Year-End Lists

RogerEbert.com: The Best Films of the 2010s

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
2. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
5. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
6. The Wolf of Wall Street
   Martin Scorsese
7. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
8. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
9. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
10. The Master
    Paul Thomas Anderson
11. The Social Network
    David Fincher
12. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
13. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
14. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
15. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
16. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
17. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
18. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
19. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
20. Inherent Vice
    Paul Thomas Anderson
21. The Act of Killing
    Joshua Oppenheimer
21. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
22. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
    Quentin Tarantino
23. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
24. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
25. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater

Honorable Mentions

• Annihilation
  Alex Garland
• The Babadook
  Jennifer Kent
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• Before Midnight
  Richard Linklater
• BlacKkKlansman
  Spike Lee
• Blindspotting
  Carlos López Estrada
• Blue is the Warmest Color
  Abdellatif Kechiche
• A Bread Factory
  Patrick Wang
• Brooklyn
  John Crowley
• Burning
  Lee Chang-dong
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• A Dangerous Method
  David Cronenberg
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• Dogtooth
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Elle
  Paul Verhoeven
• Ex Machina
  Alex Garland
• The Farewell
  Lulu Wang
• Fences
  Denzel Washington
• First Reformed
  Paul Schrader
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• Fruitvale Station
  Ryan Coogler
• Gone Girl
  David Fincher
• Goodbye to Language
  Jean-Luc Godard
• Hidden Figures
  Theodore Melfi
• Holy Motors
  Leos Carax
• Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• The Irishman
  Martin Scorsese
• La La Land
  Damien Chazelle
• The Last of the Unjust
  Claude Lanzmann
• The Love Witch
  Anna Biller
• Madeline’s Madeline
  Josephine Decker
• Marriage Story
  Noah Baumbach
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• Only Lovers Left Alive
  Jim Jarmusch
• Paterson
  Jim Jarmusch
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• Shirkers
  Sandi Tan
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  Rian Johnson
• Stories We Tell
  Sarah Polley
• Toy Story 3
  Lee Unkrich
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• Zero Dark Thirty
  Kathryn Bigelow