ICS's Best Films of the Decade (2010s)
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Of all the masterful films in the ICS Best of Decade list, two 2011 releases stood head and shoulders above the rest in the voters’ current mindset: Kenneth Lonergan’s uniquely structured Margaret and Terrence Malick’s metaphysical family drama The Tree of Life. Margaret tells the story of an awkward, passionate teenager whose feelings of guilt over a tragic bus accident propel her into moral dilemmas and a quest for justice, against the backdrop of post-9/11 New York as a metaphor for coming of age and the loss of childhood naivety. Upon its release Margaret was considered messy, sometimes brilliant, and controversial – and it has remained so, yet has only grown in stature. Conversely, Malick’s whispered evocation of nature vs. grace, The Tree of Life, was celebrated from the outset and has held up magnificently over time, the dynamics of a Texas family flowing into the natural world like a flight of birds.
While American filmmakers claimed the top two spots, the rest of our top 10 was dominated by international auteurs. Coming in third was French director Leos Carax’s surreal exploration of identity Holy Motors (ICS Best Picture for 2012), followed by Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian divorce drama A Separation (which had won ICS Best Picture for 2011 over both Malick and Lonergan). Todd Haynes’ period love story Carol, our 2015 Best Picture, ended up in 5th place for the decade, followed by Xavier Dolan’s deeply felt transgender romance Laurence Anyways, Lucrecia Martel’s colonialist satire Zama, Martin Scorsese’s haunting missionary saga Silence, the always-controversial Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s five-hour Sirkian melodrama Happy Hour.
The full ICS Best of the Decade list can be found below.
The list is 102 films because #59 Arabian Nights is considered as one entry by the ICS
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Margaret
2011, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Tree of Life
2011, in 13 top lists Check -
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Holy Motors
2012, in 11 top lists Check -
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Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
2011 — a.k.a. A Separation, in 15 top lists Check -
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Carol
2015, in 8 top lists Check -
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Laurence Anyways
2012, in 3 top lists Check -
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Zama
2017, in 8 top lists Check -
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Silence
2016, in 2 top lists Check -
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
2017, in 0 top lists -
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Happî awâ
2015 — a.k.a. Happy Hour, in 5 top lists Check -
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Mad Max: Fury Road
2015, in 23 top lists Check -
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Phantom Thread
2017, in 8 top lists Check -
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Loong Boonmee raleuk chat
2010 — a.k.a. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, in 13 top lists Check -
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Under the Skin
2013, in 10 top lists Check -
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Twin Peaks
2017, in 4 top lists Check -
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Toni Erdmann
2016, in 13 top lists Check -
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Moonlight
2016, in 13 top lists Check -
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Roma
2018, in 18 top lists -
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Tabu
2012, in 7 top lists Check -
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Call Me by Your Name
2017, in 11 top lists -
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Dolor y gloria
2019 — a.k.a. Pain and Glory, in 5 top lists -
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Rak ti Khon Kaen
2015 — a.k.a. Cemetery of Splendor, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Master
2012, in 7 top lists Check -
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Copie conforme
2010 — a.k.a. Certified Copy, in 8 top lists Check -
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Gisaengchung
2019 — a.k.a. Parasite, in 22 top lists -
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Melancholia
2011, in 10 top lists Check -
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Beoning
2018 — a.k.a. Burning, in 8 top lists -
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La vie d'Adèle
2013 — a.k.a. Blue Is the Warmest Colour, in 13 top lists Check -
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Mistérios de Lisboa - O Filme
2010, in 6 top lists Check -
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Gravity
2013, in 12 top lists Check -
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Inside Llewyn Davis
2013, in 8 top lists Check -
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Boyhood
2014, in 16 top lists Check -
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Diqiu zuihou de yewan
2018 — a.k.a. Long Day's Journey Into Night, in 3 top lists -
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Kis Uykusu
2014 — a.k.a. Winter Sleep, in 6 top lists Check -
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El abrazo de la serpiente
2015 — a.k.a. Embrace of the Serpent, in 6 top lists Check -
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Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
2019 — a.k.a. Portrait of a Lady on Fire, in 12 top lists -
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The Social Network
2010, in 13 top lists Check -
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No Home Movie
2015, in 4 top lists Check -
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Mommy
2014, in 5 top lists Check -
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Cloud Atlas
2012, in 1 top list Check -
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Trudno byt bogom
2013 — a.k.a. Hard to Be a God, in 3 top lists Check -
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La bocca del lupo
2009 — a.k.a. The Mouth of the Wolf, in 2 top lists Check -
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Cike Nie Yin Niang
2015 — a.k.a. The Assassin, in 4 top lists Check -
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A torinói ló
2011 — a.k.a. The Turin Horse, in 8 top lists Check -
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Visages villages
2017 — a.k.a. Faces Places, in 4 top lists -
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La grande bellezza
2013 — a.k.a. The Great Beauty, in 11 top lists Check -
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Tian zhu ding
2013 — a.k.a. A Touch of Sin, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Rider
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American Honey
2016, in 6 top lists Check -
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Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
2011 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, in 8 top lists Check
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