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Top 10 Films of 2023
(coming at the end of the year)
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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)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
Armageddon Time (James Gray, 2022)
Dear Comrades! (Andrey Konchalovskiy, 2020)
Halloween Ends (David Gordon Green, 2022)
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)
Speak No Evil (Christian Tafdrup, 2022)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller, 2022)
Vortex (Gaspar Noé, 2021)
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)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
Can't Get You Out of My Head (Adam Curtis, 2021)
Dino Girl Gauko: Season 1-2 (Akira Shigino, 2019)
Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson, 2021)
Lillian (Andreas Horvath, 2019)
New York Ninja (John Liu, Kurtis Spieler, 2021)
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)
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)
House of Hummingbird (Bora Kim, 2018)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, 2020)
Ju-on: Origins (Sho Miyake, 2020)
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello, 2019)
Monos (Alejandro Landes, 2019)
The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank, 2020)
So Long, My Son (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2019)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019)
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Top 10 Films of 2019
(alphabetical order)
The Chambermaid (Lila Avilés, 2018)
Climax (Gaspar Noé, 2018)
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
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)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, 2018)
Atlantics (Mati Diop, 2019)
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov, 2019)
Chernobyl (Johan Renck, 2019)
Crawl (Alexandre Aja, 2019)
Doctor Sleep (Mike Flanagan, 2019)
The Edge of Democracy (Petra Costa, 2019)
Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon, 2019)
Holiday (Isabella Eklöf, 2018)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019)
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, 2018)
Rilakkuma and Kaoru (Masahito Kobayashi/Naoko Ogigami, 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)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, 2017)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
The Great Buddha+ (Huang Hsin-yao, 2017)
Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel, 2017)
Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon, 2017)
On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi, 2017)
Quit Staring at My Plate (Hana Jusic, 2016)
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)
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)
HyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis, 2016)
Jackie (Pablo Larraín, 2016)
Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts, 2017)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)
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)
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)
The Fool (Yuriy Bykov, 2014)
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016)
The High Sun (Dalibor Matanic, 2015)
Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, 2014)
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)
Honorable Mentions
(alphabetical order)
Ant-Man (Peyton Reed, 2015)
Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014)
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier, 2013)
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2015)
Paddington (Paul King, 2014)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, 2015)
Zero Motivation (Talya Lavie, 2014)
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