Movies
My yearly favorites
A personal list of favorite movies among theatrical releases in the country where I lived at the time.
The lists are approximately ordered by preference.
2025
Pending.
2024
La Chimera, Anora, Challengers, All We Imagine as Light, La bête, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Bird, Cierra los ojos, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, L’été dernier.
Special Mention: The Brutalist, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Love Lies Bleeding, The Bikeriders, La passion de Dodin Bouffant, Evil Does Not Exist, A Complete Unknown, About Dry Grasses, A Real Pain, Babygirl.
2023
May December, Anatomie d’une chute, Passages, Les cinq diables, Killers of the Flower Moon, Saint Omer, The Holdovers, Fallen Leaves, Roter Himmel, Pacifiction.
Special Mention: Orlando, ma biographie politique, Les enfants des autres, Asteroid City, Monster, Poor Things, Joyland, Un beau matin, As bestas, The Zone of Interest, American Fiction.
2022
After Yang, Aftersun, Decision to Leave, Grosse Freiheit, Nope, Compartment No. 6, Vortex, The Banshees of Inisherin, TÁR, Alcarràs.
Special Mention: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Cinco lobitos, Argentina 1985, Les Olympiades, Ahed’s Knee, The Worst Person in the World, Triangle of Sadness, A Hero, Peter von Kant, Armageddon Time.
2021
Films released in France from January to August 2021, and released in the USA from September to December 2021.
Drive My Car, Titane, Bergman Island, Licorice Pizza, Nomadland, The French Dispatch, Parallel Mothers, Petite Maman, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, À l’abordage !
Special Mention: The Power of the Dog, È stata la mano di Dio, Minari, West Side Story, C’mon C’mon, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Judas and the Black Messiah, Passing, What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, Promising Young Woman.
2020
La virgen de agosto, La communion, also known as Boże Ciało or Corpus Christi, Madre, Druk, Ema, 1917.
Special Mention: The Cuban Network, Undine, The Whistlers, Énorme, Queen & Slim, Un pays qui se tient sage, Systemsprenger.
2019
Synonymes, Parasite, Alice et le Maire, Beanpole, Dolor y Gloria, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, So Long, My Son, Matthias et Maxime, Martin Eden.
Special Mention: Il Traditore, J’ai perdu mon corps, The Wild Goose Lake, Border, Les Misérables, Zombi Child, The Favourite, J’accuse, Knives Out.
2018
Transit, Call Me By Your Name, Cold War, Burning, Roma, Lazzaro Felice, Shoplifters, Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, In den Gängen, Quién te cantará.
Special Mention: Gaspard va au mariage, Wajib, Leto, Dogman, Plaire, aimer et courir vite, Diamantino, Foxtrot, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Jusqu’à la garde, Isle of Dogs, Lady Bird.