I always look forward to Film Comment’s year-end poll of critics, filmmakers and curators. This year’s results are pretty interesting to sift through.
There are a lot of titles from Cannes and Venice here. Also, notice how “TÁR,” this year’s critical darling, doesn’t fare as well with the highbrows. “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” and “Top Gun: Maverick” are completely absent from the top 20 — which further legitimizes this list.
Note, two Hong Sangsoo’s in the top 10. The Korean filmmaker has been releasing, sometimes, multiple films per year, for almost ten years, now and they all manage to find critical support. It’s quite impressive.
Of course, since this is Film Comment, no year-end list would be complete without a Claire Denis movie, even one of her worst-reviewed ones (Stars at Noon) which managed to make it at #17.
1. Crimes of the Future
2. EO
3. Aftersun
4. Saint Omer
5. The Eternal Daughter
6. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
7. In Front of Your Face
8. Nope
9. The Novelist’s Film
10. The Cathedral
11. TÁR
12. Decision to Leave
13. The Girl and the Spider
14. The Fabelmans
15. One Fine Morning
16. A Night of Knowing Nothing
17. Stars at Noon
18. Il Buco
19. Armageddon Time
20. Benediction / We’re All Going to the World’s Fair