2025 Top Ten List
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
The Christophers (Steven Soderbergh)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)
Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
Additional 2024 Films By Rating
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
Case 137 (Dominik Moll)
Olmo (Fernando Eimbcke)
Carolina Caroline (Adam Carter Rehmeier)
Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)
Köln 75 (Ido Fluk)
Nino (Pauline Loquès)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper)
The Little Sister (Hafsia Herzi)
Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky)
Weapons (Zach Cregger)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
The Furious (Kenji Tanigaki)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
F1 (Joseph Kosinski)
Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura)
Sirāt (Oliver Laxe)
Dead Man's Wire (Gus Van Sant)
Twinless (James Sweeney)
Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson)
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
Little Trouble Girls (Urška Djukić)
Good Boy (Ben Leonberg)
To the Victory! (Valentyn Vasyanovych)
Good Fortune (Aziz Ansari)
Blue Heron (Sophy Romvari)
The Wedding Banquet (Andrew Ahn)
Lurker (Alex Russell)
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Simon Curtis)
La grazia (Paolo Sorrentino)
The Actor (Duke Johnson)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
Final Destination Bloodlines (Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky)
Materialists (Celine Song)
The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović)
Fuze (David Mackenzie)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Duse (Pietro Marcello)
Romería (Carla Simón)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Miroirs no 3 (Christian Petzold)
How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois)
Kontinental '25 (Radu Jude)
Renoir (Chie Hayakawa)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus)
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)
Orphan (Nemes László)
Henry Johnson (David Mamet)
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sangsoo)
Peak Everything (Anne Emond)
The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus)
Peter Hujar's Day (Ira Sachs)
Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho)
BLKNWS®: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph)
Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Magellan (Lav Diaz)
Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)
After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
Chaos: The Manson Murders (Errol Morris)
Eddington (Ari Aster)
Jurassic World Rebirth (Gareth Edwards)
The Fence (Claire Denis)

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