Rumours(Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson)
The Luckiest Man in America(Samir Oliveros)
Between the Temples(Nathan Silver)
Love Lies Bleeding(Rose Glass)
Gut Instinct(Doug Dillaman)
Nightbitch(Marielle Heller)
Dahomey(Mati Diop)
Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1(Kevin Costner)
Hard Truths(Mike Leigh)
Blitz(Steve McQueen)
Dune: Part Two(Denis Villeneuve)
No Other Land(Basel Adra & Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham)
Longlegs(Osgood Perkins)
All We Imagine as Light(Payal Kapadia)
The Wild Robot(Chris Sanders)
Việt and Nam(Trương Ming Quý)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga(George Miller)
The Brutalist(Brady Corbet)
The Instigators(Doug Liman)
The Room Next Door(Pedro Almodóvar)
Oh, Canada(Paul Schrader)
Parthenope(Paolo Sorrentino)
Civil War(Alex Garland)
A Different Man(Aaron Schimberg)
Harvest(Athina Rachel Tsangari)
Henry James' Drive-Away Dykes(Ethan Coen)
The Apprentice(Ali Abbasi)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice(Tim Burton)
Caught by the Tides(Jia Zhang-ke)
A Traveler's Needs(Hong Sang-soo)
The Killer(John Woo)
The Fall Guy.(David Leitch)
Bird(Andrea Arnold)
Megalopolis(Francis Ford Coppola)
I Saw the TV Glow(Jane Schoenbrun)
April(Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Rather than dramatically “unveiling” a top ten list sometime in January (as if anybody who reads this site didn’t already know what it was gonna look like), I revise the sucker as I go along. Here is what my list would look like if (god forbid) I were forced to make it today.
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are marked with if I currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit them and they get a numeral. If a film isn’t currently in my top ten, and I haven’t yet rated it, it ain’t here. There are a whole lot of those — if you’re wondering whether or not I’ve seen the masterpiece you can’t believe I omitted, check my master list.