Movies: Best film of the 2010s decade

[Howard Beale]

Based on the results of the 10 yearly polls, we'll now vote on the best of the entire decade.

You can vote for up to 3 choices, and if you've seen a significant number of them, I encourage you to use all 3 votes.

I've nominated the top 2 vote-getters from each year, so the options are:

• Parasite (2019)
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
• Annihilation (2018)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• Get Out (2017)
• Arrival (2016)
• Manchester by the Sea (2016)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• Sicario (2015)
• Interstellar (2014)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Her (2013)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• Life of Pi (2012)
• Drive (2011)
• Moneyball (2011)
• Inception (2010)
• The Social Network (2010)

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[Howard Beale]

I voted for:

1. Her
2. The Social Network
3. Inception or The Wolf of Wall Street (it's a toss-up for me...)

But there's several that I haven't seen yet:

• Parasite (2019)
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
• Annihilation (2018)
• Manchester by the Sea (2016)
  
• Life of Pi (2012)

And if we include films that didn't make it this far, my top 5 of the decade would be:

1. Her
2. Boyhood
3. A Separation
4. Force Majeure
5. Birdman

HM: The Social Network, and Lady Bird

 

[izzy]

manchester by the sea due to GOAT acting performance

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

Her gets my number one spot as it remains my favorite of the decade. My second choice would be Blue is the Warmest Colour, followed by Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but for the sake of voting I took BR2049 and Parasite, both of which are phenomenal and deserving.

 

[kihei]

Voted from selections provided (in order):

Parasite
Blade Runner 2049
Life of Pi

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Top Twenty for the Decade:

1) Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2) Loveless
3) The Assassin
4) Amour
5) Parasite
6) Gravity
7) Once upon a Time in Anatolia
8) A Simple Life
9) Somewhere
10) Roma

11) Like Father, Like Son
12) Moonlight
13) Portrait of a Lady on Fire
14) Mommy
15) A Separation
16) The Death of Louis XIV
17) Blade Runner 2049
18) Blue Is the Warmest Colour
19) The Image Book
20) Norwegian Wood

HMs: Cafe de Flore; Drive; Life of Pi; Manchester by the Sea; Upstream Color; Victoria

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For my money, the 10's have been the strongest decade for film (and for international film) since the 60's.

 

[KallioWeHardlyKnewYe]

WITNESS ME!

The answer is Mad Max: Fury Road.

 

[NyQuil]

WITNESS ME!

The answer is Mad Max: Fury Road.

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

Don't yell at me....

I really didn't enjoy Mad Max, though it was a long time ago.

 

[Richard]

manchester by the sea due to GOAT acting performance

I saw it in the theaters and I think its probably the best movie I've ever seen in theaters but it was so depressing I've never brought myself to watch it again. I also saw it during a rough time in life

 

[Trap Jesus]

Mad Max is my clear favorite out of those. Then Blade Runner as the clear #2. It's crazy to me that in a movie climate full of sequels and reboots with everyone bitching about it, these two movies both did the impossible and not only put forth solid efforts in the franchise that paid homage to the originals while feeling fresh at the same time, but were actually better than their predecessors.

Last one is a bit of a toss-up between Life of Pi, Sicario and Annihilation but I'll go with Life of Pi.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

No surprise, none of my favorite films from the decade made the final cut.
(subjective as of today, especially from 8-20 and beyond, all 8/10 for me). Voted for Her and Blade Runner 2049.

1. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2. Melancholia
3. L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)
4. Nocturnal Animal
5. Black Swan
6. Marriage Story
7. A Ghost Story

8. Blue Is the Warmest Color
9. The Lobster
10. Curling
11. Before Midnight
12. Biutiful
13. Her
14. Berberian Sound Studio
15. Bibliothèque Pascal
16. Love
17. Mysteries of Lisbon
18. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
19. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
20. Shame

And a few others I have at 8/10 that could make the bottom part of the list on another day:

Polisse
Le mariage à trois
Tuesday, After Christmas
The Babadook
Spring Breakers
My Little Princess
Sleeping Sickness
The Place Beyond the Pines
Blade Runner 2049
En terrains connus
Les amours imaginaires
Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Tournée
I'm Still Here
Room in Rome
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Blue Valentine

 

[Shareefruck]

Can't say I'm a huge fan of any of the choices, personally. Even some of the ones I liked at the time have fallen off for me.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Can't say I'm a huge fan of any of the choices, personally. Even some of the ones I liked at the time have fallen off for me.

What do you have as your favorites from this decade?

 

[The don godfather]

Mad max by a landslide

 

[Shareefruck]

What do you have as your favorites from this decade?

I haven't been watching as many as others have (and I've really fallen off recently), but...

These ones stood out to me:
Loveless
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Amour
Upstream Color
Force Majeure
The Assassin
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

These ones I enjoyed a lot too
Senna
Mother
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Tokyo Tribe
After the Storm
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
This is Not a Film
Exit Through the Giftshop
A Separation
The Illusionist
Before Midnight
Four Lions
The Red Turtle
Red Army
Night is Short Walk on Girl

Might be forgetting some others.

From the list, I initially somewhat went along with the praise that Blade Runner 2049, Get Out, Manchester by the Sea, Sicario, Grand Budapest Hotel, and Her got, but in hindsight, I don't think I really care too much about them.

 

[Mario Lemieux fan 66]

1. The Handmaiden
2. Whiplash
3. Coco
4. Lion
5. Tangerines (Mandariinid)
6. Monsieur & Madame Adelman
7. Jojo Rabbit
8. Deadpool 2
9. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
10. Manchester by the Sea
11. Black Swan
12. Julieta
13. Pain and Glory
14. wild tales
15. the greatest showman
16. 1987
17. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
18. Louis Cyr
19. Interstellar
20. Our Little Sister
21. Shutter Island
22. Omar
23. Shadow
24. Cold War
25. Avengers: Infinity War
26. Rush
27. The Age of Shadows
28. Train to busan
29. The Grand Budapest Hotel
30. Incendies
31. The raid
32. son of saul
33. Horrible bosses
34. The Revenant
35. Silver Linings Playbook
36. Burning
37. Get out
38. the skin i live in
39. Ex Machina
40. Birdman
41. The Hunt

 

[Sakicfan]

Voted for Mad Max: Fury Road, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Social Network.

My list would be:

1. Twin Peaks - The Return
2. The Tree of Life
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
5. The Immigrant
6. The Social Network
7. Marriage Story
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. The Wolf of Wall Street
10. OJ: Made in America
11. Certified Copy
12. Little Women
13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
14. Margaret
15. Journey to the West (The Tsai Ming-Liang one)
16. Blackhat
17. Don't Go Breaking My Heart
18. Moonrise Kingdom
19. Hugo
20. Knight of Cups
21. Force Majeure
22. Manchester By the Sea
23. Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
24. SPL 2: A Time for Consequences
25. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Some honorable mentions: Cemetery of Splendour, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The House that Jack Built, Burning, Frances Ha, Stray Dogs, Toni Erdmann, Phoenix

Here are my 18 favorite acting performances, in no particular order:

Casey Affleck in Manchester By The Sea
Marion Cotillard in The Immigrant
Kyle Maclachlan in Twin Peaks - The Return
Adam Driver in Marriage Story
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl
Anna Paquin in Margaret
Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy
Peyman Moadi in A Separation
Denis Lavant in Holy Motors
Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha
Simon Pegg in The World's End
Nina Hoss in Phoenix
Peter Simonischek in Toni Erdmann
Tom Bennett in Love & Friendship
Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: Fallout
Isabelle Huppert in Elle

 

[zombie kopitar]

you have tv series and a netflix concert on your list ^ ??

Birdman is my movie of the decade.....i dont even know what #2 would be rn.

Interstellar was definitely my favorite in that green screen/blockbuster genre though

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Fury Road, Interstellar, and Blade Runner 2049 for me. Arrival is very close, between it and 2049 for me for third.

 

[Puck]

Pretty tough deciding after most of my better films were laid to waste on the roadside, but I'll go metaphorical and pick Parasite, Life of Pi and Django. It's all about the metaphors (and the imagery).

 

[Howard Beale]

For anyone who missed it, Sunday's the last day to vote!

 

[ItsFineImFine]

I'm not gonna do a personal ranking because it would change one day to the next but this a copy/paste of what I've rated as the highest in the decade looking back at my own ratings. I haven't seen Uncut Gems or Jojo Rabbit or Little Women yet. If I had to do a top 3 then maybe it'd be Inception, Frances Ha, and Manchester By The Sea.

• Inception (2010)
  
  
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
  
  
• Frances Ha (2013)

• A Separation (2011)

• The Big Short (2015)
  
  
• Interstellar (2014)
  
  
• Knives Out (2019)
  
  
• Manchester by the Sea (2016)
  
  
• Nightcrawler (2014)
  
  
• About Time (2013)

• Lady Bird (2017)

• Marriage Story (2019)
  
  
• Parasite (2019)

• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

 

[Eisen]

Voted for Mad Max: Fury Road, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Social Network.

My list would be:

1. Twin Peaks - The Return
2. The Tree of Life
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
5. The Immigrant
6. The Social Network
7. Marriage Story
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. The Wolf of Wall Street
10. OJ: Made in America
11. Certified Copy
12. Little Women
13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
14. Margaret
15. Journey to the West (The Tsai Ming-Liang one)
16. Blackhat
17. Don't Go Breaking My Heart
18. Moonrise Kingdom
19. Hugo
20. Knight of Cups
21. Force Majeure
22. Manchester By the Sea
23. Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
24. SPL 2: A Time for Consequences
25. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Some honorable mentions: Cemetery of Splendour, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The House that Jack Built, Burning, Frances Ha, Stray Dogs, Toni Erdmann, Phoenix

Here are my 18 favorite acting performances, in no particular order:

Casey Affleck in Manchester By The Sea
Marion Cotillard in The Immigrant
Kyle Maclachlan in Twin Peaks - The Return
Adam Driver in Marriage Story
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl
Anna Paquin in Margaret
Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy
Peyman Moadi in A Separation
Denis Lavant in Holy Motors
Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha
Simon Pegg in The World's End
Nina Hoss in Phoenix
Peter Simonischek in Toni Erdmann
Tom Bennett in Love & Friendship
Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: Fallout
Isabelle Huppert in Elle

Isn't The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo older?

 

[Howard Beale]

Isn't The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo older?

The Swedish version was 2009, but the US version was 2011.

 

[HanSolo]

Didn't get to vote so I thought alternatively I'd rank the poll options for fun and add in some I think the poll ignored, though I'll admit there are many titles (allegedly) worthy of consideration that I haven't seen yet.

First I'll start with titles I don't think should've been in consideration for best of the decade at all: Annihilation, Sicario, Wolf of Wall Street, Drive, Django Unchained, Avengers. (They're all solid movies but I don't think they're quite GOAT of the decade tier)

Blade Runner 2049
Manchester by the Sea
Mad Max Fury Road
The Social Network
Her
Grand Budapest Hotel
Inception
Spiderman Into the Spiderverse
Whiplash
Arrival
Frances Ha
1917
The Master
Dunkirk
The Lobster
Interstellar
The Handmaiden
Moonlight
Inside Out
Inside Llewyn Davis
Get Out
Nightcrawler
Amour
Birdman
Interstellar
Fruitvale Station
Phantom Thread
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Hereditary
The Tree of Life
Zero Dark Thirty
Guardians of the Galaxy
BlackkKlansman
Knives Out
Winter's Bone
Uncut Gems
Ex Machina
Leviathan
Toy Story 3
Moneyball
12 Years a Slave
Foxcatcher
Lady Bird
Logan
Black Swan
Life of Pi
The Shape of Water
The Revenant
Captain America The Winter Soldier
Hell or High Water
Gravity (I personally find it a fair bit overrated, but I can't deny the technical mastery and score behind what is otherwise a shallow exercise in tense survival in a fantastical setting)
Spotlight
Locke
Under the Skin
Selma


Maybe my tastes aren't quite as patrician as others, but what can you do?