Jordan Cronk Top Ten Lists

These lists are sourced from Patreon from 2015 onwards, and by release year until 2015, and by premiere year onwards.

2012 [Unknown via CriticsTop10]

1. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2. The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
3. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
4. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
5. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
6. Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman)
7. Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)
8. The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
9. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
10. 4:44: Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)

2013 [Slant]

1. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
2. Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)
3. The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
4. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
6. Bastards (Claire Denis)
7. Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
8. Drug War (Johnnie To)
9. Night Across the Street (Raúl Ruiz)
10. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais)

2014 [Unknown via CriticsTop10]

1. Story of My Death (Albert Serra)
2. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
4. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
6. Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi)
7. What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
8. Life of Riley (Alain Resnais)
9. The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann)
10. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Russell & Ben Rivers)

2015

1. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
4. 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
5. Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
6. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
7. In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
8. Visit, or Memories and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)

2016

1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
2. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
3. The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
4. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
5. The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
6. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
7. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
8. The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec)
9. The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
10. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)

2017

1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
3. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
5. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. Good Luck (Ben Russell)
7. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
8. Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)
9. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
10. El mar la mar (Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki)

2018

1. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
2. High Life (Claire Denis)
3. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
5. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
6. Dead Souls (Wang Bing)
7. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
8. Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)
9. Arboretum Cycle (Nathaniel Dorsky)
10. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)

2019

1. I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec)
2. Liberté (Albert Serra)
3. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
4. Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
5. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
6. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
7. State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa)
8. Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)
9. Tommaso (Abel Ferrara)
10. Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)

Decade [Patreon]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, Manoel de Oliveira)
4. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
5. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman)
6. House of Tolerance (2011, Bertrand Bonello)
7. Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa)
8. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
9. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
10. The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr Béla and Hranitsky Ágnes)

2020

1. DAU. (Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
2. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
3. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
4. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)
5. Beginning (Déa Kulumbegashvili)
6. Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)
7. The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
8. Siberia (Abel Ferrara)
9. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
10. The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco)

2021

1. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. France (Bruno Dumont)
4. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
5. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
6. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
7. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
8. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
9. Annette (Leos Carax)
10. Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)

2022

1. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
2. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
3. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
4. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
5. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
6. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
7. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
8. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
9. Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)
10. Tales of the Purple House (Abbas Fahdel)

2023

• Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
• Music (Angela Schanelec)
• The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
• Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
• Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
• The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
• Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
• Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
• The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)