2026 Top Ten List
The Unknown (Arthur Harari)
You Can See Everything (Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim)
Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog)
La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)
Behemoth! (Tony Gilroy)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)
The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan)
Flies (Fernando Eimbcke)
Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh)
Tony (Matt Johnson)
Additional 2026 Films By Rating
The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg)
The Sheep Detectives (Kyle Balda)
Hokum (Damian McCarthy)
A Long Winter (Andrew Haigh)
Minotaur (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Everytime (Sandra Wollner)
The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
Chronovisor (Jack Auen & Kevin Walker)
Paradise Lost (Yeon Sang-ho)
Everything Else Is Noise (Nicolás Pereda)
Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg)
Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong)
The Invite (Olivia Wilde)
Wild Horse Nine (Martin McDonagh)
Send Help (Sam Raimi)
The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (David Greaves)
Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar)
Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft (James Cameron & Billie Eilish)
Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski)
Backrooms (Kane Parsons)
The Loneliest Man in Town (Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel)
Misty Green (Chris Rock)
Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)
Mayday (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein)
Coward (Lukas Dhont)
The End of Oak Street (David Robert Mitchell)
Nowhere to Lay My Eyes (Hong Sang-soo)
La bola negra (Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi)
¡Viva Carmen! (Sébastien Laudenbach)
The Death of Robin Hood (Michael Sarnoski)
Gentle Monster (Marie Kreutzer)
The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach)
Clarissa (Arie & Chuko)
Faith (Paul Andrew Williams)
The Julia Set (Niki Byrne)
Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo (Takashi Miike)
Elsinore (Simon Stone)
The Day She Returns (Hong Sang-soo)
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)
Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller)
Sheep in the Box (Koreeda Hirokazu)
Hope (Na Hong-jin)
Parallel Tales (Asghar Farhadi)
I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies (Mani Haghighi)
All of a Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Double Freedom (Lisandro Alonso)
My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec)

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