thedissolve.com top 50 films of 2010-14

manages to include quite a few very good films while also being a hideous, hideous list. Voted Winter Sleep obv

more interesting list if the order was reversed

Top 10
Certified Copy
Dogtooth
Gravity
Her
Holy Motors
The Interrupters
Leviathan
The Tree of Life
The Turin Horse
Under the Skin

Bottom 10 (I still do like some of these, tho.)
Bridesmaids
Force Majeure
Guardians of the Galaxy
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Master
Selma
The Social Network
Stories We Tell
Whiplash
The Wolf of Wall Street

Still haven't seen a few of these -- Coherence, Meek's Cutoff, Scott Pilgrim, couple others.

1/3 of the list is p good and most people on ilx would vote for it.

Right, I can't imagine an ILX movies poll turning out incredibly different.

from what ive seen, id nominate these -
Holy Motors
Uncle Boonmee
Margaret
The Social Network
A Seperation
12 Years A Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Leviathan
Certified Copy
Toy Story 3
Melancholia
Blue is the Warmest Colour
Amour
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Goodbye to Language
Whiplash
Dogtooth
Take Shelter
Inside Llewyn Davis
Before Midnight
Gravity
Bridesmaids

Scott Pilgrim is solid, but hasn't aged too well imo in the short time since it came out

Voted for Certified Copy over The Turin Horse but, yeah, it's not a useless list.

any chart with Scott Pilgrim and Frances Ha above something like Amour is just.....

What I've seen, ranked:

Margaret
Her
Before Midnight
Boyhood
Dogtooth
Toy Story 3
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Master
Take Shelter
Stories We Tell
Gravity
The Social Network
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Tree of Life
Under the Skin
Frances Ha
Melancholia
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Wolf of Wall Street
Certified Copy
Winter's Bone
Scott Pilgrim vs the World

I'd say about half of this list qualifies as Very Good/Rewatchable, to me, but really, the top two or three are the only ones I'd save in a fire. I have problems with quite a few of the films on the latter half of the list, but the bottom two are the only ones that I'd say flat-out suck. Scott Pilgrim, in particular, is one film that has the effect on me of a severe allergy.

manages to include quite a few very good films while also being a hideous, hideous list - accurate.

Margaret

xp!

Margaret almost certainly my favourite film here yeah, tho ranking Certified Copy beneath most of those is mind-boggling to me :O

absolute fuck is Zero Dark Thirty doing here

the ones I'd save:

Inherent Vice
Melancholia
The Turin Horse
Love is Strange
Leviathan
Blue is the Warmest Colour
Uncle Boonmee
Amour
Force Majeure
Stories We Tell
Take Shelter
The Tree of Life
The Master
12 Years A Slave
Frances Ha
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Certified Copy
Her

What do we talk about when we talk about late Godard?

Ban this phrase.

Movies I loved that I thought would have a good shot at making the list: Drive, True Grit, Stranger by the Lake.

Wreck-It Ralph
Everything else.

i watched 'her' for the 1st time yesterday and i don't think its the crime against humanity that some do but slotting it as the 2nd best film of the last 5 yrs is ludicrous

Including Scott Pilgrim in the top 30 tells you pretty much everything you need to know.

white guys in bathrobes?

Great year for films. Went with Gravity, with Whiplash a close second.

oh wait, this is 2010-2014. i thought some of these looked old.

dogtooth was very good, i thought.

ha I've only seen 6 of these; apparently I've completely lost interest in movies

50 Gravity
49 Wreck-It Ralph
45 Guardians of the Galaxy
39 Bridesmaids
30 Scott Pilgrim vs the World
8 The Grand Budapest Hotel

This list is dogshit

Margaret almost certainly my favourite film here yeah, tho ranking Certified Copy beneath most of those is mind-boggling to me :O

It's bottom to top!

I've actually seen 10 of them, though 2 were in the last few weeks and I've plans to see 5 more - I've seen a Leviathan, but they probably mean the Russian rather than the fish.

Always here to drink in the tears of Scott Pilgrim Haters, always delicious.

Also The Dissolve = the old AV Club kids.

Can't even name 50 movies without including a talking CGI raccoon

It's true, they really only review 10 a year, this is it.

Looks heavily weighted towards Amurrican movies

Guardians of the Galaxy seems like the title most likely to drop off these lists by the decade's end.

I'm not really a Scott Pilgrim hater but its presence is a handy barometer of whimsical indie bullshit, and the top 10 makes sense in that regard.

sex bob-omb hahaha it's like the flipper song and the mario enemy did we successfully pander to our audience yet, love michael cera

at this point I'm assuming Whiney has everyone else killfilled and every submitted post is sending a quick shock to the electrodes on his nuts

Margaret just ahead of The Turin Horse and Certified Copy.

Only 8&9 really fit that description though? xp

In fairness Whiney has no way to know that indie bands often name themselves after stupid jokes.

Her

fucking worst goddam fucking worst movie. destroy this list now.

liked these a lot, so i guess it works out:

Wreck-It Ralph
Upstream Color
Amour
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Dogtooth
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Winter's Bone
Moonrise Kingdom
The Tree of Life
Holy Motors
Under the Skin

favorites would be Holy Motors, Amour and Exit Through the Gift Shop, in that order. still dragging my heels on Turin Horse and Certified Copy, no idea why :(

Coherence is a low budget time travel anomaly movie in the vein of Primer or Timecrimes. I didn't realise it was a listicle type movie, it was pretty damn good but seems a bit incongruous on this type of list.

I honestly do not know but this list is really p bad

Really? I liked every film on this list.

Scott Pilgrim is solid, but hasn't aged too well imo in the short time since it came out

Re-watched this last week and enjoyed it! But I can't imagine anybody uncovering it in 10+ years and enjoying it.

at this point I'm assuming Whiney has everyone else killfilled and every submitted post is sending a quick shock to the electrodes on his nuts

otm

Turin Horse
Certified Copy
A Seperation
Uncle Boonmee
Amour

Tough to choose between Scott Pilgrim and Her as the worst

Winter's Bone, Dogtooth, The Social Network are all good.

I hated both Wolf of Wall Street and Margaret (should have known I'd hate this after LJ waxed lyrical about it on it's ilx thread).

The other 20 or so I've seen are okay.

what did you hate about it

lol pands

I wouldn't say it's badly made I just didn't care about anybody in the film or believe anyone in it. Actually that's not true I found Ruffalo's character believable enough.

Always here to drink in the tears of Scott Pilgrim Her Haters, always delicious.

voted for Exit Through the Gift Shop

I scanned this list of titles on a message board

There are quite a few really excellent films here

Some I did not care for

Some are ok

The people responsible should be murdered in their sleep

lol xp

Which leviathan is this? I really liked both.

the one with the fish heads

choosing one out of any list of 50 is almost always absurd, even if ten of these wouldn't get near my top 300 of the half-decade.

Two of these are in my top 100 OAT, so one of those two.

what are your top 300 films of the half-decade so far, Dr Morbius?

the ones your mama missed.

Amour, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Before Midnight, Wolf of Wall Street all even worse than Her

I voted Take Shelter, which is my 2nd fave Jeff Nichols movie.

I seem to remember Meek's Cutoff getting rave reviews but fell asleep watching it and can't recall much about it.

I enjoyed every single movie on this list that I've seen. Which is only about ten of them.

Turin horse is the only one of these I saw twice at the cinema. However voting inherent vice as it's the film I saw most recently, an important criterion often overlooked by voters in polls

Short Term 12 is also godawful.

Would probably vote one of Dogtooth, Certified Copy, This Is Not a Film

I've never even heard of short term 12! Dogtooth is great. Alps is pretty underrated. I'm grateful to "thedissolve.com" for reminding me that I like films

Certified Copy is the title on this list that most makes me feel like Armond White.

Turin horse is the only one of these I saw twice at the cinema.

― harperlee jot shilly (wins)

Want an award?

After years of being passed over too fuckin right I do

Certified Copy is the title on this list that most makes me feel like Armond White.

Passionate?

Incoherent in the face of something far more complex and profound than your own ability to communicate?

Xxp It's a great film! It makes me hungry for potatoes and pálinka

Passionate vs Incoherent in the face of something far more complex and profound than your own ability to communicate?

sounds like one of AW's year end binaries.

Plus it's got an awesome soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ3-7C6RYOE

Not really passionate, but probably incoherent. More like the one guy who doesn't get what all the critics are raving about.

I'm pretty incoherent about not getting what's so great about the Dardennes (who aren't on this list).

Still need to see a Dardennes film oneathesedays. Recommendations on best/most representative?

The Son

I'd agree with that on both counts.

U-N-I-T-Y

The Son and Rosetta.

i understood the hate for Rosetta.

so Margaret is good then? how come it took so long to be released? looked .. intense from the trailer.

lengthy articles have addressed that topic.

Its cult rivals any film's.

2 of the producers died during the making which didn't help.

Hulk wrote some good things about it here: http://badassdigest.com/2012/02/16/film-crit-hulk-smash-22-short-thoughts-about-margaret/

Favorites:

1: The Social Network
2: Boyhood
3: Margaret

Hated:

1: The Grand Budapest Hotel
2: The Wolf of Wall Street

Most Disappointing: Meek's Cutoff

Seen: 28

Huh from this list probably act of killing i think?

Only one on the list that pisses me off is Marcy Martha etc. junk. Couple of other ones seem like dumb filler (toy story 3 in particular)

semi-surprising no Argo or Lincoln, too grown up for this cru maybe, not that id really rep much for either

also there'er far too few documentaries

ive somehow seen 37, tho not yet amour or boyhood

far too few documentaries and yet exit thru the gift shop

Anything to do with Banksy needs incinerating, but yeah so many good docs in the last five years.

The Missing Picture for starters...

I still get annoyed when I think of the ending of Meek's Cutoff.

have only seen about 10 of these tbh, but would probably go for under the skin.

Still championing Zero Dark Thirty as great must be more out of stubbornness at this point

Better than Argo at any rate.

reluctantly agree. similar lies, worse craft, just a tad less odious in political context.

Suspect "Boyhood" will be the Moby's "Play" of movies.

By which I assume you mean "the superlative cultural artifact of its decade".

Argo has a fatal smugness about it as well as all the bullshit, like the level of self satisfaction you get in the worst George Clooney movies/performances multiplied a couple of times.

Suspect you're right. #1 ranking is ludicrous.

No Only God Forgives!?

xp Tho, hey, better that than Social Network.

for sure, pretentious TV on the big screen. one great scene: the regatta.

top 3 are far more regrettable/incomprehensible than the list overall

short term 12 had the potential to be good but ended up awful. no idea why its on here.

no american hustle no credibility but that's just one ilx poster's opinion

my top 10 -

Holy Motors
Uncle Boonmee
Margaret
The Social Network
A Seperation
12 Years A Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Certified Copy
Toy Story 3
Goodbye to Language

Voted Uncle Boonmee. Since Stray Dogs isn't on there, that seems the obvious choice. With two Iranian directors in the top five, I can't really attack it too much for americo-centrism. Annoyingly.

comment folks underneath the feature seem most perturbed by the lack of Drive, although i bloody loathed it so no harm done.

wish i liked uncle boonmee more. or that syndromes & a century had been released a little later.

margaret -- one of my favorites of any half-decade

boyhood at 1 is a good argument for waiting 20 years before trying to build a canon

the dissolve is supposed to be like a classier attempt at the av club right? av club would put out a v similar list probably

Since Stray Dogs isn't on there, that seems the obvious choice.

― Frederik B, Thursday, February 5, 2015 3:23 PM (4 minutes ago)

since i've been dying to see this for quite some time & holding out for a decent copy, thought i'd mention it's now up on netflix instant view

(!)

GREAT:
Gravity
Whiplash
Dogtooth
Inherent Vice

GOOD:
Inside Llewyn Davis
Wreck-It Ralph
Coherence
The Wolf of Wall Street
Toy Story 3
Take Shelter

OKAY:
Her
Meek's Cutoff
Upstream Color
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Zero Dark Thirty
The Master
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Exit Through the Gift Shop

SHITE:
Only Lovers Left Alive
Moonrise Kingdom
The Tree of Life
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Social Network

Glad Drive didn't make it in.

Of the 27 I've seen I'd only cut Scott Pilgrim, Zero Dark Thirty and Holy Motors (which probably deserves to be in there but man I hated it) and push Her way down the list.

Tree of Life. I've enjoyed the ones I've seen but they most of the ones I've seen don't belong on this list.

Christ, the Wes Anderson hate is becoming such a cliche

well, he's shite in'he?

feel kinda dumbstruck at having choose one of these, so i just chose the one i'd be happiest to watch again right now: Inside Llewyn Davis.

http://thedissolve.com/news/4683-our-best-films-of-the-half-decade-orphans/

(only one of these I've seen is Best Worst Movie)

I've seen The Kid With a Bike. Its good! Its about this kid who has a bike.

and a knife

Spoiler alert.

I'm surprised I've managed to see 14 of these, considering that since I have young kids, I basically only watch about one non-kids movie a month. (I have seen Wreck-it Ralph and Toy Story 3 multiple times. Both are better than average kids movies, I guess.)

50 Gravity
49 Wreck-It Ralph
43 Upstream Color
34 Blue is the Warmest Colour
24 Exit Through the Gift Shop
17 Moonrise Kingdom
14 The Tree of Life
13 The Master
12 12 Years A Slave
11 Toy Story 3
10 Holy Motors
8 The Grand Budapest Hotel
6 Inside Llewyn Davis
5 A Seperation

Didn't really dislike any of these. Tempted to vote for Upstream Color for some reason.

Thought I'd have to wait a decade from release to see Scott Pilgrim attract hate flack for being overrated!! Too soon for the backlash, but it's going to survive. Holds up nicely as a kid-touchstone movie, as its many repeats in my kid-filled living room attest (I have ended up seeing most of this a lot....anyway it gives me pleasure to tell all the mostly-younger-than-me people posting here that YOU ARE TOO OLD FOR THIS MOVIE. ha ha ha).

Anyway, haven't seen most of these so won't vote, but for me

1 - would pick "Dish and the Spoon" not "Frances Ha" (Greta Gerwig substitution)
2 - would pick "Resurrect Dead - The Toynbee Tiles" not "Exit Through The Gift Shop" (concept/unreliable narrator art documentary substitution)

Finally two notes
1 - "Gravity" will obviously last because it's a formal triumph and that never dies.
2 - "Toy Story 3" is ghastly, how in the world...?

Oh, understandably not here: "How I Live Now" (2013) was so scarily on that it got plenty of negative reviews for a range of babyish critical excuses. Most frightening movie I've seen in years.

You will no doubt also love some of these other recent "frightening" young adult dystopias like The Maze Runner & The Giver yeah?

I have only just noticed it is Winter's Bone not Ceylan's Winter Sleep on this poll, imago's post confused me.

voted upstream color out of annoyance with We Are The Best being missing, no idea why GotG and not, I dunno, Iron Man 3 or Cap 2.

We Are the Best!

^ true

xelab, the movie I referred to is not a "young adult dystopia" or indeed any kind of dystopia. You are free not to like it but I suspect you actually have no idea what you are talking about.

"Wrong Cops" got robbed.

Meg Rosoff (born 16 Oct 1956) is an American writer based in London, ... Her young-adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004

dystopia
[dis-toh-pee-uh]
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noun
1.
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Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I have seen exactly four of these.

Seen 24. Feel like that is rather too many than too few.

I've seen seven.

26, mostly good, some great. and her.

i've seen about 45, way too many.

like men

he does iirc

I liked Boyhood a lot, but the sui-generis aspects of its creation probably lead people to overrate it.

whereas it was ADD-induced mania that led them to overrate Her.

Wondering whether such tasteful fare such as Winter Sleep will win.

;-)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

from this list

Yes! (in roughly descending order of preference):
Turin Horse (holy fucking shit yes)
Melancholia
Moonrise Kingdom
Gravity
Holy Motors
Goodbye to Language
Take Shelter
Inside Llewyn Davis
A Separation
Certified Copy
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Uncle Boonme
Leviathan
The Interrupters (this is the Kartemquin doc, right?)
The Master
Only Lovers Left Alive (to my surprise)
Inherent Vice
Toy Story 3
Guardians of the Galaxy

Eh:
Tree of Life
Wreck-It Ralph
Act of Killin
Wolf of Wall St
Frances Ha
Scott Pilgrim
Meek's Cutoff
Boyhood
12 Years a Slave
The Social Network (very mixed feelings)
Selma

No:
Winter's Bone
Before Midnight

Haven't seen:
All the others

Conclusion.
I like movies.

The Wolf of Wall Street 3

Kill it with fire. Otherwise, solid winners!

4 votes for Wreck-It Ralph seems weird but I never actually saw it so

it's massively overrated mediocredom

can't believe people voted for films itt

amateurist, see Margaret!

nah

i get a weird "american arnaud desplechin" vibe for it, and i hate arnaud desplechin. also you can count on me was boring.

that's a good analogy but the movie is okay Desplechin.

What do you hate about him?

lol I didn't even vote. knew I wouldn't need to :P