Annual Top Tens: 2010s (grouped by year of premiere; very much a work in progress)

2019

THE IRISHMAN (Martin Scorsese)
VITALINA VARELA (Pedro Costa)
I WAS AT HOME, BUT... (Angela Schanelec)
BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho + Juliano Dornelles)
UNCUT GEMS (Josh + Benny Safdie)
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho)
LABYRINTH OF CINEMA (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
THE TRAITOR (Marco Bellocchio)
TORA-SAN, WISH YOU WERE HERE (Yoji Yamada)

The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg); The Dead Don't Die (Jim Jarmusch); Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello); Fourteen (Dan Sallitt); So Long, My Son (Wang Xiaoshuai).

 2018

 BURNING (Lee Chang-dong)
READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg)
TRANSIT (Christian Petzold)
AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo)
KILLING (Shin'ya Tsukamoto)
MONROVIA, INDIANA (Frederick Wiseman)
SAND (Tsai Ming-liang)
ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke)
HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Alice Rohrwacher)
AMANDA (Mikhaël Hers)

The 15:17 To Paris (Clint Eastwood); The Portuguese Woman (Rita Azevedo Gomes); Grass (Hong Sang-soo); The Chambermaid (Lila Avilés); La Flor (Mariano Llinas).

 2017

WESTERN (Valeska Grisebach)
THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo)
BEFORE WE VANISH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
HANAGATAMI (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
A SEASON IN FRANCE (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader)
ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo)
GOOD TIME (Josh & Benny Safdie)
MARJORIE PRIME (Michael Almereyda)
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino)

Blade of the Immortal (Takashi Miike); Zama (Lucrecia Martel); You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay); 120 Beats Per Minute (Robin Campillo); Let The Sunshine In (Claire Denis).

 2016

TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
SWEET DREAMS (Marco Bellocchio)
SULLY (Clint Eastwood)
PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas)
NOCTURAMA (Bertrand Bonello)
AQUARIUS (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Løve)
SILENCE (Martin Scorsese)
IN BED WITH VICTORIA (Justine Triet)
AFTER THE STORM (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa); Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo); Arrival (Denis Villeneuve); The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra); The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne).

 2015

MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
BLACKHAT (Michael Mann)
CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg)
HAPPY HOUR (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo)
MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach)
THIS SUMMER FEELING (Mikhaël Hers)
MIA MADRE (Nanni Moretti)

Kaili Blues (Bi Gan); The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien); Murmur of the Hearts (Sylvia Chang); Ricki and the Flash (Jonathan Demme); In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman).

2014

HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
PHOENIX (Christian Petzold)
POMPEII (Paul W.S. Anderson)
GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
PASOLINI (Abel Ferrara)
NATIONAL GALLERY (Frederick Wiseman)
JERSEY BOYS (Clint Eastwood)
THE IRON MINISTRY (J.P. Sniadecki)
WELCOME TO NEW YORK (Abel Ferrara)
JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso)

Maps To The Stars (David Cronenberg); From What is Before (Lav Diaz); Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne); American Sniper (Clint Eastwood); Horse Money (Pedro Costa).

2013

 STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
NOBODY'S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo)
BASTARDS (Claire Denis)
MISS AND THE DOCTORS (Axelle Ropert)
REAL (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
DJINN (Tobe Hooper)
AFTER EARTH (M. Night Shyamalan)
THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki)
THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (Ramon Zürcher)
STORY OF MY DEATH (Albert Serra)

Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt); The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese); The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola); Tip Top (Serge Bozon); Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez).

2012

 LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)
COSMOPOLIS (David Cronenberg)
PASSION (Brian De Palma)
HOLY MOTORS (Leos Carax)
A WOMAN'S REVENGE (Rita Azevedo Gomes)
DRUG WAR (Johnnie To)
ACE ATTORNEY (Takashi Miike)
TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick)
YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET (Alain Resnais)

Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson); People's Park (J.P. Sniadecki & Libbie Dina Cohn); Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas); Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine); Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh).

2011

 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher)
TWIXT (Francis Ford Coppola)
KOTOKO (Shin'ya Tsukamoto)
HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (Bertrand Bonello)
THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller)
4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH (Abel Ferrara)
MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan)
GOODBYE, FIRST LOVE (Mia Hansen-Løve)
CORPO CELESTE (Alice Rohrwacher)

Haywire (Steven Soderbergh); A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg); I Wish (Hirokazu Kore-eda); Life Without Principle (Johnnie To); The Kid With A Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne).

2010

 CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami)
 THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (Manoel de Oliveira)
HEREAFTER (Clint Eastwood)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher)
SOMEWHERE (Sofia Coppola)
POETRY (Lee Chang-dong)
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS (Radu Muntean)
THE WARD (John Carpenter)
MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raul Ruiz)

Aurora (Cristi Puiu); Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese); Archipelago (Joanna Hogg); Unstoppable (Tony Scott); Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-soo).
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