Year-End Lists

Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of the 2010s

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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 2023 • 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
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

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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

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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

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

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2017]

• The Assassin
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• An Elephant Sitting Still
  Hu Bo
• La Flor
  Mariano Llinás
• Li’l Quinquin
  Bruno Dumont
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• Sieranevada
  Cristi Puiu
• The Turin Horse
  Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 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

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

[see also 2017]

• 88:88
  Isiah Medina
• 13 Assassins
  Takashi Miike
• Abuse of Weakness
  Catherine Breillat
• Ace Attorney
  Takashi Miike
• Ad Astra
  James Gray
• Ash is Purest White
  Jia Zhang-ke
• The Assassin
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• Attenberg
  Athina Rachel Tsangari
• Bastards
  Claire Denis
• Beyond the Lights
  Gina Prince-Bythewood
• Blackhat
  Michael Mann
• Blade of the Immortal
  Takashi Miike
• Breathe
  Mélanie Laurent
• By the Sea
  Angelina Jolie
• Cameraperson
  Kirsten Johnson
• Carol
  Todd Haynes
• Certain Women
  Kelly Reichardt
• Cosmopolis
  David Cronenberg
• Creed
  Ryan Coogler
• Damsels in Distress
  Whit Stillman
• Dark Waters
  Todd Haynes
• Devilman Crybaby
• Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2
  Johnnie To
• Drug War
  Johnnie To
• The Edge of Seventeen
  Kelly Fremon Craig
• Elle
  Paul Verhoeven
• Frances Ha
  Noah Baumbach
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  David Fincher
• Girlhood
  Céline Sciamma
• Gone Girl
  David Fincher
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• i hate myself :)
  Joanna Arnow
• Haywire
  Steven Soderbergh
• Heaven Knows What
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• House of Pleasures
  Bertrand Bonello
• In This Corner of the World
  Sunao Katabuchi
• It Felt Like Love
  Eliza Hittman
• Inherent Vice
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Inside Llewyn Davis
  Joel & Ethan Coen
• In Jackson Heights
  Frederick Wiseman
• The Irishman
  Martin Scorsese
• K-ON! The Movie
  Naoko Yamada
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Lemonade
  Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Kahlil Joseph with Jonas Åkerlund, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek and Tod Tourso
• Little Women
  Greta Gerwig
• Liz and the Blue Bird
  Naoko Yamada
• The Lords Of Salem
  Rob Zombie
• Lucy
  Luc Besson
• Mad Max: Fury Road
  George Miller
• Magic Mike XXL
  Gregory Jacobs
• Margaret
  Kenneth Lonergan
• Meek’s Cutoff
  Kelly Reichardt
• Milla
  Valérie Massadian
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post
  Desiree Akhavan
• Moonlight
  Barry Jenkins
• No Home Movie
  Chantal Akerman
• O.J.: Made in America
  Ezra Edelman
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
  Quentin Tarantino
• The Other Side of the Wind
  Orson Welles
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Poetry
  Lee Chang-dong
• Pompeii
  Paul W.S. Anderson
• Resident Evil: Retribution
  Paul W.S. Anderson
• Ricki and the Flash
  Jonathan Demme
• Romancing in Thin Air
  Johnnie To
• The Salesman
  Asghar Farhadi
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  Edgar Wright
• Shin Godzilla
  Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
• Shutter Island
  Martin Scorsese
• Silence
  Martin Scorsese
• The Skin I Live In
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Spring Breakers
  Harmony Korine
• Somewhere
  Sofia Coppola
• So Pretty
  Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
• A Star Is Born
  Bradley Cooper
• The Strange Case of Angelica
  Manoel de Oliveira
• Strangely Ordinary This Devotion
  Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson
• Strong Island
  Yance Ford
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• Tabu
  Miguel Gomes
• The Tale
  Jennifer Fox
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
  Isao Takahata
• 3 from Hell
  Rob Zombie
• Top of the Lake
  Jane Campion and Garth Davis
• The Tree of Life
  Terrence Malick
• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• Twixt
  Francis Ford Coppola
• Two Days, One Night
  Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Uncut Gems
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Under the Skin
  Jonathan Glazer
• Unfriended
  Levan Gabriadze
• Unsane
  Steven Soderbergh
• Unstoppable
  Tony Scott
• Weekend
  Andrew Haigh
• The Wind Rises
  Hayao Miyazaki
• Wolf Children
  Mamoru Hosoda
• The Wolf of Wall Street
  Martin Scorsese

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