{"id":12789,"date":"2015-12-31T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?page_id=12789"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:59:18","slug":"top-10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/top-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Rib of the Greater Bay Area (Zhou Tao)<\/li>\n
  2. My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec)<\/li>\n
  3. Chronovisor (Kevin Walker & Jack Auen)<\/li>\n
  4. Queen at Sea (Lance Hammer)<\/li>\n
  5. London (Sebastian Brameshuber)<\/li>\n
  6. Everything Else Is Noise (Nicol\u00e1s Pereda)<\/li>\n
  7. If I Were Alive (Andr\u00e9 Novais Oliveira)<\/li>\n
  8. EIGHT BRIDGES (James Benning)<\/li>\n
  9. Doggerland (Kim Ekberg)<\/li>\n
  10. The Loneliest Man in Town (Rainer Frimmel & Tizza Covi)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Polls Top 10<\/span><\/strong> (Eligible titles [will] appear here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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    1. Dry Leaf (2025, Alexandre Koberidze)<\/li>\n
    2. The Periphery of the Base (2024, Zhou Tao)<\/li>\n
    3. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025, Matt Johnson)<\/li>\n
    4. Chime (2024, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<\/li>\n
    5. The Invisible Zoo (2024, Romuald Karmakar)<\/li>\n
    6. The Adamant Girl (2024, P.S. Vinothraj)<\/li>\n
    7. Yes (2025, Nadav Lapid)<\/li>\n
    8. What Does That Nature Say to You (2025, Hong Sang-soo)<\/li>\n
    9. The Love That Remains (2025, Hlynur P\u00e1lmason)<\/li>\n
    10. The Christophers (2025, Steven Soderbergh)<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      Top 10 “Oldies”<\/span><\/strong> (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)<\/p>\n

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      1. Aspen (1991, Frederick Wiseman)<\/li>\n
      2. Dekalog, Six (1989, Krzysztof Kieslowski)<\/li>\n
      3. Saboteur (1942, Alfred Hitchcock)<\/li>\n
      4. The Seats of the Alcazar (1989, Luc Moullet)<\/li>\n
      5. –<\/li>\n
      6. –<\/li>\n
      7. –<\/li>\n
      8. –<\/li>\n
      9. –<\/li>\n
      10. –<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

         <\/p>\n

        Other 2026 films I\u2019ve seen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Nightmare\u2019s Advice (Renaud Despr\u00e9s-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Atlas of the Universe (Paul Negoescu)\u00a0\u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Tycoon (Charlotte Zhang)\u00a0\u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal)\u00a0\u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Dao (Alain Gomis)\u00a0\u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Mouse (Kelly O\u2019Sullivan & Alex Thompson)\u00a0\u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Light Pillar (Xu Zao)\u00a0\u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • The Day She Returns (Hong Sang-soo)\u00a0\u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Skyscraper Live (Joe DeMaio) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • The Misconceived (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)\u00a0\u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Foreign Travel (Ted Fendt)\u00a0\u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Nox (Matti Harju)\u00a0\u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Blind Song (Stefano Canapa & Natacha Muslera) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • WAX & GOLD (Ruth Beckermann)\u00a0\u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Flies (Fernando Eimbcke)\u00a0\u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Isabel (Gabe Klinger)\u00a0\u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Cesarean Weekend (Mohammad Schirvani)\u00a0\u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • The Moths & the Flame (Kevin Contento)\u00a0\u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Rose (Markus Schleinzer)\u00a0\u2013 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Trial of Hein (Kai St\u00e4nicke)\u00a0\u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Nina Roza (Genevi\u00e8ve Dulude-de Celles)\u00a0\u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Home Stories (Eva Trobisch)\u00a0\u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Yo (Anna Fitch & Banker White)\u00a0\u2013 3.8<\/li>\n
        • I Built A Rocket Imagining Your Arrival (Jana\u00edna Marques)\u00a0\u2013 3.6<\/li>\n
        • Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Grant Gee)\u00a0\u2013 3.5<\/li>\n
        • No Good Men (Shahrbanoo Sadat)\u00a0\u2013 3.4<\/li>\n
        • Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord & Chris Miller) \u2013 2.9<\/li>\n
        • Josephine (Beth de Ara\u00fajo)\u00a0\u2013 2.9<\/li>\n
        • \u6c34\u6258\u90a6 (Hydrotopia) (Chiemi Shimada & Jamie Man)\u00a0\u2013 2.5<\/li>\n
        • At the Sea (Korn\u00e9l Mundrucz\u00f3)\u00a0\u2013 2.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          *Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years. 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) My Wife Cries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12789","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12789"}],"version-history":[{"count":860,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26021,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12789\/revisions\/26021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}