David Davidson
- Matt and Bird Break Loose (Matt Johnson) and The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson)
- Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
- Tralala (Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu)
- The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson), The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes), Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
- Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette) and Night Raiders (Danis Goulet)
- Ville Neuve (Félix Dufour-Laperrière)
- West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
- Eternals (Chloé Zhao)
- Jeff, How Elon Met Grimes, oh no! and Tom (shy kids)
+ Three local short films: Cafard (Alfio Foti), Richard and Mary (Emily Lawson), We Need To Talk About #TheVaccine (Adrian Patterson).
***
Candice Davidson
- Old (M. Night Shyamalan)
- Madres paralelas (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Night Raiders (Danis Goulet)
- Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
- West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
- The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson)
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
- Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
- The Hidden Life of Trees (Jörg Adolph, Jan Haft)
- Doug Ford’s Fresh Egg Sandwiches presser
***
Nick Little
- Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro)
- Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts)
- The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
- Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
- No Time to Die (Cary J. Fukunaga)
- West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
- The Green Knight (David Lowery)
- Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard)
- Army of Thieves (Matthias Schweighöfer)
- The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Jason Reitman)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen)
- Halloween Kills (David Gordon Green)
- Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Zack Snyder)
- The Tomorrow War (Chris McKay)
- Cherry (Anthony and Joe Russo)
- The Suicide Squad (James Gunn)
- A Quiet Place Part II (John Krasinski)
***
Megan Widawski
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts)
- West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
- Our Friend (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
- The Little Things (John Lee Hancock)
- Palmer (Fisher Stevens)
- I Care a Lot (J Blakeson)
- Cruella (Craig Gillespie)
- Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay)
- tick, tick… BOOM! (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
- Dear Evan Hansen (Stephen Chbosky)
***
Gaspard Nectoux
1. Introduction + In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Vas-tu renoncer ? (Pascale Bodet)
4. Tralala (Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu)
5. Drive My Car + Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
6. Poet (Darezhan Omirbayev)
7. Onoda (Arthur Harari)
8. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
9. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
10. Picasso in Vallauris (Peter Nestler)
+ Bits and Pieces: the « May We Start » scene in Annette (Leos Carax), the « Goodbye First Love, Pt. 2 » scenes in Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve) and the « Visions » scenes in Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven).
+ « Ce que tu aimes bien demeure », the last regular issue of Trafic (1991-2021).
***
Nicolas Rioult
1. The scary of sixty-first (Dasha Nekrasova)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Annette (Leos Carax) and No Time to Die (Cary J. Fukunaga)
4. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
5. The Wheel of Life (King Hu, Lee Hsing, Pai Ching-Jui, 1983)
6. Nous (Alice Diop)
7. Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins)
8. Midnight Mass (Mike Flanagan)
9. Siberia (Abel Ferrara)
10. House of Gucci (Ridley Scott)
Also: Seize printemps (Suzanne Lindon), Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood), After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley, 1990), Eternals (Chloé Zhao), Gagarine (Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh), Spectre: Sanity, Madness and the Family (Jean-Baptiste de Laubier), Fou de Bassan (Yann Gonzalez), Malignant (James Wan), Halloween Kills (David Gordon Green)...
***
Jordan Cronk
- Annette (Leos Carax)
- Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
- Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
- The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
- Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
- Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
- France (Bruno Dumont)
- In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
- Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
***
Collin Brinkmann
1. Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
2. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
3. Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Zack Snyder)
4. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara)
5. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
6. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
7. The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
8. Jungle Cruise (Jaume Collet-Serra)
9. Annette (Leos Carax)
10. Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
11. No Time to Die (Cary J. Fukunaga)
12. The History of the Atlanta Falcons (Jon Bois)
13. Old (M. Night Shyamalan)
14. Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
15. A New Year’s Resolution (Lesley Demetriades)
+ a special few from 2020: The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo), Undine (Christian Petzold), The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey (Mark Rappaport), Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu), Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito), The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel).
***
Mark Cira
1. Can’t Get You Out of My Head (Adam Curtis)
2. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro)
4. Annette (Leos Carax)
5. The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson)
6. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
7. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
8. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
9. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
10. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
***
Adrian Patterson
1. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
3. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
4. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
5. Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
6. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen)
7. Malignant (James Wan)
8. Cruella (Craig Gillespie)
9. Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay)
10. Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
***
Marcus Pinn
- The Souvenir: Part II (Joanna Hogg)
- Titane (Julia Ducournau)
- Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
- The Village Detective: a song cycle (Bill Morrison)
- Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
- The Suicide Squad (James Gunn)
- Vacation Friends (Clay Tarver)
- Slow Machine (Paul Felten, Joe DeNardo)
- France (Bruno Dumont)
- One Shot (James Nunn)
***
Ryan Krahn (“New Circle of Cinema”)
1. Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović)
2. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
3. Babi Yar. Context (Sergey Loznitsa)
4. Azor (Andreas Fontana)
5. The Tale of King Crab (Matteo Zoppis, Alessio de Righi)
6. El Planeta (Amalia Ulman)
7. Natural Light (Nagy Dénes)
8. Nitram (Justin Kurzel)
9. Worlds (Isaac Goes)
10. Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
***
Kevin Laforest
1. Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
2. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
3. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
4. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
5. Annette (Leos Carax)
6. The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
7. One Shot (James Nunn)
8. Vortex (Gaspar Noé)
9. tick, tick… BOOM! (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
10. Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
***
Marko Orlic
1. Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić)
2. The Worst Person In The World (Joachim Trier)
3. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
5. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
6. Bo Burnham: Inside (Bo Burnham)
7. Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
8. The Humans (Stephen Karam)
9. Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
10. Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
11. Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise)
12. King Richard (Reinaldo Marcus Green)
13. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
14. The Rescue (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin)
15. Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
Honourable Mentions: Titane (Julia Ducournau), Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman), Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve).
Best Films Not Yet Released: The Kids (Eddie Martin), Benediction (Terence Davies), Magnetic Beats (Vincent Mael Cardona), On The Count Of Three (Jerrod Carmichael) and Hands That Bind (Kyle Armstrong).
***
Gabrielle P. Leith
1. Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić)
2. In the Heights (Jon M. Chu)
3. The Rescue (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin)
4. Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
5. The Kids (Eddie Martin)
6. Framing Britney Spears (Samantha Stark)
7. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
8. Scarbrough (Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson)
9. Bo Burnham: Inside (Bo Burnham)
10. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
***
Lars Aumueller
- A Sun (Mong-Hong Chung)
- Bacurau (Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho)
- The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
- The Climb (Michael Angelo Covino)
- C’mon C’mon (Mike Mills)
- Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
- The Green Knight (David Lowery)
- The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino)
- In the Heights (Jon M. Chu)
- Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
- No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
- Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
- Saint Frances (Alex Thompson)
- Yes, God, Yes (Karen Maine)
***
Ethan Vestby
1. Annette (Leos Carax)
2. Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
3. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara)
4. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
5. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
6. Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
7. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
8. Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
9. Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Zack Snyder)
10. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
***
Alan Jones
1. Can’t Get You Out of My Head (Adam Curtis)
2. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
3. The Scary of Sixty-First (Dasha Nekrasova)
4. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
5. Heard She Got Married (Charles Roxburgh)
6. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
7. Project Space 13 (Michael Bilandic)
8. The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson)
9. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara)
10. Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
***
Arika Jiang
- The Worst Person In The World (Joachim Trier)
- Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
- Titane (Julia Ducournau)
- I Carry You With Me (Heidi Ewing)
- Silent Land (Agnieszka Woszczynska)
- The Souvenir: Part II (Joanna Hogg)
- The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino)
- Zola (Janicza Bravo)
- The White Fortress (Igor Drljača)
- Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve) and Night Raiders (Danis Goulet)
Honourable Mentions: Wolf (Nathalie Biancheri), The Green Knight (David Lowery), and Learn to Swim (Thyrone Tommy).
***
Sean Patrick Kelly
1. Mass (Fran Kranz)
2. Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
3. Candyman (Nia DaCosta)
4. The Rescue (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin)
5. All the Moons (Igor Legarreta)
6. Dashcam (Rob Savage)
7. Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright)
8. Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
9. Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
10. Psycho Goreman (Steven Kostanski)
***
Paolo Kagaoan
- Emicida in Sao Paulo (Fred Outro Preto)
- Bo Burnham: Inside (Bo Burnham)
- Mare of Easttown (Craig Zobel)
- Tick, tick…. BOOM! (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
- The Crossing (Florence Mihaie)
- Euphoria: F*ck Anyone Who’s Not A Sea Blob (Sam Levinson)
- Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band: The Legendary No Nukes Concerts (Thom Zimmy, Richard Namm)
- Maid (John Wells, Nzinga Stewart)
- Come From Away (Christopher Ashley)
- Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
+ I’m only a size queen when it counts: VO (Nicolas Gourault), Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman’s Apprentice (Zacharias Kunuk) and Listen to the Beat of our Images (Aundrey and Maxime Jean-Baptiste).
***
Neil Bahadur
1. Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Zack Snyder)
2. #FreeLarryHoover Benefit Concert Live at Los Angeles Coliseum (Kanye West, Aus Taylor)
3. Cliff Walkers (Zhang Yimou)
4. Worlds (Issac Goes)
5. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
6. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara)
7. The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
8. Donda: Live at Mercedes Benz Stadium 8.02.2021 (Kanye West)
9. Dune (Denis Villeneuve)
10. Ferny and Luca (Andrew Infante)
11. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts, Kevin Feige)
12. Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
13. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
***
Kendall Grant
1. Drive My Car / Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
4. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
5. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
6. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
7. The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
8. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
9. The Green Knight (David Lowery)
In a League of its Own: The Underground Railroad (Barry Jenkins)
Honourable Mentions: The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen), C’mon C’mon (Mike Mills), Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve), Pig (Michael Sarnoski), Passing (Rebecca Hall), Mass (Fran Kranz).
