1992 Top Ten List

Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)

Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)

Hard-Boiled (John Woo)

Un cœur en hiver (Claude Sautet)

Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)

Careful (Guy Maddin)

The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)

Howards End (James Ivory)

A Midnight Clear (Keith Gordon)

Laws of Gravity (Nick Gomez)

Additional 1992 Films By Rating

Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)

The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)

Malcolm X (Spike Lee)

The Player (Robert Altman)

Dead Alive (Peter Jackson)

And Life Goes On (Abbas Kiarostami)

One False Move (Carl Franklin)

Police Story III—Super Cop (Stanley Tong)

Another Girl, Another Planet (Michael Almereyda)

Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)

White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton)

Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)

Aladdin (John Musker & Ron Clements)

Batman Returns (Tim Burton)

The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson)

Ghostwatch (Lesley Manning)

Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi)

Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola)

La Vie de Bohème (Aki Kaurismäki)

Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki)

Deep Cover (Bill Duke)

Alien³ (David Fincher) [assembly cut]

Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)

Hoffa (Danny DeVito)

Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)

Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux & André Bonzel & Benoit Poelvoorde)

Je pense à vous (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)

Céline (Jean-Claude Brisseau)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)

Cronos (Guillermo Del Toro)

Candyman (Bernard Rose)

Consenting Adults (Alan J. Pakula)

For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.

Ratings are on a needlessly precise 100-point scale.

Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are marked with 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. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were in many cases already pretty dusty.)

Seen but currently unrated (and not presumptively among my top 10) The Accompanist (C. Miller); American Me (Olmos); Baraka (Fricke); Belle epoque (Trueba); The Best Intentions (August); Bitter Moon (Polanski); Bob Roberts (Robbins); The Boys of St. Vincent (Smith); Brother's Keeper (Berlinger & Sinofsky); Citizen Cohn (Pierson); Class Act (R. Miller); Crush (Maclean); Damage (Malle); Dammed in the USA (Yule); Death Becomes Her (Zemeckis); Diggstown (Ritchie); Dream of Light (Erice); The Efficiency Expert (Joffe); El Mariachi (Rodriguez); Enchanted April (Newell); Equinox (Rudolph); A Few Good Men (Reiner); Gas Food Lodging (Anders); Guelwaar (Sembene); Guncrazy (Davis); The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Hanson); Hero (Frears); Honeymoon in Vegas (Bergman); HouseSitter (Oz); Hyenas (Diop Mambéty); In the Soup (Rockwell); Incident at Oglala (Apted); Indochine (Wargnier); Into the West (Newell); Juice (Dickerson); Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (Harris); La Sentinelle (Desplechin); The Lady (Mehrjui); The Last Days of Chez Nous (Armstrong); The Last of the Mohicans (Mann); A League of Their Own (Marshall); Léolo (Lauzon); Light Sleeper (Schrader); Like Water for Chocolate (Arau); The Living End (Araki); Lorenzo's Oil (Miller); The Lover (Annaud); Luna Park (Lounguine); Mac (Turturro); The Mambo Kings (Glimcher); Mr. Saturday Night (Crystal); Mistress (Primus); The Moneytree (Dienstag); Monster in a Box (Broomfield); My Cousin Vinny (Lynn); Night and the City (Winkler); Noises Off (Bogdanovich); The Oak (Pintilie); Of Mice and Men (Sinise); Olivier, Olivier (Holland); Once Upon a Time, Cinema (Makhmalbaf); Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui); Orlando (Potter); Passion Fish (Sayles); Patriot Games (Noyce); Peter's Friends (Branagh); The Playboys (Mackinnon); Prelude to a Kiss (René); Raising Cain (De Palma); A River Runs Through It (Redford); Rock Hudson's Home Movies (Rappaport); Romper Stomper (Wright); Sarafina! (Roodt); Savage Nights (Collard); Scent of a Woman (Brest); School Ties (Mandel); Simple Men (Hartley); Single White Female (Schroeder); Singles (Crowe); Sneakers (Robinson); South Central (Anderson); Stolen Children (Amelio); The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang); Strictly Ballroom (Lurhmann); Swoon (Kalin); Swordsman II (Ching); A Tale of Winter (Rohmer); This Is My Life (Ephron); Thunderheart (Apted); Toys (Levinson); Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright (Leigh/Moore/Parisot); Visions of Light (Glassman & McCarthy & Samuels); The Waterdance (Jimenez & Steinberg); Wayne's World (Spheeris); Wind (Ballard); Zebrahead (Drazan)

As yet unseen: Actress (Kwan); Dragon Inn (Lee); The Last Bolshevik (Marker); The Second Heimat (Reitz); Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Baldwin)

I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.