2026 Top Ten List
The Unknown (Arthur Harari)
Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog)
La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)
The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan)
Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh)
Tony (Matt Johnson)
The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg)
The Sheep Detectives (Kyle Balda)
A Long Winter (Andrew Haigh)
Additional 2026 Films By Rating
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)
Misty Green (Chris Rock)
Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)
Coward (Lukas Dhont)
The End of Oak Street (David Robert Mitchell)
La bola negra (Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi)
¡Viva Carmen! (Sébastien Laudenbach)
The Death of Robin Hood (Michael Sarnoski)
The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach)
Clarissa (Arie & Chuko)
Faith (Paul Andrew Williams)
The Julia Set (Niki Byrne)
Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo (Takashi Miike)
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)
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