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2010s Music

Spin: The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s

30 June 2020

Anti - Rihanna

Spin: The 101 Best Albums Of The 2010s

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Anti
    Rihanna
  2. To Pimp A Butterfly
    Kendrick Lamar
  3. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
  4. Beyoncé
    Beyoncé
  5. Bangarang
    Skrillex
  6. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    Kanye West
  7. Art Angels
    Grimes
  8. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
  9. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
  10. Whack World
    Tierra Whack
  11. Tunes 2011-2019
    Burial
  12. XXX
    Danny Brown
  13. Body Talk
    Robyn
  14. Sunbathing Animal
    Parquet Courts
  15. Nostalgia, Ultra
    Frank Ocean
  16. Double Cup
    DJ Rashad
  17. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
  18. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
    Billie Eilish
  19. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
  20. Treats
    Sleigh Bells
  21. Broke With Expensive Taste
    Azealia Banks
  22. Hell on Heels
    Pistol Annies
  23. Maya
    M.I.A.
  24. Pink Friday
    Nicki Minaj
  25. Product
    Sophie
  26. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
  27. Whokill
    Tune-Yards
  28. DS2
    Future
  29. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
  30. Paramore
    Paramore
  31. Night Time, My Time
    Sky Ferreira
  32. The Voyager
    Jenny Lewis
  33. good kid, m.A.A.d city
    Kendrick Lamar
  34. No Cities To Love
    Sleater-Kinney
  35. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
  36. A Mulher do Fim do Mundo
    Elza Soares
  37. Speak Now
    Taylor Swift
  38. The Money Store
    Death Grips
  39. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
  40. 1017 Thug
    Young Thug
  41. Nightmare Logic
    Power Trip
  42. Fin
    Syd
  43. Daytona
    Pusha T
  44. Everything in Between
    No Age
  45. House of Balloons
    The Weeknd
  46. For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
    Huerco S
  47. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
  48. Born to Die
    Lana Del Rey
  49. Amusers and Puzzlers
    Sightings
  50. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
    The 1975
  51. Cuz I Love You
    Lizzo
  52. Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts
    Omar Souleyman
  53. The Dream Is Over
    PUP
  54. Blackheart
    Dawn Richard
  55. White Crosses
    Against Me!
  56. Room 25
    Noname
  57. Heartthrob
    Tegan and Sara
  58. Deeper Than Sky
    VHÖL
  59. Platinum
    Miranda Lambert
  60. 1000 gecs
    100 gecs
  61. Puberty 2
    Mitski
  62. The Idler Wheel…
    Fiona Apple
  63. Mena
    Javiera Mena
  64. Lemonade
    Beyoncé
  65. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
  66. Essential Mix (episode 22 July 2017)
    Honey Dijon
  67. Painted Shut
    Hop Along
  68. Femme Fatale
    Britney Spears
  69. Replica
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  70. Playboi Carti
    Playboi Carti
  71. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
  72. Born This Way
    Lady Gaga
  73. I Want to Grow Up
    Colleen Green
  74. Hiding Places
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  75. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
  76. Opus
    Eric Prydz
  77. Young Enough
    Charly Bliss
  78. Devil Is Fine
    Zeal & Ardor
  79. Cosmogramma
    Flying Lotus
  80. Run the Jewels 2
    Run the Jewels
  81. Compilation (I, II & III)
    Sheer Mag
  82. You’re Not You Anymore
    Counterparts
  83. Love Yourself: Answer
    BTS
  84. Fear Biters
    Diaphragmatic
  85. This Land
    Gary Clark Jr.
  86. Jama Ko
    Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
  87. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
  88. Kindness for Weakness
    Homeboy Sandman
  89. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
  90. I Hate Music
    Superchunk
  91. Pop 2
    Charli XCX
  92. Blank Blank
    DaBaby
  93. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    Courtney Barnett
  94. Mutant
    Arca
  95. Home, Like Noplace Is There
    The Hotelier
  96. Coloring Book
    Chance The Rapper
  97. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
  98. Halcyon Digest
    Deerhunter
  99. I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album
    Earl Sweatshirt
  100. Crazy for You
    Best Coast
  101. Take Care
    Drake
2010s Movies

Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of the 2010s

21 March 2020

Twin Peaks: The Return - David Lynch

Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of the 2010s

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Twin Peaks: The Return
    David Lynch
  2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  3. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  4. Leviathan
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
  5. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
  6. House of Pleasures
    Bertrand Bonello
  7. Goodbye to Language
    Jean-Luc Godard
  8. Horse Money
    Pedro Costa
  9. Tabu
    Miguel Gomes
  10. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold

Special Mentions

2010s Movies

Reverse Shot: Best Films of the Decade

21 February 2020

The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick

Reverse Shot: Best Films of the Decade, "determined by polling all the major and continuing contributors to Reverse Shot in the publication's history"

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
  2. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
  3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  4. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
  5. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  6. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  7. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
  8. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
  9. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
  10. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  11. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
  12. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  13. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
  14. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
  15. Stray Dogs
    Tsai Ming-liang
  16. Carol
    Todd Haynes
  17. Poetry
    Lee Chang-dong
  18. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  19. Like Someone in Love
    Abbas Kiarostami
  20. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  21. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
2010s Movies

Chicago Reader: Ben Sachs: 25 Favorite Movies of the 2010s

28 January 2020

Life Without Principle - Johnnie To

Ben Sachs: 25 Favorite Movies of the 2010s, as published by The Chicago Reader

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Life Without Principle
    Johnnie To
  2. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
  3. Fish & Cat
    Shahram Mokri
  4. ‘Til Madness Do Us Part
    Wang Bing
  5. Bitter Money
    Wang Bing
  6. Dead Souls
    Wang Bing
  7. Inherent Vice
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  8. In Another Country
    Hong Sang-soo
  9. Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
    Hong Sang-soo
  10. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  11. Sunset
    László Nemes
  12. Rambleras
    Daniela Speranza
  13. Aurora
    Cristi Puiu
  14. Film Socialisme
    Jean-Luc Godard
  15. Goodbye to Language
    Jean-Luc Godard
  16. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
  17. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  18. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
    Adam Curtis
  19. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello
  20. Computer Chess
    Andrew Bujalski
  21. Sack Barrow
    Ben Rivers
  22. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
  23. Goodbye First Love
    Mia Hansen-Løve
  24. At Berkeley
    Frederick Wiseman
  25. Hard to Be a God
    Aleksey German
  26. Sully
    Clint Eastwood
  27. The Mule
    Clint Eastwood
  28. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
  29. The Apostate
    Federico Veiroj
  30. A Simple Life
    Ann Hui
  31. Tabu
    Miguel Gomes
2010s Music

Jordan Cronk: 50 Favorite Albums of the 2010s

14 January 2020

Goodness - The Hotelier

Jordan Cronk: 50 Favorite Albums of the 2010s, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

  1. Goodness
    The Hotelier
  2. The Seer
    Swans
  3. Viscera
    Jenny Hval
  4. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
  5. American Weekend
    Waxahatchee
  6. Black Up
    Shabazz Palaces
  7. Double Negative
    Low
  8. Paul's Tomb: A Triumph
    Frog Eyes
  9. Replica
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  10. Rival Dealer
    Burial
  11. There Is Love in You
    Four Tet
  12. Frozen Niagara Falls
    Prurient
  13. Going Places
    Yellow Swans
  14. Kaputt
    Destroyer
  15. Have One On Me
    Joanna Newsom
  16. Sunbather
    Deafheaven
  17. Before Today
    Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
  18. Halcyon Digest
    Deerhunter
  19. Ravedeath, 1972
    Tim Hecker
  20. Shaking the Habitual
    The Knife
  21. Eye Contact
    Gang Gang Dance
  22. Past Life Martyred Saints
    EMA
  23. Public Strain
    Women
  24. In Colour
    Jamie xx
  25. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
  26. Vulnicura
    Björk
  27. Platform
    Holly Herndon
  28. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
  29. Bish Bosch
    Scott Walker
  30. Syro
    Aphex Twin
  31. Does It Look Like I'm Here?
    Emeralds
  32. Quarantine
    Laurel Halo
  33. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
  34. Let England Shake
    PJ Harvey
  35. Eccojams Vol. 1
    Chuck Person
  36. Visions
    Grimes
  37. Mines
    Menomena
  38. Blackstar
    David Bowie
  39. Are We There
    Sharon Van Etten
  40. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
  41. Ruins
    Grouper
  42. Teen Dream
    Beach House
  43. Luxury Problems
    Andy Stott
  44. New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
    Colin Stetson
  45. Ekstasis
    Julia Holter
  46. Kill for Love
    Chromatics
  47. Arca
    Arca
  48. mbv
    My Bloody Valentine
  49. Smoke Ring for My Halo
    Kurt Vile
  50. Clinging to a Scheme
    The Radio Dept.
2010s Movies

Keith Phipps: Top 30 Films of the Decade

09 January 2020

Certified Copy - Abbas Kiarostami

Keith Phipps: Top 30 Films of the Decade, as posted to Twitter with a custom illustration for each entry

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
  2. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
  3. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
  4. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  5. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
  6. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
  7. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  8. Winter's Bone
    Debra Granik
  9. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
  10. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
  11. Her
    Spike Jonze
  12. The Irishman
    Martin Scorsese
  13. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
  14. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
  15. Carol
    Todd Haynes
  16. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
  17. Paterson
    Jim Jarmusch
  18. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
  19. Meek’s Cutoff
    Kelly Reichardt
  20. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
  21. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
  22. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  23. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
  24. The Social Network
    David Fincher
  25. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
  26. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
  27. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  28. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
  29. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
  30. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
2010s Movies

Michael J. Anderson: Ten Best FIlms of the 2010s

06 January 2020

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Michael J. Anderson: Ten Best FIlms of the 2010s

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2017]

2010s Movies

Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review: Anna Swanson: Top Films of the 2010s

05 January 2020

Anna Swanson: Top Films of the 2010s, as submitted to the collection of Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review

2010s Movies

Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review: Nicole Brenez: Top Films of the 2010s

05 January 2020

Nicole Brenez: Top Films of the 2010s, as submitted to the collection of Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

And Ten Other Alternative Films

2010s Movies

Willow Maclay: Favourite Films of the 2010s

05 January 2020

Support the Girls - Andrew Bujalski

Willow Maclay: Favourite Films of the 2010s, as posted to Letterboxd in alphabetical order

[see also 2017]

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