Justin Chang Top Tens

These lists are sourced as follows: Village Voice 2009-2010, Variety 2013-2015, the Los Angeles Times onwards, except as noted, and all of these lists are by NYC release year.

2009

1. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
2. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
3. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
4. Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
5. Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck)
6. Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
7. Two Lovers (James Gray)
8. A Single Man (Tom Ford)
9. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
10. Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell)

2010

1. Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
2. I Am Love (Luca Guadadgnino)
3. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
4. Last Train Home (Fan Lixin)
5. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
6. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
7. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
8. The Social Network (David Fincher)
9. Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
10. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)

2013

1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
2. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
3. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
4. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
5. The World's End (Edgar Wright)
6. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
7. The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)
8. American Hustle (David O. Russell)
9. Her (Spike Jonze)
10. The Conjuring (James Wan)

2014

1. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
2. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
4. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
5. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
6. Bird People (Pascale Ferran)
7. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
8. Selma (Ava DuVernay)
9. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
10. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)

2015

1. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
3. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
4. The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
5. Carol (Todd Haynes)
6. The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)
7. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
8. Inside Out (Pete Docter)
9. Girlhood (Céline Sciamma)
10. Brooklyn (John Crowley)

2016

1. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
2. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
3. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
4. O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
5. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
6. My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
7. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
8. I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
9. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
10. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)

2017

1. Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
2. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
3. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
5. Ex Libris—The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
6. Columbus (Kogonada)
7. A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
8. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
9. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
10. Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
11. War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves)
12. Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)

2018

1. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
2. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
3. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
5. Private Life (Tamara Jenkins)
6. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
7. The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
8. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
9. Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu)
10. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)

2019

1. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
2. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
3. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
4. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
5. The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
6. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
7. "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (Radu Jude)
8. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
9. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
10. Little Women (Greta Gerwig)

Decade [LAFCA]

1. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
2. Secret Sunshine (2007, Lee Chang-dong)
3. Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
4. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)
6. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
7. The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)
8. Amour (2012, Michael Haneke)
9. Silence (2016, Martin Scorsese)
10. Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer)

2020

1. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
2. Time (Garrett Bradley)
3. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
4. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
5. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
7. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
8. Collective (Alexander Nanau)
9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittmann)
10. Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)

2021

1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
2. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
3. Procession (Robert Greene)
4. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
6. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
7. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
8. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
9. The Green Knight (David Lowery)
10. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
11. Passing (Rebecca Hall)

2022

1. No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
2. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
3. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
4. TÁR (Todd Field)
5. Benediction (Terence Davies)
6. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
7. Kimi (Steven Soderbergh)
8. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
9. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
10. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
11. Nope (Jordan Peele)

2023

1. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
2. The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki Hayao)
3. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
4. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
5. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
6. Afire (Christian Petzold)
7. Past Lives (Celine Song)
8. The Eight Mountains (Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch)
9. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
10. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)