| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| Anora | 2024 | 95 | 1 | (full review) - Baker’s most memorable characters are often wrestling with the American dream, and Baker himself seems like a Rorschach test for your own baggage: both pointed critic and secret optimist. |
| Cow | 2022 | 95 | 1 | (full review) - Luma may not have a voice, but Arnold’s masterful direction makes her as complex and compelling as any Arnold protagonist. |
| Cryptozoo | 2021 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - This is a bestiary with real bite |
| I Didn't See You There | 2022 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - But it also feels impossible to view one’s own environment the same way afterward. |
| INU-OH | 2021 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - And harder still to resist when delivered in the form of Yuasa’s brilliantly conceived stage performances that blend traditional, modern and downright trippy into something wholly new. |
| The Big Scary “S†Word | 2020 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - Bridge provides a much-needed counterbalance to the corporate vision of liberalism, and she makes the case without the vitriol of Twitter fights. |
| The Iron Claw | 2023 | 90 | 3 | (full review) - Durkin’s deft handling of these events turns public tragedy into a searing meditation on familial bonds and the limits of a certain type of masculinity. |
| 7 Days | 2022 | 85 | 8 | (full review) - But to also get an incisive look at love and dating, thoughtful cultural commentary and genuine laughs is a pandemic miracle. |
| For Madmen Only | 2020 | 85 | 8 | (full review) - or Madmen Only turns the history of a comedic form into a fully engaging suspense tale. |
| My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock | 2023 | 85 | 8 | (full review) - It’s hard not to want to dive into a full Hitchcock movie after watching the clips. |
| No Future | 2020 | 85 | 8 | (full review) - It’s raw and bracing to watch it all unfold, but if nothing else the impact lingers well into the future. |
| Our Father, the Devil | 2021 | 85 | 8 | (full review) - Escaping a cycle of trauma and abuse is hard. But not as hard as forgiveness. |
| Riddle of Fire | 2024 | 85 | 8 | (full review) - The film captures the spirit of adventure for weird kids in a grown-up world. And how sometimes it’s worth risking everything to play a cool video game. |
| Riders of Justice | 2020 | 85 | 8 | (full review) - Men will single-handedly gun down an entire biker gang rather than go to therapy. |
| Saturn Bowling | 2022 | 85 | 8 | (full review) - Mazuy and co-writer Yves Thomas construct a seamy world where predators are constantly on the hunt, driven by almost supernatural forces that are beyond their grasp to understand, let alone stop and imagine what a less hateful existence may look like. |
| The Monk and the Gun | 2023 | 85 | 8 | (full review) - But along the way, his film pokes both inward at itself and outward at the west, suggesting that nobody has a monopoly on the best way forward for a community. |
| Monkey King Reborn | 2021 | 75 | 17 | (full review) - Sure, it’s entertainment with a heavy-handed message. But it’s entertaining enough. |
| The Rumperbutts | 2015 | 75 | 17 | (full review) - The winsome earworms don’t go very deep, but just try and get through the movie without nodding along. |
| Mob Land | 2023 | 30 | 19 | (full review) - It’s all thrown together too haphazardly, and with little room left for Mob Land to have something to say of its own that we haven’t already heard before. |
