January
Marguerite De La Nuit (Claude Autant-Lara,1955) ***1/2
Hot Young Bloods (Yeong-Woo Lee, 2014) ****
The Priests (Jae-Hyun Jang, 2015) **1/2
The Scapegoat (Robert Hamer, 1959) ***1/2
Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, 2018) **1/2
The Lookout (Scott Frank, 2007) ***1/2
At the End of the Tunnel (Rodrigo Grande, 2016) ****
Route 225 (Yoshihiro Nakamura, 2006) ***1/2
The Way Back (Peter Weir, 2010) ****
Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004) ***1/2
The Yellow Sea (Na Hong-Jin, 2010) ****1/2
February
Swallowtail Butterfly (Shunji Iwai, 1996) ***1/2
The World According to Garp (George Roy Hill, 1982) ***
Sweet Alibis (Yi Chi-Lien, 2014) ****
Mickey Blue Eyes (Kelly Makin, 1999) **
Human Traffic (Justin Kerrigan, 1999) **1/2
The Best of Youth (Marco Tulio Giordana, 2003) ****1/2
Moving (Shinji Somai, 1993) ****
Evil Dead Trap (Toshiharu Ikeda.1988) **
Round About Midnight (Makoto Wada.1999)****
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa,1975) ****
Kamikaze Taxi (Masato Harada.1995) ****1/2
In the Company of Men (Neil Labute.1997) ***1/2
Headhunters (Morden Tyldum.2011) ****
The Villainess (Byung-Gil Jung, 2017) ***1/2
March
Uncut Gems (Josh and Ben Safdie, 2019) ***1/2
Midnight Runners (Kim Joo-Wan, 2017) ****
Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t (Masayuki Suo, 1992) ****
Les Valseuses (Bertrand Blier, 1974) ***1/2
Padak (Dae-Hee Lee, 2012) ***1/2
All for the Winner (Corey Yuen & Jeffrey Lau, 1990) **1/2
Kikyo (Koji Hagiuda, 2004) ****
200 Cigarettes (Risa Bramon Garcia, 1999) ***
Porte des Lilas (Rene Clair, 1957) ****
Airport (Koki Mitani, 2013) ****
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Tsui Hark, 2010) ***1/2
Shithouse (Cooper Raiff, 2020) ****
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story (Aaron Cunkel, 2019) ***1/2
Bu Su (Jun Ichikawa, 1987) ***1/2
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983) ****
The Inugami Family (Kon Ichikawa, 1976) ****1/2
Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch, 1989) ****
April
Okay Madam (Cheol-ha Lee, 2020) ***
Hello Schoolgirl (Jang-ha Ryu, 2008) ***
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) ****1/2
Yoshino’s Barber Shop (Naoko Ogigami, 2004) ****
Cleaners (Glenn Barit, 2019) ***1/2
Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, 2019) ***
Le Dernier Tournant (Pierre Chenal, 1939) **
Mid90s (Jonah Hill, 2017) ***
Cop (James B. Harris, 1988) ***
Mission: Possible (Kim Yeong-Joo, 2021) ***
Educating Rita (Lewis Gilbert, 1963) **1/2
The Rocking Horsemen (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1992) ****
Copycat (Jon Amiel) *1/2
May
Kaito Ruby (Makoto Wada, 1988) ***1/2
The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo Del Toro, 2001) ***1/2
Tokyo Heaven (Shinji Somai, 1990) **
Last Night (Don Mckellar, 1999) ***
Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox (Seong-kang Lee, 2007) ***1/2
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1979) ***
The Cell (Tarsem Singh, 2000) **1/2
Noriko’s Dinner Table (Sion Sono, 2005) ****1/2
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) ****
Mad Detective (Johnny To & Ka-Fai Wa, 2007) **1/2
S.I.U (Byeong-Guk Hwang, 2011) **
The Show Must Go On (Jae-rim Han, 2007) ***1/2
Twilight Gangsters (Hyo-jin Kang, 2010) ***1/2
Painted Faces (Alex Law, 1988) ****
June
Juror 8 (Seung-wan Hong, 2019) ***
Crying Fist (Seung-wan Ryoo, 2005) **
The Crazy Family (Sogo Ishii, 1984) **1/2
The Disaster Artist (James Franco, 2017) **1/2
Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo (Kenji Ikeda, 2005) *1/2
Marshland (Alberto Rodriguez, 2014) ****
Handphone (Han-min Kim, 2009) ***
The Kid Detective (Evan Morgan, 2020) ****1/2
Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) ****
Make the Last Wish (Sion Sono, 2009) **
Happy-Go-Lucky (Tetsuya Nakashima, 1997) ***1/2
Kick the Moon (Sang-Jin Kim, 2001) ***
Mansfield Park (Patricia Rozema, 1999) ***
The Eel (Shohei Imamura, 1997) ****1/2
Tazza: The Hidden Card (Hyeong-Cheol Kang, 2014) ***1/2
Beat the Devil (John Huston, 1953) ***1/2
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931) ***1/2
Jane Eyre (Robert Stevenson, 1944) ***1/2
The Survival Family (Shinobu Yaguchi, 2017) ****1/2
July
My Secret Cache (Shinobu Yaguchi, 1997) ****
Topper (Norman Z. McLeod, 1937) ***1/2
La Verite (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960) ***1/2
Northanger Abbey (Jon Jones, 2007) ****
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) ****1//2
Love and Peace (Sion Sono, 2015) ***1/2
The Long Good-bye (Ryota Nakano, 2019) ***
It Comes (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2018) ***1/2
Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015) ***1/2
Door-Lock (Kwon Lee, 2018) ***
Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, 1958) ****1/2
Who Killed Cock Robin (Wei-Hao Cheng, 2017) ***1/2
August
Orgazmo (Trey Parker, 1997) **
Good Time (Josh & Ben Safdie, 2017) ****
Bully (Santino Campanelli, 2018) **1/2
Wedding Daze (Michael Ian Black, 2006) **
You’re Not Normal Either (Koji Maeda, 2021) ****
Queen of Crime (Yo-Sup Lee, 2016) ****
Young Doctors in Love (Garry Marshall, 1982) ***1/2
Nobody (Ilya Naishuller, 2021) ***
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell, 2020) ***1/2
It’s a Summer Film! (Soushi Matsumoto, 2020) ****
Midnight University (Piyabutr Athisuk etc., 2016) **1/2
Pirates Roman Polanski, 1986) ***1/2
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George. 2004) ***
Shikisoku Generation (Tomorowo Taguchi, 2009) ****1/2
Ghost Soup (Shunji Iwai, 1992) ****
The Snow King (Shunji Iwai, 1993) ***1/2
Undo (Shunji Iwai, 1994) ***
Sawako Decides (Yuya Ishii, 2010) ***1/2
The Easy Life (Dino Risi, 1962) ****1/2
September
Extreme Job (Byeong-heon Lee, 2019) ***1/2
Sleep Tight (Jaume Balaguero, 2011) ***1/2
Close Knit (Naoko Ogigami, 2017) ****
The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls, 1947) **
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron, 2014) ****
Unforgettable (Lee Eun-Hee, 2016) ***
La Metamorphose des Cloportes (Pierre Granier-Deferre, 1965) ***
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Luis Bunuel, 1954) ***
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg, 2020) ***1/2
Midnight (Oh-Seung Kwon, 2021) ***
Innocent Steps (Young-hoon Park, 2005) ***1/2
Inseparable Bros (Sang-Hyo Yook, 2019) ****
Little Forest (Soonrye Yim) ****
The Dark Mirror (Robert Siodmak, 1972)***1/2
Full Contact (Ringo Lam, 1992) ****
The Brightest Roof in the Universe (Michihito Fujii, 2020) ****
Tori Girl (Tsutomu Hanabusa, 2017) ***1/2
The Cinderella Addiction (Ryohei Watanabe, 2021) **
October
Twice Upon A Time (Thom Eberhardt, 1998) **1/2
We Own The Night (James Gray, 2007) ***1/2
The Leopard (Luschino Visconti, 1963) ****
The Seventh Curse (Ngai Choi Lam, 1986) ***1/2
A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018) **1/2
Shutter (Banjong Pisanthanakun & Parkpoom Wongpoom, 2004) ****
The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni, 1928) ****
Tombs of the Blind Dead (Amando de Ossorio, 1972) ***1/2
One Cut of the Dead (Shinichiro Ueda, 2017) ****1/2
The House with Laughing Windows (Pupi Avati, 1976) ***
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982) ****
Death Bell (Yoon Hong-Seung, 2008) *
November
Us (Jordan Peele, 2019) ***1/2
The Imp (Dennis Yu, 1981) ****
Eyes of Fire (Avery Crounse, 1983) ****
American Murder: The Family Next Door (Jenny Popplewell, 2020) ***1/2
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (James Signorelli, 1988) ***
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) ****1/2
Sexmission (Juliusz Machulski, 1984) ***1/2
Survive Style 5+ (Gen Sekiguchi, 2004) ***
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) ****1/2
December
Hyouka; Forbidden Secrets (Mari Asato, 2017) **1/2
Mac & Devin Go To High School (2012, Dylan C. Brown) *