Year-End Lists

Roxana Hadadi: Top 50 Movies of the Decade, as posted to Twitter (and submitted to the A.V. Club's decade list)

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
3. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
4. Mudbound
   Dee Rees
5. Hell or High Water
   David Mackenzie
6. Drive
   Nicolas Winding Refn
7. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
8. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
9. Blade Runner 2049
   Denis Villeneuve
10. Short Term 12
    Destin Cretton
11. Winter's Bone
    Debra Granik
12. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
13. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
14. Paddington 2
    Paul King
15. High Flying Bird
    Steven Soderbergh
16. John Wick
    Chad Stahelski
17. Free Solo
    Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
18. Logan
    James Mangold
19. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
20. Hugo
    Martin Scorsese
21. Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier
22. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
    Ana Lily Amirpour
23. The Great Gatsby
    Baz Luhrmann
24. Creed
    Ryan Coogler
25. Ex Machina
    Alex Garland
26. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
27. Widows
    Steve McQueen
28. Snowpiercer
    Bong Joon-ho
29. Under the Shadow
    Babak Anvari
30. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
31. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
32. The Nice Guys
    Shane Black
33. Coco
    Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
34. Ingrid Goes West
    Matt Spicer
35. Somewhere
    Sofia Coppola
36. Blue Valentine
    Derek Cianfrance
37. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
38. Brooklyn
    John Crowley
39. The Boxtrolls
    Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi
40. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
41. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
42. Restrepo
    Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington
43. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
44. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine
45. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
46. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
47. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
48. Macbeth
    Justin Kurzel
49. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    Guy Ritchie
50. The Other Guys
    Adam McKay