Benzine Magazine: The Best Films of the Decade 2010-2019, in roughly chronological order

• The Social Network — David Fincher
• Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
• Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
• Blue is the Warmest Color — Abdellatif Kechiche
• The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
• Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
• Boyhood — Richard Linklater
• Winter Sleep — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Mommy — Xavier Dolan
• My Golden Days — Arnaud Desplechin
• Elle — Paul Verhoeven
• Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
• Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
• Burning — Lee Chang-dong
• Parasite — Bong Joon-ho

Eric Allen Hatch: Favorite Films of the 2010s, as posted to Twitter

• Evolution of a Criminal — Darius Clark Monroe
• Post Tenebras Lux — Carlos Reygadas
• Sun Don’t Shine — Amy Seimetz
• Trash Humpers — Harmony Korine
• Edge of Tomorrow — Doug Liman
• Island of the Hungry Ghosts — Gabrielle Brady
• The Nice Guys — Shane Black
• Dogtooth — Yorgos Lanthimos
• It Felt Like Love — Eliza Hittman
• Distant Constellation — Shevaun Mizrahi
• Newlyweeds — Shaka King
• Tabu — Miguel Gomes
• Kaili Blues — Bi Gan
• Intrus
• Let the Fire Burn — Jason Osder
• The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
• Holy Motors — Leos Carax

The Playlist: The 100 Best Films of the Decade. See also their large number of honorable mentions.

[see also 2019, 2018]

1. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
2. A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
3. The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
4. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
5. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
6. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
7. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
8. Dogtooth — Yorgos Lanthimos
9. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
10. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
11. Get Out — Jordan Peele
12. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
13. Carol — Todd Haynes
14. 20th Century Women — Mike Mills
15. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
16. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
17. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
18. A Prophet — Jacques Audiard
19. 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
20. Birds of Passage — Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
21. Arrival — Denis Villeneuve
22. Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley
23. The Comedy — Rick Alverson
24. Pain and Glory — Pedro Almodóvar
25. Li’l Quinquin — Bruno Dumont
26. Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
27. The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
28. Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
29. Jackie — Pablo Larraín
30. Only Lovers Left Alive — Jim Jarmusch
31. High Life — Claire Denis
32. First Man — Damien Chazelle
33. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
34. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
35. If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
36. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
37. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
38. Two Days, One Night — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
39. The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
40. The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
41. Annihilation — Alex Garland
42. Amour — Michael Haneke
43. 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
44. Before Midnight — Richard Linklater
45. Wildlife — Paul Dano
46. Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
47. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
48. Enemy — Denis Villeneuve
49. Killing Them Softly — Andrew Dominik
50. Foxcatcher — Bennett Miller
51. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
52. Columbus — Kogonada
53. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
54. Selma — Ava DuVernay
55. The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
56. The Rider — Chloé Zhao
57. Her — Spike Jonze
58. Phoenix — Christian Petzold
59. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
60. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
61. A Ghost Story — David Lowery
62. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
63. Tabu — Miguel Gomes
64. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
65. Blue Valentine — Derek Cianfrance
66. O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
67. Upstream Color — Shane Carruth
68. Tangerine — Sean Baker
69. Suspiria — Luca Guadagnino
70. The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg
71. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
72. White Material — Claire Denis
73. Weekend — Andrew Haigh
74. Zama — Lucrecia Martel
75. The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
76. The Social Network — David Fincher
77. The Immigrant — James Gray
78. The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
79. Eden — Mia Hansen-Løve
80. Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
81. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
82. Stranger by the Lake — Alain Guiraudie
83. Leviathan — Andrey Zvyagintsev
84. Girlhood — Céline Sciamma
85. No — Pablo Larraín
86. Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
87. The Lighthouse — Robert Eggers
88. Ida — Pawel Pawlikowski
89. The Hunt — Thomas Vinterberg
90. Shame — Steve McQueen
91. Zero Dark Thirty — Kathryn Bigelow
92. Inception — Christopher Nolan
93. Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
94. The Wailing — Na Hong-jin
95. mother! — Darren Aronofsky
96. What We Do in the Shadows — Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
97. Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
98. Martha Marcy May Marlene — Sean Durkin
99. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
100. Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019

[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch
2. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
3. Li’l Quinquin — Bruno Dumont
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
5. The Image Book — Jean-Luc Godard
6. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
7. Mia Madre — Nanni Moretti
8. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
9. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
10. The Strange Case of Angelica — Manoel de Oliveira

Susannah Gruder: Best Movies of the 2010s, as posted to Letterboxd

1. Under the Skin — Jonathan Glazer
2. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
3. I Am Love — Luca Guadagnino
4. In My Room — Ulrich Köhler
5. In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
6. Two Days, One Night — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
7. Force Majeure — Ruben Östlund
8. Christine — Antonio Campos
9. We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
10. Weiner — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
11. Take This Waltz — Sarah Polley
12. The Love Witch — Anna Biller
13. The Master — Paul Thomas Anderson
14. Greenberg — Noah Baumbach
15. The Wonders — Alice Rohrwacher
16. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
17. Stranger by the Lake — Alain Guiraudie
18. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
19. Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
20. Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
21. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
22. Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
23. Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach
24. Dogtooth — Yorgos Lanthimos
25. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
26. First Reformed — Paul Schrader
27. Another Earth — Mike Cahill
28. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
29. The Skin I Live In — Pedro Almodóvar
30. The Great Beauty — Paolo Sorrentino
31. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
32. The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
33. Barbara — Christian Petzold
34. Burning — Lee Chang-dong
35. Us — Jordan Peele
36. Weekend — Andrew Haigh
37. The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
38. Carol — Todd Haynes
39. Black Swan — Darren Aronofsky
40. Boyhood — Richard Linklater
41. Amour — Michael Haneke
42. The Witch — Robert Eggers
43. Holy Motors — Leos Carax
44. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
45. Hereditary — Ari Aster
46. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter — David Zellner
47. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
48. Get Out — Jordan Peele
49. Spring Breakers — Harmony Korine
50. Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas

Nellie Killian: Top 40 Films of the Decade, as posted to Twitter with the caveat that it may still change

• Abuse of Weakness — Catherine Breillat
• Another Year — Mike Leigh
• Arabian Nights — Miguel Gomes
• Barbara — Christian Petzold
• Bernie — Richard Linklater
• BPM (Beats Per Minute) — Robin Campillo
• A Bread Factory — Patrick Wang
• By the Time It Gets Dark — Anocha Suwichakornpong
• Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• The Commuter — Jaume Collet-Serra
• Diamantino — Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
• Downsizing — Alexander Payne
• Elle — Paul Verhoeven
• First Reformed — Paul Schrader
• Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
• Heart of a Dog — Laurie Anderson
• Holy Motors — Leos Carax
• Hissein Habre, a Chadian Tragedy — Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
• In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
• INAATE/SE — Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil
• Jackass 3D — Jeff Tremaine
• The Intern — Nancy Meyers
• Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
• Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
• Like Someone in Love — Abbas Kiarostami
• Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
• Maps to the Stars — David Cronenberg
• Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
• Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol — Brad Bird
• The Mule — Clint Eastwood
• Mysteries of Lisbon — Raoul Ruiz
• No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
• Office — Johnnie To
• Oki’s Movie — Hong Sang-soo
• The Other Side of Hope — Aki Kaurismäki
• Poetry — Lee Chang-dong
• Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping — Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone
• The Rehearsal — Alison Maclean
• The Social Network — David Fincher
• Step Up 3D — Jon M. Chu
• Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
• Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch
• Unfriended — Levan Gabriadze
• The Week Of — Robert Smigel
• The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
• The Work — Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
• You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet — Alain Resnais

Orla Smith: Best Films of the Decade, as submitted to the Seventh Row Critics Survey

1. Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
2. Somewhere — Sofia Coppola
3. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
4. Weekend — Andrew Haigh
5. Raw — Julia Ducournau

Lena Wilson: Best Films of the Decade, as submitted to the Seventh Row Critics Survey

1. Beach Rats — Eliza Hittman
2. Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
3. The Lion's Mouth Opens — Lucy Walker
4. Pariah — Dee Rees
5. The Invitation — Karyn Kusama

Seventh Row: 50 Favourite Films of the Decade

1. Oslo, August 31st — Joachim Trier
2. Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
3. Mouthpiece — Patricia Rozema
4. Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
5. Weekend — Andrew Haigh
6. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
7. Rhymes for Young Ghouls — Jeff Barnaby
8. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
9. Sergio and Sergei — Ernesto Daranas
10. Stories We Tell — Sarah Polley
11. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
12. The Burden — Niki Lindroth von Bahr
13. The Deep Blue Sea — Terence Davies
14. Proxima — Alice Winocour
15. Louder Than Bombs — Joachim Trier
16. Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
17. Charlie's Country — Rolf de Heer
18. Raw — Julia Ducournau
19. Coriolanus — Ralph Fiennes
20. Unsane — Steven Soderbergh
21. Aquarius — Kleber Mendonça Filho
22. Archipelago — Joanna Hogg
23. The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
24. Transit — Christian Petzold
25. We Are the Best! — Lukas Moodysson
26. At Berkeley — Frederick Wiseman
27. Selma — Ava DuVernay
28. Wild Nights with Emily — Madeleine Olnek
29. Paddington 2 — Paul King
30. Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
31. Their Finest — Lone Scherfig
32. Angels Wear White — Vivian Qu
33. Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
34. Lean On Pete — Andrew Haigh
35. Our Loved Ones — Anne Émond
36. The Levelling — Hope Dickson Leach
37. Wadjda — Haifaa al-Mansour
38. Neruda — Pablo Larraín
39. Ninth Floor — Mina Shum
40. Tomboy — Céline Sciamma
41. Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
42. The Miseducation of Cameron Post — Desiree Akhavan
43. Our Little Sister — Hirokazu Kore-eda
44. Enough Said — Nicole Holofcener
45. The Kid with a Bike — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
46. No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
47. Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
48. Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
49. Dreams of a Life — Carol Morley
50. The Riot Club — Lone Scherfig

Matt Goldberg: Top 25 Films of the 2010s, as published by Collider

1. The Social Network — David Fincher
2. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
3. 21 Jump Street — Phil Lord and Chris Miller
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop — Banksy
5. Her — Spike Jonze
6. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
7. Get Out — Jordan Peele
8. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol — Brad Bird
8. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation — Christopher McQuarrie
8. Mission: Impossible – Fallout — Christopher McQuarrie
9. 13th — Ava DuVernay
10. The Lego Movie — Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
11. Short Term 12 — Destin Cretton
12. Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
13. Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
14. The Act of Killing — Joshua Oppenheimer
15. Paddington 2 — Paul King
16. MacGruber — Jorma Taccone
17. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
18. Rise of the Planet of the Apes — Rupert Wyatt
18. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — Matt Reeves
18. War for the Planet of the Apes — Matt Reeves
19. Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Rian Johnson
20. The World’s End — Edgar Wright
21. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping — Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone
22. Beasts of the Southern Wild — Benh Zeitlin
23. Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
24. Marvel Cinematic Universe
25. Inception — Christopher Nolan

Honorable Mentions

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — Edgar Wright
• Attack the Block — Joe Cornish
• Skyfall — Sam Mendes
• The Cabin in the Woods — Drew Goddard
• The Grey — Joe Carnahan
• 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen
• Boyhood — Richard Linklater
• The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
• Nightcrawler — Dan Gilroy
• Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
• The Witch — Robert Eggers
• Baby Driver — Edgar Wright
• Mudbound — Dee Rees
• Logan — James Mangold