Films of the Decade So Far

[Spartan]

It's more than likely I've forgotten something major to me, but this is what I'm rolling with right now:

Black Swan (2010)
Four Lions (2010)
The Troll Hunter (2010)
Kick-Ass (2010)
Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Amer (2011) *
Kill List (2011)
Cold Fish (2011)
Holy Motors (2012)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Excision (2012)
Dredd (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Under the Skin (2014)
The Raid 2 (2014)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Hard to be a God (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2015)
It Follows (2015)
The Witch (2016)
The Neon Demon (2016)

* This toured the film festivals for a couple of years prior, but wasn't released for us plebs until 2011.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Four Lions (2010)
Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)
Kill List (2011)
Holy Motors (2012)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Under the Skin (2014)
The Raid 2 (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2015)
It Follows (2015)

^^^ Agreed on these.

Would add these:

Toy Story 3 (2010)
The Raid (2011)
Attack The Block (2011)
Bernie (2011)
Amour (2012)
Beyond Midnight (2013)
The Rover (2014)
The Lego Movie (2014)
Toni Erdmann (2016)

[Spartan]

I really ought to watch Attack the Block and The Rover again. Liked them a lot, but have only watched them once.

Bit late now, but I should have swapped The Social Network for either The Revenant or Nightcrawler.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Good call on Nightcrawler..

[mud]

[alpha]

Great list. I've missed some on yours but I'll think of a couple. Comedies?

[drizzle]

I really ought to watch Attack the Block and The Rover again. Liked them a lot, but have only watched them once.

Bit late now, but I should have swapped The Social Network for either The Revenant or Nightcrawler.

Def Nightcrawler

Would put Drive over Neon Demon

[Tommy Bunz]

Perfect Movies:
Mad Max Fury Road
13 Assassins
Drive
Life of Pi
Gravity
Tree of Life
Black Swan
Get Out
The Revenant
Incendies
Winter's Bone
Logan


Top Five Animated:
Toy Story 3
Kubo & The Two Strings
Frankenweenie
Rango
The Lego Movie

Next Tier:
Only God Forgives, Prometheus, The Last Circus, Tron Legacy, The Raid 1 & 2, Under the Skin, Crimson Peak, Pacific Rim, Maps to the Stars, The Witch, Dredd, Birdman, Whiplash, Blue Ruin, Piranha 3D, Melancholia, Guardians of the Galaxy, Sicario, Troll Hunter, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Inception, The Babadook, Zero Dark Thirty, Fast Five, Ex Machina, The Nice Guys, Bridge of Spies, Interstellar, Hell or High Water, Rogue One, Spotlight, Wolf of WS, The Guest, Spring Breakers

Most Underrated/Underappreciated:
Predestination
Lucy
What We Do In The Shadows
Safety Not Guaranteed
Shutter Island
Rush
Black Death
The American
Tucker & Dave Vs Evil
The Last Stand
Road to Nowhere
Fury

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

*Big Jus voice*

Remove that Tree of Life, homie.

[alpha]

Safety not Guaranteed? Cmon that shit wasn't that good at all. A mediocre episode of the league by comparison. Hot tub time machine was better than that movie.

[Spartan]

I really ought to watch Attack the Block and The Rover again. Liked them a lot, but have only watched them once.

Bit late now, but I should have swapped The Social Network for either The Revenant or Nightcrawler.

Def Nightcrawler

Would put Drive over Neon Demon

Didn't want to include more than one movie by the same director in the list. Was really torn between the two, but The Neon Demon felt like it was made to just for me.

Liking some of Tommy's under appreciated picks.

[drizzle]

Good call on Winter's Boner, didn't realize it was this decade

I like Incendies as the Villeneuve pick


I think I'd include Moonlight, Elle and Carol, maybe The Handmaiden too

Can't believe how hard you guys are riding for The Revenant, that movie didn't do shit except nearly kill it's stars in service of good cinematography

[ric]

it's too early. gotta have Moonlight though. must have it. this movie is in a modern goats discussion

also to do this list I feel like you have to start with a number first and pare down from there.

[CarlosDelgothoes]

Better Gyllenhaal & Villenueve films mentioned, but loved...

[drizzle]

I started with a longass list but with only 1 movie per each director, and cut down to my 10 most favorite

top 10:

Inherent Vice
Elle
Spring Breakers
Raid 2
Under The Skin
Mad Max Fury Road
Drive
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Hard To Be A God
Carol

The Rest:

Hobo With A Shotgun
Winter's Bone
Moonlight
Kill List
Amer
Un Prophete
Drive
Upstream Color
Tangerine
Black Swan
The Witch
The Counselor
Dredd
Drug War
Grand Budapest Hotel
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Incendies
Amer
The Handmaiden
Grand Budapest Hotel
Nice Guys
Zero Dark 30
Fast Five
Blue Ruin
Lego Movie
Get Out
13 Assassins
Dredd
Attack The Block
The American
Nice Guys
Piranha 3D
Guardians 2
Final Master
Purge 2
The Drop

This shit reminds me I've still never seen Act of Killing or Amour or Uncle Boonmee or a bunch of other critical hits

Also makes me realize that a few things I ostensibly liked a whole lot when I saw them didn't actually leave a big impression on me - Django and H8, Social Network, Gravity, Wolf Of Wallstreet, American Hustle, etc... and I've actually grown to full-on hate Inception with time

[ric]

@drizzle
yeah good call on inherent vice
misunderstood movie imo. that's somewhere on the list for sure.

[Spartan]

Ice-edited Nightcrawler in my original post.

Could not sleep a wink because of it, curb bros.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

[Spartan]

RIP the 80s gawd, though.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)

This one looks odd next to the other movies. Haven't seen it myself though.

Unmentioned films, that I can think of right now, which are up there, would be:

Silence (by Scorsese)
Animal Kingdom
I Saw the Devil
The Yellow Sea / The Wailing (same director)

I feel like namedropping more films but they don't realistically figure in a top 10 or something like that.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Might edit my list to insert Locke in there.

[unclebengi]

Top 10

Ex Machina
12 Years a Slave
The Raid 2
Moonlight
Drive
Only God Forgives
Tree Of Life
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inherent Vice
Embrace of the Serpent


Honorable Mention

Sicario
Mad Max
Winter's Bone
Blue Valentine
The Act of Killing
The Master
The Place Beyond The Pines
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Enemy
The Neon Demon
The Duke of Burgundy
Upstream Color
The Raid
The Handmaiden

[Spartan]

Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)

This one looks odd next to the other movies. Haven't seen it myself though.

It's excellent. Watched it purely for the wrong reasons, but ended up being blown away by just how superb a drama it was. Three hour movie and time flew by so quickly.

Is The Wailing really that good? Keep falling asleep every time I try to watch it on Netflix.

[Blockhead]

Dredd

Here's a hot take. I'll take Dredd over either Raid movies.
I'll see myself out.

[Tommy Bunz]

Watched Dredd in 3D for the first time last night. So awesome.

[ZiekeFons]

hell or high water
hunt for the wilderpeople
the revenant
turbo kid
chef
whiplash
wolf
starred up
12 years a slave
the inevitable defeat of mister & pete
mud
stand up guys
the dark knight rises
intouchables
wild bill
hugo
the help
win win
tucker and dale vs evil

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Is The Wailing really that good? Keep falling asleep every time I try to watch it on Netflix.

The start is a bit rough but I was entranced for the better part of the film. The Japanese character is just awesome.

Ziekefons made a great call re: Wolf.

I also forgot Dheepan and Victoria, two other upper-tier Eurofilms.

[TheBigSleep]

If we're gonna talk documentaries like Samsara or The Act of Killing, here are twenty five other critically acclaimed ones from this decade:

Alone in the Wilderness Part II
Attenborough's Life That Glows
Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
Blackfish
Citizenfour
The Culture High
Exit Through the Gift Shop
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Human
Inside Job
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
The Look of Silence
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Jodorowsky's Dune
The Other Dream Team
Paradise Lost III: Purgatory
Senna
Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
13th
30 for 30: Once Brothers
30 for 30: The Two Escobars
30 for 30: Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
Tower
West of Memphis

[Raphael De La Ghetto]

2 movies I really liked that I didn't see listed:
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011... The Fincher version)
Prisoners (2013)

[Yohan]

I've seen Spring Breakers and I liked the movie, but can you please explain your reasoning for putting it in your top 10, Drizzle?