Year-End Lists

Matt Singer: The Best Movies of the 2010s, as published by ScreenCrush

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1. Boyhood
   Richard Linklater
2. O.J.: Made in America
   Ezra Edelman
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
5. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
6. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
7. Inside Out
   Pete Docter
8. The Social Network
   David Fincher
9. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
10. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
11. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
12. Short Term 12
    Destin Cretton
13. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    Banksy
14. Bad Black
    Nabwana I.G.G.
15. Sing Street
    John Carney
16. Take Shelter
    Jeff Nichols
17. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
18. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
19. Uncut Gems
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
20. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone

Honorable Mentions (In Alphabetical Order)

• Annihilation
  Alex Garland
• Anomalisa
  Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
• The Cabin in the Woods
  Drew Goddard
• Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
  Wes Anderson
• Her
  Spike Jonze
• The Interrupters
  Steve James
• I Saw the Devil
  Kim Ji-woon
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  Christopher McQuarrie
• Moonlight
  Barry Jenkins
• Mother
  Bong Joon-ho
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Private Life
  Tamara Jenkins
• Roma
  Alfonso Cuaron
• A Separation
  Asghar Farhadi
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  Martin McDonagh
• Toni Erdmann
  Maren Ade
• Under the Skin
  Jonathan Glazer
• Zero Dark Thirty
  Kathryn Bigelow