Year-End Lists

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 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 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 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 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

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

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 Films of the Decade, as posted to Twitter with the caveat that it may still change

[see also 2017]

• 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
• Our Time
  Carlos Reygadas
• Poetry
  Lee Chang-dong
• Over the Years
  Nikolaus Geyrhalter
• 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
• Things to Come
  Mia Hansen-Løve
• 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