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