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1. Wonder Wheel
2. I Love You, Daddy
3. Phantom Thread
4. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
5. Happy Death Day
6. Blade Runner 2049
7. Wonderstruck
8. Before I Fall
9. The Disaster Artist
10. Becoming Cary Grant

Also seen: Baby Driver, The Big Sick, Call Me by Your Name, Colossal, A Cure for Wellness, Downsizing, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Get Out, Good Time, Ingrid Goes West, Lady Bird, Marjorie Prime, mother!, The Mountain Between Us, Rings, The Shape of Water, Song to Song, Spielberg, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Suburbicon, T2: Trainspotting, Wish Upon, You Were Never Really Here, XX

1. Tempestad
2. The Florida Project
3. Faces Places
4. Columbus
5. My Happy Family
6. Nocturama
7. Princess Cyd
8. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
9. Mudbound
10. Lady Bird

Excellent: Dawson City: Frozen Time | Dunkirk | In Transit* | Lucky | On the Beach at Night Alone | Phantom Thread | World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

Very Good: After the Storm | The Big Sick | Birdboy: The Forgotten Children | Get Out | I, Olga Hepnarova | The Killing of a Sacred Deer | A Quiet Passion | The Square | Wonderstruck

Pretty Good: Blade Runner 2049 | Call Me By Your Name | Colossal | A Fantastic Woman | Foxtrot | Ingrid Goes West | Lovesong | The Lost City of Z | The Shape of Water | Thor: Ragnarok | Wonder Woman

Chaotic Good: Song to Song

Negligible: Beauty and the Beast | The Little Hours | Our Time Will Cime | Patti Cake$

Deplorable: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri


*I moved this over from my 2016 list after learning it finally got a very limited theatrical release this year.

1. Phantom Thread
2. Lady Macbeth
3. Dunkirk
4. Graduation
5. mother!
6. Wormwood
7. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
8. Good Time
9. Brawl in Cell Block 99
10. Raw

1) Colossal
2) Free Fire
3) Dunkirk
4) Lady Bird
5) Good Time
6) Band Aid
7) Baby Driver
8) Patti Cake$
9) A Ghost Story
10) The Disaster Artist

Honorable mention: The Big Sick, Brawl In Cell Block 99, A Cure For Wellness, A Dark Song, Darkest Hour, Downsizing, Fits And Starts, The Founder, Gerald's Game, Get Out, Girlfriend's Day, Gold, Hounds Of Love, I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore, I Tonya, Kedi, The Lego Batman Movie, Logan, Molly's Game, Mr Roosevelt, Paris Can Wait, Phantom Thread, The Post, Small Crimes, Spider Man-Homecoming, Split, Super Dark Times, Sylvio, T2-Trainspotting, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Wheelman, Wilson, Win It All

Worst: Going In Style, Kong-Skill Island, Life, My Cousin Rachel, Song To Song, The Book Of Henry, The Glass Castle

01. Twin Peaks: The Return
02. The Florida Project
03. Phantom Thread
04. The Square
05. Loveless
06. Zama
07. First Reformed
08. On the Beach at Night Alone
09. Ismael's Ghosts
10. The Day After

11. Happy End
12. Good Time
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Runners-up: Lover for a Day; The Other Side of Hope; Song to Song; Logan Lucky; Wonderstruck; Gemini; Before We Vanish

Runners-up (2): A Gentle Creature; The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected); Ingrid Goes West; DRIB; Somniloquies; Blade Runner 2049

Decent: 24 Frames; Dunkirk; Mrs. Hyde; Marjorie Prime; BPM; Call Me by Your Name; Okja; Western; The Rider; Columbus; The Beguiled; Let the Sunshine In; Claire's Camera; The Shape of Water; Thoroughbreds; Thirst Street; Le Redoutable; Double Lover; Golden Exits; Those Who Are Fine

Not a fan: Get Out; Visages villages; Lady Bird; You Were Never Really Here; Downsizing; Oklahoma City; The Killing of a Sacred Deer; mother!; In the Fade; Rodin; Radiance; Mudbound; Invasion; Caniba; Mary Shelley; Thelma

Rubbish: Last Flag Flying; The Big Sick; A Ghost Story; I, Tonya; Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri; Jupiter's Moon; The Glass Castle

2021—2020—2019—2018—2017—2016—2015—2014—2013—2012—2011

01. Twin Peaks: The Return (Lynch)
02. Phantom Thread (Anderson)
03. The Florida Project (Baker)
04. Faces Places (Varda/JR)
05. Thelma (Trier)
06. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Johnson)
07. Logan Lucky (Soderbergh)
08. Get Out (Peele)
09. Dunkirk (Nolan)
10. Wonder Wheel (Allen)

Please note: Upon reading David Lynch's biography Room to Dream, it is evident to me that Twin Peaks: The Return was envisioned and shot as a very long feature film and not as episodic television. As much as it pains me to give a 'season of TV' credit as a film, the winds are moving that way on this (if Cahiers du Cinéma is doing it...), therefore I have included it in my ranks in its proper place and will not be going back on this decision in the future.

LAST UPDATED: 9/4/2019

Past lists: 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007

1. Phantom Thread
2. Faces Places
3. The Florida Project
4. Thelma
5. Get Out
6. The Beguiled
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. Lady Bird
9. Call Me By Your Name
10. Logan Lucky

1. Get Out (Peele)
2. Lady Bird (Gerwig)
3. I Am Not Your Negro (Peck)
4. Faces Places (JR, Agnès Varda)
5. Logan Lucky (Soderbergh)
6. The Beguiled (Coppola)
7. Dunkirk (Nolan)
8. mother! (Aronofsky)
9. Good Time (Safdie Brothers)
10. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos)

The Big Sick (Showalter)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (Morrison)
It Comes at Night (Shults)
Thor: Ragnarok (Waititi)
The Disaster Artist (Franco)
The Shape of Water (del Toro)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Gunn)
The Florida Project (Baker)
Baby Driver (Wright)
American Made (Liman)
Logan (Mangold)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Watts)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Johnson)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Reeves)
Alien: Covenant (Scott)
It (Muschietti)
Wonder Woman (Jenkings)

The Absolute Worst Thing I've Watched in 2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (McDonagh)

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1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. The Young Pope (Paolo Sorrentino)
4. The Blackcoat's Daughter (Osgood Perkins)
5. Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo)
6. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
7. Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh)
8. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
9. mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
10. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)

Past lists: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005-2000

1. Logan (Mangold)
2. Split (Shyamalan)

1. The Florida Project
2. 120 BPM
3. The Big Sick
4. Good Time

1. Get Out - 10/10
2. Baby Driver - 10/10
3. Wonder Woman - 9/10
4. Logan - 8/10
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - 8/10
6. Kong: Skull Island - 7/10
7. Alien: Covenant - 7/10
8. Beauty and the Beast - 7/10
9. The LEGO Batman Movie - 7/10
10. John Wick: Chapter 2 - 6/10


Other 2017 films seen:

It Comes at Night - 6/10
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - 5/10
The Mummy - 3/10
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 6/10


Last updated 6/12/17

01.Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
02.Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
03.Jackie (Pablo Larrain)
04.Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
05.The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
06.The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit)
07.Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
08.Frantz (Francois Ozon)
09.City Of Ghosts (Matthew Heineman)
10.The Handmaiden (Chan-Wook Park)

Back on Page 2, where I belong

1) Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
2) Our Time Will Come
3) Star Wars: The Last Jedi
4) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
5) Thor: Ragnarok
6) Baby Driver
7) Wonder Woman
8) Ghost in the Shell


Unranked: The Lego Batman Movie

1. Justice League
2. Wonder Woman
3. The LEGO Batman Movie
4. Transformers: The Last Knight
5. All the Money in the World
6. Bright
7. Alien: Covenant
8. Kong: Skull Island
9. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
10. Fifty Shades Darker

to date:

1. Nocturama
2. Phantom Thread
3. Good Time
4. Personal Shopper
5. Thelma
6. The Lost City of Z
7. Get Out
8. Lady Bird
9. The Florida Project
10. John Wick: Chapter 2

honorable mentions: mother!, Blade Runner 2049; Dunkirk; Graduation; The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Logan Lucky; The Square

Still much to see!

1. Dunkirk (Nolan)
2. Logan (Mangold)
3. Hostiles (Cooper)
4. A Ghost Story (Lowery)
5. Phantom Thread (Anderson)
6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (McDonagh)
7. Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino)
8. Happy End (Haneke)
9. The Big Sick (Showalter)
10. The Florida Project (Baker)


The Good: All The Money In The World; American Made; Baby Driver; Battle of the Sexes; The Beguiled; Blade Runner 2049; Colossal; Darkest Hour; Detroit; The Disaster Artist; The Discovery; Felicite; Free Fire; Get Out; Ghost in the Shell; The Greatest Showman; Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2; I, Daniel Blake; I, Tonya; I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore; It Comes at Night; Jim and Andy; John Wick: Chapter Two; The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Kong - Skull Island; Lady Bird; Last Flag Flying; The Lego Batman Movie; Lost City of Z; Manhunt; Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected); Molly's Game; Mudbound; Murder on the Orient Express; Okja; Only the Brave; Personal Shopper; The Post; The Shape of Water; Song to Song; Spider-man: Homecoming; Split; Stronger; T2 Trainspotting; Thor: Ragnarok; Trespass Against Us; War for the Planet of the Apes; Wilson; Wonder Woman; Wonderstruck; The Zookeeper's Wife

The Bad: Alien: Covenant; The Bad Batch; Below Her Mouth; The Fate of the Furious; I am Not a Witch; Justice League; King Arthur: Legend of the Sword; Kingsman: The Golden Circle; Life; The Mummy; Roman J. Israel, Eq.; The Snowman; The Square; Star Wars: The Last Jedi; Suburbicon; War Machine

The Ugly: The Book of Henry; The Dark Tower; Downsizing; Fifty Shades Darker; Kings; Transformers: The Last Knight

¯\_(ツ)_/¯: mother!

Old films seen in theatres in 2017: Bat Pussy (1970?); Blade Runner (1982 - 35mm Theatrical Cut print); Bullet in the Head (1990 - 35mm English Dub print); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Dragons Forever (1988); The Graduate (1967); Hard Boiled (1992); Heat (1995); Jaws (1975); Night of the Living Dead (1968); Peeping Tom (1960); Polyester (1981 - WITH REAL ORORAMA CARD!); Private Property (1960); The Room (2003); Scanners (1981); Stalker (1979); Suspiria (1977); The Sweet Hereafter (1997); Titanic (1997); The Violent Years (1956)

1- Manchester by the Sea
2- La pazza gioia / Like Crazy, Paolo Virzi makes a female extraordinary commedia all'italiana
3- Three billboards outside Ebbing Missouri.
4- The Lost city of Z. Beautiful blond macho
5- Get Out
6- Call me by your name. Beautiful BUT too long (may be 10-20 minutes)
7- Toni Erdman (too long too)
8- Beach Rats. It's like Les 400 coups but with the hottest most good looking guy in the last years.
9- La La Land
10- Land of Mine, or how a STR8 movie can be considered my hottest fantasy, in my mind, a lot of young blond and redhead teens locked in a cabin on a beach all the nights. Even there's a humiliation - water sport included- scene with brutal Danish and British soldiers.

Horror of the year: L'amant double, Ozon on his worst Brian de Palma way.

1. O Ornitólogo
2. Personal Shopper
3. Good Time
4. Nocturama
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Phantom Thread
7. Get Out
8. mother!
9. I Am Not Your Negro
10. On the Beach at Night Alone

Reordered July 2020.

1. Call Me by Your Name
2. Phantom Thread
3. Dunkirk
4. The Lost City of Z
5. Song to Song
6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. Lady Bird
9. All the Money in the World
10. Mother!
...
11. The Post
12. The Shape of Water
13. The Beguiled
14. Baby Driver
15. Logan Lucky
16. Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi
17. Molly's Game
18. Kong: Skull Island

1. Common Carrier - James N. Kienitz Wilkins
2. Maria Bamford: Old Baby - Jessica Yu
3. Oh, Hello: On Broadway - Michael John Warren, Alex Timbers
4. On Body and Soul - Ildikó Enyedi
5. Rodin - Jacques Doillon
6. Phantom Thread - Paul Thomas Anderson
7. Baby Driver - Edgar Wright
8. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) - Noah Baumbach
9. Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Rian Johnson
10. The Flying Proletarian - Phillip Warnell

1. Dunkirk
2. The Shape of Water
3. The Big Sick
4. Baby Driver
5. Bingo: The King of the Mornings
6. The Beguiled
7. Wonder Woman
8. Mother!
9. Logan
10. Ingrid Goes West

1. Lady Bird
2. Get Out
3. Logan
4. The Shape of Water
5. The Big Sick
6. Dunkirk
7. Wonder Woman
8. Spiderman: Homecoming
9. It Comes at Night
10. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

1. Personal Shopper
2. Get Out

1. Phantom Thread
2. The Florida Project/The Shape of Water
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. Columbus (Kogonada)
6. The Square
7. Detroit
8. Wonderstruck
9. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
10. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Honorable Mentions: Get Out, Lady Bird, Dunkirk, Ingrid Goes West, Wind River, Call Me by Your Name, Loveless, Logan, Neruda, The Beguiled, Colossal, I Tonya, It Comes at Night, Lady Macbeth, T2 Trainspotting, Logan Lucky, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Land of Mine, Good Time


Others Seen: Wonder Woman, The Big Sick, Atomic Blonde, mother!, Baby Driver, Kong Skull Island, The Disaster Artist, Molly's Game, Split, Alien Covenant.