| 1. Resurrection | Bi Gan | 2025 |
| 2. Magellan | Lav Diaz | 2025 |
| 3. Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan | 2023 |
| 4. Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2023 |
| 5. Ripley | Steven Zaillian | 2024 |
| 6. The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson | 2021 |
| 7. Tár | Todd Field | 2022 |
| 8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Joaquim Dos, Santos Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson | 2023 |
| 9. I’m Thinking of Ending Things | Charlie Kaufman | 2020 |
| 10. Dune: Part Two | Denis Villeneuve | 2024 |
| 11. Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | 2022 |
| 12. Asteroid City | Wes Anderson | 2023 |
| 13. The Tragedy of Macbeth | Joel Coen | 2021 |
| 14. The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | 2023 |
| 15. John Wick: Chapter 4 | Chad Stahelski | 2023 |
| 16. The Green Knight | David Lowery | 2021 |
| 17. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Alejandro Iñárritu | 2022 |
| 18. Dune | Denis Villeneuve | 2021 |
| 19. The Substance | Coralie Fargeat | 2024 |
| 20. Nosferatu | Robert Eggers | 2024 |
| 21. The Phoenician Scheme | Wes Anderson | 2025 |
| 22. Everything Everywhere All at Once | The Daniels | 2022 |
| 23. Train Dreams | Clint Bentley | 2025 |
| 24. Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | 2025 |
| 25. No Other Choice | Park Chan-wook | 2025 |
| 26. Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | 2020 |
| 27. The Underground Railroad | Barry Jenkins | 2021 |
| 28. Nickel Boys | RaMell Ross | 2024 |
| 29. The Batman | Matt Reeves | 2022 |
| 30. The Girl with the Needle | Magnus von Horn | 2024 |
| 31. The Northman | Robert Eggers | 2022 |
| 32. The Card Counter | Paul Schrader | 2021 |
| 33. The Brutalist | Brady Corbet | 2024 |
| 34. Babylon | Damien Chazelle | 2022 |
| 35. Sinners | Ryan Coogler | 2025 |
| 36. Ballad of a Small Player | Edward Berger | 2025 |
| 37. Mank | David Fincher | 2020 |
| 38. Spencer | Pablo Larraín | 2021 |
| 39. Bugonia | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2025 |
| 40. Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese | 2023 |
| 41. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | George Miller | 2024 |
| 42. The Killer | David Fincher | 2023 |
| 43. Nightmare Alley | Guillermo del Toro | 2021 |
| 44. Wuthering Heights | Emerald Fennell | 2026 |
| 45. Beau is Afraid | Ari Aster | 2023 |
| 46. Avatar: The Way of Water | James Cameron | 2022 |
| 47. Small Axe | Steve McQueen | 2020 |
| 48. Hamnet | Chloé Zhao | 2025 |
| 49. Maria | Pablo Larraín | 2024 |
| 50. Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell | 2020 |
| 51. Marty Supreme | Josh Safdie | 2025 |
| 52. Copenhagen Cowboy | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2022 |
| 53. Queer | Luca Guadagnino | 2024 |
| 54. Saltburn | Emerald Fennell | 2023 |
| 55. Blonde | Andrew Dominik | 2022 |
| 56. C’mon C’mon | Mike Mills | 2021 |
| 57. Orphan | László Nemes | 2025 |
| 58. El Conde | Pablo Larraín | 2023 |
| 59. Pieces of a Woman | Kornél Mundruczó | 2020 |
| 60. Jay Kelly | Noah Baumbach | 2025 |
| 61. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More | Wes Anderson | 2023 |
| 62. Monkey Man | Dev Patel | 2024 |
| 63. One Battle After Another | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2025 |
| 64. Disclaimer | Alfonso Cuarón | 2024 |
| 65. The Hand of God | Paolo Sorrentino | 2021 |
| 66. Kinds of Kindness | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2024 |
| 67. West Side Story | Steven Spielberg | 2021 |
| 68. Tenet | Christopher Nolan | 2020 |
| 69. Flow | Gints Zilbalodis | 2024 |
| 70. Avatar: Fire and Ash | James Cameron | 2025 |
| 71. Weapons | Zach Cregger | 2025 |
| 72. Hundreds of Beavers | Mike Cheslik | 2022 |
| 73. Die My Love | Lynne Ramsay | 2025 |
| 74. 28 Years Later | Danny Boyle | 2025 |
| 75. The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | 2021 |
| 76. Civil War | Alex Garland | 2024 |
| 77. The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh | 2022 |
| 78. Conclave | Edward Berger | 2024 |
| 79. A Hero | Asghar Farhadi | 2021 |
| 80. Belfast | Kenneth Branagh | 2021 |
| 81. All Quiet on the Western Front | Edward Berger | 2022 |
| 82. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners | Hiroyuki Imaishi | 2022 |
| 83. Passing | Rebecca Hall | 2021 |
| 84. After Yang | Kogonada | 2021 |
| 85. Fallen Leaves | Aki Kaurismäki | 2023 |
| 86. The Secret Agent | Kleber Mendonça Filho | 2025 |
| 87. Possessor | Brandon Cronenberg | 2020 |
| 88. Challengers | Luca Guadagnino | 2024 |
| 89. Mother Mary | David Lowery | 2026 |
| 90. May December | Todd Haynes | 2023 |
| 91. Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2021 |
| 92. Anora | Sean Baker | 2024 |
| 93. The Father | Florian Zeller | 2020 |
| 94. Last Night in Soho | Edgar Wright | 2021 |
| 95. Adolescence | Philip Barantini | 2025 |
| 96. A Haunting in Venice | Kenneth Branagh | 2023 |
| 97. Elvis | Baz Luhrmann | 2022 |
| 98. Blitz | Steve McQueen | 2024 |
| 99. Maestro | Bradley Cooper | 2023 |
| 100. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears | 2023 |
Hope you catch two Netflix releases of the past month; El Conde and Reptile. I think the latter will end up being quite underrated/overlooked.
Hoping to get to El Conde this week, and will definitely try to catch Reptile soon.
How come you haven’t reviewed any Hong Sang Soo movies? I think according to TSPDT, he is the director with most movies on the 21st century list.
That’s a good question, and a really fascinating statistic. Do you have any suggestions for where to start?
How is Blonde rated 27 with a HR/MS and Promising Young Woman rated at 24 with a HR?
Promising Young Woman has been updated to HR/MS.
Have you caught Conclave yet?
Not yet, it doesn’t come out here until January unfortunately. But it is one of my most highly anticipated upcoming films.
Did Across the Spider-Verse get downgraded or something cause its page has it at MS/MP yet its ranked at 30?
The opposite – it was upgraded to MS/MP, but I understand the confusion given the publish dates for these posts. I went back to update the older page at some point. This list will be updated fairly soon once I’m done with 2025 films.
Ah i see
Seeing ATSV In the top 8 has left a big smile on my face :]