| 1. The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick, 2011 |
| 2. Roma | Alfonso Cuarón, 2018 |
| 3. Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan, 2017 |
| 4. The Turin Horse | Béla Tarr, 2011 |
| 5. The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012 |
| 6. Birdman | Alejandro Iñárritu, 2014 |
| 7. The Revenant | Alejandro Iñárritu, 2015 |
| 8. Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller, 2015 |
| 9. La La Land | Damien Chazelle, 2016 |
| 10. The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson, 2014 |
| 11. Cold War | Paweł Pawlikowski, 2018 |
| 12. The Social Network | David Fincher, 2010 |
| 13. Inception | Christopher Nolan, 2010 |
| 14. Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013 |
| 15. The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018 |
| 16. Inside Llewyn Davis | The Coen Brothers, 2013 |
| 17. About Endlessness | Roy Andersson, 2019 |
| 18. Midsommar | Ari Aster, 2019 |
| 19. Melancholia | Lars von Trier, 2011 |
| 20. Moonlight | Barry Jenkins, 2016 |
| 21. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino, 2019 |
| 22. Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky, 2010 |
| 23. Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson, 2012 |
| 24. Ad Astra | James Gray, 2019 |
| 25. Parasite | Bong Joon-ho, 2019 |
| 26. Shame | Steve McQueen, 2011 |
| 27. Blade Runner 2049 | Denis Villeneuve, 2017 |
| 28. Columbus | Kogonada, 2017 |
| 29. The Irishman | Martin Scorsese, 2019 |
| 30. Burning | Lee Chang-dong, 2018 |
| 31. Waves | Trey Edward Shults, 2019 |
| 32. Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017 |
| 33. A Hidden Life | Terrence Malick, 2019 |
| 34. Whiplash | Damien Chazelle, 2014 |
| 35. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | Roy Andersson, 2014 |
| 36. Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón, 2013 |
| 37. 1917 | Sam Mendes, 2019 |
| 38. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010 |
| 39. We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lynne Ramsay, 2011 |
| 40. Paterson | Jim Jarmusch, 2016 |
| 41. Little Women | Greta Gerwig, 2019 |
| 42. Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach, 2019 |
| 43. First Reformed | Paul Schrader, 2017 |
| 44. Hereditary | Ari Aster, 2018 |
| 45. Mr. Turner | Mike Leigh, 2014 |
| 46. Holy Motors | Leos Carax, 2012 |
| 47. 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen, 2012 |
| 48. Call Me By Your Name | Luca Guadagnino, 2017 |
| 49. The Great Beauty | Paolo Sorrentino, 2013 |
| 50. Good Time | The Safdie Brothers, 2017 |
| 51. Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino, 2012 |
| 52. Only God Forgives | Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013 |
| 53. Certified Copy | Abbas Kiarostami, 2010 |
| 54. Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011 |
| 55. Son of Saul | László Nemes, 2015 |
| 56. The Neon Demon | Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016 |
| 57. Victoria | Sebastian Schipper, 2015 |
| 58. The Assassin | Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015 |
| 59. The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro, 2018 |
| 60. Climax | Gasper Noé, 2018 |
| 61. The Grandmaster | Wong Kar-wai, 2013 |
| 62. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, 2018 |
| 63. Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine, 2012 |
| 64. Blue Valentine | Derek Cianfrance, 2010 |
| 65. Mommy | Xavier Dolan, 2014 |
| 66. Under the Skin | Jonathan Glazer, 2013 |
| 67. Boyhood | Richard Linklater, 2014 |
| 68. Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma, 2019 |
| 69. Gone Girl | David Fincher, 2014 |
| 70. The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski, 2010 |
| 71. Carol | Todd Haynes, 2015 |
| 72. The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015 |
| 73. Before Midnight | Richard Linklater, 2013 |
| 74. Interstellar | Christopher Nolan, 2014 |
| 75. The Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan, 2012 |
| 76. A Separation | Asghar Farhadi, 2011 |
| 77. Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy, 2014 |
| 78. The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers, 2018 |
| 79. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014 |
| 80. If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins, 2018 |
| 81. Skyfall | Sam Mendes, 2012 |
| 82. Her | Spike Jonze, 2013 |
| 83. You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsay, 2017 |
| 84. The Souvenir | Joanna Hogg, 2019 |
| 85. The Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese, 2013 |
| 86. Frances Ha | Noah Baumbach, 2012 |
| 87. Submarine | Richard Ayoade, 2010 |
| 88. Sunset Song | Terence Davies, 2015 |
| 89. Silence | Martin Scorsese, 2016 |
| 90. The Big Short | Adam McKay, 2015 |
| 91. Get Out | Jordan Peele, 2017 |
| 92. The Immigrant | James Gray, 2013 |
| 93. Sicario | Denis Villeneuve, 2015 |
| 94. Ash is Purest White | Jia Zhangke, 2018 |
| 95. Uncut Gems | The Safdie Brothers, 2019 |
| 96. The Killing of a Sacred Deer | Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017 |
| 97. Shutter Island | Martin Scorsese, 2010 |
| 98. The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Davies, 2011 |
| 99. Two Days, One Night | The Dardenne Brothers, 2014 |
| 100. Arrival | Denis Villeneuve, 2016 |
Top 10 Directors of the Decade
- Christopher Nolan
- Denis Villeneuve
- Steve McQueen
- Wes Anderson
- Alejandro Iñárritu
- Martin Scorsese
- Paweł Pawlikowski
- Terrence Malick
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Nicolas Winding Refn
Top 10 Male Performances of the Decade
- Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
- Michael Fassbender (Shame)
- Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)
- Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
- Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
- Leonardo Di Caprio (The Revenant)
- Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Ryan Gosling (Blade Runner 2049)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
- Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Top 10 Female Performances of the Decade
- Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
- Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road)
- Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia)
- Florence Pugh (Midsommar)
- Emma Stone (La La Land)
- Joanna Kulig (Cold War)
- Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
- Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)
- Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
- Juliette Binoche (Certified Copy)
The Best Films of 2019
Pedro Costa’s meditative camera lingers in the decaying home and troubled mind of a recent widow, Bong Joon-ho takes a scalpel to South Korea’s class system, and Martin Scorsese’s epic gangster film wrestles with his long-time fascinations of sin and guilt.
The Best Films of 2018
Alfonso Cuarón cements his status as an all-time great director with a black-and-white memory piece, Ari Aster takes the horror genre to a new level with fresh artistic sensibilities, and the best animation in years arrives in a deconstruction of superhero stories.
The Best Films of 2017
Christopher Nolan shakes up the war genre in delivering a landmark of film editing, Denis Villeneuve astoundingly builds on a decades-old classic with a phenomenal sequel, and Paul Schrader’s cerebral, theological character study features Ethan Hawke in an intensely internal performance.
The Best Films of 2016
Damien Chazelle’s ode to Hollywood musicals becomes one of the genre’s best, Jim Jarmusch’s impressively formal work celebrates the beauty of routine, and Denis Villeneuve finds a new linguistic spin on the alien science-fiction film.
The Best Films of 2015
George Miller makes a high-octane, career comeback, Leonardo DiCaprio transforms into a spirit animal in Alejandro Iñárritu’s awe-inspiring revisionist western, and Adam McKay turns the Global Financial Crisis into an audacious, exciting piece of cinema.
The Best Films of 2014
Alejandro Iñárritu’s exceedingly sharp script drives his one-take wonder, Wes Anderson constructs an immaculate piece of pastel artistry, and Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age epic breaks new ground in realist cinema.
The Best Films of 2013
Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski delivers a haunting meditation on the long-lasting effects of the Holocaust, Richard Linklater ties off his Before trilogy with a marital sparring drama, and Nicolas Winding Refn’s violent, visual atom bomb heavily polarises audiences.
The Best Films of 2012
Paul Thomas Anderson creates an ambitiously formal and enigmatic work in his study of polar opposite characters, Wes Anderson perfectly merges style and form in a story of childhood love, and Sam Mendes delivers the most inspired James Bond film to date.
The Best Films of 2011
A landmark of transcendental cinema emerges in Terrence Malick’s most dazzling film of his career, while Béla Tarr and Lars von Trier both impress with heavy, philosophical films contemplating two different apocalypses.
The Best Films of 2010
Aaron Sorkin pens the greatest screenplay of his career in collaboration with David Fincher, Christopher Nolan blows minds with his most visually inventive film to date, and Darren Aronofsky crafts a horrifying character study of ambition and obsession.
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