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01 The Square (Östlund)
02 The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos)
03 Austerlitz (Loznitsa)
04 The Son of Joseph (Green)
05 The Exquisite Corpus (Tscherkassky)
06 The Death of Louis XIV (Serra)
07 Ma Loute (Dumont)
08 Blend (Evans)
09 Loveless (Zvyagintsev)
10 07/27/1978 (Fatal Farm)

Last edited Jun 01, 2021

01 the Young Pope (Paolo Sorrentino)
02 the Blackcoat's Daughter (Osgood Perkins)
03 mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
04 Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer)
05 Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh)
06 the Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
07 I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
08 Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
09 Happy Death Day (Christopher Landon)
10 Au revoir là-haut (Albert Dupontel)

PAST LISTS 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010 / 2009 / 2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005 - 2000

Last Updated: 09/12/2019

1. Faces Places
2. In Transit
3. Twin Peaks: The Return
4. The Death of Louis XIV
5. Phantom Thread
6. A Quiet Passion
7. Mother!
8. The Florida Project
9. Mudbound
10. The Shape of Water

Twin Peaks: The Return
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Phantom Thread
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Blade Runner 2049
Columbus
Faces Places
After the Storm

1) The Florida Project
2) A Fantastic Woman
3) Lady Bird
4) Call Me By Your Name
5) Phantom Thread
6) BPM (Beats Per Minute)
7) Blade Runner 2049
8) mother!
9) Killing of a Sacred Deer
10) Dunkirk


Others seen (in rough order of preference): The Disaster Artist; Thor: Ragnarok; Wonder Woman; Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2; Lego Batman; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

To See: Get Out, Personal Shopper, A Ghost Story, Shape of Water, Baby Driver, Mudbound, I Am Not Your Negro, I Tonya, Split, The Square, Wonderstruck, Raw, Rat Film, Faces Places, Ex Libris, A Quiet Passion

1. The Florida Project (Baker)
2. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos)
3. Raw (Ducournau)
4. Good Time (Safdie Brothers)
5. Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve)
6. The Other Side of Hope (Kaurismäki)
7. Baby Driver (Wright)
8. It Comes at Night (Shults)
9. Phantom Thread (Anderson)
10. Personal Shopper (Assayas)


Honorable Mentions
A Ghost Story (Lowery)
The Disaster Artist (Franco)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Stahelski)
Get Out (Peele)
It (Muschietti)
Logan (Mangold)

The Good
I, Tonya (Gillespie)
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (Johnson)
Atomic Blonde (Leitch)
Dunkirk (Nolan)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Reeves)
Split (Shyamalan)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Gunn)
mother! (Aronofsky)
Happy Death Day (Landon)
Creep 2 (Brice)
Mayhem (Lynch)
The Belko Experiment (McLean)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (McDonagh)
Thor: Ragnarok (Waititi)
The Big Sick (Showalter)
The Devil's Candy (Byrne)
Annabelle: Creation (Sandberg)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Watts)
Prevenge (Lowe)

The Decent
Detroit (Bigelow)
Justice League (Snyder)
The Void (Gillespie, Kostanski)
Free Fire (Wheatley)
Wonder Woman (Jenkins)
Logan Lucky (Soderbergh)
Brad's Status (White)
Life (Espinosa)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Molly's Game (Sorkin)
Ghost in the Shell (Sanders)
Alien: Covenant (Scott)
Cult of Chucky (Mancini)
American Made (Liman)
Gold (Gaghan)
A Cure for Wellness (Verbinski)
Gerald’s Game (Flanagan)
Everything, Everything (Meghie)
Death Note (Wingard)
All the Money in the World (Scott)

The Ugly
Girls Trip (Lee)
The Glass Castle (Cretton)
Rough Night (Aniello)
Kong: Skull Island (Vogt-Roberts)
Rings (Gutierrez)
The Hitman's Bodyguard (Hughes)
Baywatch (Gordon)
The Circle (Ponsoldt)
The Mummy (Kurtzman)
The Babysitter (McG)
Geostorm (Devlin)
Don't Hang Up (Macé, Wajsbrot)
XX (Anthology)
The Bye-Bye Man (Title)
Power Rangers (Israelite)

2016 2015 2014 2013 2012

1. Lady Bird (Gerwig)
2. Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino)
3. Phantom Thread (Anderson)
4. The Florida Project (Baker)
5. Dunkirk (Nolan)
6. The Beguiled (Coppola)
7. Logan Lucky (Soderbergh)
8. Good Time (Safdies)
9. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Baumbach)
10. Personal Shopper (Assayas)

Also seen (ranked)
The Shape of Water (del Toro)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos)
mother! (Aronofsky)
Get Out (Peele)
Split (Shyamalan)
A Ghost Story (Lowery)
The Lost City of Z (Gray)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Johnson)
The Post (Spielberg)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (McDonagh)
Baby Driver (Wright)
The Big Sick (Showalter)
It Comes at Night (Shults)
Wonder Woman (Jenkins)
I, Tonya (Gillespie)
The Disaster Artist (Franco)
Song to Song (Malick)
Last Flag Flying (Linklater)
Battle of the Sexes (Dayton/Faris)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (McGuigan)
Detroit (Bigelow)
Wonder Wheel (Allen)
Rough Night (Aniello)
3 Generations (Dellal)
Suburbicon (Clooney)

Confined to a special room in Hell
The Book of Henry (Trevorrow)

Special screenings
To Sleep With Anger (Burnett)

1. Call Me by Your Name
2. Get Out
3. Logan Lucky
4. Step (Lipitz)
5. The Florida Project
6. Phantom Thread
7. Dunkirk
8. The Vietnam War
9. Good Time
10. mother!

Top Ten:
1. Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino) 95/100 [*]
2. A Ghost Story (Lowery) 93/100
3. Wormwood (Morris) 92/100
4. mother! (Aronofsky) 91/100
5. Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve) 89/100
6. Raw (Ducournou) 88/100
7. Loveless (Zvyagintsev) 88/100
8. Thelma (Trier) 87/100
9. The Square (Ostlund) 87/100
10. Hostiles (Cooper) 87/100

Also Seen (in order of quality):
Phantom Thread (Anderson) 87/100 [*]
Dunkirk (Nolan) 86/100 [*]
The Shape of Water (Del Toro) 86/100 [*]
In the Fade (Akin) 83/100
Song to Song (Malick) 83/100
Lady Bird (Gerwig) 82/100 [*]
Foxtrot (Maoz) 82/100
Detroit (Bigelow) 82/100
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (Perkins) 81/100
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos) 80/100
The Lost City of Z (Gray) 80/100
The Florida Project (Baker) 80/100
A Fantastic Woman (Lelio) 80/100
It Comes At Night (Shults) 80/100
The Insult (Doueiri) 80/100
The Beguiled (Coppola) 80/100
Molly's Game (Sorkin) 79/100
1922 (Hilditch) 79/100
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Blair) 78/100
Mudbound (Rees) 77/100
Good Time (Safdie Bros.) 76/100
Lady Macbeth (Oldroyd) 76/100
Hostages (Gigineishvili) 76/100
1945 (Török) 74/100
War for the Planet of the Apes (Reeves) 74/100
The Transfiguration (O'Shea) 74/100
Get Out (Peele) 73/100 [*]
I, Tonya (Gillespie) 73/100
A Man of Integrity (Rasoulof) 72/100
Stronger (Green) 72/100
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (Johnson) 72/100
Colossal (Vigalondo) 71/100
Baby Driver (Wright) 71/100
Downsizing (Payne) 71/100
Free Fire (Wheatley) 70/100
The Big Sick (Showalter) 70/100
Land of the Free (Magid) 70/100
Personal Shopper (Assayas) 69/100
Split (Shyamalan) 69/100
Thor: Ragnarok (Waititi) 69/100
Oklahoma City (Goodman) 69/100
Logan Lucky (Soderbergh) 68/100
Faces, Places (Varda; JR) 68/100
Battle of the Sexes (Dayton; Faris) 68/100
Wind River (Sheridan) 68/100
Wonder Wheel (Allen) 68/100
IT (Muschietti) 67/100
A Cure for Wellness (Verbinski) 67/100
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Gunn) 67/100
All the Money in the World 67/100
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Gilroy) 67/100
The Discovery (McDowell) 66/100
Logan (Mangold) 66/100
The Void (Kostanski; Gillespie) 65/100
Okja (Bong) 65/100
My Cousin Rachel (Michell) 64/100
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (Zahler) 64/100
Beatriz at Dinner (Arteta) 64/100
The Disaster Artist (Franco) 63/100
The Lovers (Jacobs) 63/100
The Post (Spielberg) 62/100 [*]
Alien: Covenant (Scott) 62/100
Atomic Blonde (Leitch) 61/100
Coco (Unkrich; Molina) 61/100
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Stahelski) 60/100
The Belko Experiment (McLean) 60/100
Gerald’s Game (Flanagan) 60/100
Wonder Woman (Jenkins) 59/100
Murder on the Orient Express (Branagh) 59/100
Suburbicon (Clooney) 59/100
American Made (Liman) 58/100
Kong: Skull Island (Vogt-Roberts) 58/100
The Venerable W. (Schroeder) 55/100
War Machine (Michod) 55/100
Happy Death Day (Landon) 54/100
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (M. McDonagh) 54/100 [*]
The Wall (Liman) 53/100
Darkest Hour (Wright) 51/100 [*]
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Watts) 49/100
Life (Espinosa) 48/100
Ghost in the Shell (Sanders) 47/100
The Circle (Ponsoldt) 40/100
War on Everyone (J.M. McDonagh) 39/100

Watchlist :

Must See:

Should See: BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Campillo); Endless Poetry (Jodorowsky); Happy End (Haneke); Last Flag Flying (Linklater); Novitiate (Betts); T2: Trainspotting (Boyle); Wonderstruck (Haynes)

Maybe: First They Killed My Father (Jolie); Ingrid Goes West (Spicer); Marshall (Hudlin); The Mountain Between Us (Abu-Assad); Patti Cake$ (Jasper); Sleight (Dillard); Thank You for Your Service (Hall); The Zookeeper's Wife (Caro)

Previously: 2016.2015.2014.2013.2012.2011.2010.2009

1. Paterson
2. The Phantom Thread
3. Personal Shopper
4. Mother!
5. Hostiles
6. The Other Side of Hope
7. Obit
8. 1945
9. Mudbound
10. Karl Marx City

2016...2015...2014...2013...

1. The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
2. Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
3. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
4. Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
5. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
7. Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin)
8. A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
9. Logan (James Mangold)
10. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson)

1. Song to Song (Malick)
2. Good Time (Safdies)
3. Western (Grisebach)
4. Phantom Thread (Anderson)
5. The Florida Project (Baker)
6. Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino)
7. The Meyerowitz Stories (Baumbach)
8. I Am Not Your Negro (Peck)
9. Vers la tendresse (Diop)
10. Sarah Winchester, opéra fantôme (Bonello)

Also liked: Lady Bird (Gerwig), 120 BPM (Campillo), Get Out (Peele), The Lost City of Z (Gray), Brawl in Cell Block 99 (Zahler), On the Beach At Night Alone (Hong), L'amant d'un jour (Garrel), A Gentle Creature (Loznitsa), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos), I Love You, Daddy (C.K.), Happy End (Haneke), Wonderstruck (Haynes), Loveless (Zvyagintsev), Le Parc (Manivel), Beach Rats (Hittman), Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve).

A bit conflicted on whether to count some of the 2016 films I've only now been able to see in 2017 as 2017 - i.e. Scorsese's Silence (and conversely, great 2016 films like Bonello's Nocturama that most people are only now getting to see in 2017).

1) The Florida Project (Baker)
2) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Johnson)
3) Brawl in Cell Block 99 (Zahler)
4) Phantom Thread (Anderson)
5) The Lost City of Z (Gray)
6) Personal Shopper (Assayas)
7) Coco (Unkrich)
8) Dunkirk (Nolan)
9) Good Time (Safdie Brothers)
10) The Shape of Water (del Toro)

List includes 2017 films only per IMDb release date.

1. Mother! (Aronofsky)
2. Coco (Unkrich)
3. Okja (Bong)
4. Lady Bird (Gerwig)
5. The Death of Stalin (Iannucci)
6. First Reformed (Schrader)
7. Phantom Thread (Anderson)
8. The Breadwinner (Twomey)
9. Thelma (Trier)
10. The Post (Spielberg)

For my own convenience, here are 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009.

1. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
2. The Work (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
3. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
4. Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone)
5. Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
6. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (S.S. Rajamouli)
7. The Post (Steven Spielberg)
8. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W.S. Anderson)
9. 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
10. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson)

1) 120 Beats Per Minute (Campillo)
2) Song to Song (Malick)
3) The Rider (Zhao)
4) Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve)
5) Phantom Thread (Anderson)
6) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Johnson)
7) Zama (Martel)
8) I Tonya (Gillespie)
9) Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (Driver)
10) Ghost in the Shell (Sanders)


Everything else in order of preference...

Arthur Miller: Writer (Miller)
Get Out (Peele)
Dunkirk (Nolan)
Caniba (Castaing-Taylor, Paravel)
Florida Project (Baker)
Nocturama (Bonello)
Ingrid Goes West (Spicer)
Wonderstruck (Haynes)
Raw (Ducournao)
A Ghost Story (Lowery)
The Meyerowitz Stories (Baumbach)
The Other Side of Hope (Kaurismäki)
Obit (Gould)
Chavela (Gund, Kyi)
Marshall (Hudlin)
Girls Trip (Lee)
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (Fleming)
Félicité (Gomis)
Landline (Robespierre)
Mother! (Aronofsky)
It Comes at Night (Shults)
Atomic Blonde (Leitch)
Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino)
The Shape of Water (del Toro)
Let the Sun Shine In (Denis)
Lady Bird (Gerwig)
Ismael's Ghosts (Desplechin)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Lanthimos)
Lover for a Day (Garrel)
Happy Death Day (Landon)
The Square (Ostlund)
The Lovers (Jacobs)
Rough Night (Aniello)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Watts)
Baby Driver (Wright)
The Glass Castle (Cretton) (Robinson)
Logan (Mangold)
Thor:Ragnarok (Waititi)
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong)
The Day After (Hong)
Cielo (McAlpine)
I Am Not Your Negro (Peck)
Mudbound (Rees)
The Big Sick (Showalter)
The Disaster Artist (Franco)
Split (M. Night)
Logan Lucky (Soderbergh)
Crown Heights (Ruskin)
The Post (Spielberg)
Madame Hyde (Bozon)
The Salesman (Farhadi)
Wind River (Sheridan)
Daydreams (Deruas)
The Dancer (Di Giusto)
Good Time (Safdie Brothers)
Detroit (Bigelow)
Only the Brave (Kosinski)
Paint it Black (Tamblyn)
Molly's Game (Sorkin)
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Gilroy)
Wonder Woman (Jacobs)
The Lego Batman Movie (McKay)
Thelma (Trier)
All the Money in the World (Scott)
Justice League (Snyder)
Sea Sorrow (Redgrave)
Last Flag Flying (Linklater)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (McDonagh)
Tulip Fever (Chadwick)
It (Muschietti)
Wonder Wheel (Allen)
Person to Person (Guy Defa)
The Beguiled (Coppola)
Voyeur (Myles Kane, Josh Koury)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Besson)
Brad's Status (White)
Patriots Day (Berg)

01 Phantom Thread (Anderson)
01 Twin Peaks: The Return (Lynch)
03 mother! (Aronofsky)
04 Finding Frances (Fielder)
05 Get Out (Peele)
06 Wormwood (Morris)
07 Lady Bird (Gerwig)
08 The Day After (Hong)
09 The Meyerowirz Stories (Baumbach)
10 Ex Libris: New York Public Library (Wiseman)

Updated 01/26/21

favorites:

A Ghost Story
Dunkirk
A Quiet Passion
City of Ghosts
Blade Runner 2049
The Blackcoat's Daugther
A Dark Song
Split
Logan Lucky

liked:
Baby Driver, Gerald's Game, Get Out, Logan, Mommie Dead & Dearest, mother!, Personal Shopper, The Belko Experiment, The Lost City of Z, The Killing of a Sacred Deer

disliked:
Free Fire, IT, It Comes at Night, War for the Planet of the Apes

hated:
Alien Covenant, The Void, War Machine

Because I'm to lazy to work out ACTUAL release dates, based on UK release:

1) Moonlight (Jenkins)
2) La La Land (Chazelle)
3) My Life as a Courgette (Barras)
4) Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve)
5) Dunkirk (Nolan)
6) The Handmaiden (Park)
7) Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (Stevens & Bloom)
8) Wonder Woman (Jenkins)
9) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Johnson)
10) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (Gunn)

In no particular order:
Get Out
Logan
Mother!
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Twin Peaks: The Return
The Shape of Water
Dunkirk
The Phantom Thread
Blade Runner 2049
Lady Bird

1. Twin Peaks The Return
2. Sweet Country
3. Faces Places
4. Blade of The Immortal
5. Brawl in Cell Block 99
6. The Big Sick
7. Zama
8. God's Own Country
9. 120 BPM
10. The Florida Project
11. Lady Bird
12. Paddington 2
13. The Lost City of Z
14. 1922
15. Get Out
16. Baby Driver
17. Ingrid Goes West
18. Good Time
19. Hounds of Love

Liked: The Beguiled

Disappointments: The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Blade Runner 2049

Hated: Call Me By Your Name

Still to see: Phantom Thread

01 Phantom Thread
02 The Big Sick ***
03 The Other Side of Hope
04 Darkest Hour
05 The Killing of a Sacred Deer
06 The Florida Project
07 The Square
08 I, Daniel Blake
09 I, Tonya
10 Molly's Game

11 The Post
12 The Foreigner
13 mother!
14 Wonderstruck
15 Last Flag Flying
16 IT
17 Maudie
18 A Ghost Story
19 Lady Bird
20 The Blackcoat's Daughter

the rest in order:

Dunkirk
The Beguiled
The Shape of Water
Blade Runner 2049
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Jane
Birth of the Dragon
Song to Song
Split
Tower

The Trip to Spain
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Detroit
Trophy
Wind River
Hostiles
Oklahoma City
Ruby Ridge
Personal Shopper
Thank You For Your Service

Alien: Covenant
Atomic Blonde
Gold
All the Money in the World
American Made
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Rats
A Dog's Purpose
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Thelma

The Insult

*** new

10-31-2018

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

1. The Florida Project
2. Detroit
3. I Am Not Your Negro
4. 3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Mo
5. I, Tonya
6. Marshall
7. Coco
8. Darkest Hour
9. Dunkirk
10. The Big Sick
11. Lady Bird

(I add an 11th in case sth is in the wrong year)

After a disappointing 2016, I felt this was a particularly rich year for films. I feel like all I did was watch movies, and I still have major blindspots (most notably The Florida Project and The Killing of a Sacred Deer).

1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. Endless Poetry (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
3. Antiporno (Sion Sono)
4. Nathan for You: Finding Frances (Nathan Fielder)
5. The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
6. Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
7. Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
8. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
9. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
10. Song to Song (Terrence Malick)

11. All Those Sleepless Nights (Michal Marczak)
12. Columbus (Kogonada)
13. The Big Sick (Michael Showalter)
14. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
15. Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
16. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
17. mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
18. A Cure for Wellness (Gore Verbinski)
19. Get Out (Jordan Peele)
20. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
21. Lucky (John Carroll Lynch)
22. The Trip to Spain (Michael Winterbottom)
23. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
24. The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)

Mediocre: Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve), The Disaster Artist (James Franco), i]Kong: Skull Island[/i] (Jordan Vogt-Roberts)

Execrable: The Emoji Movie (Anthony Leondis), Geostorm (Dean Devlin)

Best Non-Film Ephemera: Bus Photobombs The Weather Channel’s Stream of Georgia Dome’s Implosion, Camera falls from airplane and lands in pig pen—MUST WATCH END!!

Worst Non-Film Ephemera: I had so much to say about the bad things I saw that I wrote a lengthy article about them.

This year was a very good year for movies, but overall it had few 'great' entries. Nonetheless, I couldn't contain my list to just ten.

1) Mudbound (Dee Rees)
2) A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
3) The Big Sick (Michael Showalter)
4) Okja (Bong Joon Ho)
5) A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
6) Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)
7) The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
8) Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
9) Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
10) Good Time (Benny & Josh Safdie)
11) mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
12) Raw (Julia Ducournau)