Year Lists II

2026 Wes's Movie List

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2026 Val's Movie List

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2026 Looking Forward To These Movies

1. Werwulf (Robert Eggers)
2. Digger (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
3. Dune: Part Three (Denis Villeneuve)
4. The Adventures of Cliff Booth (David Fincher)
5. Paper Tiger (James Gray) A bruising crime drama about two brothers chasing the American Dream and colliding with the Russian mafia.
6. The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli) The film centers on a couple’s relationship, which is deeply shaken, just days before their wedding, when one partner discovers unsettling truths about the other
7. Behemoth! (Tony Gilroy) The film has been described as a character-driven piece about a musician and film composer from a musical family who returns to Los Angeles after several years in self-imposed exile.
8. The Bride! (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
9. Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg)
10. Wuthering Heights (Emerald Fennel)
11. Jack of Spades (Joel Coen) A 19th-century Scottish gothic mystery starring Josh O’Connor, Frances McDormand, Lesley Manville, and Damian Lewis.
12. Wild Horse Nine (Martin McDonagh) A 1973-set drama-thriller reportedly unfolding in Santiago during Chile’s infamous military coup. Starring Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich, Parker Posey, Steve Buscemi, Mariana di Girolamo, Tom Waits, Ailín Salas, Paola Giannini, and Samuel Wayt, the film is rumored to follow a team of CIA operatives whose trust fractures during a tense mission that drags them from a destabilized capital to the isolation of Easter Island.
13. Soudain (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) The film stars Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”) as a French nursing-home director and Tao Okamoto (“The Wolverine”) as a Japanese theater director, tracing the bond that forms between them as their conversations turn toward illness and death. It’s Hamaguchi in pure dialogue-and-emotion mode—human connection under pressure, intimacy as the drama engine—transplanted to a new city and language register.
14. Hope (Na Hong-jin) Na Hong-jin's latest is a science fiction thriller about a mysterious discovery in a remote harbor town that leads to a fight for survival (which started as a collaboration with Alfonso Cuarón).
15. Sheep in the Box (Hirokazu Kore-eda) In “Sheep in the Box,” a near-future drama, a couple takes a state-of-the-art humanoid into their home as their son, blurring the line between programmed behavior and genuine love. Haruka Ayase and Daigo star in what is Kore-eda’s most overtly science-fiction project since “Air Doll,” while remaining rooted in his intimate observations of family and personhood.
16. Look Back (Hirokazu Kore-eda) He’s also behind “Look Back,” a live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga, which follows two young women whose bond forms through making comics and evolves across years of quiet growth and loss. Together, they suggest a filmmaker expanding his emotional vocabulary without abandoning restraint.
17. Hot Spot (Agnieszka Smoczynska) Set in a near-future society ruled by sentient A.I., the film centers on a private investigator who uncovers a rebel group capable of hacking the omnipresent system while probing a ritual murder at a refugee camp. As he’s drawn to a mysterious witch with the power to subvert the digital overlord, his investigation begins to endanger everyone close to him.
18. Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong) The story follows the intertwined lives of two married couples who lead completely opposite lives; when their worlds collide, fractures begin to spread through their day-to-day existence.
19. Teenage Sex and Death At Camp Miasma (Jane Schoenbrun) Hannah Einbinder stars as a filmmaker hired to revive a long-dormant slasher franchise, only to become fixated on the reclusive actress—played by Gillian Anderson—who once portrayed its original final girl. As the two collaborate, their relationship spirals into psychosexual mania, turning the filmmaking process itself into a fever dream of projection and possession.
20. Fjord (Christian Mungiu) The film follows a Romanian father and a Norwegian mother who move with their children to her remote coastal hometown, only to find themselves subjected to suspicion, investigation, and the harsh scrutiny of a small community’s judicial system.
21. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta)
22. Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller)
23. Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodovar) The film follows an advertising director who, reeling from her mother’s death over a long December weekend, suffers a breakdown that sends her spiraling into a hallucinatory confrontation with her past.
24. Whitney Springs (Trey Parker) The film reportedly follows a young Black man interning as a slave reenactor who learns that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his—a premise brimming with the volatile humor and social provocation that define Parker’s work.
25. The Entertainment System Is Down (Ruben Ostlund)
26. At The Sea (Kornel Mundruczo) Starring Amy Adams, Mundruczó’s latest is a post-rehab drama in which a woman returns to her family’s beach house and attempts to figure out her identity as she navigates the next steps in life.
27. Mother Mary (David Lowery) This one is a melodrama about the relationship between a fictional musician and a famous fashion designer. Anne Hathaway is the pop star, and Michaela Coel plays the designer.
28. Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog) A drama starring Kate Mara and Rooney Mara as twin sisters Jean and Joan Holbrooke, joined by Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson. Written by Herzog, the film follows the twins’ quixotic quest for an imagined land of true love, which leads them to start tunneling through a mountain range.
29. A Place in Hell (Chloe Domont) A legal thriller led by Michelle Williams, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Andrew Scott. The film tracks a star defense attorney whose gift for protecting the guilty begins to corrode her world from the inside out.
30. Alpha Gang (David and Nathan Zellner) A retro-futurist sci-fi comedy about a squad of aliens sent to conquer Earth—only to be undone by humanity’s most destabilizing force: emotion
31. Out of This World (Albert Serra) The film centers on an American delegation sent to Russia amid escalating tensions, where diplomacy curdles into paranoia, desire, and moral decay.
32. Misty Green (Chris Rock) A drama about a talented actress grappling with addiction and the chance to rebuild her career after an earlier breakdown.
33. Onslaught (Adam Wingard) The story follows a mother in a trailer park who uses her hidden skills to protect her family after a threat escapes a secret military base.
34. Sweetsick (Alice Birch) Follows a woman whose strange gift—seeing what others most desperately need—drives her toward transcendence and destruction.
35. Flowervale Street (David Robert Mitchell) Set in suburban America in the 1980s, the film centers on a family drawn into a strange, escalating situation that disrupts their seemingly ordinary neighborhood, with plot details otherwise tightly under wraps.
36. A Long Winter (Andrew Haigh) Set in a remote mountain region, it kicks off when a mother storms out with the family dog after a blowout and disappears as a blizzard rolls in, forcing her husband and teenage son into a desperate community search as the weather and long-simmering tensions close in.
37. Cut Off (Jonah Hill) Jonah Hill directs and stars in “Cut Off,” a sharp, character-driven comedy about two spoiled siblings forced to grow up after their parents pull the plug on their fortune.
38. Outcome (Jonah Hill) A damaged Hollywood star trying to outrun his past is exactly the kind of part people have quietly wished Keanu Reeves would tackle, and this is exactly that.
39. Parallel Tales (Asghar Farhadi) Plot TBA
40. I Love Boosters (Boots Riley) The story follows the Velvet Gang, a crew of young shoplifters whose latest target is a ruthless CEO of a designer brand.
41. Other Mommy (Rob Savage) It stars Jessica Chastain, Jay Duplass, Dichen Lachman, Sean Kaufman, and Karen Allen. Returning to the realm of domestic dread, Savage blends psychological unease with supernatural tension in what’s described as a family horror centered on possession and identity.
42. How To Rob A Bank (David Leitch) The film follows a disillusioned man who plans an elaborate heist against the corrupt financial system that ruined his life. Blending Leitch’s trademark precision stuntwork with sly social commentary, it promises a muscular mix of tension, absurdity, and dark humor.
43. Famous (Jody Hill) The film follows “Lance” Blue Dunkquist, a man who looks exactly like Oscar-winning movie star James Jansen and decides to steal his life and identity, leading to surreal and terrifying lengths as he blurs the line between imitation and reality.
44. Cry to Heaven (Tom Ford) A lavish adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel about castrati and revenge in 18th-century Italy. Ford writes, directs, and produces, following Tonio Treschi, a Venetian nobleman mutilated and exiled, and Guido Maffeo, the maestro castrato who mentors him in the world of opera and plots of retribution.
45. Wizards! (David Michod) A long-delayed stoner-noir comedy starring Pete Davidson, Franz Rogowski, Naomi Scott, Sean Harris, and Orlando Bloom. Co-written with Joel Edgerton, the film follows two hapless bar owners whose tropical slacker life implodes after they stumble onto stolen treasure.
46. The Basics of Philosophy (Paul Schrader) A drama that centers on a repressed philosophy professor (Jack Huston) whose father’s death sends him careening into the past. Grappling with lingering guilt over a decision from his past, the victim suddenly returns into his life. The supporting cast includes Sofia Boutella, Dana Delany, Bill Pullman, Karl Glusman, Shiloh Fernandez, and Daniel Zovatto, circling the professor as colleagues, former lovers, and emotional counterweights.
47. Zi (Kogonada) A Hong Kong-set drama that centers on a young woman haunted by visions of her future self, who meets a stranger who changes the course of her night — and possibly her life.
48. The Dog Stars (Ridley Scott) The film stars Jacob Elordi as Hig, with Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce, and Benedict Wong. After a flu pandemic decimates civilization, a civilian pilot and his armed companion protect a remote airfield until a faint signal hints at life beyond their outpost, pushing them into hostile terrain and moral crossroads.
49. Ray Gunn (Brad Bird) The film features voice work from Sam Rockwell as Raymond Gunn, alongside Scarlett Johansson, Jamie Costa, and John Ratzenberger. An animated neo-noir sci-fi action comedy.
50. Toy Story 5 (Andrew Stanton) Returning voices include Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Tony Hale, Blake Clark, John Ratzenberger, and Melissa Villaseñor, while newcomers Anna Faris, Ernie Hudson, Conan O’Brien, and Greta Lee join the playroom. Set after “Toy Story 4,” the sequel finds Jessie leading Bonnie’s room as a new favorite—a frog-like smart tablet called Lilypad—that turns playtime into a clash between classic toys and seductive tech, leaning into Stanton’s idea that “nobody’s playing with toys anymore”.

Jan

16: Bone Temple

Feb

13: Wuthering Heights

March

6: The Bride!

20: Project Hail Mary

20: Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad)

20: Whitney Springs

20: Mother Mary

27: Dog Stars

April

3: The Drama

May

22: I Love Boosters

June

12: Disclosure Day

19: Toy Story 5

July

17: Cut Off

Aug

14: Flowervale Street

Sept

4: How to Rob a Bank

Oct

2: Digger

9: Other Mommy

Nov

Dec

18: Dune Part 3

25: Werwulf

No Dates Yet
Adventures of Cliff Booth

Paper Tiger

Behemoth!

Jack of Spades

Wild Horse Nine

Soudain

Hope

Sheep in the Box

Look Back

Hot Spot

Possible Love

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Fjord

Entertainment System Is Down

At the Sea

Bucking Fastard

Place In Hell

Alpha Gang

Out of this World

Misty Green

Onslaught

Sweetsick

A Long Winter

Outcome

Parallel Tales

Famous

Cry to Heaven

Wizards!

Basics of Philosophy

Zi

Ray Gunn

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2025 Wes's Movie List

1. One Battle After Another (PTA) A

2. Warfare (Alex Garland) A

3. Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) A

4. Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay) A

5. Train Dreams (Clint Bently) A

6. Americana (Tony Tost) A

7. Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach) A-

8. The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson) A-

9. Hamnet (Chloe Zhao) A-

10. Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson) A- 

Honorable Mentions: Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky), Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos), Eddington (Ari Aster), Predator: Badlands (Dan Trachtenberg), Weapons (Zach Cregger), Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)

2025 Wes's TV List

1. Asura (Hirokazu Koreeda) A

2. Task (Brad Ingelsby) A

3. White Lotus (Mike White) A

4. Last of Us (Craig Mazin) B+

5. Dept Q (Scott Frank) B+

6. Death By Lightning (Netflix) B+

7. Severance (Dan Erickson) B+

8. Stranger Things (Duffer Bros) B+

2025 Val's Movie List

1. One Battle After Another (PTA) A

2. Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) A

3. Train Dreams (Clint Bently) A

4. Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay) A-

5. Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos) A-

6. Hamnet (Chloe Zhao) A-

7. Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach) A-

8. Americana (Tony Tost) A-

9. The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson) A-

10. Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro) A-

Honorable Mentions: Eddington (Ari Aster), Honey Don't (Ethan Coen), Warfare (Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland), Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson), Caught Stealing (Darron Arronofsky), Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-Ho), Weapons (Zach Cregger), 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle) 

2025 Val's TV List

1. Asura (Hirokazu Koreeda) A

2. Task (Brad Ingelsby) A

3. White Lotus (Mike White) A-

4. Last of Us (Craig Mazin) B+

5. Dept Q (Scott Frank) B+

6. Death By Lightning (Netflix) B+

7. Severance (Dan Erickson) B+

2025 Still Looking Forward To These Movies:

1. Resurrection (Bi Gan) 

2. Secret Agent (Kleber Medonca Filho) 

3. Father, Mother, Sister, Brother (Jim Jarmusch)

4. Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)

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2024 (Wes)

1. Nosferatu (Robert Eggers) A

2. Civil War (Alex Garland) A 

3. Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) A

4. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun) A

5. The Substance (Coralie Faraget) A

6. Furiosa (George Miller) A-

7. Dune: Part 2 (Denis Villeneuve) A-

8. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass) A-

9. Drive Away Dolls (Ethan Coen) A-

10. The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodovar) A-

Honorable Mentions:

Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos)

2024 (Val)

1. Nosferatu (Robert Eggers) A

2. The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodovar) A

3. Civil War (Alex Garland) A

4. Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) A

5. Dune: Part 2 (Denis Villeneuve) A-

6. Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos) A-

7. Furiosa (George Miller) A-

8. The Substance (Coralie Faraget) A-

9. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun) A-

10. Drive Away Dolls (Ethan Coen) B+

Honorable Mentions:

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2023(W; true)

1. May/December Todd Haynes A

2. Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer A

3. Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet A

4. Past Lives Celine Song A

5. Poor Things Yorgos Lanthimos A

6. The Boy and the Heron Hayao Miyazaki A

7. Perfect Days Wim Wenders A

8. All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh A

9. Barbie by Greta Gerwig A-

10. Asteroid City & Roald Dahl Shorts by Wes Anderson A-

2023(V; true)

1. Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer A

2. Perfect Days Wim Wenders A

3. Poor Things (Lanthimos) A

4. Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet A

5. Past Lives Celine Song A-

6. All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh A-

7. May/December Todd Haynes A-

8. Barbie by Greta Gerwig A-

9. The Boy and the Heron Hayao Miyazaki A-

10. Asteroid City by Wes Anderson A-

2023 Still Looking Forward To:

Killers of the Flower Moon (Scorsese)

Showing Up (Reichardt)

American Fiction (Jefferson)

The Promised Land (Arcel)

A Fire (Petzold)

Bottoms (Seligman)

Passages (Sachs)

Incredible but True (Dupieux)

Teacher's Lounge (Catak)

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2022(W; true Film)

1. "TAR" Todd Field A 

2. "Bardo" Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu A

3. "The Banshees of Inisherin" Martin McDonagh A

4. "The Whale" Darren Aronofsky A

5. "Men" Alex Garland A

6. "The Worst Person In the World" Joachim Trier A

7. "Top Gun: Maverick" Joseph Kosinski A

8. "Glass Onion" Rian Johnson A

9. "Armageddon Time" James Gray A

10. "Decision to Leave" Park Chan-wook A

2022(W; true TV)

1. _We Own This City_ by David Simon

2. _Stranger Things: Season 4_ by Duffer Bros

3. _Big Mouth: Season 6_ by Nick Kroll

4. _Human Resources_ by Nick Kroll

5. _Barry: Season 3_ by Bill Hader

6. _Irma Vep_ by Olivier Assayas
7. _The Expanse: Season 6_ by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby
8. _Ozark: Season 4_ by Bill Dubuque
9. _Crown: Season 5_ by Peter Morgan
10. _Cabinet of Curiosities_ by Guillermo Del Toro

2022(V; true Film)

1. "Bardo" Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu A

2. "TAR" Todd Field A

3. "The Banshees of Inisherin" Martin McDonagh A

4. "Armageddon Time" James Gray A

5. "The Worst Person In the World" Joachim Trier A

6. "The Northman" Robert Eggers A-

7. "The Whale" Darren Aronofsky A-

8. "Women Talking" Sarah Polley A-

9. "White Noise" Noah Baumbach A-

10. "Men" Alex Garland A-

2022(V; true TV)

1. _We Own This City_ by David Simon

2. _Stranger Things: Season 4_ by Duffer Bros

3. _Big Mouth: Season 6_ by Nick Kroll

4. _Ozark: Season 4_ by Bill Dubuque

5. _Barry: Season 3_ by Bill Hader

6. _The Expanse: Season 6_ by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby

7. _Irma Vep_ by Olivier Assayas

8. _Human Resources_ by Nick Kroll

9. _Crown: Season 5_ by Peter Morgan
10. _Cabinet of Curiosities_ by Guillermo Del Toro

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2021(W; true Film)
1. “The Power Of The Dog” Director: Jane Campion A

2. “Spencer” Director: Pablo Larrain A

3. “Licorice Pizza” Director: Paul Thomas Anderson A

4. “The French Dispatch” Director: Wes Anderson A

5. “Parallel Mothers” Director: Pedro Almodovar A

6. "After Yang" Director: Kogandoa A-

7. “Matrix: Resurrections” Director: Lana Wachowski A-

8. “Last Night in Soho” Director: Edgar Wright A-

9. “The Card Counter” Director: Paul Schrader A-

10. “C’mon C’mon” Director: Mike Mills A-

2021(V; true Film)

1. “Parallel Mothers” Director: Pedro Almodovar A

2. “Spencer” Director: Pablo Larrain A

3. “The French Dispatch” Director: Wes Anderson A

4. “Licorice Pizza” Director: Paul Thomas Anderson A

5. “The Power Of The Dog” Director: Jane Campion A

6. "After Yang" Director: Kogandoa A

7. “Luca” Director: Enrioc Casarosa A
8. “Judas and the Black Messiah” Director: Shaka King A-

9. “C’mon C’mon” Director: Mike Mills A-

10. “The Green Knight” Director: David Lowery A-

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2020(W; truth film)
1. “Nomadland” Director: Chloe Zhao A
2. “First Cow” Director: Kelly Reichardt A-
3. “I’m Thinking Of Ending Things” Director: Charlie Kaufman A-
4. “Small Axe” Director: Steve McQueen A-
5. “Kajillionaire” Director: Miranda July B+
6. “His House” Director: Remy Weekes B+
7. “News of the World” Director: Paul Greengrass B
8. “Mank” Director: David Fincher B
9. “Tenet” Director: Christopher Noland B
10. “Freaky” Director: Christopher Landon B

2020(W; truth tv)
1. I Know This Much is True (HBO)
2. Tales from the Loop (Amazon)
3. Queen's Gambit (Netflix)
4. I May Destroy You (HBO)
5. Big Mouth (Netflix)
6. Stateless (Netflix)
7. Never Have I Ever (Netflix)
8. Perry Mason (HBO)
9. The Plot Against America (HBO)
10. Third Day (HBO)

Honorable Mentions: Unorthodox (Netflix); Schitt's Creek (Netflix); Rick and Morty (Amazon); The Crown (Netflix); Raised By Wolves (HBO Max)

2020(V; truth film)
1. “His House” Director: Remy Weekes A-
2. “Nomadland” Director: Chloe Zhao A-
3. “Small Axe” Director: Steve McQueen A-
4. “First Cow” Director: Kelly Reichardt A-
5. “Mank” Director: David Fincher B+
6. “Kajillionaire” Director: Miranda July B
7. “I’m Thinking Of Ending Things” Director: Charlie Kaufman B
7. “News of the World” Director: Paul Greengrass B
9. “Tenet” Director: Christopher Noland B
10. “Freaky” Director: Christopher Landon B

2020(V; truth tv)
1. I May Destroy You (HBO)
2. I Know This Much is True (HBO)
3. Big Mouth (Netflix)
4. Schitt's Creek (Netflix)
5. Unorthodox (Netflix)
6. Tales from the Loop (Amazon)
7. Queen's Gambit (Netflix)
8. Third Day (HBO)
9. Stateless (Netflix)
10. The Crown (Netflix)

Honorable Mentions: Perry Mason (HBO); The Plot Against America (HBO); Raised By Wolves (HBO Max); Never Have I Ever (Netflix); Rick and Morty (Amazon)