Year-End Lists

The A.V. Club: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
2. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
3. The Social Network — David Fincher
4. A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
5. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
6. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
7. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
8. Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
9. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
10. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
11. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
12. Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
13. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
14. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
15. The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
15. The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
16. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
17. The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
18. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
19. Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
20. Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
21. Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello
22. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
23. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
24. The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
25. Two Days, One Night — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
26. Phoenix — Christian Petzold
27. The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
28. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
29. Dogtooth — Yorgos Lanthimos
30. Before Midnight — Richard Linklater
31. Winter's Bone — Debra Granik
32. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
33. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
34. The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
35. Get Out — Jordan Peele
36. Upstream Color — Shane Carruth
37. Whiplash — Damien Chazelle
38. Everyone Else — Maren Ade
39. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
40. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
41. Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
42. Leviathan — Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
43. Marriage Story — Noah Baumbach
44. Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier
45. Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
46. Arrival — Denis Villeneuve
47. It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
48. Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
49. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
50. Amour — Michael Haneke
51. Her — Spike Jonze
52. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
53. The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
54. La La Land — Damien Chazelle
55. Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
56. Inception — Christopher Nolan
57. Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
58. A Ghost Story — David Lowery
59. Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
60. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
61. Inside Out — Pete Docter
62. The Loneliest Planet — Julia Loktev
63. Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
64. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
65. Right Now, Wrong Then — Hong Sang-soo
66. Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
67. 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
68. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
69. The Witch — Robert Eggers
70. Tabu — Miguel Gomes
71. Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
72. Computer Chess — Andrew Bujalski
73. Stranger by the Lake — Alain Guiraudie
74. Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
75. Mudbound — Dee Rees
76. Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
77. Paddington 2 — Paul King
78. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
79. Hell or High Water — David Mackenzie
80. Hereditary — Ari Aster
81. Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
82. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
83. Gone Girl — David Fincher
84. Tangerine — Sean Baker
85. Happy Hour — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
86. The Lost City of Z — James Gray
87. Weekend — Andrew Haigh
88. Drug War — Johnnie To
89. Carol — Todd Haynes
90. High Life — Claire Denis
91. The Arbor — Clio Barnard
92. Uncut Gems — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
93. Creed — Ryan Coogler
94. The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
95. Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
96. Bridesmaids — Paul Feig
97. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
98. The Comedy — Rick Alverson
99. The Immigrant — James Gray
100. Miss Bala — Gerardo Naranjo