The Best Movies We Saw for the First Time This Year

I always do best movies I saw for the first time lists at the end of every month. Since some people like to do their own lists too (and because if I just did an entire post devoted to myself, it’d be narcissistic as fuck), I thought it would be fun to see what everyone here’s favorite movies we saw for the first time this past year.

[spoiler title=’My list’]100.) Faces Places directed by JR and Agnes Varda, 2017

99.) Act of Violence directed by Fred Zinnemann, 1949

98.) My Childhood directed by Bill Douglas, 1972

97.) A Ghost Story directed by David Lowery, 2017

96.) Vanishing Point directed by Richard C. Sarafian, 1971

95.) La Marseillaise directed by Jean Renoir, 1938

94.) Lost, Lost, Lost directed by Jonas Mekas, 1976

93.) Unsane directed by Steven Soderbergh, 2018

92.) The Friends of Eddie Coyle directed by Peter Yates, 1973

91.) Creed II directed by Steven Caple Jr., 2018

90.) Black Dynamite directed by Scott Sanders, 2009

89.) The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz directed by Luis Bunuel, 1955

88.) The Dressmaker directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, 2015

87.) Isle of Dogs directed by Wes Anderson, 2018

86.) Ant-Man and the Wasp directed by Peyton Reed, 2018

85.) Searching directed by Aneesh Chaganty, 2018

84.) Incredibles 2 directed by Brad Bird, 2018

83.) Suspiria directed by Luca Guadagnino, 2018

82.) Thoroughbreds directed by Cory Finley, 2017

81.) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2018

80.) BlacKkKlansman directed by Spike Lee, 2018

79.) The Favourite directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018

78.) The Yakuza directed by Sydney Pollack, 1974

77.) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman, 2018

76.) Sorry to Bother You directed by Boots Riley, 2018

75.) Revenge directed by Coralie Fargeat, 2017

74.) Mission: Impossible-Fallout directed by Christopher McQuarrie, 2018

73.) The Sun Shines Bright directed by John Ford, 1953

72.) Won’t You Be My Neighbor? directed by Morgan Neville, 2018

71.) A Quiet Place directed by John Krasinski, 2018

70.) Moi, un Noir directed by Jean Rouch, 1958

69.) Crazy Rich Asians directed by Jon M. Chu, 2018

68.) The Draughtsman’s Contract directed by Peter Greenaway, 1982

67.) Hereditary directed by Ari Astor, 2018

66.) First Man directed by Damian Chazelle, 2018

65.) Coco directed by Lee Unkrich, 2017

64.) Widows directed by Steve McQueen, 2018

63.) Roma directed by Alfonso Cuaron, 2018

62.) A Star Is Born directed by Bradley Cooper, 2018

61.) Mistress America directed by Noah Baumbach, 2015

60.) You Were Never Really Here directed by Lynne Ramsay, 2017

59.) The Wind Rises directed by Hayao Miyazaki, 2013

58.) Morvern Callar directed by Lynne Ramsay, 2002

57.) The Devil Rides Out directed by Terence Fisher, 1968

56.) Paddington 2 directed by Paul King, 2017

55.) …All the Marbles directed by Robert Aldrich, 1981

54.) Phantom directed by F.W. Murnau, 1922

53.) The Reckless Moment directed by Max Ophuls, 1949

52.) The Joy Luck Club directed by Wayne Wang, 1993

51.) Phantom Thread directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017

50.) Avengers: Infinity War directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2018

49.) Anatahan directed by Josef von Sternberg, 1953

48.) Toni directed by Jean Renoir, 1935

47.) True Stories directed by David Byrne, 1986

46.) Twenty Years Later directed by Eduardo Coutinho, 1984

45.) Angel directed by Ernst Lubitsch, 1937

44.) I Am Not Your Negro directed by Raoul Peck, 2016

43.) L’enfant directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 2005

42.) Eighth Grade directed by Bo Burnham, 2018

41.) Fireworks directed by Takeshi Kitano, 1997

40.) Deep End directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970

39.) Leave No Trace directed by Debra Granik, 2018

38.) The Housemaid directed by Kim Ki-young, 1960

37.) Kings of the Road directed by Wim Wenders, 1976

36.) Quince Tree of the Sun directed by Victor Erice, 1992

35.) Black Panther directed by Ryan Coogler, 2018

34.) The Hour of the Furnaces directed by Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanos, 1968

33.) The Post directed by Steven Spielberg, 2017

32.) Call Me by Your Name directed by Luca Guadagnino, 2017

31.) Je T’aime, Je T’aime directed by Alan Resnais, 1968

30.) The Swimmer directed by Frank Perry, 1968

29.) Oedipus Rex directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967

28.) The Emigrants directed by Jan Troell, 1971

27.) Kuroneko directed by Kaneto Shindo, 1968

26.) The Train directed by John Frankenheimer, 1964

25.) Letter from Siberia directed by Chris Marker, 1957

24.) No End directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1985

23.) Funeral Parade of Roses directed by Toshio Matsumoto, 1969

22.) Johnny Got His Gun directed by Dalton Trumbo, 1971

21.) Shame directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1968

20.) Placido directed by Luis Garcia Berlanga, 1961

19.) The Duellists directed by Ridley Scott, 1977

18.) Land of Silence and Darkness directed by Werner Herzog, 1971

17.) A Page of Madness directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926

16.) Pixote directed by Hector Babenco, 1981

15.) War and Peace directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, 1968

14.) Bienvenido Mister Marshall directed by Luis Garcia Berlanga, 1953

13.) New York, New York directed by Martin Scorsese, 1977

12.) Diary of a Lost Girl directed by G.W. Pabst, 1929

11.) Annihilation directed by Alex Garland, 2018

10.) The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro, 2017

9.) Ludwig directed by Luchino Visconti, 1973

8.) Taipei Story directed by Edward Yang, 1985

7.) A City of Sadness directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989

6.) Dragon Inn directed by King Hu, 1967

5.) Waltz with Bashir directed by Ari Folman, 2008

4.) Nosferatu the Vampyre directed by Werner Herzog, 1979

3.) Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks directed by Wang Bing, 2002

2.) The Devils directed by Ken Russell, 1971

1.) Greed directed by Erich von Stroheim, 1924

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What were your favorites?