Year-End Lists

IndieWire: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

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1. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
2. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
3. Certified Copy
   Abbas Kiarostami
4. The Act of Killing
   Joshua Oppenheimer
4. The Look of Silence
   Joshua Oppenheimer
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
6. Holy Motors
   Leos Carax
7. Carol
   Todd Haynes
8. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
10. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
11. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
12. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
13. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
14. Leviathan
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
15. Dogtooth
    Yorgos Lanthimos
16. The Social Network
    David Fincher
17. World of Tomorrow
    Don Hertzfeldt
18. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
19. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
20. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
21. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
22. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
23. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
24. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
25. Amour
    Michael Haneke
26. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
27. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
28. Paddington 2
    Paul King
29. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
30. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
31. Somewhere
    Sofia Coppola
32. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
33. Madeline’s Madeline
    Josephine Decker
34. Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley
35. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Jim Jarmusch
36. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine
37. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
38. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
39. The Babadook
    Jennifer Kent
40. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
41. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
42. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
43. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
44. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
45. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
46. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
47. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
48. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
49. Before Midnight
    Richard Linklater
50. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
    Isao Takahata
51. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
52. Eden
    Mia Hansen-Løve
53. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
54. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
55. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
56. Happy as Lazzaro
    Alice Rohrwacher
57. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
58. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
59. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang
60. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler
61. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
62. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
63. Inception
    Christopher Nolan
64. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
65. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
66. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
67. At Berkeley
    Frederick Wiseman
68. Jackie
    Pablo Larraín
69. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
70. Pariah
    Dee Rees
71. Goodbye to Language
    Jean-Luc Godard
72. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
73. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
74. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
75. A Star Is Born
    Bradley Cooper
76. Leave No Trace
    Debra Granik
77. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
78. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
79. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
    David Zellner
80. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
81. High Life
    Claire Denis
82. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies
83. Synonyms
    Nadav Lapid
84. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Benh Zeitlin
85. The Illusionist
    Sylvain Chomet
86. Kate Plays Christine
    Robert Greene
87. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
88. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Lynne Ramsay
89. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
90. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
91. Fire at Sea
    Gianfranco Rosi
92. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
93. Mother of George
    Andrew Dosunmu
94. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
95. The Arbor
    Clio Barnard
96. Girl Walk // All Day
    Jacob Krupnick
97. All These Sleepless Nights
    Michal Marczak
98. The Great Gatsby
    Baz Luhrmann
99. The Loneliest Planet
    Julia Loktev
100. Inherent Vice
     Paul Thomas Anderson