Year-End Lists

Consequence of Sound: Top 100 Films of the 2010s

[see also 2017]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
2. The Social Network — David Fincher
3. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
4. We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
5. Hereditary — Ari Aster
6. The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
6. The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
7. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
8. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
9. The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
10. Inception — Christopher Nolan
11. Inside Out — Pete Docter
12. Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
13. Bridesmaids — Paul Feig
14. Get Out — Jordan Peele
15. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
16. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
17. 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
18. Tangerine — Sean Baker
19. Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier
20. The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
21. Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
22. The Invitation — Karyn Kusama
23. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
24. Son of Saul — László Nemes
25. Logan — James Mangold
26. The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
27. Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
28. O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
29. 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
30. Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
31. A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
32. Her — Spike Jonze
33. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
34. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
35. Carol — Todd Haynes
36. Fruitvale Station — Ryan Coogler
37. Before Midnight — Richard Linklater
38. Looper — Rian Johnson
39. The Babadook — Jennifer Kent
40. BlacKkKlansman — Spike Lee
41. Silver Linings Playbook — David O. Russell
42. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
43. Shirkers — Sandi Tan
44. The Revenant — Alejandro González Iñárritu
45. Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson
46. Jackie — Pablo Larraín
47. Exit Through the Gift Shop — Banksy
48. Amour — Michael Haneke
49. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
50. Nightcrawler — Dan Gilroy
51. Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
52. Moneyball — Bennett Miller
53. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
54. Leviathan — Andrey Zvyagintsev
55. Young Adult — Jason Reitman
56. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
57. Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
58. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
59. Baby Driver — Edgar Wright
60. Amy — Asif Kapadia
61. La La Land — Damien Chazelle
62. Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
63. Annihilation — Alex Garland
64. Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
65. 13th — Ava DuVernay
66. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
67. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
68. What We Do in the Shadows — Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
69. Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
70. Midsommar — Ari Aster
71. Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello
72. Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
73. Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Anthony and Joe Russo
74. Phoenix — Christian Petzold
75. Blue Valentine — Derek Cianfrance
76. The Interrupters — Steve James
77. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
78. The Tale — Jennifer Fox
79. Your Name — Makoto Shinkai
80. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
81. Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
82. Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
83. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
84. Sing Street — John Carney
85. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol — Brad Bird
86. The Trip — Michael Winterbottom
87. Columbus — Kogonada
88. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping — Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone
89. Attack the Block — Joe Cornish
90. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
91. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
92. The Wind Rises — Hayao Miyazaki
93. A Ghost Story — David Lowery
94. Krisha — Trey Edward Shults
95. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
96. Kubo and the Two Strings — Travis Knight
97. Her Smell — Alex Ross Perry
98. The Raid 2 — Gareth Evans
99. Gone Girl — David Fincher
100. mother! — Darren Aronofsky