REEL | Top 10 Films of 2026 So Far

"I put the not in astronaut!"

Amazon MGM Studios / Lord Miller Productions

Click on each film title to read its corresponding review:

1) Project Hail Mary ¹ (dirs. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller)

2) The Drama ² (dir. Kristoffer Borgli)

3) Mile End Kicks ³ * (dir. Chandler Levack)

4) Obsession (dir. Curry Barker)

5) Blue Heron * (dir. Sophy Romvari)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2025

"No fear. Just like Tom f*cking Cruise!"

Warner Bros. Pictures / Ghoulardi Film Company

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1) One Battle After Another ¹ (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

2) Sentimental Value ² * (Affeksjonsverdi, dir. Joachim Trier)

3) Sinners ³ (dir. Ryan Coogler)

4) Marty Supreme (dir. Josh Safdie)

5) Train Dreams * (dir. Clint Bentley)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2025 So Far

"Your body remembers me."

Warner Bros. Pictures / Proximity Media

Click on each film title to read its corresponding review:

1) Sinners ¹ (dir. Ryan Coogler)

2) Pavements ² (dir. Alex Ross Perry)

3) Friendship ³ (dir. Andrew DeYoung)

4) The Phoenician Scheme (dir. Wes Anderson)

5) Materialists (dir. Celine Song)

REEL | Top 10 Films of the 21st Century So Far

"We won't be like them."

Janus Films / Jet Tone Films

Click on each film title to read its corresponding review:

1) In the Mood for Love ¹ (dir. Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

2) Mulholland Drive ² (dir. David Lynch, 2001)

3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry, 2004)

4) Ghost World ³ (dir. Terry Zwigoff, 2001)

5) The Social Network (dir. David Fincher, 2010)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2024

Amazon MGM Studios / Warner Bros. Pictures

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1) Challengers (dir. Luca Guadagnino)

2) Anora * (dir. Sean Baker)

3) The Brutalist (dir. Brady Corbet)

4) Evil Does Not Exist * (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)

5) Civil War (dir. Alex Garland)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2024 So Far

Amazon MGM Studios / Warner Bros. Pictures

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1) Challengers (dir. Luca Guadagnino)

2) Evil Does Not Exist (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)

3) Civil War (dir. Alex Garland)

4) Dune: Part Two (dir. Denis Villeneuve)

5) Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (dir. George Miller)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2023

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) Past Lives (dir. Celine Song)

2) Oppenheimer (dir. Christopher Nolan)

3) Poor Things (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

4) Return to Seoul (dir. Davy Chou)

5) Asteroid City (dir. Wes Anderson)

6) The Holdovers (dir. Alexander Payne)

7) Killers of the Flower Moon (dir. Martin Scorsese)

8) Passages (dir. Ira Sachs)

9) May December (dir. Todd Haynes)

10) The Zone of Interest (dir. Jonathan Glazer) *

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2023 So Far

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) Past Lives (dir. Celine Song)

2) Return to Seoul (dir. Davy Chou)

3) Asteroid City (dir. Wes Anderson)

4) Showing Up (dir. Kelly Reichardt)

5) Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (dir. Kelly Fremon Craig)

6) BlackBerry (dir. Matt Johnson)

7) How to Blow Up A Pipeline (dir. Daniel Goldhaber)

8) You Hurt My Feelings (dir. Nicole Holofcener)

9) A Thousand and One (dir. A.V. Rockwell)

10) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (dirs. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2022

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells) *

2) Tár (dir. Todd Field)

3) Decision to Leave (dir. Park Chan-wook) *

4) After Yang (dir. Kogonada)

5) Nope (dir. Jordan Peele)

6) The Fabelmans (dir. Steven Spielberg)

7) The Banshees of Inisherin (dir. Martin McDonagh) *

8) Emily the Criminal (dir. John Patton Ford)

9) The Menu (dir. Mark Mylod)

10) Top Gun: Maverick (dir. Joseph Kosinski)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2022 So Far

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) After Yang (dir. Kogonada)

2) Top Gun: Maverick (dir. Joseph Kosinski)

3) Fire of Love (dir. Sara Dosa)

4) Happening (dir. Audrey Diwan)

5) Everything Everywhere All at Once (dirs. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)

6) X (dir. Ti West)

7) RRR (dir. S.S. Rajamouli)

8) The Batman (dir. Matt Reeves)

9) Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (dir. Richard Linklater)

10) Fire Island (dir. Andrew Ahn)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2021

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) Licorice Pizza (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

2) Petite Maman (dir. Céline Sciamma) *

3) The Power of the Dog (dir. Jane Campion) *

4) West Side Story (dir. Steven Spielberg)

5) The French Dispatch (dir. Wes Anderson)

6) The Worst Person in the World (dir. Joachim Trier) *

7) Drive My Car (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) *

8) Passing (dir. Rebecca Hall) *

9) Red Rocket (dir. Sean Baker) *

10) C'mon C'mon (dir. Mike Mills)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2021 So Far

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) Judas and the Black Messiah (dir. Shaka King)

2) Shiva Baby (dir. Emma Seligman)

3) The Killing of Two Lovers (dir. Robert Machoian)

4) Test Pattern (dir. Shatara Michelle Ford)

5) Zola (dir. Janicza Bravo)

6) The Father (dir. Florian Zeller)

7) Luca (dir. Enrico Casarosa)

8) Stowaway (dir. Joe Penna)

9) In the Heights (dir. Jon M. Chu)

10) A Quiet Place Part II (dir. John Krasinski)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2020

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) First Cow (dir. Kelly Reichardt)

2) The Nest (dir. Sean Durkin)

3) Lovers Rock (dir. Steve McQueen)

4) Minari (dir. Lee Isaac Chung)

5) I'm Thinking of Ending Things (dir. Charlie Kaufman)

6) The Climb (dir. Michael Angelo Covino)

7) Palm Springs (dir. Max Barbakow)

8) Swallow (dir. Carlo Mirabella-Davis)

9) Da 5 Bloods (dir. Spike Lee)

10) The Vast of Night (dir. Andrew Patterson)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2020 So Far

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) Swallow (dir. Carlo Mirabella-Davis)

2) Da 5 Bloods (dir. Spike Lee)

3) The Vast of Night (dir. Andrew Patterson)

4) Bad Education (dir. Cory Finley)

5) Tigertail (dir. Alan Yang)

6) Shirley (dir. Josephine Decker)

7) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (dir. Eliza Hittman)

8) The Invisible Man (dir. Leigh Whannell)

9) The Way Back (dir. Gavin O'Connor)

10) The King of Staten Island (dir. Judd Apatow)

REEL | Top 10 Films of the 2010s

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) The Social Network (dir. David Fincher, 2010)

2) The Handmaiden (dir. Park Chan-wook, 2016)

3) Parasite (dir. Bong Joon-Ho, 2019)

4) Her (dir. Spike Jonze, 2013)

5) Frances Ha (dir. Noah Baumbach, 2013)

6) The Favourite (dir. Yorgas Lanthimos, 2018)

7) Once Upon A Time in… Hollywood (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

8) Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig, 2017)

9) Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

10) Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2019

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) Parasite * (dir. Bong Joon-ho)

2) Once Upon A Time in… Hollywood (dir. Quentin Tarantino)

3) The Farewell (dir. Lulu Wang)

4) Portrait of a Lady on Fire * (dir. Céline Sciamma)

5) Uncut Gems (dir. Josh & Benny Safdie)

6) The Irishman (dir. Martin Scorsese)

7) Marriage Story * (dir. Noah Baumbach)

8) 1917 (dir. Sam Mendes)

9) Midsommar (dir. Ari Aster)

10) Little Women (dir. Greta Gerwig)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2019 So Far

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) Her Smell (dir. Alex Ross Perry)

2) Us (dir. Jordan Peele)

3) Booksmart (dir. Olivia Wilde)

4) Teen Spirit (dir. Max Minghella)

5) The Souvenir (dir. Joanna Hogg)

6) Toy Story 4 (dir. Josh Cooley)

7) Apollo 11 (dir. Todd Douglas Miller)

8) High Flying Bird (dir. Steven Soderbergh)

9) Plus One (dir. Jeff Chan & Andrew Rhymer)

10) High Life (dir. Claire Denis)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2018

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) The Favourite * (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

2) Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)

3) Vox Lux * (dir. Brady Corbet)

4) Support the Girls (dir. Andrew Bujalski)

5) Wildlife (dir. Paul Dano)

6) If Beale Street Could Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins)

7) Suspiria (dir. Luca Guadagnino)

8) A Star is Born (dir. Bradley Cooper)

8) Thoroughbreds (dir. Cory Finley)

10) You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynne Ramsay)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2018 So Far

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) Thoroughbreds (dir. Cory Finley)

2) You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynne Ramsay)

3) First Reformed (dir. Paul Schrader)

4) Bodied * (dir. Joseph Kahn)

5) Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler)

6) Paddington 2 (dir. Paul King)

7) Game Night (dirs. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein)

8) Isle of Dogs (dir. Wes Anderson)

9) Hereditary (dir. Ari Aster)

10) Tully (dir. Jason Reitman)

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2017

Each film reviewed where linked below:

1) Lady Bird * (dir. Greta Gerwig)

2) Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

3) Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele)

4) Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan)

5) The Florida Project * (dir. Sean Baker)

6) Columbus * (dir. Kogonada)

7) The Big Sick (dir. Michael Showalter)

8) The Square * (dir. Ruben Östlund)

9) I, Tonya (dir. Craig Gillespie)

10) Brigsby Bear (dir. Dave McCary)