Film Comment Year-End Critics' Polls

2000

1. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
2. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
3. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
4. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
5. Time Regained (Raúl Ruiz)
6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
7. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
8. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
9. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
10. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
11. Humanité (Bruno Dumont)
12. Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
13. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
14. Gohatto (Ōshima Nagisa)
15. Croupier (Mike Hodges)
16. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
17. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
18. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
19. Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)
20. The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi)

2000 Unreleased

1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
2. Platform (Jia Zhangke)
3. The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
4. Werckemeister Harmonies (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
5. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
6. The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda)
7. Faithless (Liv Ullmann)
8. La Captive (Chantal Akerman)
9. Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
10. Voyages (Emmanuel Finkiel)

2001

1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
3. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
4. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
6. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
7. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
8. In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
9. The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda)
10. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
11. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
12. The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
13. Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann)
    Va savoir (Jacques Rivette)
14. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel & Ethan Coen)
15. Apocalypse Now Redux (Francis Ford Coppola)
16. Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
17. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
18. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
19. Eureka (Aoyama Shinji)
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)

2001 Unreleased

1. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
2. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
4. Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
5. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Imamura Shōhei)
6. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
7. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
8. Y tu mama también (Alfonso Cuarón)
9. Pulse (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
10. The Lady and the Duke (Éric Rohmer)

2002

1. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
2. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
3. Y tu mama también (Alfonso Cuarón)
4. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
5. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
6. Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
7. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
8. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
10. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
11. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
12. Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao)
13. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
14. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
15. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
16. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
17. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
18. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
19. The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
20. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili)

2002 Unreleased

1. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
2. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
3. Spider (David Cronenberg)
4. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
6. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
7. Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman)
8. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
9. To Be and To Have (Nicolas Philibert)
10. The Uncertainty Principle (Manoel de Oliveira)

2003

1. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
2. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
3. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
4. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
5. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)
6. The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
8. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
9. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
10. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
11. demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
12. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
13. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
14. The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
15. Spider (David Cronenberg)
16. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
17. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
18. Bus 174 (José Padilha)
19. To Be and To Have (Nicolas Philibert)
20. Platform (Jia Zhangke)

2003 Unreleased

1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
3. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
4. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
5. Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee)
6. The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
7. Good Morning, Night (Marco Bellocchio)
8. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh Rithy)
9. Since Otar Left (Julie Bertucelli)
10. The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
11. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
12. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
    Zatoichi (Kitano Takeshi)
13. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
14. The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
15. Raja (Jacques Doillon)
16. Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
17. The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
18. Vibrator (Hiroki Ryūichi)
19. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
20. Young Adam (David Mackenzie)

2004

1. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
3. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
4. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
5. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
6. Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
8. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
9. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
10. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène)
11. Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
12. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
13. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
14. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
15. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
16. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
17. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
18. Collateral (Michael Mann)
19. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
20. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)

2004 Unreleased

1. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. The World (Jia Zhangke)
3. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
6. Keane (Lodge Kerrigan)
7. Triple Agent (Éric Rohmer)
8. The 10th District Court: Judicial Hearings (Raymond Depardon)
9. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
10. Los Muertos (Lisandro Alonso)
11. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
12. Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
13. Nobody Knows (Koreeda Hirokazu)
14. Checkpoint (Yoav Shamir)
15. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
16. Five (Abbas Kiarostami)
17. L'intrus (Claire Denis)
18. Mondovino (Jonathan Nossiter)
19. My Summer of Love (Paweł Pawlikowski)
20. Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui)

2005

1. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
3. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
4. Caché (Michael Haneke)
5. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
6. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
7. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
8. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. The World (Jia Zhangke)
10. Capote (Bennett Miller)
11. Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
12. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
13. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
14. Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
15. Head-On (Fatih Akın)
16. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
17. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
18. L'Intrus (Claire Denis)
19. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
20. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)

2005 Unreleased

1. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
3. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
4. Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
5. The Sun (Alexander Sokurov)
6. Police Beat (Robinson Devor)
7. A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
8. Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
9. Gabrielle (Patrice Leconte)
10. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
11. Who's Camus Anyway? (Yanagimachi Mitsuo)
12. Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
13. Princess Raccoon (Suzuki Seijun)
14. Mary (Abel Ferrara)
15. 4 (Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
16. 13 Lakes (James Benning)
17. Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
18. Le Ponts des Arts (Eugène Green)
19. Clean (Olivier Assayas)
20. Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (Avi Mograbi)

2006

1. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
2. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
3. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
4. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
5. The Queen (Stephen Frears)
6. Borat (Larry Charles)
7. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
8. United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
9. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)
10. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
11. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
12. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
13. Old Joy (Kelly Riechardt)
    Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood)
14. Tristram Shandy (Michael Winterbottom)
15. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
16. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
17. Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
18. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
19. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
20. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)

2006 Unreleased

1. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
3. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
4. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
6. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
   Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
7. Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
8. Belle Toujours (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. Offside (Jafar Panahi)
10. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
11. Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin)
12. Bamako (Abederrahmane Sissako)
13. Triad Election (Johnnie To)
14. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
15. In Between Days (So Yong Kim)
16. Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning)
17. When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee)
18. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
19. The Go Master (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
20. Red Road (Andrea Arnold)

2007

1. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Zodiac (David Fincher)
4. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
6. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
7. Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
8. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
10. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
11. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
12. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
13. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
14. No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson)
15. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
16. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
17. Away From Her (Sarah Polley)
18. Offside (Jafar Panahi)
19. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
20. Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)

2007 Unreleased

1. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
2. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
4. Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
5. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
6. Useless (Jia Zhangke)
7. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
8. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
9. The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
10. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Éric Rohmer)
11. The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette)
12. Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov)
13. The Unforseen (Laura Dunn)
14. Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
15. Battle for Haditha (Nick Broomfield)
16. Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
17. The Pool (Chris Smith)
18. George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero)
19. Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)
20. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
    Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)

2008

1. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
2. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
4. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
5. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
6. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
7. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
8. Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman)
9. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
10. Milk (Gus Van Sant)
11. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
12. The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette)
13. The Class (Laurent Cantet)
14. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
15. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
16. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
17. Ballast (Lance Hammer)
18. Man on Wire (James Marsh)
19. The Exiles (Kent Mackenzie)
20. Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)

2008 Unreleased

1. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
2. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
3. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
4. Still Walking (Koreeda Hirokazu)
5. Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
6. RR (James Benning)
7. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
8. Of Time and the City (Terence Davies)
9. Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín)
10. Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
11. Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck)
12. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
13. Birdsong (Albert Serra)
14. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
15. United Red Army (Wakamatsu Kōji)
16. Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
17. Four Nights with Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski)
18. Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater)
19. Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
20. Chouga (Darezhan Omirbaev)

2009

1. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
2. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
3. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
4. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
6. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
7. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
8. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
9. The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda)
10. Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
11. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
12. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
13. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)
14. The Sun (Alexander Sokurov)
15. Bright Star (Jane Campion)
16. Two Lovers (James Gray)
17. In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
18. Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
19. Coraline (Henry Selick)
20. Antichrist (Lars von Trier)

2009 Unreleased

1. Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
2. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
3. Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
4. White Material (Claire Denis)
5. Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
6. Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette)
7. To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues)
8. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
9. Ne change rien (Pedro Costa)
10. Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
11. Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat)
12. Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
13. Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-soo)
14. City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan)
15. Ghost Town (Zhao Dayong)
16. Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)
17. Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
18. In Comparison (Harun Farocki)
19. Min Yè... (Tell Me Who You Are...) (Souleymane Cissé)
20. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (Damien Chazelle)

Decade

1. Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
2. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
3. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
4. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
7. A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg)
8. Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu)
10. The New World (2005, Terrence Malick)
11. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
12. Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)
13. L'Intrus (2004, Claire Denis)
14. The Son (2002, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
15. Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)
16. Caché (2005, Michael Haneke)
17. Kings and Queen (2005, Arnaud Desplechin)
18. Elephant (2003, Gus Van Sant)
19. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
20. Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)

2010

1. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
2. The Social Network (David Fincher)
3. White Material (Claire Denis)
4. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
5. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
6. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
7. Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)
8. Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
9. Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
10. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
11. Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
12. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
13. Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
14. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
15. The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
16. The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
17. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
18. Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette)
19. Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes)
20. Ne change rien (Pedro Costa)

2010 Unreleased

1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
4. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
5. Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
6. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
7. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu (Andrei Ujică)
8. The Four Times (Michelangelo Frammartino)
9. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
11. Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
12. Ruhr (James Benning)
13. I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke)
14. My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa)
15. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
16. Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller)
17. Black Venus (Abdellatif Kechiche)
18. Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)
19. Tabloid (Errol Morris)
20. The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg)

2011

1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weeerasethakul)
3. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
4. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
5. A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
6. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
7. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
9. Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
10. Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
11. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
12. Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
13. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu (Andrei Ujică)
14. Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
15. The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
16. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
17. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
18. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
19. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
20. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)

2011 Unreleased

1. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
2. The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
3. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
4. The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
5. The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
6. Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo)
7. Footnote (Joseph Cedar)
8. Kill List (Ben Wheatley)
9. Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Köhler)
10. Play (Ruben Östlund)
11. Policeman (Nadav Lapid)
12. The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
13. Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)
14. Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos)
15. Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)
16. 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
17. Dreileben (Christian Petzold and Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler)
18. The Return (Nathaniel Dorsky)
19. The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
20. Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)

2012

1. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
2. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
4. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
5. Amour (Michael Haneke)
6. The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
7. The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
8. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
9. Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
10. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
11. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
12. The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
13. Bernie (Richard Linklater)
14. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
15. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
16. Barbara (Christian Petzold)
17. The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
18. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
19. Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier)
20. Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

2012 Undistributed

1. Our Children (Joachim Lafosse)
2. Memories Look at Me (Song Fang)
3. First Cousin Once Removed (Alan Berliner)
4. When Night Falls (Ying Liang)
5. Bwakaw (Jun Robles Lana)
6. Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira)
7. differently, Molussia (Nicolas Rey)
8. Perret in France and Algeria (Heinz Emigholz)
9. The Extravagant Shadows (David Gatten)
10. Three Sisters (Wang Bing)
11. Dormant Beauty (Marco Bellocchio)
12. Far From Afghanistan (John Gianvito & Travis Wilkerson & Jon Jost & Minda Martin & Soon-Mi Yoo)
13. Camille Rewinds (Noémie Lvovsky)
14. Greatest Hits (Nicolás Pereda)
15. small roads (James Benning)
16. Everybody in Our Family (Radu Jude)
17. Shepard and Dark (Treva Wurmfeld)
18. Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta)
19. Araf: Somewhere in Between (Yesim Ustaoglu)
20. Thursday Through Sunday (Dominga Sotomayor)

2013

1. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
3. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
4. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
5. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
6. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
7. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
8. Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
9. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
10. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
11. Museum Hours (Jem Cohen)
12. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
13. Bastards (Claire Denis)
14. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
15. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
16. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
17. Her (Spike Jonze)
18. Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
19. American Hustle (David O. Russell)
20. The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)

2013 Undistributed

1. Jealousy (Philippe Garrel)
2. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
3. Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo)
4. Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat)
5. Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo)
6. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
7. A Spell to Ward Off Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell)
8. Story of My Death (Albert Serra)
9. Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke)
10. Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi)
11. Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing)
12. Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu)
13. Stemple Pass (James Benning)
14. People's Park (Libbie D. Cohn & J.P. Sniadecki)
15. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
16. La Ultima Película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson)
17. Butter on the Latch (Josephine Decker)
18. Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
19. Coast of Death (Lois Patiño)
20. Watermark (Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky)

2014

1. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
2. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
4. Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski)
5. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
6. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
7. Citizenfour (Laura Poitras)
8. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
9. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
10. The Immigrant (James Gray)
11. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
12. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
13. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
14. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
15. Norte, The End of History (Lav Diaz)
16. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
17. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
18. National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman)
19. Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
20. Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)

2014 Undistributed

1. The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher)
2. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Pasolini (Abel Ferrara)
4. The Iron Ministry (J.P. Sniadecki)
5. From What Is Before (Lav Diaz)
6. Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan)
7. Approaching the Elephant (Amanda Wilder)
8. The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid)
9. Stray Dog (Debra Granik)
10. Socialism (Peter von Bagh)
11. The Harvest (John McNaughton)
12. Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
13. Young Bodies Heal Quickly (Andrew T. Betzer)
14. We Come As Friends (Hubert Sauper)
15. The Japanese Dog (Tudor Cristian Jurgiu)
16. History of Fear (Benjamín Naishtat)
17. For the Plasma (Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan)
18. August Winds (Gabriel Mascaro)
19. A Girl at My Door (July Jung)
20. Fort Buchanan (Benjamin Crotty)

2015

1. Carol (Todd Haynes)
2. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
4. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
5. Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
6. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
7. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
8. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
9. Inside Out (Pete Docter)
10. The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
11. Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
12. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)
13. In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
14. Son of Saul (Nemes László)
15. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
16. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
17. Tangerine (Sean Baker)
18. Brooklyn (John Crowley)
19. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
20. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)

2015 Undistributed

1. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
3. The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers)
4. The Academy of Muses (José Luis Guerín)
5. Don't Blink - Robert Frank (Laura Israel)
6. Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski)
7. Journey to the Shore (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
8. Happy Hour (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
9. Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
10. Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda)
11. Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)
12. Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr)
13. Visit, or Memories and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira)
14. El Movimiento (Benjamín Naishtat)
15. 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
16. Microbe & Gasoline (Michel Gondry)
17. Pervert Park (Frida & Lasse Barkfors)
18. Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang)
19. of the North (Dominic Gagnon)
20. The Smell of Us (Larry Clark)

2016

1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
2. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
3. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
4. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
6. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
7. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
8. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
9. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
10. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
11. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
12. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
13. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
14. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
15. Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)
16. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
17. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
18. The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)
19. Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
20. The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)

2016 Undistributed

1. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
2. Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro)
3. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
4. The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec)
5. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki)
7. By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
8. Scarred Hearts (Radu Jude)
9. The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz)
10. Austerlitz (Sergei Loznitsa)
11. Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo)
12. The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean)
13. Safari (Ulrich Seidl)
14. Everything Else (Natalia Almada)
15. All the Cities of the North (Dane Komljen)
16. Happy Times Will Come Soon (Alessandro Comodin)
17. Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
18. Suite Armoricaine (Pascale Breton)
19. Women Who Kill (Ingrid Jungermann)
20. Le Parc (Damien Manivel)

2017

1. Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
2. A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
3. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
4. Get Out (Jordan Peele)
5. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
6. Ex Libris - The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
7. The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
8. Faces Places (Agnés Varda & JR)
9. The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
10. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
11. The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
12. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
13. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
14. Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
15. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
16. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
17. Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
18. Mudbound (Dee Rees)
19. 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
20. The Square (Ruben Östlund)

2017 Undistributed

1. The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho)
2. A Gentle Creature (Sergei Loznitsa)
3. Streetscapes [Dialogue] (Heinz Emigholz)
4. Milla (Valérie Massadian)
5. Tonsler Park (Kevin Jerome Everson)
6. Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing)
7. Spoor (Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik)
8. Le Fort des fous (Narimane Mari)
9. 3/4 (Ilian Metev)
10. The Venerable W. (Barbet Schroeder)
11. Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry)
12. Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon)
13. The Wandering Soap Opera (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)
14. Life and Nothing More (Antonio Méndez Esparza)
15. Until the Birds Return (Karim Moussaoui)
16. Good Luck (Ben Russell)
17. Distant Constellation (Shevaun Mizrahi)
18. The Quartet (Elohim, Abaton, Coda, Ode) (Nathaniel Dorsky)
19. Drift (Helena Wittmann)
20. Untitled (Michael Glawogger & Monika Willi)

2018

1. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
2. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
3. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
4. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
5. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
6. Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu)
7. Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
8. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
9. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
10. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
11. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
12. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
13. The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
14. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
15. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
16. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
17. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
18. Personal Problems (Bill Gunn)
19. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
20. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)

2018 Undistributed

1. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
2. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
3. Black Mother (Khalik Allah)
4. A Family Tour (Ying Liang)
5. Feast of the Epiphany (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman)
6. América (Chase Whiteside & Erick Stoll)
7. Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa)
8. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
9. Your Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
10. Casanova Gene (Luise Donschen)
11. Shakedown (Leilah Weinraub)
12. The Task (Leigh Ledare)
13. Sophia Antipolis (Virgil Vernier)
14. Second Time Around (Dora García)
15. Manta Ray (Phuttiphong Aroonpheng)
16. Flight of a Bullet (Beata Bubenets)
17. Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)
18. Reason (Anand Patwardhan)
19. Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)
20. A Wild Stream (Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda)

2019

1. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
2. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
3. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
4. Transit (Christian Petzold)
5. Atlantics (Mati Diop)
6. The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
7. High Life (Claire Denis)
8. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
9. Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
10. Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
11. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
12. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
13. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
14. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
15. Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
16. Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
17. Us (Jordan Peele)
18. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
19. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
20. Ad Astra (James Gray)

2019 Undistributed

1. State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa)
2. Endless Night (Eloy Enciso)
3. To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
4. MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell)
5. Present.Perfect. (Zhu Shengze)
6. Oh Mercy! (Arnaud Desplechin)
7. Tommaso (Abel Ferrara)
8. Bait (Mark Jenkin)
9. Belonging (Burak Çevik)
10. Midnight in Paris (James Blagden & Roni Moore)
11. No Data Plan (Miko Revereza)
12. It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
13. Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
14. So Pretty (Jessica Dunn Rovinelli)
15. Just 6.5 (Saeed Roustayi)
16. Bird Island (Maya Kosa & Sérgio da Costa)
17. What We Left Unfinished (Mariam Ghani)
18. You Will Die at 20 (Amjad Abu Alala)
19. Lina From Lima (María Paz González)
20. The Devil Between the Legs (Arturo Ripstein)

Decade

1. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
2. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
5. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman)
6. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
7. The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)
8. Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)
10. Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
11. Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer)
12. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
13. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)
14. Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
15. The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
16. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen)
17. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
18. Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong)
19. The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
20. Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho)

2021

1. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
3. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
4. Annette (Leos Carax)
5. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
6. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
7. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
8. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
9. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
10. Undine (Christian Petzold)
11. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
12. The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
13. Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
14. El Planeta (Amalia Ulman)
15. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
16. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
17. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
18. The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili)
19. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
20. Titane (Julia Ducournau)

2021 Undistributed

1. I Want to Talk About Duras (Claire Simon)
2. Outside Noise (Ted Fendt)
3. Haruhara-san's Recorder (Sugita Kyoshi)
4. We (Alice Diop)
5. Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa)
6. A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Zhu Shengze)
7. Taming the Garden (Salmoé Jashi)
8. Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman)
9. Wood and Water (Jonas Bak)
10. The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose)
11. The Sacred Spirit (Chema García Ibarra)
12. Shared Resources (Jordan Lord)
13. Returning to Reims (Jean Gabriel-Périot)
14. 107 Mothers (Peter Kerekes)
15. Liborio (Nino Martínez Sosa)
16. Come Here (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
17. The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (Avi Mograbi)
18. Out of This World (Chen Guan)
19. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet (Ana Katz)
20. Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth)

2022

1. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
2. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
3. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
4. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
5. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
7. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
8. Nope (Jordan Peele)
9. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
10. The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose)
11. TÁR (Todd Field)
12. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
13. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
14. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
15. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
16. A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
17. Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
18. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
19. Armageddon Time (James Gray)
20. Benediction (Terence Davies)
    We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)

2022 Undistributed

1. The Plains (David Easteal)
2. Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
3. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
4. Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
5. Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann)
6. The Adventures of Gigi the Law (Alessandro Comodin)
7. The United States of America (James Benning)
8. Afterwater (Dane Komljen)
9. It Is Night in America (Ana Vaz)
10. A Woman Escapes (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams)

2023

1. May December (Todd Haynes)
2. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
3. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
4. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
5. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
6. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
7. Afire (Christian Petzold)
8. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
9. Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
10. Our Body (Claire Simon)
11. Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)
12. Passages (Ira Sachs)
13. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
14. Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado)
15. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
16. Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman)
17. Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
18. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
19. Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis)
20. The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki Hayao)

2023 Undistributed

1. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
2. Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
3. Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
4. ALLENSWORTH (James Benning)
5. Gush (Fox Maxy)
6. Nowhere Near (Miko Revereza)
7. The Plough (Philippe Garrel)
8. La práctica (Martín Rejtman)
9. About Thirty (Martín Shanly)
10. Samsara (Lois Patiño)