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This site was created to fulfill a personal objective: keeping track of movies to catch up on in a given year. As a guide, I combined the annual best-of lists from four publications for a rough enumeration of each year's notable films.

Three of these publications — Cinema Scope, Film Comment, and Sight & Sound — poll many critics to determine their rankings. The New York Times is represented by its chief critics, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott. Some lists are quite lengthy and entail myriad runners up, so are abridged to only the top choices. I’ve noted if each film was included in select film festivals: Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, New York, Rotterdam, Sundance, Telluride, Toronto, and Venice.