Year-End Lists

The Independent: The 40 Best Films of the Decade, curated by Clarisse Loughrey, Geoffrey Macnab and Adam White

1. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
2. Carol — Todd Haynes
3. Get Out — Jordan Peele
4. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
6. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
7. Paddington 2 — Paul King
8. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
9. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
10. 20th Century Women — Mike Mills
11. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
12. 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
13. The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
14. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
15. Son of Saul — László Nemes
16. The Selfish Giant — Clio Barnard
17. Stoker — Park Chan-wook
18. The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
19. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
20. Black Swan — Darren Aronofsky
21. The Social Network — David Fincher
22. Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
23. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
24. Her — Spike Jonze
25. Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
26. Boy — Taika Waititi
27. Selma — Ava DuVernay
28. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
29. Hereditary — Ari Aster
30. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
31. The Revenant — Alejandro González Iñárritu
32. Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
33. A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
34. The Edge of Seventeen — Kelly Fremon Craig
35. Dogtooth — Yorgos Lanthimos
36. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
37. Inside Out — Pete Docter
38. The Irishman — Martin Scorsese
39. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
40. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino