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January
(2+8/+4)

Bodies (Marco Kreuzpaintner, Haolu Wang, 2023, UK) [7]
Carol & The End of The World (Cr. Dan Guterman, 2023, USA) [8]
For All Mankind: Season 4 (Various Directors, 2023-24, USA) [8]
Fargo: Season 5 (Various Directors, 2024, USA) [8]
The Marvels (Nia DaCosta, 2023, USA) [4]
Thanksgiving (Eli Roth, 2023, USA | Canada | Australia) [8]
Door (Banmei Takahashi, 1988, Japan) [7]
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957, USA) [8]
After the Curfew (Usmar Ismail, 1954, Indonesia) [8½]
Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1957, Poland) [8]
Ninja in the Claw of the CIA (John Liu, 1983, Spain | Hong Kong) [7]
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970, Italy) [8]
Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959, Poland) [8½]
Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976, France | Italy) [8]

February
(2+41)

Land and Freedom (Ken Loach, 1995, UK | Spain | Germany | Italy | France | USA) [7]
The Beekeeper (David Ayer, 2024, USA | UK) [7]
The Emigrants (Jan Troell, 1971, Sweden) [8½]
The New Land (Jan Troell, 1972, Sweden) [8½]
Who Saw Him Die? (Jan Troell, 1968, Sweden) [8½]
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [10] ✵
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000, Japan) [8]
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957, USA) [8]
A Time to Live, a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1985, Taiwan) [8]
Cría Cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976, Spain) [8]
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982, USA) [8] ✵
Hukkle (György Pálfi, 2002, Hungary) [8½] ✵
Death of a Bureaucrat (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1966, Cuba) [8]
Marty (Delbert Mann, 1955, USA) [8]
A Question of Silence (Marleen Gorris, 1982, Netherlands) [8]
Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006, Hong Kong | China) [8½] ✵
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986, USA | UK) [8] ✵
My Bloody Valentine (George Mihalka, 1981, Canada) [6] ✵
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France) [9] ✵
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977, USA) [10] ✵
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997, Iran | France) [8] ✵
Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, 1994, Taiwan | USA) [9] ✵
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984, UK | USA) [7] ✵
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011, Iran) [10] ✵
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023, Japan | Germany) [8]
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987, USA) [8] ✵
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966, Japan) [8] ✵
Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002, Sweden | Denmark) [8½] ✵
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011, Hungary | France | Germany | Switz...) [8] ✵
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2004, Japan) [8] ✵
The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998, Denmark | Sweden) [8½] ✵
Inside Llewyn Davis (Ethan & Joel Coen, 2013, USA | France) [10] ✵
Thesis (Alejandro Amenábar, 1996, Spain) [7] ✵
The Family Game (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1983, Japan) [8½] ✵
Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998, France) [8] ✵
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978, USA | Italy) [9] ✵
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) [10] ✵
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999, France) [10] ✵
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015, Australia | USA) [9] ✵
Days Of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978, USA) [9] ✵
The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, 2000, France) [9] ✵
The Bird People in China (Takashi Miike, 1998, Japan) [8] ✵
Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang, 1982, USA) [8½] ✵

March
(1+53)

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978, Italy) [9]
Goyokin (Hideo Gosha, 1969, Japan) [7]
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006, Portugal | France | Switzerland) [8]
The Fiancés (Ermanno Olmi, 1963, Italy) [9]
Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak, 1965, India) [8]
The Wishing Tree (Tengiz Abuladze, 1976, Soviet Union) [8]
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975, France) [6]
Love Massacre (Patrick Tam, 1981, Hong Kong) [7]
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, 1991, France) [9]
Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979, USA) [8]
Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951, France) [7]
A Moment of Romance (Benny Chan, 1990, Hong Kong) [8½]
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994, Iran | France) [8]
Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967, Japan) [8]
Chocolat (Claire Denis, 1988, France | West Germany | Cameroon) [8½]
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004, Argentina | Italy | Netherlands | Spain) [7]
Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige, 1984, China) [8½]
Yol (Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney, 1982, Turkey | Switzerland) [8]
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Éric Rohmer, 1987, France) [8]
Election (Alexander Payne, 1999, USA) [9] ✵
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, 1971, France) [7]
Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954, Japan) [8]
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960, Italy | France) [8½]
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965, Japan) [8]
Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1992, China | Hong Kong) [8]
Rosetta (Dardenne Brothers, 1999, France | Belgium) [8½] ✵
Sound and Fury (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1988, France) [8]
Time to Love (Metin Erksan, 1965, Turkey) [8]
The Last Dive (João César Monteiro, 1992, Portugal | France) [6]
Morning Patrol (Nikos Nikolaidis, 1987, Greece) [7]
The Weeping Meadow (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 2004, Greece | France | Italy |...) [8]
Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004, Hong Kong | China) [8] ✵
The Girl (Márta Mészáros, 1968, Hungary) [8]
Travolta et moi (Patricia Mazuy, 1993, France) [9]
Bullet Ballet (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1998, Japan) [7]
Dune (David Lynch, 1984, USA | Mexico) [7]
Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974, West Germany) [8]
The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, 1986, France) [8½] ✵
Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, 2024, USA | Canada | UAE | Hungary | Italy |...) [9]
An Average Little Man (Mario Monicelli, 1977, Italy) [8]
Dillinger Is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969, Italy) [8]
We All Loved Each Other So Much (Ettore Scola, 1974, Italy) [8]
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Philippe Garrel, 1991, France) [8½]
Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965, France) [7]
When the Cat Comes (Vojtech Jasný, 1963, Czechoslovakia) [8]
Peppermint Soda (Diane Kurys, 1977, France) [8½]
News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1976, Belgium | France | West Germany) [6]
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, 1986, USA) [8½] ✵
Padre Padrone (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, 1977, Italy) [8]
Love Letter (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1953, Japan) [8] 
Moving (Shinji Sômai, 1993, Japan) [9]
Mahjong (Edward Yang, 1996, Taiwan) [10]
Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi, 1962, Italy) [8½]
Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986, Hong Kong) [8]

April
(0+18)

A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon, 2005, South Korea) [8]
Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1960, Soviet Union) [8]
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong, 1999, South Korea | Japan) [8½]
The Executioner (Luis García Berlanga, 1963, Spain | Italy) [8]
Nomad (Patrick Tam, 1982, Hong Kong) [9]
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963, Italy | France) [7]
My Little Loves (Jean Eustache, 1974, France) [7]
An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky, 1978, USA) [8]
Trial of the Road (Aleksei German, 1971/1986, Soviet Union) [7]
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, 2008, Italy | Belgium) [8] ✵
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010, USA) [8]
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, 1996, Hong Kong) [8½]
Time for Revenge (Adolfo Aristarain, 1981, Argentina) [8]
Rabid Dogs (Mario Bava, 1974, Italy) [6]
The Man from Majorca (Bo Widerberg, 1984, Sweden | Denmark) [8]
Zerograd (Karen Shakhnazarov, 1988, Soviet Union) [7]
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974, USA) [8½] ✵
Love & Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller, 1973, Italy | France) [8]

May
(2+73)

Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963, USA) [8]
Szerelem [aka. Love] (Károly Makk, 1971, Hungary) [8]
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (Eldar Shengelaia, 1983, Soviet Union) [8]
Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1958, India) [8]
Iron Monkey (Yuen Woo-Ping, 1993, Hong Kong) [8]
Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980, USA) [8½]
A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977, Italy | Canada) [8½]
The Creatures (Agnès Varda, 1966, France) [8]
After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985, USA) [9]
Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986, USA | West Germany) [8½] ✵
To Sleep So as to Dream (Kaizô Hayashi, 1986, Japan) [7]
Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998, USA | Canada) [7] 
Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955, France) [8]
The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert, 2015, Brazil) [8½]
Profound Desires of the Gods (Shôhei Imamura, 1968, Japan) [7]
Going Places (Bertrand Blier, 1974, France) [8]
Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996, Iran | France) [8]
Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024, Japan) [8½]
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Wes Ball, 2024, USA) [8]
Downpour (Bahram Beyzaie, 1972, Iran) [8]
Elippathayam [aka. Rat-Trap]  (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1981, India) [8]
Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen, 1984, USA) [8]
Baby Reindeer (Weronika Tofilska, Josephine Bornebusch, 2024, UK) [8]
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979, West Germany | France) [8]
Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977, USA) [9]
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973, UK) [7] 1.28
Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997, Hong Kong | South Korea | Japan) [8]
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973, USA) [8½]
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971, USA) [7]
Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962, Soviet Union) [8½]
The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996, USA) [7]
Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1987, Poland) [8]
Reconstruction (Lucian Pintilie, 1968, Romania) [8]
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988, UK | West Germany) [8½]
Kotoko (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 2011, Japan) [8]
Bang Bang (Andrea Tonacci, 1971, Brazil) [7]
Ticket of No Return (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979, West Germany) [8½]
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011, USA | UAE) [8½] ✵
Tango (Zbigniew Rybczynski, 1981, Poland) [8]
One False Move (Carl Franklin, 1991, USA) [8½]
Morgiana (Juraj Herz, 1972, Czechoslovakia) [8]
The Captive (Chantal Akerman, 2000, France | Belgium) [8½]
Day of the Wacko (Marek Koterski, 2002, Poland) [8½]
The Long Farewell (Kira Muratova, 1971, Soviet Union) [8]
The Oak (Lucian Pintilie, 1992, France | Romania) [8]
Beauty and the Beast (Juraj Herz, 1978, Czechoslovakia) [7]
The Joke (Jaromil Jires, 1969, Czechoslovakia) [8]
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1993, Taiwan) [8]
The Last Seduction (John Dahl, 1994, UK | USA) [8]
Cries & Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972, Sweden) [9] ✵
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972, West Germany) [9] ✵
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975, Australia) [9]
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972, West Germany) [8½]
Diamonds of the Night (Jan Nemec, 1964, Czechoslovakia) [8½]
A Taxing Woman (Jûzô Itami, 1987, Japan) [8]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962, USA) [8]
Blind Shaft (Li Yang, 2004, China) [8½]
Muddy River (Kôhei Oguri, 1981, Japan) [8]
Filme Demência (Carlos Reichenbach, 1986, Brazil) [8]
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974, West Germany) [8½]
My Uncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971, Canada) [7]
Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Albert & David Maysles, Muffie Meyer, 1975, USA) [9]
Bagdad Cafe (Percy Adlon, 1987, West Germany) [8]
Decoder (Muscha, 1984, West Germany) [7]
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, 2006, USA) [8½]
The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman, 2009, France | Belgium | Italy | UAE) [9]
Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine, 1999, USA) [8]
Time Stands Still (Péter Gothár, 1982, Hungary) [8½]
Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette, 1981, France) [8]
Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg, 1980, UK | USA) [8]
The Firemen’s Ball (Milos Forman, 1967, Czechoslovakia | Italy) [8½]
Girl with Hyacinths (Hasse Ekman, 1950, Sweden) [9]
The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette, 2003, France | Italy) [8]
The Player (Robert Altman, 1992, USA) [8½]
Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007, USA) [8½] ✵
Lake of the Dead (Kåre Bergstrøm, 1958, Norway) [7]

June
(20+46)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller, 2024, Australia | USA) [9]
Ferat Vampire (Juraj Herz, 1982, Czechoslovakia) [7]
Waiting for the Hearse (Alejandro Doria, 1985, Argentina) [8½]
Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983, USA) [9]
The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980, USA | UK) [8½]
Lonely Heart (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1985, Japan) [8]
The Discarnates (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1988, Japan) [7]
Au Revoir les Enfants (Louis Malle, 1987, West Germany | France | Italy) [8½]
Merry-Go-Round (Zoltán Fábri, 1956, Hungary) [8]
The Rocking Horsemen (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1992, Japan) [8½]
The War of the Worlds: Next Century (Piotr Szulkin, 1981, Poland) [8]
Hunger (Henning Carlsen, 1966, Denmark | Norway | Sweden) [8½]
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, 2023, USA | UK | Poland) [8½]
Evil Does Not Exist (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2023, Japan) [8½]
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki, 2023, Finland | Germany) [7]
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude, 2023, Roman.. | Lux… | Fra... | ...) [8½]
Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice, 2023, Spain | Argentina) [8½]
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023, Italy | France | Switzerland | Turkey) [8½]
Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik, 2022, USA) [7]
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello, 2023, France | Canada) [9]
Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, 2023, Japan) [9]
Totem (Lila Avilés, 2023, Mexico | France | Denmark | Netherlands) [8]
The First Omen (Arkasha Stevenson, 2024, USA | Italy | Serbia | Canada) [8]
Mars Express (Jérémie Périn, 2023, France) [8½]
Late Night with the Devil (Cameron & Colin Cairnes, 2023, Australia | USA | UAE) [6]
The Taste of Things (Tran Anh Hung, 2023, France | Belgium) [9]
How to Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker, 2023, UK | Greece) [8]
Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania, 2023, France | Tunisia | Germany | …) [9]
Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972, USA) [8]
Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008, Australia) [6]
Getting to Know the Big Wide World (Kira Muratova, 1978, Soviet Union) [8]
Typhoon Club (Shinji Sômai, 1985, Japan) [8]
Rio, Zona Norte (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1957, Brazil) [8½]
The Company of Strangers (Cynthia Scott, 1990, Canada) [8½]
The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has, 1965, Poland) [7]
Pictures of the Old World (Dusan Hanák, 1972, Czechoslovakia) [7]
Quest (Saul Bass, Elaine Bass, 1984, USA) [8]
Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann, 2024, USA | Japan) [8]
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024, USA) [6]
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000, France) [9]
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010, Canada | France) [9]
A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009, France | Italy) [8]
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973, USA) [8] ✵
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979, USA) [8]
Black Rain (Shôhei Imamura, 1989, Japan) [8½]
One Day Before the Rainy Season (Mani Kaul, 1971, India) [7]
Tale of the Three Jewels (Michel Khleifi, 1995, Belgium | Spain | Palestine | UK) [8]
When Evil Lurks (Demián Rugna, 2023, Argentina | USA) [8]
The Woman Who Invented Love (Jean Garret, 1980, Brazil) [7]
Suzhou River (Lou Ye, 2000, Germany | China) [8½]
The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, 2009, Spain | Peru) [8]
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959, Japan) [7]
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971, UK | Australia) [8½]
Happy Hour (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2015, Japan) [10]
Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993, Hong Kong) [8]
Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995, USA | UK) [8]
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1974, Sweden) [8½]
The Cat (Lam Ngai Kai, 1992, Hong Kong) [8]
Angel's Egg (Mamoru Oshii, 1985, Japan) [8]
Sleepwalk (Sara Driver, 1986, USA | West Germany) [7]
The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii, 2004, Japan) [9]
Swing Girls (Shinobu Yaguchi, 2004, Japan) [8]
Nostos: The Return (Franco Piavoli, 1989, Italy) [8]
Celia (Ann Turner, 1989, Australia) [8½]
A Report on the Party and Guests (Jan Nemec, 1966, Czechoslovakia) [8]
The Sympathizer (Park Chan-wook, Fernando Meirelles, Marc Munden, 2024, USA | South Korea | ...) [8]
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader, 1978, USA) [8]
The House (Sharunas Bartas, 1997, Lithuania | Portugal | France) [8]

July
(2+59)

Mephisto (István Szabó, 1981, Hungary | West Germany | Austria) [8]
The Hero (Satyajit Ray, 1966, India) [8]
The Eccentrics (Eldar Shengelaia , 1974, Soviet Union) [8]
On the Run (Alfred Cheung, 1988, Hong Kong) [8½]
Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975, France | USA) [8]
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981l West Germany | Italy | France | USA) [8]
99 (Sampson Collins, 2024, UK | USA) [8]
Ritual (Hideaki Anno, 2000, Japan) [7]
The River (Tsai Ming-liang, 1997, Taiwan) [8½]
Full Alert (Ringo Lam, 1997, Hong Kong) [8½]
Take Out (Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou, 2004, USA) [8½]
Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961, Italy) [8½]
She Shoots Straight (Corey Yuen, 1990, Hong Kong) [8]
The Valley of the Bees (Frantisek Vlácil, 1968, Czechoslovakia) [7]
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955, USA) [7]
Birds, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969, Czechoslovakia | France) [8]
To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994, Hong Kong | China) [9]
Maniac Cop 2 (William Lustig, 1990, USA) [8½] ✵
Tristana (Luis Buñuel, 1970, Spain | Italy | France) [8½]
July Rain (Marlen Khutsiev, 1967, Soviet Union) [8]
Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992, USA | Japan) [8½]
Invasión (Hugo Santiago, 1969, Argentina) [8½]
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997, USA) [8½]
That Day, on the Beach (Edward Yang, 1983, Taiwan) [9]
Righting Wrongs [aka. Above the Law] (Corey Yuen, 1986, Hong Kong) [8]
Le Bonheur [aka. Happiness] (Agnès Varda, 1965, France) [8½] ✵
The Butcher [aka. Le Boucher] (Claude Chabrol, 1970, France | Italy) [8½] ✵
Story of Women (Claude Chabrol, 1988, France) [8½]
Prison on Fire II (Ringo Lam, 1991, Hong Kong) [8]
Demons 2 (Lamberto Bava, 1986, Italy) [8]
I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noé, 1998, France) [8½] ✵
Kamikaze Girls (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2004, Japan) [7]
Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975, USA) [7]
The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes, 1975, USA) [8½]
The Day I Became A Woman (Marzieh Makhmalbaf, 2000, Iran) [8]
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975, Italy | France | Spain) [8]
Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981, France) [8]
A Better Tomorrow (John Woo, 1986, Hong Kong) [8½] ✵
Kummatty (Govindan Aravindan, 1979, India) [8½]
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967, USA) [8]
West Indies (Med Hondo, 1979, France | Algeria | Mauritania) [8]
Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973, France | Czechoslovakia) [8½]
The Iron Rose (Jean Rollin, 1973, France) [8]
A Better Tomorrow II (John Woo, 1987, Hong Kong) [8½] ✵
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Sergio Martino, 1971, Italy | Spain) [7]
Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997, France | USA) [8]
Ping Pong the Animation (Masaaki Yuasa/Various Directors, 2014, Japan) [10]
The People Under The Stairs (Wes Carven, 1991, USA) [8]
Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, 1964, Italy | France) [9]
What's Up Doc (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972, USA) [8½]
Sole Survivor (Thom Eberhardt, 1984, USA) [7]
Killer Constable (Kuei Chih-Hung, 1980, Hong Kong) [8½]
Drop Dead Gorgeous (Michael Patrick Jann, 1999, USA | Germany) [8]
I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965, Italy | France | West Germany) [8½]
Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa, Kôji Morimoto, 2004, Japan) [8½]
Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961, Poland) [8]
Kisapmata (Mike De Leon, 1981, Philippines) [9]
Time Masters (René Laloux, 1982, France) [8]
Awaara (Raj Kapoor, 1951, India) [9]
Deadpool & Wolverine (Shawn Levy, 2024, USA | Canada | Australia | New Zealand) [6]
When the Tenth Month Comes (Dang Nhat Minh, 1984, Vietnam) [8½]

August
(12+35)

Carne (Gaspar Noé, 1991, France) [8]
The Mission (Johnnie To, 1999, Hong Kong) [8]
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971, USA) [9]
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, 1995, USA) [8]
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1966, UK) [8]
MaXXXine (Ti West, 2024, USA | UK | New Zealand) [8]
Election (Johnnie To, 2005, Hong Kong) [8] ✵
Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974, USA) [8]
Election 2 (Johnnie To, 2006, Hong Kong) [8½]
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970, USA) [8]
Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1960, France) [8]
Asparagus (Suzan Pitt, 1979, USA) [8]
Litan (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 1982, France) [8½]
Gonin [aka. The Five] (Takashi Ishii, 1995, Japan) [8½]
Murmur of Youth (Lin Cheng-sheng, 1997, Taiwan) [8]
Putney Swope (Robert Downey, 1969, USA) [8]
Adieu Philippine (Jacques Rozier, 1962, France) [7]
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991, USA) [8]
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, 2001, Canada) [9]
Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene, 2003, Senegal | Burkina Faso | Morocco | ...) [8]
The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima, 1967, Italy | Spain) [8]
Serial Mom (John Waters, 1994, USA) [7]
Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010, Poland | Norway | Ireland | Hungary | UK) [7]
Street of Shame ((Kenji Mizoguchi, 1956, Japan) [8½]
Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967, Italy | Morocco) [8½]
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942, USA) [8½]
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1992, Japan) [8]
Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984, USA) [8½]
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes, 1971, USA) [8]
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957, USA) [8]
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Jindrich Polák, 1977, Czechoslovakia) [8½]
Never Open That Door (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952, Argentina) [8½]
The Laughing Woman (Piero Schivazappa, 1969, Italy) [8]
Longlegs (Osgood Perkins, 2024, USA | Canada) [8]
Oddity (Damian Mc Carthy, 2024, Ireland) [8½]
The Teachers’ Lounge (Ilker Çatak, 2023, Germany) [8]
Robot Dreams (Pablo Berger, 2023, Spain | France) [8]
Io Capitano (Matteo Garrone, 2023, Italy | Belgium | France) [8½]
Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing, 2023, France | Luxembourg | Netherlands) [8½]
Red Rooms (Pascal Plante, 2023, Canada) [9]
Spermworld (Lance Oppenheim, 2024, USA) [9]
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Ariane Louis-Seize, 2023, Canada) [8½]
The Settlers (Felipe Gálvez Haberle, 2023, Chile | Argentina | UK | Taiwan | Germany |…) [7]
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974, USA) [8]
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigoriy Chukhray, 1959, Soviet Union) [9]
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (Felipe Cazals, 1976, Mexico) [8]
Trap (M. Night Shyamalan, 2024, USA | Canada) [6]

September
(2+35)

Next of Kin (Tony Williams, 1982, Australia | New Zealand) [8]
Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1997, Russia | Germany) [6]
Footprints on the Moon [aka. Le orme] (Luigi Bazzoni, Mario Fanelli, 1975, Italy | Turkey) [6]
US Go Home (Claire Denis, 1994, France) [7]
Meantime (Mike Leigh, 1983, UK) [8½]
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007, France| USA) [7]
Silvia Prieto (Martín Rejtman, 1999, Argentina) [9]
Crimes of Passion (Ken Russell, 1984 ,USA) [8½]
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beyzaie, 1989, Iran) [8]
Crime Wave (John Paizs, 1985, Canada) [8½]
Lourdes (Jessica Hausner, 2009, Austria | France | Germany) [8½]
Import Export (Ulrich Seidl, 2007, Austria | France | Germany) [8]
The House with Laughing Windows (Pupi Avati, 1976, Italy) [7]
The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu, 1973, Hong Kong | Taiwan) [8]
Johnny Mnemonic: In Black and White (Robert Longo, 2022/1995, Canada | USA) [8]
Raining in the Mountain (King Hu, 1979, Taiwan | Hong Kong) [8½]
Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (Sarah Jacobson, 1996, USA) [8½]
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951, USA) [8]
The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2008, France) [8½]
Cuckoo (Tilman Singer, 2024, Germany | USA) [8½]
Dìdi (Sean Wang, 2024, USA) [8½]
Documenteur (Agnès Varda, 1981, France | USA) [8]
The Destiny of a Man (Sergey Bondarchuk, 1959, Soviet Union) [8]
Moral (Marilou Diaz-Abaya, 1982, Philippines) [8½]
Rapado [aka. Cropped Head] (Martín Rejtman, 1992, Argentina | Netherlands) [8½]
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Buñuel, 1955, Mexico) [8½]
The Noose (Wojciech Has, 1958, Poland) [8½]
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002, UK | Canada) [8]
L’Immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963, France | Italy | Turkey) [8]
Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941, Japan) [8]
The Ogre of Athens (Nikos Koundouros, 1956, Greece) [8]
Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, 1953, USA) [8½]
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985, USA) [10] ✵
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989, USA) [10] ✵
Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis, 1990, USA) [10] ✵
Alucarda (Juan López Moctezuma, 1977, Mexico) [8½]
Equinox Flower (Yasujirô Ozu, 1958, Japan) [8½]

October
(8+17)

Judex (Georges Franju, 1963, France | Italy) [8]
License to Live (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1998, Japan) [8½]
Kirikou and the Sorceress (Michel Ocelot, 1998, France | Belgium | Luxembourg) [8½]
The Sleeping Car Murder (Costa-Gavras, 1965, France) [8½]
...Ja teeb trikke (Priit Pärn, 1978, Soviet Union) [8]
The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934, USA) [8]
V/H/S/Beyond (Various Directors, 2024, USA) [7]
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau, 1931, USA) [8½]
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (F.W. Murnau, 1922, Germany) [8½]
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (Pat Boonnitipat, 2024, Thailand) [7]
Bramayugam (Rahul Sadasivan, 2024, India) [9]
Last Summer (Catherine Breillat, 2023, France | Norway) [8½]
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954, USA) [-]
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024, UK | France) [9]
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (Chor Yuen, 1972, Hong Kong) [8½]
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957, Italy | USA) [9]
Loulou (Maurice Pialat, 1980, France) [8½]
A Snake of June (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 2002, Japan) [8½] ✵
A Single Girl (Benoît Jacquot, 1995, France) [9]
Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1950, Italy | USA) [8½]
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959, USA) [9]
Jazz on a Summer's Day (Bert Stern, Aram Avakian, 1959, USA) [8]
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, 2024, China) [8]
Green Border (Agnieszka Holland, 2023, Poland | USA | France | Czech | Belguim | ...) [8]
About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023, Turkey | France | Germany | Sweden) [8½]

November
(9+7)

The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To, 1993, Hong Kong | China) [7]
Heroic Trio 2: Executioners (Ching Siu-Tung, Johnnie To, 1993, Hong Kong) [8]
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz, 2013, Philippines) [9]
Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977, Italy) [9] ✵
MadS (David Moreau, 2024, France) [8½]
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024, USA) [8½]
Serpent's Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1998, Japan) [8½]
Serpent's Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024, France | Japan) [7]
Look Back (Kiyotaka Oshiyama, 2024, Japan) [8]
Smile 2 (Parker Finn, 2024, USA | Canada) [8]
The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979, USA) [7]
The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi, 2024, Canada | Denmark | Ireland | USA) [8]
Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024, Japan) [8½]
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947, UK | Ireland) [8]
Time Still Turns the Pages (Nick Cheu, 2023, Hong Kong) [6]
Black Dog (Guan Hu, 2024, China) [9]

December
(x)

Maharaja (Nithilan Saminathan, 2024, India) [7]
Rumours (Evan & Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin, 2024, Canada | Germany | USA |...) [8]
All the Long Nights (Shô Miyake, 2024, Japan) [8]
Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) (Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri, 2020, Nigeria) [8½]
Challengers (Luca Guadagnino, 2024, USA | Italy) [8½]
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, 2024, France | Belgium) [8]
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt, 2024, Ireland | UK) [7]
Anora (Sean Baker, 2024, USA) [8½]
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, 2024, Portugal | Italy | France | Germany | Japan | China) [7]
Dahomey (Mati Diop, 2024, France | Senegal | Benin | Singapore) [7]
The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno, 2023, Argentina | Luxembourg | Brazil | Chile) [9]
By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo, 2024, South Korea) [8½]
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024, France | Germany | Iran) [8]
There's Still Tomorrow (Paola Cortellesi, 2023, Italy) [x]
Ripley (Steven Zaillian, 2024, USA) [x]

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No Other Land (Basel Adra, Y. Abraham, H. Ballal, R. Szor, 2024, Palestine | Norway) [x]
From What Is Before (Lav Diaz, 2014, Philippines) [x]
Nazarin (Luis Buñuel, 1959, Mexico) [x]
Like Nothing Happened (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2003, Japan) [x]
Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961, Italy) [x]
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Bae Yong-Kyun, 1989, South Korea) [x]
0.5 mm (Momoko Andô, 2014, Japan) [x]
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005, France | Taiwan) [x]
A River Called Titas (Ritwik Ghatak, 1973, India) [x]
The Pizza Triangle (Ettore Scola, 1970, Italy) [x]
The Moon Has Risen (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1955, Japan) [x]
Nostalgia for Countryland (Dang Nhat Minh, 1995, Vietnam | Japan) [x]
Love Letter (Shunji Iwai, 1995, Japan) [x]

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Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012, France | Germany) [x] ✵
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan, 1997, Hong Kong) [x] ✵
Dodes’ka-den (Akira Kurosawa, 1970, Japan) [x] ✵
Neighbouring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012, Brazil) [x] ✵
A Colt Is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967, Japan) [x] ✵
A Snake of June (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 2002, Japan) [x]
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968, USA) [x] ✵
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970, UK | West Germany) [x] ✵
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961, Italy) [x] ✵
Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel, 1966, Czechoslovakia) [x] ✵
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964, Cuba | Soviet Union) [x] ✵
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010, Portugal | Spain | France | Brazil) [x] ✵

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