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This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2026 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.
- The Rib of the Greater Bay Area (Zhou Tao)
- The Unknown (Arthur Harari)
- Last Stop for the Circular Ticket (Jean-Claude Rousseau)
- My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec)
- Chronovisor (Kevin Walker & Jack Auen)
- Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog)
- Paper Tiger (James Gray)
- Queen at Sea (Lance Hammer)
- Double Freedom (Lisandro Alonso)
- Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg)
Polls Top 10 (Eligible titles [will] appear here.)
- Dry Leaf (2025, Alexandre Koberidze)
- The Periphery of the Base (2024, Zhou Tao)
- Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025, Matt Johnson)
- Chime (2024, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- Chronovisor (2026, Kevin Walker & Jack Auen)
- The Invisible Zoo (2024, Romuald Karmakar)
- Paper Tiger (2026, James Gray)
- The Adamant Girl (2024, P.S. Vinothraj)
- Yes (2025, Nadav Lapid)
- Queen at Sea (2026, Lance Hammer)
Top 10 “Oldies” (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)
- Aspen (1991, Frederick Wiseman)
- Dekalog, Six (1989, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- Shakedown (1950, Joseph Pevney)
- Saboteur (1942, Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Young One (1960, Luis Buñuel)
- The Seats of the Alcazar (1989, Luc Moullet)
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Other 2026 films I’ve seen
- At Night (Beatrice Gibson) – 6.5
- London (Sebastian Brameshuber) – 6.5
- Everything Else Is Noise (Nicolás Pereda) – 6.3
- If I Were Alive (André Novais Oliveira) – 6.3
- The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude) – 6.3
- Nowhere to Lay My Eyes (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.2
- Red Rocks (Bruno Dumont) – 6.1
- EIGHT BRIDGES (James Benning) – 6.1
- Doggerland (Kim Ekberg) – 6.1
- Parallel Tales (Asghar Farhadi) – 6.1
- Tomorrow a Long Time Ago (Luise Donschen) – 6.0
- The World Before (Yoon Dan-bi) – 6.0
- The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen) – 5.9
- The Black Box is Orange (Yuula Benivolski) – 5.8
- The Loneliest Man in Town (Rainer Frimmel & Tizza Covi) – 5.8
- Nightmare’s Advice (Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk) – 5.8
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun) – 5.8
- Atlas of the Universe (Paul Negoescu) – 5.8
- The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach) – 5.7
- Tycoon (Charlotte Zhang) – 5.7
- I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming (Isabelle Stever) – 5.7
- Magic Atlas (Sun Xun) – 5.7
- September Afternoon (Nicolaas Schmidt) – 5.6
- La Gradiva (Marine Atlan) – 5.6
- Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh) – 5.6
- All of a Sudden (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) – 5.6
- Otium (Christopher Beaulieu) – 5.6
- The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal) – 5.6
- Small Talk (Mateo Ybarra) – 5.6
- Dao (Alain Gomis) – 5.6
- Somewhere Between Sleep (Jonas Bak) – 5.6
- Mouse (Kelly O’Sullivan & Alex Thompson) – 5.5
- Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (Matthew Rankin) – 5.5
- Everest: The Other Side (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) – 5.5
- Vertiginous (Quentin Dupieux) – 5.5
- Light Pillar (Xu Zao) – 5.5
- DAU (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy) – 5.4
- Everytime (Sandra Wollner) – 5.4
- The Day She Returns (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.4
- Nagi Notes (Kôji Fukada) – 5.4
- Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Mariano Llinás) – 5.3
- Revolutionaries Never Die (Mohanad Yaqubi) – 5.3
- Diary of the Future (Agathe Bonitzer) – 5.3
- Hope (Na Hong-jin) – 5.2
- You Don’t Belong Here (Florin Șerban) – 5.2
- Skyscraper Live (Joe DeMaio) – 5.2
- The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli) – 5.2
- Mirage (Bingham Bryant) – 5.2
- The Misconceived (James N. Kienitz Wilkins) – 5.1
- The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg) – 5.1
- Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? (Shinya Tsukamoto) – 5.1
- The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 5.1
- Foreign Travel (Ted Fendt) – 5.1
- The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias (Sophie Fiennes) – 5.1
- Wild Horse Nine (Martin McDonagh) – 5.1
- Club Kid (Jordan Firstman) – 5.1
- Sixteen Moments of My Life (Albert Serra) – 5.0
- Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev) – 5.0
- Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.0
- Thanks for Coming (Alain Cavalier) – 5.0
- Peacocks Come with the Clouds (Parastoo Anoushahpour) – 5.0
- Tear Gas (Uta Beria) – 5.0
- The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer (Alessandra Sanguinetti) – 4.9
- Nox (Matti Harju) – 4.9
- D’ici là (Sarah Leonor) – 4.9
- Blind Song (Stefano Canapa & Natacha Muslera) – 4.9
- WAX & GOLD (Ruth Beckermann) – 4.9
- Flies (Fernando Eimbcke) – 4.9
- Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft (James Cameron & Billie Eilish) – 4.8
- The Invite (Olivia Wilde) – 4.8
- Clarissa (Arie Esiri) – 4.8
- A Woman’s Life (Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet) – 4.8
- Isabel (Gabe Klinger) – 4.8
- Coward (Lukas Dhont) – 4.7
- Nobody’s Violence (Denis Côté) – 4.7
- Summer Meadow (Naël Khleifi) – 4.7
- Backrooms (Kane Parsons) – 4.6
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem (William Greaves) – 4.6
- 9 Temples to Heaven (Sompot Chidgasornpongse) – 4.6
- Fire Flower (Ana Vaz) – 4.6
- Cesarean Weekend (Mohammad Schirvani) – 4.6
- The Electric Kiss (Pierre Salvadori) – 4.5
- The Moths & the Flame (Kevin Contento) – 4.5
- The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan) – 4.4
- Rosebush Pruning (Karim Aïnouz) – 4.4
- Rose (Markus Schleinzer) – 4.4
- La Bola Negra (Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi) – 4.4
- The Days Off (Lucila Mariani) – 4.4
- Rehmat (Gurvinder Singh) – 4.4
- Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski) – 4.3
- Misty Green (Chris Rock) – 4.3
- Donkey Princess (Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña) – 4.3
- Far From the Trees (Meritxell Colell Aparicio) – 4.3
- Ego Reach We All (Amartei Armar) – 4.3
- Letters from an Inner Exile (Eloy Enciso Cachafeiro) – 4.3
- Trial of Hein (Kai Stänicke) – 4.2
- Elsinore (Simon Stone) – 4.2
- Nina Roza (Geneviève Dulude-de Celles) – 4.2
- The Riverbank (Matheus Farias & Enock Carvalho) – 4.2
- In All My Journeys I Am Returning (Manuel Ponce de León) – 4.2
- The Last Photograph (Zack Snyder) – 4.1
- Woman Unknown (May el-Toukhy) – 4.1
- The House on the Moon (Nelson Yeo) – 4.1
- La Perra (Dominga Sotomayor) – 4.1
- Brave New Love (Maria Bäck) – 4.1
- A Man of His Time (Emmanuel Marre) – 4.0
- Full Phil (Quentin Dupieux) – 4.0
- Glaxo (Benjamín Naishtat) – 4.0
- Home Stories (Eva Trobisch) – 4.0
- The Man I Love (Ira Sachs) – 3.9
- A Long Winter (Andrew Haigh) – 3.8
- Objet a (Ann Oren) – 3.8
- Chicken Soup (Caroline Milcent) – 3.8
- The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Noah Segan) – 3.8
- Yo (Anna Fitch & Banker White) – 3.8
- In Waves (Phuong-Mai Nguyen) – 3.8
- Moulin (László Nemes) – 3.7
- Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong) – 3.6
- Hearing (Lê Bảo) – 3.6
- I Built A Rocket Imagining Your Arrival (Janaína Marques) – 3.6
- Manhunt (Wayne Wapeemukwa) – 3.5
- Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Grant Gee) – 3.5
- O Jacaré (Basil Da Cunha) – 3.5
- Ketticè (Giovanni Tortorici) – 3.4
- No Good Men (Shahrbanoo Sadat) – 3.4
- Only the Serpent Knows (Olivier Séror & Martin Verdet) – 3.1
- Destroy All Girls (Erin Vassilopoulos) – 3.1
- The Birthday Party (Léa Mysius) – 3.0
- Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord & Chris Miller) – 2.9
- Josephine (Beth de Araújo) – 2.9
- Gentle Monster (Marie Kreutzer) – 2.6
- 水托邦 (Hydrotopia) (Chiemi Shimada & Jamie Man) – 2.5
- Fjord (Cristian Mungiu) – 2.5
- Butterfly Jam (Kantemir Balagov) – 2.4
- At the Sea (Kornél Mundruczó) – 2.3
- Her Private Hell (Nicolas Winding Refn) – 1.2