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Author:  stuffp [ Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:20 am ]
Post subject:  Top 50 films of the 2010's
So, I thought I could just make this a top 10, but I wanted to make it a bit of deep dive and see the full extent of the great films released in the decade. It's also the decade of which I've by far seen the most films from I think, a lot of crap ones in there of course, but the great have also been really great. Well, here's my list.

1. Drive (2011)
2. Creed (2015)
3. Rush (2013)
4. Inception (2010)
5. Whiplash (2014)
6. John Wick (2014)
7. Interstellar (2014)
8. The Great Gatsby (2013)
9. Gravity (2013)
10. Everest (2015)
11. Before Midnight (2013)
12. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
13. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
14. Allied (2016)
15. Hell or High Water (2016)
16. Gone Girl (2014)
17. Den of Thieves (2018)
18. Spotlight (2015)
19. The Big Short (2015)
20. The Martian (2015)
21. Creed II (2018)
22. Baby Driver (2017)
23. Bridge of Spies (2015)
24. Fleet of Time (2014)
25. Mississippi Grind (2015)
26. Triple Frontier (2019)
27. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
28. Never Let Me Go (2010)
29. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
30. Dragged Across Concrete (2019)
31. Blinded by the Light (2019)
32. Lion (2016)
33. The Founder (2017)
34. Shame (2011)
35. Dunkirk (2017)
36. Good Time (2017)
37. The Revenant (2015)
38. Tron: Legacy (2010)
39. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
40. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
41. Dallas Buyer’s Club (2013)
42. Warrior (2011)
43. Looper (2012)
44. Enemy (2013)
45. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
46. Sing Street (2016)
47. Captain Fantastic (2016)
48. Uncut Gems (2019
49. Sicario (2015)
50. Mission Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Author:  Shack [ Sat Mar 01, 2025 12:27 pm ]
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Pretty good list... glad to see you're a Great Gatsby appreciator!
Author:  Shack [ Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:11 pm ]
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I put together a top 30 of movies 2010-2015 (I saw less movies starting in 2016).

1. About Time

2. The Great Gatsby

3. Whiplash

4. This is 40

5. Toy Story 3

6. We Need to Talk About Kevin

7. This is the End

8. Anomalisa

9. Life of Pi

10. Cosmopolis

11. Inception
12. Inside Out

13. Friends with Benefits

14. The Heat

15. Spy
16. Rush

17. Gravity

18. Exit Through the Gift Shop

19. Ted

20. Neighbours

21. Horrible Bosses

22. Room

23. Melancholia
24. Silver Linings Playbook

25. Magic in the Moonlight

26. Moonrise Kingdom

27. The Artist
28. Ex Machina

29. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

30. Mistress America

HM: Kung Fu Panda 2, I remember it being awesome but I can't remember a single thing about it other than the villain being a peacock.
Author:  MadGez [ Sun Mar 02, 2025 7:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Top 50 films of the 2010's
stuffp wrote:
So, I thought I could just make this a top 10, but I wanted to make it a bit of deep dive and see the full extent of the great films released in the decade. It's also the decade of which I've by far seen the most films from I think, a lot of crap ones in there of course, but the great have also been really great. Well, here's my list.

1. Drive (2011)
2. Creed (2015)
3. Rush (2013)
4. Inception (2010)
5. Whiplash (2014)
6. John Wick (2014)
7. Interstellar (2014)
8. The Great Gatsby (2013)
9. Gravity (2013)
10. Everest (2015)
11. Before Midnight (2013)
12. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
13. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
14. Allied (2016)
15. Hell or High Water (2016)
16. Gone Girl (2014)
17. Den of Thieves (2018)
18. Spotlight (2015)
19. The Big Short (2015)
20. The Martian (2015)
21. Creed II (2018)
22. Baby Driver (2017)
23. Bridge of Spies (2015)
24. Fleet of Time (2014)
25. Mississippi Grind (2015)
26. Triple Frontier (2019)
27. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
28. Never Let Me Go (2010)
29. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
30. Dragged Across Concrete (2019)
31. Blinded by the Light (2019)
32. Lion (2016)
33. The Founder (2017)
34. Shame (2011)
35. Dunkirk (2017)
36. Good Time (2017)
37. The Revenant (2015)
38. Tron: Legacy (2010)
39. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
40. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
41. Dallas Buyer’s Club (2013)
42. Warrior (2011)
43. Looper (2012)
44. Enemy (2013)
45. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
46. Sing Street (2016)
47. Captain Fantastic (2016)
48. Uncut Gems (2019
49. Sicario (2015)
50. Mission Impossible - Fallout (2018)


Nice list! The first half of the 2010's were better than the second half and it shows in your list too.

I'd say a good 15 of those would be in my Top 50 as well.

Still a number of films on that list I need to see incl. Good Time, Interstellar, Lion and Triple Frontier.
Author:  Flava'd vs The World [ Wed Mar 05, 2025 3:28 am ]
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Haven't seen quite a few of these (Everest, Allied, Before Midnight, Mississippi Grind, Fleet of Time in the top 25) so I'll have to get on that!

Drive is a great pick for overall best. And Creed. And lots of Nolan.
Author:  Barrabás [ Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:25 pm ]
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In the 2010s I stopped trying to religiously watch each year's crop of awards-bait films, and instead just settled for the comfort of high-brown genre fair so my list will mostly represent that. There are still so many acclaimed films from that decade I have yet to see. In no order, and I'm really struggling to think of 50 so this will have to do:

Parasite, Gravity, Mad Max: Fury Road, Call Me By Your Name, Life of Pi, Inside Out, Melancholia, The Witch, The Favourite, Hereditary, Zero Dark Thirty, The Social Network, Blade Runner 2049, Her, Ex Machina, Annihilation, The Big Short, Toy Story 3, Gone Girl, Arrival.
Author:  Flava'd vs The World [ Wed Mar 12, 2025 5:26 pm ]
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Just a quick look at my letterbox and these are the 22 movies I gave 5 stars to. Will kinda/sorta rank them.

1. Avengers Endgame
2. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
3. Coco
4. The Raid 2
5. Django Unchained
6. The Raid 1
7. John Wick
8. Mad Max Fury Road
9. Dunkirk
10. Mission Impossible Fallout

Inception
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Avengers
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Train To Busan
Snowpiercer
Okja
How To Train Your Dragon
Free Solo
Attack The Block
Drive
Author:  Thegun [ Wed Mar 19, 2025 6:55 pm ]
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Very Hard list to make and would take thought but these would be on there.

Birdman
Green Book
Captain Phillips
The World's End
Nice Guys
Looper
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Toy Story 3
The Big Short
Moneyball
Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Author:  Algren [ Thu Apr 17, 2025 6:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Top 50 films of the 2010's
Did you all forget that La La Land was released in the 2010s?

Anyway, I will get around to doing a list at some point. About a dozen from stuffp's list will be in mine.
Author:  stuffp [ Thu Apr 17, 2025 2:22 pm ]
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I've still been meaning to rewatch it and it might enter this list then, just not from my first viewing. Maybe I was expecting too much, it just didn't leave me wowed (enough).
Author:  MadGez [ Mon Apr 21, 2025 7:16 pm ]
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1000% La La Land is an absolute highlight of the decade.
Author:  Alex Y. [ Mon Jun 23, 2025 5:32 pm ]
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NY times is accepting ballots for top 10 films of 25th century:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ntury.html

Here’s mine (from 10 to 1): Image
Author:  stuffp [ Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:39 pm ]
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Nice. Some great picks. The animation films are only just not so much my thing, but Finding Nemo is great indeed.
Author:  MadGez [ Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:35 pm ]
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Good list. We share two (LaLa Land + Kill Bill) and one I wish I'd chosen (Before Sunset)
Author:  stuffp [ Thu Jun 26, 2025 4:14 pm ]
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Ah heck, here's my Times ballot too.

Image

The hardest omission was John Wick, but I went with Whiplash over it.
And Before Sunset probably would make my top 20.
I also excluded Rush after all because it doesn't yet mean the same to me as those older films.

And about the age of a film, I feel I've not been as fond of films from the last 10 years, but damn the first half of this century so far has had loads of all-time gems.
I guess if a certain film has been in your life longer, been watched more often and become a part of you in some way it becomes so much more meaningful.
Author:  MadGez [ Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:03 am ]
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The 2000s (00 to 09) were amazing for film. The perfect mix of blockbusters and indies and everything in between. The perfect and logical flow on of the amazing 1990s.

And yes we were all of the prime moviegoing age during the decade but i believe film quality and relevance helped us cultivate the love for film.

The 2010s continued where the 00s left off but there is a noticeable downward trend in quality .
Author:  Alex Y. [ Fri Jun 27, 2025 3:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Top 50 films of the 2010's
stuffp wrote:
Ah heck, here's my Times ballot too.

Image

The hardest omission was John Wick, but I went with Whiplash over it.
And Before Sunset probably would make my top 20.
I also excluded Rush after all because it doesn't yet mean the same to me as those older films.

And about the age of a film, I feel I've not been as fond of films from the last 10 years, but damn the first half of this century so far has had loads of all-time gems.
I guess if a certain film has been in your life longer, been watched more often and become a part of you in some way it becomes so much more meaningful.



That is very insightful and so beautifully expressed! I really do need to watch Drive again a second time. I do remember it being my favorite film that year but I only included films I’ve seen 2x (Parasite) or more (other movies on my list)
Author:  Alex Y. [ Fri Jun 27, 2025 3:19 am ]
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NY Times top 100 entire list posted
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ntury.html

Spoiler: show
#1. Parasite (Dir: Bong Joon-ho)

#2. Mulholland Drive (Dir: David Lynch)

#3. There Will Be Blood (Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

#4. In the Mood for Love (Dir: Wong Kar-wai)

#5. Moonlight (Dir: Barry Jenkins)

#6. No Country for Old Men (Dirs: Joel and Ethan Coen)

#7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Dir: Michel Gondry)

#8. Get Out (Dir: Jordan Peele)

#9. Spirited Away (Dir: Hayao Miyazaki)

#10. The Social Network (Dir: David Fincher)

#11. Mad Max: Fury Road (Dir: George Miller)

#12. Zone of Interest (Dir: Jonathan Glazer)

#13. Children of Men (Dir: Alfonso Cuaron)

#14. Inglourious Basterds (Dir: Quentin Tarantino)

#15. City of God (Dir: Fernando Meirelles)

#16. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Dir: Ang Lee)

#17. Brokeback Mountain (Dir: Ang Lee)

#18. Y tu mamá también (Dir: Alfonso Cuaron)

#19. Zodiac (Dir: David Fincher)

#20. Wolf of Wall Street (Dir: Martin Scorsese)

#21. The Royal Tenenbaums (Dir: Wes Anderson)

#22. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Dir: Wes Anderson)

#23. Boyhood (Dir: Richard Linklater)

#24. Her (Dir: Spike Jonze)

#25. Phantom Thread (Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

#26. Anatomy of a Fall (Dir: Justine Triet)

#27. Adaptation. (Dir: Spike Jonze)

#28. The Dark Knight (Dir: Christopher Nolan)

#29. Arrival (Dir: Denis Villeneuve)

#30. Lost in Translation (Dir: Sofia Coppola)

#31. The Departed (Dir: Martin Scorsese)

#32. Bridesmaids (Dir: Paul Feig)

#33. A Separation (Dir: Asghar Farhadi)

#34. WALL-E (Dir: Andrew Stanton)

#35. A Prophet (Dir: Jacques Audiard)

#36. A Serious Man (Dirs: Joel and Ethan Coen)

#37. Call Me by Your Name (Dir: Luca Guadagnino)

#38. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Dir: Celine Sciamma)

#39. Lady Bird (Dir: Greta Gerwig)

#40. Yi Yi (Dir: Edward Yang)

#41. Amélie (Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

#42. The Master (Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

#43. Oldboy (Dir: Park Chan-wook)

#44. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Dir: Quentin Tarantino)

#45. Moneyball (Dir: Bennett Miller)

#46. Roma (Dir: Alfonso Cuaron)

#47. Almost Famous (Dir: Cameron Crowe)

#48. The Lives of Others (Dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

#49. Before Sunset (Dir: Richard Linklater)

#50. Up (Dir: Peter Docter)

#51. 12 Years A Slave (Dir: Steve McQueen)

#52. The Favourite (Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)

#53. Borat (Dir: Larry Charles)

#54. Pan's Labyrinth (Dir: Guillermo del Toro)

#55. Inception (Dir: Christopher Nolan)

#56. Punch-Drunk Love (Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

#57. Best in Show (Dir: Christopher Guest)

#58. Uncut Gems (Dirs: Benny and Josh Safdie)

#59. Toni Erdmann (Dir: Maren Ade)

#60. Whiplash (Dir: Damien Chazelle)

#61. Kill Bill (Dir: Quentin Tarantino)

#62. Memento (Dir: Christopher Nolan)

#63. Little Miss Sunshine (Dirs: Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton)

#64. Gone Girl (Dir: David Fincher)

#65. Oppenheimer (Dir: Christopher Nolan)

#66. Spotlight (Dir: Tom McCarthy)

#67. TAR (Dir: Todd Field)

#68. The Hurt Locker (Dir: Kathryn Bigelow)

#69. Under the Skin (Dir: Jonathan Glazer)

#70. Let the Right One In (Dir: Tomas Alfredson)

#71. Ocean's Eleven (Dir: Steven Soderbergh)

#72. Carol (Dir: Todd Field)

#73. Ratatouille (Dir: Brad Bird)

#74. The Florida Project (Dir: Sean Baker)

#75. Amour (Dir: Michael Haneke)

#76. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Dirs: Joel and Ethan Coen)

#77. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Dirs: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)

#78. Aftersun (Dir: Charlotte Wells)

#79. Tree of Life (Dir: Terrence Malick)

#80. Volver (Dir: Pedro Almodóvar)

#81. Black Swan (Dir: Darren Aronofsky)

#82. The Act of Killing (Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer)

#83. Inside Llewyn Davis (Dirs: Joel and Ethan Coen)

#84. Melancholia (Dir: Lars Von Trier)

#85. Anchorman (Dir: Adam McKay)

#86. Past Lives (Dir: Celine Song)

#87. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Dir: Peter Jackson)

#88. The Gleaners and I (Dir: Agnès Varda)

#89. Interstellar (Dir: Christopher Nolan)

#90. Frances Ha (Dir: Noah Baumbach)

#91. Fish Tank (Dir: Andrea Arnold)

#92. Gladiator (Dir: Ridley Scott)

#93. Michael Clayton (Dir: Tony Gilroy)

#94. Minority Report (Dir: Steven Spielberg)

#95. The Worst Person in the World (Dir: Joachim Trier)

#96. Black Panther (Dir: Ryan Coogler)

#97. Gravity (Dir: Alfonso Cuaron)

#98. Grizzly Man (Dir: Werner Herzog)

#99. Memoires of a Murder (Dir: Bong Joon-ho)

#100. Superbad (Dir: Greg Mottola)
Author:  stuffp [ Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:34 am ]
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Overall a very decent list that will make for some good viewing.
Some of them I'm not really familiar with though (Fish Tank?, The Gleaners and I?), some are great to be on there, but also still loads missing in a way.
Nice that Anchorman made it and Superbad just, but why is The Hangover not on it.
Also, no John Wick and while it would not be high on my list, where's La La Land. If this is ranked, it's crazy Moonlight is so high.
Good that Gladiator made it after all too, and it would've been crazy if Spielberg wouldn't be on the list and well then Minority Report is the best choice indeed.
Author:  Shack [ Fri Jun 27, 2025 10:10 am ]
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Surprisingly decent job on the list without going crazy pandering wise.
Author:  stuffp [ Fri Jun 27, 2025 11:27 am ]
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Talking about lists, this is a pretty good one with all rewatchables episodes so far.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =637738347
Author:  Flava'd vs The World [ Fri Jun 27, 2025 1:56 pm ]
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A list made by people who clearly get high off the smell of their own farts, but still plenty of good choices amongst the farts.
Author:  Algren [ Sat Jun 28, 2025 6:05 am ]
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NYT Editor: "Good list, my only concern is that it's a little pretentious?"
Writer: "Ah that's OK. I'll put Superbad on the end and it will fool everyone"
Author:  Alex Y. [ Thu Jul 03, 2025 2:33 am ]
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User submission list:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... =url-share
Author:  Flava'd vs The World [ Thu Jul 03, 2025 5:39 am ]
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User list is similiar but without the anti-populist snootiness. I was expecting way more blockbuster heavy and complaints of "people are stupid" but its actually a great mix of big and small films and the top 5 is mostly the same. Good job to the voters.
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