Dynamic Top Tens of 2026

[swo17]

01 The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli)
02 Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt)
03 The Napa Boys (Nick Corirossi)
04 I Love Boosters (Boots Riley)
05 Her Private Hell (Nicolas Winding Refn)
06 Mother Mary (David Lowery)
07 Boards of Canada: Tape 05
08 Backrooms (Kane Parsons)
09 The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)
10 The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal)

11 The Rip (Joe Carnahan)
12 Send Help (Sam Raimi)
13 The Invite (Olivia Wilde)
14 Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (David Wain)
15 Gary (Christopher Storer)
16 Hoppers (Daniel Chong)
17 Toy Story 5 (Andrew Stanton)
18 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta)
19 DTF St. Louis (Steve Conrad)
20 Hokum (Damian McCarthy)
21 Wuthering Heights (Emerald Fennell)
22 Is God Is (Aleshea Harris)
23 Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg)
24 Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller)
25 Supergirl (Craig Gillespie)

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Last edited Aug 21, 2026

[hearthesilence]

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

Magalhães / Magellan [Lav Diaz]
EIGHT BRIDGES [James Benning]
Remake [Ross McElwee]
Nuestra Tierra / Landmarks [Lucrecia Martel]
Dead Souls [Alex Cox]
ხმელი ფოთოლი / Dry Leaf [ალექსანდრე კობერიძე / Alexandre Koberidze]
黒牢城 / The Samurai and the Prisoner [黒沢 清 / Kiyoshi Kurosawa]
Le Cri des Gardes (The Cry of the Guards / U.S. title: The Fence) [Claire Denis]
Miroirs No. 3 [Christian Petzold]

[therewillbeblus]

1. The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli)
2. Gary (Christopher Storer)
3. The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much (Eric Jackowitz)
4. Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg)
5. Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt)
6. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson)
7. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)
8. The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)
9. Deux Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin)
10. DTF St. Louis (Steven Conrad)

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

[dekadetia]

1. Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)
2. The Friend's House Is Here (Hossein Keshavarz, Maryam Ataei)
3. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)
4. The Invite (Olivia Wilde)
5. The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli)
6. Buddy (Casper Kelly)
7. Levitating (Wregas Bhanuteja)
8. Is God Is (Aleshea Harris)
9. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta)
10. Leviticus (Adrian Chiarella)

[wattsup32]

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

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

[TheDudeAbides]

1) Obsession (Barker)
2) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (DaCosta)
3) Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Johnson)
4) Hokum (McCarthy)
5) We Bury the Dead (Hilditch)
6) The Whistler (Velasco) - Bad

Honourable Mentions:

Good:

Decent:

Bad:

Garbage:

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

[knives]

I do not support it.

[willoneill]

1. The Odyssey (C. Nolan)
2. Project Hail Mary (Lord & Miller)
3. Lorne (M. Neville)
4. "Wuthering Heights" (E. Fennell)
5. 28 Years Later: the Bone Temple (N. da Costa)
6. The Death of Robin Hood (M. Sarnoski)
7. Spider-man: Brand New Day (D.D. Cretton)
8. The Wizard of the Kremlin (O. Assayas)
9. Mother Mary (D. Lowery)
10. Everyone Is Lying to You For Money (B. McKenzie)

[Murdoch]

I hope to watch a movie this year

[Toland's Mitchell]

1. The Drama
...
2. The Invite
3. The Odyssey
4. Toy Story 5
...
5. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
6. Obsession
7. Send Help
8. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
9. The Christophers
10. Disclosure Day

[Yakushima]

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

[cantinflas]

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

[Finch]

1.
2. Hokum
3.
4.
5.

Mixed:

Horrible:

Edited 7/17/26

[The Narrator Returns]

1. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Johnson)
2. Blue Heron (Romvari)
3. Chronovisor (Walker & Auen)
4. The Christophers (Soderbergh)
5. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Schoenbrun)
6. Disclosure Day (Spielberg)
7. Miroirs No. 3 (Petzold)
8. Maddie’s Secret (Early)
9. Remake (McElwee)
10. The Diary of a Chambermaid (Jude)

Honorable mentions (ranked):
The Invite (Wilde)
The Napa Boys (Corirossi)
Everything Else is Noise (Pereda)
Magellan (Diaz)
The Wrong Girls (Meyer)
Tony (Johnson)
At Night (Gibson)
Jackass: Best and Last (Tremaine)
By Design (Kramer)
The Love That Remains (Palmason)
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (Wain)
Her Private Hell (Refn)
Send Help (Raimi)
The Rib of the Greater Bay Area (Tao)
Late Fame (Jones)
Propeller One-Way Night Coach (Travolta)
Bouchra (Barki & Bennani)
Camp (Fast)
The Odyssey (Nolan)
The Serpent’s Skin (Maio Mackay)
She's the He! (McCarthy)
Mother Mary (Lowery)
I Love Boosters (Riley)
Forbidden Fruits (Alloway)
Mile End Kicks (Levack)

The rest:
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (Almereyda & Stephens), The Moment (Zamiri), Girls Like Girls (Kiyoko), Marc by Sofia (Coppola), The Bride! (Gyllenhaal), Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Cameron & Eilish), Backrooms (Parsons), Wuthering Heights (Fennell), Remarkably Bright Creatures (Newman), Roommates (Levack), Tycoon (Zhang), I Want Your Sex (Araki), The Wizard of the Kremlin (Assayas), How to Make a Killing (Patton Ford), Never Change! (Schousboe), Outcome (Hill)

[goblinfootballs]

1. What Does That Nature Say to You?
2. I Love Boosters
3. Pillion
4. Silent Friend
5. Miroirs No. 3
6. Palestine 36
7. The Samurai and the Prisoner
8. Rosebush Pruning

[John Cope]

1.

[nicolas]

Reserved

[Dr Amicus]

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

[domino harvey]

TK

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

Last update: 02/21/26

[Never Cursed]

1. Chronovisor (Jack Auen and Kevin Walker)
2. Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg)
3. Deux Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin)
4. La Petite Dernière (Hafsia Herzi)
5. The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan)

ALSO SEEN: The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal), The Invite (Olivia Wilde), Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller), Supergirl (Craig Gillespie), Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun), The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas), ”Wuthering Heights” (Emerald Fennell)

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

[Mr Sausage]

--Edited August 16th

1. Sirat
2. The Drama
3. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
4. Sour Minnows
5. Blades of the Guardians: the Wind Rises
6. Mother Mary
7.
8.
9. The Samurai and the Prisoner
10. Hokum

[mfunk9786]

01. The Odyssey (Nolan)
02. Disclosure Day (Spielberg)
03. The Drama (Borgli)
04. The Furious (Tanigaki)
05. Obsession (Barker)
06. The Napa Boys 4: The Sommelier's Amulet (Corirossi)
07. Backrooms (Parsons)
08. The Invite (Wilde)
09. Hoppers (Chong)
10. Send Help (Raimi)

LAST UPDATED: 7/18/2026

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

[LQ]

The Drama
Backrooms
Obsession
Send Help
The Napa Boys
Hoppers

[Aspect]

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.

[Black Hat]

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