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1. Arabian Nights
2. Court
3. The Assassin
4. Phoenix
5. Louder than Bombs
6. Son of Saul
7. Li Wen at East Lake
8. Girlhood
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Taxi

1. The Pearl Button (Guzmán)
2. 45 Years (Haigh)
3. Bridge of Spies (Spielberg)
4. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)
5. The Academy of Muses (Guerín)
6. John From (Nicolau)
7. Carol (Haynes)
8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams)
9. Far from the Madding Crowd (Vinterberg)
10. The Demons (Lesage)

1. The Big Short
2. Carol
3. Spotlight
4. Anomalisa
5. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
6. 45 Years
7. The Lobster
8. Jafar Panahi's Taxi
9. Shaun the Sheep Movie
10. Brooklyn

1. Right Now, Wrong Then
2. Cemetery of Splendor
3. Phoenix
4. Timbuktu
5. Arabian Nights
6. In Jackson Heights
7. Clouds of Sils Maria
8. The Assassin
9. Carol
10. 45 Years

Updated 9 June 2018

1. Carol
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Knight of Cups
4. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
5. The Witch
6. Mistress America
7. Sicario
8. Sleeping With Other People
9. Best of Enemies
10. Queen of Earth


One under the radar pic that I still wouldn't quite put in my top 10 would be Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine which has an especially powerful first hour. This was overshadowed both by Boyle's (I thought awful) Jobs biopic and Gibney's own Going Clear (which I thought was a merely competent rehash of things everyone already knew).

other HM: Anomalisa, Far From the Madding Crowd, Bridge of Spies, The Good Dinosaur, The Peanuts Movie

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
1. Hard to Be a God
3. The Look of Silence
4. Sicario
5. Knight of Cups
6. Calvary
7. Ex Machina
8. The Hateful Eight
9. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
10. Jupiter Ascending

01. Kaili Blues
02. Carol
03. Sunset Song
04. John From
05. The Assassin
06. The Lobster
07. Cemetery of Splendour
08. Happy Hour
09. Experimenter
10. Mountains May Depart

11. My Golden Days
12. Knight of Cups
13. Blackhat
14. Mistress America
15. Entertainment
16. Right Now, Wrong Then
17. Taxi
18. Anomalisa
19. Joy
20. In the Shadow of Women

Decent: The Measure of a Man; Magic Mike XXL; Dheepan; 45 Years; Chronic; Tangerine; Aferim!; Queen of Earth; Journey to the Shore; The Other Side; Son of Saul

Runners-up (Tier 2): Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation; Macbeth; Mad Max: Fury Road; Results; Chi-raq; Inside Out

Decent: The End of the Tour; Valley of Love; The Big Short; Steve Jobs; Mia Madre, Marguerite & Julien; Louder than Bombs

Not a fan: Sicario; In the Heart of the Sea; Best of Enemies; Heart of a Dog; Our Little Sister; Beasts of No Nation; The Lure; Evolution; Spotlight; Spectre

Rubbish: Ex Machina, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Youth, The Sea of Trees, My King, Tale of Tales; The Hateful Eight

1. Carol
2. Sicario
3. 45 Years
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. It Follows
6. Neon Bull
7. The Revenant
8. Mistress America
9. Ex Machina
10. Phoenix


Honrable Mentions: The Assassin, Crimson Peak, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Spectre


Other Seen: While We’re Young, The Hateful Eight, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant Man

1. Inside Out
2. Cemetery of Splendor
3. Carol
4. Spotlight
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. The Assassin
7. The Lobster
8. Spy
9. Creed
10. Brooklyn

01. Carol (Todd Haynes)
02. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words (Stig Bjorkman)
03. Tangerine (Sean Baker)
04. The Lobster (Yorgos Lathimos)
05. Tale of Tales (Matteo Garrone)
06. Brooklyn (John Crowley)
07. 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
08. Tab Hunter Confidential (Jeffrey Schwarz)
09. Arabian Knights: Volume 2; The Desolate One (Miguel Gomes)
10. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichaatpong Weeasethakul)

(alphabetical)

Beasts of No Nation
Best of Enemies
The Big Short
Cartel Land
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mustang
Phoenix
Sicario
Steve Jobs