) as I think the 2010s are now better served by the decades lists, and keeping up with more than 10 years of data starts to be more and more unwieldy for ever diminishing returns. If you wish to see the last update for the 2010s, I've preserved it for posterity here (though I think our forum's most recent survey of the decade has more interesting results).Anyway, for the uninitiated: I make routine sweeps through the Dynamic Top Ten threads every month in order to discern trends in the groupthink of the forum that can eventually be used against it. The reports I present to some guy who says he works for the government are presented for your amusement below.
The fine print: Only the top ten films have been counted from the lists in the Dynamic Top Ten threads since 2019, and lists of less than ten have not been counted. Though 2019 is not displayed here, I'm continuing to register updates to 2019 lists to the extent that they affect films shown here for 2020. Lists submitted by members for years before they joined the site are not being tallied. Lists not updated since early in the year are only partially counted. (Exception: I count all lists for the current year, even those that don't list ten films yet. Once the year ends, I remove any lists that haven't been filled out to ten.) Each film is assigned to the year here where the most people have included it on their lists, but a mention of the film in the Dynamic Top Ten thread for any year counts toward that film's total. Films are ranked based on how many lists they currently appear on, with ties broken based on the relative placement of films within individual lists. Anything appearing on three or more lists that isn't in the top 25 for a given year is shown (in alphabetical order) as an honorable mention. In addition to showing the number of appearances, I'm also showing the change in position of certain films, either since the last update (for the latest year) or from the end of the last awards season (for all prior years). The only changes in position I'm showing are ones that directly result from people adding that film to their list, taking it off, or moving its position. Finally, the consensus #1 film shown for each year is the film that shows up most often in the #1 position of people's lists.
The key word here, folks, is "dynamic." Any member of the forum is welcome at any time to contribute lists in current and prior years, and everyone is free (and in fact, encouraged) to update their lists not only throughout the year, but well after each year has finished, to reflect new discoveries or reevaluations.
As a final note, I'd just like to say that, while it can be fun to watch some of the heavier hitters duke it out for each year's top spots, my real hope with these lists is that people will take note of the lesser known films that have started to build a small consensus, and that they'll go to the effort of seeking those films out for themselves.
Last Edited Date: Dec 31, 2024
The Top Films of 2024
Most #1 Votes: Kinds of Kindness (3)
Most Listed
01 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (18)
02 I Saw the TV Glow (15)
03 Challengers (12) +2
04 Anora (11) +12
05 Dune: Part Two -2
06 Hit Man (10) -2
07 The Substance (8)
08 Kinds of Kindness (7)
09 Love Lies Bleeding -1
10 The Seed of the Sacred Fig (6)
11 Civil War -2
12 The Brutalist (5) +6
13 Aggro Drift
14 Megalopolis -3
15 Trap NEW
16 All We Imagine as Light (4) +4
17 Ripley -3
18 Rebel Ridge -6
19 Longlegs -2
20 Juror #2 NEW
21 Drive-Away Dykes (3) -6
22 Caught by the Tides
23 A Different Man NEW
24 Janet Planet NEW
25 Conclave NEW
Honorable Mention: The Apprentice NEW, Deadpool & Wolverine NEW, Here NEW, Rumours
+/- is change during the month ending on Last Edited Date
The Top Films of 2023
Most #1 Votes: Killers of the Flower Moon (7), The Zone of Interest (7), May December (4), Poor Things (3), Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (3)
Most Listed
01 May December (22)
02 Killers of the Flower Moon (21)
03 The Zone of Interest (18) +5
04 Oppenheimer (17) -1
05 Poor Things (15)
06 Anatomie d'une chute (14) -2
07 Asteroid City (12) -1
08 Evil Does Not Exist +29
09 Past Lives (11)
10 La chimera (10) NEW
11 The Boy and the Heron -1
12 The Holdovers -5
13 Beau Is Afraid -2
14 Perfect Days (9) +18
15 All of Us Strangers +2
16 Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (8) +2
17 Roter Himmel -4
18 Barbie -6
19 La Bête (7) NEW
20 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
21 American Fiction
22 Fallen Leaves -7
23 Monster (6) +4
24 Saltburn -2
25 The Sweet East +1
Honorable Mention: Bottoms, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Les Chambres rouges NEW, Copenhagen Cowboy, Ferrari NEW, Godzilla Minus One, Infinity Pool, The Iron Claw, John Wick: Chapter 4, The Killer, Knock at the Cabin, Late Night with the Devil NEW, Das Lehrerzimmer NEW, Maestro, Passages, Talk to Me
+/- is change since Mar 10, 2024
The Top Films of 2022
Most #1 Votes: Tár (4), The Banshees of Inisherin (3), Aftersun (3)
Most Listed
01 Tár (21)
02 The Banshees of Inisherin (17)
03 Crimes of the Future (15)
04 Everything Everywhere All at Once (13)
05 Showing Up
06 Triangle of Sadness (11)
07 Glass Onion +2
08 Nope -1
09 Aftersun (10) +2
10 Decision to Leave
11 The Northman
12 Pacifiction (8)
13 Babylon
14 The Fabelmans
15 Blonde (7)
16 Avatar: The Way of Water +5
17 Godland (6) +7
18 Armageddon Time
19 Top Gun: Maverick
20 Women Talking
21 Bones and All -1
22 Elvis
23 Eo
24 Master Gardener
25 Saint Omer (5)
Honorable Mention: Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, Avec amour et acharnement, Barbarian, Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades, The Batman, Coma NEW, De humani corporis fabrica, The Eternal Daughter, Flux Gourmet, Holy Spider, Im Westen nichts Neues, Kimi, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, The Menu, No Bears, The Novelist's Film, Le otto montagne, Pearl NEW, Prey, The Rehearsal, R.M.N., Speak No Evil, Terrifier 2, Trenque Lauquen, Turning Red, White Noise, X
+/- is change since Mar 10, 2024
The Top Films of 2021
Most #1 Votes: Licorice Pizza (6), Memoria (6), Petite maman (4), Drive My Car (3), The Card Counter (3)
Most Listed
01 Licorice Pizza (25)
02 Drive My Car (22)
03 The Worst Person in the World (21)
04 The Card Counter (19)
05 Memoria (14)
06 The Power of the Dog (13)
07 The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (12)
08 Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
09 Annette (11)
10 Dune: Part One
11 Benediction
12 Spencer
13 Petite maman (10)
14 Titane
15 C'mon C'mon (8)
16 The Tragedy of Macbeth
17 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (7)
18 The Velvet Underground
19 The Green Knight (6)
20 Red Rocket
21 Madres paralelas
22 We're All Going to the World's Fair (5) +9
23 Benedetta
24 Nightmare Alley
25 No Time to Die
Honorable Mention: Azor, Can't Get You Out of My Head, Censor NEW, Diários de Otsoga, È stata la mano di Dio, Flee, Friends and Strangers, The Humans, Inside, The Last Duel, The Lost Daughter, Mad God, Malignant, No Sudden Move, Old, Passing, Pig, The Souvenir: Part II, The Suicide Squad, Summer of Soul, West Side Story, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
+/- is change since Mar 10, 2024
The Top Films of 2020
Most #1 Votes: I'm Thinking of Ending Things (6), First Cow (5)
Most Listed
01 First Cow (20)
02 I'm Thinking of Ending Things (15)
03 Tenet (13) +1
04 Palm Springs (11)
05 The Invisible Man (10)
06 Mank (8)
07 Da 5 Bloods (7)
08 Days (6)
09 The Trial of the Chicago 7
10 Promising Young Woman (5) -1
11 The Assistant
12 Small Axe: Lovers Rock
13 Minari
14 Les Choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait (4)
15 On the Rocks
16 Quo Vadis, Aida?
17 Never Rarely Sometimes Always
18 Wolfwalkers -7
19 Emma -6
20 World of Tomorrow Episode III: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
21 Nomadland +7
22 She Dies Tomorrow
23 Another Round
24 @zola
25 Possessor (3)
Honorable Mention: Bad Education, The Father, Freaky, News of the World, Riders of Justice, Sin señas particulares, Soul, Underwater, Undine
+/- is change since Mar 10, 2024
