Top 10 Films of the Decade (2010-2019)

[Kane52630]

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Since we are heading into a new decade, I thought I'd make a thread where we can list and debate on what are the best films of the last 10 years. Now while it says 10 films, you don't have to limit to just 10 and you don't have to only have one list. For example, you can have the top 10 best romcoms of the decade or the top 10 best superhero movies of the decade. You can filter it however you like.


I'm still working on mine, but you guys are welcome to start it...

 

[Boom]

Best by year:

2010: The Social Network
2011: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2012: The Master
2013: Gravity
2014: Whiplash
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: The Witch
2017: Blade Runner 2049
2018: First Reformed
2019 (to date): The Lighthouse

 

[flickchick85]

I'll do categories later, but these are probably my 10 faves of the decade (in no particular order):

The Social Network
Inception
Zero Dark Thirty
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario
Blade Runner 2049
Roma
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
The Favourite

Honorable mentions: True Grit, Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy, The Master, The Artist, The Raid 1& 2, The Avengers, Looper, Skyfall, Gravity, Whiplash, John Wick 1-3, Dunkirk, Parasite, The Lighthouse, Knives Out

 

[Schlosser85]

Off the top of my head, I would throw in Inception and Mad Max: Fury Road.

 

[TheGuy]

I'm mostly blank with movies from 2013-2016. 2010 and 2012 had some great and memorable movies, though.

The Social Network
Inception
The Dark Knight Rises
Zero Dark Thirty
Moonlight Kingdom
Interstellar
Inside Out
Arrival
War for the Planet of the Apes
Logan

HMs:
127 Hours, Black Swan, Hugo, The Artist, Moneyball, Django Unchained, Lincoln, Dallas Buyers Club, Moonlight

 

[David H.]

I’m doing a “favorite-per-year” list as well. I still feel that initial urge to head on over to IMDb for refreshers on each of the decade’s good-to-great films (by my estimation) and compile them all into one master list... but exhaustion quickly overwhelms that urge.

That and it’s probably just plain impossible for me to feel like any list of such nature of my own making could be satisfying. I’m still lagging behind on my 2012 watchlist(!) (speaking of which, the passing of time has exponentially increased each year beginning with 2012, right?)

Anyways, without further ado, a compromise:

Spoiler

2010: True Grit (perhaps the film that’s grown the most in my estimation this past decade. Utterly indifferent to it at the time of release and up until a 2017 revisit which left me head over heels for it. Really a modern classic in my opinion.)

2011: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (up there on the decade’s most revisited films for me. Tied for best ensamble with...)

2012: Lincoln (my unofficial Holiday favorite. It instills in me, with each viewing, a profound sense of hope. I cling to that a lot these days. Day-Lewis is, naturally, transformative. You’re left with something by his performance that’s akin to the feeling of having made a real friend.)

2013: Inside Llewyn Davis (the strongest connection I’ve felt with a title character maybe ever. Got me, in part, to stand up and step out of a bad situation. I literally sing-along to this movie.)

2014: Hell, I’m feeling nostalgic. Grand Budapest Hotel.

2015: Mad Max: Fury Road

2016: The Handmaiden (breath-taking filmmaking.)

2017: Call Me by Your Name (Michael Stuhlbarg’s closing monologue was everything I felt like I needed to hear from someone at one time in my life. I’m glad it exists for others now.)

2018: First Man, though I’m pretty sure the number of movies I saw from this year is under 10.

2019: The Lighthouse. Again, not definitive (though it’s a strong, strong contender. Could go all the way.)

Oof. Even that was kind of hard.

 

[Boom]

I’m doing a “favorite-per-year” list as well. I still feel that initial urge to head on over to IMDb for refreshers on each of the decade’s good-to-great films (by my estimation) and compile them all into one master list... but exhaustion quickly overwhelms that urge.

That and it’s probably just plain impossible for me to feel like any list of such nature of my own making could be satisfying. I’m still lagging behind on my 2012 watchlist(!) (speaking of which, the passing of time has exponentially increased each year beginning with 2012, right?)

Anyways, without further ado, a compromise:

Spoiler

2010: True Grit (perhaps the film that’s grown the most in my estimation this past decade. Utterly indifferent to it at the time of release and up until a 2017 revisit which left me head over heels for it. Really a modern classic in my opinion.)

2011: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (up there on the decade’s most revisited films for me. Tied for best ensamble with...)

2012: Lincoln (my unofficial Holiday favorite. It instills in me, with each viewing, a profound sense of hope. I cling to that a lot these days. Day-Lewis is, naturally, transformative. You’re left with something by his performance that’s akin to the feeling of having made a real friend.)

2013: Inside Llewyn Davis (the strongest connection I’ve felt with a title character maybe ever. Got me, in part, to stand up and step out of a bad situation. I literally sing-along to this movie.)

2014: Hell, I’m feeling nostalgic. Grand Budapest Hotel.

2015: Mad Max: Fury Road

2016: The Handmaiden (breath-taking filmmaking.)

2017: Call Me by Your Name (Michael Stuhlbarg’s closing monologue was everything I felt like I needed to hear from someone at one time in my life. I’m glad it exists for others now.)

2018: First Man, though I’m pretty sure the number of movies I saw from this year is under 10.

2019: The Lighthouse. Again, not definitive (though it’s a strong, strong contender. Could go all the way.)

Oof. Even that was kind of hard.

Haven't seen The Handmaiden but this list is FIRE. I adore True Grit.

 

[Ninjablade]

I've been meaning to make my list. I'd need more time to rank the decade as a whole, but ranking each year was fairly easy. So many films I thought were older than this decade but also forgot about a lot of the crap I saw. Doing a dive of each year, man the early 2010s was filled with a lot of meh.

If I were to do a list of my favorite from each year it'd look something like this:

2010: The Social Network/ Inception
2011: Captain America: The First Avenger
2012: Skyfall
2013: The Way, Way Back
2014: Edge of Tomorrow/ Nightcrawler
2015: Steve Jobs
2016: The Nice Guys
2017: Baby Driver
2018: Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2019: Jojo Rabbit

 

[Luigi]

Top 15 of the decade (in no particular order):

Looper
Blade Runner 2049
The Place Beyond the Pines
Green Room
Avengers: Endgame
Mad Max: Fury Road
Creed
The Witch
Avengers: Infinity War
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
The Avengers
Logan
Whiplash
Prisoners

Yeah, that was hard.

 

[childeroland]

1. Mountains May Depart. Beautiful epic about the changes China is going through on all levels of society.
2. Ash is Purest White. Superb crime drama from the same director and lead actress, a real-life couple and one of the great collaborative teams of the past 20 years.
3. Your Name. I know Shinkai gets tons of crap for telling the same story over and over, but this time he knocks it out of the park. One of the best non-Ghibli anime films I've ever seen.
4. The Assassin. Great wuxia film with the beautiful Shu Qi playing the titular assassin. Almost a silent film that only needs visuals to tell its story.
5. The Tree of Life. Epic family drama about everything.
6. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Surreal masterpiece about a man dealing with death with the help of his spirits
7. Like Someone in Love. A beautifully mysterious love story.
8. A Silent Voice. An anime about cruelty and redemption that really resonates.
9. In This Corner of the World. The best anime take on war since Grave of the Fireflies.
10. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. Takahata's last masterpiece.

 

[TheGuy]

6. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Surreal masterpiece about a man dealing with death with the help of his spirits

Still haven't gotten around to watch this.

 

[Asr]

Horror:
- The Conjuring
- The Witch

Sci-fi/fantasy/superheroes:
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Blade Runner 2049
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Deadpool
- Interstellar
- Joker
- Logan
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Man of Steel
- Rise/Dawn/War for the Planet of the Apes
- X-Men: First Class / Days of Future Past

Animated:
- Big Hero 6
- Coco
- How to Train Your Dragon (1, 2, & 3)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Toy Story 3
- Zootopia

Action:
- Fast Five / F&F6 / Furious 7
- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol / Rogue Nation / Fallout
- Skyfall

Drama/Thrillers:
- Ford vs Ferrari
- Jojo Rabbit
- Life of Pi
- Prisoners
- Spotlight
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Nightingale
- Whiplash

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I want to make a list. But I still have a couple really big ones coming out this year for me. So just want to see where Little Women and TRoS land for me.

I'll do categories later, but these are probably my 10 faves of the decade (in no particular order):

The Social Network
Inception
Zero Dark Thirty
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario
Blade Runner 2049
Roma
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
The Favourite

Honorable mentions: True Grit, Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy, The Master, The Artist, The Raid 1& 2, The Avengers, Looper, Skyfall, Gravity, Whiplash, John Wick 1-3, Dunkirk, Parasite, The Lighthouse, Knives Out

Another Zero Dark Thirty fan! Also Grand Budapest!

 

[Kane52630]

I'm going back to my old 10 tops from each year and it's wild how some of these movies have aged. There's some movies I wouldn't even think about putting in my top 10 and others I wish I had.

 

[David H.]

Biggest drop in estimation of any film this decade for me has to be The Master, or at least the one most worth noting. I once hailed it as a transformative experience but now find it a bit of a slog to get through. I do still think it’s quite good, though, but I much prefer Inherent Vice and especially Phantom Thread when it comes to PTA in the 10’s.

I also think Hoffman’s performance is head and shoulders above Joaquin’s, which is saying something (Freddie Quell is my maybe my #2 out Phoenix’s incredible run of leading roles this decade, just behind the one in Her.) An aptly titled unofficial send-off to one of American cinema’s biggest loses this past decade.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Drive (2011)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Her (2013)
Prisoners (2013)
Ex Machina (2014)
Sicario (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Shoplifters (2018)
Parasite (2019)

 

[Boom]

Best Sci-Fi:

Annihilation
Blade Runner 2049
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Ex Machina
Inception
Looper
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Shape of Water
Snowpiercer
War for the Planet of the Apes

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Mad Max: Fury Road
Blade Runner 2049
The Witch
The Endless
Annihilation

 

[Fincher]

I'm way behind in my movie watching. 2017 to 2019 are particularly limited.

1. It (top ten of all time caliber)
2. How I Live Now
3. Inception
4. Snow White and the Huntsman
5. Solo: A Star Wars Story
6. Chronicle
7. Super 8
8. Tangled
9. Veronica Mars
10. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

11. Wonder Woman
12. The Town
13. The Hunger Games
14. Black Death
15. Captain Phillips
16. Source Code
17. Argo
18. The Wolverine
19. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
20. Water for Elephants

 

[Persona]

Fury Road
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Under the Skin
The Master
Holy Motors
Burning
Silence
Parasite
The Tree of Life
First Reformed

 

[Luigi]

Favorite horror of the decade:

Spoiler

The Witch

Green Room

Midsommar

Suspiria

Hereditary

The Conjuring

Annihilation

The Lighthouse

The Shallows

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

 

[Kane52630]

Top 10 Sci-fi Films of the Decade

1. Tron: Legacy (2010)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
3. Snowpiercer (2014)
4. Planet of the Apes Trilogy (2011-2017)
5. Predestination (2014)
6. The Signal (2014)
7. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
8. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
9. Oblivion (2013)
10. The Frame (2014)

2014 was a banger year for scifi films.

Honorable mentions
Ex Machina (2014)
Inception (2010)
Looper (2012)
Gravity (2013)
Upgrade (2018)
Arrival (2016)
Monsters (2010)
Ad Astra (2019)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Pacific Rim(2013)
Attack the Block (2011)
Dredd (2012)
Her (2013)
Under the Skin (2013)
The Maze Runner Trilogy (2014-2018)
Midnight Special (2016)
Source Code (2011)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

 

[flickchick85]

My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies of the Decade:

1.) Blade Runner 2049
2.) Mad Max: Fury Road
3.) Inception
4.) Looper
5.) Gravity
6.) Ex Machina
7.) Edge of Tomorrow
8.) Snowpiercer
9.) Arrival
10.) Interstellar

Honorable Mentions: The Planet of the Apes Trilogy, Annihilation, Midnight Special, The World's End, Source Code, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Ad Astra

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Of the last ten years... and in no particular order:

1. Black Swan (2010)
2. Fences (2016)
3. Inception (2010)
4. Super 8 (2011)
5. Avengers Infinity War (2018)
6. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
7. Get Out (2017)
8. Toy Story 3 (2010)
9. Joker (2019)
10. The Kids Are All Right (2010)

Damn this was hard.

 

[Boom]

Damn, 10 picks for sci-fi is tough. I didn't even think about Under the Skin and Her.