Your Favorite Films of the 2010s

These aren't necessarily the movies I think are the best of the 2010s, they don't really match my movies of the year list, but are the ones I like the most and tend to rewatch. Didn't really start keeping track stuff I watched until 2017 so there is probably a bunch of stuff I'm missing especially in terms of foreign films from the earlier parts of the decade since I used wikipedia to look things up.


2010
Easy A
The Expendables
Faster
The Secret World of Arrietty

2011
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Rango
From Up on Poppy Hill

2012
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Expendables 2
Lockout

2013
Escape Plan
Her
The Last Stand
The Lords of Salem
Pacific Rim
Pain & Gain
Prisoners
You're Next
Police Story: Lockdown
The Wind Rises
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

2014
Birdman
The Equalizer
The Expendables 3
Nightcrawler
When Marnie Was There


2015
The Case of Hana & Alice
Crimson Peak
Creed
Miss Hokusai
Mississippi Grind

2016
Fences
The Handmaiden
The Love Witch
The Nice Guys
Shin Godzilla
The Wailing
The Witch
Your Name


2017
A Cure For Wellness
Th Blackcoat's Daughter
Wind River
Ingrid Goes West
Happy Death Day
Phantom Thread
The Foreigner
This is Not What I Expected
Reset
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
A Silent Voice
Midnight Runners
In This Corner of the World
A Taxi Driver

2018
Thoroughbreds
You Were Never Really Here
Lean on Pete
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
Creed II
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
One Cut of the Dead
Paddington
Summer of 84
Blue Amber
Vox Lux
The Spy Gone North
Shoplifters

2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Crawl
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Rambo: Last Blood
The Lighthouse
Dark Waters
The Two Popes
Cheer Up, Mr. Lee
Hello World
Juror 8
The Fable
The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale
Arctic
Lupin the IIIrd: Fujiko Mine's Lie
Ford v Ferrari
Klaus
Ride Your Wave
First Love
In Fabric
Under the Silver Lake
The Nightingale
Okko's Inn
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
1917
Parasite
 
Without a hint of irony, I believe The Social Network is the greatest movie of the 21st century (so far). It's a practically perfect piece of filmmaking which some people shun because "who cares about Facebook".
Do you mind explaining the high praise as a film, because I thought it was a well-made movie that didn't really leave an impression on me. Meanwhile I thought all of Villeneuve's films are brilliant (Enemy and Arrival less so, but still very good), along with Whiplash and other top films of the '10s

I have opinions about the modern tech giants, but Facebook as a platform doesn't mean anything to me either way, it wouldn't influence my judgment of the film's merits. I think I'll revisit the movie later this week to pick up on anything I missed earlier
 
Do you mind explaining the high praise as a film, because I thought it was a well-made movie that didn't really leave an impression on me. Meanwhile I thought all of Villeneuve's films are brilliant (Enemy and Arrival less so, but still very good), along with Whiplash and other top films of the '10s

I have opinions about the modern tech giants, but Facebook as a platform doesn't mean anything to me either way, it wouldn't influence my judgment of the film's merits. I think I'll revisit the movie later this week to pick up on anything I missed earlier

It's a movie that fires on basically every cylinder. Fincher's slick and urgent direction, an absolutely watertight two hour script from Aaron Sorkin, a role that Jesse Eisenberg was born to play, a killer soundtrack from Reznor and Ross, and a genuinely fascinating story about a kid who bent the American dream around his finger. It doesn't matter if you like Facebook or Zuckerberg (I don't like either), it doesn't matter that it's not a grand epic, for me The Social Network is as close to perfect as a piece of filmmaking has been in the last 20 years. Citizen Kane is given its merits almost exclusively on the cinematography, and in that sense it was certainly more ground-breaking, but I sincerely believe that as a story of a man's rise to success at the expense of his humanity, The Social Network is the modern Citizen Kane. I watch it at least once a year and I must have seen the thing 20 times now.

Some might see this as silly hyperbole, it's just how I feel. I haven't seen a film from after the year 2000 that captives me as much.
 
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It may not be my favorite decade for movies but it was a hell of a time for cinematography! So many beautifully shot movies. Hats off to the people who pulled these feats off..
 
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