Year-End Lists

Film School Rejects: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

[see also 2018 • 2017]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
3. Parasite
   Bong Joon-ho
4. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
   Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
6. The Social Network
   David Fincher
7. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
8. What We Do in the Shadows
   Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
9. The Lobster
   Yorgos Lanthimos
10. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
11. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
12. Gone Girl
    David Fincher
13. The Farewell
    Lulu Wang
14. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
15. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
16. Paddington 2
    Paul King
17. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
18. The Witch
    Robert Eggers
19. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
20. Logan
    James Mangold
21. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
22. Take Shelter
    Jeff Nichols
23. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
24. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
25. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
26. Whiplash
    Damien Chazelle
27. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
28. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
29. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
30. True Grit
    Joel & Ethan Coen
31. 20th Century Women
    Mike Mills
32. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    Brad Bird
33. Nightcrawler
    Dan Gilroy
34. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
35. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    Taika Waititi
36. Ex Machina
    Alex Garland
37. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
38. Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier
39. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
40. Eighth Grade
    Bo Burnham
41. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
42. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
43. Cold War
    Pawel Pawlikowski
44. Inception
    Christopher Nolan
45. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
46. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
47. The Nice Guys
    Shane Black
48. Mandy
    Panos Cosmatos
49. Foxtrot
    Samuel Maoz
50. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
51. The Cabin in the Woods
    Drew Goddard
52. Black Panther
    Ryan Coogler
53. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins
54. Oslo, August 31st
    Joachim Trier
55. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Jim Jarmusch
56. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
57. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
58. Swiss Army Man
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
59. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
60. Inherent Vice
    Paul Thomas Anderson
61. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
62. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
63. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    Anthony and Joe Russo
64. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
65. Young Adult
    Jason Reitman
66. Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley
67. The Grey
    Joe Carnahan
68. Goodbye First Love
    Mia Hansen-Løve
69. Carol
    Todd Haynes
70. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
71. Attack the Block
    Joe Cornish
72. Blue Valentine
    Derek Cianfrance
73. The Raid: Redemption
    Gareth Evans
74. Thelma
    Joachim Trier
75. Her
    Spike Jonze
76. Gravity
    Alfonso Cuaron
77. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
78. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    Banksy
79. Blindspotting
    Carlos López Estrada
80. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
81. John Wick
    Chad Stahelski
82. I Saw the Devil
    Kim Ji-woon
83. Interstellar
    Christopher Nolan
84. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
85. Revenge
    Coralie Fargeat
86. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
87. Goodnight Mommy
    Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
88. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
89. Shin Godzilla
    Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
90. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
91. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
92. The Invitation
    Karyn Kusama
93. Kill List
    Ben Wheatley
94. High Life
    Claire Denis
95. Mustang
    Deniz Gamze Ergüven
96. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    Edgar Wright
97. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
98. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
99. Borg vs. McEnroe
    Janus Metz
100. Bone Tomahawk
     S. Craig Zahler