2026 Top Ten List
The Unknown (Arthur Harari)
Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog)
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)
Minotaur (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Additional 2026 Films By Rating
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)
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)
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)
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