TOP 10 MOVIES PER YEAR

every year i make it a goal to watch 60 movies i've never seen before! i don't always hit it but i sure do try. at the end of each year, i make a list of my top 10 favorite movies i watched for the first time that year. the lists are in no particular order, if a movie makes it to the top then i don't rank it beyond that. feel free to ask me about my opinions on any of these!

2024

  • Totally Fucked Up (1993) dir. Gregg Araki
  • The People’s Joker (2022) dir. Vera Drew
  • I Saw the TV Glow (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun
  • Eraserhead (1977) dir. David Lynch
  • My Cousin Vinny (1992) dir. Johnathan Lynn
  • Bye Bye Tiberias (2023) dir. Lina Soualem
  • The Wicker Man (1973) dir. Robin Hardy
  • Carrie (1976) dir. Brian de Palma
  • The Boy and the Heron (2023) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
  • Saw X (2023) dir. Kevin Greutert

2023

  • Suspiria (1977) dir. Dario Argento
  • X (2022) dir. Ti West
  • Pearl (2022) dir. Ti West
  • M3gan (2022) dir. James Wan
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse (2023) dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson
  • They Cloned Tyrone (2023) dir. Juel Taylor
  • Bottoms (2023) dir. Emma Seligman
  • Mulholland Drive (2001) dir. David Lynch
  • Saw II (2005) dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
  • John Wick (2014) dir. Chad Stahelski

2022

  • Nope (2022) dir. Jordan Peele
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
  • The Muppet Movie (1979) dir. James Frawley
  • The Fly (1986) dir. David Cronenberg
  • Tremors (1990) dir. Ron Underwood
  • Perfect Blue (1997) dir. Satoshi Kon
  • Bad Genius (2017) dir. Nattawut Poonpiriya
  • The Bad Guys (2022) dir. Pierre Perifel
  • We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021) dir. Jane Schoenbrun
  • Bullet Train (2022) dir. David Leitch

2021

  • Hustlers (2019) dir. Lorene Scafaria
  • It Follows (2014) dir. David Robert Mitchell
  • Palm Springs (2020) dir. Max Barbakow
  • Saw (2004) dir. James Wan
  • It's a Disaster (2012) dir. Todd Berger
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) dir. Dan Trachtenberg
  • The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021) dir. Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe
  • 12 Hour Shift (2020) dir. Brea Grant
  • The Shape of Water (2017) dir. Guillermo Del Toro
  • Willy's Wonderland (2021) dir. Kevin Lewis