Archival Top Ten Lists

Premiere Year

2016

  1. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
  2. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
  3. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
  4. O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
  5. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
  6. Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene)
  7. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
  8. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  9. Sully (Clint Eastwood)
  10. Creepy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)

2017

  1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
  2. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. The Work (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
  4. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
  5. Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone)
  6. Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  7. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (S. S. Rajamouli)
  8. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. The Post (Steven Spielberg)
  10. 120 BPM (Beats per Minute) (Robin Campillo)

2018

  1. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
  2. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
  3. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
  4. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
  5. Mission: Impossible — Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
  6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  7. Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene)
  9. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
  10. “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (Radu Jude)

2019

  1. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
  2. I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
  3. To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  4. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
  5. Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  6. I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)
  7. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
  8. The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
  9. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
  10. The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)

Decade

  1. La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
  2. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
  3. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
  4. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
  6. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
  7. Asako I & II (2018, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
  8. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
  9. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
  10. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)

2020

  1. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
  3. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
  5. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
  6. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)
  7. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
  8. Tesla (Michael Almereyda)
  9. Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)
  10. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)

2021

  1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  2. Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (Adam Curtis)
  3. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  5. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  6. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
  7. A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Zhu Shengze)
  8. Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (Anno Hideaki)
  9. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. Annette (Leos Carax)

2022

  1. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
  3. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  5. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
  6. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
  7. Section 1 (Jon Bois)
  8. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  9. Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Emmanuel Mouret)
  10. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)

2023

  1. Music (Angela Schanelec)
  2. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
  3. Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
  4. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
  5. May December (Todd Haynes)
  6. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
  7. Afire (Christian Petzold)
  8. In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
  10. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)

Release Year

2016

  1. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
  2. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
  3. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
  4. My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
  5. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
  6. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene)
  8. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (Stephen Cone)
  9. O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
  10. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)

2017

  1. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. The Work (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
  3. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
  4. Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone)
  5. Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  6. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (S. S. Rajamouli)
  7. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
  8. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
  9. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  10. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W. S. Anderson)

2018

  1. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
  2. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
  3. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Mission: Impossible — Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
  5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  6. Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene)
  7. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
  8. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
  9. Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
  10. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)

2019

  1. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
  2. Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  3. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
  4. I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
  5. Transit (Christian Petzold)
  6. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
  7. Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
  9. High Life (Claire Denis)
  10. Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)

2020

  1. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
  2. To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  3. Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
  4. I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)
  5. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
  6. The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
  7. Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
  8. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
  9. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
  10. The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)

2021

  1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  3. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  5. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  6. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  7. Beginning (Déa Kulumbegashvili)
  8. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
  9. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)

2022

  1. The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  3. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
  4. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  5. A New Old Play (Qiu Jiongjiong)
  6. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  7. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
  8. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
  9. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
  10. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)

2023

  1. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
  3. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
  4. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
  5. May December (Todd Haynes)
  6. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
  7. Afire (Christian Petzold)
  8. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  9. Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
  10. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)