What are the best films from the first half of the decade?

I've only seen 2 Wes Anderson films (GBH and Moonrise Kingdom) and they both largely have the same style. You might not like any of his films if you hated Grand Budapest that much.

I was very cold on Wes Anderson at first. Now he is a top ten director. Continue to give him a shot.

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My Top 9 of 2010-2014:

1. Black Swan
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Django Unchained
4. Birdman
5. Shutter Island
6. Gone Girl
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
8. Life of Pi
9. Drive

I still have loads I want to see but my top 10 would be something like this.

1.The Master - PTA
2.A Seperarion - Asghar Farhadi
3.Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
4.The Wolf of Wall Street - Martin Scorcese
5.Animal Kingdom - David Michod
6.Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson
7.Before Midnight - Richard Linklater
8.Toy Story 3 - Lee Unkrich
9.Exit Through The Gift Shop - Banksy
10.Shame - Steve Mcqueen

I have the same ambivalent feelings toward Wes Anderson as I do Alexander Payne. The only Anderson movie that I liked was Moonrise Kingdom, and that was only marginally so (I've additionally seen The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou). The only Payne movie that I liked was Nebraska (although this was pretty solidly liked), and I have additionally seen Sideways, The Descendants, About Schmidt and Election.

I have given the following 2010-2014 films a 9+, which I list in aphabetical order. Some (though not all) are in my top 100.

21 Jump Street
The Artist
The Avengers
Before Midnight
Black Swan
The Cabin in the Woods
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Conspirator
Contagion
Drive
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hunger Games
Inception
Interstellar
Lincoln
Megamind
Oculus
Sinister
Skyfall
The Social Network
Winter's Bone
The World's End
X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: First Class

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GBH is the only Wes Anderson i've yet to watch so i can't comment on that, but you should definitely give him another shot before a few years. Alot like the Coens he was always hit and miss for me initially; for instance i despised The Royal Tenenbaums, but once i got used to his quirky style i was drawn towards watching all of his films and upon rewatch i really liked Tenenbaums. Maybe he's just not for you but you should at least try more than one of his films . Anyway this is how i'd rank them:

1.Fantastic Mr.Fox
2.Rushmore
3.Moonrise Kingdom
4.Bottle Rocket
5.The Royal Tenenbaums
6.The Darjeeling Limited
7.The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

These are the films I've given 5 or 4.5 stars in alphabetical order:

12 Years a Slave (McQueen)
Amour (Haneke)
Animal Kingdom (Michod)
The Artist (Hazanavicius)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Zeitlan)
Before Midnight (Linklater)
Birdman (Innaritu)
Biutiful (Innaritu)
Black Swan (Aronofsky)
Blue Valentine (Cianfrance)
Boyhood (Linklater)
Cosmopolis (Cronenberg)
Drinking Buddies (Swanberg)
The Fighter (O'Russell)
Gone Girl (Fincher)
Hugo (Scorsese)
Killing Them Softly (Dominick)
Magic Mike (Soderbergh)
Margin Call (Chandor)
The Master (P.T Anderson)
Melancholia (Von Triee)
Midnight in Paris (Allen)
Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson)
Mud (Nichols)
Shame (McQueen)
Shutter Island (Scorsese)
The Social Network (Fincher)
Spring Breakers (Korine)
The Tree of Life (Malick)
True Grit (Coen)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese)

Blue Valentine
The Fighter
Drive
Black Swan
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Sleep Tight
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
21 Jump Street

Decade (so far) feels like it's missing something, hopefully the future will redeem.

I am absolutely shocked that no one has mentioned The Dark Knight Rises yet.

Bradshaw's top 50 for those interested: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015...peter-bradshaw

I'm not at home or else I'd check my lists and maybe post a top 5 here.

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TSN is a very good movie, but because it's about the creation of Facebook it is a little bit underappreciated in general, i guess.

One thing that got me was in a trailer when it was in theaters. One critic said something like it was "This generation's Scarface." And I facepalmed bad. Comparing Facebook to Scarface is borderline cringe worthy. But like I said that was years ago and now I'm a lot less hostile about the whole thing lol.

Here's an interesting top 25 based on a poll of 290 critics and movie lovers:

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This would be my top 25 of 2010-2014!

1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2. The Turin Horse (2011) by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky
3. Holy Motors (2012) by Leos Carax
4. Stranger by the Lake (2013) by Alain Guiraudie
5. Aurora (2010) by Cristi Puiu
6. Barbara (2012) by Christian Petzold
7. Jauja (2014) by Lisandro Alonso
8. Camille Claudel 1915 (2013) by Bruno Dumont
9. Leviathan (2012) by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel
10. A Separation (2011) by Asghar Farhadi
11. Horse Money (2014) by Pedro Costa
12. Faust (2011) by Aleksandr Sokurov
13. Before Midnight (2013) by Richard Linklater
14. Amour (2012) by Michael Haneke
15. 5 Broken Cameras (2012) by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
16. War Witch (2012) by Kim Nguyen
17. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
18. Stray Dogs (2013) by Tsai Ming-Liang
19. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) by Raoul Ruiz
20. A Touch of Sin (2013) by Jia Zhang-Ke
21, Goodbye to Language 3D (2014) by Jean-Luc Godard
22. Certified Copy (2010) by Abbas Kiarostami
23. Bastards (2013) by Claire Denis
24. This is Not a Film (2011) by Jafar Panahi
25. Tuesday, After Christmas (2010) by Radu Muntean

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My favorite films from this decade have been (unordered)

Ip Man 2
The Man from Nowhere
Edge of Tomorrow

Others were great like The Artist, Black Swan.. but I only went through the first two letters of my 4* ratings. it's a much longer list.

Prisoners
Stoker
Doubt
Ida
12 Years a Slave
Medicus
Main Street
Zulu

The Avengers
Attack On Block
Wolf Of Wall Street
Django Unchained
Gone Girl
World War Z
Inception
The Social Network
Guardians Of The Galaxy
21 Jump Street
22 Jump Street
Ted
The Drop
The Guest
Trance

But there is so much movies that i havent seen yet.

1. Rango
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
3. Killing Them Softly
4. Nebraska
5. The Master
6. Holy Motors
7. Under The Skin
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Before Midnight
10. All Is Lost

2012 Cloud Atlas, The Hobbit, Django Unchained
2011 The Tree of Life, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, The Raid: Redemption
2010 I Saw The Devil, Inception, The Yellow Sea


I still haven't seen anything from 2013 or 2014 that I really liked.

Neither of the Hobbit sequels or The Raid 2?