Year-End Lists

Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of the 2010s

[see also 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

• The Assassin
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Stranger by the Lake
  Alain Guiraudie
• Sieranevada
  Cristi Puiu

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 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 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
12. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
13. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
14. Stray Dogs
    Tsai Ming-liang
15. Carol
    Todd Haynes
16. Poetry
    Lee Chang-dong
17. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
18. Like Someone in Love
    Abbas Kiarostami
19. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
20. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan

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
4. Bitter Money
   Wang Bing
4. Dead Souls
   Wang Bing
5. Inherent Vice
   Paul Thomas Anderson
6. In Another Country
   Hong Sang-soo
6. Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
   Hong Sang-soo
7. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
8. Sunset
   László Nemes
9. Rambleras
   Daniela Speranza
10. Aurora
    Cristi Puiu
11. Film Socialisme
    Jean-Luc Godard
11. Goodbye to Language
    Jean-Luc Godard
11. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
12. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
13. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
    Adam Curtis
14. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello
15. Computer Chess
    Andrew Bujalski
16. Sack Barrow
    Ben Rivers
17. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
18. Goodbye First Love
    Mia Hansen-Løve
19. At Berkeley
    Frederick Wiseman
20. Hard to Be a God
    Aleksey German
21. Sully
    Clint Eastwood
21. The Mule
    Clint Eastwood
22. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
23. The Apostate
    Federico Veiroj
24. A Simple Life
    Ann Hui
25. Tabu
    Miguel Gomes

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

[see also 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

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

• Phoenix
  Christian Petzold
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Inherent Vice
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Transit
  Christian Petzold
• Gone Girl
  David Fincher
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  Quentin Tarantino
• Melancholia
  Lars von Trier
• No Home Movie
  Chantal Akerman
• Elle
  Paul Verhoeven

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

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

• Film Socialisme
  Jean-Luc Godard
• Censor Must Die
  Ing K
• The Silent Majority Speaks
  Bani Khoshnoudi
• Wake (Subic)
  John Gianvito
• Vapor Trail (Clark)
  John Gianvito
• Sou Hami, la crainte de la nuit
  Anne-Laure de Franssu and Mory Coulibaly
• The End of the World Begins with One Lie
  Lech Kowalski
• Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
  Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerín
• Nana
  Valérie Massadian
• Rubber Coated Stee
  Lawrence Abu Hamdan
• Field Niggas
  Khalik Allah

And Ten Other Alternative Films

• Gens du lac
  Jean-Marie Straub
• Nuit Bleue
  Ange Leccia
• The Wild Frontier
  Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval
• Sleep Has Her House
  Scott Barley
• Impressions
  Jacques Perconte
• Potato
  O Meul
• Film Catastrophe
  Paul Grivas
• The Burden
  Niki Lindroth von Bahr
• Newsreel 63: The Train of Shadows
  Nika Autor
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax

Miriam Bale: Best Films of the Decade, as posted to Twitter, in no particular order

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

• Inherent Vice
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Uncut Gems
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Lemonade
  Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Kahlil Joseph with Jonas Åkerlund, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek and Tod Tourso
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Moonlight
  Barry Jenkins
• Gone Girl
  David Fincher
• Somewhere
  Sofia Coppola
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Kuichisan
  Maiko Endo
• No Home Movie
  Chantal Akerman
• Almayer’s Folly
  Chantal Akerman

Bonus

• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• All Hong Sang-soo movies, peaking with ...
• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo

Darren Hughes: Favorite Films of the 2010s, as posted to Letterboxd, listed alphabetically

[see also 2021 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012]

• As Without So Within
  Manuela De Laborde
• Carol
  Todd Haynes
• Delphi Falls
  Mary Helena Clark
• The Dreamed Ones
  Ruth Beckermann
• Ears, Nose and Throat
  Kevin Jerome Everson
• Horse Money
  Pedro Costa
• House of Pleasures
  Bertrand Bonello
• The Immigrant
  James Gray
• Let Your Light Shine
  Jodie Mack
• Li’l Quinquin
  Bruno Dumont
• The Loneliest Planet
  Julia Loktev
• The Mend
  John Magary
• Museum Hours
  Jem Cohen
• Onward Lossless Follows
  Michael Robinson
• Red Capriccio
  Blake Williams
• The Souvenir
  Joanna Hogg
• The Strange Little Cat
  Ramon Zürcher
• Sun Song
  Joel Wanek
• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel

Jordan Ruimy: The 25 Best Movies of the Decade, as posted at World of Reel

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
2. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
4. Margaret
   Kenneth Lonergan
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
6. Dogtooth
   Yorgos Lanthimos
7. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
8. O.J.: Made in America
   Ezra Edelman
9. Carol
   Todd Haynes
10. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
11. Her
    Spike Jonze
12. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
13. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
14. Son of Saul
    László Nemes
15. The Social Network
    David Fincher
16. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
17. Black Swan
    Darren Aronofsky
18. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
19. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
20. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
21. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
22. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
23. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello
24. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
25. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax

Matt Patches: The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade, as published by Polygon

[see also 2019]

1. The Comedy
   Rick Alverson
2. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
3. Kill List
   Ben Wheatley
4. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
   Wes Anderson
7. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
   Isao Takahata
8. 45 Years
   Andrew Haigh
9. The Arbor
   Clio Barnard
10. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine