best films of 2010-2019

Fucking lists.

Didn't finish, meant to add that my admiration for A Touch of Sin might be becoming more unqualified.

Also, while I still owe Inside Llewyn Davis a rewatch, since I still feel that there is something there that I just wasn't getting, I can't believe the support for it is so great that it completely negates any mention of True Grit, which I'd rank among my very favourite Coens.

Morbs: yup! I dug it, though maybe a shade less than everyone else seemed to, as I'm struggling to remember a whole lot about it now. Another one that probably deserves a second spin.

I don't get Under the Skin either but I'm not a straight man.

it's good! she's good! just not a landmark

I think it's easy to look at these lists and say "well that's not a great film because of X flaw" but then once you've done that I'm not sure what's left...

absolutely refute that under the skin is admired by its fans due to scarjo lust

I didn't much care for Ex Machina, so I think a certain kind of sci fi fantasy leaves me cold.

It isn't a landmark movie but I loved Computer Chess at the time. Probably need to watch Bujalski's follow up Results, it sounds decent from the reviews.

def check out results, its more than decent imo

not mad at anything in that top 10 except that Inherent Vice >>>>>> Master

i agree. probably prefer the rollercoaster of Arabian Nights to Tabu as well.

Results is good.

Swap Mr Turner for the far superior Another Year

When I was a teenager, the new Bergman film would run in Manhattan for A YEAR or more, as did other foreign movies. American films, indies and majors, that didn't crater instantly often ran for 3-5 months, maybe longer if they were hits.

So that's when it wasn't "like this," when the culture didn't have ADD.

xp

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok but I doubt that is what the people who wrote this mean.

Pretty cool list until it hits the top 10 then it becomes american indiesnooze.

Eden at 21 is def recency bias at work

Another vote here for Results, better than either of this year's Baumbachs

Stray Dogs, Hard to be a God, Norte, End of History and Story of My Death all feel like big omissions to me

Eden was the worst film I saw last year I think

The speeded-up cycle of multiplex turnover, as well as Amerindie houses, seems related to what i wrote.

There were just about 1,000 features that received a weeklong release in NYC last year, commercial screens or nonprofits, and that's just NUTS as many of them were loss-leaders for other 'platforms' or obvious trash headed for oblivion after 7 days.

"Pretty cool list until it hits the top 10 then it becomes american indiesnooze."

Mad Max: Indiesnooze Road

Well its indie that sold out (Creation Records, etc)

absolutely refute that under the skin is admired by its fans due to scarjo lust

I did a quick search on "scarjo lust" in quotations and only found one other use of this term anywhere on the net. which astounded me.

do a quick search on "ScarJo hot"

Her is the far superior ScarJo sci-fi flick, imho, though it affords hetero males no opportunity to stare at her.

"Pretty cool list until it hits the top 10 then it becomes american indiesnooze."

Mad Max: Indiesnooze Road

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), 5. januar 2016 23:05 (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol, that is the dumbest response ever. Take a look at the list again, my friend. Perhaps google some titles.

I've seen all but one of movies on the list. There is definitely some American indiesnooze on it, but not at a greater % than the rest of the lest. Bigger issue is most of the movies are by directors who have done far better stuff.

Actually two (I haven't seen Goddard or Margaret).

See Margaret!

And make sure you watch the Director's Cut.

Good to see Like Someone in Love, The Immigrant and Uncle Boonmee.

I've only seen the short (150-minute lol) version of Margaret and find it to be one of the best films of the recent past, so I can only imagine how I'll enjoy the DC

the theatrical cut is superior imo

Her is twee garbage

i have no need to see the theatrical cut because the untheatrical one is one of my favorites ever probably; it's definitely imperfect and almost sloppy at points but i can't imagine how one could cut it to make it better. maybe it's a whichever-you-see-first deal.

i had only seen the extended cut til a few days ago -- theatrical is at least as good maybe better simply for the sake of being shorter

HerLucy is the far superior ScarJo sci-fi flick, imho

ok actually UtS > Lucy >>> Her

"Pretty cool list until it hits the top 10 then it becomes american indiesnooze."

Mad Max: Indiesnooze Road

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), 5. januar 2016 23:05 (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol, that is the dumbest response ever. Take a look at the list again, my friend. Perhaps google some titles.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In terms of cast most of those films have some very recognizable names, were given wide releases = NOT indie

carol is the best film of the last five years? zzz.

hmmm? it's 11th on the poll, unless you're talking about an individual ballot.

btw it's a bunch of mentions that get high placement on these, not a ton of #1s. I see only one #1 vote on LWL for Under the Skin and two #2s, all from female writers as it happens.

I find votes for Amour the most inexcusable.

Wrong again.

Just like that Uncut list that Cosmic Slop shared the other day, there really isn't much representation here for more recent work. There's barely anything here from 2016-2019.

Amour is the least grueling of his movies.

nope

"hmmm? it's 11th on the poll, unless you're talking about an individual ballot."

was looking at the LWL list.

that's for the year, not the decade

In terms of cast most of those films have some very recognizable names, were given wide releases = NOT indie

― xyzzzz__, 6. januar 2016 10:33 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, that was true in the nineties...

Although that division is much harder to maintain in film. Frances Ha = indie, while The Master = not.

Frances Ha was produced by Scott Rudin and distributed by a subdivision of AMC. The Master was produced by Annapurna and distributed by Weinstein. None of them are exactly Upstream Color.

none of that has to do with relative quality, of course, despite Frederik's dogma and some of the truly bad European films he likes.

I hope he revises. That's otherwise one of the best lists in the bunch.

he did include Mysteries of Lisbon, which I think is one of the greatest films of the decade

Magic Mike XXL on the other hand...

I’ve watched 1987: When The Day Comes like four times now, i think it belongs in the running

Magic Mike XXL on the other hand... was shit

THE shit

lol

I’ve watched 1987: When The Day Comes like four times now, i think it belongs in the running

i don't know what that is, but i mistrust by title alone as with that Evangelion anime shit

Ignore the person posting and just check out the movie

Looks like it would make a good double feature with The Taxi Driver (2017).

i don't know what that is, but i mistrust by title alone as with that Evangelion anime shit

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, July 12, 2018 7:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

end of evangelion is a movie for which you have be familiar a whole tv series before watching, so it’s like fire walk with me. it being anime is incidental. anime is a medium

since you’ll never watch either i can’t begin to understand why you even give a shit

jumping the gun, and a rather wtf list by my sights

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2019/4/results

expanded

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2019/4/critics-poll-top-75-movies-of-the-decade

Only ballot that matters.

Uwe Boll (Director, “Alone in the Dark”)

The Wolf of Wall Street
The Big Short
Drive
The Raid 2
Assault on Wall Street

I don't know a single one of Monte Hellman's picks.

seven americans in the top 10? ok

Mad Max aside, that top five is fucking violence

Bullshit idea especially just ahead of Cannes.

I like the one vote for The Lone Ranger.

I've seen some critics I respect defend The Lone Ranger, but I'm still too Depp-fatigued to give it a shot.

Armond?

I said critics I RESPECT

His ballot, btw:

Armond White (National Review)

Man of Steel
The President
Wild Grass
Vincere
Queen & Country

I've never heard of The President--unless, in a typical Armondian touch, he's listing the current President of the United States as the second greatest movie of the decade (behind Zach Snyder, natch).

It's a lesser Mohsen Makhmalbaf film.

Philip French gave 'The Lone Ranger' a sympathetic review https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/11/the-lone-ranger-review

FWIW I think it's pretty good, but does have problems, not least the whitewashing of Johnny Depp as Tonto.

Indulge me while I ridicule the two Toronto voters I spotted: Liz Braun, who was literally a gossip columnist when I last paid attention, and Peter Howell, who went from being a terrible a rock critic to--again, from what little I read by him when he started out--a terrible film reviewer.

Were people specifically instructed not to vote for documentaries? Quick scan of the Top 75 and I don't see any. That makes no sense to me.

I'll stop whining; I see a number of films I love, led by #4 and #5.

I don't know the writing of the two Toronto critics you mentioned, and I'm in no hurry to check them out, but their ballots are not embarrassing. I don't know what The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is, though.

re docs, in the top 30 I see The Act of Killing and No Home Movie.

Well..."a number" = four. And another dozen I like.

(I still remember Howell's hand-wringing the first time he got a Sight & Sound best-ever invite. The problem wasn't that his list was bad, it was that I didn't believe anything on there--the accompanying comments seemed to indicate a preoccupation with making "correct" choices.)

Thanks--I scanned quickly, missed them. Would be nice to see at least one Wiseman on there; he had a great decade.