Year-End Lists

The A.V. Club: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

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1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. The Social Network
   David Fincher
4. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
5. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
6. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
7. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
8. Frances Ha
   Noah Baumbach
9. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
10. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
11. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
12. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
13. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
14. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
15. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
15. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
16. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
17. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
18. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
19. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
20. Meek’s Cutoff
    Kelly Reichardt
21. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello
22. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
23. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
24. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
25. Two Days, One Night
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
26. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
27. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
28. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
29. Dogtooth
    Yorgos Lanthimos
30. Before Midnight
    Richard Linklater
31. Winter's Bone
    Debra Granik
32. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
33. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
34. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
35. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
36. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
37. Whiplash
    Damien Chazelle
38. Everyone Else
    Maren Ade
39. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
40. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
41. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
42. Leviathan
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
43. Marriage Story
    Noah Baumbach
44. Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier
45. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
46. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
47. It Follows
    David Robert Mitchell
48. Paterson
    Jim Jarmusch
49. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
50. Amour
    Michael Haneke
51. Her
    Spike Jonze
52. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
53. The Lobster
    Yorgos Lanthimos
54. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
55. Her Smell
    Alex Ross Perry
56. Inception
    Christopher Nolan
57. Drive
    Nicolas Winding Refn
58. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
59. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
60. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos
61. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
62. The Loneliest Planet
    Julia Loktev
63. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
64. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
65. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong Sang-soo
66. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
67. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
68. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
69. The Witch
    Robert Eggers
70. Tabu
    Miguel Gomes
71. Mustang
    Deniz Gamze Ergüven
72. Computer Chess
    Andrew Bujalski
73. Stranger by the Lake
    Alain Guiraudie
74. Minding the Gap
    Bing Liu
75. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
76. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
77. Paddington 2
    Paul King
78. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
79. Hell or High Water
    David Mackenzie
80. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
81. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine
82. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
83. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
84. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
85. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
86. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
87. Weekend
    Andrew Haigh
88. Drug War
    Johnnie To
89. Carol
    Todd Haynes
90. High Life
    Claire Denis
91. The Arbor
    Clio Barnard
92. Uncut Gems
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
93. Creed
    Ryan Coogler
94. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
95. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
96. Bridesmaids
    Paul Feig
97. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
98. The Comedy
    Rick Alverson
99. The Immigrant
    James Gray
100. Miss Bala
     Gerardo Naranjo