The A.V. Club: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Social Network — David Fincher
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
- Boyhood — Richard Linklater
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
- The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
- Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
- The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
- Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
- Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
- Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
- Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
- The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
- Two Days, One Night — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
- Melancholia — Lars von Trier
- Dogtooth — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Before Midnight — Richard Linklater
- Winter's Bone — Debra Granik
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- Upstream Color — Shane Carruth
- Whiplash — Damien Chazelle
- Everyone Else — Maren Ade
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
- Elle — Paul Verhoeven
- Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
- Leviathan — Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
- Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
- Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- Arrival — Denis Villeneuve
- It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
- Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- Amour — Michael Haneke
- Her — Spike Jonze
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
- La La Land — Damien Chazelle
- Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
- Inception — Christopher Nolan
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
- A Ghost Story — David Lowery
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Inside Out — Pete Docter
- The Loneliest Planet — Julia Loktev
- Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
- Right Now, Wrong Then — Hong Sang-soo
- Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
- 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
- American Honey — Andrea Arnold
- The Witch — Robert Eggers
- Tabu — Miguel Gomes
- Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Computer Chess — Andrew Bujalski
- Stranger by the Lake — Alain Guiraudie
- Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
- Mudbound — Dee Rees
- Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
- Paddington 2 — Paul King
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Hell or High Water — David Mackenzie
- Hereditary — Ari Aster
- Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
- You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
- Gone Girl — David Fincher
- Tangerine — Sean Baker
- Happy Hour — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- The Lost City of Z — James Gray
- Weekend — Andrew Haigh
- Drug War — Johnnie To
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- High Life — Claire Denis
- The Arbor — Clio Barnard
- Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Creed — Ryan Coogler
- The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
- Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
- Bridesmaids — Paul Feig
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- The Comedy — Rick Alverson
- The Immigrant — James Gray
- Miss Bala — Gerardo Naranjo