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  • Ponyo
  • Prodigal Sons
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  • The Hurt Locker

best of 2008

10 films Edit list

Updated October 27, 2013.

  • Toni Erdmann
  • Sully
  • The Treasure
  • Manchester by the Sea
  • Elle
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • Bad Education
  • The Best of Youth
  • Boyhood
  • Certified Copy

the 25 best of this century, from 2000 to now

25 films Edit list

Because The New York Times did it. In alphabetical order. Also, only one per director.

  • Certified Copy
  • The Social Network
  • The Ghost Writer
  • The Strange Case of Angelica
  • Tuesday, After Christmas

best of 2010

10 films Edit list

Updated October 27, 2013.

  • 8½
  • Contempt
  • The Birds
  • Shock Corridor
  • The Leopard

best of 1963

10 films Edit list

Updated October 31, 2013.

  • Badlands
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Blood Simple
  • Breathless
  • Citizen Kane

Great Debut Features (showdown:debut)

26 films Edit list

Part of the "showdown" series. In alphabetical order. Might add a few more later as they come to mind.

Only…

  • The Innocents
  • Yojimbo
  • Viridiana
  • Chronicle of a Summer
  • Underworld U.S.A.

best of 1961

10 films Edit list

Updated October 31, 2013.

  • Drug War
  • The Wind Rises
  • When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
  • Stranger by the Lake
  • Ida

best of 2013

10 films Edit list

Updated January 4, 2014.

  • L'Argent
  • Danton
  • Nostalgia
  • The Ballad of Narayama
  • A Nos Amours

best of 1983

10 films Edit list

Updated August 22, 2014.

  • Melancholia
  • Certified Copy
  • Weekend
  • Boyhood
  • Goodbye to Language

best of decades: 2010s

20 films Edit list

20 best films, 2010 to present.

  • Yi Yi
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • The New World
  • The Best of Youth
  • La Commune (Paris, 1871)

best of decades: 2000s

20 films Edit list

20 best films, 2000-2009.

  • The World
  • Bad Education
  • The Incredibles
  • Million Dollar Baby
  • Before Sunset

best of 2004

10 films Edit list

Updated October 28, 2013.