2011

10 Best Films
# The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
# Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
# Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Asghar Farhadi)
# Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
# Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
# Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
# Shame (Steve McQueen)
# Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder)
# Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
# The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)

Runners-up
50/50 (Jonathan Levine)
The Adjustment Bureau (George Nolfi)
Another Earth (Mike Cahill)
Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Le Gamin au velo (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
The Ides of March (George Clooney)
Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis)
Restless (Gus Van Sant)
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh)
Young Adult (Jason Reitman)

Special Mentions
Las acacias (Pablo Giorgelli)
Alpeis (Giorgos Lanthimos)
L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (Bertrand Bonello)
Book chon bang hyang (Sang-soo Hong)
The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
Your Sister's Sister (Lynn Shelton)

2010

10 Best Films
#  Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky) 
#  Carlos (Olivier Assayas) 
#  Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn) 
#  The Kids are Alright (Lisa Cholodenko)
#  Loong Boonmee raleuk chat (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 
#  Monsters (Gareth Edwards) 
#  Shi (Lee Chang-dong) 
#  Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) 
#  The Social Network (David Fincher) 
#  Somewhere (Sofia Coppola) 

Runners-Up
Copie Conforme (Abbas Kiarostami)
Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud)
Easy A (Will Gluck)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
Four Lions (Christopher Morris)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
Greenberg (Noa Baumbach)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
Kak ya provyol etim letom (Aleksei Popogrebsky)
Schastye moe (Sergei Loznitsa)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
The Town (Ben Affleck)
True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)

Special Mentions

Año bisiesto (Michael Rowe)
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
Balada triste de trompeta (Álex de la Iglesia)
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
Insidious (James Wan)
Let Me In (Matt Reeves)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
O Estranho Caso de Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira)
Super (James Gunn)
Tournée (Mathieu Amalric)

2009

Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio)
Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
Avatar (James Cameron)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
Coraline (Henry Selick)
Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (Michael Haneke)
An Education (Lone Scherfig)
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
Funny People (Judd Apatow)
The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh)
The House of the Devil (Ti West)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Io sono l'amore  (Luca Guadagnino)
Kinatay (Brillante Mendoza)
Kynodontas (Giorgos Lanthimos)
The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)
Män som hatar kvinnor (Niels Arden Oplev)
Politist, adjectiv (Corneliu Porumboiu)
A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura (Manoel de Oliveira)
Up (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
Watchmen (Zack Snyder)
Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze) 

2008

Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (Miguel Gomes)
Un Conte de Noël (Arnaud Depleschin)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
L'heure d'été (Olivier Assayas)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (Philippe Claudel)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom (Ji-woon Kim)
Låt den Rätte Komma in (Tomas Alfredson)
Man on Wire (James Marsh)
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
Le Silence de Lorna (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
Two Lovers (James Gray)
Üç maymun (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) 

2007

28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (Cristian Mungiu)
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas)
Byôsoku 5 senchimêtoru (Makoto Shinkai)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen)
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
En la ciudad de Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
Ferien (Thomas Arslan)
Gruz 200 (Aleksei Balabanov)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
A Londoni férfi (Béla Tarr)
Milyang (Lee Chang-dong)
My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai)
No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud)
Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
Ploy (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
Se, jie (Ang Lee)
Stellet Licht (Carlos Reygadas)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Zodiac (David Fincher) 

2005

4 (Ilya Khrjanovsky)
Les Amants Réguliers (Philippe Garrel)
Batalla en el cielo (Carlos Reygadas)
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
Caché (Michael Haneke)
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton)
l'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Hwal (Kim Ki Duk)
Match Point (Woody Allen)
Moartea domnului Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)
The New World (Terrence Malick)
Pusher 3 (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Sin City (Miller, Rodriguez, Tarantino)
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman)
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Box, Park)
Zui hao de shi guang (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 

2004

2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
9 Songs (Michael Winterbottom)
Bin-jip (Kim Ki Duk)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
Birth  (Jonathan Glazer)
Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
Der Untergang (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Gegen die Wand (Fatih Akin)
Hauru no ugoku shiro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Head in the Clouds (John Duigan)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho (Makoto Shinkai)
Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn)
La niña santa (Lucrecia Martel)
Pusher 2 (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Rois et reine (Arnaud Desplechin)
Samaria (Kim Ki Duk)
Shi mian mai fu (Zhang Yimou)
Shrek 2 (Adamson, Asbury, Vernon)
Sideways (Alexander Payne)
Sud pralad (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 

2006

A fost sau n-a fost? (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Apocalypto (Mel Gibson)
Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
Euphoria (Ivan Vyrypayev)
Gwoemul (Bong Joon-ho)
Iklimler (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
Invisible Waves (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)
The Queen (Stephen Frears)
Sang sattawat (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Severance (Christopher Smith)
Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)
United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
V for Vendetta (James McTeigue)
Zwartboek (Paul Verhoeven) 

2003

21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (Kim Ki Duk)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
Bu San (Tsai Ming-liang)
Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
Good Bye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker)
Haute tension (Alexandre Aja)
House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
Open Water (Chris Kentis)
Reconstruction (Christoffer Boe)
Salinui chueok (Bong Joon-ho)
Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
Le Temps du Loup (Michael Haneke)
Vozvrashchenie (Andrei Zvyagintsev) 

2002

25th Hour (Spike Lee)
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
Chicago (Rob Marshall)
Cidade de Deus (Fernando Meirelles)
Demonlover (Olivier Assayas)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
Le Fils (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Frida (Julie Taymor)
Hable con Ella (Pedro Almodóvar)
Irréversible (Gaspar Noé)
Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
Mou gaan dou (Wai Keung Lau)
Panic Room (David Fincher)
The Pianist (Roman Polasnki)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Russkiy kovcheg (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Spider (David Cronenberg)
Sud sanaeha (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
Tasogare Seibei (Yôji Yamada)
Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
La vie nouvelle (Philippe Grandrieux)
Ying xiong  (Zhang Yimou) 

2001

À ma soeur! (Catherine Breillat)
AI: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
Blow (Ted Demme)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
L'emploi du Temps (Laurent Cantet)
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
Kairo (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter)
Mulholland Dr (David Lynch)
No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic)
The Others (Alejandro Amenábar)
La Pianiste (Michael Haneke)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Hayao Miyazaki)
Shrek (Andrew Adamson)
Toutes les Nuits (Eugène Green)
Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
Y tu mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón)

2000

American Psycho (Mary Harron)
Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Cell (Tarsem Singh)
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (Michael Haneke)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
Die innere Sicherheit (Christian Petzold)
Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
Fa yeung nin wa (Wong Kar-Wai)
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
Shilje sanghwang (Kim Ki Duk)
Seom (Kim Ki Duk)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
Yi yi (Edward Yang)
Zhantai (Jia Zhangke)  

1997

Abre los Ojos (Alejandro Amenábar)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Brat (Aleksei Balabanov)
Chun gwong cha sit (Wong Kar-Wai)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
He liu (Tsai Ming-liang)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
Knockin'on Heaven's Door (Tomas Jahn)
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Mat i syn (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Mononoke-hime (Hayao Miyazaki)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Tri istorii (Kira Muratova)
Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo (Manoel de Oliveira)
La Vita è Bella (Roberto Benigni)

1998

The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Dark City (Alex Proyas)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
Festen (Thomas Vinterberg)
The Following (Christopher Nolan)
Khrustalyov, Mashinu! (Aleksei German)
The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie)
Lola Rennt (Tom Tykwer)
Pi (Darren Aronofsky)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata)
Taxi (Gérard Pirès)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir) 

1999

American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
Bleeder (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
Fight Club (David Fincher)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
The Insider (Michael Mann)
The Matrix (Wachowski)
Ôdishon (Takashi Miike)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton)
The Straight Story (David Lynch)
Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)

1996

Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
Crash (David Cronenberg)
Escape from L.A. (John Carpenter)
Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
Pusher (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Scream (Wes Craven)
Tesis (Alejandro Amenábar)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle) 

1995

Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
Casino (Martin Scorsese)
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
Desperado (Robert Rodriguez)
The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki)
Duo luo tian shi (Wong Kar-Wai)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
Heat (Michael Mann)
Kôkaku kidôtai (Mamoru Oshii)
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
Mimi wo sumaseba (Yoshifumi Kondô)
Safe (Todd Haynes)
Se7en (David Fincher)
Showgirls (Paul Verhouven)
Toy Story (John Lasseter)
Underground (Emir Kusturica)
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer) 

1992

Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)
Un Coeur en Hiver (Claude Sautet)
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
Lat sau san taam (John Woo)
El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez)
The Player (Robert Altman)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Zendegi va digar hich (Abbas Kiarostami)

1994

Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
Chung Hing sam lam (Wong Kar-Wai)
Clerks (Kevin Smith)
Dellamorte Dellamore (Michele Soavi)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
Giorgino (Laurent Boutonnat)
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Hudsucker Proxy (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Huozhe (Zhang Yimou)
Léon (Luc Besson)
Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
Trois couleurs: Rouge (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
 Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)

1993

Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)
Mùi du du xanh (Anh Hung Tran)
Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
Trois couleurs: Bleu (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

1991

Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
Da hong deng long gao gao gua (Zhang Yimou)
La Double vie de Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Europa (Lars von Trier)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron) 

1990

A Fei jingjyuhn (Wong Kar-Wai)
Astenicheskiy sindrom (Kira Muratova)
Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
King of New York (Abel Ferrara)
Miami Blues (George Armitage)
Miller's Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Palach (Viktor Sergeyev)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch) 

1988

Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
Hotaru no haka (Isao Takahata)
Kárhozat (Béla Tarr)
Krótki film o milosci (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Krótki film o zabijaniu (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Malenkaya Vera (Vasili Pichul)
Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
Spoorloos (George Sluizer)
They Live (John Carpenter)
Tonari no Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Topio stin omichli (Theodoros Angelopoulos)  

1989

Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
Kukolka (Isaak Fridberg)
Little Mermaid (Ron Clements)
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
Sweetie (Jane Campion)
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner) 

1986

Aliens (James Cameron)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
The Fly (David Cronenberg)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
Kong bu fen zi (Edward Yang)
Offret (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Platoon (Oliver Stone)