Since my last update, the end of 2023 came and went. I nominated a bunch of movies for the Endy Awards, and listed my favorite Film Discoveries and Books of the past year. I submitted a list to the annual Sense of Cinema World Poll and wrote about Rocky aur Rani for InReview Online’s end of the year list. And I wrote about Ozu Yasujiro’s A Hen in the Wind for Criterion.

Over at The Chinese Cinema, I wrote about Where the Wind Blows, Silent Night, Raid on the Lethal Zone and Moscow Mission, All Ears, Last Hero in China, I Did It My Way, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

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These are the movies I’ve watched and rewatched over the last few months, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

Godzilla (Honda Ishiro) – 9, 1954
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez) – 3, 1965
Don’t Look Back (DA Pennebaker) – 4, 1967
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Bill Melendez & Phil Roman) – 38, 1973

Mad Max (George Miller) – 22, 1979
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller) – 6, 1981
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Obayashi Nobuhiko) – 5, 1983
Gremlins (Joe Dante) – 7, 1984
This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner) – 12, 1984

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller & George Ogilve) – 32, 1985
The Magic Crystal (Wong Jing) – 58, 1986
A Muppet Family Christmas (Eric Till & Peter Harris) – 67, 1987
Scrooged (Richard Donner) – 56, 1988
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Chris Columbus) – 80, 1992

Last Hero in China (Wong Jing) – 37, 1993
From Beijing with Love (Stephen Chow & Lee Lik-chi) – 20, 1994
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan) – 2, 1997
Sideways (Alexander Payne) – 20, 2004
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) – 3, 2009

Skyline (Colin & Greg Strouse) – 67, 2010
The Muppets (James Bobin) – 41, 2011
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) – 2, 2015
One Shot (James Nunn) – 24, 2021
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Swinton O. Scott III) – 82, 2021

Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) – 1, 2022
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella) – 6, 2022
Where the Wind Blows (Philip Yung) – 37, 2022
Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman (Yang Bingjia) – 56, 2022

Bad City (Sonomura Kensuke) – 57, 2022
Death on the Nile (Kenneth Branagh) – 81, 2022
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules (Luke Cormican) – 94, 2022

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Karan Johar) – 1, 2023
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) – 4, 2023
Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki Takashi) – 5, 2023
The Taste of Things (Trần Anh Hùng) – 6, 2023
Afire (Christian Petzold) – 7, 2023

Jigarthanda DoubleX (Karthik Subbaraj) – 8, 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) – 10, 2023
The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki Hayao) – 12, 2023
Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman) – 14, 2023
Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismaki) – 15, 2023

Jawan (Atlee) – 16, 2023
All Ears (Liu Jiayin) – 19, 2023
Ferrari (Michael Mann) – 26, 2023
May December (Todd Haynes) – 28, 2023
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 30, 2023

Perfect Days (Wim Wenders) – 32, 023
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Kelly Fremon Craig) – 37, 2023
Ballerina (Lee Chung-hyeon) – 38, 2023
Leo (Lokesh Kanagaraj) – 41, 2023
The Holdovers (Alexander Payne) – 42, 2023

Pathaan (Siddharth Anand) – 45, 2023
Silent Night (John Woo) – 47, 2023
A Haunting in Venice (Kenneth Branagh) – 49, 2023
Napoleon (Ridley Scott) – 50, 2023
Eileen (William Oldroyd) – 52, 2023

The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) – 56, 2023
Moscow Mission (Herman Yau) – 57, 2023
No Hard Feelings (Gene Stupnitsky) – 58, 2023
I Did It My Way (Jason Kwan) – 68, 2023

Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (Rob Reiner) – 69, 2023
Maestro (Bradley Cooper) – 71, 2023
The Pigeon Tunnel (Errol Morris) – 72, 2023
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever (Luke Cormican) – 81, 2023

One More Shot (James Nunn) – 2024