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2010s Movies

RogerEbert.com: The Best Films of the 2010s

05 November 2019

The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick

RogerEbert.com: The Best Films of the 2010s

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

  1. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
  2. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  3. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  4. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
  5. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  6. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
  7. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
  8. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
  9. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
  10. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  11. The Social Network
    David Fincher
  12. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
  13. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
  14. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
  15. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
  16. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
  17. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
  18. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
  19. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
  20. Inherent Vice
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  21. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  22. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  23. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
  24. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
  25. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
  26. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater

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