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01 The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli)
02 Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt)
03 Boards of Canada: Tape 05
04 The Napa Boys (Nick Corirossi)
05 I Love Boosters (Boots Riley)
06 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)
07 Digger (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
08 The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan)
09 Her Private Hell (Nicolas Winding Refn)
10 Mother Mary (David Lowery)

11 Backrooms (Kane Parsons)
12 Tony (Matt Johnson)
13 The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)
14 The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
15 The Rip (Joe Carnahan)
16 Send Help (Sam Raimi)
17 Amarga Navidad (Pedro Almodóvar)
18 Eight Bridges (James Benning)
19 La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)
20 The Invite (Olivia Wilde)
21 Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (David Wain)
22 Gary (Christopher Storer)
23 Hoppers (Daniel Chong)
24 Toy Story 5 (Andrew Stanton)
25 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta)

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Last edited Oct 09, 2026

At least we have a new mayor. Happy New Year!

Magalhães / Magellan [Lav Diaz]
EIGHT BRIDGES [James Benning]
Remake [Ross McElwee]
Nuestra Tierra / Landmarks [Lucrecia Martel]
Dead Souls [Alex Cox]
ხმელი ფოთოლი / Dry Leaf [ალექსანდრე კობერიძე / Alexandre Koberidze]
黒牢城 / The Samurai and the Prisoner [黒沢 清 / Kiyoshi Kurosawa]
Le Cri des Gardes (The Cry of the Guards / U.S. title: The Fence) [Claire Denis]
Miroirs No. 3 [Christian Petzold]

1. The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli)
2. Gary (Christopher Storer)
3. The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much (Eric Jackowitz)
4. Digger (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
5. Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg)
6. Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt)
7. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson)
8. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun)
9. The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)
10. Deux Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin)

Past lists: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005-2000

1. Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)
2. Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong)
3. All of a Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
4. Everytime (Sandra Wollmer)
5. La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)
6. Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh)
7. Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
8. Primetime (Lance Oppenheim)
9. The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
10. Once Upon a Time in Harlem (William Greaves, David Greaves)

1. Mother Mary
2. Christophers
3. The Drama
4. The Samurai and the Prisoner
5. The Odyssey
6. Rose of Nevada
7. Project: Hail Mary
8. Sheep Detetive
9. Obsession
10. Backrooms

The rest in order of preference: Crime 101, Send Help, Toy Story 5, Gail Daughtry/Sex Pass, Disclosure Day, Her Private Hell, Scream 7, The Furious

1) Obsession (Barker)
2) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (DaCosta)
3) Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Johnson)
4) Resident Evil (Cregger)
5) Backrooms (Parsons)
6) Project Hail Mary (Lord, Miller)
7) Hokum (McCarthy)
8) The Odyssey (Nolan)
9) Primetime (Lance Oppenheim)
10) Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (Bettinelli-Olpin, Gillett)

Honourable Mentions:

Good:
They Will Kill You (Sokolov)
We Bury the Dead (Hilditch)

Decent:
Apex (Kormakur)
Masters of the Universe (Knight)

Bad:
The Last House (Leterrier)
The Whistler (Velasco)

Garbage:

2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012

I do not support it.

1. The Odyssey (C. Nolan)
2. Project Hail Mary (Lord & Miller)
3. Lorne (M. Neville)
4. "Wuthering Heights" (E. Fennell)
5. 28 Years Later: the Bone Temple (N. da Costa)
6. The Death of Robin Hood (M. Sarnoski)
7. Spider-man: Brand New Day (D.D. Cretton)
8. The Wizard of the Kremlin (O. Assayas)
9. Mother Mary (D. Lowery)
10. Everyone Is Lying to You For Money (B. McKenzie)

I hope to watch a movie this year

1. The Drama

2-10 alphabetical:

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
The Christophers
Fatherland
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
The Invite
Obsession
The Odyssey
Resident Evil
Toy Story 5

Reserved.
Though something tells me we may need to shorten this to Top Three or Top Four in the upcoming years.

1. The Odyssey
2. Hokum
3. Send Help
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Edited 08-05-2026

1. BURN
2. Backrooms
3. The Odyssey
4. The Dog Stars
5. Ice Cream Man
6. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
7. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
8. Wuthering Heights
9. Her Private Hell
10. Iron Lung

1. Blades of the Guardians
2. Hokum
3.
4.
5.

Mixed:

Horrible:

Edited 10/1/26

1. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Johnson)
2. Blue Heron (Romvari)
3. Chronovisor (Walker & Auen)
4. The Christophers (Soderbergh)
5. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Schoenbrun)
6. Disclosure Day (Spielberg)
7. Maddie’s Secret (Early)
8. The Diary of a Chambermaid (Jude)
9. What Can't Be Mentioned (Sallitt)
10. Remake (McElwee)

Honorable mentions (ranked):
The Invite (Wilde)
La Gradiva (Atlan)
The Napa Boys (Corirossi)
Everything Else is Noise (Pereda)
Primetime (Oppenheim)
The History of Concrete (Wilson)
Magellan (Diaz)
The Wrong Girls (Meyer)
Tony (Johnson)
At Night (Gibson)
By Design (Kramer)
The Love That Remains (Palmason)
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (Wain)
Her Private Hell (Refn)
Send Help (Raimi)
The Rib of the Greater Bay Area (Tao)
Late Fame (Jones)
Propeller One-Way Night Coach (Travolta)
Bouchra (Barki & Bennani)
Camp (Fast)

1. What Does That Nature Say to You?
2. I Love Boosters
3. The History of Concrete
4. Hope
5. Pillion
6. Silent Friend
7. Miroirs No. 3
8. Palestine 36
9. The Samurai and the Prisoner
10. Rosebush Pruning

1.

Reserved

I really will try and watch some new stuff this year…

TK

ALSO SEEN, ON THE UP END:
ALSO SEEN, ON THE DOWN END: ”Wuthering Heights”

Last update: 02/21/26

1. A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Jacqueline Lentzou)
2. Soudain (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
3. Chronovisor (Jack Auen and Kevin Walker)
4. Heil Jupiter! (Carlos Reygadas)
5. Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg)
6. Deux Pianos (Arnaud Desplechin)
7. Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong)
8. The Unknown (Arthur Harari)
9. The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach)
10. La Petite Dernière (Hafsia Herzi)

ALSO SEEN: The Basics of Philosophy (Paul Schrader), Behemoth! (Tony Gilroy), The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal), Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog), The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg), Digger (Alejandro G. Iñárritu), The Invite (Olivia Wilde), Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev), The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan), Paper Tiger (James Gray), Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller), Supergirl (Craig Gillespie), Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun), Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh), The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas), ”Wuthering Heights” (Emerald Fennell)

Other lists: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018

--Edited August 1st

1. Sirat
2. The Drama
3. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
4. Sour Minnows
5. Blades of the Guardians: the Wind Rises
6. Resident Evil
7. Mother Mary
8.
9. The Samurai and the Prisoner
10. The Furious

01. The Odyssey (Nolan)
02. Primetime (Oppenheim)
03. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Johnson)
04. The Drama (Borgli)
05. Disclosure Day (Spielberg)
06. Obsession (Barker)
07. Resident Evil (Cregger)
08. The Napa Boys 4: The Sommelier's Amulet (Corirossi)
09. Backrooms (Parsons)
10. Send Help (Raimi)

LAST UPDATED: 10/4/2026

Past lists: 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007

The Drama
Backrooms
Obsession
Send Help
The Napa Boys
Hoppers

Big hopes for Farhadi’s Parallel Tales, and praying that Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is better than the trailer makes it look!

Also, come on Fincher and Pitt. Do Cliff Booth proud.

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