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2010s Movies

Vanity Fair: K. Austin Collins: The 30 Best Movies of the 2010s

26 November 2019

The Act of Killing: Director's Cut - Joshua Oppenheimer

K. Austin Collins: The 30 Best Movies of the 2010s, as published by Vanity Fair, presented alphabetically

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  1. The Act of Killing: Director's Cut
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  2. Carol
    Todd Haynes
  3. The Day He Arrives
    Hong Sang-soo
  4. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
    Travis Wilkerson
  5. Drug War
    Johnnie To
  6. Field Niggas
    Khalik Allah
  7. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
  8. The Future
    Miranda July
  9. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
  10. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  11. Heaven Knows What
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
  12. In Jackson Heights
    Frederick Wiseman
  13. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  14. It Felt Like Love
    Eliza Hittman
  15. Leviathan
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
  16. Like Someone in Love
    Abbas Kiarostami
  17. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
  18. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
  19. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  20. The Missing Picture
    Rithy Panh
  21. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  22. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies
  23. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
  24. A Touch of Sin
    Jia Zhang-ke
  25. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
  26. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
    John Hyams
  27. Unstoppable
    Tony Scott
  28. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
  29. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
  30. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese

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