Excellent thread. Changes by the day, but best shot:
2023: KOTFM, Zone of Interest, Past Lives, When Evil Lurks, Passages
2022: Aftersun, Tar, Speak No Evil, Decision To Leave, X
2021: Drive My Car, Licorice Pizza, Worst Person in the World, Memoria, Saint Maude (shout out Souvenir Pt II, Benedetta and Malignant)
2020: The Empty Man, The Vast of Night, Possessor, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Mangrove
2019: Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, Midsommar, Parasite, Marriage Story, Lighthouse (such a great year, shout out Souvenir, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, etc.)
2018: First Reformed, Minding the Gap, Hereditary, Roma, Burning
2017: Phantom Thread, Good Time, Get Out, Lady Bird, Florida Project
2016: The Invitation, Everybody Wants Some, Train to Busan, Green Room, Arrival
2015: Ex Machina, The Witch, Sicario, Mad Max, Hateful 8,
2014: Under The Skin, Phoenix, Whiplash, Nightcrawler, Inherent Vice
2013: Wolf of Wall Street, Frances Ha, VHS, Inside Llewyn Davis, Before Midnight (Holy Motors would be 2 if it qualifies, I thought it was 2012)