Year-End Lists

TIFF Cinematheque: The Best of the Decade: An Alternative View, a poll of film curators, archivists and historians from Canada and abroad

1. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
2. Toni Erdmann
   Maren Ade
3. Goodbye to Language
   Jean-Luc Godard
4. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
5. Sieranevada
   Cristi Puiu
6. The Assassin
   Hou Hsiao-Hsien
6. Transit
   Christian Petzold
7. Film Socialisme
   Jean-Luc Godard
8. Holy Motors
   Leos Carax
8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
9. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. Ida
   Pawel Pawlikowski
9. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
9. Neighboring Sounds
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
9. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
9. Vitalina Varela
   Pedro Costa
10. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
10. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
10. The Strange Case of Angelica
    Manoel de Oliveira

Chris Ryan: Top 10 Movies of the 2010s, as as discussed on The Ringer's podcast The Big Picture

1. The Social Network
   David Fincher
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
   Martin Scorsese
3. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
4. Arrival
   Denis Villeneuve
5. Before Midnight
   Richard Linklater
6. Drive
   Nicolas Winding Refn
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
8. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
9. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
10. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino

Amanda Dobbins: Top 10 Movies of the 2010s, as as discussed on The Ringer's podcast The Big Picture

1. The Social Network
   David Fincher
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
4. Moneyball
   Bennett Miller
5. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Skyfall
   Sam Mendes
7. Frances Ha
   Noah Baumbach
8. Arrival
   Denis Villeneuve
9. Magic Mike
   Steven Soderbergh
10. Fast Five
    Justin Lin

Sean Fennessey: Top 10 Movies of the 2010s, as as discussed on The Ringer's podcast The Big Picture

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021]

1. The Social Network
   David Fincher
2. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
4. Whiplash
   Damien Chazelle
5. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
6. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
7. Frances Ha
   Noah Baumbach
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
9. O.J.: Made in America
   Ezra Edelman
10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman

Richard Lawson: The 10 Best Movies of the 2010s, as published by Vanity Fair

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

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
4. Melancholia
   Lars von Trier
5. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
6. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
7. Eden
   Mia Hansen-Løve
8. Force Majeure
   Ruben Östlund
9. Weekend
   Andrew Haigh
10. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone

K. Austin Collins: The 30 Best Movies of the 2010s, as published by Vanity Fair, presented alphabetically

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. The Act of Killing: Director's Cut
   Joshua Oppenheimer
2. Carol
   Todd Haynes
3. The Day He Arrives
   Hong Sang-soo
4. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
   Travis Wilkerson
5. Drug War
   Johnnie To
6. Field Niggas
   Khalik Allah
7. Frances Ha
   Noah Baumbach
8. The Future
   Miranda July
9. Gone Girl
   David Fincher
10. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
11. Heaven Knows What
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
12. In Jackson Heights
    Frederick Wiseman
13. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
14. It Felt Like Love
    Eliza Hittman
15. Leviathan
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
16. Like Someone in Love
    Abbas Kiarostami
17. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
18. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
19. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
20. The Missing Picture
    Rithy Panh
21. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
22. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies
23. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
24. A Touch of Sin
    Jia Zhang-ke
25. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
26. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
    John Hyams
27. Unstoppable
    Tony Scott
28. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
29. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
30. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese

Richard Brody: The Twenty-Seven Best Movies of the 2010s, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

• The Wolf of Wall Street
  Martin Scorsese
• Madeline’s Madeline
  Josephine Decker
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• An Elephant Sitting Still
  Hu Bo
• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
  Travis Wilkerson
• The Future
  Miranda July
• Margaret
  Kenneth Lonergan
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
  Wes Anderson
• Somewhere
  Sofia Coppola
• Li’l Quinquin
  Bruno Dumont
• Film Socialisme
  Jean-Luc Godard
• An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
  Terence Nance
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Coma
  Sara Fattahi
• Red Hook Summer
  Spike Lee
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• Moonlight
  Barry Jenkins
• The Mule
  Clint Eastwood
• It Felt Like Love
  Eliza Hittman
• The Last of the Unjust
  Claude Lanzmann
• In Jackson Heights
  Frederick Wiseman
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• A Screaming Man
  Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• Jafar Panahi’s Taxi
  Jafar Panahi
• Let the Sunshine In
  Claire Denis
• Infinite Football
  Corneliu Porumboiu

Stephanie Zacharek: The 10 Best Movies of 2019, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

1. Pain and Glory
   Pedro Almodóvar
2. The Irishman
   Martin Scorsese
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
4. Marriage Story
   Noah Baumbach
5. Little Women
   Greta Gerwig
6. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
7. Knives Out
   Rian Johnson
8. Dolemite Is My Name
   Craig Brewer
9. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
   Marielle Heller
10. Hustlers
    Lorene Scafaria

Honorable Mentions

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  Céline Sciamma
• The Beach Bum
  Harmony Korine
• Ad Astra
  James Gray
• Booksmart
  Olivia Wilde
• American Factory
  Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Birds of Passage
  Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
• 1917
  Sam Mendes
• Gloria Bell
  Sebastián Lelio
• Motherless Brooklyn
  Edward Norton

Esquire: The Best Movies of the 2010s

[see also 2022]

1. The Social Network
   David Fincher
2. Before Midnight
   Richard Linklater
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
4. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
5. Whiplash
   Damien Chazelle
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
   Quentin Tarantino
7. The Lobster
   Yorgos Lanthimos
8. The Handmaiden
   Park Chan-wook
9. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
10. Paddington 2
    Paul King

The Independent: The 40 Best Films of the 2010s, curated by Clarisse Loughrey, Geoffrey Macnab and Adam White

1. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
2. Carol
   Todd Haynes
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
6. American Honey
   Andrea Arnold
7. Paddington 2
   Paul King
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
9. You Were Never Really Here
   Lynne Ramsay
10. 20th Century Women
    Mike Mills
11. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
12. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
13. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
14. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
15. Son of Saul
    László Nemes
16. The Selfish Giant
    Clio Barnard
17. Stoker
    Park Chan-wook
18. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
19. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
20. Black Swan
    Darren Aronofsky
21. The Social Network
    David Fincher
22. Anomalisa
    Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
23. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
24. Her
    Spike Jonze
25. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
26. Boy
    Taika Waititi
27. Selma
    Ava DuVernay
28. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
29. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
30. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
31. The Revenant
    Alejandro González Iñárritu
32. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
33. A Quiet Passion
    Terence Davies
34. The Edge of Seventeen
    Kelly Fremon Craig
35. Dogtooth
    Yorgos Lanthimos
36. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
37. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
38. The Irishman
    Martin Scorsese
39. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
40. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino