Year-End Lists

Film School Rejects: The 100 Best Movies of the Decade

[see also 2018, 2017]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
2. Get Out — Jordan Peele
3. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
4. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
6. The Social Network — David Fincher
7. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
8. What We Do in the Shadows — Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
9. The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
10. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
11. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
12. Gone Girl — David Fincher
13. The Farewell — Lulu Wang
14. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
15. Annihilation — Alex Garland
16. Paddington 2 — Paul King
17. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
18. The Witch — Robert Eggers
19. Arrival — Denis Villeneuve
20. Logan — James Mangold
21. Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
22. Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
23. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
24. Phoenix — Christian Petzold
25. Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Rian Johnson
26. Whiplash — Damien Chazelle
27. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
28. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
29. The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
30. True Grit — Joel & Ethan Coen
31. 20th Century Women — Mike Mills
32. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol — Brad Bird
33. Nightcrawler — Dan Gilroy
34. Hereditary — Ari Aster
35. Hunt for the Wilderpeople — Taika Waititi
36. Ex Machina — Alex Garland
37. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
38. Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier
39. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
40. Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
41. No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
42. The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
43. Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
44. Inception — Christopher Nolan
45. Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
46. Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
47. The Nice Guys — Shane Black
48. Mandy — Panos Cosmatos
49. Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz
50. Upstream Color — Shane Carruth
51. The Cabin in the Woods — Drew Goddard
52. Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
53. Wonder Woman — Patty Jenkins
54. Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
55. Only Lovers Left Alive — Jim Jarmusch
56. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
57. Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
58. Swiss Army Man — Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
59. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
60. Inherent Vice — Paul Thomas Anderson
61. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
62. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
63. Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Anthony and Joe Russo
64. La La Land — Damien Chazelle
65. Young Adult — Jason Reitman
66. Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley
67. The Grey — Joe Carnahan
68. Goodbye First Love — Mia Hansen-Løve
69. Carol — Todd Haynes
70. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
71. Attack the Block — Joe Cornish
72. Blue Valentine — Derek Cianfrance
73. The Raid: Redemption — Gareth Evans
74. Thelma — Joachim Trier
75. Her — Spike Jonze
76. Gravity — Alfonso Cuaron
77. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
78. Exit Through the Gift Shop — Banksy
79. Blindspotting — Carlos López Estrada
80. Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
81. John Wick — Chad Stahelski
82. I Saw the Devil — Kim Ji-woon
83. Interstellar — Christopher Nolan
84. Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
85. Revenge — Coralie Fargeat
86. Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
87. Goodnight Mommy — Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
88. The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
89. Shin Godzilla — Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
90. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
91. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
92. The Invitation — Karyn Kusama
93. Kill List — Ben Wheatley
94. High Life — Claire Denis
95. Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
96. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — Edgar Wright
97. A Ghost Story — David Lowery
98. Silence — Martin Scorsese
99. Borg vs. McEnroe — Janus Metz
100. Bone Tomahawk — S. Craig Zahler