Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of the 2010s

[see also 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 3D — 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 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 3D — 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 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 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015]

• 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 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 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