Year-End Lists

Jordan Cronk: The 50 Best Films of the 2010s, posted publicly to Patreon

[see also The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2024 • Top Ten Films of 2024 • The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2023 • Top Ten Films of 2023 • The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2021 • Top Ten Films of 2020 • Top 20 Films of 2019 • Top 20 Films of 2018 • Top Ten Films of 2017]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
3. The Strange Case of Angelica
   Manoel de Oliveira
4. Goodbye to Language
   Jean-Luc Godard
5. No Home Movie
   Chantal Akerman
6. House of Pleasures
   Bertrand Bonello
7. Horse Money
   Pedro Costa
8. Mysteries of Lisbon
   Raoul Ruiz
9. Holy Motors
   Leos Carax
10. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
11. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
12. Li’l Quinquin
    Bruno Dumont
13. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
14. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
15. Stray Dogs
    Tsai Ming-liang
16. Jauja
    Lisandro Alonso
17. Liberty
    Albert Serra
18. The Assassin
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien
19. Sieranevada
    Cristi Puiu
20. Leviathan
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
21. The Day He Arrives
    Hong Sang-soo
22. Differently, Molussia
    Nicolas Rey
23. Hard to Be a God
    Aleksey German
24. Let Your Light Shine
    Jodie Mack
25. Norte, the End of History
    Lav Diaz
26. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
27. The Extravagant Shadows
    David Gatten
28. Winter Vacation
    Li Hongqi
29. Slow Action
    Ben Rivers
30. La Flor
    Mariano Llinás
31. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
32. Stranger by the Lake
    Alain Guiraudie
33. Dead Souls
    Wang Bing
34. Episode of the Sea
    Van Brummelen & De Haan and the inhabitants of Urk, Netherlands
35. I Was at Home, But
    Angela Schanelec
36. Knight of Cups
    Terrence Malick
37. The Irishman
    Martin Scorsese
38. The Last of the Unjust
    Claude Lanzmann
39. Arabian Nights
    Miguel Gomes
40. High Life
    Claire Denis
41. A Touch of Sin
    Jia Zhang-ke
42. Maps to the Stars
    David Cronenberg
43. Jealousy
    Philippe Garrel
44. Le Havre
    Aki Kaurismäki
45. 4:44 Last Day on Earth
    Abel Ferrara
46. The Last Time I Saw Macao
    João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
47. Amour fou
    Jessica Hausner
48. L. Cohen
    James Benning
49. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
    Alain Resnais
50. Lost and Beautiful
    Pietro Marcello