Year-End Lists

In Review Online: Top 100 Films of the 2010s

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1. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
2. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Margaret
   Kenneth Lonergan
4. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Certified Copy
   Abbas Kiarostami
6. The Assassin
   Hou Hsiao-Hsien
7. Like Someone in Love
   Abbas Kiarostami
8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
9. Goodbye to Language
   Jean-Luc Godard
10. Under the Skin
    Jonathan Glazer
11. Carol
    Todd Haynes
12. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
13. Meek’s Cutoff
    Kelly Reichardt
14. Stray Dogs
    Tsai Ming-liang
15. The Wind Rises
    Hayao Miyazaki
16. Blackhat
    Michael Mann
17. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello
18. Film Socialisme
    Jean-Luc Godard
19. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
20. Almayer’s Folly
    Chantal Akerman
21. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
22. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
23. Before Midnight
    Richard Linklater
24. Spring Breakers
    Harmony Korine
25. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
    Isao Takahata
26. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
27. Tabu
    Miguel Gomes
28. Cemetery of Splendor
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
29. Drug War
    Johnnie To
30. Hill of Freedom
    Hong Sang-soo
31. Everyone Else
    Maren Ade
32. Inherent Vice
    Paul Thomas Anderson
33. The Immigrant
    James Gray
34. Transit
    Christian Petzold
35. House of Pleasures
    Bertrand Bonello
36. The Social Network
    David Fincher
37. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
38. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles
39. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
40. Ash is Purest White
    Jia Zhang-ke
41. The House That Jack Built
    Lars von Trier
42. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
43. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
44. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
45. Horse Money
    Pedro Costa
46. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
47. The Deep Blue Sea
    Terence Davies
48. The Day He Arrives
    Hong Sang-soo
49. It’s Such a Beautiful Day
    Don Hertzfeldt
50. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
51. Leviathan
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
52. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
53. Jauja
    Lisandro Alonso
54. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong Sang-soo
55. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
56. The Grandmaster
    Wong Kar-Wai
57. Inside Llewyn Davis
    Joel & Ethan Coen
58. Knight of Cups
    Terrence Malick
59. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
60. Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Bi Gan
61. 24 Frames
    Abbas Kiarostami
62. Cosmopolis
    David Cronenberg
63. Resident Evil: Retribution
    Paul W.S. Anderson
64. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
65. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
66. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
67. Certain Women
    Kelly Reichardt
68. Carlos
    Olivier Assayas
69. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
70. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
71. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
72. Moonrise Kingdom
    Wes Anderson
73. Stranger by the Lake
    Alain Guiraudie
74. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
75. Asako I & II
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
76. Hard to Be a God
    Aleksey German
77. Mysteries of Lisbon
    Raoul Ruiz
78. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
79. An Elephant Sitting Still
    Hu Bo
80. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
81. Mistress America
    Noah Baumbach
82. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
83. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2
    Johnnie To
84. Her
    Spike Jonze
85. Dogtooth
    Yorgos Lanthimos
86. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
87. Listen Up Philip
    Alex Ross Perry
88. Unstoppable
    Tony Scott
89. 45 Years
    Andrew Haigh
90. HyperNormalisation
    Adam Curtis
91. Heaven Knows What
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
92. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Jim Jarmusch
93. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
94. Romancing in Thin Air
    Johnnie To
95. Norte, the End of History
    Lav Diaz
96. Passion
    Brian De Palma
97. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
98. Mountains May Depart
    Jia Zhang-ke
99. The Mend
    John Magary
100. Interstellar
     Christopher Nolan