1. The Campus Corpse* (Curtis) – C-
2. The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant* (Finn)
3. Heat (Mann) – A
4. The Most Popular Things in the World to Do* (Higgins)
5. Kitâb al-Isfâr: The Book of the Journey* (Hillman)
6. Topology of Sirens* (Davies)
7. Her Name Was Europa* (Dornieden/Monroy)
8. Bloodshot Heart* (Malfitano)
9. Patching Topias* (Deltrieux)
10. Skagit* (Thompson)

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Most of the titles on this list are submissions that I previewed for an upcoming film festival and I’m therefore not assigning them letter grades. I have made no secret of my fondness for Topology of Sirens, however, a film I consider to be one of the year’s best. You can read my review at Letterboxd here.

1. Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind* (Lacy) – B+
2. Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President* (Wharton) – B
3. Mr. Klein* (Losey) – A
4. Odds Against Tomorrow* (Wise) – A-
5. The Lady Eve (Sturges) – A+
6. Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami) – A+
7. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen/Coen) – A-
8. I’m Not There (Haynes) – B
9. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Scorsese) – A+
10. Gun Crazy (Lewis) – A

1. Tesla* (Almereyda) – A-
2. Nausicaa* (Varda) – I’m unable to give this a rating as it was reconstructed from a battered workprint and therefore incomplete. But, like all of Agnes Varda’s films, it is worth seeing.
3. The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later* (Varda) B+
4. Jacquot de Nantes* (Varda) – A-
5. Kung-Fu Master!* (Varda) – A
6. Jane B. par Agnes V.* (Varda) – B
7. Les Creatures* (Varda) – B+
8. Relic* (James) – B
9. Daguerreotypes* (Varda) – A
10. The Narrow Margin* (Fleischer) – A-

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1. La Pointe Court (Varda) – A-
2. The Cameraman (Keaton/Sedgwick) – A
3. Mur Murs (Varda) – A
4. Clash By Night (Lang) – A
5. She Dies Tomorrow* (Seimetz) – A-
6. Now and Then* – (Glatter) – C+
7. Good Time (Safdie/Safdie) – A-
8. The Sun Shines Bright (Ford) – A+
9. Days of Heaven (Malick) – A
10. Breathless (Godard) – A

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1. Wagon Master (Ford) – A+
2. Carmen Jones* (Preminger) – A-
3. Rear Window (Hitchcock) – A+
4. Bunny Lake is Missing* (Preminger) – A-
5. Straight Shooting (Ford) – B+
6. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) – A
7. Bad Day at Black Rock* (Sturges) – A-
8. Da Big Zip* (Alonzo) – B
9. Color Out of Space* (Stanley) – C+
10. Vertigo (Hitchcock) – A+

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1. Devil in a Blue Dress (Franklin) – A
2. The Awful Truth (McCarey) – A+
3. Hardly Working* (Lewis) – A-
4. Secret Honor* (Altman) – B
5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets* (Ross/Ross) – A-
6. My Own Love Song* (Dahan) – D-
7. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene) – A+
8. Sherlock Jr. (Keaton) – A+
9. Mrs. Miniver (Wyler) – B-
10. Best in Show* (Guest) – C

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1. Sabrina* (Pollack) – C-
2. The Heiress* (Wyler) – A+
3. The Connection* (Clarke) – B-
4. Polyester* (Waters) – B
5. Rocky (Avildsen) – B+
6. The Barefoot Contessa (Mankiewicz) – A
7. M* (Losey) – B
8. Hill of Freedom* (Hong) – A-
9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always* (Hittman) – B+
10. Yourself and Yours* (Hong) – A-

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1. Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger) – A+
2. Stuffed* (Derham) – C+
3. Queen of Lapa* (Collatos) – B+
4. Da 5 Bloods* (Lee) – B-
5. Shirley* (Decker) – C+
6. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean* (Altman) – B+
7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper) – A-
8. The Long Gray Line (Ford) – A+
9. Gosford Park (Altman) – A
10. Tommaso* (Ferrara) – A-

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1. The Big Heat (Lang) – A+
2. Easy Money (Signorelli) – B+
3. Midsommar* (Aster) – C-
4. Tales From the Crypt* (Francis) – B
5. Summer of 84* (Simard/Whissell/Whissell) – D+
6. Fly Away Home* (Ballard) – B
7. The Cool World* (Clarke) – B+
8. Human Desire* (Lang) – A
9. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice* (Mazursky) – B
10. Model Shop* (Demy) – A-

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1. Twilight Zone: The Movie (Landis/Spielberg/Dante/Miller) – C
2. The Last Hurrah (Ford) – A-
3. The Long Gray Line (Ford) – A+
4. Gideon’s Day (Ford) – A
5. The Whole Town’s Talking (Ford) – A-
6. The Return of the Living Dead* (O’Bannon) – B-
7. Fourteen* (Sallitt) – B+
8. The Lineup* (Siegel) – A-
9. Day of the Dead (Romero) – B+
10. Lion’s Love (…and Lies)* (Varda) – A-

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