NB Top ten favourite new films are listed in a different colour font. Films I consider to be masterpieces have the letter M written after the title in red.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (US)
War Horse
The Artist M
The Shining (1980)
The Descendants
Carnage
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Woman in Black
Michael (Germany)
Zero Hour (Venezuela)
Chronicle
The Hunt (Spain) (1966)
The Last Circus (Spain)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Turkey)
Carancho (Spain)
The Hunger Games
Into The Abyss (Documentary)
Headhunters (Norway)
Coriolanus
L’Atalante (1934)
Cabin in the Woods
Damsels in Distress
Avengers Assemble
Ordet (Denmark) (1955) M
The Raid (Indonesia)
Juan of the Dead (Cuba)
La Grande Illusion (1937) M
Prometheus
The Dictator
Cosmopolis
Snow White and the Huntsman
The Five Year Engagement
The Dark Knight Rises
Nostalgia for the Light (Documentary) (Chile)
Jackpot (Sweden)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) M
Shadow Dancer
The Impostor (Documentary)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Berberian Sound Studio
To Rome With Love
Killing Them Softly
Looper
Holy Motors (France)
Death Watch (France)
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rust and Bones (France)
The Shining – Extended Cut
Room 273 (Documentary)
Red Desert (Italy) (1965)
Amour (France)
The Master
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) M
Argo
Sightseers
The Hunt (Denmark)
I am amazed you don’t consider The Shining a masterpiece. It is my all time favourite horror film.
I thought you would pick up on that, I was just being controversial. On another day I would probably consider it a masterpiece.