Paste Magazine: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
- Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
- Annihilation — Alex Garland
- The Babadook — Jennifer Kent
- The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
- O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
- The Wind Rises — Hayao Miyazaki
- Boyhood — Richard Linklater
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
- Moonrise Kingdom — Wes Anderson
- The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
- It’s Such a Beautiful Day — Don Hertzfeldt
- Gone Girl — David Fincher
- Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
- The Raid: Redemption — Gareth Evans
- Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
- Mandy — Panos Cosmatos
- The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
- The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
- Swiss Army Man — Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
- The Tribe — Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
- Zama — Lucrecia Martel
- Silence — Martin Scorsese
- John Wick — Chad Stahelski
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
- Edge of Tomorrow — Doug Liman
- Black Panther — Ryan Coogler
- Her — Spike Jonze
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol — Brad Bird
- Burning — Lee Chang-dong
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
- Paddington 2 — Paul King
- Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
- The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
- Ida — Pawel Pawlikowski
- Weekend — Andrew Haigh
- Melancholia — Lars von Trier
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
- It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
- At Berkeley — Frederick Wiseman
- Your Name — Makoto Shinkai
- Raw — Julia Ducournau
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
- Evolution — Lucile Hadzihalilovic
- The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
- Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
- Holy Motors — Leos Carax
- 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
- The Beach Bum — Harmony Korine
- Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Krisha — Trey Edward Shults
- Elle — Paul Verhoeven
- The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
- The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Rian Johnson
- Pariah — Dee Rees
- 13 Assassins — Takashi Miike
- Drug War — Johnnie To
- Mirai — Mamoru Hosoda
- Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross
- The Avengers — Joss Whedon
- The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
- The Rider — Chloé Zhao
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- Lemonade — Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Kahlil Joseph with Jonas Åkerlund, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek and Tod Tourso
- Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Coco — Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
- Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
- High Life — Claire Denis
- We Are the Best! — Lukas Moodysson
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
- Shirkers — Sandi Tan
- Shin Godzilla — Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
- The Grand Bizarre — Jodie Mack
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Anthony and Joe Russo
- The Prison in Twelve Landscapes — Brett Story
- Sorry to Bother You — Boots Riley
- No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
- Bisbee '17 — Robert Greene
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — Edgar Wright
- Attenberg — Athina Rachel Tsangari
- A Field in England — Ben Wheatley
- Thor: Ragnarok — Taika Waititi
- The Bling Ring — Sofia Coppola