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Still Servant
01-02-2017, 06:45 PM
It's hard to believe, but we are nearing the end of the decade. I thought it might be fun over the next few years to reflect on some of the best films of the decade.

I plan on putting a list together at the end of the decade of my favorite films. This thread will be a nice way to help compile a comprehensive list.

Without digging too deep, this is what I have so far:

2010
1) Toy Story 3
2) Inception
3) Black Swan
4) The Fighter
5) Blue Valentine

2011
1) The Artist
2) Moneyball
3) Drive
4) Rise of the Planet of the Apes
5) Incendies

2012
1) The Raid: Redemption
2) Argo
3) Looper
4) Silver Linings Playbook
5) Django Unchained

2013
1) American Hustle
2) Prisoners
3) The Wolf of Wall Street
4) Zero Dark Thirty
5) 12 Years a Slave

2014
1) Whiplash
2) Snowpiercer
3) Interstellar
4) Edge of Tomorrow
5) The Drop

2015
1) Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Inside Out
3) Ex Machina
4) Spotlight
5) Sicario

2016
1) Hell or High Water
2) Manchester by the Sea
3) The Nice Guys
4) 10 Cloverfield Lane
5) Hacksaw Ridge

Still Servant
01-02-2017, 06:47 PM
Holy shit, this is going to be hard. I forgot how many great films there have been.

2013 is particularly strong it seems.

Mattrick
01-03-2017, 09:40 AM
Without putting too much effort into this, my preliminary lists would be..

2010

1. Another Year
2. The Social Network
3. Black Swan
4. The Fighter
5. The Kids Are All Right
6. Winter's Bone
7. Let Me In
8. The Town
9. Greenberg
10. Splice

2011 (This year is really, really hard to choose for me!)

1. Hugo
2. Midnight In Paris
3. Shame
4. Young Adult
5. The Descendants
6. A Separation
7. Moneyball
8. The Help
9. Bridesmaids
10. Drive

(Hon mentions - Jane Eyre, Win/Win, 50/50, Tree of Life, Ghost Protocol)

2012

1. Silver Linings Playbook
2. Life of Pi
3. Moonrise Kingdome
4. Amour
5. Django Unchained
6. The Sessions
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Flight
9. The Master
10. Chronicle

(Hon mentions - Flight, Beasts of The Southern Wild, Ted, Lincoln, Skyfall)

2013

1. Her
2. Before Midnight
3. Blue Jasmine
4. Philomena
5. Gravity
6. Inside Llewyn Davis
7. American Hustle
8. The Wolf of Wall Street
9. Enough Said
10. Nebraska

(Hon Mentions - Mud, About Time, Prisoners, Upstream Color, This Is The End, 12 Years A Slave)

2014 (No choice but to expand my rankings for this year my god!)

1. Whiplash
2. Boyhood
3. Grand Budapest Hotel
4. The Babadook
5. Birdman
6. Calvary
7. The Imitation Game
8. Snowpiercer
9. Gone Girl
10. Nightcrawler
11. Love Is Strange
12. The Winter Soldier
13. American Sniper
14. Edge of Tomorrow
15. Selma

(Hon mentions: Days of Future Past, Mr. Turner, Inherent Vice, The Guest, Foxcatcher)

2015

1. Room
2. Ex Machina
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Spotlight
5. Brooklyn
6. Inside Out
7. Sicario
8. Bridge of Spies
9. The Revenant
10. The Martian

(Hon mentions: Carol, MI: Rogue Nation, The Big Short, Beasts of No Nation, Trainwreck)

2016 (Under construction)

1. Moonlight
2. Midnight Special
3. Nocturnal Animals
4. Arrival
5. Hell or High Water
6. Loving
7. 10 Cloverfield Lane

Merlin1958
01-03-2017, 04:41 PM
2010
1) Toy Story 3
2) Inception
3) Black Swan
4) The Fighter
5) Blue Valentine

2011
1) The Artist
2) Moneyball
3) Drive
4) Rise of the Planet of the Apes
5) Incendies

2012
1) The Raid: Redemption
2) Argo
3) Looper
4) Silver Linings Playbook
5) Django Unchained

2013
1) American Hustle
2) Prisoners
3) The Wolf of Wall Street
4) Zero Dark Thirty
5) 12 Years a Slave

2014
1) Whiplash
2) Snowpiercer
3) Interstellar
4) Edge of Tomorrow
5) The Drop

2015
1) Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Inside Out
3) Ex Machina
4) Spotlight
5) Sicario

2016
1) Hell or High Water
2) Manchester by the Sea
3) The Nice Guys
4) 10 Cloverfield Lane
5) Hacksaw Ridge


Well, my picks are highlighted for what it's worth. I reserve judgement for 2016. Though "Rogue One" should be there.

DanHocker
01-05-2017, 10:19 AM
2010
1) Toy Story 3
2) Inception
3) Black Swan
4) The Fighter
5) Blue Valentine

2011
1) The Artist
2) Moneyball
3) Drive
4) Rise of the Planet of the Apes
5) Incendies

2012
1) The Raid: Redemption
2) Argo
3) Looper
4) Silver Linings Playbook
5) Django Unchained

2013
1) American Hustle
2) Prisoners
3) The Wolf of Wall Street
4) Zero Dark Thirty
5) 12 Years a Slave

2014
1) Whiplash
2) Snowpiercer
3) Interstellar
4) Edge of Tomorrow
5) The Drop

2015
1) Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Inside Out
3) Ex Machina
4) Spotlight
5) Sicario

2016
1) Hell or High Water
2) Manchester by the Sea
3) The Nice Guys
4) 10 Cloverfield Lane
5) Hacksaw Ridge


Well, my picks are highlighted for what it's worth. I reserve judgement for 2016. Though "Rogue One" should be there.

Apparently our tastes line up pretty perfectly as your #1 picks are pretty close to my #1 picks. I don't think I actually managed to see anything from those 2016 ones though. I think overall my top 5 lists would probably have 1 or 2 blockbusters on each of them, but that's just how my movie tastes lean. Force Awakens(2015), Rouge One(2016), The Avengers(2012), The Martian(2015), Guardians of The Galaxy(2014). Not a blockbuster, but The Hateful Eight technically came out in 2015 so that'd probably be on my list there as well.

Still Servant
01-05-2017, 06:46 PM
Apparently our tastes line up pretty perfectly as your #1 picks are pretty close to my #1 picks. I don't think I actually managed to see anything from those 2016 ones though. I think overall my top 5 lists would probably have 1 or 2 blockbusters on each of them, but that's just how my movie tastes lean. Force Awakens(2015), Rouge One(2016), The Avengers(2012), The Martian(2015), Guardians of The Galaxy(2014). Not a blockbuster, but The Hateful Eight technically came out in 2015 so that'd probably be on my list there as well.

Nice!

All of those films you listed, besides maybe Rogue One, would be in my top 10 for each year. Some of those, especially Guardians and The Marian, might sneak into my top 5 when it's all said and done.

Also, good catch on Hateful Eight, that should be in my top 5 for 2015.

Lastly, what do you guys think about turning this thread eventually into a tournament to find the best film of the decade? We could use this thread over the next few years to build the field. I'm pretty sure by the year 2019 Pablo will be done with the music tournament . :lol:

Mattrick
01-05-2017, 06:50 PM
This thread made me realise that 2013-2015 had so many great films and made 2016 seem like a turd the size of the Chrysler Building.

DanHocker
01-06-2017, 06:51 AM
This thread made me realise that 2013-2015 had so many great films and made 2016 seem like a turd the size of the Chrysler Building.

That's kinda what I thought as well, but then I took a look at a list of 2016 movies and there's actually a lot that looked really good. Unfortunately I've only seen a handful that weren't blockbusters.

3 that stood out (that I did see) The Witch, The Lobster, and Arrival. I actually totally forgot that The Lobster and The Witch came out this year.

DanHocker
01-06-2017, 06:52 AM
Apparently our tastes line up pretty perfectly as your #1 picks are pretty close to my #1 picks. I don't think I actually managed to see anything from those 2016 ones though. I think overall my top 5 lists would probably have 1 or 2 blockbusters on each of them, but that's just how my movie tastes lean. Force Awakens(2015), Rouge One(2016), The Avengers(2012), The Martian(2015), Guardians of The Galaxy(2014). Not a blockbuster, but The Hateful Eight technically came out in 2015 so that'd probably be on my list there as well.

Nice!

All of those films you listed, besides maybe Rogue One, would be in my top 10 for each year. Some of those, especially Guardians and The Marian, might sneak into my top 5 when it's all said and done.

Also, good catch on Hateful Eight, that should be in my top 5 for 2015.

Lastly, what do you guys think about turning this thread eventually into a tournament to find the best film of the decade? We could use this thread over the next few years to build the field. I'm pretty sure by the year 2019 Pablo will be done with the music tournament . :lol:

Yea while I love smaller more award worthy movies, my favorite movies tend to skew more towards blockbusters.

mae
01-06-2017, 06:56 AM
And if anyone wants to go back and post their top films of other decades, a while back I started a thread for each decade:


The 1920s (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17950-Top-Ten-Films-of-1920-1929)
The 1930s (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17947-Top-Ten-Films-of-1930-1939)
The 1940s (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17943-Top-Ten-Films-of-1940-1949)
The 1950s (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17924-Top-Ten-Films-of-1950-1959)
The 1960s (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17913-Top-Ten-Films-of-1960-1969)
The 1970s (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17902-Top-Ten-Films-of-1970-1979)
The 1980s (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17873-Top-Ten-Films-of-1980-1989)
The 1990s (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17859-Top-Ten-Films-of-1990-1999)
The 2000s (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17826-Top-Ten-Films-of-2000-2009)


(As well as an All-Time (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17951-Your-Top-Films-of-All-Time) thread.)

I'll take some time to research but there have been tons of great films this decade.

webstar1000
01-06-2017, 07:01 AM
The last movie that BLEW me away 100%.. was in 2008 with the Dark Knight. Before that it was The Matrix... T2 before that... I know they are not in the league of movies you speak of... but for me they were the best. Indiana Jones.. Star Wars.... they gave me goosebumps and I could have walked back out and bought a ticket to the very next show AND happily done so.

mae
01-13-2017, 11:33 AM
There have been oodles of great films in the last several years. I managed to pull some preliminary longlists for 2010 and 2011 and I'll cut them down to my usual 30 and rank them a bit later:

2010

127 Hours (2010)
13 Assassins (2010)
A Cat in Paris (2010)
Aftershock (2010)
Another Year (2010)
Barney's Version (2010)
Beautiful Lies (2010)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Black Swan (2010)
Boy (2010)
Certified Copy (2010)
Chico & Rita (2010)
Cold Fish (2010)
Confessions (2010)
Four Lions (2010)
Holy Rollers (2010)
I Saw the Devil (2010)
In a Better World (2010)
Incendies (2010)
Inception (2010)
Kick-Ass (2010)
Lapland Odyssey (2010)
Let Me In (2010)
Life, Above All (2010)
Made in Dagenham (2010)
Monsters (2010)
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
Never Let Me Go (2010)
Poetry (2010)
Shutter Island (2010)
Stone (2010)
The Clink of Ice (2010)
The Illusionist (2010)
The Infidel (2010)
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
The King's Speech (2010)
The Social Network (2010)
The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2010)
The Town (2010)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Winter's Bone (2010)


2011

50/50 (2011)
A Letter to Momo (2011)
A Separation (2011)
Alois Nebel (2011)
Bernie (2011)
Bridesmaids (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Carnage (2011)
Contagion (2011)
Drive (2011)
Elena (2011)
Faust (2011)
Guilty of Romance (2011)
Hara-Kiri (2011)
Haywire (2011)
Horrible Bosses (2011)
Hugo (2011)
In Darkness (2011)
Kill List (2011)
Le Havre (2011)
Like Crazy (2011)
Margaret (2011)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Melancholia (2011)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Moneyball (2011)
Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Shame (2011)
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Source Code (2011)
Sunny (2011)
Take Shelter (2011)
Tales of the Night (2011)
The Artist (2011)
The Descendants (2011)
The Flowers of War (2011)
The Forgiveness of Blood (2011)
The Grey (2011)
The Help (2011)
The Ides of March (2011)
The Intouchables (2011)
The Kid with a Bike (2011)
The Mill and the Cross (2011)
The Painting (2011)
The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
The Raid: Redemption (2011)
The Skin I Live In (2011)
The Turin Horse (2011)
The Woman (2011)
Thor (2011)
Tomboy (2011)
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
When Pigs Have Wings (2011)
Wrinkles (2011)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Young Adult (2011)

Jean
01-13-2017, 11:47 AM
oh, yes! have looked at your lists - recognized many of the films, surprisingly (I thought I haven't been watching new films for decades). Remember loving Cold Fish, Another Year and Midnight in Paris; probably something else

Tommy
01-14-2017, 12:41 AM
Since there was never a year zero, technically the decade started with 2011, no one goes by this so I'll start with 2010 as well. So many I still need to see so don't judge me too harshly. These aren't in any particular order just yet, working on that and I probably got some of the years wrong. I'll try to narrow them down to five per year but need some time to think...

2010
Winter's Bone
Inception
Black Swan
The Social Network
Restrepo
The Kids Are All Right
I Spit On Your Grave
127 Hours
Let Me In
The King's Speech
I Saw the Devil
A Serbian Film
Bedeviled
Insidious
The Town
Tabloid
13 Assassins
Shutter Island
Beyond the Black Rainbow


2011
The Devil's Double
Drive
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Moneyball
Midnight in Paris
Source Code
The Tree of Life
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
50/50
Warrior
Melancholia
The Artist
The Descendants
The Skin I Live In
Kill List
X-Men First Class
The Woman
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

2012
Argo
Moonrise Kingdom
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Cabin in the Woods
Django Unchained
End of Watch
Amour
Excision
Killer Joe
Ted
Savages
Lincoln
Snow White and the Huntsman
Looper
Prometheus
Seven Psychopaths
Paranorman
The Master
Magic Mike

2013
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Behind the Candleabra
Blue Jasmine
The Conjuring
Dallas Buyers Club
Evil Dead
Gravity
Oblivion
This is the End
Warm Bodies
You're Next
The Wolf of Wall Street

2014
The Raid 2
Dead Snow 2
American Sniper
Whiplash
The Lego Movie
Life Itself
The Grand Budapest Hotel
It Follows
Edge of Tomorrow
Guardians of the Galaxy
Magic in the Moonlight
Birdman
The Imitation Game
Nightcrawler
Gone Girl
John Wick
Big Eyes
Kingsmen

2015
The Walk
The Martian
Bridge of Spies
Carol
Where to Invade Next
Ex Machina
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Mr. Holmes
Mad Max: Fury Road
Ant-Man
Sicario
The Big Short
The Hateful Eight
An Irrational Man
The Gift
Spotlight
Anomalisa
The Revenant
Inside Out

2016
The Witch
Deadpool
Hell or Highwater
Don't Breathe
Zootopia
10 Cloverfield Lane
The Jungle Book
The Nice Guys
Cafe Society
Finding Dory
Lights Out
Deepwater Horizon
Rogue One
The Conjuring 2
Doctor Strange
Florence Foster Jenkins
Captain America: Civil War
O.J. Made in America
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
La La Land

honorable mentions: Eddie the Eagle and The Magnificent Seven

mae
01-14-2017, 09:22 AM
Love to see The Woman on your 2011 list, Tommy! Such a hidden gem!

Tommy
01-14-2017, 09:42 AM
Love to see The Woman on your 2011 list, Tommy! Such a hidden gem!

It is quite a visceral experience. The Jack Ketchum book it's based on goes even further with the brutality/depravity. The only thing that kind of threw me about it was the music. I wasn't a fan of the song choices, other then that, it's golden!

mae
01-14-2017, 10:56 AM
In recent years I see my lists keep getting longer and longer, I guess because of all the various ways one can watch a movie nowadays it's so easy to see so much more than just what's in theaters or on TV. Don't know how I'll whittle these down and rank them, but I'll try. Here are my longlists for 2012-2014:

2012

21 Jump Street (2012)
A Royal Affair (2012)
Amour (2012)
Argo (2012)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Beyond the Hills (2012)
Chasing Mavericks (2012)
Chronicle (2012)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Compliance (2012)
Disconnect (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
End of Watch (2012)
Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Flight (2012)
Frances Ha (2012)
Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)
Hitchcock (2012)
Holy Motors (2012)
In Another Country (2012)
It's a Disaster (2012)
John Dies at the End (2012)
Laurence Anyways (2012)
Lesson of the Evil (2012)
Life of Pi (2012)
Like Someone in Love (2012)
Lincoln (2012)
Looper (2012)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Mud (2012)
No (2012)
Prometheus (2012)
Robot & Frank (2012)
Rust and Bone (2012)
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
Spring Breakers (2012)
Stuck in Love (2012)
Tabu (2012)
Ted (2012)
The Avengers (2012)
The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The Deep (2012)
The Hunt (2012)
The Impossible (2012)
The Marathon (2012)
The Master (2012)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
This Is 40 (2012)
Wadjda (2012)
War Witch (2012)
What Maisie Knew (2012)
Wolf Children (2012)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)


2013

12 Years a Slave (2013)
A Touch of Sin (2013)
American Hustle (2013)
Bad Words (2013)
Before Midnight (2013)
Big Bad Wolves (2013)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Blue Ruin (2013)
Boy and the World (2013)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Child's Pose (2013)
Coherence (2013)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Enemy (2013)
Fish & Cat (2013)
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Gravity (2013)
Hard to Be a God (2013)
Her (2013)
How I Live Now (2013)
Ida (2013)
Ilo Ilo (2013)
In Bloom (2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Joe (2013)
Locke (2013)
Man of Steel (2013)
Nebraska (2013)
Norte, the End of History (2013)
Nymphomaniac (2013)
Omar (2013)
Prisoners (2013)
Short Term 12 (2013)
Side Effects (2013)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Stranger by the Lake (2013)
Stray Dogs (2013)
Tangerines (2013)
The Best Offer (2013)
The Bling Ring (2013)
The Congress (2013)
The Conjuring (2013)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013)
The Double (2013)
The Grandmaster (2013)
The Great Beauty (2013)
The Heat (2013)
The Past (2013)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
The Wind Rises (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
This Is the End (2013)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Under the Skin (2013)
Upstream Color (2013)
We Are the Best! (2013)
We're the Millers (2013)
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)


2014

22 Jump Street (2014)
A Girl at My Door (2014)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
American Sniper (2014)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Birdman (2014)
Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Boyhood (2014)
Calvary (2014)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Dukhtar (2014)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Force Majeure (2014)
Fury (2014)
Gone Girl (2014)
Goodnight Mommy (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Inherent Vice (2014)
Interstellar (2014)
It Follows (2014)
John Wick (2014)
Kumiko the Treasure Hunter (2014)
Leviathan (2014)
Love & Mercy (2014)
Mommy (2014)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Non-Stop (2014)
Phoenix (2014)
PK (2014)
Premature (2014)
Selma (2014)
Song of the Sea (2014)
Spring (2014)
Still Alice (2014)
The Babadook (2014)
The Book of Life (2014)
The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Guest (2014)
The Imitation Game (2014)
The Interview (2014)
The One I Love (2014)
The Prophet (2014)
The Raid 2 (2014)
The Theory of Everything (2014)
The Tribe (2014)
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014)
Timbuktu (2014)
Two Days, One Night (2014)
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
When Marnie Was There (2014)
Whiplash (2014)
White God (2014)
Wild Tales (2014)
Winter Sleep (2014)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Zero Motivation (2014)

mae
01-14-2017, 12:58 PM
I'm still working of my 2015 longlist, but I won't go into 2016. Still too many from last year left to see that I really want and need. But I did manage to rank my Top 30 of 2010:


The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Shutter Island (2010)
Cold Fish (2010)
The Social Network (2010)
Black Swan (2010)
Inception (2010)
Incendies (2010)
Certified Copy (2010)
Barney's Version (2010)
Four Lions (2010)
Another Year (2010)
Never Let Me Go (2010)
Chico & Rita (2010)
Confessions (2010)
The Infidel (2010)
The Town (2010)
127 Hours (2010)
Monsters (2010)
The Illusionist (2010)
Poetry (2010)
Boy (2010)
The King's Speech (2010)
A Cat in Paris (2010)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Winter's Bone (2010)
Kick-Ass (2010)
13 Assassins (2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Lapland Odyssey (2010)

Tommy
01-14-2017, 01:01 PM
Loving this thread more and more. It's giving me many intriguing suggestions. Rep to Still Servant for starting it!

zelig
01-14-2017, 06:08 PM
Loving this thread more and more. It's giving me many intriguing suggestions. Rep to Still Servant for starting it!

Agreed. I'm amazed at how you all remember the movies from each year. Unless you keep track somehow. So many suggestions here, I just have to find the time to give them a look.

Tommy
01-14-2017, 06:36 PM
Loving this thread more and more. It's giving me many intriguing suggestions. Rep to Still Servant for starting it!

Agreed. I'm amazed at how you all remember the movies from each year. Unless you keep track somehow. So many suggestions here, I just have to find the time to give them a look.

I used to keep records of every movie I watched and what I rated them but somewhere along the way I simply lost interest for whatever reason. Wikipedia, IMDB and other sites have lists of all the films that have been released for each year. That's what I was using to research for this thread.

Back in the 2000s, I was watching WAY more movies then I do now. There was such urgency that I HAD to see every film ever and after seeing literally thousands of movies, I realize I know less about movies now then when I started my quest. It is a fascinating art form.

Mattrick
01-14-2017, 06:44 PM
Whenever the subject of lists comes up, I imagine Pablo salivating at the mouth like Pavlov's dog as he cancels his weekend plans :P

mae
01-14-2017, 07:11 PM
Whenever the subject of lists comes up, I imagine Pablo salivating at the mouth like Pavlov's dog as he cancels his weekend plans :P

You know it, man! It is a sickness.

Still Servant
01-14-2017, 07:50 PM
Loving this thread more and more. It's giving me many intriguing suggestions. Rep to Still Servant for starting it!

Thank, Tommy! I loved reading your list and some of the other ones. This thread is really going to help myself and other in finding new films to watch, as well as films we may have forgotten about. I've already identified a few films that I completely lost track of.

The other good thing is we won't have to whittle lists down for another few years. I might go back and expand my list.

Still Servant
01-14-2017, 07:53 PM
Loving this thread more and more. It's giving me many intriguing suggestions. Rep to Still Servant for starting it!

Agreed. I'm amazed at how you all remember the movies from each year. Unless you keep track somehow. So many suggestions here, I just have to find the time to give them a look.

This is the site I use. It's great for keeping track of films you've seen and making lists is really easy.

http://letterboxd.com/

zelig
01-14-2017, 09:33 PM
Thanks for the link. I see Jackie on there. Reminds me that I must see that movie. I haven't heard anything about it but when I saw the trailer I was pretty excited.

Mattrick
01-15-2017, 12:44 AM
I'm way too unorganised a person to keep track of what I watch. That's why I always fail at maintaining my list on here. I made my lists just by googling top rated films. There are plenty of films I loved which I didn't include because I didn't see them, like The Double and Uncle John.

mae
01-16-2017, 03:31 PM
Took me a while and this is the longest one so far, but here's my longlist for 2015 (this will be near impossible to pare down to my usual 30 and rank it):


45 Years (2015)
A Man Called Ove (2015)
Aferim! (2015)
Anomalisa (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)
April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
Arabian Nights (2015)
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Born to Be Blue (2015)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Brooklyn (2015)
Carol (2015)
Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Chi-Raq (2015)
Creed (2015)
Demolition (2015)
Dheepan (2015)
Dope (2015)
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Ex Machina (2015)
Green Room (2015)
Inside Out (2015)
Jurassic World (2015)
Kaili Blues (2015)
Krisha (2015)
Land of Mine (2015)
Look Who's Back (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Mountains May Depart (2015)
Mr. Holmes (2015)
Mustang (2015)
Our Little Sister (2015)
Rams (2015)
Room (2015)
Sicario (2015)
Slow West (2015)
Son of Saul (2015)
Spotlight (2015)
Spy (2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Steve Jobs (2015)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Sweet Bean (2015)
Tangerine (2015)
The Age of Adaline (2015)
The Assassin (2015)
The Big Short (2015)
The Brand New Testament (2015)
The Danish Girl (2015)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
The Gift (2015)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
The Intern (2015)
The Lobster (2015)
The Martian (2015)
The Peanuts Movie (2015)
The Revenant (2015)
The Second Mother (2015)
The Summer of Sangaile (2015)
The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale (2015)
The Walk (2015)
The Wave (2015)
The Witch (2015)
Tomorrowland (2015)
Trainwreck (2015)
Trumbo (2015)
Victoria (2015)

Heather19
01-17-2017, 04:29 PM
Here's my lists. Hope I didn't forget any. I had a hard time finding complete lists of films released by year.

2010
Black Swan
The Fighter
Shutter Island
Inception
The Town
Machete
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Insidious

2011
The Artist
Super 8
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Muppets
Scream 4
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Trollhunter
Melancholia

2012
Django Unchained
Moonrise Kingdom
The Hunger Games
Chasing Ice
Argo
The Woman in Black

2013
Her
The Conjuring
Stoker
Dark Skies
The Lords of Salem

2014
The Babadook
Song of the Sea
The Grand Budapest Hotel
If I Stay
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Boyhood
Tusk
Gone Girl

2015
Hateful Eight
The Revenant
It Follows
Brooklyn
The Wolfpack
Where to Invade Next
Mustang
Crimson Peak
Sicario
Spotlight
Jurassic World

2016
10 Cloverfield Lane
31
The Nice Guys
Don't Breath
The Lobster
La La Land
The Girl on the Train
Before the Flood
Hell or High Water
The VVitch

mae
01-18-2017, 05:08 AM
I don't know if these are ranked but I really like your lists, Heather. Melancholia definitely will be near the top of my 2011 list.


I had a hard time finding complete lists of films released by year.

There are lots of sources, including Wikipedia, IMDB, RT, etc.

Heather19
01-18-2017, 06:04 AM
Yes, I tried to rank them. I used Wikipedia but it didn't give me a complete list, so then I went to RT and then Google. And I did my favorite/best films of the years. I feel like my lists were very different from everyone else's.

Tommy
01-18-2017, 06:11 AM
Yes, I tried to rank them. I used Wikipedia but it didn't give me a complete list, so then I went to RT and then Google. And I did my favorite/best films of the years. I feel like my lists were very different from everyone else's.

That's a good thing! Variety is the spice of life and who wants to read the same list over and over again?

Tommy
01-18-2017, 06:12 AM
Some of my picks for 2010 had limited screenings in 2009 but were not available in America until 2010, should they remain?

Heather19
01-18-2017, 06:18 AM
See, I knew I forgot a few. Just added in Where to Invade Next to my 2015 list and Before the Flood to 2016.

mae
01-18-2017, 06:32 AM
Some of my picks for 2010 had limited screenings in 2009 but were not available in America until 2010, should they remain?

I always go by IMDB years.

Here's the RT link but it's only their top 100: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/?year=2016

This is from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2016_films

And IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=2016,2016&title_type=feature&num_votes=1000,&sort=user_rating,desc

mae
01-18-2017, 01:55 PM
Got my 2011 list down to the Top 30 and ranked:


Melancholia (2011)
Carnage (2011)
Take Shelter (2011)
A Separation (2011)
The Intouchables (2011)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Moneyball (2011)
Bridesmaids (2011)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
The Woman (2011)
The Artist (2011)
50/50 (2011)
Thor (2011)
The Descendants (2011)
The Raid: Redemption (2011)
Bernie (2011)
Hugo (2011)
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
The Painting (2011)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Drive (2011)
Contagion (2011)
Like Crazy (2011)
Sunny (2011)
Guilty of Romance (2011)
Kill List (2011)
Le Havre (2011)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
The Help (2011)
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011)

Still Servant
01-18-2017, 06:37 PM
The VVitch

Look at you using the two Vs to spell The Witch. Kudos.

Don't ask me why, but the last 3 copies I have found of Melancholia had no disc inside.

The variety of these lists are going to help all of us come up with comprehensive individual lists for each year. The truly hard part is going to be whittling down all the years and creating a list of our favorite films of the decade. It's also exciting to think that there might be films that haven't even been conceived yet that we might end liking more than some of our favorites. Very cool.

mae
01-22-2017, 05:14 PM
Got my 2012 list down to the Top 30 and ranked. It's a tough job but someone's gotta do it :)


Argo (2012)
Amour (2012)
Compliance (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
It's a Disaster (2012)
Lincoln (2012)
What Maisie Knew (2012)
This Is 40 (2012)
Flight (2012)
Life of Pi (2012)
Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
21 Jump Street (2012)
The Hunt (2012)
John Dies at the End (2012)
Mud (2012)
Looper (2012)
Like Someone in Love (2012)
Chronicle (2012)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
The Avengers (2012)
Prometheus (2012)
Spring Breakers (2012)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
The Master (2012)
Frances Ha (2012)

Still Servant
01-22-2017, 07:12 PM
Your list mirrors my own in many ways. The glaring film for me is This is 40. I'm not quite sure what you and Matt see in that one. It's certainly not better than a few of the films you have it ahead of like Silver Linings Playbook, Mud and Looper. It also doesn't come close to Knocked Up.

mae
01-23-2017, 02:18 AM
Well, Knocked Up is another year. I just generally like Apatow and the cast. I had a very good time with it.

Still Servant
01-24-2017, 04:35 AM
Well, Knocked Up is another year. I just generally like Apatow and the cast. I had a very good time with it.
I know Knocked Up was a different year. I was just trying to gauge whether or not you preferred This is 40 over Knocked Up.

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mae
01-24-2017, 04:52 AM
Well, Knocked Up is another year. I just generally like Apatow and the cast. I had a very good time with it.
I know Knocked Up was a different year. I was just trying to gauge whether or not you preferred This is 40 over Knocked Up.

I don't know if I do. I checked my 2007 list and it didn't even make it: http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17826-Top-Ten-Films-of-2000-2009&p=818311&viewfull=1#post818311 Probably just an omission on my part, I have been thinking of perhaps redoing some of my older lists as I've seen other films I missed then or gained a better appreciation for others.


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Still Servant
01-24-2017, 03:54 PM
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I'm pretty sure this can be disabled in the app :redface:

How's this? [emoji39]

Sent from the mind of Still Servant.

mae
01-24-2017, 04:11 PM
And here is my Top 30 for 2013:


The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Enemy (2013)
Under the Skin (2013)
Her (2013)
Coherence (2013)
Prisoners (2013)
Gravity (2013)
Ida (2013)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
The Double (2013)
American Hustle (2013)
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Stranger by the Lake (2013)
Hard to Be a God (2013)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Man of Steel (2013)
The Heat (2013)
Nymphomaniac (2013)
Blue Jasmine (2013)
The Great Beauty (2013)
How I Live Now (2013)
Nebraska (2013)
We're the Millers (2013)
The Best Offer (2013)
Short Term 12 (2013)
Side Effects (2013)
Blue Ruin (2013)
The Grandmaster (2013)


Wow, just realized I have two ScarJo films in the top five back to back! This was an awesome year for movies.

Still Servant
01-24-2017, 06:45 PM
Wow, just realized I have two ScarJo films in the top five back to back! This was an awesome year for movies.

Actually, my list would have one more Scarlett Johansson film - Don Jon. I really enjoyed that one. She had a great year, I didn't even realize that.

Matt is going to like your list. Under the Skin, Her and The Double are all favorites of his. I have a lot of similarities with your list too. Mine would have American Hustle higher. The same for We're the Millers. That's one of the better comedies in recent years.

Mattrick
01-26-2017, 06:09 AM
I wasn't a huge fan of Under The Skin, actually. It didn't really do it for me. Too abstract without the entertainment value, and several sequences were just seemingly cut and paste. And I love abstract pieces, but I didn't find it visually engaging or overly intriguing either. I do mean to rewatch it at some point. I prefer The Double to Enemy but Enemy is still great. The Double is one of those movies which should be on my list but didn't see on my quick google searches so I'll have to make amendments to my list at some point.

mae
01-26-2017, 07:16 AM
Under the Skin was amazing. So beautiful and haunting. I'm sad it's not more widely known and respected. Tremendous film.

Mattrick
01-26-2017, 11:18 AM
To me it just sat there on the screen :/ By the end when I think I was suppose to feel something I was numb to it all. Upstream Color is way better imo.

Still Servant
01-26-2017, 03:55 PM
I wasn't a huge fan of Under The Skin, actually. It didn't really do it for me. Too abstract without the entertainment value, and several sequences were just seemingly cut and paste. And I love abstract pieces, but I didn't find it visually engaging or overly intriguing either. I do mean to rewatch it at some point. I prefer The Double to Enemy but Enemy is still great. The Double is one of those movies which should be on my list but didn't see on my quick google searches so I'll have to make amendments to my list at some point.
Really? I thought you loved it. Are you going to make me go back and look [emoji38]

Mattrick
01-26-2017, 05:01 PM
I'm sure you'll find me as saying I hated it lol. I did say I wanted to rewatch it because I might actually love it.

mae
01-26-2017, 05:15 PM
Here's my Top 30 of 2014. My 2015 list will be tough doing and I still need to see some of those, I think. And I'll wait to do 2016 for a while.


Boyhood (2014)
Whiplash (2014)
Birdman (2014)
Interstellar (2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Imitation Game (2014)
Gone Girl (2014)
The Babadook (2014)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
The Guest (2014)
It Follows (2014)
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
The One I Love (2014)
Leviathan (2014)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
John Wick (2014)
Goodnight Mommy (2014)
Song of the Sea (2014)
Selma (2014)
The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Inherent Vice (2014)
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Wild Tales (2014)
Mommy (2014)
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Mattrick
01-26-2017, 05:25 PM
Our top fives are really similar for 2014, though Interstellar isn't anywhere near my list. God that last act was dreadful. I think it's Nolan's worst film by a long shot. I only took two things away from it, the score, and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clEaI8fqcPk

Still Servant
01-26-2017, 06:44 PM
I was at a museum this summer and there was a section about space. They had a full sized space suit you could step into. Of course, I had to step into it and (of course) I started screaming at the top of my lungs. "DON'T LET ME LEAVE, MURPH! DON'T, DON'T LET ME LEAVE!!"

Needless to say, I got more than a few sideways looks.

Still Servant
01-26-2017, 07:50 PM
I forgot to mention that the third act is fantastic. Such a mind fuck. If you revisit that film in a few years, I think you might feel differently. I truly think that film will be better received with time.

Mattrick
01-26-2017, 09:53 PM
Wasn't a mind fuck to me. The answer is His love for MUUURRPPPHHHH is quantfiable and transcends time and space (Anne Hathaway gave us the answer earlier in the movie). For a movie that is hardcore scientifically accurate, I found that to be a laughable and saccharine philosophical notion which derailed all the science to me. And how the hell did Matt Damon not understand how an airlock works? Come on! They sent you into space! Surely 'Airlock 101' is like the first lesson at space camp. The movie looked and sounded great and the performances were fine, but it went downhill for me after they found Damon. I just sat there thinking How long until he reveals he's crazy and betrays them, so that twist had zero affect on me. The single highlight for me was that first planet with the high gravity, compressed time, and massive waves. That shit was totally awesome. The movie just went downhill for me after that, more and more. I had such high hopes for the movie too. I'm going to rewatch it one of these days. Me and my friend had it on his netflix queue for two years for that reason and we never watched it, and I even downloaded it too, and still haven't watched it. Could be a few more years before I enter that wormhole again lol

Jean
01-27-2017, 05:48 AM
I just sat there thinking How long until (...)
happens to me all the time while watching a movie

it comes from watching too many of them, thus building a solid watching experience; will, naturally, only get worse with time. The trick is not to let this experience-born presentiment interfere with the perception; at times totally impossible, though

mae
02-03-2017, 04:36 PM
Finally got my Top 30 of 2015:


The Revenant (2015)
Sicario (2015)
Carol (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Ex Machina (2015)
Son of Saul (2015)
The Martian (2015)
Anomalisa (2015)
Brooklyn (2015)
The Lobster (2015)
Room (2015)
The Witch (2015)
The Big Short (2015)
45 Years (2015)
Spotlight (2015)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
The Brand New Testament (2015)
Spy (2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
The Summer of Sangaile (2015)
Green Room (2015)
The Assassin (2015)
Inside Out (2015)
A Man Called Ove (2015)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
The Gift (2015)
The Wave (2015)
April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
Jurassic World (2015)

mae
10-12-2017, 02:45 PM
Well it's been almost a year but I finally sat down and did my longlist for my Top 30 of 2016. Came out to an even 80:


10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
A Cure for Wellness (2016)
A Monster Calls (2016)
A Silent Voice (2016)
After the Storm (2016)
American Honey (2016)
American Pastoral (2016)
Aquarius (2016)
Arrival (2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Captain Fantastic (2016)
Christine (2016)
Clash (2016)
Colossal (2016)
Deadpool (2016)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Don't Breathe (2016)
Elle (2016)
Endless Poetry (2016)
Ethel & Ernest (2016)
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Fences (2016)
Frantz (2016)
Godzilla (2016)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Hell or High Water (2016)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
In This Corner of the World (2016)
Indignation (2016)
It's Only the End of the World (2016)
Jackie (2016)
Julieta (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
La La Land (2016)
Lights Out (2016)
Lion (2016)
Lovesong (2016)
Loving (2016)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Midnight Special (2016)
Moana (2016)
Moonlight (2016)
Morris from America (2016)
My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
Nocturama (2016)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Operation Avalanche (2016)
Paterson (2016)
Personal Shopper (2016)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
Queen of Katwe (2016)
Raw (2016)
Rogue One (2016)
Silence (2016)
Sing Street (2016)
Split (2016)
Suicide Squad (2016)
The Accountant (2016)
The Bad Batch (2016)
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
The Founder (2016)
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
The Handmaiden (2016)
The Lost City of Z (2016)
The Mermaid (2016)
The Neon Demon (2016)
The Nice Guys (2016)
The Red Turtle (2016)
The Salesman (2016)
The Wailing (2016)
Toni Erdmann (2016)
Train to Busan (2016)
Una (2016)
War Dogs (2016)
Wazir (2016)
Your Name (2016)
Zootopia (2016)


Ugh, this will be tough ranking these.

Still Servant
10-12-2017, 04:59 PM
That's a great list. I feel that 2016 was a strong year. I hear a lot of people saying otherwise.

I'm half not looking forward to doing my lists for the decade, but half really looking forward to it. It's not going to be easy.

mae
10-13-2017, 01:43 PM
I've really agonized over this one more so than the preceding years, maybe because a lot of the picks are still fresh in my mind but I'm pretty confident with my now official Top 30 of 2016:

Arrival (2016)
Moonlight (2016)
Hell or High Water (2016)
American Honey (2016)
Toni Erdmann (2016)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Loving (2016)
Split (2016)
The Red Turtle (2016)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Rogue One (2016)
The Salesman (2016)
Elle (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Deadpool (2016)
The Nice Guys (2016)
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
A Cure for Wellness (2016)
Lights Out (2016)
Morris from America (2016)
My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
The Lost City of Z (2016)
Your Name (2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Christine (2016)
The Handmaiden (2016)
The Accountant (2016)

Still Servant
10-14-2017, 02:25 PM
I've really agonized over this one more so than the preceding years, maybe because a lot of the picks are still fresh in my mind but I'm pretty confident with my now official Top 30 of 2016:

Arrival (2016)
Moonlight (2016)
Hell or High Water (2016)
American Honey (2016)
Toni Erdmann (2016)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Loving (2016)
Split (2016)
The Red Turtle (2016)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Rogue One (2016)
The Salesman (2016)
Elle (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Deadpool (2016)
The Nice Guys (2016)
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
A Cure for Wellness (2016)
Lights Out (2016)
Morris from America (2016)
My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
The Lost City of Z (2016)
Your Name (2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Christine (2016)
The Handmaiden (2016)
The Accountant (2016)


Very strong top 10. I know Cure for Wellness is technically a 2016 film, but I'm considering it a 2017 film for my lists this year. It got a wide release in February.

mae
10-14-2017, 02:32 PM
Yeah it can be confusing but to simplify things I'm just going off what IMDB lists it as.

Still Servant
10-15-2017, 11:53 AM
Yeah it can be confusing but to simplify things I'm just going off what IMDB lists it as.

That's true. Probably your best bet. I'll end up doing that for my decade lists too more than likely.

Still Servant
03-07-2018, 09:02 AM
Updated with 2017 films:

2010
1) Toy Story 3
2) Inception
3) Black Swan
4) The Fighter
5) Blue Valentine

2011
1) The Artist
2) Moneyball
3) Drive
4) Rise of the Planet of the Apes
5) Incendies

2012
1) The Raid: Redemption
2) Argo
3) Looper
4) Silver Linings Playbook
5) Django Unchained

2013
1) American Hustle
2) Prisoners
3) The Wolf of Wall Street
4) Zero Dark Thirty
5) 12 Years a Slave

2014
1) Whiplash
2) Snowpiercer
3) Interstellar
4) Edge of Tomorrow
5) The Drop

2015
1) Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Inside Out
3) Ex Machina
4) Spotlight
5) Sicario

2016
1) Hell or High Water
2) Manchester by the Sea
3) The Nice Guys
4) 10 Cloverfield Lane
5) Hacksaw Ridge

2017
1) Get Out
2) Blade Runner 2049
3) Lady Bird
4) Baby Driver
5) Wind River

mae
03-07-2018, 09:04 AM
I was just thinking I should start working on my 2017 list but I haven't seen some of the ones that came out in 2017 technically so I'll maybe do it this summer once I can get to see all the 2017 releases I want. Obviously I can't restrain myself to just five :)

Still Servant
03-07-2018, 09:10 AM
I was just thinking I should start working on my 2017 list but I haven't seen some of the ones that came out in 2017 technically so I'll maybe do it this summer once I can get to see all the 2017 releases I want. Obviously I can't restrain myself to just five :)

Oh, hell naw! :lol:

As we get closer to the end of the decade, I will really dig deep and expand on each year in order to compile a master list of my favorite films of the decade. It's going to be a process.

mae
03-07-2018, 09:22 AM
I feel like 30 in a good number. There are so many great and varied movies coming out each year, I want to include as much of everything as possible in my list.

Still Servant
03-07-2018, 11:08 AM
I feel like 30 in a good number. There are so many great and varied movies coming out each year, I want to include as much of everything as possible in my list.

How long are you planning to make your final list of the decade though? 30 as well?

mae
03-07-2018, 11:18 AM
Yup, what I did for previous decades was just pick the top three from each year, so that's 30, and then rank them. Not very scientific but hey...

Mattrick
03-08-2018, 07:47 PM
My list as of now would probably be:

1. Her (2013)
2. Another Year (2010)
3. Whiplash (2014)
4. A Ghost Story (2017)
5. Moonlight (2016)
6. Room (2015)
7. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
8. Ex Machina (2015)
9. Midnight In Paris (2011)
10. The Babadook (2014)

Hon Mentions: Uncle John (2015), Blue Jasmine (2013), The Social Network (2010), The Fighter (2010), Black Swan (2010), and Hell or High Water (2016).

Still Servant
03-09-2018, 03:45 PM
You liked Midnight in Paris that much? I couldn't get into that one for the life of me. I'm not a big Woody Allen guy though.

Mattrick
03-09-2018, 03:55 PM
I was so happy when it won Original Screenplay. It's such a magical movie. And the cast is stacked. I've watched it at least 10 times now. And Hemingway is awesome.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wM06z5lA74

Still Servant
03-09-2018, 06:58 PM
I don't like McAdams as a villain. I also thought it hurt the film for me. I just kept wondering what Owen Wilson's character saw in her.

Father Cody
03-24-2018, 08:15 PM
Holy shit what a great idea this is! This is like movie guide gold. I didn’t see anything about voting or how to participate so do we just add our favorites as we think of them?

Tommy
03-24-2018, 10:45 PM
Holy shit what a great idea this is! This is like movie guide gold. I didn’t see anything about voting or how to participate so do we just add our favorites as we think of them?

Yup! Looking forward to your list.

Tommy
03-24-2018, 10:55 PM
2017

1. Call Me By Your Name
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. The Disaster Artist
4. Three Billboards...
5. God's Own Country
6. Get Out
7. mother!
8. The Shape of Water
9. Darkest Hour
10. IT


Best documentary, LA 92 although I really didn't see many docs last year but still, LA 92 is quite powerful.

UPDATED

mae
03-26-2018, 02:13 PM
That is a great list, Tommy! Mine won't be ready for a while so it's hard to say what I'll have in my top 10 or even 30. But I'm pretty sure most of yours have a good chance of showing up :)

Tommy
03-26-2018, 05:58 PM
That is a great list, Tommy! Mine won't be ready for a while so it's hard to say what I'll have in my top 10 or even 30. But I'm pretty sure most of yours have a good chance of showing up :)

Thanks. There's still plenty I need to see. I still haven't seen Lady Bird or Phantom Thread and about a million other titles I'd like to see.

Still Servant
03-26-2018, 08:15 PM
Holy shit what a great idea this is! This is like movie guide gold. I didn’t see anything about voting or how to participate so do we just add our favorites as we think of them?Holy shit. You might have just helped us figure out our next movie tournament, or at least one down the road. It only makes sense now that we should have a best film of the decade tournament. This thread will be a great place to come up with the field.

mae
03-27-2018, 02:06 AM
I did float the idea for a decade-based tournament a while back: http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?18756-About-a-potential-next-tournament&p=1084571&viewfull=1#post1084571 It doesn't need to be this current decade, we can do other ones in the meantime. It would take a long time, but eventually I'd love to do all the decades of film as a tournament, going back to the 1920s.

Still Servant
03-27-2018, 03:04 PM
I did float the idea for a decade-based tournament a while back: http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?18756-About-a-potential-next-tournament&p=1084571&viewfull=1#post1084571 It doesn't need to be this current decade, we can do other ones in the meantime. It would take a long time, but eventually I'd love to do all the decades of film as a tournament, going back to the 1920s.

I do remember that. I think that would be an enormous undertaking, but I'd be down. I know you did something similar for the music tournament.

mae
03-27-2018, 03:41 PM
Yeah kinda like that. But not done all at the same time. We can start with the 2000s.

fernandito
03-28-2018, 09:21 AM
Mae - should we do an MCU mini-tournament after Infinity War is out?

mae
03-28-2018, 09:29 AM
Mae - should we do an MCU mini-tournament after Infinity War is out?

That would be nice, sure. Unless I'm mistaken, it's the 19th MCU movie, so it's pretty inconvenient, but there are 19-team (or title, whatever) brackets, because of course there are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:19TeamBracket

We could do a first round of just ranking each movie, say from 1 to 10, then for the playoffs seed them accordingly.

Still Servant
03-28-2018, 07:01 PM
That's it? I feel like there should be more. They release like 3 a year.

Mattrick
03-29-2018, 12:00 AM
Winter Soldier (doesn't win) even though it's the best one :'(

fernandito
03-29-2018, 10:35 AM
Winter Soldier will be in Semis at bare minimum.

DanHocker
03-29-2018, 11:48 AM
That's it? I feel like there should be more. They release like 3 a year.

Looking back at it, it looks like they only started releasing 3 a year last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films

mae
04-01-2018, 05:22 PM
Winter Soldier (doesn't win) even though it's the best one :'(

Sorry, but it wasn’t even the best Marvel movie of that year ;)

Still Servant
04-02-2018, 03:00 PM
Winter Soldier (doesn't win) even though it's the best one :'(

Sorry, but it wasn’t even the best Marvel movie of that year ;)

Winter Soldier was amazing, but Guardians of the Galaxy was maybe the most fun I've had at the movies in years.

mae
05-30-2018, 03:29 PM
It's about time to do my 2017 list. Still some of the more obscure ones yet to see that I'm looking forward to that I put on this list on the strength of the trailer and stuff so there may be some adjustments, and I must have forgotten some, but here's my customary longlist to be whittled down to a Top 30, soon:



120 BPM (2017)
1922 (2017)
A Fantastic Woman (2017)
A Ghost Story (2017)
A Taxi Driver (2017)
A Thousand Junkies (2017)
Alien: Covenant (2017)
All the Money in the World (2017)
Baby Driver (2017)
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Beauty and the Dogs (2017)
Becks (2017)
Bitch (2017)
Blade of the Immortal (2017)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Bokeh (2017)
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Claire's Camera (2017)
Coco (2017)
Darkest Hour (2017)
Disobedience (2017)
Downsizing (2017)
Dunkirk (2017)
Euphoria (2017)
Felicite (2017)
First They Killed My Father (2017)
Flower (2017)
Foxtrot (2017)
Freak Show (2017)
Gerald's Game (2017)
Get Out (2017)
Girls Trip (2017)
God's Own Country (2017)
Good Time (2017)
Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
Gook (2017)
Happy End (2017)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
I, Tonya (2017)
In the Fade (2017)
Ingrid Goes West (2017)
It (2017)
It Comes at Night (2017)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Justice League (2017)
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Lady Bird (2017)
Logan (2017)
Logan Lucky (2017)
Loveless (2017)
Loving Vincent (2017)
Lucky (2017)
Marjorie Prime (2017)
Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)
Molly's Game (2017)
Mom and Dad (2017)
Mother! (2017)
Mr. Roosevelt (2017)
Mudbound (2017)
My Friend Dahmer (2017)
November (2017)
Novitiate (2017)
Okja (2017)
On Body and Soul (2017)
On Chesil Beach (2017)
On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
Patti Cake$ (2017)
Permanent (2017)
Phantom Thread (2017)
Please Stand By (2017)
Princess Cyd (2017)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
Rebel in the Rye (2017)
Revenge (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Suburbicon (2017)
Summer 1993 (2017)
Super Dark Times (2017)
Tehran Taboo (2017)
The Beguiled (2017)
The Big Sick (2017)
The Breadwinner (2017)
The Death of Stalin (2017)
The Disaster Artist (2017)
The Endless (2017)
The Feels (2017)
The Florida Project (2017)
The Girl Who Invented Kissing (2017)
The Insult (2017)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
The Last Word (2017)
The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
The Little Hours (2017)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
The Party (2017)
The Post (2017)
The Rider (2017)
The Shape of Water (2017)
The Square (2017)
The Villainess (2017)
The Wound (2017)
Thelma (2017)
They (2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Thoroughbreds (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017)
Tom of Finland (2017)
Tragedy Girls (2017)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Wind River (2017)
Wonder (2017)
Wonder Woman (2017)
You Were Never Really Here (2017)

mae
05-31-2018, 06:47 AM
Well, this was fun and surprisingly easy, easier than my 2016 list. I knew for a year what my #1 would be, it was the other ones that kind of danced around. Anyway, here's my Top 30 of 2017:


Wonder Woman (2017)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
A Fantastic Woman (2017)
Get Out (2017)
Lady Bird (2017)
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Loving Vincent (2017)
The Big Sick (2017)
The Florida Project (2017)
Logan (2017)
God's Own Country (2017)
Gerald's Game (2017)
The Shape of Water (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Mudbound (2017)
It (2017)
The Breadwinner (2017)
Loveless (2017)
Mother! (2017)
Thelma (2017)
Disobedience (2017)
The Death of Stalin (2017)
The Rider (2017)
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
Thoroughbreds (2017)
Wind River (2017)
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Tragedy Girls (2017)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Still Servant
05-31-2018, 05:14 PM
Very solid list. There's a few on there I still have to see. The Florida Project is one of those films everyone seems to love, but I had no interest in it.

Wind River would be higher for me. Actually, I can't remember if I added my list yet.

fernandito
06-01-2018, 08:23 AM
Solid list.

mae
06-01-2018, 02:08 PM
Very solid list.


Solid list.

Thanks guys, I thought so too :blush:

And as we were discussing a little bit above, I would love for us to do a movie tournament based on the decades, so we can choose our favorite movies of the 2000s and the 1990s and so on. If someone were willing to take it on, cause I'm still kinda tournamented out from running the ginormous music tournament and then the CRAs.

Tommy
06-01-2018, 02:10 PM
That is a very nice list, Mae. There's many I want to see from it. I'm so behind on everything.

mae
07-04-2018, 12:05 PM
So we're past the halfway point of 2018, what are some of your favorites of the year so far? I haven't done a list yet (I always do that after the year's over and just go off memory, I know, not the best method), but for now Annihilation stands at number one for me, I think.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=258EbH9yhTg

Mattrick
07-04-2018, 08:07 PM
Where's A Ghost Story on your 2017 list?

My 2018 list so far:

1. Tully
2. Hereditary
3. The Incredibles 2
4. A Quiet Place
5. Upgrade
6. Avengers Infinity War
7. Game Night
8. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
9. 12 Strong
10. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

mae
07-05-2018, 04:23 AM
Couldn't fit everything! But how is Annihilation not on yours?

fernandito
07-05-2018, 11:05 AM
Hereditary is amazing. Ditto A Quiet Place.

Mattrick
07-05-2018, 06:47 PM
Couldn't fit everything! But how is Annihilation not on yours?


There's always room for the best film of the year :p


I haven't seen Annihilation yet.

Still Servant
07-12-2018, 06:42 PM
My Favorite Films of 2018 (So Far)

1) Annihilation
2) A Quiet Place
3) You Were Never Really Here
4) Tully
5) Hereditary
6) Black Panther
7) Incredibles 2
8 ) Sicario: Day of Soldado
9) Deadpool 2
10) Game Night

Mattrick
07-12-2018, 10:32 PM
I have a feeling Mission Impossible will be on top of my list soon...

mae
07-13-2018, 04:30 AM
Is Day of Soldado really that good? Felt like a really unnecessary sequel and the trailer didn't really grab me. Loved the original, one of the best of its year.

Still Servant
07-15-2018, 04:31 AM
Is Day of Soldado really that good? Felt like a really unnecessary sequel and the trailer didn't really grab me. Loved the original, one of the best of its year.

No. It's not that good, it's just that I have yet to see any other films that are worthy of a top 10 spot. It's still good though, but it won't be on this list in 3 months.

mae
10-19-2018, 07:17 AM
My Favorite Films of 2018 (So Far)

1) Annihilation
2) A Quiet Place
3) You Were Never Really Here
4) Tully
5) Hereditary
6) Black Panther
7) Incredibles 2
8 ) Sicario: Day of Soldado
9) Deadpool 2
10) Game Night

Any updates three months later?

fernandito
10-19-2018, 10:23 AM
Annihilation didn't get the critical love it deserved. What a great film.

webstar1000
10-19-2018, 10:27 AM
My Favorite Films of 2018 (So Far)

1) Annihilation
2) A Quiet Place
3) You Were Never Really Here
4) Tully
5) Hereditary
6) Black Panther
7) Incredibles 2
8 ) Sicario: Day of Soldado
9) Deadpool 2
10) Game Night

Any updates three months later?

Mission was better than Sicario...

Still Servant
10-19-2018, 02:06 PM
My Favorite Films of 2018 (So Far)

1) Annihilation
2) A Quiet Place
3) You Were Never Really Here
4) Tully
5) Hereditary
6) Black Panther
7) Incredibles 2
8 ) Sicario: Day of Soldado
9) Deadpool 2
10) Game Night

Any updates three months later?

Mission was better than Sicario...

Mae, you are always in my head! I literally just updated this on my phone last night.

Web, I made that list before seeing Mission Impossible Fallout.

1) Annihilation
2) A Quiet Place
3) A Star is Born
4) Mission: Impossible - Fallout
5) You Were Never Really Here
6) Tully
8 ) Hereditary
9) Leave No Trace
10) Eighth Grade
11) A Simple Favor
12) Bad Times at the El Royale
13) Black KKKlansman

mae
10-19-2018, 03:43 PM
Mae, you are always in my head!

It's what I do :unsure:

Mattrick
10-20-2018, 01:05 AM
My 2018 list so far:

1. Tully
2. Hereditary
3. The Incredibles 2
4. A Quiet Place
5. Upgrade
6. Avengers Infinity War
7. Game Night
8. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
9. 12 Strong
10. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom


My updated list:



1. Leave No Trace
2. Hereditary
3. Mission Impossible: Fallout

4. Tully
5. Upgrade
6. Avengers: Infinity War
7. A Quiet Place
8. Game Night
9. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
10. 12 Strong

Still Servant
01-02-2019, 06:03 PM
Updated with 2018 films:

2010
1) Toy Story 3
2) Inception
3) Black Swan
4) The Fighter
5) Blue Valentine

2011
1) The Artist
2) Moneyball
3) Drive
4) Rise of the Planet of the Apes
5) Incendies

2012
1) The Raid: Redemption
2) Argo
3) Looper
4) Silver Linings Playbook
5) Django Unchained

2013
1) American Hustle
2) Prisoners
3) The Wolf of Wall Street
4) Zero Dark Thirty
5) 12 Years a Slave

2014
1) Whiplash
2) Snowpiercer
3) Interstellar
4) Edge of Tomorrow
5) The Drop

2015
1) Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Inside Out
3) Ex Machina
4) Spotlight
5) Sicario

2016
1) Hell or High Water
2) Manchester by the Sea
3) The Nice Guys
4) 10 Cloverfield Lane
5) Hacksaw Ridge

2017
1) Get Out
2) Blade Runner 2049
3) Lady Bird
4) Baby Driver
5) Wind River

2018
1) Annihilation
2) A Quiet Place
3) You Were Never Really Here
4) A Star is Born
5) Green Book

mae
01-02-2019, 06:40 PM
Too early for me to start working on my 2018 list, but that's a good number one :) Probably will be mine as well.

Still Servant
01-02-2019, 06:50 PM
Too early for me to start working on my 2018 list, but that's a good number one :) Probably will be mine as well.

I felt safe to do mine. I honestly don't think there are a whole lot of big films I haven't seen for 2018 at this point. The only one that comes to mind is If Beale Street Could Talk. I saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and I have to say it was amazing and would probably be in my top 10.

mae
01-02-2019, 06:58 PM
Into the Spider-Verse will make my Top 5 I feel like. Don't really recall the last time I would rank an animated film that high. Looks like it was Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Still Servant
01-03-2019, 07:42 PM
Into the Spider-Verse will make my Top 5 I feel like. Don't really recall the last time I would rank an animated film that high. Looks like it was Fantastic Mr. Fox.

It's not unheard of for me. Toy Story was my #1 in 2010 and Inside Out was my #2 in 2015. What's actually more unheard of for me is a superhero film ranking that high on my lists. It really defied all expectations for me. I can't wait to see it again. I really hope we get more of these.

mae
01-04-2019, 06:42 AM
Here's my preliminary (very long) longlist for 2018. A lot of these are aspirational, especially the foreign films and indies that I have to wait for streaming, and things I'm looking forward to this year that had festival premieres last year. Because I go by the year in IMDB, not wide release year, it removes any ambiguity.


A Private War (2018)
A Quiet Place (2018)
A Simple Favor (2018)
A Star Is Born (2018)
American Animals (2018)
An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
Annihilation (2018)
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Apostle (2018)
Aquaman (2018)
Ash Is Purest White (2018)
Assassination Nation (2018)
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Becoming Astrid (2018)
Ben Is Back (2018)
Bird Box (2018)
Birds of Passage (2018)
Black Panther (2018)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Blindspotting (2018)
Blockers (2018)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Border (2018)
Boy Erased (2018)
Bumblebee (2018)
Burning (2018)
Cam (2018)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Capernaum (2018)
Christopher Robin (2018)
Climax (2018)
Cold War (2018)
Colette (2018)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Creed II (2018)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Destroyer (2018)
Dogman (2018)
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
Duck Butter (2018)
Dumplin' (2018)
Eighth Grade (2018)
Everybody Knows (2018)
First Man (2018)
Game Night (2018)
Girl (2018)
Green Book (2018)
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
Hereditary (2018)
Hold the Dark (2018)
I Feel Pretty (2018)
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Instant Family (2018)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Juliet, Naked (2018)
Kursk (2018)
Leave No Trace (2018)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Love, Simon (2018)
Madeline's Madeline (2018)
Mandy (2018)
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Mid90s (2018)
Mirai (2018)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Never Look Away (2018)
Ocean's Eight (2018)
On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Overlord (2018)
Padmaavat (2018)
Piercing (2018)
Private Life (2018)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Ready Player One (2018)
Red Sparrow (2018)
Roma (2018)
Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018)
Searching (2018)
Second Act (2018)
Shoplifters (2018)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Summer of 84 (2018)
Sunset (2018)
Support the Girls (2018)
Suspiria (2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Favourite (2018)
The Front Runner (2018)
The Guilty (2018)
The Hate U Give (2018)
The House That Jack Built (2018)
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
The Land of Steady Habits (2018)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
The Mule (2018)
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
The Party's Just Beginning (2018)
The Quake (2018)
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
The Tale (2018)
The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)
Tully (2018)
Under the Silver Lake (2018)
Unsane (2018)
Upgrade (2018)
Venom (2018)
Vice (2018)
Vox Lux (2018)
We the Animals (2018)
White Boy Rick (2018)
Widows (2018)
Wildlife (2018)

mae
02-24-2019, 11:07 AM
My Top 30 of 2018 is here on Oscar day! Lots of great movies this year, it was really tough ranking this and leaving so many honorable mentions out...


Annihilation (2018)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Hereditary (2018)
Roma (2018)
Green Book (2018)
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Tully (2018)
Shoplifters (2018)
Eighth Grade (2018)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
The Favourite (2018)
Game Night (2018)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
A Quiet Place (2018)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Burning (2018)
Leave No Trace (2018)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
The Tale (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Cold War (2018)
Love, Simon (2018)
Mandy (2018)
Support the Girls (2018)
A Star Is Born (2018)
Black Panther (2018)
Madeline's Madeline (2018)
Blindspotting (2018)

Garrell
02-24-2019, 12:52 PM
Like seeing Game Night on that list. Great comedy and under rated

Ricky
02-24-2019, 01:27 PM
Saw Green Book last night and really liked it. I'd like to see it get more Oscars love than it's probably going to end up getting tonight.

mae
02-25-2019, 02:14 PM
Did a little tinkering with my 2018 list above, I think I'm finally happy with it. But again, still so many great films left below the line...

Still Servant
02-25-2019, 05:34 PM
2018 was indeed a strong year for film.

I saw 22 of the films on your list, Mae. There's a few on there that are on my list like Burning, Cold War and Blindspotting. I'm on the fence with Mandy. Films like that usually annoy me.

mae
02-25-2019, 06:12 PM
I'm on the fence with Mandy. Films like that usually annoy me.

I know what you mean but I really like weird movies. Sometimes a weird movie will endear itself to me for no good reason and while everyone will say it's crap I'll be like nuh-uh. A good case in point is The Mothman Prophecies. I have it at #12 of my favorites for 2002. That's probably on no one's top list of anything of 2002. Maybe worst of. But I think it's awesome. Mandy is different, of course, but it has Cage's best performance in years (poor guy is doing a movie a month it seems), awesome score by the late Johann Johannsson, and it's from the director of Beyond the Black Rainbow, which was another super-weird movie I like!

mae
08-07-2019, 02:23 AM
Some food for thought for our next tournament in early 2020:

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-of-2010s-decade/

The 100 Best Movies of the Decade

Ten years ago, it seemed like we all had a pretty solid idea of movies — what they can do, who they’re for, and where they’re watched. That idea was inflexible, and supported by a century of precedent. It came with the added benefit of making the people in charge comfortable with the idea that cinema’s future wouldn’t look all that different from its past. DVD sales were strong, Netflix was still just a sad little envelope at the bottom of your mailbox, and China was starting to give studios the biggest safety net it ever had. Perhaps the arrival of James Cameron’s “Avatar” in the waning moments of 2009 could have been seen as a harbinger of strange things to come, but no one in Hollywood has ever lost sleep over a movie that grossed nearly $3 billion.

Things have changed. Cinema is in a constant state of flux, but it’s never mutated faster or more restlessly than it has over the last 10 years. And while the decade will no doubt be remembered for the paradigm shifts precipitated by streaming and monolithic superhero movies, hindsight makes it clear that the definition of film itself is exponentially wider now than it was a decade ago. Places. Products. Mirrors. Windows. Reflections of who we are. Visions of who we want to be. A way of capturing reality. A way of changing it. If the most vital work of the 2010s has made one thing clear, it’s that movies have never been more things to more people than they are today. And our week-long celebration list of the Best Films of the 2010s has us more excited than ever about what they might be to you tomorrow.

As the week goes on, we’ll be posting lists of the decade’s best performances, scenes, scores, and posters, as well as a timeline of the news stories that shaped the last 10 years, and interviews with the filmmakers who made it all happen.

But for now, IndieWire is proud to kick things off with our list of the 100 best movies of the 2010s.

“Inherent Vice” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
“The Loneliest Planet” (Julia Loktev, 2011)
“The Great Gatsby” (Baz Luhrmann, 2013)
“All These Sleepless Nights” (Michal Marczak, 2016)
“Girl Walk // All Day” (Jacob Krupnick, 2011)
“The Arbor” (Clio Barnard, 2010)
“Happy Hour” (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, 2015)
“Mother of George” (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, 2018)
“Fire at Sea” (Gianfranco Rosi, 2016)
“Private Life” (Tamara Jenkins, 2018)
“Support the Girls” (Andrew Bujalski, 2018)
“We Need to Talk About Kevin” (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)
“Her Smell” (Alex Ross Perry, 2018)
“Kate Plays Christine” (Robert Greene, 2016)
“The Illusionist” (Sylvain Chomet, 2010)
“Beasts of the Southern Wild” (Benh Zeitlin, 2012)
“Synonyms” (Nadav Lapid, 2019)
“Sunset Song” (Terence Davies, 2015)
“High Life” (Claire Denis, 2018)
“No Home Movie” (Chantal Akerman, 2015)
“Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter” (David & Nathan Zellner, 2014)
“Inside Out” (Pete Docter, 2015)
“The Souvenir” (Joanna Hogg, 2019)
“Leave No Trace” (Debra Granik, 2018)
“A Star Is Born” (Bradley Cooper, 2018)
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (Rian Johnson, 2017)
“La La Land” (Damien Chazelle, 2016)
“The Handmaiden” (Park Chan-wook, 2016)
“Goodbye to Language” (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
“Pariah” (Dee Rees, 2011)
“The Duke of Burgundy” (Peter Strickland, 2014)
“Jackie” (Pablo Larraín, 2016)
“At Berkeley” (Frederick Wiseman, 2013)
“Force Majeure” (Ruben Östlund, 2014)
“Melancholia” (Lars von Trier, 2011)
“Mission: Impossible — Fallout” (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)
“Inception” (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
“Shoplifters” (Kore-eda Hirokazu, 2018)
“Faces Places” (Agnès Varda & JR, 2017)
“Black Panther” (Ryan Coogler, 2018)
“The Farewell” (Lulu Wang, 2019)
“The Turin Horse” (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
“Tangerine” (Sean Baker, 2015)
“Happy as Lazzaro” (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
“Frances Ha” (Noah Baumbach, 2012)
“Cold War” (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018)
“A Ghost Story” (David Lowery, 2017)
“Eden” (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014)
“Elle” (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” (Takahata Isao, 2014)
“Before Midnight” (Richard Linklater, 2013)
“Parasite” (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
“The Lost City of Z” (James Gray, 2016)
“Hereditary” (Ari Aster, 2018)
“A Separation” (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
“Cameraperson” (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
“Zero Dark Thirty” (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
“Margaret” (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
“Personal Shopper” (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
“The Babadook” (Jennifer Kent, 2014)
“Timbuktu” (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
“Roma” (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)
“Spring Breakers” (Harmony Korine, 2013)
“Only Lovers Left Alive” (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
“Stories We Tell” (Sarah Polley, 2012)
“Madeline’s Madeline” (Josephine Decker, 2018)
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” (Wes Anderson, 2014)
“Somewhere” (Sofia Coppola, 2010)
“This Is Not a Film” (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011)
“First Reformed” (Paul Schrader, 2018)
“Paddington 2” (Paul King, 2017)
“The Wind Rises” (Miyazaki Hayao, 2013)
“Magic Mike XXL” (Gregory Jacobs, 2015)
“Amour” (Michael Haneke, 2012)
“Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)
“O.J.: Made in America” (Ezra Edelman, 2016)
“Burning” (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
“Get Out” (Jordan Peele, 2017)
“Phantom Thread” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
“Toni Erdmann” (Maren Ade, 2016)
“Call Me by Your Name” (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
“World of Tomorrow” (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)
“The Social Network” (David Fincher, 2010)
“Dogtooth” (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2010)
“Leviathan” (Vérena Paravel & Lucien Castain-Taylor, 2012)
“The Tree of Life” (Terrence Malick, 2011)
“Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2011)
“The Wolf of Wall Street” (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
“Lady Bird” (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
“Mad Max: Fury Road” (George Miller, 2015)
“The Master” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
“Carol” (Todd Haynes, 2015)
“Holy Motors” (Leos Carax, 2012)
“Inside Llewyn Davis” (Ethan & Joel Coen, 2013)
“The Act of Killing”/”The Look of Silence” (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2013/2015)
“Certified Copy” (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
“Under the Skin” (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
“Moonlight” (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

Astounding to see Under the Skin at #2! But Dogtooth came out in 2009, so they goofed on that. This has been an amazing decade of film. Cannot wait to see what the '20s bring us!

Mattrick
08-07-2019, 02:51 PM
If I had to do a rough top 30-50 or so for the decade, with one more year to go, in no particular order, it would look something like this:

A Ghost Story
Her
Whiplash
Mad Max: Fury Road
Moonlight
Leave No Trace
Room
Your Name

The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ex Machina
Roma
Before Midnight
Hereditary
Another Year
The Descendants
Midnight in Paris
John Wick 3: Parabellum
Mission Impossible 6: Fallout
Bridesmaids
Young Adult
The Hateful Eight
Stoker
Philomena
Blue Jasmine
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Babadook
Midnight Special
Spotlight
Brooklyn
Sicario
Anomalisa
Hell or High Water
Blade Runner 2049
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Uncle John
A Separation
Mustang
La La Land
Manchester By The Sea
The Witch
It Comes at Night
The Kids Are All Right
Hugo
Life of Pi
Black Swan
The Social Network
The Wolf of Wall Street
American Hustle
Birdman
Boyhood
Nightcrawler
Fences
The Favourite
Green Book




There are a lot of films from this decade I still have to see.


Honestly, I can't believe that Indiewire list has stuff like A Star is Born, The Last Jedi, and Magic Mike XXL, but doesn't have Her or Whiplash...

fernandito
08-07-2019, 02:57 PM
That's a pretty solid list ngl.

Shit I need to watch A Ghost Story. Is that on any streaming service?

MikeDuke
08-07-2019, 03:25 PM
Wow. I thought I saw a lot of movies this decade but there are a ton on the list of some people that I did not see or just never heard of. I will try and see some but I doubt I will see all of them.

Still Servant
08-07-2019, 05:59 PM
Some food for thought for our next tournament in early 2020:

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-of-2010s-decade/

The 100 Best Movies of the Decade

Ten years ago, it seemed like we all had a pretty solid idea of movies — what they can do, who they’re for, and where they’re watched. That idea was inflexible, and supported by a century of precedent. It came with the added benefit of making the people in charge comfortable with the idea that cinema’s future wouldn’t look all that different from its past. DVD sales were strong, Netflix was still just a sad little envelope at the bottom of your mailbox, and China was starting to give studios the biggest safety net it ever had. Perhaps the arrival of James Cameron’s “Avatar” in the waning moments of 2009 could have been seen as a harbinger of strange things to come, but no one in Hollywood has ever lost sleep over a movie that grossed nearly $3 billion.

Things have changed. Cinema is in a constant state of flux, but it’s never mutated faster or more restlessly than it has over the last 10 years. And while the decade will no doubt be remembered for the paradigm shifts precipitated by streaming and monolithic superhero movies, hindsight makes it clear that the definition of film itself is exponentially wider now than it was a decade ago. Places. Products. Mirrors. Windows. Reflections of who we are. Visions of who we want to be. A way of capturing reality. A way of changing it. If the most vital work of the 2010s has made one thing clear, it’s that movies have never been more things to more people than they are today. And our week-long celebration list of the Best Films of the 2010s has us more excited than ever about what they might be to you tomorrow.

As the week goes on, we’ll be posting lists of the decade’s best performances, scenes, scores, and posters, as well as a timeline of the news stories that shaped the last 10 years, and interviews with the filmmakers who made it all happen.

But for now, IndieWire is proud to kick things off with our list of the 100 best movies of the 2010s.

“Inherent Vice” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
“The Loneliest Planet” (Julia Loktev, 2011)
“The Great Gatsby” (Baz Luhrmann, 2013)
“All These Sleepless Nights” (Michal Marczak, 2016)
“Girl Walk // All Day” (Jacob Krupnick, 2011)
“The Arbor” (Clio Barnard, 2010)
“Happy Hour” (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, 2015)
“Mother of George” (Andrew Dosunmu, 2013)
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, 2018)
“Fire at Sea” (Gianfranco Rosi, 2016)
“Private Life” (Tamara Jenkins, 2018)
“Support the Girls” (Andrew Bujalski, 2018)
“We Need to Talk About Kevin” (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)
“Her Smell” (Alex Ross Perry, 2018)
“Kate Plays Christine” (Robert Greene, 2016)
“The Illusionist” (Sylvain Chomet, 2010)
“Beasts of the Southern Wild” (Benh Zeitlin, 2012)
“Synonyms” (Nadav Lapid, 2019)
“Sunset Song” (Terence Davies, 2015)
“High Life” (Claire Denis, 2018)
“No Home Movie” (Chantal Akerman, 2015)
“Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter” (David & Nathan Zellner, 2014)
“Inside Out” (Pete Docter, 2015)
“The Souvenir” (Joanna Hogg, 2019)
“Leave No Trace” (Debra Granik, 2018)
“A Star Is Born” (Bradley Cooper, 2018)
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (Rian Johnson, 2017)
“La La Land” (Damien Chazelle, 2016)
“The Handmaiden” (Park Chan-wook, 2016)
“Goodbye to Language” (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
“Pariah” (Dee Rees, 2011)
“The Duke of Burgundy” (Peter Strickland, 2014)
“Jackie” (Pablo Larraín, 2016)
“At Berkeley” (Frederick Wiseman, 2013)
“Force Majeure” (Ruben Östlund, 2014)
“Melancholia” (Lars von Trier, 2011)
“Mission: Impossible — Fallout” (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)
“Inception” (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
“Shoplifters” (Kore-eda Hirokazu, 2018)
“Faces Places” (Agnès Varda & JR, 2017)
“Black Panther” (Ryan Coogler, 2018)
“The Farewell” (Lulu Wang, 2019)
“The Turin Horse” (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
“Tangerine” (Sean Baker, 2015)
“Happy as Lazzaro” (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
“Frances Ha” (Noah Baumbach, 2012)
“Cold War” (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018)
“A Ghost Story” (David Lowery, 2017)
“Eden” (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014)
“Elle” (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” (Takahata Isao, 2014)
“Before Midnight” (Richard Linklater, 2013)
“Parasite” (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
“The Lost City of Z” (James Gray, 2016)
“Hereditary” (Ari Aster, 2018)
“A Separation” (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
“Cameraperson” (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
“Zero Dark Thirty” (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
“Margaret” (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
“Personal Shopper” (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
“The Babadook” (Jennifer Kent, 2014)
“Timbuktu” (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
“Roma” (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)
“Spring Breakers” (Harmony Korine, 2013)
“Only Lovers Left Alive” (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
“Stories We Tell” (Sarah Polley, 2012)
“Madeline’s Madeline” (Josephine Decker, 2018)
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” (Wes Anderson, 2014)
“Somewhere” (Sofia Coppola, 2010)
“This Is Not a Film” (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011)
“First Reformed” (Paul Schrader, 2018)
“Paddington 2” (Paul King, 2017)
“The Wind Rises” (Miyazaki Hayao, 2013)
“Magic Mike XXL” (Gregory Jacobs, 2015)
“Amour” (Michael Haneke, 2012)
“Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)
“O.J.: Made in America” (Ezra Edelman, 2016)
“Burning” (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
“Get Out” (Jordan Peele, 2017)
“Phantom Thread” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
“Toni Erdmann” (Maren Ade, 2016)
“Call Me by Your Name” (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
“World of Tomorrow” (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)
“The Social Network” (David Fincher, 2010)
“Dogtooth” (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2010)
“Leviathan” (Vérena Paravel & Lucien Castain-Taylor, 2012)
“The Tree of Life” (Terrence Malick, 2011)
“Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2011)
“The Wolf of Wall Street” (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
“Lady Bird” (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
“Mad Max: Fury Road” (George Miller, 2015)
“The Master” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
“Carol” (Todd Haynes, 2015)
“Holy Motors” (Leos Carax, 2012)
“Inside Llewyn Davis” (Ethan & Joel Coen, 2013)
“The Act of Killing”/”The Look of Silence” (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2013/2015)
“Certified Copy” (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
“Under the Skin” (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
“Moonlight” (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

Astounding to see Under the Skin at #2! But Dogtooth came out in 2009, so they goofed on that. This has been an amazing decade of film. Cannot wait to see what the '20s bring us!

I just posted about this in the other thread, but I have some real concerns about the next tournament.

I look at all those amazing films on the list you linked and maybe 10 of them would get more than 3 votes in the tournament and that's only if they get nominated.

If some of those smaller films are to make it into the tournament, members like me, you, Matt and a few others are going to have to be a lot more active during the nominating process.

You did your part, but I wasn't as active as I had hoped for.

mae
09-07-2019, 10:50 AM
We're well past the midway point of the year so as usual, I'm wondering what's everyone top movies of the year so far? There are tons of movies I'm looking forward to watching in the remaining months of 2019 (Joker, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Parasite) that I'm betting will rank pretty high on my final list, so it's a little challenging coming up with any meaningful Top 10 or something.

Still Servant
09-07-2019, 11:43 AM
We're well past the midway point of the year so as usual, I'm wondering what's everyone top movies of the year so far? There are tons of movies I'm looking forward to watching in the remaining months of 2019 (Joker, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Parasite) that I'm betting will rank pretty high on my final list, so it's a little challenging coming up with any meaningful Top 10 or something.

You had to ask! Now I have to sit down and come up with a list. :lol: I too have a stable of films I'm dying to see including Parasite, which is getting tons of hype, The Nightingale, The Lighthouse, Luce, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch, and a bunch more.

My Favorite Films of 2019 So Far:

1) Midsommar
2) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
3) Us
4) Toy Story 4
5) Booksmart
6) The Peanut Butter Falcon
7) Good Boys
8 ) Avengers Endgame
9) I Am Mother
10) Rocketman
11) Yesterday
12) Crawl

mae
09-07-2019, 11:46 AM
I'm such an OCD person about this and The Nightingale officially came out in 2018, I'm not considering it for 2019. Once I see it, and it's up there, I'll add it to my 2018 list. Love seeing Booksmart that high. I have a feeling it'll end up pretty high on my list, too. I loved it.

Still Servant
09-07-2019, 07:27 PM
I'm such an OCD person about this and The Nightingale officially came out in 2018, I'm not considering it for 2019. Once I see it, and it's up there, I'll add it to my 2018 list. Love seeing Booksmart that high. I have a feeling it'll end up pretty high on my list, too. I loved it.

Yeah, but that was at smaller festivals. It's just now getting rolled out wider.

Still Servant
09-09-2019, 03:47 PM
I'm kind of surprised that the early reviews for Jojo Rabbit and Goldfinch are negative.

mae
10-20-2019, 11:12 AM
Obviously it's still too early to begin working on my Best of 2019 list, but I started compiling a list of the movies I enjoyed this year plus new 2019 releases I'm looking forward to the rest of the year and early in 2020. I'm sure I missed a bunch, too, but if anyone's curious, here's that list, in alphabetical order:


1917
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
A Hidden Life
Ad Astra
Avengers: Endgame
Babyteeth
Bacurau
Beanpole
Bliss
Bombshell
Booksmart
Buoyancy
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants
Dolemite Is My Name
Ema
Good Boys
Greener Grass
Honey Boy
Hustlers
I Lost My Body
John Denver Trending
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Knives Out
Kumbalangi Nights
Les Misérables
Little Women
Luce
Marona’s Fantastic Tale
Marriage Story
Midsommar
Monos
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Pain and Glory
Papicha
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Queen of Hearts
Rocketman
Saint Maud
Shazam!
Super Deluxe
Synonyms
System Crasher
The Art of Self-Defense
The Farewell
The Forest of Love
The Invisible Life
The Irishman
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Lighthouse
The Lodge
The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Platform
The Report
The Souvenir
The Swallows of Kabul
Uncut Gems
Us
Wasteland
Waves
Weathering with You
Where We Belong

Still Servant
10-20-2019, 03:31 PM
Strong list. It's crazy how many films that are coming out that I need to see. I added to your list. The films I added are in bold.


1917
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Ford Vs. Ferarri
Harriet
High Life
Honey Boy
Hustlers
Jojo Rabbit
The King
Knives Out
Little Monsters
Little Women
Luce
Marriage Story
The Nightengale
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Sound of Metal
The Farewell
The Irishman
The Lighthouse
The Lodge
The Report
Uncut Gems
Waves

mae
10-20-2019, 04:10 PM
Not really interested in Ford v. Ferarri to be honest, but looking forward to The Nightingale but as I said earlier, it's technically a 2018 film. So is High Life. Harriet tackles an important subject but the reviews have been lukewarm so I'm afraid they might've missed the mark. The King seems okay but nothing special. Little Monsters does look fun, but I don't know about the Best of 2019. Sound of Metal is one I forgot and does sound really cool, so thanks for reminding me!

Still Servant
10-20-2019, 04:38 PM
Not really interested in Ford v. Ferarri to be honest, but looking forward to The Nightingale but as I said earlier, it's technically a 2018 film. So is High Life. Harriet tackles an important subject but the reviews have been lukewarm so I'm afraid they might've missed the mark. The King seems okay but nothing special. Little Monsters does look fun, but I don't know about the Best of 2019. Sound of Metal is one I forgot and does sound really cool, so thanks for reminding me!

Yeah, but both High Life and Nightingale had their larger releases in 2019. I know they were made in 2018 and that stuff gets tricky as we move forward when making lists etc., but in the short term, I consider films like that 2019.

Ford V. Ferrari has Bale and Damon, whom I love. Not to mention James Mangold directing, so I think it will at least be solid.

mae
10-20-2019, 04:44 PM
Yeah the whole festival release versus wide release gets fuzzy when they do it in different years. There will be films that had their festival premieres this year that will get wide (or maybe not so wide) releases next year, technically in a different decade, so for the purposes of our decades tournament, if we counted them as 2020 movies they wouldn't be eligible. But because I'm going year by year and creating my best-of lists based on the year of original release, that removes that ambiguity. Once I finally see The Nightingale (when does it come out by the way?), I'm fairly sure I'll be updating my 2018 list, which is why Letteboxd ranked lists are so fun and easy to maintain. You can always update them and move things around as you see more movies or re-evaluate things.

Still Servant
10-20-2019, 04:49 PM
Yeah the whole festival release versus wide release gets fuzzy when they do it in different years. There will be films that had their festival premieres this year that will get wide (or maybe not so wide) releases next year, technically in a different decade, so for the purposes of our decades tournament, if we counted them as 2020 movies they wouldn't be eligible. But because I'm going year by year and creating my best-of lists based on the year of original release, that removes that ambiguity. Once I finally see The Nightingale (when does it come out by the way?), I'm faitly sure I'll be updating my 2018 list, which is why Letteboxd ranked lists are so fun and easy to maintain. You can always update them and move things around as you see more movies or re-evaluate things.

The Nightingale came and went, unfortunately. I believe it was released in August. It was a crazy summer for me and it was only released in a theater that's not too close to me that I like to go to sometimes, but it just didn't happen.

mae
10-20-2019, 04:51 PM
Oh no, yeah I just looked it up and it apparently had a limited release in early August. I had no idea. I don't think I had it playing anywhere near me, otherwise I would've seen it. Oh well, now to wait until it hits streaming.

Still Servant
10-20-2019, 04:53 PM
Oh no, yeah I just looked it up and it apparently had a limited release in early August. I had no idea. I don't think I had it playing anywhere near me, otherwise I would've seen it. Oh well, now to wait until it hits streaming.

Yeah, I'm coming up empty on a streaming/physical release date.

mae
11-25-2019, 05:13 PM
https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/11/top-100-films-of-the-2010s/full-post/

At the top of the 2010s, in one of the top films on the list you’re about to read through, a young tech mogul declared in an ecstatic frenzy that we were going to live on the Internet. He was right, of course, even if Sean Parker probably didn’t realize what Mark Zuckerberg was about to unleash on the global community.

Like everything, so much of the decade in film unfolded on the Internet. The decade began with Netflix still taking its earliest steps into on-demand streaming, and it’s ending with the production and release of a Martin Scorsese-directed tentpole feature. We watch movies at home as often as theaters now, if not far more frequently; we praise and argue and think about them online for the same reason we’ve always talked about the movies, to better understand them and ourselves and the world through them. In confusing and increasingly fraught times, we needed ways to understand, and film at its best gave us a chance to do exactly that.

The list you’re about to read, like every other one you’re about to read in the coming weeks and months, is a condensed version of a far longer list, one full of films just as exceptional as the 100 to follow here. That’s just part of the list-making game. But we’d like to think that it also captures the spectrum of moviegoing experiences from the decade that was, the genre-bending experiments and bold new voices and revelatory career peaks that accompanied film’s transition into cinematic universes and dedicated repertory theaters and the press of a button on your remote.

We have a lot more to say about what we’ll call the 100 best films of the 2010s, as you’re about to see, so let’s get started.

100. mother! (2017)
99. Gone Girl (2014)
98. The Raid 2 (2014)
97. Her Smell (2019)
96. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
95. The Favourite (2018)
94. Krisha (2015)
93. A Ghost Story (2017)
92. The Wind Rises (2013)
91. Elle (2016)
90. Lady Bird (2017)
89. Attack the Block (2011)
88. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
87. Columbus (2017)
86. The Trip (2010)
85. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)
84. Sing Street (2016)
83. Parasite (2019)
82. Eighth Grade (2018)
81. Manchester by the Sea (2016)
80. Burning (2018)
79. Your Name (2017)
78. The Tale (2018)
77. The Master (2012)
76. The Interrupters (2011)
75. Blue Valentine (2010)
74. Phoenix (2014)
73. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
72. Good Time (2017)
71. Nocturama (2016)
70. Midsommar (2019)
69. Paterson (2017)
68. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
67. Shoplifters (2018)
66. Toni Erdmann (2016)
65. 13th (2016)
64. Drive (2011)
63. Annihilation (2018)
62. Spring Breakers (2012)
61. La La Land (2016)
60. Amy (2015)
59. Baby Driver (2017)
58. American Honey (2016)
57. Force Majeure (2014)
56. First Reformed (2018)
55. Young Adult (2011)
54. Leviathan (2014)
53. Roma (2018)
52. Moneyball (2011)
51. Cold War (2018)
50. Nightcrawler (2014)
49. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
48. Amour (2012)
47. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
46. Jackie (2016)
45. Inherent Vice (2014)
44. The Revenant (2015)
43. Shirkers (2018)
42. Melancholia (2011)
41. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
40. BlackkKlansman (2018)
39. The Babadook (2014)
38. Looper (2012)
37. Before Midnight (2012)
36. Fruitvale Station (2013)
35. Carol (2015)
34. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (2018)
33. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
32. Her (2013)
31. A Separation (2011)
30. Zero Dark Thirty (2011)
29. 45 Years (2015)
28. OJ: Made in America (2016)
27. Frances Ha (2012)
26. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
25. Logan (2017)
24. Son of Saul (2015)
23. Call Me By Your Name (2017)
22. The Invitation (2015)
21. Dunkirk (2017)
20. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
19. Green Room (2016)
18. Tangerine (2015)
17. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
16. Boyhood (2014)
15. The Tree of Life (2011)
14. Get Out (2017)
13. Bridesmaids (2011)
12. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
11. Inside Out (2015)
10. Inception (2010)
9. The Handmaiden (2016)
8. Phantom Thread (2017)
7. Under the Skin (2014)
6. The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence (2015)
5. Hereditary (2018)
4. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
3. Moonlight (2016)
2. The Social Network (2010)
1. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

fernandito
11-26-2019, 09:42 AM
I love Mad Max but No. 1? Dayum.

mae
11-26-2019, 11:10 AM
Yeah that wouldn't top my list, but it's certainly a great movie.

Still Servant
11-26-2019, 05:38 PM
That list was looking good, until I realized Whiplash wasn't on it, then it was dead to me.

Mattrick
11-27-2019, 09:37 AM
It was dead to me when A Ghost Story was 97 and Popstar was 88. I love Popstar but WTF? A good but disposable comedy ranked over a truly unique, once in a lifetime film? WWWTTTFFF?!?!

fernandito
11-27-2019, 09:45 AM
Also was Lady Bird actually good or was it all Rotten Tomatoes hype? I know they love to blitz people with their "100% on Rotten Tomatoes SEE IT NOW!" hype trains.

Mattrick
11-27-2019, 09:58 AM
Lady Bird is a pretty solid film. A nice little coming of age story with some solid performances.

Ricky
11-27-2019, 03:09 PM
I enjoyed it, but the hype was in overdrive right before I saw it so I was expecting to love it more.

Tommy
11-27-2019, 03:23 PM
https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/11/top-100-films-of-the-2010s/full-post/

At the top of the 2010s, in one of the top films on the list you’re about to read through, a young tech mogul declared in an ecstatic frenzy that we were going to live on the Internet. He was right, of course, even if Sean Parker probably didn’t realize what Mark Zuckerberg was about to unleash on the global community.

Like everything, so much of the decade in film unfolded on the Internet. The decade began with Netflix still taking its earliest steps into on-demand streaming, and it’s ending with the production and release of a Martin Scorsese-directed tentpole feature. We watch movies at home as often as theaters now, if not far more frequently; we praise and argue and think about them online for the same reason we’ve always talked about the movies, to better understand them and ourselves and the world through them. In confusing and increasingly fraught times, we needed ways to understand, and film at its best gave us a chance to do exactly that.

The list you’re about to read, like every other one you’re about to read in the coming weeks and months, is a condensed version of a far longer list, one full of films just as exceptional as the 100 to follow here. That’s just part of the list-making game. But we’d like to think that it also captures the spectrum of moviegoing experiences from the decade that was, the genre-bending experiments and bold new voices and revelatory career peaks that accompanied film’s transition into cinematic universes and dedicated repertory theaters and the press of a button on your remote.

We have a lot more to say about what we’ll call the 100 best films of the 2010s, as you’re about to see, so let’s get started.

100. mother! (2017)
99. Gone Girl (2014)
98. The Raid 2 (2014)
97. Her Smell (2019)
96. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
95. The Favourite (2018)
94. Krisha (2015)
93. A Ghost Story (2017)
92. The Wind Rises (2013)
91. Elle (2016)
90. Lady Bird (2017)
89. Attack the Block (2011)
88. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
87. Columbus (2017)
86. The Trip (2010)
85. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)
84. Sing Street (2016)
83. Parasite (2019)
82. Eighth Grade (2018)
81. Manchester by the Sea (2016)
80. Burning (2018)
79. Your Name (2017)
78. The Tale (2018)
77. The Master (2012)
76. The Interrupters (2011)
75. Blue Valentine (2010)
74. Phoenix (2014)
73. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
72. Good Time (2017)
71. Nocturama (2016)
70. Midsommar (2019)
69. Paterson (2017)
68. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
67. Shoplifters (2018)
66. Toni Erdmann (2016)
65. 13th (2016)
64. Drive (2011)
63. Annihilation (2018)
62. Spring Breakers (2012)
61. La La Land (2016)
60. Amy (2015)
59. Baby Driver (2017)
58. American Honey (2016)
57. Force Majeure (2014)
56. First Reformed (2018)
55. Young Adult (2011)
54. Leviathan (2014)
53. Roma (2018)
52. Moneyball (2011)
51. Cold War (2018)
50. Nightcrawler (2014)
49. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
48. Amour (2012)
47. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
46. Jackie (2016)
45. Inherent Vice (2014)
44. The Revenant (2015)
43. Shirkers (2018)
42. Melancholia (2011)
41. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
40. BlackkKlansman (2018)
39. The Babadook (2014)
38. Looper (2012)
37. Before Midnight (2012)
36. Fruitvale Station (2013)
35. Carol (2015)
34. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse (2018)
33. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
32. Her (2013)
31. A Separation (2011)
30. Zero Dark Thirty (2011)
29. 45 Years (2015)
28. OJ: Made in America (2016)
27. Frances Ha (2012)
26. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
25. Logan (2017)
24. Son of Saul (2015)
23. Call Me By Your Name (2017)
22. The Invitation (2015)
21. Dunkirk (2017)
20. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
19. Green Room (2016)
18. Tangerine (2015)
17. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
16. Boyhood (2014)
15. The Tree of Life (2011)
14. Get Out (2017)
13. Bridesmaids (2011)
12. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
11. Inside Out (2015)
10. Inception (2010)
9. The Handmaiden (2016)
8. Phantom Thread (2017)
7. Under the Skin (2014)
6. The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence (2015)
5. Hereditary (2018)
4. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
3. Moonlight (2016)
2. The Social Network (2010)
1. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Is 79 supposed to be Call Me By Your Name? If so, It should be in the top five. :biggrin: God's Own Country should be in there as well but both would be knocked out of the tournament first round if they got seconded. :cry:

EDIT: just went to the link and saw, such a shame. Oh well.

mae
11-27-2019, 03:38 PM
No, that's the animated film Your Name. Call Me By Your Name is #23.

Tommy
11-27-2019, 03:52 PM
No, that's the animated film Your Name. Call Me By Your Name is #23.

Ever so slowly, I figured it out. My eyesight gets worse by the day. Still, should be in the top five. :) Sorry about that Mae.

Hunchback Jack
11-27-2019, 04:34 PM
I tend to ignore the order of movies on lists like this, and just look for movies that are there or not.

Having said that, I'm fine with Mad Max: Fury Road being number 1. Fury Road is what happens when a visionary filmmaker creates that vision flawlessly, and with crystal clarity. There are a few films on the list that would be equally deserving of the top spot, but MM:FR will do just fine.

Also good to see Nightcrawler on there. Disappointed not to see Blue Ruin on there. And no Arrival, the greatest SF movie of the decade? No The VVitch??? For shame!

HBJ

mae
11-27-2019, 04:40 PM
This is just one list of many we'll see in the next months. It will be super interesting to see our own list when we do the 2010s tournament next year :)

Hunchback Jack
11-27-2019, 04:42 PM
This is just one list of many we'll see in the next months. It will be super interesting to see our own list when we do the 2010s tournament next year :)

:D Understood. I just like getting worked up about movies.

HBJ

Tommy
11-27-2019, 10:34 PM
97. Her Smell (2019)
96. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
95. The Favourite (2018)
94. Krisha (2015)
93. A Ghost Story (2017)
92. The Wind Rises (2013)
91. Elle (2016)
90. Lady Bird (2017)
88. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
87. Columbus (2017)
86. The Trip (2010)
85. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)
84. Sing Street (2016)
83. Parasite (2019)
82. Eighth Grade (2018)
80. Burning (2018)
79. Your Name (2017)
78. The Tale (2018)
76. The Interrupters (2011)
74. Phoenix (2014)
72. Good Time (2017)
71. Nocturama (2016)
69. Paterson (2017)
68. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
67. Shoplifters (2018)
66. Toni Erdmann (2016)
65. 13th (2016)
62. Spring Breakers (2012)
60. Amy (2015)
59. Baby Driver (2017)
58. American Honey (2016)
57. Force Majeure (2014)
56. First Reformed (2018)
55. Young Adult (2011)
54. Leviathan (2014)
53. Roma (2018)
51. Cold War (2018)
47. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
46. Jackie (2016)
45. Inherent Vice (2014)
43. Shirkers (2018)
41. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
40. BlackkKlansman (2018)
37. Before Midnight (2012)
36. Fruitvale Station (2013)
33. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
32. Her (2013)
31. A Separation (2011)
30. Zero Dark Thirty (2011)
29. 45 Years (2015)
27. Frances Ha (2012)
24. Son of Saul (2015)
22. The Invitation (2015)
19. Green Room (2016)
18. Tangerine (2015)
9. The Handmaiden (2016)
8. Phantom Thread (2017)
7. Under the Skin (2014)
6. The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence (2015)


I've seen 38 of these, which of the ones left above should I see?

mae
11-28-2019, 07:54 AM
I've seen 38 of these, which of the ones left above should I see?

All of them? :unsure:

I'm sure others will have their own favorites, but here's my top ten, in the list order:

Under the Skin
Phantom Thread
The Handmaiden
Tangerine
Frances Ha
Son of Saul
Her
BlackkKlansman
Burning
Eighth Grade

mae
11-28-2019, 08:36 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3-7MzwmOew

Mattrick
11-28-2019, 12:52 PM
No, that's the animated film Your Name. Call Me By Your Name is #23.

Your Name > Call Me By Your Name

Mattrick
11-28-2019, 12:55 PM
I tend to ignore the order of movies on lists like this, and just look for movies that are there or not.

Having said that, I'm fine with Mad Max: Fury Road being number 1. Fury Road is what happens when a visionary filmmaker creates that vision flawlessly, and with crystal clarity. There are a few films on the list that would be equally deserving of the top spot, but MM:FR will do just fine.

Also good to see Nightcrawler on there. Disappointed not to see Blue Ruin on there. And no Arrival, the greatest SF movie of the decade? No The VVitch??? For shame!

HBJ


The greatest Sci-Fi film of the decade is Her ;) Followed by Ex Machina and Blade Runner 2049 imo. Mad Max too, I guess, but I've never been one for automatically including post-apocalyptic films into science fiction.

mae
11-28-2019, 01:22 PM
If Under the Skin is sci-fi, then I would place that first.

Hunchback Jack
11-28-2019, 01:34 PM
Ex Machina and BR2049 are definitely up there for me, too, but they didn’t stay with me like Arrival did.

mae
11-28-2019, 01:35 PM
Arrival would be my second sci-fi film, after Under the Skin.

Mattrick
11-28-2019, 06:08 PM
Ex Machina and BR2049 are definitely up there for me, too, but they didn’t stay with me like Arrival did.

It's the opposite for me. Arrival is a really well-made flick, but it's not one that stuck with me. Ex Machina really stuck with me and BR 2049 just had visuals on another level.

I HATED Under The Skin when I first watched it. But everyone else seems to love it. Maybe I was just in a bad mood when I watched it, I don't know. I just remember being bored by it's repetitiveness.

Still Servant
11-29-2019, 08:54 AM
I tend to ignore the order of movies on lists like this, and just look for movies that are there or not.

Having said that, I'm fine with Mad Max: Fury Road being number 1. Fury Road is what happens when a visionary filmmaker creates that vision flawlessly, and with crystal clarity. There are a few films on the list that would be equally deserving of the top spot, but MM:FR will do just fine.

Also good to see Nightcrawler on there. Disappointed not to see Blue Ruin on there. And no Arrival, the greatest SF movie of the decade? No The VVitch??? For shame!

HBJ

I'm with you on Fury Road. I'm fine with that. One of the few times where I almost bought another ticket after the credits rolled.

Good catch with Blue Ruin, one of my favorites of the decade for sure. At least Green Room made it, which Saulnier also directed.

These lists are fine, but we know the definitive list will be produced after we do our tournament for the decade.

Mattrick
11-30-2019, 05:25 PM
You mean the tournament that will end up with a Marvel film on top? lol

Still Servant
12-20-2019, 06:25 PM
Am I the only one having a bitch of a time making a best of the decade list?

Mattrick
12-20-2019, 07:50 PM
Am I the only one having a bitch of a time making a best of the decade list?


I'll let you know when I sit down to do in a month or two. I still have some 2019 films to watch.

mae
12-27-2019, 08:21 PM
https://vimeo.com/379904646

Tommy
12-27-2019, 08:55 PM
The 200 Best Movies of the 2010s (https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/the-200-best-movies-of-the-2010s/)

Now I have to count and see how many I have seen...

mae
12-28-2019, 02:40 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BHuwh8es60

mae
12-30-2019, 08:08 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=app3fAJE8Xc

DanHocker
12-30-2019, 11:45 AM
So I thought I'd pick my favorite movie from each year of the decade and make a list.

2010 - Inception
2011 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
2012 - The Avengers
2013 - Pacific Rim
2014 - Interstellar
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 - Deadpool
2017 - Blade Runner 2049
2018 - Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse
2019 - Avengers: Endgame

Some of these years were particularly hard, either because nothing jumped out at me or because too many things jumped out at me. So some honorable mentions here would be Avengers Infinity War, Thor Ragnarok, Wonder Woman, Logan, The Martian, Arrival, and Rouge One. When these were close I just kinda picked whatever the first one was that had jumped out at me. 2013 was particularly hard for me because nothing really jumped out at me and made me go "Oh I loved that movie". Pacific Rim was the closest to that.

mae
12-31-2019, 08:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_DJoK-SGj4

mae
12-31-2019, 08:48 AM
So I thought I'd pick my favorite movie from each year of the decade and make a list.

2010 - Inception
2011 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
2012 - The Avengers
2013 - Pacific Rim
2014 - Interstellar
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 - Deadpool
2017 - Blade Runner 2049
2018 - Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse
2019 - Avengers: Endgame

Some of these years were particularly hard, either because nothing jumped out at me or because too many things jumped out at me. So some honorable mentions here would be Avengers Infinity War, Thor Ragnarok, Wonder Woman, Logan, The Martian, Arrival, and Rouge One. When these were close I just kinda picked whatever the first one was that had jumped out at me. 2013 was particularly hard for me because nothing really jumped out at me and made me go "Oh I loved that movie". Pacific Rim was the closest to that.

Mine were:

2010: The Kids Are All Right
2011: Melancholia
2012: Argo
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
2014: Boyhood
2015: The Revenant
2016: Arrival
2017: Wonder Woman
2018: Annihilation
2019: TBD (probably Parasite)

Mattrick
12-31-2019, 09:21 PM
While not a top list of the decade (that's coming after I catch up on some stuff), here is part one of my favourite hidden gem films of the decade.

https://matthewblivingston.wixsite.com/countercultureshock/post/favourite-hidden-gems-pt-1

DanHocker
01-02-2020, 07:15 AM
So I thought I'd pick my favorite movie from each year of the decade and make a list.

2010 - Inception
2011 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
2012 - The Avengers
2013 - Pacific Rim
2014 - Interstellar
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 - Deadpool
2017 - Blade Runner 2049
2018 - Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse
2019 - Avengers: Endgame

Some of these years were particularly hard, either because nothing jumped out at me or because too many things jumped out at me. So some honorable mentions here would be Avengers Infinity War, Thor Ragnarok, Wonder Woman, Logan, The Martian, Arrival, and Rouge One. When these were close I just kinda picked whatever the first one was that had jumped out at me. 2013 was particularly hard for me because nothing really jumped out at me and made me go "Oh I loved that movie". Pacific Rim was the closest to that.

Mine were:

2010: The Kids Are All Right
2011: Melancholia
2012: Argo
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
2014: Boyhood
2015: The Revenant
2016: Arrival
2017: Wonder Woman
2018: Annihilation
2019: TBD (probably Parasite)

Very different lists. While I like all of the movies you listed, my favorites tend to be more "popcorn" / "main stream" affairs, with a few exceptions. From your list Arrival, Wonder Woman, and Annihilation could have easily been in the favorite seat. I think I like them as much as the ones I chose

Mattrick
01-02-2020, 01:03 PM
My favourite films by year

2010: Another Year
2011: The Descendants (I could easily replace this with 8 other movies...it was a strong year)
2012: Life of Pi (I could easily replace this with several other movies because it was a weaker year)
2013: Her
2014: Whiplash
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: Moonlight
2017: A Ghost Story
2018: Leave No Trace
2019: The Lighthouse

Garrell
01-02-2020, 01:48 PM
My favourite films by year

2010: The Town
2011: The Descendants or Crazy, Stupid Love
2012: Life of Pi
2013: 12 Years A Slave
2014: Nightcrawler
2015: The Martian
2016: 10 Cloverfield Lane
2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
2018: Green Book
2019: Peanut Butter Falcon

Still Servant
01-02-2020, 04:55 PM
My Favorite Films of the Decade (https://tinyurl.com/FavoriteFilmsoftheDecade)

mae
01-02-2020, 04:59 PM
That was a great list, and I loved seeing Four Lions so high up.

Still Servant
01-02-2020, 05:32 PM
That was a great list, and I loved seeing Four Lions so high up.

Thank you! As I was going through the process, it kept going higher and higher. I know you love doing lists too, but it really is fun to put these together, but sometimes really difficult too.

mae
01-02-2020, 05:44 PM
Very much so, very fun and very difficult. Wat do you leave off, what do you absolutely include, where to place it. Ugh! I'll get working soon on my own 2019 list as I watch a few of the foreign releases from this past year on streaming. Probably will be a few months unless I can find them... elsewhere.

Tommy
01-02-2020, 11:07 PM
Since there was never a year zero, technically the decade started with 2011, no one goes by this so I'll start with 2010 as well. So many I still need to see so don't judge me too harshly. These aren't in any particular order just yet, working on that and I probably got some of the years wrong. I'll try to narrow them down to five per year but need some time to think...

2010
Winter's Bone
Inception
Black Swan
The Social Network
Restrepo
The Kids Are All Right
I Spit On Your Grave
127 Hours
Let Me In
The King's Speech
I Saw the Devil
A Serbian Film
Bedeviled
Insidious
The Town
Tabloid
13 Assassins
Shutter Island
Beyond the Black Rainbow


2011
The Devil's Double
Drive
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Moneyball
Midnight in Paris
Source Code
The Tree of Life
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
50/50
Warrior
Melancholia
The Artist
The Descendants
The Skin I Live In
Kill List
X-Men First Class
The Woman
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

2012
Argo
Moonrise Kingdom
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Cabin in the Woods
Django Unchained
End of Watch
Amour
Excision
Killer Joe
Ted
Savages
Lincoln
Snow White and the Huntsman
Looper
Prometheus
Seven Psychopaths
Paranorman
The Master
Magic Mike

2013
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Behind the Candleabra
Blue Jasmine
The Conjuring
Dallas Buyers Club
Evil Dead
Gravity
Oblivion
This is the End
Warm Bodies
You're Next
The Wolf of Wall Street

2014
The Raid 2
Dead Snow 2
American Sniper
Whiplash
The Lego Movie
Life Itself
The Grand Budapest Hotel
It Follows
Edge of Tomorrow
Guardians of the Galaxy
Magic in the Moonlight
Birdman
The Imitation Game
Nightcrawler
Gone Girl
John Wick
Big Eyes
Kingsmen

2015
The Walk
The Martian
Bridge of Spies
Carol
Where to Invade Next
Ex Machina
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Mr. Holmes
Mad Max: Fury Road
Ant-Man
Sicario
The Big Short
The Hateful Eight
An Irrational Man
The Gift
Spotlight
Anomalisa
The Revenant
Inside Out

2016
The Witch
Deadpool
Hell or Highwater
Don't Breathe
Zootopia
10 Cloverfield Lane
The Jungle Book
The Nice Guys
Cafe Society
Finding Dory
Lights Out
Deepwater Horizon
Rogue One
The Conjuring 2
Doctor Strange
Florence Foster Jenkins
Captain America: Civil War
O.J. Made in America
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
La La Land

honorable mentions: Eddie the Eagle and The Magnificent Seven

SO out of date....
:wtf:

mae
01-03-2020, 04:16 AM
That calls for a re-do, Tommy! I've done it, too. I'll post my new lists for this decade later, once I decide on my 2019 stuff. So far I have 60 movies and somehow I need to whittle that down to my usual Top 30. :panic:

mae
01-17-2020, 03:52 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ58WCRYjGg

Everyone keeps putting Dogtooth in their 2010s lists! It came out in 2009, people!

Hunchback Jack
01-17-2020, 04:06 PM
My Favorite Films of the Decade (https://tinyurl.com/FavoriteFilmsoftheDecade)

Nice list. I like the variety of genres. And a few that aren't critically acclaimed, necessarily, but are solid fun flicks.

HBJ

mae
01-18-2020, 03:47 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiGt4jnJaOU

Tommy
01-18-2020, 04:10 PM
That is a beautiful list even if I don't like some of those movies. Would have loved to see CMBYN on there as well. :) I still haven't seen Silence, Ida or Roma and a few others. :doh:

Mattrick
01-18-2020, 06:29 PM
Quite a few films I'd substitute out of that list for sure. I'd slide in The Double, John Wick 2, The Shape of Water, A Ghost Story, Upstream Color, Your Name, Ex Machina and take out stuff like Carol, Birdman, and a few others. I guess no 1917 because they don't really have access to the footage.

Hard to tell their exact definition of beautiful. At times it seemed they were talking about the photography, and others it didn't show off the photography as much...like there are so many great shots Her they could've picked.



https://media.giphy.com/media/3oEduF2Mi8B2H2D0ek/giphy.gif
https://media.giphy.com/media/nTv26Okceb7AA/giphy.gif
http://www.polpettas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/her-movie-spike-jonze.jpg
https://66.media.tumblr.com/45fa34c6a6971dcbd332f57c0d847121/tumblr_n986c9Z49C1rtmeojo3_1280.png
https://data.whicdn.com/images/258745174/original.gif
https://66.media.tumblr.com/c0725b2f26cef4785621b4dc8a07fb75/tumblr_n6whzynKSH1tdm58lo5_1280.jpg

mae
01-31-2020, 04:25 PM
Top 10? Top 30? Top 50? Top 100?

Pshaw! Try Top 280!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9dpXJuf0E

Still Servant
01-31-2020, 04:30 PM
That's basically what we do.

mae
01-31-2020, 05:03 PM
Well, our 2010s tournament will be 320 titles :)

Still Servant
02-01-2020, 09:10 AM
Well, our 2010s tournament will be 320 titles :)

Yup, and we will have a true ranking of the people.

mae
03-14-2020, 05:06 PM
So I finally managed to make my Top 30 list for 2019! I have seen most of the movies officially released last year that I really wanted but some I'm yet to see (like The Platform that's coming soon to Netflix, don't know if it can crack my list though). As always, this list is very much subject to change, especially as it pertains to the bottom half, and as I see more 2019 releases eventually. But as of right now, here we go. Also here is the Letterboxd link: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2019/ which will be updated as needed and the below will sooner or later inevitably become obsolete.


Parasite (2019)
The Farewell (2019)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Pain and Glory (2019)
Booksmart (2019)
Little Women (2019)
System Crasher (2019)
Midsommar (2019)
I Lost My Body (2019)
Hustlers (2019)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Uncut Gems (2019)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)
Marriage Story (2019)
Wasteland (2019)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Us (2019)
Knives Out (2019)
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
The Souvenir (2019)
Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019)
Atlantics (2019)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
Queen of Hearts (2019)
And Then We Danced (2019)
Joker (2019)
Honey Boy (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Super Deluxe (2019)


When I first finished watching The Farewell, even though it was early, I knew this would be at the top of my list for the year. Once I saw Parasite, I struggled a bit which hit me more and Parasite slightly edged the amazing Farewell just a little. For the longest time The Farewell was at #1.

I also noticed that a good portion of my list is directed by women (six of the top ten, and twelve overall). This is not on purpose exactly, but female filmmakers made some great films lately, especially last year. Hopefully this trend continues! Also, many films on the list are in languages other than English, feels more so than in earlier years. Non-Hollywood movies in 2019 were simply exceptional!

I'm a little tired to get into detailed reviews of each film right now, but I do think this was an excellent year and a great finish to the decade of the 2010s. There was such an explosion of diverse and varied voices this past decade that I feel it might be one of my favorite decades. I hope the 2020s can keep up. I have a feeling they will.

Still Servant
03-16-2020, 06:14 PM
Very solid list. Your top 10 is very unique. Interesting to see something like System Crasher so high. I saw you post something about it a while back, but I haven't gotten around to watching it. I still have to see Honey Boy and that is pretty much a wrap on most of the films I wanted to see in 2019.

I did watch Dark Waters last night and really enjoyed that one.

mae
03-16-2020, 06:26 PM
System Crasher was amazing. The girl should have been nominated for an Oscar, in a perfect world.

mae
03-30-2020, 01:56 PM
And if anyone missed out on Portrait of a Lady on Fire (it was in theaters for a few minutes), it's finally streaming on Hulu!

mae
04-25-2020, 01:19 PM
My Top 30 lists for each year, especially for the first half of the decade have probably changed from what I posted here originally, but I keep everything up to date with Letterboxd here:

2010: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2010/
2011: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2011/
2012: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2012/
2013: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2013/
2014: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2014/
2015: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2015/
2016: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2016/
2017: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2017/
2018: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2018/
2019: https://letterboxd.com/maemiddleton/list/top-30-films-of-2019/

But here is my overall Top 30 for the decade:


Parasite (2019)
Arrival (2016)
The Farewell (2019)
Melancholia (2011)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Annihilation (2018)
Wonder Woman (2017)
The Revenant (2015)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Boyhood (2014)
Enemy (2013)
Pain and Glory (2019)
Moonlight (2016)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Shutter Island (2010)
A Fantastic Woman (2017)
Argo (2012)
Cold Fish (2010)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Sicario (2015)
Under the Skin (2013)
Whiplash (2014)
Booksmart (2019)
Carol (2015)
Get Out (2017)
Max Max: Fury Road (2015)
The Social Network (2010)
Birdman (2014)

fernandito
04-26-2020, 09:02 AM
Solid list, Mae. I dig it.

mae
04-26-2020, 10:20 AM
Thanks! Would love to see yours and others, too. It was tough leaving out some of my very favorites, but I always try to limit myself to just thirty.

Merlin1958
04-26-2020, 10:27 AM
You may want to watch and then consider "The Last Full Measure". In the end it may not crack your list, but I guaranty it will be a tough decision. A very good and powerful film with a star studded cast that includes:

Samuel L. Jackson
Ed Harris
John Heard
William Hurt
Christopher Plummer

You will not be disappointed!!!

fernandito
04-27-2020, 08:25 AM
Thanks! Would love to see yours and others, too. It was tough leaving out some of my very favorites, but I always try to limit myself to just thirty.

I'll give it a crack this week, now that I don't have much else to do :)


You may want to watch and then consider "The Last Full Measure". In the end it may not crack your list, but I guaranty it will be a tough decision. A very good and powerful film with a star studded cast that includes:

Samuel L. Jackson
Ed Harris
John Heard
William Hurt
Christopher Plummer

You will not be disappointed!!!

This wasn't on my radar but I'll try and check it out this week Bill, just for you :huglove:

Is it on Netflix?

Still Servant
04-27-2020, 04:27 PM
Thanks! Would love to see yours and others, too. It was tough leaving out some of my very favorites, but I always try to limit myself to just thirty.

Your list is really good, I think it's great to see how many 2018 and 2019 films are on the list.

mae
04-27-2020, 04:38 PM
Thanks! Would love to see yours and others, too. It was tough leaving out some of my very favorites, but I always try to limit myself to just thirty.

Your list is really good, I think it's great to see how many 2018 and 2019 films are on the list.

I just realized I only have one film on the list each from 2011 and 2012, and I tried to fit a few more (for 2011: Carnage, Take Shelter, A Separation; for 2012: Amour, Compliance) but all the other stuff was just slightly better.

mae
06-05-2020, 09:25 AM
Just bumping this up a bit for folks to maybe update their lists or go through the lists already posted for some ideas for our upcoming 2010s tournament!