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The Young Folks: Top 50 Films of the 2010s

08 November 2019

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

The Young Folks: Top 50 Films of the 2010s

  1. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  2. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
  3. The Social Network
    David Fincher
  4. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
  5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
  6. Inception
    Christopher Nolan
  7. Her
    Spike Jonze
  8. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
  9. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
  10. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
  11. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  12. Obvious Child
    Gillian Robespierre
  13. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
  14. Snowpiercer
    Bong Joon-ho
  15. What We Do in the Shadows
    Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
  16. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
  17. Mustang
    Deniz Gamze Ergüven
  18. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
  19. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
  20. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
  21. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
    Isao Takahata
  22. Ex Machina
    Alex Garland
  23. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
  24. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
  25. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
  26. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang
  27. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
  28. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    Edgar Wright
  29. Drive
    Nicolas Winding Refn
  30. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
  31. Your Name
    Makoto Shinkai
  32. Beyond the Lights
    Gina Prince-Bythewood
  33. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
  34. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Benh Zeitlin
  35. Before Midnight
    Richard Linklater
  36. Weekend
    Andrew Haigh
  37. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
  38. Columbus
    Kogonada
  39. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
  40. Bridesmaids
    Paul Feig
  41. The Shape of Water
    Guillermo del Toro
  42. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
  43. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
  44. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
  45. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
  46. Prisoners
    Denis Villeneuve
  47. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  48. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
  49. Attack the Block
    Joe Cornish
  50. Hell or High Water
    David Mackenzie

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