]
A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926, Japan) [8]
The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993, Australia | France | New Zealand) [8]
Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008, Japan) [10]
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008, Japan) [9]
Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1967, Japan) [8]
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966, France) [8]
La strada (Federico Fellini, 1954, Italy) [8]
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007, Mexico | France | Netherlands | Germany) [9]
The Only Son (Yasujirô Ozu, 1936, Japan) [8]
Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005, Japan) [9]
Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008, Argentina | France | Italy | Spain) [8]
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004, USA | Netherlands) [8]
Together (Lukas Moodysson, 2000, Sweden | Denmark | Italy) [8]
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990, Japan | USA) [7]
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969, France | Italy) [8]
A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1936/1946, France) [7]
Electra, My Love (Miklós Jancsó, 1974, Hungary) [7]
Black Mirror: Season 6 (Pankiw/Miller/Crowley/Briesewitz/Haynes, 2023, UK | USA) [6/8/7/7/7]
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956, Japan) [9]
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955, USA) [8]
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, 2023, USA) [8]
Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986, USA) [8]
The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle, 1970, USA) [8]
Uski Roti (Mani Kaul, 1970, India) [7]
L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962, Italy | France) [9]
La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961, Italy | France) [9]
The Seventh Curse (Lam Nai-Choi, 1986, Hong Kong) [7]
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982, Sweden | France | West Germany) [8]

July
(2+57)

Land Without Bread (Luis Buñuel, 1933, Spain) [7]
Dirty Ho (Liu Chia-Liang, 1979, Hong Kong) [7]
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975, UK | USA) [10]
Él (Luis Buñuel, 1953, Mexico) [8]
Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964, Japan) [9] ✵
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden) [10]
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947, USA) [8]
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002, Turkey) [8] ✵
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962, Mexico) [10]
The One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh, 1967, Hong Kong) [7]
Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968, Sweden) [8]
The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952, Japan) [8]
Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman, 1986, France) [7]
House (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1977, Japan) [8] ✵
Master of the Flying Guillotine (Jimmy Wang Yu, 1976, Taiwan | Hong Kong) [9] ✵
Ossos (Pedro Costa, 1997, Portugal | France | Denmark) [8]
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973, Mexico | USA) [9] ✵
Witchhammer (Otakar Vávra, 1970, Czechoslovakia) [7]
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Wojciech Has, 1973, Poland) [8]
The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977, West Germany | France) [8]
Forever a Woman (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1955, Japan) [8½]
Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975, West Germany) [6] 
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966, USA) [8] ✵
Demons (Toshio Matsumoto, 1971, Japan) [9]
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993, Japan) [8] ✵
Branded To Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967, Japan) [8] ✵
Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966, Japan) [8] ✵
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977, West Germany) [9] ✵
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963, Japan) [8] ✵
Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023, USA | South Korea) [7]
The Ear (Karel Kachyna, 1970/1990, Czechoslovakia) [8] ✵
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939, USA) [9] ✵
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948, Italy) [9] ✵
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956, France) [9] ✵
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959, France) [8]
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935, USA) [9] ✵
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958, France) [10] ✵
Heroic Purgatory (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1970, Japan) [7]
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971, Australia | USA | UK) [9] ✵
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961, France) [9] ✵
La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995, France | Germany) [9] ✵
WR Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev, 1971, Yugoslavia | West Germany) [4]
Khrustalyov, My Car! (Aleksey German, 1998, Russia | France) [9]
There Was a Father (Yasujirô Ozu, 1942, Japan) [7]
August in the Water (Gakuryû Ishii, 1995, Japan) [8]
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982, USA) [8]
The Blue Sky Maiden (Yasuzô Masumura, 1957, Japan) [8]
The Flash (Andy Muschietti, 2023, USA | Canada | Australia | New Zealand) [5]
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973, France) [8]
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952, Italy) [9] ✵
Dead Man’s Letters (Konstantin Lopushanskiy, 1986, Soviet Union) [7]
Visitor of a Museum (Konstantin Lopushanskiy, 1989, Soviet Union | West Germany | Switzerland) [8]
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975, Italy | France) [8]
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964, Italy | France) [6]
Toute une nuit (Chantal Akerman, 1982, France | Belgium | Netherlands | Canada) [7]
Céline (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1992, France) [7]
Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo, 1933, France) [8]
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996, France) [7]
Supermarket Woman (Jûzô Itami, 1996, Japan) [7]

August
(3+63)

Heat (Michael Mann, 1995, USA) [9] ✵
The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1960, Japan) [9] ✵
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981, France | West Germany) [8] ✵
The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Zulawski, 1971, Poland) [8½]
Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975, Italy) [7]
Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962, France) [8] ✵
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023, USA | UK) [7]
Twilight (György Fehér, 1990, Hungary) [7]
Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968, Cuba) [8½]
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Shûji Terayama, 1971, Japan) [6]
City of Pirates (Raúl Ruiz, 1983, France | Portugal) [7]
The Isle (Kim Ki-duk, 2000, South Korea) [8]
The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung, 1993, Vietnam | France) [8]
Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, 1957, India) [8½]
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955, Japan) [8]
The Big City (Satyajit Ray, 1963, India) [8]
Courier (Karen Shakhnazarov, 1986, Soviet Union) [6]
Face/Off (John Woo, 1997, USA) [8] ✵
Interrogation (Ryszard Bugajski, 1982/1989, Poland) [8½]
À Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983, France) [9]
Repentance (Tengiz Abuladze, 1984, Soviet Union) [8]
The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat, 1974, France) [8]
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962, UK) [8]
The Sun in a Net (Stefan Uher, 1963, Czechoslovakia) [9] ✵
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995, France) [9] ✵
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, Soviet Union) [9] ✵
River's Edge (Tim Hunter, 1986, USA) [9] ✵
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023, USA) [8]
Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul, 2012, Sweden | UK) [9] ✵
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972, Soviet Union) [8] ✵
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966, Soviet Union) [8]
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983, Italy | Soviet Union) [8] ✵
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964, Italy) [8]
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999, USA) [9] ✵
Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002, USA) [8] ✵
Anguish (Bigas Luna, 1987, Spain) [9] ✵
Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986, Taiwan) [10] ✵
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971, Taiwan) [8½] ✵
The Double Life of Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991, France | Poland | Norway) [8]
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983, Canada) [8] ✵
Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023, USA | UK) [7]
Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967, Taiwan) [8] ✵
Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983, Austria) [8] ✵
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994, France | Switzerland | Poland) [8]
The Night of Counting the Years (Shadi Abdel Salam, 1969, Egypt) [8]
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978, West Germany | UK) [10]
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962, USA) [8½] ✵
Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955, Spain | Italy) [8½]
Revenge (Yermek Shinarbayev, 1990, Soviet Union) [8]
To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin, 1985, USA) [8]
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989, Netherlands | UK | France) [8½]
Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1994, France) [8]
Giants and Toys (Yasuzô Masumura, 1958, Japan) [8½]
Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994, Canada) [7]
Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung, 1989, Hong Kong) [8½]
King of New York (Abel Ferrara, 1990, Italy | USA) [8½]
Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982, West Germany) [8]
One Sings The Other Doesn't (Agnès Varda, 1977, France) [8½]
State of Siege (Costa-Gavras, 1972, France | Italy | West Germany) [8]
Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974, Iran) [7]
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971, UK) [8½]
And Life Goes On (Abbas Kiarostami, 1992, Iran) [7]
My American Uncle (Alain Resnais, 1980, France) [8½]
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967, France) [7]
Nightbreed (Clive Barker, 1990, UK | Canada | USA) [6]
Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960, France | Italy) [8]

September
(2+56)

A Simple Event (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1973, Iran) [8]
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964, USA) [8]
The Confession (Costa-Gavras, 1970, France | Italy) [8]
The Mirror (Jafar Panahi, 1997, Iran) [7]
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959, France | Japan) [9] ✵
Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976, Philippines) [8½]
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976, West Germany) [8]
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008, France) [8½] 
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2001, Taiwan | France) [9] ✵
True Stories (David Byrne, 1986, USA) [7]
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958, Poland) [9]
Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel, 1987, Denmark) [8½]
Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967, France) [8] ✵
A Scene at the Sea (Takeshi Kitano, 1991, Japan) [7]
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964, Denmark) [8]
The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968, USA) [10] ✵
Strangler vs. Strangler (Slobodan Sijan, 1984, Yugoslavia) [8½]
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2000, Portugal | Germany | Switzerland) [7]
Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica, 1998, France | Germany | Yugoslavia | Austria | Greece) [8]
Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964, Japan) [8½]
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991, USA | UK | France) [8]
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958, India) [8]
Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil, 1967, Czechoslovakia) [7]
This Transient Life (Akio Jissôji, 1970, Japan) [8]
Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway, 1988, UK | Netherlands) [8½]
Sicily! (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, 1999, Italy | France | Germany) [7]
Miss Oyu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1951, Japan) [7]
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965, Spain | Switzerland) [6]
Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1987, Taiwan) [8]
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993, UK) [9]
Monster (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2023, Japan) [8]
The Meetings of Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978, France | Belgium | West Germany) [7]
Postman Blues (Sabu, 1997, Japan) [8]
Damnation (Béla Tarr, 1988, Hungary) [8]
Polyester (John Waters, 1981, USA) [8½]
Mermaid Legend (Toshiharu Ikeda, 1984, Japan) [8]
Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962, Italy) [8½]
The Suspended Step of the Stork (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1991, France | Greece | Switzerland |...) [8]
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984, USA) [9] ✵
Bande à part [aka. Band of Outsiders] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964, France) [9] ✵
The Master (Tsui Hark, 1992, Hong Kong) [7]
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974, Sweden | Norway) [8]
Woman of the Lake (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1966, Japan) [8½]
Manuel on the Island of Wonders (Raúl Ruiz, 1984, Portugal | France) [8]
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000, Hungary | Italy | Germany | France) [9] ✵
Satantango (Béla Tarr, 1994, Hungary | Germany | Switzerland) [9] ✵
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991, France) [10]
Pratidwandi [aka. The Adversary] (Satyajit Ray, 1970, India) [9]
Jana Aranya [aka. The Middleman] (Satyajit Ray, 1975, India) [8]
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raúl Ruiz, 1983, France) [8]
The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004, China | Japan | France) [8½] ✵
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai, 1995, Hong Kong) [8½] ✵
Wild Zero (Tetsuro Takeuchi, 1999, Japan) [6]
The Creator (Gareth Edwards, 2023, USA) [7]
The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003, Russia) [9] ✵
Seemabaddha [aka. Company Limited] (Satyajit Ray, 1971, India) [8]
Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960, Japan) [7]
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999, Iran | France) [9]

October
(43+36)

The Beasts (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2022, Spain | France) [9]
Full Time (Eric Gravel, 2021, France) [8½]
Aloner (Hong Seong-eun, 2021, South Korea) [8½]
R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu, 2022, Romania | France | Belgium | Sweden) [8]
Devi (Satyajit Ray, 1960, India) [7]
Godland (Hlynur Pálmason, 2022, Denmark | Iceland | France | Sweden) [9]
Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022, France) [5]
Alcarràs (Carla Simón, 2022, Spain | Italy) [8]
Anantaram [aka. Monologue] (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1987, India) [8½]
Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, 1970, Soviet Union) [7]
Joyland (Saim Sadiq, 2022, Pakistan | USA) [8]
Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, 1965, Italy) [8½]
EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022, Poland | Italy) [8]
Rimini (Ulrich Seidl, 2022, Germany | France | Austria) [8]
The Book of Fish (Lee Joon-ik, 2021, South Korea) [6]
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999, Canada | UK | France) [7]
The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980, USA) [7]
Telemarketers (Adam Bhala Lough, Sam Lipman-Stern, 2023, USA) [8]
Pickpocket (Jia Zhangke, 1997, China | Hongkong) [8]
Demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002, France | Mexico) [8½]
The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998, Taiwan | France) [8]
The Night Logan Woke Up (Xavier Dolan, 2022, Canada) [8]
The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo, 2022, South Korea) [8½]
Raise The Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991, Hong Kong | China) [8½]
Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998, USA) [8½]
Mad God (Phil Tippett, 2021, USA) [7]
Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli, 2022, Norway | Sweden | Denmark | France) [8]
Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi, 2004, Iran) [9]
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000, USA) [7]
Talk to Me (Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, 2022, Australia | UK) [9]
Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2020, Georgia | France) [8]
Close (Lukas Dhont, 2022, Belgium | Netherlands | France) [7]
Bottoms (Emma Seligman, 2023, USA) [5]
Beautiful Beings (Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson, 2022, Iceland | Denmark | Sweden | ...) [6]
Chile '76 (Manuela Martelli, 2022, Chile | Argentina | Qatar) [8]
I Like Movies (Chandler Levack, 2022, Canada) [8]
Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2021, Italy | France | Germany) [7]
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982, USA) [8] ✵
Le pupille (Alice Rohrwacher, 2022, Italy | USA) [8]
Shin Kamen Rider (Hideaki Anno, 2023, Japan) [7]
Shin Ultraman (Shinji Higuchi, 2022, Japan) [8½]
The Eight Mountains (Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch, 2022, Italy | Belgium | ...) [9]
Riceboy Sleeps (Anthony Shim, 2022, Canada) [7]
The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani, 2022, France | Morocco | Belgium | Denmark) [8]
Tár (Todd Field, 2022, USA) [9]
Pacifiction (Albert Serra, 2022, France | Spain | Germany | Portugal) [8½]
Smoking Causes Coughing (Quentin Dupieux, 2022, France | Monaco) [7]
Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Antonio Lukich, 2022, Ukraine) [8½]
Afire (Christian Petzold, 2023, Germany) [8½]
The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020, Portugal) [6]
Enys Men (Mark Jenkin, 2022, UK) [6]
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971, USA) [9] ✵
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella, 2022, Argentina | Germany) [8½]
Noise (Natalia Beristain, 2022, Argentina | Mexico) [7]
Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005, France | Austria | Germany | Italy) [9] ✵
Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961, Spain | Mexico) [9] ✵
Stop-Zemlia (Kateryna Gornostai, 2021, Ukraine) [8]
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2009, Iran | France) [8½]
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé, 2009, France | Germany | Italy | Canada | Japan) [9]
Farha (Darin J. Sallam, 2021, Jordan | Saudi Arabia | Sweden) [8½]
Shara (Naomi Kawase, 2003, Japan) [8½]
Saw X (Kevin Greutert, 2023, USA | Mexico | Canada) [4]
Cyclo (Tran Anh Hung, 1995, Vietnam | France | Hong Kong) [8½]
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996, Iran | France) [7]
God's Comedy (João César Monteiro, 1995, Portugal | France | Italy | Denmark) [8]
Suzaku (Naomi Kawase, 1997, Japan) [8½]
Three Days (Sharunas Bartas, 1991, Soviet Union | Lithuania) [7]
Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira, 1993, France | Portugal | Switzerland) [7]
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1998, Taiwan | Japan) [8]
I Can't Sleep (Claire Denis, 1994, France | Germany | Switzerland) [8½]
L'ange (Patrick Bokanowski, 1982, France) [7]
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023, USA) [8½]
Children of Nature (Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, 1991, Iceland | Norway | Germany) [8]
The Intruder (Claire Denis, 2004, France) [8]
Yeelan (Souleymane Cissé, 1987, Mali | France | Burkina Faso | West Germany) [8]
Few of Us (Sharunas Bartas, 1996, Portugal | France | Germany | Lithuania) [6]
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, 1988, Spain) [8]
The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962, France | Italy | West Germany) [8½]
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992, Taiwan) [8½] ✵

November
(1+65)

The General (Clyde BruckmanBuster Keaton, 1926, USA) [8]
Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1923, USA) [8½] ✵
The God Of Cookery (Stephen Chow, Li Lik-Chi, 1996, Hong Kong) [8½] ✵
Black Coal, Thin Ice (Diao Yi'nan, 2014, China) [8½]
The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino, 2004, Italy) [8]
Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard, 1980, France | Switzerland | West Germany | …) [5]
Pirosmani (Giorgi Shengelaia, 1969, Soviet Union | Georgia) [7]
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001, France | Italy) [8] ✵
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke, 1994, Austria | Germany) [7]
Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi, 1997, Iran) [8]
Survive Style 5+ (Gen Sekiguchi, 2004, Japan) [7] ✵
The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994, Tunisia | France) [8]
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006, France | Germany | USA) [7]
The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967, Hungary | Soviet Union) [8]
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957, Italy | France) [8]
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953, France | Italy) [8]
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967, France) [7]
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke, 2002, China | Japan | South Korea | France) [7]
The Land (Youssef Chahine, 1970, Egypt) [7]
The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969, Iran) [8½]
Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961, France | Italy) [8½]
Labyrinth of Dreams (Gakuryû Ishii, 1997, Japan) [8]
Kaagaz Ke Phool [aka. Paper Flowers] (Guru Dutt, 1959, India) [8½]
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985, USA | Japan) [8½]
Love & Pop (Hideaki Anno, 1998, Japan) [8]
Mathilukal (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1990, India) [7]
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997, Japan) [10] ✵
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950, France) [8½]
Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse, 1954, Japan) [7]
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934, France) [9]
Araya (Margot Benacerraf, 1959, Venezuela | France) [9]
The Stranger (Satyajit Ray, 1991, India | France) [8]
Masumiyet [aka. Innocence] (Zeki Demirkubuz, 1997, Turkey) [9]
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974, USA) [9] ✵
Up, Down, Fragile (Jacques Rivette, 1995, France | Switzerland) [8]
Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders, 1991, Germany | France | Australia | USA) [9]
Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960, Italy | France) [8]
Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais, 1963, France | Italy) [8]
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, 1941, USA) [9]
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955, Denmark) [8]
A New Life (Philippe Grandrieux, 2002, France | Bulgaria) [9]
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973, Italy | France) [8]
In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang Wen, 1994, China | Hong Kong) [8]
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948, UK) [8]
Utopia (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1983, West Germany) [8½]
Casa de Lava [aka. Down to Earth] (Pedro Costa, 1994, Portugal | France | Germany) [8½]
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen, 2000, China) [8½]
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989, Mexico | Italy) [8]
Passenger (Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz, 1963, Poland) [8]
Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel, 1965, Mexico) [8]
Diabel [aka. The Devil] (Andrzej Zulawski, 1972, Poland) [8]
Hovering Over the Water (João César Monteiro, 1986, Portugal) [6]
Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy, 1963, France | Monaco) [8]
Wish (Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn, 2023, USA) [5]
City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931, USA) [8½]
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965, Soviet Union) [8]
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925, USA) [7]
Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975, Philippines) [8½]
Duelle (Jacques Rivette, 1976, France) [8]
Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer, 1996, Czech Republic | Switzerland | UK) [8]
Boy (Nagisa Ôshima, 1969, Japan) [8]
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936, USA) [8]
Who's Singin' Over There? (Slobodan Sijan, 1980, Yugoslavia) [8½]
The Marathon Family (Slobodan Sijan, 1982, Yugoslavia) [8½]
The Meeting Place (Goran Markovic, 1989, Yugoslavia) [8½]
Voyage to Cythera (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1984, Greece | West Germany | Italy | UK) [8]
Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987, Hong Kong) [8]

December
(15+11)

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic, 1996, Yugoslavia) [8]
The Asthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova, 1989, Soviet Union) [9]
Destiny (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2006, Turkey | Greece) [8½]
School on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1988, Hong Kong) [8½]
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang, 2013, Taiwan | France) [7]
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928, France) [8½]
May December (Todd Haynes, 2023, USA) [8]
Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo, 2021, Mexico |Germany | Brazil | Qatar | Argentina |... ) [8]
Neptune Frost (Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams, 2021, Rwanda | France | Canada | USA) [8]
Mars One (Gabriel Martins, 2022, Brazil) [8]
Serie Noire (Alain Corneau, 1979, France) [8½]
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt, 2022, USA) [8½]
Revoir Paris (Alice Winocour, 2022, France) [8]
Burning Days (Emin Alper, 2022, Turkey | France | Germany | Netherlands | ...) [7]
Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2023, Brazil) [9]
Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023, USA | UK | Finland | Canada) [8]
Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926, France) [9]
The Night of the 12th (Dominik Moll, 2022, France | Belguim) [7]
The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2002, Belgium | France) [8]
Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973, Japan) [8]
My Brother's Wedding (Charles Burnett, 1983, USA) [8]
Leila's Brothers (Saeed Roustayi, 2022, Iran) [9]
Return to Seoul (Davy Chou, 2022, France | Germany | Belgium | South Korea | …) [7]
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023, France) [8]
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 2022, France | USA) [9]
Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli, 2023, USA) [7]