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01 You Can See Everything (Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim)
02 The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli)
03 Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt)
04 Boards of Canada: Tape 05
05 The Napa Boys (Nick Corirossi)
06 I Love Boosters (Boots Riley)
07 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)
08 Digger (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
09 The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan)
10 Her Private Hell (Nicolas Winding Refn)

11 Mother Mary (David Lowery)
12 Backrooms (Kane Parsons)
13 Buddy (Casper Kelly)
14 Tony (Matt Johnson)
15 The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)
16 The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
17 The Rip (Joe Carnahan)
18 Send Help (Sam Raimi)
19 Amarga Navidad (Pedro Almodóvar)
20 Eight Bridges (James Benning)
21 La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)
22 The Joyless Economy (Marjorie Conrad)
23 The Invite (Olivia Wilde)
24 Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (David Wain)
25 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta)

2025-2024-2023-2022-2021-2020
2010s-2000s-1990s-1980s-1970s-1960s-1950s-1940s-1930s-1920s-Earlier

Last edited Oct 19, 2026

At least we have a new mayor. Happy New Year!

1. Magalhães / Magellan [Lav Diaz]
2. EIGHT BRIDGES [James Benning]
3. Remake [Ross McElwee]
4. Nuestra Tierra / Landmarks [Lucrecia Martel]
5. 가능한 사랑 / Possible Love [이창동 / Lee Chang-dong]
6. Tender Loving Care [Mike Leigh]
7. Dead Souls [Alex Cox]
8. ხმელი ფოთოლი / Dry Leaf [ალექსანდრე კობერიძე / Alexandre Koberidze]
9. 黒牢城 / The Samurai and the Prisoner [黒沢 清 / Kiyoshi Kurosawa]

Honorable mentions:

Le Cri des Gardes (The Cry of the Guards / U.S. title: The Fence) [Claire Denis]: not among her best work, but very underrated. The film opens with two important moments, and I didn't see any critics addressing the implications of them. The first makes it clear that Alboury could have found the exact location of his brother with the help of locals, a revelation that sinks in over the course of the film, and he knows this - but finding his brother's body isn't his only priority nor the only reason for confronting those at the construction site. In memory those reasons can feel directed at us/the audience, especially when the film draws closer to the end and in desperation the lead characters ask him to drop the matter, even offering to pay him off, just so they can move on with their lives. But that's the whole point of this work borne out of anger and exhausted patience. The original and superior title ("The Cry of the Guards") refers to the imagery of the watchtower guards, the mysterious locals that see everything that transpires, and it would be foolish to think they watch in complete silence and without judgment - we don't get to walk away from the horrendous deeds we've enabled, those that suffer demand we recognize those wrongs and to hold us accountable. That brings us to the second important moment: it’s no minor detail that the meaning of an indigenous land rights anthem - by a famously politically-charged band, Midnight Oil - is lost on someone who not only sings along to every word but is unrepentant in his colonialist bigotry. Denis is fully aware of the limits of art as an agent for change, and that frustration fuels the anger coursing throughout this movie.

You Can See Everything [Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim]: overhyped - what was supposed to be novel didn't feel that different from what's already common practice in mainstream and commercial documentaries, and the theoretical analysis surrounding this approach echoes what's now ancient discourse about these practices, particularly the dubious implications of them. But it's still a very entertaining movie.

Ojczyzna / Fatherland [Paweł Pawlikowski]: by Pawlikowski's own admission much of this film is invented. Virtually a complete work of fiction loosely based on Mann's return visit to Germany after WWII, it doesn't work as biography, but as a dramatization of a shared culture (and a shared identity) damaged and splintered by unforgivable deeds, it's very potent. I wish it was longer - I felt like there was more to cover - but it leaves a lasting impression.

Miroirs No. 3 [Christian Petzold]: watching the Petzold retrospective that coincided with this film's release really brings out the recurring motifs in his work, and the richest one involves people who take the place of the living or the missing. Petzold brought up Hitchcock's Rebecca in relation to Miroirs No. 3 and I know he's talked in-depth about Vertigo in the past, but it's interesting to see him work the idea across his films - he goes back to that same kernel over and over again, cultivating an entirely different film each time out.

1. Soudain (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
2. You Can See Everything (Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim)
3. The Joyless Economy (Marjorie Conrad)
4. Wild Horse Nine (Martin McDonagh)
5. The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli)
6. Gary (Christopher Storer)
7. Everytime (Sandra Wollner)
8. The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much (Eric Jackowitz)
9. Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt)
10. Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg)

Past lists: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005-2000

1. Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)
2. Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong)
3. All of a Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
4. Everytime (Sandra Wollmer)
5. La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)
6. Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh)
7. Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
8. Primetime (Lance Oppenheim)
9. The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
10. Once Upon a Time in Harlem (William Greaves, David Greaves)

Last edited Oct 01, 2026

1. Mother Mary
2. Christophers
3. Digger
4. The Drama
5. The Samurai and the Prisoner
6. The Odyssey
7. Rose of Nevada
8. Project: Hail Mary
9. Sheep Detetive
10. Obsession

The rest in order of preference: Backrooms, Crime 101, Send Help, Toy Story 5, Gail Daughtry/Sex Pass, Disclosure Day, Her Private Hell, Scream 7, The Furious

1) Obsession (Barker)
2) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (DaCosta)
3) Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Johnson)
4) Resident Evil (Cregger)
5) Backrooms (Parsons)
6) Project Hail Mary (Lord, Miller)
7) Hokum (McCarthy)
8) The Odyssey (Nolan)
9) Primetime (Lance Oppenheim)
10) Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (Bettinelli-Olpin, Gillett)

Honourable Mentions:

Good:
They Will Kill You (Sokolov)
We Bury the Dead (Hilditch)

Decent:
Apex (Kormakur)
Masters of the Universe (Knight)

Bad:
The Last House (Leterrier)
The Whistler (Velasco)

Garbage:

2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012

I do not support it.

1. The Odyssey (C. Nolan)
2. You Can See Everything (N. Fielder & L. Oppenheim)
3. Project Hail Mary (Lord & Miller)
4. Lorne (M. Neville)
5. "Wuthering Heights" (E. Fennell)
6. 28 Years Later: the Bone Temple (N. da Costa)
7. Tony (M. Johnson)
8. The Death of Robin Hood (M. Sarnoski)
9. Spider-man: Brand New Day (D.D. Cretton)
10. The Wizard of the Kremlin (O. Assayas)

I hope to watch a movie this year

1. The Drama

2-10 alphabetical:

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
The Christophers
Fatherland
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
The Invite
Obsession
The Odyssey
Resident Evil
Toy Story 5

Reserved.
Though something tells me we may need to shorten this to Top Three or Top Four in the upcoming years.

1. The Odyssey
2. Hokum
3. Send Help
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Edited 08-05-2026

1. BURN
2. Backrooms
3. The Odyssey
4. The Dog Stars
5. Ice Cream Man
6. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
7. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
8. Wuthering Heights
9. Her Private Hell
10. Iron Lung

1. Blades of the Guardians
2. Hokum
3.
4.
5.

Mixed:

Horrible:

Edited 10/1/26

1. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Johnson)
2. Blue Heron (Romvari)
3. Chronovisor (Walker & Auen)
4. You Can See Everything (Fielder & Oppenheim)
5. The Christophers (Soderbergh)
6. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Schoenbrun)
7. Disclosure Day (Spielberg)
8. Maddie’s Secret (Early)
9. The Diary of a Chambermaid (Jude)
10. What Can't Be Mentioned (Sallitt)

Honorable mentions (ranked):
Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage (Weard)
Remake (McElwee)
The Invite (Wilde)
La Gradiva (Atlan)
NAZA (Abraham & Szor)
The Napa Boys (Corirossi)
Everything Else is Noise (Pereda)
Primetime (Oppenheim)
Possible Love (Lee)
The History of Concrete (Wilson)
Magellan (Diaz)
The Wrong Girls (Meyer)
Tony (Johnson)
At Night (Gibson)
By Design (Kramer)
The Love That Remains (Palmason)
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (Wain)
Her Private Hell (Refn)
Bouchra (Barki & Bennani)
Late Fame (Jones)

1. What Does That Nature Say to You?
2. I Love Boosters
3. You Can See Everything
4. The History of Concrete
5. Hope
6. Pillion
7. Naza
8. Miroirs No. 3
9. The Samurai and the Prisoner
10. Rosebush Pruning

1.

Reserved

I really will try and watch some new stuff this year…

TK

ALSO SEEN, ON THE UP END:
ALSO SEEN, ON THE DOWN END: ”Wuthering Heights”

Last update: 02/21/26

1. A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Jacqueline Lentzou)
2. Soudain (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
3. Chronovisor (Jack Auen and Kevin Walker)
4. Heil Jupiter! (Carlos Reygadas)
5. You Can See Everything (Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim)
6. Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg)
7. Deux Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin)
8. Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong)
9. The Unknown (Arthur Harari)
10. The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach)

ALSO SEEN: The Basics of Philosophy (Paul Schrader), Behemoth! (Tony Gilroy), La Bola Negra (Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi), The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal), Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog), The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg), Digger (Alejandro G. Iñárritu), The Invite (Olivia Wilde), Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev), The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan), Paper Tiger (James Gray), La Petite Dernière (Hafsia Herzi), Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller), Supergirl (Craig Gillespie), Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun), Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh), The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas), ”Wuthering Heights” (Emerald Fennell)

Other lists: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018

--Edited October 21st

1. Sirat
2. Fatherland
3. The Drama
4. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
5. Chronovisor
6. You Can See Everything
7. Look Back
8. Sour Minnows
9. Blades of the Guardians: the Wind Rises
10. Resident Evil

01. The Odyssey (Nolan)
02. Paper Tiger (Gray)
03. You Can See Everything (Fielder/Oppenheim)
04. Primetime (Oppenheim)
05. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Johnson)
06. The Drama (Borgli)
07. Disclosure Day (Spielberg)
08. Obsession (Barker)
09. The Napa Boys 4: The Sommelier's Amulet (Corirossi)
10. Coyote vs. Acme (Green)

LAST UPDATED: 11/2/2026

Past lists: 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007

You Can See Everything
The Odyssey
Paper Tiger
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
The Drama
Backrooms
Primetime
Obsession
Coyote vs Acme
Disclosure Day

Big hopes for Farhadi’s Parallel Tales, and praying that Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is better than the trailer makes it look!

Also, come on Fincher and Pitt. Do Cliff Booth proud.

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