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

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I have to return some videotapes.
1) Gone Girl
2) Drive
3) Shutter Island
4) Moneyball
5) Wolf of Wall Street
6) Nightcrawler
7) The Social Network
8) The Town
9) The Fighter
10) Django Unchained / True Grit / Prisoners

My favorites, definitely isn't the TOP movies but I love them all.



2010-2014
- Birdman
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Guardians of the galaxy
- Inception
- Toy Story 3
- Whiplash
- The Avengers
- The Social Network
- Gone Girl
- Gravity
- Nightcrawler
- Edge of tomorrow
- The Artist
- Her
- Intouchables
- Midnight in Paris
- The Grand Budapest Hotel



1. The Great Beauty (2013)
2. Samsara (2011)
3. Force Majeure (2014)
4. Blue Ruin (2013)
5. Leviathan (2014)
6. Birdman (2014)
7. Gone Girl (2014)
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Thought i'd bump this since 2015 is finished. Will be interesting to see what new members think of the decade so far and if anyone who has already posted list has changed.

Again there are still plenty i need to see particularly from 2014 and 2015, this is roughly my top 20 so far:

01.The Master (2012) - Paul Thomas Anderson
02.A Separation (2011) - Asghar Farhadi
03.Before Midnight (2013) - Richard Linklater
04.Animal Kingdom (2010) - David Michod
05.Going Clear (2015) - Alex Gibney
06.Moonrise Kingdom (2012) - Wes Anderson
07.Submarine (2010) - Richard Ayoade
08.Her (2013) - Spike Jonze
09.Shame (2011) - Steve McQueen
10.the social network (2010) - David Fincher

11.Drive (2011) - Nicolas Winding Refn
12.The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - Martin Scorsese
13.The Descendants (2011) - Alexander Payne
14.Nightcrawler (2014) - Dan Gilroy
15.Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - David O.Russell
16.Tyrannosaur (2011) - Paddy Considine
17.The Past (2013) - Asghar Farhadi
18.Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) - Banksy
19.Birdman (2014) - Alejandro Inarritu
20.It Follows (2015) - David Robert Mitchell



I need to see more 2015 movies for the: 2015 Mofo Film Awards - Nominations
Make sure and click that link and send in your votes to Usual Suspect.

These are the 2015 films I've seen in the order that I liked them:

Ex Machina
The Revenant
Welcome to Me
Woman in Gold
Love & Mercy
Mr. Holmes
Ricki and The Flash
Black Sea



Since 2016 is over i thought i'd bump this thread with a top forty so far. As always i'm sure i'm forgetting plenty, there's tonnes i want to watch and i'm not at all confident in the order. It will be interesting seeing what everyone thinks are the best of the decade 7 years in though.

01.The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
02.A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
03.Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
04.Animal Kingdom (David Michod, 2010)
05.Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros, 2013)
06.Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
07.Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
08.Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufmann, 2015)
09.Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2010)
10.The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)

11.American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)
12.Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney, 2015)
13.Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
14.Mommy (Gaspar Noe, 2014)
15.Four Lions (Chris Morris, 2010)
16.Everybody Wants Some (Richard Linklater, 2016)
17.Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015)
18.Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011)
19.Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
20.Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)

21.Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn, 2011)
22.Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
23.The Wolf Of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2012)
24.Krisha (Trey Edward Shults, 2016)
25.The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2016)
26.Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine, 2011)
27.Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2010)
28.Inside Out (Pixar, 2015)
29.It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
30.Blue Is The Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)

31.The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
32.The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011)
33.Melancholia (Lars Von Trier, 2010)
34.We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)
35.Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund, 2014)
36.Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)
37.13TH (Ava DuVeray, 2016)
38,Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
39.The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014)
40.The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)



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Best ones I recall include:

Drive
Out of the Furnace
Animal Kingdom
Legend
Locke
The Drop
The Iceman
Blood Ties
The Place Beyond the Pines
Only God Forgives
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Deadpool
300: Rise of an Empire
Maleficent
Labor Day
Sicario
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1.) Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, 2014)
2.) Let the Fire Burn (Jason Osder, 2013)
3.) Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011)
4.) The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
5.) Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, 2014)
6.) Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
7.) Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
8.) Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2012)
9.) Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo, 2012)
10.) The Overnighters (Jesse Moss, 2014)

11.) Lebanon (Samuel Maoz, 2010)
12.) Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010)
13.) A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
14.) At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman, 2014)
15.) Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
16.) Making a Murderer (Moira Demos & Laura Ricciardi, 2015)
17.) Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
18.) Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
19.) Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
20.) Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukungaga, 2015)

21.) Virunga (Orlando von Einseidel, 2014)
22.) Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2012)
23.) Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
24.) Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2014)
25.) The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
26.) Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson, 2015)
27.) Restrepo (Tim Hetheringston & Sebastian Junger, 2010)
28.) Inside Job (Charles Ferguson, 2010)
29.) About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2015)
30.) Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonnell, 2012)



This might just do nobody any good.
Top five in order, the rest in no particular one:

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
3. Never Let Me Go
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. The Master

Her
The Social Network
Boyhood
Ex Machina
A Most Violent Year
The Revenant
Carol
The Look of Silence
Zero Dark Thirty
The Immigrant
Winter's Bone
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Inherent Vice
The Assassin
Moonrise Kingdom
Holy Motors
The Witch

Ugh, so many others...



My Top 20 Favorite 2010-2016 Films SO FAR (using IMDb for the release years)



1) The Master (2012)
2) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
3) The Hateful Eight (2015)
4) Inherent Vice (2014)
5) Django Unchained (2012)
6) The Grandmaster (2013) - [Long Chinese version]
7) Birdman (2014)
8) Youth (2015)
9) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
10) Before Midnight (2013)
11) Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
12) The Handmaiden (2016)
13) Submarine (2010)
14) Black Swan (2010)
15) Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
16) The Artist (2011)
17) American Hustle (2013)
18) The Great Beauty (2013)
19) Best of Enemies (2015)
20) Escape from Tomorrow (2013)

As usually with this kind of list, the ranking could be a little different on another day.


Some other films I also liked a lot:

Hail, Caesar! (2016)
The Nice Guys (2016)
Love & Friendship (2016)
Anomalisa (2015)
The Lobster (2015)
Boyhood (2014)
Gone Girl (2014)
Venus in Fur (2013)
Nymphomaniac Vol. I and II (2013)
Nebraska (2013)
The Wind Rises (2013)
Side Effects (2013)
Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
Gravity (2013)
Spring Breakers (2012)
The Hunt (2012)
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
The Skin I Live in (2011)
Melancholia (2011)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
The Descendants (2011)
Rango (2011)
The Social Network (2010)
The Illusionist (2010)
Inception (2010)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Shutter Island (2010)


Naturally, I still want to see way more films from these years, but this is what I'm feeling about what I've seen so far. Pretty satisfied with the list.

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I'm gonna try to put together a top 25 list very soon. It's gonna be tough since these past 2 years have had quite a few really good films.



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Man, pretty much all my faves have been highlighted already so I'm just going to say something about one movie in particular:

Life of Pi. It is easily the most visually stunning movie I've seen where the CGI is not only exceptional but helps further the story, an art that is too often lost in 21st century film making.

I don't like the movie as much as say Grand Budapest or Drive but it stands tall as an achievement in how to best use CGI.
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No order but here's my favorites:

The Descendants
Manchester by the Sea
Flight
American Hustle
Gravity
Avengers
Arrival
Boyhood
Take Shelter
Inception



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^ it was bound to get buried. This decade has given us some great horror movies and I think MMMM is one of the best examples.



Beside some popular name in mine, I'll say a story of yonosuke(2013) and tale of iya (2013). Need to see more movie tho'



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Man From Nowhere
Whiplash
Wolf of Wall Street
Bridge of Spies
Nightcrawler
Lawless
Sicario
The Martian
42
True Grit
Imitation Game
Savages
Interstellar
Grand Budapest Hotel
Warrior
Django



I quite like it too, Elizabeth Olsen is excellent. I personally would call it a thriller not a horror though, although i get why you'd call it a horror.

Yeah Olsen surprised me..id never seen her in anything before but her sisters are gawd awful after -how many years-in the buiz. Guess it goes to show,you either have it or you dont.



Must be doin sumthin right
Haven't seen a lot of the big ones from 2015 or 16 yet

1. Drive
2. We Need to Talk About Kevin
3. Under the Skin
4. The Kid with a Bike
5. Everyone Else
6. Frances Ha
7. The Skin I Live In
8. Melancholia
9. Boyhood
10. Zero Dark Thirty