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01 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
02 Diários de Otsoga (Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes)
03 Licorice Pizza (P.T. Anderson)
04 The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Wes Anderson)
05 Can't Get You Out of My Head (Adam Curtis)
06 Eer (Kristoffer Borgli)
07 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi)
08 Taming the Garden (Salomé Jashi)
09 Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
10 Annette (Leos Carax)

11 Inside (Bo Burnham)
12 Plastic semiotic (Radu Jude)
13 The Green Knight (David Lowery)
14 Mad God (Phil Tippett)
15 Friends and Strangers (James Vaughan)
16 Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (Jodie Mack)
17 Tromperie (Arnaud Desplechin)
18 Un monde (Laura Wandel)
19 No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
20 Camera Test (Siegfried A. Fruhauf)
21 À plein temps (Eric Gravel)
22 The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen)
23 The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
24 La Panthère des neiges (Marie Amiguet & Vincent Munier)
25 Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky)

Last edited Mar 27, 2025

1. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
3. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
5. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
6. @Zola (Janicza Bravo)
7. Malcolm & Marie (Sam Levinson)
8. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
9. Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright)
10. Inside (Bo Burnham)

Past lists: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005-2000

1. Memoria [Apichatpong Weerasethakul]
2. 日子 / Days [蔡明亮 / Tsai Ming-liang]
3. ドライブ・マイ・カー / Drive My Car [濱口 竜介 / Ryūsuke Hamaguchi]
4. 偶然と想像 / Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy ("Coincidence and Imagination") [濱口 竜介 / Ryūsuke Hamaguchi]
5. The Velvet Underground [Todd Haynes]
6. Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc / Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn [Radu Jude]
7. Benedetta [Paul Verhoeven]
8. Undine [Christian Petzold]
9. The Card Counter [Paul Schrader]
10. C'mon C'mon [Mike Mills]

Honorable limited availability mention: Double Wow [Ken Jacobs] - a 3D work that premiered at the Museum of the Moving Image, it's likely to have a few sporadic screenings at institutions such as art museums this year with no online or physical home release

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2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008

Theatres have finally opened in Toronto. It's great to get back to the movies!

1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi)
2. The French Dispatch (Anderson)
3. Titane (Ducournau)
4. Licorice Pizza (Anderson)
5. Malignant (Wan)
6. Censor (Bailey-Bond)
7. Lamb (Jóhannsson)
8. No Time to Die (Fukunaga)
9. Dune (Villeneuve)
10. Werewolves Within (Ruben)

Honourable Mentions:
A Quiet Place II (Krasinski)
Antlers (Cooper)

Good:
Candyman (DaCosta)
Don't Look Up (McKay)

Decent:
Last Night in Soho (Wright)
Army of the Dead (Snyder)
The Last Duel (Scott)
Love and Monsters (Matthews)
Halloween Kills (Green)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Cretton)
Free Guy (Levy)
Silent Night (Griffin)
Black Widow (Shortland)
The Tomorrow War (McKay)
Reminiscence (Joy)
Old (Shyamalan)

Bad:
Belfast (Branagh)
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (Roberts)
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (Chaves)
Gunpowder Milkshake (Papushado)
Demonic (Blomkamp)
Mortal Kombat (McQuoid)
Things Heard & Seen (Burman & Pulcini)
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (Robitel)
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (Bousman)

Garbage:
There's Someone Inside Your House (Brice)
The Matrix Resurrections (Wachowski's)
Mother/Android (Tomlin)
Awake (Raso)
The Devil Below (Parker)

2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012

Top Ten:
1. Spencer (Larrain) 94/100
2. C'mon C'mon (Mills) 94/100
3. The Power of the Dog (Campion) 93/100 [*]
4. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi) 90/100 [*]
5. The Lost Daughter (Gyllenhaal) 89/100
6. The Hand of God (Sorrentino) 89/100
7. Nightmare Alley (Del Toro) 85/100 [*]
8. Pig (Sarnoski) 84/100
9. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Coen) 84/100
10. Flee (Rasmussen) 84/100

Also Seen (in order of quality):
Red Rocket (Baker) 82/100
The Card Counter (Schrader) 82/100
Petit Maman (Sciamma) 81/100
Parallel Mothers (Almodóvar) 80/100
The Worst Person in the World 80/100
Dune: Part One (Villeneuve) 79/100 [*]
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Anderson) 80/100
West Side Story (Spielberg) 79/100 [*]
Titane (Ducournau) 78/100
No Sudden Move (Soderbergh) 77/100
Nuclear Family (Russo-Young) 77/100
The Green Knight (Lowery) 76/100
Encounter (Pearce) 76/100
Licorice Pizza (Anderson) 75/100 [*]
Muhammad Ali: Part One (Burns; Burns; McMahon) 75/100
@Zola (Bravo) 74/100
The Night House (Bruckner) 73/100
The Last Duel (Scott) 72/100
Being the Ricardos (Sorkin) 72/100
A Hero (Farhadi) 70/100
Annette (Carax) 70/100
Benedetta (Verhoeven) 70/100
Bergman Island (Hansen-Løve) 69/100
The Matrix Resurrections (Wachowski) 69/100
Stillwater (McCarthy) 69/100
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Fleischer-Camp) 68/100
The Rescue (Chin; Vásárhelyi) 68/100
Judas and the Black Messiah (King) 68/100
Blue Bayou (Chon) 67/100
Cruella (Gillespie) 67/100
No Time to Die (Fukunaga) 67/100
Antlers (Cooper) 66/100
CODA (Heder) 65/100 [*]
I Care A Lot (Blakeson) 64/100
Cyrano (Wright) 64/100
Unclenching the Fists (Kovalenko) 63/100
The Suicide Squad (Gunn) 63/100
King Richard (Green) 62/100 [*]
House of Gucci (Scott) 61/100
New Order (Franco) 61/100
The Many Saints of Newark (Taylor) 59/100
Last Night in Soho (Wright) 58/100
Free Guy (Levy) 57/100
Wrath of Man (Ritchie) 56/100
The Méliès Mystery (Lange) 55/100
Old (Shyamalan) 53/100
France (Dumont) 53/100
Malignant (Wan) 50/100
Don't Look Up (McKay) 49/100 [*]
The Protege (Campbell) 49/100
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Reitman) 48/100
Belfast (Branagh) 47/100 [*]
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Showalter) 45/100
Army of the Dead (Snyder) 42/100
Red Notice (Thurber) 32/100

Watchlist :
Must See: Saint Maud (Glass); Undine (Petzoldt);

Should See: Ahed's Knee (Lapid); Cry Macho (Eastwood); Memoria (Weerasethakul); Nine Days (Oda); Nitram (Kurzel); Procession (Greene);

Maybe: Candyman (DaCosta); Flag Day (Penn); Halloween Kills (Green)

Previously: 2020.2019.2018.2017.2016.2015.2014.2013.2012.2011.2010.2009

UPDATED: 10/26/2022

1. The Worst Person in the World (Trier)
2. Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait (Mouret)
3. Red Rocket (Baker)
4. Petite maman (Sciamma)
5. James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 (Lucchesi)
6. The Souvenir Part II (Hogg)
7. The Power of the Dog (Campion)
8. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi)
9. Licorice Pizza (Anderson)
10. C’mon C’mon (Mills)

Honorable mention:
Borderline Forever (Wozniak)

Also seen: The French Dispatch (Anderson), Annette (Carax), Mandibules (Dupieux), Cruella (Gillespie), Bergman Island (Hansen-Løve), Undine (Petzold), Shiva Baby (Seligman), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Showalter), West Side Story (Spielberg), Memoria (Weerasethakul)

1. The Card Counter
2. Drive My Car
3. The Worst Person in the World

4-10 listed alphabetically:

The Last Duel
Licorice Pizza
The Lost Daughter
No Time to Die
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog
The Rescue


^This is the second draft, still have some things to see.

1. Licorice Pizza
2. The Worst Person in the World
3. The Card Counter
4. Drive My Car
5. Titane
6. Azor
7. The French Dispatch
8. The Tragedy of Macbeth
9. Annette
10. The Power of the Dog

01. Nightmare Alley (del Toro)
02. Licorice Pizza (Anderson)
03. The Worst Person in the World (Trier)
04. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi)
05. We're All Going to the World's Fair (Schoenbrun)
06. Pig (Sarnoski)
07. Annette (Carax)
08. The Card Counter (Schrader)
09. Titane (Ducournau)
10. Red Rocket (Baker)

LAST UPDATED: 10/27/2025

Past lists: 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007

2021 based on IMDB:

1. The Green Knight (D. Lowery)
2. Dune (D. Villeneuve)
3. Power of the Dog (J. Campion)
4. Licorice Pizza (P.T. Anderson)
5. Titane (J. Ducourneau)
6. The Last Duel (R. Scott)
7. Drive My Car (R. Hamaguchi)
8. C'mon C'mon (M. MIlls)
9. Spencer (P. Larrain)
10. No Time To Die (C.J. Fukunaga)

Also good: Annette; Antlers; Army of the Dead; Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn; Belfast; Benedetta; Eternals; F9 - The Fast Saga; Ghostbusters Afterlife; Godzilla vs. Kong; Halloween Kills; Hand of God; House of Gucci; Judas and the Black Messiah; King Richard; King's Man; Last Night in Soho; Matrix Resurrections; Nightmare Alley; No Sudden Move; Pig; A Quiet Place Part II; Raging Fire; Red Rocket; Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings; Spider-man: No Way Home; Stillwater; The United States vs. Billie Holiday; The White Tiger; Zack Snyder's Justice League; Zola

meh: Being the Ricardos; Black Widow; The Card Counter; Coming 2 America; Don't Look Up; The Eyes of Tammy Faye; The French Dispatch; The Guilty; The Lost Daughter; The Many Saints of Newark; Passing; Suicide Squad; Tender Bar; Tick, tick...BOOM!; Tragedy of Macbeth; West Side Story

no: Free Guy; Old; Venom: Let There Be Carnage; The Voyeurs

Retro theatre screenings: Action Jackson; American Werewolf in London; Army of Darkness; Breathless; Carrie; Champagne and Bullets; Chess of the Wind; Chungking Express; Deep Red; Donnie Darko; Evil Dead; Evil Dead II; Eyes Wide Shut; The French Connection; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Harold and Maude; High Plains Drifter; In the Mood For Love; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Jungle Fever; Malibu High; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Monty Python's The Meaning of Life; Mulholland Drive; Nightmare Beach; Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (german version); The Outlaw Josey Wales; The Outsiders; Paris, Texas; Play Misty For Me; Poltergeist; Possession; Raging Bull; Shock Treatment; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; Videodrome; War of the Worlds ('53); Wild at Heart

1. Malcolm & Marie (Sam Levinson)
2. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
3. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
4. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Petit Maman (Céline Sciamma)
6. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
7. Fuck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob (Sam Levinson)
8. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
9. Deception (Arnaud Desplechin)
10. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)

Also seen: After We Fell (Castille Landon), All Too Well (Taylor Swift), Annette (Leos Carax), Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin), Belfast (Kenneth Branagh), Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven), Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve), C’mon C’mon (Mike Mills), CODA (Siân Heder), Don't Look Up (Adam McKay), Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter), France (Bruno Dumont), The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Wes Anderson), The Green Knight (David Lowery), The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino), House of Gucci (Ridley Scott), In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo), King Richard (Reinaldo Marcus Green), The Last Duel (Ridley Scott), Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright), The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal), Mandibles (Quentin Dupieux), Nightmare Alley Guillermo del Toro), Nitram (Justin Kurzel), No Time to Die (Cary Joji Fukunaga), Petrov’s Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov), Pig (Michael Sarnoski), The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion), Red Rocket (Sean Baker), The Scary of Sixty-First (Dasha Nekrasova), Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman), Spencer (Pablo Larraín), Summer of Soul (Questlove), Tick, Tick... Boom! (Lin-Manuel Miranda), Titane (Julie Ducourneau), The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen), West Side Story (Steven Spielberg), Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi), Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier), Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara), Zola (Janicza Bravo)

Other lists: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018

1. Licorice Pizza (P.T. Anderson)
2. The Power of the Dog (Campion)
3. Nightmare Alley (Del Toro)
4. West Side Story (Spielberg)
5. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Watts)
6. The French Dispatch (W. Anderson)
7. Belfast (Branagh)
8. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Coen)
9. Spencer (Larraín)
10. The Suicide Squad (Gunn)

1. Memoria
2. The Velvet Underground
3. The Power of the Dog
4. Drive My Car
5. Bad Luck Banging, or Loony Porn
6. The Worst Person in the World
7. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised)
8. Licorice Pizza
9. The Card Counter
10. Parallel Mothers

As usual, going by festival premiere dates or theatrical whichever comes first:

1. Benediction
2. Petite Maman
3. Belle
4. The Card Counter
5. Parallel Mothers
6. Mad God
7. Jakob's Wife
8. We're All Going To The World's Fair
9. Midnight
10.

Honourable Mentions:

Liked: Titane, Slumber Party Massacre 2021

Disliked: Censor, Halloween Kills, The Night House, The Sadness

Hated:

Best TV:

Hopefully . . .

. . . and finally!

1. Licorice Pizza
2. The Green Knight
3. The Night House
4. The French Dispatch
5. The Worst Person In the World
6. Annette
7. Benedetta
8. Cruella
9. The Card Counter
10. Summer of Soul

The rest in order of preference: The Tragedy of MacBeth, Sparks, Titane, Lamb, Spencer, Dune, Last Night in Soho, Nobody, No Time to Die, Black Widow, Free Guy, Shang-Chi, The Protege, Jungle Cruise, Nightmare Alley, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Candyman, Eternals, Reminiscence, Boss Baby 2, Addams Family 2, SIing 2, Don't Breathe 2, Suicide Squad, Quiet Place 2, F9, G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes, Old

1. C’mon C’mo
2. Belle (Hosoda)
3. Pig
4. Luca
5. Cyrano
6. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
7. The Hand of God
8. No Sudden Move
9. Spencer
10. Benediction (Davies)

Petite Maman
Drive My Car
The Worst Person in the World
Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy
Parallel Mothers
The Card Counter
About Endlessness
The Velvet Underground
Licorice Pizza
Days

1. The French Dispatch

I usually sort my yearly rankings by world premiere, so no films that had any sort of screening in 2020. I include mini-series but I don't think that's permitted in this thread, so just movies in the top 10.
1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi)
2. Licorice Pizza (Anderson)
3. The Worst Person in the World (Trier)
4. Dune (Villeneuve)
5. West Side Story (Spielberg)
6. C'mon C'mon (Mills)
7. The Power of the Dog (Campion)
8. The Card Counter (Schrader)
9. Spencer (Larraín)
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Coen)

1. Petite Maman (Sciamma)
2. The French Dispatch (Anderson)
3. The Card Counter (Schrader)
4. West Side Story (Spielberg)
5. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi)
6. C'mon C'mon (Mills)
7. The Worst Person in the World (Trier)
8. Annette (Carax)
9. Old (Shyamalan)
10. Undine (Petzold)

Honorable Mentions:
The Power of the Dog (Campion)
Licorice Pizza (P.T. Anderson)
Drive My Car (Hamaguchi)
Beckett (Filomarino)
The Matrix Resurrections (Wachowski)

01 Annette (Carax)
02 The Beatles: Get Back (Jackson)
03 The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Anderson)
04 Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait (Mouret)
05 Licorice Pizza (Anderson)
06 Procession (Greene)
07 Inside (Burnham)
08 The Card Counter (Schrader)
09 El Planeta (Ulman)
10 Old (Shyamalan)

Just in case, my spot
Will be reserved, a future
Without Corona?

1. Annette
2. Inside (Burnham)
3. The Green Knight
4. Last Night in Soho
5. The Card Counter
6. Fear Street Part One: 1994

Also seen:
Censor
House of Gucci
Pig
The Suicide Squad
West Side Story (Spielberg)
Zack Snyder's The Justice League

01. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
02. Memoria
03. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
04. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
05. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
06. Red Rocket
07. Drive My Car
08. The Worst Person in the World
09. Întregalde
10. Licorice Pizza

11. Compartment No. 6
12. Rien à foutre
13. The Souvenir, Pt. II
14. Fabian — Going to the Dogs
15. Friends and Strangers
16. C'mon C'mon
17. Bergman Island
18. The Girl and the Spider
19. Annette
20. The Power of the Dog

Runners-up (Tier 1): France; The Matrix Resurrections; Introduction; In Front of Your Face; Full Time; Social Hygience

Runners-up (Tier 2): El Planeta; The Hand of God; Barb & Star Go to Vista del Mar; Sundown; Deception; Benediction; We're All Going to the World's Fair; The Tragedy of Macbeth; West Side Story

Documentaries: Can't Get You Out of My Head; The Velvet Underground

Not a fan: Petite Maman; Zeros and Ones; Azor; Spencer; Titane; Benedetta; The Card Counter; The Lost Daughter; Ahed's Knee; Official Competition; Happening; Hit the Road; Paris, 13th District; Nitram; Lingui, the Sacred Bonds; A Hero; Dune; Petrov's Flu; Everything Went Fine; No Sudden Move

Rubbish: Belfast; Flag Day; Don't Look Up; King Richard; Flee; Marcel the Shell with Shoes On; Casablanca Beats; Three Floors

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

01 Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
02 Can't Get You Out of My Head (Adam Curtis)
03 Les Olympiades (Jacques Audiard)
04 Illusions perdues (Xavier Giannoli)
05 the Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
06 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
07 Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait (Emmanuel Mouret)
08 Titane (Julia Ducournau)

ALSO SEEN, ON THE UP END: Belle, Das Madchen und die Spinne, Dune, Madres Paralelas, OSS: Alerte Rouge en Afrique Noire
ALSO SEEN, ON THE DOWN END: Annette, BAC Nord, Chere Lea, the French Dispatch, Les amours d’Anais, Tromperie

LAST UPDATED 10/24/2025