Top 10 Lists 2010-Present

Top 10 Lists 2010- 

2019

1. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)

2. A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)

3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)

4. Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)

5. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)

6. Pain & Glory (Pedro Almodovar)

7. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)

8. Asako I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

9. Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler) & Monos (Alejandro Landes)

10. Atlantics (Mati Diop)

2018

1. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)

2. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)

3. The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico)

4. Burning (Lee Chang-Dong)

5. Zama (Lucretia Martel)

6. Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

7. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen Brothers)

8. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)

9. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)

10. 24 Frames (Abbas Kiraostami)

2017

1. Good Time (Safdie Brothers)

2. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)

3. By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong)

4. All These Sleepless Nights (Michal Marczak)

5. Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)

6. Columbus (Kogonada)

7. After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

8. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)

9. Graduation (Christian Mungui)

10. The Unknown Girl (Dardenne Brothers)

2016

1. Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. The Wailing (Na Hong-jin)
3. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
4. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
5. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
7. O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
8. The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit)
9. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
10. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Love)

2015

1. Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
2. Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)
3. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
4. Heaven Knows What (Safdie Brothers)
5. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
6. Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
7. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
8. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
9. Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
10. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)

2014

1. Two Days, One Night (Dardenne Brothers)
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
3. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
4. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
5. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
6. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
7. Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
8. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
9. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
10. The Guest (Adam Wingard)


2013

1. Hard to be a God (Alexi German)

2. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)

3. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)

4. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
5. The World’s End (Edgar Wright)

6. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
7. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers)
8. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
9. Evil Dead (Fede Alvarez)
10. Bastards (Claire Denis)

2012

1. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
3. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
4. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
5. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
6. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
7. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
8. Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
9. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
10. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

2011

1. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
2. The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne Brothers)
3. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
4. Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
5. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
6. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
7. This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
8. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
9. Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier)
10. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)

2010

1. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
3. 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
4. Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. The Social Network (David Fincher)
6. Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
7. True Grit (Coen Brothers)
8. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt) 

9. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
10. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)