Among the nearly 2,000 new films I saw this past decade, I found these the freshest in concept, richest in ambition, craftiest in execution, or plain hardest to forget. Joint citations are for movies that share artists or themes, and for which I feel nearly equal awe. Honorable mentions, scattered throughout, are for films that would miss this list on their own but merit a warm shout. I hope you hunt down titles new to you, or rewatch those you know, and share your reactions. Back / Twitter / Email Best of the 2010s by Title 39 12 Years a Slave 7 20th Century Women 75 24 Weeks 12 The Act of Killing 11 Amour 65 Angelo 34 Aquarius 1 Arabian Nights, Vol. 1: The Restless One 1 Arabian Nights, Vol. 2: The Desolate One 1 Arabian Nights, Vol. 3: The Enchanted One 25 Araby 8 At Berkeley 6 Atlantics 95 Ava 24 Beasts of the Southern Wild 80 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 80 Beginners 93 El Bella Vista 37 Birds Are Singing in Kigali 53 Bisbee '17 60 Black Mother 65 Black Venus 58 Blue Valentine 18 Carol 23 The Cave 82 Certified Copy 28 Court 90 Creed 52 Dawson City: Frozen Time 20 The Day He Arrives 89 Dheepan 87 The Diary of a Teenage Girl 68 Do Not Resist 42 Donbass 36 Edge of Tomorrow 30 Elena 56 End of the Century 50 Félicité 63 Fire at Sea 92 First Man 72 Get Out 73 Ghost Tropic 40 Good Time 79 Goodbye to Language 3D 35 Graves without a Name 62 Gravity 61 Happy as Lazzaro 49 Holy Motors 57 How to Survive a Plague 4 If Beale Street Could Talk 99 The Immigrant 26 The Interrupters 67 Iraqi Odyssey 81 The Irishman 48 Isle of Dogs 98 Israfil 44 Ixcanul 77 La Jaula de oro 64 Just 6.5 95 Lady Bird 23 Last Men in Aleppo 69 The Last of the Unjust 16 Life and Nothing More 82 Like Someone in Love 86 Lincoln 33 The Lobster 12 The Look of Silence 96 Mad Max: Fury Road 21 El mar la mar 13 Margaret 46 Melancholia 98 Middle of Nowhere 35 The Missing Picture 14 Moonlight 70 mother! 91 Mr. Turner 83 Much Loved 27 My Joy 31 Mysteries of Lisbon 66 National Gallery 34 Neighboring Sounds 22 Norte, the End of History 41 Nostalgia for the Light 51 The Orphanage 74 The Other Side 85 Our People Will Be Healed 70 Parasite 88 Pina 59 Poetry 42 The President 78 Radiator 71 Rags and Tatters 54 Raising Bertie 78 Ray & Liz 20 Right Now, Wrong Then 97 Roma 55 The Selfish Giant 28 A Separation 43 Shoplifters 5 Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait 9 Sleeping Beauty 17 Son of Saul 32 Southwest 100 Starlet 47 Summer 1993 76 Suzanne 10 Tabu 15 Things to Come 84 Timbuktu 38 Toni Erdmann 45 Toy Story 3 2 The Tree of Life 89 The Tribe 46 The Turin Horse 49 Under the Skin 87 Valencia 84 We Come As Friends 56 Weekend 3 Western 52 What We Left Unfinished 68 Whose Streets? 94 The Wild Goose Lake 92 The Wind Rises 61 The Wonders 29 The Work 19 Zama Honorable Mentions Numbers refer to where on the main list each mention appeared. Unnumbered titles appeared in the general list of Honorable Mentions. 43 3 Faces 71 3000 Nights 78 45 Years 57 5B 63 A Ciambra 99 Ad Astra 43 After the Storm 26 America to Me 000 American Factory 89 American Sniper 94 Angels Wear White 46 Aniara 49 Antiviral 95 As I Open My Eyes 76 Asako I & II 81 Ash Is Purest White 43 At War 12 The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu 000 Babyteeth 98 Beyond the Lights 45 Big Hero 6 91 Birdman 94 Black Coal, Thin Ice 90 Black Panther 57 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 18 Call Me By Your Name 80 Can You Ever Forgive Me? 43 Capernaum 31 Carlos 53 Casting JonBenet 9 Cemetery of Splendor 97 The Chambermaid 58 Clemency 9 Clip 61 Corpo Celeste 68 Dark Money 18 Dark Waters 59 Diane 21 Dislocation Blues 000 Dogtooth 000 Eighth Grade 94 An Elephant Sitting Still 38 Elle 41 Erased,__Ascent of the Invisible 000 Everyone Else 66 Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 46 The Fall 59 Fatima 000 Faust 34 The Fever 35 First They Killed My Father 000 Fish Tank 6 The Fits 5 For Sama 66 Francofonia 16 Free in Deed 22 From What Is Before 9 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 95 Girlhood 84 Girls Don't Fly 34 Gloria 78 God's Own Country 21 Good Luck 74 The Gospel of Eureka 48 The Grand Budapest Hotel 60 Hale County This Morning, This Evening 46 Hard to Be a God 79 Heart of a Dog 77 Heli 92 High Life 58 Higher Ground 000 The Homesman 93 Honeyland 83 Horses of God 9 House of Tolerance 42 How I Ended This Summer 45 How to Train Your Dragon 83 Hustlers 4 I Am Not Your Negro 53 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians 33 Icebergs 37 Ida 15 I'll See You in My Dreams 79 The Image Book 66 In Jackson Heights 27 In the Fog 21 The Iron Ministry 72 It Follows 19 Jauja 83 Joy 15 Julieta 53 Kate Plays Christine 6 Kati Kati 59 The Kindergarten Teacher 58 Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter 71 Ladder to Damascus 58 The Last Black Man in San Francisco 3 Lean on Pete 97 Leap Year 21 Leviathan (2012) 30 Leviathan (2014) 000 Li'l Quinquin 31 Little Women 44 La Llorona 000 A Long and Happy Life 36 Looper 99 The Lost City of Z 76 Love Like Poison 30 Loveless 18 Lovesong 64 Ma' Rosa 100 Magic Mike 64 A Man of Integrity 35 Marwencol 48 The Master 63 Mediterranea 9 Minotaur 77 Miss Bala 36 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 45 Moana 58 Mother of George 51 My Life as a Zucchini 42 My Sweet Pepper Land 10 Neon Bull 28 No Date, No Signature 23 Of Fathers and Sons 83 On Tour (Tournée) 27 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 000 Only Lovers Left Alive 32 The Ornithologist 43 Our Little Sister 46 The Painted Bird 000 Panamerican Machinery 000 Paradise: Love 14 Pariah 95 Patti Cake$ 41 The Pearl Button 91 Peterloo 48 Phantom Thread 42 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch, Reflecting on Existence 49 Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You 56 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 47 Princess Cyd 20 The Princess of France 63 Sacro GRA 82 The Salesman 86 Selma 60 Shakedown 7 She's Beautiful When She's Angry 52 Shirkers 42 Sieranevada 81 Silence 30 Silent Souls 59 A Simple Life 9 The Sleeping Beauty 44 Song without a Name 58 Songs My Brothers Taught Me 72 Sorry to Bother You 75 A Sort of Family 14 Spa Night 000 Spring Breakers 45 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 66 The Square 51 Starless Dreams 71 Story of Judas 45 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 44 Temblores (Tremors) 11 Tomcat 47 Too Late to Die Young 94 A Touch of Sin 68 Trapped 75 Tully 21 Two Years at Sea 77 Una noche 74 Uncertain 96 Victoria 34 Waiting for the Carnival 86 War Horse 37 War Witch 16 Waves 22 Ways of the Sea (Halaw) 87 We Are the Best! 24 We the Animals 57 We Were Here 16 What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? 000 White Material 15 Woman at War 22 The Woman Who Left 18 Wonderstruck 45 World of Tomorrow 36 World War Z 45 Your Name