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Top 10 Films of 2024
(coming at the end of the year)
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Top 10 Films of 2023
(Alphabetical Order)
The Beasts (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2022)
Full Time (Eric Gravel, 2021)
Godland (Hlynur Pálmason, 2022)
Leila's Brothers (Saeed Roustayi, 2022)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Antonio Lukich, 2022)
The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)
Pacifiction (Albert Serra, 2022)
Rimini (Ulrich Seidl, 2022)
Talk to Me (Danny and Michael Philippou, 2022)
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella, 2022)
Special Mentions
(Alphabetical Order)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 2022)
Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2023)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
Afire (Christian Petzold, 2023)
Alcarràs (Carla Simón, 2022)
Aloner (Hong Seong-eun, 2021)
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023)
Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2020)
Neptune Frost (Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams, 2021)
Tár (Todd Field, 2022)
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Top 10 Films of 2022
(alphabetical order)
Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino, 2022)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, 2022)
Hellbender (John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, 2021)
Luzzu (Alex Camilleri, 2021)
Pearl (Ti West, 2022)
Petrov's Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov, 2021)
Playground (Laura Wandel, 2021)
Red Rocket (Sean Baker, 2021)
RRR (S.S. Rajamouli, 2022)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund, 2022)
Special Mentions
(Alphabetical Order)
Halloween Ends (David Gordon Green, 2022)
Speak No Evil (Christian Tafdrup, 2022)
Vortex (Gaspar Noé, 2021)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
Armageddon Time (James Gray, 2022)
Dear Comrades! (Andrey Konchalovskiy, 2020)
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi, 2022)
Kimi (Steven Soderbergh, 2022)
The Northman (Robert Eggers, 2022)
Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, 2022)
The Sadness (Rob Jabbaz, 2021)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller, 2022)
Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021)
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Top 10 Films of 2021
(alphabetical order)
Azor (Andreas Fontana, 2021)
Bait (Mark Jenkin, 2019)
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude, 2021)
The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson, 2021)
Dune (Denis Villeneuve, 2021)
Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)
Quo vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic, 2020)
Red Post On Escher Street (Sion Sono, 2020)
Titane (Julia Ducournau, 2021)
Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
Special Mentions
(Alphabetical Order)
Can't Get You Out of My Head (Adam Curtis, 2021)
New York Ninja (John Liu, Kurtis Spieler, 2021)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
Dino Girl Gauko: Season 1-2 (Akira Shigino, 2019)
Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson, 2021)
Lillian (Andreas Horvath, 2019)
Soul (Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, 2020)
The Truffle Hunters (Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, 2020)
Yellow Cat (Adilkhan Yerzhanov, 2020)
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Top 10 Films of 2020
(alphabetical order)
Asako I & II (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2018)
Bacurau (Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2019)
Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux, 2019)
Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, 2019)
La Flor (Mariano Llinás, 2018)
The Painted Bird (Václav Marhoul, 2019)
Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood, 2019)
Technoboss (João Nicolau, 2019)
Uncut Gems (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, 2019)
The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan, 2019)
Special Mentions
(Alphabetical Order)
House of Hummingbird (Bora Kim, 2018)
Ju-on: Origins (Sho Miyake, 2020)
The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, 2020)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
American Factory (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, 2019)
Challenger: The Final Flight (Steven Leckart, Glen Zipper, 2020)
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)
The Hunt (Craig Zobel, 2020)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, 2020)
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello, 2019)
Monos (Alejandro Landes, 2019)
So Long, My Son (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2019)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019)
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Top 10 Films of 2019
(alphabetical order)
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov, 2019)
The Chambermaid (Lila Avilés, 2018)
Climax (Gaspar Noé, 2018)
Luz (Tilman Singer, 2018)
Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)
The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2018)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019, South Korea)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham, 2018)
The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018)
Special Mentions
(Alphabetical Order)
Crawl (Alexandre Aja, 2019)
Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon, 2019)
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, 2018)
Rilakkuma and Kaoru (Masahito Kobayashi/Naoko Ogigami, 2019)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, 2018)
Atlantics (Mati Diop, 2019)
Chernobyl (Johan Renck, 2019)
Doctor Sleep (Mike Flanagan, 2019)
The Edge of Democracy (Petra Costa, 2019)
Holiday (Isabella Eklöf, 2018)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019)
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019)
Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)
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Top 10 Films of 2018
(alphabetical order)
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo, 2018)
Faces Places (JR, Agnès Varda, 2017)
Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)
In the Aisles (Thomas Stuber, 2018)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)
Summer 1993 (Carla Simón, 2017)
Special Mentions
(Alphabetical Order)
The Great Buddha+ (Huang Hsin-yao, 2017)
Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon, 2017)
Quit Staring at My Plate (Hana Jusic, 2016)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, 2017)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel, 2017)
On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (Phil Johnston, Rich Moore, 2018)
Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018)
Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017)
The Workshop (Laurent Cantet, 2017)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017)
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Top 10 Films of 2017
(alphabetical order)
Columbus (Kogonada, 2017)
A Ghost Story (David Lowery, 2017)
Harmonium (Kôji Fukada, 2016)
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, 2016)
Paths of the Soul (Zhang Yang, 2015)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017)
Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie, 2016)
Thithi (Raam Reddy, 2015)
Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch, 2017)
The Untamed (Amat Escalante, 2016)
Special Mentions
(Alphabetical Order)
HyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis, 2016)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler, 2017)
Endless Poetry (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2016)
Good Time (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, 2017)
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen, 2016)
Jackie (Pablo Larraín, 2016)
Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts, 2017)
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies, 2016)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2017)
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Top 10 Films of 2016
(alphabetical order)
After the Storm (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2016)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)
Anomalisa (Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman, 2015)
The Ardennes (Robin Pront, 2015)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
Krisha (Trey Edward Shults, 2015)
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke, 2015)
Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar, 2014)
The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
Wiener-Dog (Todd Solondz, 2016)
Special Mentions
(Alphabetical Order)
The Fool (Yuriy Bykov, 2014)
Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, 2014)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, 2015)
Black (Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, 2015)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
Court (Chaitanya Tamhane, 2014)
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016)
The High Sun (Dalibor Matanic, 2015)
O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2015)
Stranger Things (The Duffer Brothers/Shawn Levy, 2016)
Under the Shadow (Babak Anvari, 2016)
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Top 10 Films of 2015
(alphabetical order)
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015)
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2014)
Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, 2014)
Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen, 2015)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
Of Horses and Men (Benedikt Erlingsson, 2013)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015)
Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)
Special Mentions
(Alphabetical Order)
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
Paddington (Paul King, 2014)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
Ant-Man (Peyton Reed, 2015)
Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014)
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier, 2013)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2015)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, 2015)
Zero Motivation (Talya Lavie, 2014)
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Top 10 Films of 2014
(alphabetical order)
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Top 10 Films of 2013
(alphabetical order)
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Top 10 Films of 2012
(alphabetical order)
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Top 10 Films of 2011
(alphabetical order)
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Top 10 Films of 2010
(alphabetical order)
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