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There are two movies by Martin Scorsese on this list, and five Marvel movies. Let us demarcate the next decade by refusing to ever stop talking about this.

But, hey, here we are: our staff’s favorite 100 movies released between 2010 and now (November 13, 2019). There’s a lot of the familiar and a lot of the divisive and a small bit of the esoteric, but in its weird breadth this list is the best we could do to cover so much, from our writers’ taste to our best guess for which films will have a lasting effect on whatever post-apocalyptic hellscape is to come as direct result of this moment’s war between Scorsese and the MCU.
In that spirit, we had to leave a bunch of films out, make some serious compromises to get other titles in. John Wick is here, representative of all three chapters; Blade Runner 2049 can stand in well enough for Arrival’s scope; The Beach Bum is the humanist opus in conversation with what Spring Breakers promised; Coco is the best of what kind of magic Pixar’s conjured all decade; Annihilation wraps Ex Machina in its warm embrace, and absorbs it. Or, at least that’s how we reasoned our way to the following 100.

And make sure to check out more of our Decade’s Best lists, dutifully analyzing how closely we stayed consistent throughout:
The 30 Best Documentaries of the 2010s
The Best Horror Movies of the 2010s
The Best Anime Movies of the 2010s
The Best Bollywood Movies of the 2010s
The Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 2010s

Here are the best 100 movies of the 2010s:

(#27 is for both The Act of Killing & The Look of Silence)

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  1. 98 new

    Attenberg

    2010, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 59 new

    Copie conforme

    2010 — a.k.a. Certified Copy, in 8 top lists Check
  3. 72 new

    Jûsan-nin no shikaku

    2010 — a.k.a. 13 Assassins, in 1 top list Check
  4. 14 new

    Loong Boonmee raleuk chat

    2010 — a.k.a. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, in 13 top lists Check
  5. 97 new

    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

    2010, in 6 top lists Check
  6. 83 new

    Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da

    2011 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, in 8 top lists Check
  7. 52 new

    Drive

    2011, in 8 top lists Check
  8. 48 new

    Melancholia

    2011, in 10 top lists Check
  9. 40 new

    Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

    2011, in 2 top lists Check
  10. 71 new

    Pariah

    2011, in 7 top lists Check
  11. 24 new

    Serbuan maut

    2011 — a.k.a. The Raid: Redemption, in 2 top lists Check
  12. 45 new

    A torinói ló

    2011 — a.k.a. The Turin Horse, in 8 top lists Check
  13. 42 new

    The Tree of Life

    2011, in 13 top lists Check
  14. 47 new

    Weekend

    2011, in 6 top lists Check
  15. 27 new

    The Act of Killing

    2012, in 9 top lists Check
  16. 77 new

    The Avengers

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  17. 73 new

    Du zhan

    2012 — a.k.a. Drug War, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 23 new

    Frances Ha

    2012, in 5 top lists Check
  19. 60 new

    Holy Motors

    2012, in 11 top lists Check
  20. 21 new

    It's Such a Beautiful Day

    2012, in 6 top lists Check
  21. 20 new

    The Master

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  22. 19 new

    Moonrise Kingdom

    2012, in 9 top lists Check
  23. 75 new

    Stories We Tell

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  24. 61 new

    12 Years a Slave

    2013, in 22 top lists Check
  25. 53 new

    At Berkeley

    2013, in 2 top lists Check
  26. 101 new

    The Bling Ring

    2013, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 99 new

    A Field in England

    2013, in 1 top list Check
  28. 38 new

    Her

    2013, in 10 top lists Check
  29. 46 new

    Ida

    2013, in 8 top lists Check
  30. 15 new

    Inside Llewyn Davis

    2013, in 8 top lists Check
  31. 12 new

    Kaze tachinu

    2013 — a.k.a. The Wind Rises, in 4 top lists Check
  32. 6 new

    Under the Skin

    2013, in 10 top lists Check
  33. 87 new

    Vi är bäst!

    2013 — a.k.a. We Are the Best!, in 1 top list Check
  34. 78 new

    The Wolf of Wall Street

    2013, in 13 top lists Check
  35. 8 new

    The Babadook

    2014, in 4 top lists Check
  36. 13 new

    Boyhood

    2014, in 16 top lists Check
  37. 92 new

    Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  38. 36 new

    Edge of Tomorrow

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  39. 22 new

    Gone Girl

    2014, in 12 top lists Check
  40. 51 new

    It Follows

    2014, in 5 top lists Check
  41. 33 new

    John Wick

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  42. 28 new

    The Look of Silence

    2014, in 4 top lists Check
  43. 30 new

    Plemya

    2014 — a.k.a. The Tribe, in 2 top lists Check
  44. 85 new

    Turist

    2014 — a.k.a. Force Majeure, in 6 top lists
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  45. 25 new

    Anomalisa

    2015, in 2 top lists Check
  46. 57 new

    Évolution

    2015 — a.k.a. Evolution, in 1 top list Check
  47. 69 new

    The Fits

    2015, in 0 top lists Check
  48. 63 new

    Green Room

    2015, in 3 top lists Check
  49. 66 new

    Krisha

    2015, in 0 top lists Check
  50. 9 new

    The Lobster

    2015, in 7 top lists Check
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