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1. Civil War – A powerful depiction of the effects of war in a location where you’d think it would never happen.
2. The Zone of Interest – A powerful depiction of the effects of war in a location next door to where it did happen.
3. Challengers – Cinema and sport come together as never before.
4. Emilia Pérez – Somehow the Robbie Williams monkey movie is not the most audacious musical of the year.
5. It’s What’s Inside – What’s inside is a smart screenplay and some great narrative ideas..
6. Poor Things – Emma Stone won the Oscar but her husband is the GOAT. 
7. Priscilla – All the good bits that Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis left out.
8. Dune Part 2 – A truly great combination of classic literature and epic cinema.
9. Wicked – Wicked
10. Rebel Ridge –  Imagine if Rambo was written by Alice Walker.
11. Conclave – You won’t need Catholic tastes to appreciate this film.
12. The Wild Robot – Surprisingly this is kind of a work of art.
13. Twisters – Blows the cobwebs out of tired legacy cinema.
14. Young Woman and the Sea – A compelling and moving story very well told. Best score of the year too.
15. Greatest Hits – You know when you hear a favourite tune and it just takes you back in time? This movie does just that.
16. Robot Dreams – Who knew I could care this much about a dog and a robot? Actually that’s silly, I care about a lot of robots. 
17. Anora – A woman and a film you won’t forget. 
18. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim – It’s really good to be back in Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth, even if it’s a flat earth.
19. My Old Ass – Sweet and quirky teen/middle age drama.
20. The Imaginary – With films like this and War of the Rohirrim out there, why will American animation studios only use CGI?
21. Heretic – Hugh Grant’s new cinematic persona is sealed.
22. Perfect Days – This builds slowly but it gets you in the feels by the end.
23. The Bikeriders – Carlito’s Way on wheels.
24. Paddington in Peru – Judged purely on its own merits it is lovely.
25. Blink Twice – Debut director Zoe Kravitz does not blink, not once.
26. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Welcome back boys.
27. Speak No Evil – Negative Trip Adviser: The Movie
28. Carry-On – Carry On Kingsman
29. Gladiator II – Gladiator remade as a comedy.
30. Hundreds of Beavers – Hey Disney, this is how you do a live action version of a cartoon.
31. Deadpool & Wolverine – What do you do if you can’t get Stan Lee for a cameo anymore? Replace him with every single other person that’s ever been in a superhero movie.
32. Thelma – Die Hard on a mobility scooter.
33. Alien: Romulus – A new xenomorph film that remembers that the best Aliens come from the heart.
34. Late Night with the Devil – Give the devil his cue.
35. Kinds of Kindness – Emma Stone is definitely not making Spider-Man movies anymore.
36. Mother’s Instinct – A classic old fashioned pot boiler with a great ending that defies the focus groups.
37. The Room Next Door – How to make a film that is both reserved and powerful at the same time.
38. Better Man – They monkeyed with the musical.
39. Woman of the Hour – Every woman, every hour.
40. Blitz – If Dickens was writing a century later.
41. All of Us Strangers – A wonderful film but I didn’t get on with the ending.
42. American Fiction – Starts well but Gets Shorty.
43. The Holdovers – If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, is this an action film?
44. Abigail – Sometimes you’ve got to be a little bit bitey.
45. The First Omen – This year’s best film about an evil Catholic conspiracy to weaponise a young woman’s ovaries.
46. MaxXxine – A fitting final film for the final Final Girl.
47. It Ends With Us – The story around this has become bigger than the movie but it started with this; a corny but effective drama.
48. The Fall Guy – Has fun but stumbles a bit.
49. Immaculate – This year’s second best film about an evil Catholic conspiracy to weaponise a young woman’s ovaries.
50. The Substance – Oh my God! 
51. Road House – It’s actually refreshing to have a movie that is just a remake and not a legacy sequel.
52. Megalopolis – Francis Ford Coppola does what he wants to do, but I don’t think he’s going to be allowed to do it again.
53. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – It probably needed some Robbie Williams songs.
54. Beverly Hills Cop: Alex Foley – Eddie Murphy can still bring it when he wants to.
55. Fly Me to the Moon – Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson convincingly charm us if not one another.
56. Inside Out 2 – The year’s highest grossing movie is better than a lot of family films but it’s not as good as Inside Out.
57. Smile 2 – Surprisingly slow in places and not as good as the original.
58. Music by John Williams – Nuff said.
59. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice – You say legacy sequel enough times and this was bound to appear.
60. A Quiet Place Day One – In reality that cat would have ruined everything.
61. Longlegs – So so creepy, not much fun.
62. Hit Man – Doesn’t quite get what its aiming for.
63. Wicked Little Letters – Sunday afternoon telly with Saturday night in Hounslow dialogue.
64. The Book of Clarence – Imagine if The Bible was written by Snoop Dog.
65. IF – Deadpool & Saccharin 
66. Firebrand – Ken did not steal the show from Barbie in that movie but Jude Law’s Henry VIII does steal the show from Alicia Vikander’s Katherine Parr in this one.
67. Moana 2 – I’m beginning to think that Disney are only now doing animated films so that they can remake them in live action later. 
68. Wolfs – What’s the opposite of a twist?
69. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – I didn’t love the first one as much as everyone else and this one isn’t as good.
70. Will & Harper – Harper Steele provides a moving insight into the struggles of living as a trans woman and in having Will Ferrell as one of your best friends.
71. Lee – Some powerful scenes but all in all this is very pedestrian filmmaking.
72. Love Lies Bleeding – It has its moments but I sometimes wonder if they should ever let great directors make second films.
73. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – This film proves that it pays to be polite because this trait in the characters pastes over a lot of cracks in the story here.
74. Damsel – A decent enough swords and sorority flick but they’ve got to stop putting cast members from The Princess Bride in these types of films; this is not a comparison you want to be making.
75. Mean Girls – It’s Mean Girls too
76. The Instigators – Matt Damon and Ben Affleck make another movie with their mates. Fortunately one of those mates is Hong Chau.
77. Atlas – Jenny from the block is now Jenny in a box.
78. The Idea of You – I liked the ten minutes when it properly started exploring the real ideas in its set up.
79. I Saw the TV Glow – This just made me feel a bit odd.
80. Brats – An interesting analysis of how the media affects Hollywood stars in different ways. Nothing to do with Charlie XCX.
81. Hot Frosty – Look, it’s stupid but I kind of respect it for how proudly it owns that. 
82. Timestalker – Director Alice Lowe gets lost in time.
83. Spaceman – Was I supposed to take this seriously?
84. La Chimera – Indiana Jones on a budget, on a building site.
85. Red One – It started well but couldn’t sustain the goodwill for the whole of Christmas.
86. Lift – Going down?
87. The Union – I actually saw them filming this on location in London, I should have let that be enough.
88. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – This is definitely my biggest disappointment of the year. The last one was great but with this one they really crossed the streams.
89. Drive Away Dolls – Where is Joel Coen when we need him?
90. Madame Web – Not actually as bad as they said, but not actually that good either.
91. Space Cadet – Well meaning, poorly executed.
92. Subservience – Artificial Stupidity.
93. A Family Affair – Nicole Kidman is still a huge movie star but she won’t be if she keeps making films like this.
94. Jackpot! – Nobody is a winner.
95. Unfrosted – Untenable 
96. Argylle – If only the bad hair was the worst of it.
97. Uglies – Not pretty 
98. Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver – It’s a good title as I feel scarred having watched it.
99. Mother of the Bride – The bride probably wishes she was adopted.
100. Borderlands – ‘We have finally broken the curse of bad computer game adaptations’ proclaim The Last of Us and Fallout. ‘Hold my beer’ says Borderlands.