2019
1 FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt)
2 DOMINO (Brian De Palma)
3 YOUNG AHMED (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
4 THE IRISHMAN (Martin Scorsese)
5 GYOPO (Samuel Kiehoon Lee)
6 TWELVE THOUSAND (Nadege Trebal)
7 RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood)
8 BARRY: "ronny/lily" (Bill Hader)
9 ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino)
10 SUCCESSION: "TERN HAVEN" (Mark Mylod)
11 CATERINA (Dan Sallitt)
12 FIT MODEL (Myna Joseph)
13 DRIVING A TESLA ACROSS THE LONELIEST ROAD IN AMERICA (CGP Grey)
14 WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE (Richard Linklater)
15 THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Diao Yi'nan)
16 PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho)
17 TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
18 THE GENTLEMEN (Guy Ritchie)
19 SHAKTI (Martin Rejtman)
20 A RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK (Woody Allen)
21 VELVET BUZZSAW (Dan Gilroy)
22 OH MERCY! (Arnaud Desplechin)
23 DOLEMITE IS MY NAME (Craig Brewer)
24 ANNA (Luc Besson)
ALADDIN (Guy Ritchie)
THE SKY IS CLEAR AND BLUE TODAY (Ricky D'Ambrose)
THE MONEYCHANGER (Federico Veiroj)
SUCCESSION: "RETURN" (Becky Martin)
2018
1 ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson)
2 THE MULE (Clint Eastwood)
3 NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE (Ricky D’Ambrose)
4 THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Joel and Ethan Coen)
5 LE LIVRE D'IMAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)
6 BETTER CALL SAUL: "WIEDERSEHEN" (Vince Gilligan)
7 GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
8 IN MY ROOM (Ulrich Köhler)
9 DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE (S. Craig Zahler)
10 BLACKKKLANSMAN (Spike Lee)
11 THE DEBT COLLECTOR (Jesse V. Johnson)
12 HOTEL BY THE RIVER (Hong Sang-soo)
13 ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhang-Ke)
14 READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg)
15 SHOOT THE MOON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES (Graham Carter)
16 UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (David Robert Mitchell)
17 CHILDISH GAMBINO: THIS IS AMERICA (Hiro Murai)
18 HAMMOND SONG (Lewis Klahr)
19 LEAVE NO TRACE (Debra Granik)
IN FABRIC (Peter Strickland)
2017
1 TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
2 WONDERSTRUCK (Todd Haynes)
3 BOJACK HORSEMAN: "TIME'S ARROW" (Aaron Long)
4 BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
5 3/4 (Ilian Metev)
6 I LOVE YOU, DADDY (Louis C.K.)
7 BEFORE WE VANISH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
8 THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson, and Evan Johnson)
9 RICK AND MORTY: "THE RICKLANTIS MIXUP" (Dominic Polcino)
10 THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo)
11 THE BEGUILED (Sofia Coppola)
12 ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo)
13 SMALL TOWN CRIME (Eshom and Ian Nelms)
14 24 FRAMES (Abbas Kiarostami)
15 HAPPY END (Michael Haneke)
16 THE BEAUTIFUL ONES (Jesse V. Johnson)
17 MOM AND DAD (Brian Taylor)
18 THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (Noah Baumbach)
19 ISMAEL'S GHOSTS (Arnaud Desplechin)
20 FACES PLACES (JR and Agnès Varda)
21 WAR MACHINE (David Michôd)
22 SPIRAL JETTY (Ricky D’Ambrose)
23 THE POST (Steven Spielberg)
24 ALIEN COVENANT (Ridley Scott)
25 RICK AND MORTY: "PICKLE RICK" (Anthony Chun)
26 THE DEATH OF STALIN (Armando Iannucci)
27 FOREBODING (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
28 FAMILY LIFE (Alicia Scherson and Cristián Jiménez)
29 LAST FLAG FLYING (Richard Linklater)
SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick)
2016
1 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
2 MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins)
3 CAFE SOCIETY (Woody Allen)
4 THE ARBALEST (Adam Pinney)
5 YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
6 HARMONIA (Ori Sivan)
7 DAGUERROTYPE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
8 THE UNKNOWN GIRL (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
9 THE SALESMAN (Asghar Farhadi)
10 SULLY (Clint Eastwood)
11 STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie)
12 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills)
13 SHIN GODZILLA (Hideaki Anno)
14 HAIL, CAESAR! (Joel and Ethan Coen)
15 THE RULES FOR RULERS (CGP Grey)
16 THREE (Johnnie To)
17 A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING (Tom Tykwer)
18 A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies)
19 COME TOGETHER (Wes Anderson)
20 THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook)
21 GODS OF EGYPT (Alex Proyas)
22 CREEPY (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
OUR FATHER (Meny Yaesh)
2015
1 KNIGHT OF CUPS (Terrence Malick)
2 STEVE JOBS (Danny Boyle)
3 ALOHA (Cameron Crowe)
4 CAROL (Todd Haynes)
5 BAD AT DANCING (Joanna Arnow)
6 EXPERIMENTER (Michael Almereyda)
7 THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin)
8 JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
9 RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo)
10 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (Guy Ritchie)
11 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller)
12 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon)
13 HOW HEAVY THIS HAMMER (Kazik Radwanski)
14 BONE TOMAHAWK (S. Craig Zahler)
15 TAXI (Jafar Panahi)
16 BLACKHAT (Michael Mann)
17 SIX CENTS IN THE POCKET (Ricky D’Ambrose)
18 RYUZO AND THE SEVEN HENCHMEN (Takeshi Kitano)
19 THE WALK (Robert Zemeckis)
20 IRRATIONAL MAN (Woody Allen)
21 THE FITS (Anna Rose Holmer)
THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
10 BLACKKKLANSMAN (Spike Lee)
11 THE DEBT COLLECTOR (Jesse V. Johnson)
12 HOTEL BY THE RIVER (Hong Sang-soo)
13 ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhang-Ke)
14 READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg)
15 SHOOT THE MOON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES (Graham Carter)
16 UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (David Robert Mitchell)
17 CHILDISH GAMBINO: THIS IS AMERICA (Hiro Murai)
18 HAMMOND SONG (Lewis Klahr)
19 LEAVE NO TRACE (Debra Granik)
IN FABRIC (Peter Strickland)
2017
1 TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
2 WONDERSTRUCK (Todd Haynes)
3 BOJACK HORSEMAN: "TIME'S ARROW" (Aaron Long)
4 BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
5 3/4 (Ilian Metev)
6 I LOVE YOU, DADDY (Louis C.K.)
7 BEFORE WE VANISH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
8 THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson, and Evan Johnson)
9 RICK AND MORTY: "THE RICKLANTIS MIXUP" (Dominic Polcino)
10 THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo)
11 THE BEGUILED (Sofia Coppola)
12 ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo)
13 SMALL TOWN CRIME (Eshom and Ian Nelms)
14 24 FRAMES (Abbas Kiarostami)
15 HAPPY END (Michael Haneke)
16 THE BEAUTIFUL ONES (Jesse V. Johnson)
17 MOM AND DAD (Brian Taylor)
18 THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (Noah Baumbach)
19 ISMAEL'S GHOSTS (Arnaud Desplechin)
20 FACES PLACES (JR and Agnès Varda)
21 WAR MACHINE (David Michôd)
22 SPIRAL JETTY (Ricky D’Ambrose)
23 THE POST (Steven Spielberg)
24 ALIEN COVENANT (Ridley Scott)
25 RICK AND MORTY: "PICKLE RICK" (Anthony Chun)
26 THE DEATH OF STALIN (Armando Iannucci)
27 FOREBODING (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
28 FAMILY LIFE (Alicia Scherson and Cristián Jiménez)
29 LAST FLAG FLYING (Richard Linklater)
2016
1 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
2 MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins)
3 CAFE SOCIETY (Woody Allen)
4 THE ARBALEST (Adam Pinney)
5 YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
6 HARMONIA (Ori Sivan)
7 DAGUERROTYPE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
8 THE UNKNOWN GIRL (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
9 THE SALESMAN (Asghar Farhadi)
10 SULLY (Clint Eastwood)
11 STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie)
12 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills)
13 SHIN GODZILLA (Hideaki Anno)
14 HAIL, CAESAR! (Joel and Ethan Coen)
15 THE RULES FOR RULERS (CGP Grey)
16 THREE (Johnnie To)
17 A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING (Tom Tykwer)
18 A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies)
19 COME TOGETHER (Wes Anderson)
20 THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook)
21 GODS OF EGYPT (Alex Proyas)
22 CREEPY (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
OUR FATHER (Meny Yaesh)
2015
1 KNIGHT OF CUPS (Terrence Malick)
2 STEVE JOBS (Danny Boyle)
3 ALOHA (Cameron Crowe)
4 CAROL (Todd Haynes)
5 BAD AT DANCING (Joanna Arnow)
6 EXPERIMENTER (Michael Almereyda)
7 THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin)
8 JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
9 RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo)
10 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (Guy Ritchie)
11 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller)
12 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon)
13 HOW HEAVY THIS HAMMER (Kazik Radwanski)
14 BONE TOMAHAWK (S. Craig Zahler)
15 TAXI (Jafar Panahi)
16 BLACKHAT (Michael Mann)
17 SIX CENTS IN THE POCKET (Ricky D’Ambrose)
18 RYUZO AND THE SEVEN HENCHMEN (Takeshi Kitano)
19 THE WALK (Robert Zemeckis)
20 IRRATIONAL MAN (Woody Allen)
21 THE FITS (Anna Rose Holmer)
THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
CHI-RAQ (Spike Lee)
OFFICE (Johnnie To)
2014
1 THE MEND (John Magary)
2 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
3 HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
4 INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
5 EDGE OF TOMORROW (Doug Liman)
6 JERSEY BOYS (Clint Eastwood)
7 GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
8 NED RIFLE (Hal Hartley)
9 SOMETHING, ANYTHING (Paul Harrill)
10 TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
11 THE COSMOPOLITANS: "THE BROKEN-HEARTED" (Whit Stillman)
12 NEIGHBORS (Nicholas Stoller)
13 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (Woody Allen)
14 POMPEII (Paul W.S. Anderson)
15 THE ROVER (David Michôd)
16 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To)
17 HANNIBAL: "MIZUMONO" (David Slade)
18 BLACK COAL, THIN ICE (Diao Yi'nan)
19 DUMB AND DUMBER TO (Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
20 NIGHTCRAWLER (Dan Gilroy)
21 NOAH (Darren Aronofsky)
2013
1 BLIND DETECTIVE (Johnnie To)
2 ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Season Four (Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy Miller)
3 THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki)
4 VENUS IN FUR (Roman Polanski)
5 STOKER (Park Chan-wook)
6 PAIN & GAIN (Michael Bay)
7 THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai)
8 HANNIBAL: "SORBET" (James Foley)
9 NOBODY'S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo)
10 RIDDICK (David Twohy)
11 A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhang-Ke)
12 THE COUNSELOR (director's cut only) (Ridley Scott)
13 THE LONE RANGER (Gore Verbinski)
14 THE GREAT BEAUTY (Paolo Sorrentino)
15 SEVENTH CODE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
16 OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo)
2012
1 IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (Don Hertzfeldt)
2 KILLING THEM SOFTLY (Andrew Dominik)
3 THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt)
4 TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick)
5 LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
6 MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
7 FLIGHT (Robert Zemeckis)
8 DRUG WAR (Johnnie To)
9 DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino)
10 A HIJACKING (Tobias Lindholm)
11 APOLOGIZE (Louis C.K.)
12 LOOPER (Rian Johnson)
13 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (Paul W.S. Anderson)
14 TO ROME WITH LOVE (Woody Allen)
15 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (Nicholas Stoller)
16 PASSION (Brian De Palma)
17 NOT FADE AWAY (David Chase)
18 CLOUD ATLAS (The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer)
19 YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET (Alain Resnais)
20 THE WALL (Julian Pölsler)
21 IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo)
22 PROMETHEUS (Ridley Scott)
23 THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata)
24 NO (Pablo Larraín)
25 RED HOOK SUMMER (Spike Lee)
2011
1 THIS IS NOT A FILM (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi)
2 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen)
3 A DANGEROUS METHOD (David Cronenberg)
4 THE KID WITH A BIKE (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
5 MILDRED PIERCE (Todd Haynes)
6 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Tomas Alfredson)
7 THE DEEP BLUE SEA (Terence Davies)
8 LUCK: "Pilot" (Michael Mann)
9 THE DESCENDANTS (Alexander Payne)
10 LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To)
11 SLEEPLESS NIGHT (Frédéric Jardin)
12 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Paul W.S. Anderson)
13 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (Cameron Crowe)
14 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher)
15 YOUNG ADULT (Jason Reitman)
16 DRIVE (Nicolas Winding Refn)
17 THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodovar)
18 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To)
19 J. EDGAR (Clint Eastwood)
20 MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller)
21 THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (Paolo Sorrentino)
22 MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan)
23 THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick)
24 HAYWIRE (Steven Soderbergh)
25 DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (Whit Stillman)
26 CARNAGE (Roman Polanski)
27 THE GUARD (John Michael McDonagh)
28 HANNA (Joe Wright)
29 THE IDES OF MARCH (George Clooney)
BLACK MIRROR: "15 MILLION MERITS" (Euros Lyn, UK)
2010
1 CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami)
2 TRUE GRIT (Joel and Ethan Coen)
3 MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raul Ruiz)
4 THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (Manoel de Oliveira)
5 ANOTHER YEAR (Mike Leigh)
6 TUESDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS (Radu Muntean)
7 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Paul W.S. Anderson)
8 FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard)
9 HOW DO YOU KNOW (James L. Brooks)
10 ANTON CHEKHOV'S THE DUEL (Dover Koshashvili)
11 AURORA (Cristi Puiu)
12 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Edgar Wright)
13 THE CRAZIES (Breck Eisner)
14 OKI'S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo)
15 THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polanski)
16 ANIMAL KINGDOM (David Michôd)
17 OUTRAGE (Takeshi Kitano)
18 POETRY (Lee Chang-dong)
19 BEGINNERS (Mike Mills)
20 TABLOID (Errol Morris)
21 NEVER LET ME GO (Mark Romanek)
22 LOST MASTERPIECES OF PORNOGRAPHY (David Mamet)
23 KICK-ASS (Matthew Vaughn)
24 GET HIM TO THE GREEK (Nicholas Stoller)
25 THE LAST AIRBENDER (M. Night Shyamalan)
26 UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
INCEPTION (Christopher Nolan)
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OFFICE (Johnnie To)
2014
1 THE MEND (John Magary)
2 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
3 HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
4 INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
5 EDGE OF TOMORROW (Doug Liman)
6 JERSEY BOYS (Clint Eastwood)
7 GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
8 NED RIFLE (Hal Hartley)
9 SOMETHING, ANYTHING (Paul Harrill)
10 TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
11 THE COSMOPOLITANS: "THE BROKEN-HEARTED" (Whit Stillman)
12 NEIGHBORS (Nicholas Stoller)
13 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (Woody Allen)
14 POMPEII (Paul W.S. Anderson)
15 THE ROVER (David Michôd)
16 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To)
17 HANNIBAL: "MIZUMONO" (David Slade)
18 BLACK COAL, THIN ICE (Diao Yi'nan)
19 DUMB AND DUMBER TO (Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
20 NIGHTCRAWLER (Dan Gilroy)
21 NOAH (Darren Aronofsky)
2013
1 BLIND DETECTIVE (Johnnie To)
2 ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Season Four (Mitchell Hurwitz and Troy Miller)
3 THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki)
4 VENUS IN FUR (Roman Polanski)
5 STOKER (Park Chan-wook)
6 PAIN & GAIN (Michael Bay)
7 THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai)
8 HANNIBAL: "SORBET" (James Foley)
9 NOBODY'S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo)
10 RIDDICK (David Twohy)
11 A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhang-Ke)
12 THE COUNSELOR (director's cut only) (Ridley Scott)
13 THE LONE RANGER (Gore Verbinski)
14 THE GREAT BEAUTY (Paolo Sorrentino)
15 SEVENTH CODE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
16 OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo)
2012
1 IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (Don Hertzfeldt)
2 KILLING THEM SOFTLY (Andrew Dominik)
3 THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt)
4 TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick)
5 LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
6 MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
7 FLIGHT (Robert Zemeckis)
8 DRUG WAR (Johnnie To)
9 DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino)
10 A HIJACKING (Tobias Lindholm)
11 APOLOGIZE (Louis C.K.)
12 LOOPER (Rian Johnson)
13 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (Paul W.S. Anderson)
14 TO ROME WITH LOVE (Woody Allen)
15 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (Nicholas Stoller)
16 PASSION (Brian De Palma)
17 NOT FADE AWAY (David Chase)
18 CLOUD ATLAS (The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer)
19 YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET (Alain Resnais)
20 THE WALL (Julian Pölsler)
21 IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo)
22 PROMETHEUS (Ridley Scott)
23 THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata)
24 NO (Pablo Larraín)
25 RED HOOK SUMMER (Spike Lee)
2011
1 THIS IS NOT A FILM (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi)
2 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen)
3 A DANGEROUS METHOD (David Cronenberg)
4 THE KID WITH A BIKE (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
5 MILDRED PIERCE (Todd Haynes)
6 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Tomas Alfredson)
7 THE DEEP BLUE SEA (Terence Davies)
8 LUCK: "Pilot" (Michael Mann)
9 THE DESCENDANTS (Alexander Payne)
10 LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To)
11 SLEEPLESS NIGHT (Frédéric Jardin)
12 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Paul W.S. Anderson)
13 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (Cameron Crowe)
14 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher)
15 YOUNG ADULT (Jason Reitman)
16 DRIVE (Nicolas Winding Refn)
17 THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodovar)
18 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To)
19 J. EDGAR (Clint Eastwood)
20 MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller)
21 THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (Paolo Sorrentino)
22 MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan)
23 THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick)
24 HAYWIRE (Steven Soderbergh)
25 DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (Whit Stillman)
26 CARNAGE (Roman Polanski)
27 THE GUARD (John Michael McDonagh)
28 HANNA (Joe Wright)
29 THE IDES OF MARCH (George Clooney)
BLACK MIRROR: "15 MILLION MERITS" (Euros Lyn, UK)
2010
1 CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami)
2 TRUE GRIT (Joel and Ethan Coen)
3 MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raul Ruiz)
4 THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (Manoel de Oliveira)
5 ANOTHER YEAR (Mike Leigh)
6 TUESDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS (Radu Muntean)
7 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Paul W.S. Anderson)
8 FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard)
9 HOW DO YOU KNOW (James L. Brooks)
10 ANTON CHEKHOV'S THE DUEL (Dover Koshashvili)
11 AURORA (Cristi Puiu)
12 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Edgar Wright)
13 THE CRAZIES (Breck Eisner)
14 OKI'S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo)
15 THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polanski)
16 ANIMAL KINGDOM (David Michôd)
17 OUTRAGE (Takeshi Kitano)
18 POETRY (Lee Chang-dong)
19 BEGINNERS (Mike Mills)
20 TABLOID (Errol Morris)
21 NEVER LET ME GO (Mark Romanek)
22 LOST MASTERPIECES OF PORNOGRAPHY (David Mamet)
23 KICK-ASS (Matthew Vaughn)
24 GET HIM TO THE GREEK (Nicholas Stoller)
25 THE LAST AIRBENDER (M. Night Shyamalan)
26 UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
INCEPTION (Christopher Nolan)
Prior decades:
Other decades:
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
1960s
1950s
1940s
1930s
1920s
1890s through 1910s
