Movie Yearbook
A collection of my Best Films of the Year lists from 2000 until now. Listed in alphabetical order. #1 picks are highlighted in red.
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| ANATOMY OF A FALL |
2023
- About Dry Grasses / Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- All of Us Strangers / Andrew Haigh
- Anatomy of a Fall / Justine Triet
- Asteroid City / Wes Anderson
- Barbie / Greta Gerwig
- La Chimera / Alice Rohwacher
- Fallen Leaves / Aki Kaurismäki
- Godzilla Minus One / Takashi Yakazaki
- in water / Hong Sangsoo
- Killers of the Flower Moon / Martin Scorsese
- Kokomo City / D. Smith
- May December / Todd Haynes
- Priscilla / Sofia Coppola
- R.M.N. / Cristian Mungiu
- The Zone of Interest / Jonathan Glazer
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| BABYLON |
2022
- Aftersun / Charlotte Wells
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed / Laura Poitras
- Ambulance / Michael Bay
- Babylon / Damien Chazelle
- Il Buco / Michelangelo Frammartino
- The Eternal Daughter / Joanna Hogg
- Everything Everywhere All at Once / Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
- The Fabelmans / Steven Spielberg
- In Front of Your Face / Hong Sangsoo
- No Bears / Jafar Panahi
- The Novelist's Film / Hong Sangsoo
- The Quiet Girl / Colm Bairéad
- Return to Seoul / Davy Chou
- Tár / Todd Field
- Three Minutes: A Lengthening / Bianca Stiger
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| THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT'S A RESURRECTION |
2021
- Benedetta / Paul Verhoeven
- C'mon C'mon / Mike Mills
- Cry Macho / Clint Eastwood
- Days / Tsai Ming-Liang
- Drive My Car / Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- The French Dispatch / Wes Anderson
- Her Socialist Smile / Jean Gianvito
- Licorice Pizza / Paul Thomas Anderson
- Memoria / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Petite Maman / Céline Sciamma
- The Power of the Dog / Jane Campion
- This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection / Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
- Titane / Julia Ducournau
- What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? / Alexandre Koberidze
- The Worst Person in the World / Joachim Trier
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| FREE TIME |
2020
- Ammonite / Francis Lee
- City Hall / Frederick Wiseman
- Da 5 Bloods / Spike Lee
- Dick Johnson is Dead / Kirsten Johnson
- The Father / Florian Zeller
- First Cow / Kelly Reichhardt
- Free Time / Manfred Kirchheimer
- The Grand Bizarre / Jodie Mack
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things / Charlie Kaufman
- Lovers Rock / Steve McQueen
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always / Eliza Hittman
- Nomadland / Chloé Zhao
- Soul / Pete Docter
- To the Ends of the Earth / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Yourself and Yours / Hong Sangsoo
Decade (2010-2019)
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| THE TREE OF LIFE |
1. The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick
2. The Turin Horse / Béla Tarr
3. Carol / Todd Haynes
4. The Other Side of the Wind / Orson Welles
5. The Immigrant / James Gray
6. Lourdes / Jessica Hausner
7. The Irishman / Martin Scorsese
8. Leviathan / Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel
9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
10. Call Me By Your Name / Luca Guadagnino
11. The Act of Killing / Joshua Oppenheimer
12. Poetry / Lee Chang-Dong
13. Le Quattro Volte / Michelangelo Frammartino
14. 12 Years a Slave / Steve McQueen
15. It's Such a Beautiful Day / Don Hertzfeldt
16. Phantom Thread / Paul Thomas Anderson
17. Margaret / Kenneth Lonergan
18. A Separation / Asghar Farhadi
19. Certified Copy / Abbas Kiarostami
20. Holy Motors / Leos Carax
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| THE IRISHMAN |
2019
- Ad Astra / James Gray
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood / Marielle Heller
- Black Mother / Khalik Allah
- Climax / Gaspar Noë
- An Elephant Sitting Still / Hu Bo
- The Farewell / Lulu Wang
- Hotel by the River / Hong Sang-soo
- The Image Book / Jean-Luc Godard
- The Irishman / Martin Scorsese
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco / Joe Talbot
- Long Day's Journey into Night / Bi Gan
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood / Quentin Tarantino
- Pain and Glory / Pedro Almodóvar
- Parasite / Bong Joon-ho
- The Two Popes / Fernando Meirelles
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| THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND |
2018
- 24 Frames / Abbas Kiarostami
- A Bread Factory / Patrick Wang
- Dead Souls / Wang Bing
- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? / Travis Wilkerson
- El Mar La Mar / J.P. Sniadecki, Joshua Bonnetta
- First Man / Damien Chazelle
- Happy as Lazzaro / Alice Rohrwacher
- If Beale Street Could Talk / Barry Jenkins
- Let the Sunshine In / Claire Denis
- The Other Side of the Wind / Orson Welles
- PROTOTYPE / Blake Williams
- The Rider / Chloé Zhao
- Shoplifters / Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Support the Girls / Andrew Bujalski
- Zama / Lucretia Martel
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| CALL ME BY YOUR NAME |
2017
- 4 Days in France / Jérôme Reybaud
- Call Me By Your Name / Luca Guadagnino
- Dawson City: Frozen Time / Bill Morrison
- The Death of Louis XIV / Albert Serra
- Dunkirk / Christopher Nolan
- Faces Places / Agnès Varda, JR
- The Florida Project / Sean Baker
- God's Own Country / Francis Lee
- Good Time / Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie
- Nocturama / Bertrand Bonello
- On the Beach at Night Alone / Hong Sangsoo
- Personal Shopper / Olivier Assayas
- Phantom Thread / Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Post / Steven Spielberg
- A Quiet Passion / Terrence Davies
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| THE WITCH |
2016
- Cemetery of Splendor / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Elle / Paul Verhoeven
- Embrace of the Serpent / Ciro Guerra
- Jackie / Pablo Larrain
- Kubo and the Two Strings / Travis Knight
- La La Land / Damien Chazelle
- Manchester by the Sea / Kenneth Lonergan
- Moonlight / Barry Jenkins
- Nocturnal Animals / Tom Ford
- O.J. Made in America / Ezra Edelman
- Paterson / Jim Jarmusch
- Things to Come / Mia Hansen-Løve
- Toni Erdmann / Maren Ade
- The Witch / Robert Eggers
- Your Name / Makoto Shinkai
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| CAROL |
2015
- 45 Years / Andrew Haigh
- The Assassin / Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Bridge of Spies / Steven Spielberg
- Carol / Todd Haynes
- Chi-Raq / Spike Lee
- Creed / Ryan Coogler
- Heart of a Dog / Laurie Anderson
- Horse Money / Pedro Costa
- Inside Out / Pete Docter
- The Look of Silence / Joshua Oppenheimer
- Mad Max: Fury Road / George Miller
- The Revenant / Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Taxi / Jafar Panahi
- The Tribe / Miroslav Slaboshpitskiy
- World of Tomorrow / Don Hertzfeldt
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| THE IMMIGRANT |
2014
- American Sniper / Clint Eastwood
- Boyhood / Richard Linklater
- Goodbye to Language / Jean-Luc Godard
- The Grand Budapest Hotel / Wes Anderson
- The Immigrant / James Gray
- The Last of the Unjust / Claude Lanzmann
- Mr. Turner / Mike Leigh
- Selma / Ava DuVernay
- Stranger by the Lake / Alain Guiraurdie
- Stray Dogs / Tsai Ming-Liang
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya / Isao Takahata
- Two Days, One Night / Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Under the Skin / Jonathan Glazer
- The Way He Looks / Daniel Ribeiro
- Winter Sleep / Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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| LEVIATHAN |
2013
- 12 Years a Slave / Steve McQueen
- The Act of Killing / Joshua Oppenheimer
- At Berkeley / Frederick Wiseman
- Before Midnight / Richard Linklater
- Blue is the Warmest Color / Abdellatif Kechiche
- The Grandmaster / Wong Kar-Wai
- The Great Beauty / Paolo Sorrentino
- Her / Spike Jonze
- Leviathan / Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
- Like Someone In Love / Abbas Kiarostami
- Museum Hours / Jem Cohen
- Spring Breakers / Harmony Korine
- To the Wonder / Terrence Malick
- Welcome to Pine Hill / Keith Miller
- The Wind Rises / Hayao Miyazaki
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| THE TURIN HORSE |
2012
- Amour / Michael Haneke
- Barbara / Christian Petzold
- Beyond the Black Rainbow / Panos Cosmatos
- The Deep Blue Sea / Terrence Davies
- Girl Walk//All Day / Jacob Krupnick
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey / Peter Jackson
- Holy Motors / Leos Carax
- It's Such a Beautiful Day / Don Hertzfeldt
- Lincoln / Steven Spielberg
- The Master / Paul Thomas Anderson
- Oslo, August 31st / Joachim Trier
- Tabu / Miguel Gomes
- This is Not a Film / Jafar Panahi
- The Turin Horse / Béla Tarr
- Zero Dark Thirty / Kathryn Bigelow
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| THE TREE OF LIFE |
2011
- Armadillo / Janusz Metz
- Certified Copy / Abbas Kiarostami
- City of Life and Death / Lu Chuan
- Drive / Nicholas Winding Refn
- Hugo / Martin Scorsese
- In the Family / Patrick Wang
- Le Quattro Volte / Michelangelo Frammartino
- Margaret / Kenneth Lonergan
- Mysteries of Lisbon / Raul Ruiz
- Of Gods and Men / Xavier Beauvois
- Poetry / Lee Chang-dong
- A Separation / Asghar Farhadi
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Tomas Alfredson
- The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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| LOURDES |
2010
- Alamar / Pedro González-Rubio
- Around a Small Mountain / Jacques Rivette
- Black Swan / Darren Aronofsky
- Carlos / Olivier Assayas
- Dogtooth / Yorgos Lanthimos
- Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl / Manoel de Oliveira
- Letters to Father Jacob / Kläus Haro
- Lourdes / Jessica Hausner
- Prince of Broadway / Sean Baker
- The Red Chapel / Mads Brugger
- Secret Sunshine / Lee Chang-dong
- The Strange Case of Angelica / Manoel de Oliveira
- Toy Story 3 / Lee Unkrich
- White Material / Claire Denis
- Winter’s Bone / Debra Granik
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| THERE WILL BE BLOOD |
Decade (2000 - 2009)
- There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson
- Dogville / Lars von Trier
- Mulholland Dr. / David Lynch
- "The Lord of the Rings" / Peter Jackson
- "The Battle of Iwo Jima" / Clint Eastwood
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Ang Lee
- Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki
- Silent Light / Carlos Reygadas
- Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethekul
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days / Cristian Mungiu
- Gosford Park / Robert Altman
- The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford / Andrew Dominick
- Children of Men / Alfonso Cuaron
- The New World / Terrence Malick
- Dancer in the Dark / Lars von Trier
- Yi Yi: A One and a Two.../ Edward Yang
- Werckmeister Harmonies / Bela Tarr
- Inland Empire / David Lynch
- Eureka / Shinji Aoyama
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu
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| SILENT LIGHT |
2009
- 35 Shots of Rum / Claire Denis
- Antichrist / Lars von Trier
- Fantastic Mr. Fox / Wes Anderson
- Goodbye Solo / Ramin Bahrani
- Liverpool / Lisandro Alonso
- Mary and Max / Adam Elliot
- Munyurangabo / Lee Isaac Chung
- Revanche / Gotz Spielmann
- Silent Light / Carlos Reygadas
- Still Walking / Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Summer Hours / Olivier Assayas
- Tokyo Sonata / Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Unmistaken Child / Nati Baratz
- Where the Wild Things Are / Spike Jonze
- The White Ribbon / Michael Haneke
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| 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, AND 2 DAYS |
2008
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days / Cristian Mungiu
- The Band’s Visit / Eran Kolirin
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father / Kurt Kuenne
- Flight of the Red Balloon / Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Gran Torino / Clint Eastwood
- Hunger / Steve McQueen
- In the City of Sylvia / José Luis Guerin
- Let the Right One In / Tomas Alfredson
- Love Songs / Christophe Honoré
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life / Steven Sebring
- Still Life / Jia Zhang-ke
- Synecdoche, New York / Charlie Kaufman
- WALL•E / Andrew Stanton
- Waltz With Bashir / Ari Folman
- XXY / Lucia Puenzo
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| THERE WILL BE BLOOD |
2007
- 12:08 East of Bucharest / Corneliu Porumboiu
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Andrew Dominick
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead / Sidney Lumet
- Control / Anton Corbijn
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Julian Schnabel
- Into the Wild / Sean Penn
- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters / Seth Gordon
- Michael Clayton / Tony Gilroy
- No Country for Old Men / Joel & Ethan Coen
- Ratatouille / Brad Bird
- Persepolis / Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street / Tim Burton
- Syndromes and a Century / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson
- Zodiac / David Fincher
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| CHILDREN OF MEN |
2006
- Babel / Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
- Brick / Rian Johnson
- Children of Men / Alfonso Cuaron
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu
- The Descent / Neil Marshall
- Flags of Our Fathers / Clint Eastwood
- House of Sand / Andrucha Waddington
- Inland Empire / David Lynch
- Letters From Iwo Jima / Clint Eastwood
- The Lives of Others / Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Marie Antoinette / Sofia Coppola
- Old Joy / Kelly Reichardt
- Pan’s Labyrinth / Guillermo Del Toro
- A Prairie Home Companion / Robert Altman
- Shortbus / John Cameron Mitchell
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| TROPICAL MALADY |
2005
- 2046 / Wong Kar-wai
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin / Judd Apatow
- Brokeback Mountain / Ang Lee
- Downfall / Oliver Hirschbiegel
- A History of Violence / David Cronenberg
- King Kong / Peter Jackson
- Me and You and Everyone We Know / Miranda July
- Munich / Steven Spielberg
- The New World / Terrence Malick
- Paradise Now / Hany Abu-Assad
- Pride & Prejudice / Joe Wright
- The Squid and the Whale / Noah Baumbach
- Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- The White Diamond / Werner Herzog
- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill / Judy Irving
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| DOGVILLE |
2004
- Bad Education / Pedro Almodovar
- Before Sunset / Richard Linklater
- Cowards Bend the Knee / Guy Maddin
- Dogville / Lars von Trier
- The Door in the Floor / Tod Williams
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / Michel Gondry
- Goodbye, Dragon Inn / Tsai Ming-Liang
- I Heart Huckabees / David O. Russell
- Kill Bill, Vol. 2 / Quentin Tarantino
- The Motorcycle Diaries / Walter Salles
- The Return / Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Sideways / Alexander Payne
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring / Kim Ki-duk
- The Story of the Weeping Camel / Luigi Falorni
- Vera Drake / Mike Leigh
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| THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING |
2003
- The Barbarian Invasions / Denys Arcand
- Capturing the Friedmans / Andrew Jarecki
- Divine Intervention / Elia Suleiman
- Finding Nemo / Andrew Stanton
- In America / Jim Sheridan
- Japón / Carlos Reygadas
- Kill Bill, Vol. 1 / Quentin Tarantino
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / Peter Jackson
- Lost in Translation / Sofia Coppola
- Lilya 4-Ever / Lukas Moodysoon
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World / Peter Weir
- Millennium Actress / Satoshi Kon
- Millennium Mambo / Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Mystic River / Clint Eastwood
- The Triplets of Belleville / Sylvain Chomet
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| SPIRITED AWAY |
2002
- About Schmidt / Alexander Payne
- Adaptation. / Spike Jonze
- Blissfully Yours / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Bowling for Columbine / Michael Moore
- Far From Heaven / Todd Haynes
- The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) / Zacharias Kunuk
- The Hours / Stephen Daldry
- Late Marriage / Dover Kosashvili
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers / Peter Jackson
- On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate / Hong Sangsoo
- The Pianist / Roman Polanski
- Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki
- Talk to Her / Pedro Almodovar
- What Time is it There? / Tsai Ming-Liang
- Y Tu Mamá También / Alfonso Cuaron
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| MULHOLLAND DR. |
2001
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence / Steven Spielberg
- Amélie / Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Black Hawk Down / Ridley Scott
- Eureka / Shinji Aoyama
- Ghost World / Terry Zwigoff
- Gosford Park / Robert Altman
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch / John Cameron Mitchell
- In the Bedroom / Todd Field
- In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-wai
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / Peter Jackson
- The Man Who Wasn’t There / Joel Coen
- Moulin Rouge! / Baz Luhrmann
- Mulholland Dr. / David Lynch
- The Royal Tenenbaums / Wes Anderson
- Werckmeister Harmonies / Béla Tarr
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| CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON |
