Year-End Lists

Literary Hub: The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s. In addition to the lists below, check out their large number of honorable mentions.

[see also Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022 • Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021 • Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020 • The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s • Favorite Books of 2018]

The Top Twenty

• A Visit from the Goon Squad
  Jennifer Egan
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
  David Mitchell
• Train Dreams
  Denis Johnson
• The Buddha in the Attic
  Julie Otsuka
• The Tiger’s Wife
  Téa Obreht
• Salvage The Bones
  Jesmyn Ward
• The Flamethrowers
  Rachel Kushner
• All My Puny Sorrows
  Miriam Toews
• Dept. of Speculation
  Jenny Offill
• The Sellout
  Paul Beatty
• The Sympathizer
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• A Little Life
  Hanya Yanagihara
• The Fifth Season
  N.K. Jemisin
• Outline
  Rachel Cusk
• The Underground Railroad
  Colson Whitehead
• Imagine Me Gone
  Adam Haslett
• The Overstory
  Richard Powers
• In the Distance
  Hernan Diaz
• Trust Exercise
  Susan Choi
• Milkman
  Anna Burns

Dissenting Opinions

• C
  Tom McCarthy
• The Sisters Brothers
  Patrick deWitt
• The Woman Upstairs
  Claire Messud
• Duplex
  Kathryn Davis
• Americanah
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• 10:04
  Ben Lerner
• An Unnecessary Woman
  Rabih Alameddine
• Fates and Furies
  Lauren Groff
• News of the World
  Paulette Jiles
• Solar Bones
  Mike McCormack
• Mr. Splitfoot
  Samantha Hunt
• Homegoing
  Yaa Gyasi
• Margaret the First
  Danielle Dutton
• The Idiot
  Elif Batuman
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Normal People
  Sally Rooney
• Indian Horse
  Richard Wagamese
• Inland
  Téa Obreht

Billboard: The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s, as selected by Billboard staff

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
   Kanye West
2. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
3. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
4. Red
   Taylor Swift
5. To Pimp A Butterfly
   Kendrick Lamar
6. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
7. Anti
   Rihanna
8. thank u, next
   Ariana Grande
9. Body Talk
   Robyn
10. 21
    Adele
11. Beyoncé
    Beyoncé
12. Random Access Memories
    Daft Punk
13. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
14. Teenage Dream
    Katy Perry
15. good kid, m.A.A.d city
    Kendrick Lamar
16. Take Care
    Drake
17. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
18. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
19. 1989
    Taylor Swift
20. House of Balloons
    The Weeknd
21. Born This Way
    Lady Gaga
22. Ctrl
    SZA
23. Pure Heroine
    Lorde
24. Watch the Throne
    Jay-Z and Kanye West
25. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
26. The Suburbs
    Arcade Fire
27. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
    Billie Eilish
28. Blond
    Frank Ocean
29. Kaleidoscope Dream
    Miguel
30. Purpose
    Justin Bieber
31. Born to Die
    Lana Del Rey
32. Currents
    Tame Impala
33. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
34. The Idler Wheel…
    Fiona Apple
35. Acid Rap
    Chance The Rapper
36. Black Messiah
    D’Angelo and The Vanguard
37. Paramore
    Paramore
38. Sweetener
    Ariana Grande
39. This Is Happening
    LCD Soundsystem
40. DS2
    Future
41. Art Angels
    Grimes
42. In the Lonely Hour
    Sam Smith
43. Four
    One Direction
44. Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
    Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast
45. Nothing Was the Same
    Drake
46. Settle
    Disclosure
47. Vibras
    J Balvin
48. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
49. Blackstar
    David Bowie
50. E•MO•TION
    Carly Rae Jepsen
51. Speak Now
    Taylor Swift
52. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
53. 4:44
    JAY-Z
54. IGOR
    Tyler, The Creator
55. Brothers
    The Black Keys
56. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
57. Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1
    Calvin Harris
58. Carrie & Lowell
    Sufjan Stevens
59. Daytona
    Pusha T
60. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
    Florence + The Machine
61. Montevallo
    Sam Hunt
62. Yeezus
    Kanye West
63. Heartthrob
    Tegan and Sara
64. Hero
    Maren Morris
65. Cuz I Love You
    Lizzo
66. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
67. SremmLife
    Rae Sremmurd
68. Days Are Gone
    Haim
69. 24K Magic
    Bruno Mars
70. Swimming
    Mac Miller
71. Heard It In A Past Life
    Maggie Rogers
72. Joyas Prestadas: Pop
    Jenni Rivera
72. Joyas Prestadas: Banda
    Jenni Rivera
73. Rainbow
    Ke$ha
74. Blurryface
    twenty one pilots
75. True Romance
    Charli XCX
76. Luv Is Rage 2
    Lil Uzi Vert
77. AM
    Arctic Monkeys
78. 25
    Adele
79. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    Courtney Barnett
80. Camila
    Camila Cabello
81. Sigh No More
    Mumford & Sons
82. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    The 1975
83. ASTROWORLD
    Travis Scott
84. Loud
    Rihanna
85. 2014 Forest Hills Drive
    J. Cole
86. Happiness Begins
    Jonas Brothers
87. By The Way, I Forgive You
    Brandi Carlile
88. Night Time, My Time
    Sky Ferreira
89. Awaken, My Love!
    Childish Gambino
90. Transgender Dysphoria Blues
    Against Me!
91. Bangerz
    Miley Cyrus
92. Odisea
    Ozuna
93. The Truth About Love
    Pink
94. Victory Lap
    Nipsey Hussle
95. Traveller
    Chris Stapleton
96. X
    Ed Sheeran
97. Worlds
    Porter Robinson
98. Celebration Rock
    Japandroids
99. Need You Now
    Lady Antebellum
100. A Star Is Born Soundtrack
     Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

Consequence: Top 100 Films of the 2010s

[see also 2017]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. The Social Network
   David Fincher
3. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
4. We Need to Talk About Kevin
   Lynne Ramsay
5. Hereditary
   Ari Aster
6. The Act of Killing
   Joshua Oppenheimer
6. The Look of Silence
   Joshua Oppenheimer
7. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
8. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. The Handmaiden
   Park Chan-wook
10. Inception
    Christopher Nolan
11. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
12. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
13. Bridesmaids
    Paul Feig
14. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
15. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
16. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
17. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
18. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
19. Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier
20. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
21. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
22. The Invitation
    Karyn Kusama
23. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
24. Son of Saul
    László Nemes
25. Logan
    James Mangold
26. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
27. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
28. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
29. 45 Years
    Andrew Haigh
30. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
31. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
32. Her
    Spike Jonze
33. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
34. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
35. Carol
    Todd Haynes
36. Fruitvale Station
    Ryan Coogler
37. Before Midnight
    Richard Linklater
38. Looper
    Rian Johnson
39. The Babadook
    Jennifer Kent
40. BlacKkKlansman
    Spike Lee
41. Silver Linings Playbook
    David O. Russell
42. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
43. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan
44. The Revenant
    Alejandro González Iñárritu
45. Inherent Vice
    Paul Thomas Anderson
46. Jackie
    Pablo Larraín
47. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    Banksy
48. Amour
    Michael Haneke
49. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
50. Nightcrawler
    Dan Gilroy
51. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
52. Moneyball
    Bennett Miller
53. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
54. Leviathan
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
55. Young Adult
    Jason Reitman
56. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
57. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
58. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
59. Baby Driver
    Edgar Wright
60. Amy
    Asif Kapadia
61. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
62. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine
63. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
64. Drive
    Nicolas Winding Refn
65. 13th
    Ava DuVernay
66. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
67. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
68. What We Do in the Shadows
    Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
69. Paterson
    Jim Jarmusch
70. Midsommar
    Ari Aster
71. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello
72. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
73. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    Anthony and Joe Russo
74. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
75. Blue Valentine
    Derek Cianfrance
76. The Interrupters
    Steve James
77. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
78. The Tale
    Jennifer Fox
79. Your Name
    Makoto Shinkai
80. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
81. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
82. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
83. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
84. Sing Street
    John Carney
85. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    Brad Bird
86. The Trip
    Michael Winterbottom
87. Columbus
    Kogonada
88. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
    Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone
89. Attack the Block
    Joe Cornish
90. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
91. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
92. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
93. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
94. Krisha
    Trey Edward Shults
95. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
96. Kubo and the Two Strings
    Travis Knight
97. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
98. The Raid 2
    Gareth Evans
99. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
100. mother!
     Darren Aronofsky

Roxana Hadadi: Top 50 Movies of the Decade, as posted to Twitter (and submitted to the A.V. Club's decade list)

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
3. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
4. Mudbound
   Dee Rees
5. Hell or High Water
   David Mackenzie
6. Drive
   Nicolas Winding Refn
7. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
8. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
9. Blade Runner 2049
   Denis Villeneuve
10. Short Term 12
    Destin Cretton
11. Winter's Bone
    Debra Granik
12. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
13. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
14. Paddington 2
    Paul King
15. High Flying Bird
    Steven Soderbergh
16. John Wick
    Chad Stahelski
17. Free Solo
    Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
18. Logan
    James Mangold
19. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
20. Hugo
    Martin Scorsese
21. Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier
22. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
    Ana Lily Amirpour
23. The Great Gatsby
    Baz Luhrmann
24. Creed
    Ryan Coogler
25. Ex Machina
    Alex Garland
26. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
27. Widows
    Steve McQueen
28. Snowpiercer
    Bong Joon-ho
29. Under the Shadow
    Babak Anvari
30. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
31. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
32. The Nice Guys
    Shane Black
33. Coco
    Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
34. Ingrid Goes West
    Matt Spicer
35. Somewhere
    Sofia Coppola
36. Blue Valentine
    Derek Cianfrance
37. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
38. Brooklyn
    John Crowley
39. The Boxtrolls
    Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi
40. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
41. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
42. Restrepo
    Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington
43. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
44. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine
45. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
46. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
47. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
48. Macbeth
    Justin Kurzel
49. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    Guy Ritchie
50. The Other Guys
    Adam McKay

The A.V. Club: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. The Social Network
   David Fincher
4. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
5. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
6. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
7. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
8. Frances Ha
   Noah Baumbach
9. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
10. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
11. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
12. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
13. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
14. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
15. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
15. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
16. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
17. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
18. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
19. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
20. Meek’s Cutoff
    Kelly Reichardt
21. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello
22. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
23. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
24. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
25. Two Days, One Night
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
26. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
27. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
28. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
29. Dogtooth
    Yorgos Lanthimos
30. Before Midnight
    Richard Linklater
31. Winter's Bone
    Debra Granik
32. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
33. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
34. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
35. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
36. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
37. Whiplash
    Damien Chazelle
38. Everyone Else
    Maren Ade
39. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
40. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
41. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
42. Leviathan
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
43. Marriage Story
    Noah Baumbach
44. Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier
45. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
46. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
47. It Follows
    David Robert Mitchell
48. Paterson
    Jim Jarmusch
49. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
50. Amour
    Michael Haneke
51. Her
    Spike Jonze
52. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
53. The Lobster
    Yorgos Lanthimos
54. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
55. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
56. Inception
    Christopher Nolan
57. Drive
    Nicolas Winding Refn
58. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
59. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
60. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
61. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
62. The Loneliest Planet
    Julia Loktev
63. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
64. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
65. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong Sang-soo
66. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
67. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
68. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
69. The Witch
    Robert Eggers
70. Tabu
    Miguel Gomes
71. Mustang
    Deniz Gamze Ergüven
72. Computer Chess
    Andrew Bujalski
73. Stranger by the Lake
    Alain Guiraudie
74. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
75. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
76. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
77. Paddington 2
    Paul King
78. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
79. Hell or High Water
    David Mackenzie
80. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
81. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine
82. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
83. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
84. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
85. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
86. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
87. Weekend
    Andrew Haigh
88. Drug War
    Johnnie To
89. Carol
    Todd Haynes
90. High Life
    Claire Denis
91. The Arbor
    Clio Barnard
92. Uncut Gems
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
93. Creed
    Ryan Coogler
94. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
95. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
96. Bridesmaids
    Paul Feig
97. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
98. The Comedy
    Rick Alverson
99. The Immigrant
    James Gray
100. Miss Bala
     Gerardo Naranjo

Judy Berman: The 10 Best TV Shows of the 2010s, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018]

• Mad Men
• Enlightened
• BoJack Horseman
• Halt and Catch Fire
• The Leftovers
• Better Call Saul
• Atlanta
• Fleabag
• The Good Place
• Twin Peaks: The Return

Paste Magazine: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
   Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
6. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
7. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
8. The Babadook
   Jennifer Kent
9. The Lobster
   Yorgos Lanthimos
10. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
11. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
12. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
13. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
14. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
15. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
16. Certain Women
    Kelly Reichardt
17. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
18. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
19. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
20. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
21. It’s Such a Beautiful Day
    Don Hertzfeldt
22. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
23. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
24. The Raid: Redemption
    Gareth Evans
25. Anomalisa
    Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
26. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
27. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
27. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
28. Swiss Army Man
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
29. The Tribe
    Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
30. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
31. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
32. John Wick
    Chad Stahelski
33. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
34. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
35. Edge of Tomorrow
    Doug Liman
36. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler
37. Her
    Spike Jonze
38. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
39. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    Brad Bird
40. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
41. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
42. Paddington 2
    Paul King
43. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
44. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
45. Ida
    Pawel Pawlikowski
46. Weekend
    Andrew Haigh
47. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
48. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
49. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
50. It Follows
    David Robert Mitchell
51. Drive
    Nicolas Winding Refn
52. At Berkeley
    Frederick Wiseman
53. Your Name
    Makoto Shinkai
54. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
55. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
56. Evolution
    Lucile Hadzihalilovic
57. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
58. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
59. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
60. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
61. The Beach Bum
    Harmony Korine
62. Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier
63. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
64. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
65. Krisha
    Trey Edward Shults
66. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
67. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
68. The Fits
    Anna Rose Holmer
69. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
70. Pariah
    Dee Rees
71. 13 Assassins
    Takashi Miike
72. Drug War
    Johnnie To
73. Mirai
    Mamoru Hosoda
74. Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley
75. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    RaMell Ross
76. The Avengers
    Joss Whedon
77. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
78. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
79. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
80. Lemonade
    Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Kahlil Joseph with Jonas Åkerlund, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek and Tod Tourso
81. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
82. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
83. Coco
    Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
84. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
85. High Life
    Claire Denis
86. We Are the Best!
    Lukas Moodysson
87. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Marielle Heller
88. Shirkers
    Sandi Tan
89. Shin Godzilla
    Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
90. The Grand Bizarre
    Jodie Mack
91. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    Anthony and Joe Russo
92. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
    Brett Story
93. Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley
94. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
95. Bisbee '17
    Robert Greene
96. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    Edgar Wright
97. Attenberg
    Athina Rachel Tsangari
98. A Field in England
    Ben Wheatley
99. Thor: Ragnarok
    Taika Waititi
100. The Bling Ring
     Sofia Coppola

Time Magazine: The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s

[see also The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 • The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 • Best Books of 2018 • Top 20 Books of 2017]

• A Visit from the Goon Squad
  Jennifer Egan
• My Brilliant Friend
  Elena Ferrante
• Gone Girl
  Gillian Flynn
• Americanah
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Life After Life
  Kate Atkinson
• Tenth of December
  George Saunders
• The Sellout
  Paul Beatty
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward
• Little Fires Everywhere
  Celeste Ng
• The Nickel Boys
  Colson Whitehead

Stephanie Zacharek: The 10 Best Movies of the 2010s, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

• Somewhere
  Sofia Coppola
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  Werner Herzog
• Melancholia
  Lars von Trier
• Before Midnight
  Richard Linklater
• Phoenix
  Christian Petzold
• John Wick
  Chad Stahelski
• Selma
  Ava DuVernay
• Moonlight
  Barry Jenkins
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• Roma
  Alfonso Cuaron

Film School Rejects: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

[see also 2018 • 2017]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
3. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
4. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
   Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
6. The Social Network
   David Fincher
7. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
8. What We Do in the Shadows
   Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
9. The Lobster
   Yorgos Lanthimos
10. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
11. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
12. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
13. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang
14. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
15. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
16. Paddington 2
    Paul King
17. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
18. The Witch
    Robert Eggers
19. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
20. Logan
    James Mangold
21. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
22. Take Shelter
    Jeff Nichols
23. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
24. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
25. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
26. Whiplash
    Damien Chazelle
27. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
28. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
29. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
30. True Grit
    Joel & Ethan Coen
31. 20th Century Women
    Mike Mills
32. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    Brad Bird
33. Nightcrawler
    Dan Gilroy
34. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
35. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    Taika Waititi
36. Ex Machina
    Alex Garland
37. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
38. Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier
39. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
40. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
41. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
42. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
43. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
44. Inception
    Christopher Nolan
45. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
46. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
47. The Nice Guys
    Shane Black
48. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
49. Foxtrot
    Samuel Maoz
50. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
51. The Cabin in the Woods
    Drew Goddard
52. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler
53. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins
54. Oslo, August 31st
    Joachim Trier
55. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Jim Jarmusch
56. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
57. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
58. Swiss Army Man
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
59. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
60. Inherent Vice
    Paul Thomas Anderson
61. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
62. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
63. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    Anthony and Joe Russo
64. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
65. Young Adult
    Jason Reitman
66. Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley
67. The Grey
    Joe Carnahan
68. Goodbye First Love
    Mia Hansen-Løve
69. Carol
    Todd Haynes
70. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
71. Attack the Block
    Joe Cornish
72. Blue Valentine
    Derek Cianfrance
73. The Raid: Redemption
    Gareth Evans
74. Thelma
    Joachim Trier
75. Her
    Spike Jonze
76. Gravity
    Alfonso Cuaron
77. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
78. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    Banksy
79. Blindspotting
    Carlos López Estrada
80. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
81. John Wick
    Chad Stahelski
82. I Saw the Devil
    Kim Ji-woon
83. Interstellar
    Christopher Nolan
84. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
85. Revenge
    Coralie Fargeat
86. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
87. Goodnight Mommy
    Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
88. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
89. Shin Godzilla
    Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
90. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
91. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
92. The Invitation
    Karyn Kusama
93. Kill List
    Ben Wheatley
94. High Life
    Claire Denis
95. Mustang
    Deniz Gamze Ergüven
96. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    Edgar Wright
97. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
98. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
99. Borg vs. McEnroe
    Janus Metz
100. Bone Tomahawk
     S. Craig Zahler