Amazingly, we are exiting another decade in about 50 days or so. Has me thinking about what the best movies of the decade were. Feel free to list multiple movies, but perhaps bold your top pick for the best movie.
My quick list is:
**Mad Max Fury Road
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Hereditary
Inception
Avengers: Endgame
What We Do In the Shadows
My favorite movies of past decade:
Logan (The best movie of the X-Men franchise.)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Deadpool
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Winter’s Bone
War Horse
Inside Out
Frozen
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Blade Runner 2049
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Inception
Mad Max: Fury Road
Moonrise Kingdom
Rogue One
True Grit
The Witch
The World’s End
Stuff I really liked, not mentioned before:
Only Lovers Left Alive
Byzantium
Easy A
Spotlight
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Paul
The Wind Rises
Avengers: Endgame
Deadpool
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inception
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
The Social Network
The Wolf of Wall Street
Zootopia
Mad Max: Fury Road
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
Mad Max: Fury Road
It’s the only movie listed so far that I’ve seen more than once. In fact I’ve probably watched it a few dozen times by now.
I’d like to add Dr Sleep. This film is brilliant. I saw it again 2 days later and it held up perfectly. Sadly, it seems like the crap that was It 2 is dragging this much better film down with it.
+1
Damn, that’s almost entirely my own list, Blue. Except I put BR 2049 at the top, and haven’t yet seen The Witch.
Ex Machina
Arrival
Paterson (It’s brilliant! Rent it!)
Carol
Only Lovers Left Alive
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Under the Skin
Mad Max: Fury Road
In order of release date:
Inception
The King’s Speech
Midnight in Paris
Lincoln
Les Miserables
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Monuments Men
The Imitation Game
Inside Out
Hail, Caesar!
Dunkirk
Darkest Hour
Since 2010, I’m assuming?
Get Out
Boyhood
Birdman
Whiplash
Joker
Rogue One
It Follows
+1:
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu
Dunkirk (2017) Christopher Nolan
Hail, Caesar! (2016) Joel and Ethan Coen
Inside Out (2015) Pete Docter
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Jim Jarmusch
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Wes Anderson
Winter’s Bone (2010) Debra Granik
New to the proceedings:
Amour (2012) Michel Haneke
An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) Bo Hu (as Qian Hu)
A Separation (2011) Asghar Farhadi
Bibliotheque Pascal (2010) Szabolcs Hajdu
Capharnaum (2018) Nadine Labaki
Gräns (Border)(2018) Ali Abbasi
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Joel and Ethan Coen
Jagten (2012) Thomas Vinterberg
Lazzaro felice (Happy As Lazzaro) (2018) Alice Rohrwacher
Leave No Trace (2018) Debra Granik
Melancholia (2011) Lars Von Trier
Manbiki kazoku (Shoplifters) (2018) Hirokazu Kore-eda
Sengire (The Ancient Woods) (2017)
Shi (Poetry) (2010) Chang-Dong Lee
Take Shelter (2011) Jeff Nichols
Tangerine (2015) Sean Baker
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) Joel and Ethan Coen
Zama (2017) Lucrecia Martel
My opinion hasn’t changed since 2016.
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
The Social Network
Silver Linings Playbook
The Big Short
10 Cloverfield Lane
Get Out
The Martian
Hidden Figures
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
There’s a few I still need to see:
Hacksaw Ridge
Dunkirk
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Loved Black Rainbow, but would put Mandy over it.
Arrival
The Martian
Ex Machina
Winter’s Bone was good, it’s been long enough since I’ve seen it that I can’t really remember it well enough to rate it in the “best” category.
I liked “Her”
The list of possibly-great movies from the last decade that I have yet to see is fairly long and includes Mandy.
These are just the ones that I’ve seen that I would put on this list.
2010:
How to Train Your Dragon
Toy Story 3
Knight and Day
Despicable Me
Inception
Easy A
The Social Network
Megamind
Tangled
Black Swan
2011:
Rio
Winnie the Pooh
X-Men: First Class
Captain America: The First Avenger
In Time
2012:
Man on a Ledge
A Thousand Words (I know it got 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but I liked it quite a bit.)
The Hunger Games
The Avengers
Brave
The Dark Knight Rises
Looper
Argo (fuck yourself)
Skyfall
Wreck-It Ralph
Lincoln
2013:
42
Iron Man 3
Gravity
Frozen
2014:
Whiplash
Boyhood
The Lego Movie
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Big Hero 6
2015:
Inside Out
Mr. Holmes
The Martian
Bridge of Spies
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2016:
Zootopia
Captain America: Civil War
Moana
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2017:
The Lego Batman Movie
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
2018:
Avengers: Infinity War
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Incredibles 2
Ralph Breaks The Internet
Lots of terrific choices so far, but how can you leave out The Master.
While I’m here, I’ll add my support to:
Boyhood
Grand Budapest Hotel
Ex Machina
Darkest Hour
ETA: And Bridge of Spies