Top Ten Archives

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2020
  1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kauffman)
  2. Mank (Fincher)
  3. Kajillionaire (July)
  4. Promising Young Woman (Fennell)
  5. Nomadland (Zhao)
  6. Lovers Rock (McQueen)
  7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Hittman)
  8. First Cow (Reichardt)
  9. One Night in Miami (King)
  10. The Vast of Night (Patterson)
2019
  1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Tarantino)
  2. Midsommar (Aster)
  3. Parasite (Bong-Joon Ho)
  4. Joker (Phillips)
  5. Pain & Glory (Almadovar)
  6. The Lighthouse (Eggers)
  7. Uncut Gems (Safdie Bros.)
  8. The Irishman (Scorsese)
  9. Us (Peele)
  10. 1917 (Mendes)

2018
  1. Suspiria (Guadagnino)
  2. The Favourite (Lanthimos)
  3. BlacKkKlansman (Lee)
  4. Roma (Cuaron)
  5. First Reformed (Schrader)
  6. Annihilation (Garland)
  7. Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher)
  8. Wildlife (Dano)
  9. Cold War (Pawlikowski)
  10. The Death of Stalin (Iannucci)

2017
  1. Mother! (Aronofsky)


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2001
  1. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch)
  2. Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
  3. Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann)
  4. Y Tu Mamá También (Caurón)
  5. Gosford Park (Altman)
  6. Kandahar (Makhmalbaf)
  7. The Royal Tanenbaums (Anderson)
  8. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg/Kubrick)
  9. The Piano Teacher (Haneke)
  10. Hedwig & the Angry Inch (Mitchell)

2000
  1. In the Mood for Love (Wong)
  2. Dancer in the Dark (Von Trier)
  3. Memento (Nolan)
  4. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky)
  5. Werkmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
  6. Amores Perros (Iñárritu)
  7. The Heart of the World (Maddin)
  8. O Brother, Where art Thou? (Coens)
  9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee)
  10. American Psycho (Harron)

1999
  1. Being John Malkovich (Jonze)
  2. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
  3. Magnolia (Anderson)
  4. All About My Mother (Almadovar)
  5. Fight Club (Fincher)
  6. eXistenZ (Cronenberg)
  7. Beau Travail (Denis)
  8. The Insider (Mann)
  9. Bringing Out the Dead (Scorsese)
  10. Boys Don't Cry (Peirce)

1998
  1. The Thin Red Line (Malick)
  2. Run Lola Run (Tykwer)
  3. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou)
  4. Rushmore (Anderson)
  5. Buffalo '66 (Gallo)
  6. Happiness (Solondz)
  7. The Truman Show (Weir)
  8. The Last Days of Disco (Stillman)
  9. The Big Lebowski (Coen Bros.)
  10. The Dreamlife of Angels (Zonca)

1997
  1. Boogie Nights (Anderson)
  2. Jackie Brown (Tarantino)
  3. Lost Highway (Lynch)
  4. Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
  5. Funny Games (Haneke)
  6. L.A. Confidential (Hanson)
  7. The Ice Storm (Lee)
  8. Happy Together (Wong)
  9. The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)
  10. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven)

1996
  1. Breaking the Waves (Von Trier)
  2. Crash (Cronenberg)
  3. Fargo (Coen Bros.)
  4. Conspirators of Pleasure (Svankmajer)
  5. Mars Attacks (Burton)
  6. Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann)
  7. Irma Vep (Assayas)
  8. Vive L'Amour (Tsai)
  9. From Dusk Til Dawn (Rodriguez)
  10. Trainspotting (Boyle)

1995
  1. Se7en (Fincher)
  2. Underground (Kusturica)
  3. Safe (Haynes)
  4. Casino (Scorsese)
  5. Dead Man (Jarmusch)
  6. Before Sunrise (Linklater)
  7. Showgirls (Vierhoven)
  8. Strange Days (Bigelow)
  9. The Usual Suspects (Singer)
  10. Mallrats (Smith)
1994
  1. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
  2. Natural Born Killers (Stone)
  3. Chungking Express (Wong)
  4. Red (Kieslowski)
  5. Clerks. (Smith)
  6. The Professional (Besson)
  7. Satantango (Tarr)
  8. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson)
  9. Ed Wood (Burton)
  10. Once Were Warriors (Tamahori)
1993
  1. Dazed & Confused (Linklater)
  2. Jurassic Park (Spielberg)
  3. Short Cuts (Altman)
  4. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick)
  5. Carlito's Way (De Palma)
  6. True Romance (Scott)
  7. Naked (Leigh)
  8. The Piano (Campion)
  9. Kalifornia (Sena)
  10. Sonatine (Kitano)
1992
  1. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
  2. The Player (Altman)
  3. Bram Stoker's Dracula (Coppola)
  4. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch)
  5. Husbands and Wives (Allen)
  6. The Crying Game (Jordan)
  7. Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara)
  8. The Unforgiven (Eastwood)
  9. Malcolm X (Lee)
  10. Glengarry Glenn Ross (Foley)
1991
  1. Barton Fink (Coen Bros.)
  2. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
  3. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang)
  4. Cape Fear (Scorsese)
  5. My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant)
  6. Europa (Von Trier)
  7. Days of Being Wild (Wong)
  8. Naked Lunch (Cronenberg)
  9. Boyz N the Hood (Singleton)
  10. Slacker (Linklater)
1990
  1. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
  2. Wild at Heart (Lynch)
  3. Miller's Crossing (Coen Bros.)
  4. Dick Tracy (Beatty)
  5. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Almadovar)
  6. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Kurosawa)
  7. Close-Up (Kiarostami)
  8. Total Recall (Verhoeven)
  9. Postcards from thd Edge (Nichols)
  10. Archangel (Maddin)
1989
  1. Do the Right Thing (Lee)
  2. Heathers (Lehmann)
  3. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
  4. The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover (Greenaway)
  5. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Soderbergh)
  6. Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant)
  7. When Harry Met Sally (Reiner)
  8. Leningrad Cowboys Go Ametica (Kaurismaki)
  9. Roger & Me (Moore)
  10. The Killer (Woo)
1988
  1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis)
  2. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almadovar)
  3. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese)
  4. They Live (Carpenter)
  5. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton)
  6. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
  7. The Adventures of Baron Munchasen (Gilliam)
  8. Damnation (Tarr)
  9. Die Hard (McTiernan)
  10. Midnight Run (Brest)
1987
  1. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
  2. Wings of Desire (Wenders)
  3. Radio Days (Allen)
  4. The Untouchables (De Palma)
  5. The Princess Bride (Reiner)
  6. Near Dark (Bigelow)
  7. Raising Arizona (Coen Bros.)
  8. House of Games (Mamet)
  9. Broadcast News (Brooks)
  10. Evil Dead II (Raimi)
1986
  1. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
  2. Hannah & Her Sisters (Allen)
  3. Little Shop of Horrors (Oz)
  4. Down by Law (Jarmusch)
  5. Platoon (Stone)
  6. The Fly (Cronenberg)
  7. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (McNaughton)
  8. Trouble in Mind (Rudolph)
  9. Sid & Nancy (Cox)
  10. Down & Out in Beverly Hills (Mazursky)
1985
  1. Brazil (Gilliam)
  2. Ran (Kurosawa)
  3. Lost in America (Brooks)
  4. Prizzi's Honor (Huston)
  5. Dreamchild (Millar)
  6. Back to the Future (Zemeckis)
  7. Return to Oz (Murch)
  8. After Hours (Scorsese)
  9. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen)
  10. 28 Up (Apted)
1984
  1. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
  2. Paris, Texas (Wenders)
  3. Blood Simple (Coen Bros.)
  4. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
  5. Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch)
  6. The Killing Fields (Joffe)
  7. Broadway Danny Rose (Allen)
  8. A Company of Wolves (Jordan)
  9. Ghostbusters (Reitman)
  10. Love Streams (Cassavetes)
1983
  1. Scarface (De Palma)
  2. Videodrome (Cronenberg)
  3. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)
  4. The Outsiders (Coppola)
  5. And the Ship Sails On (Fellini)
  6. A Christmas Story (Clark)
  7. Koyaaniisqatsi (Reggio)
  8. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Oshima)
  9. Zelig (Allen)
  10. L'Argent (Bresson)
1982
  1. Blade Runner (Scott)
  2. The Thing (Carpenter)
  3. The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
  4. Fanny & Alexander (Bergman)
  5. One from the Heart (Coppola)
  6. Cat People (Schrader)
  7. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)
  8. Veronika Voss (Fassbinder)
  9. Diner (Levinson)
  10. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Heckerling)
1981
  1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
  2. Blow Out (De Palma)
  3. Time Bandits (Gilliam)
  4. Mommie Dearest (Perry)
  5. Excalibur (Boorman)
  6. Cutter's Way (Passer)
  7. Clash of the Titans (Davis)
  8. Das Boot (Petersen)
  9. Prince of the City (Lumet)
  10.  Modern Romance (Brooks)
1980
  1. The Shining (Kubrick)
  2. Heaven's Gate (Cimino)
  3. Stardust Memories (Allen)
  4. Flash Gordon (Hodges)
  5. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
  6. Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
  7. Gloria (Cassavetes)
  8. Dressed to Kill (De Palma)
  9. Popeye (Altman)
  10. The Long Riders (Hill)
1979
  1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
  2. Manhattan (Allen)
  3. Alien (Scott)
  4. All That Jazz (Fosse)
  5. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Wise)
  6. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
  7. Stalker (Tarkovsky)
  8. Hardcore (Schrader)
  9. 1941 (Spielberg)
  10. Mad Max (Miller)
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