Year-End Lists

IndieWire: The 100 Best Movies of the Decade

[see also 2020, 2015]

1. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
2. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
3. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
4. The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
4. The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
5. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
6. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
7. Carol — Todd Haynes
8. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
9. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
10. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
11. The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
12. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
13. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
14. Leviathan — Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
15. Dogtooth — Yorgos Lanthimos
16. The Social Network — David Fincher
17. World of Tomorrow — Don Hertzfeldt
18. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
19. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
20. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
21. Get Out — Jordan Peele
22. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
23. O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
24. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
25. Amour — Michael Haneke
26. Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
27. The Wind Rises — Hayao Miyazaki
28. Paddington 2 — Paul King
29. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
30. This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
31. Somewhere — Sofia Coppola
32. The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
33. Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
34. Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley
35. Only Lovers Left Alive — Jim Jarmusch
36. Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
37. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
38. Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
39. The Babadook — Jennifer Kent
40. Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
41. Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
42. Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
43. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
44. Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
45. A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
46. Hereditary — Ari Aster
47. The Lost City of Z — James Gray
48. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
49. Before Midnight — Richard Linklater
50. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya — Isao Takahata
51. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
52. Eden — Mia Hansen-Løve
53. A Ghost Story — David Lowery
54. Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
55. Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
56. Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
57. Tangerine — Sean Baker
58. The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
59. The Farewell — Lulu Wang
60. Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
61. Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
62. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
63. Inception — Christopher Nolan
64. Mission: Impossible – Fallout — Christopher McQuarrie
65. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
66. Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
67. At Berkeley — Frederick Wiseman
68. Jackie — Pablo Larraín
69. The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
70. Pariah — Dee Rees
71. Goodbye to Language 3D — Jean-Luc Godard
72. The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
73. La La Land — Damien Chazelle
74. Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Rian Johnson
75. A Star Is Born — Bradley Cooper
76. Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
77. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
78. Inside Out — Pete Docter
79. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter — David Zellner
80. No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
81. High Life — Claire Denis
82. Sunset Song — Terence Davies
83. Synonyms — Nadav Lapid
84. Beasts of the Southern Wild — Benh Zeitlin
85. The Illusionist — Sylvain Chomet
86. Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
87. Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
88. We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
89. Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
90. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
91. Fire at Sea — Gianfranco Rosi
92. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
93. Mother of George — Andrew Dosunmu
94. Happy Hour — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
95. The Arbor — Clio Barnard
96. Girl Walk // All Day — Jacob Krupnick
97. All These Sleepless Nights — Michal Marczak
98. The Great Gatsby — Baz Luhrmann
99. The Loneliest Planet — Julia Loktev
100. Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson