Eric Hynes Top Ten Lists

All of these lists are by NYC release year.

2008 [IndieWire]

1. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno)
3. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
4. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
5. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
6. Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman)
7. Ballast (Lance Hammer)
8. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
9. Man on Wire (James Marsh)
10. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)

2009 [IndieWire]

1. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
2. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
3. Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
4. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
5. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
6. Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
7. Two Lovers (James Gray)
8. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
10. Public Enemies (Michael Mann)

Decade [IndieWire]

1. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
2. In Praise of Love (2001, Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
5. The New World (2005, Terrence Malick)
6. Kings and Queen (2004, Arnaud Desplechin)
7. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
9. 2046 (2004, Wong Kar-wai)
10. Summer Hours (2008, Olivier Assayas)

2010 [IndieWire]

1. Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
2. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
3. I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
4. Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
5. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
6. White Material (Claire Denis)
7. Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
8. Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio)
9. Easy A (Will Gluck)
10. The Social Network (David Fincher)

2011 [LA Weekly]

1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
3. The Interrupters (Steve James)
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu (Andrei Ujică)
6. A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
7. The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
8. Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
10. Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)

2012 [IndieWire]

1. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
2. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
3. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
4. The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
5. The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
6. Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)
7. Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs)
8. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. Only the Young (Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims)
10. Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman)

2013 [Village Voice]

1. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
2. Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)
3. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
4. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
5. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
6. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
8. The Square (Jehane Noujaim)
9. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
10. Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)

2014 [Unknown]

1. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
2. Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs)
3. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. The Overnighters (Jesse Moss)
5. 20,000 Days on Earth (Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard)
6. The Immigrant (James Gray)
7. Actress (Robert Greene)
8. National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman)
9. Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
10. Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski)

2015 [Film Comment]

1. The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
2. Carol (Todd Haynes)
3. In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
4. Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
5. Of Men and War (Laurent Bécue-Renard)
6. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
7. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
8. We Come as Friends (Hubert Sauper)
9. The Mend (John Magary)
10. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)

2016 [IndieWire]

1. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
2. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
3. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
4. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
6. Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
7. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
8. The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)
9. Under the Sun (Vitaly Mansky)
10. The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)

2017 [Village Voice]

1. The Work (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
2. Ex Libris—The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
3. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
4. Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
5. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. Mudbound (Dee Rees)
7. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
8. A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
9. Strong Island (Yance Ford)
10. All These Sleepless Nights (Michał Marczak)

2018 [Film Comment]

1. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
2. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
3. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
4. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
5. Dead Souls (Wang Bing)
6. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
7. Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)
8. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
9. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
10. Of Fathers and Sons (Talal Derki)

2019 [Sight & Sound]

1. Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)
2. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
3. Peterloo (Mike Leigh)
4. Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
5. American Factory (Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert)
6. Atlantics (Mati Diop)
7. The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
8. The Hottest August (Brett Story)
9. Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)
10. High Life (Claire Denis)

Decade [Film Comment]

1. The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence (2012/2014, Joshua Oppenheimer)
2. Everyone Else (2009, Maren Ade)
3. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
4. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
5. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
6. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen)
7. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
8. Dead Souls (2018, Wang Bing)
9. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013, Martin Scorsese)
10. Carlos (2010, Olivier Assayas)

2020 [Screen Slate]

1. Time (Garrett Bradley)
2. Collective (Alexander Nanau)
3. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
4. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill & Turner Ross)
6. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
7. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
8. Mayor (David Osit)
9. Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson)
10. Sound of Metal (Darius Marder)

2021 [Film Comment]

1. The Viewing Booth (Ra'anan Alexandrowicz)
2. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
3. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese)
4. Procession (Robert Greene)
5. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
6. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
7. Annette (Leos Carax)
8. Downstream to Kinshasa (Dieudo Hamadi)
9. Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Horvát Lili)
10. Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)

2022 [Sight & Sound]

1. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
2. Benediction (Terence Davies)
3. Dos Estaciones (Juan Pablo González)
4. All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
5. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
6. Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović)
7. Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis)
8. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
9. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
10. Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine)

2023 [Film Comment]

1. Our Body (Claire Simon)
2. May December (Todd Haynes)
3. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
4. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
5. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
6. Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman)
7. A Still Small Voice (Luke Lorentzen)
8. The Taste of Things (Trần Anh Hùng)
9. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
10. Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster)