As we begin 2020 (and fervently hope that it is better than the hellfire that was 2019), I thought I'd compile a list of my personal best films of the decade (2010-19).
Honourable mentions: Prisoners, Deadpool, Avengers Infinity War, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Snowpiercer, Sully, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, A Star Is Born, Selma, The Big Short, Phantom Thread, Kubo and the Two Strings, Moonrise Kingdom, Gravity, Moonlight, Blue Valentine, 22 Jump Street, Tron Legacy, The Spectacular Now, Journey's End, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Le Mans '66, Looper, Moneyball
Arranged in alphabetical order.
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Synopsis: After an accident, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) finds herself in a bunker with Howard (John Goodman), a stranger who informs her that she is safe with him and the world outside is inhabitable. Left dazed, she decides to escape.
21 Jump Street (2012)
Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Synopsis: Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are high school friends who go on to become police officers. The two friends go undercover as students in order to bust a drug ring and find the source of a synthetic drug.
50/50 (2011)
Director: Jonathan Levine
Synopsis: Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a 27-year-old radio journalist whose life turns upside down when he is diagnosed with spinal cancer. Whilst battling the rare disease, he learns the value of friendship and love.
About Time (2013)
Director: Richard Curtis
Synopsis: When Tim (Domhall Gleeson) learns that the men in his family can travel in time and change their own lives, he decides to go back and win the woman of his dreams, Mary (Rachel McAdams).
A Quiet Place (2018)
Director: John Krasinski
Synopsis: A family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.
Arrival (2016)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Synopsis: Louise Banks (Amy Adams), a linguistics expert, along with her team, must interpret the language of aliens who've come to earth in a mysterious spaceship.
The Artist (2011)
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Synopsis: Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) falls in love with the silent film star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin). Things change when Peppy becomes a famous actor while George's career goes downhill with the introduction of talkies.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Director: Joe and Anthony Russo
Synopsis: After Thanos, an intergalactic warlord, disintegrates half of the universe, the Avengers must reunite and assemble again to reinvigorate their trounced allies and restore balance.
The Avengers (2012)
Director: Joss Whedon
Synopsis: Nick Fury is compelled to launch the Avengers Initiative when Loki poses a threat to planet Earth. His squad of superheroes put their minds together to accomplish the task.
Baby Driver (2017)
Director: Edgar Wright
Synopsis: Doc forces Baby (Ansel Elgort), a former getaway driver, to partake in a heist, threatening to hurt his girlfriend if he refuses. The plan goes awry when their arms dealers turn out to be undercover officers.
Before Midnight (2013)
Director: Richard Linklater
Synopsis: On the last night of their idyllic Greek vacation, longtime lovers Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) reminisce about their lives together and what different choices might have brought.
Birdman (2014)
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Synopsis: Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton), a fading cinema superhero, plans to resurrect his career with a passionate Broadway production. However, during rehearsals, his co-star is injured forcing him to hire a new actor.
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Director: Spike Lee
Synopsis: Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
Black Swan (2010)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Synopsis: Nina (Natalie Portman), a ballerina, gets the chance to play the White Swan, Princess Odette. But she finds herself slipping into madness when Thomas, the artistic director, decides that Lily might fit the role better.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Synopsis: K (Ryan Gosling), an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a secret that could cause chaos. He goes in search of another blade runner who has been missing for three decades.
Boyhood (2014)
Director: Richard Linklater
Synopsis: Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes.
Brooklyn (2015)
Director: John Crowley
Synopsis: Eilis (Saiorse Ronan), a young Irish girl, lands in 1950s Brooklyn and soon gets used to the freer life. She falls in love with Tony (Emory Cohen), who hails from an Italian family. However, a tragedy befalls her back home.
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Director: Luca Guadagnino.
Synopsis: In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student (Timothee Chalamet) and the older man (Armie Hammer) hired as his father's research assistant.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Director: Joe and Anthony Russo
Synopsis: Steve Rogers, along with Black Widow and Falcon, must uncover the secrets hidden within S.H.I.E.L.D. while also battling a dangerous new enemy, the Winter Soldier.
Captain Fantastic (2016)
Director: Matt Ross
Synopsis: Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen and his wife Leslie raise their children at home and away from the clutches of the modern world. But when Leslie suddenly dies, he is forced to expose his children to the real world.
Captain Phillips (2013)
Director: Paul Greengrass
Synopsis: Somali pirates attack Maersk Alabama, a container ship, while it is on its course to Kenya. Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks), the captain of the ship, uses his wits to negotiate with them to save his crew.
Coco (2017)
Director: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina
Synopsis: Miguel pursues his love for singing in spite of his family's ban on music. He stumbles into the Land of the Dead, where he learns about his great-great-grandfather who was a legendary singer.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Synopsis: Bane (Tom Hardy), an imposing terrorist, attacks Gotham City and disrupts its eight-year-long period of peace. This forces Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) to come out of hiding and don the cape and cowl of Batman again.
Dunkirk (2017)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Synopsis: During World War II, soldiers from the British Empire, Belgium and France try to evacuate from the town of Dunkirk during a arduous battle with German forces.
The Edge of Seventeen (2017)
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Synopsis: High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Director: Doug Liman
Synopsis: With the help of warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) has to save Earth and the human race from an alien species, after being caught in a time loop.
Enemy (2013)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Synopsis: Adam (Jake Gyllenhaal), a college professor, spots an actor in a movie who looks exactly like him. Adam tracks down his doppelganger and starts living his life secretly, which gives birth to a complex situation.
Ex Machina (2015)
Director: Alex Garland
Synopsis: Caleb Smith (Domhall Gleeson), a young programmer, gets a chance to become a part of a strange scientific experiment where he is expected to assess artificial intelligence by interacting with a female robot.
First Man (2018)
Director: Damien Chazelle
Synopsis: A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling), and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Free Solo (2018)
Director: E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.
Synopsis: Professional rock climber Alex Honnold attempts to conquer the first free solo climb of famed El Capitan's 900-metre vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park.
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Director: Ryan Coogler
Synopsis: Fruitvale Station takes us inside the world of the late Oscar Grant. Based on the true story of one of the most heart wrenching instances of police brutality in American history, Fruitvale Station humanises Oscar Grant, a victim of senseless police violence and racial profiling.
Game Night (2018)
Director: John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
Synopsis: Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams) set out to solve the mystery and find Brooks, Max's brother (Kyle Chandler), who mysteriously disappeared during their game night.
Get Out (2017)
Director: Jordan Peele
Synopsis: Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), an African-American man, decides to visit his Caucasian girlfriend's parents during a weekend getaway. Although they seem normal at first, he is not prepared to experience the horrors ahead.
The Gift (2015)
Director: Joel Edgerton
Synopsis: A couple, Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall), run into Gordo (Joel Edgerton), an old acquaintance. Gordo begins to drop in unannounced at their house and inundates them with mysterious gifts.
Gone Girl (2014)
Director: David Fincher
Synopsis: Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) discovers that the entire media focus has shifted on him when his wife Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) disappears on the day of their fifth wedding anniversary.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Director: Wes Anderson
Synopsis: Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), a concierge, is wrongly framed for murder at the Grand Budapest Hotel. In the process of proving his innocence, he befriends a lobby boy (Tony Revolori).
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows P1 (2010)
Director: David Yates
Synopsis: After Voldemort takes over the Ministry of Magic, Harry, Ron and Hermione are forced into hiding. They try to decipher the clues left to them by Dumbledore to find and destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows P2 (2011) - Top 10
Director: David Yates
Synopsis: Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time to destroy the remaining Horcruxes. Meanwhile, the students and teachers unite to defend Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
The Help (2011)
Director: Tate Taylor
Synopsis: Skeeter (Emma Stone), an aspiring author, decides to write a book on African-American maids and the struggles they face on a daily basis.
Her (2013)
Director: Spike Jonze
Synopsis: Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), an introvert writer, buys an Artificial Intelligence system (Scarlett Johansson) to help him write. However, amazed by the AI's ability to learn and adapt, he falls in love with it.
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Synopsis: Hiccup, a Viking, must kill a dragon to mark his passage into manhood and be initiated into his tribe. However, he ends up doing the exact opposite by befriending a deadly Night Fury.
Hugo (2011)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Synopsis: Hugo (Asa Butterfield) is a young orphan who loves pottering around with the station clocks and whose most treasured possession is his late father's automaton. His mission is to find a key that will get it working.
The Hunger Games (2012)
Director: Gary Ross
Synopsis: Katniss (Jennifer Laurence) volunteers to replace her sister in a tournament, where the participants must kill their counterparts to qualify for the next round. Can she defeat professionals in order to survive the game?
The Impossible (2012)
Director: J.A. Bayona
Synopsis: Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three kids decide to spend Christmas in Thailand. But their luxurious holiday turns into a nightmare when a tsunami swells up unannounced, thereby separating the family.
Inception (2010)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Synopsis: Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) steals information from his targets by entering their dreams. He is wanted for his alleged role in his wife's murder and his only chance at redemption is to perform the impossible, an inception.
Inside Out (2015)
Director: Pete Docter
Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Riley has moved to San Francisco, leaving behind her life in Minnesota. She and her five core emotions, Fear, Anger, Joy, Disgust and Sadness, struggle to cope with her new life.
Interstellar (2014)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Synopsis: A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
The Intouchables (2011)
Director: Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano
Synopsis: An unusual friendship develops when a street smart immigrant is hired to take care of a disabled French nobleman.
I, Tonya (2017)
Director: Craig Gillespie
Synopsis: Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Jane Eyre (2011)
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Synopsis: Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska), a governess, manages to find her true love in Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender), the owner of an old mansion. However, Edward has a dark secret which will destroy Jane's life forever.
John Wick (2014)
Director: Chad Stahelski
Synopsis: John Wick (Keanu Reeves), a retired hitman, is forced to return to his old ways after a group of Russian gangsters steal his car and kill a puppy gifted to him by his late wife.
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Director: Taika Waititi
Synopsis: Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend -- Adolf Hitler -- Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on.
The King's Speech (2010)
Director: Tom Hooper
Synopsis: King George VI (Colin Firth) tries to overcome his stammering problem with the help of speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) and makes himself worthy enough to lead his country through World War II.
Knives Out (2019)
Director: Rian Johnson
Synopsis: A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
Lady Bird (2017)
Director: Greta Gerwig
Synopsis: Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a teenage girl faces a lot of ups and downs in her relationships during her senior year in high school.
La La Land (2016)
Director: Damien Chazelle
Synopsis: While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist (Ryan Gosling) and an actress (Emma Stone) fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
The Lego Movie (2014)
Director: Chris Miller, Phil Lord
Synopsis: Emmet, an ordinary individual prophesied to be the Special, is entrusted with a huge responsibility of saving the Lego world from the cruel ways of Lord Business.
Lion (2016)
Director: Garth Davis
Synopsis: Saroo (Dev Patel) gets separated from his family at the age of five and ends up being adopted by an Australian couple. However, he returns to India 25 years later to search for his birth parents.
Little Women (2019)
Director: Greta Gerwig
Synopsis: Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women each determined to live life on their own terms.
Locke (2013)
Director: Steven Knight
Synopsis: The life of a successful construction manager, Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy), takes a dramatic turn as he comes to know through a phone call that a woman with whom he had a one-night stand is in labour.
Logan (2017)
Director: James Mangold
Synopsis: Logan (Hugh Jackman) comes out of retirement to escort a young mutant named Laura (Dafne Keen) to a safe place. He meets with other mutants, who run from an evil corporation that has been experimenting with them, along the way.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Director: George Miller
Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Max (Tom Hardy), a drifter and survivor, unwillingly joins Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a rebel warrior, in a quest to overthrow a tyrant who controls the land's water supply.
Manchester By The Sea (2016)
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Synopsis: After his brother's death, Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is named guardian to his 16-year-old nephew, Patrick (Lucas Hedges). This forces him to return to his hometown and confront his past.
Marriage Story (2019)
Director: Noah Baumbach
Synopsis: A stage director (Adam Driver) and his actor wife (Scarlett Johansson) struggle through a gruelling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.
The Martian (2015)
Director: Ridley Scott
Synopsis: Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is stranded on the planet of Mars after his crew leaves him behind, presuming him to be dead due to a storm. With minimum supplies, Mark struggles to keep himself alive.
Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Synopsis: A group of terrorists plans to detonate three plutonium cores for a simultaneous nuclear attack on different cities. Ethan Hunt, along with his IMF team, sets out to stop the carnage.
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Synopsis: With the IMF disbanded and the CIA hunting him, Ethan and his team race against time to prove the existence of the Syndicate, a highly-skilled terror organisation, before they plan their next attack.
Moana (2016)
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Synopsis: Moana, daughter of chief Tui, embarks on a journey to return the heart of goddess Te Fitti from Maui, a demigod, after the plants and the fish on her island start dying due to a blight.
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Director: Wes Anderson
Synopsis: Sam, a 12-year-old orphan, falls in love with Suzy and the two run away to a secluded cove on an island, prompting the entire town to begin a search.
The Nice Guys (2016)
Director: Shane Black
Synopsis: Amelia, a girl in hiding, hires Healy (Russell Crowe) to put March (Ryan Gosling), a detective seeking her, in his place. After two hitmen try to get Healy to reveal her whereabouts, he concernedly pairs with March to find her.
Nightcrawler (2014)
Director: Dan Gilroy
Synopsis: Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), a petty thief, realises that he can make money by capturing photographs of criminal activities and starts resorting to extreme tactics to get them.
Our Little Sister (2015)
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Synopsis: After the death of their estranged father, three siblings (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho) invite their half sister (Suzu Hirose) to live with them.
Paddington 2 (2017)
Director: Paul King
Synopsis: Paddington takes up a job to accumulate enough money to buy the perfect gift for his aunt on her 100th birthday, but it gets stolen.
The Perks of Being A Wallflower (2012)
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Synopsis: Charlie (Logan Lerman), a 15-year-old introvert, enters high school and is nervous about his new life. When he befriends his seniors, he learns to cope with his friend's suicide and his tumultuous past.
Phantom Thread (2017)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Synopsis: Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day Lewis) is a celebrated dress designer whose meticulous lifestyle undergoes a drastic change when he falls for Alma (Vicky Krieps), a waitress who later becomes his muse and lover.
Philomena (2013)
Director: Stephen Frears
Synopsis: A world-weary political journalist (Steve Coogan) picks up the story of a woman's (Judi Dench) search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Director: Gareth Edward
Synopsis: When she's a child, Jyn's (Felicity Jones) father is forcibly taken by the Empire to help them complete the Death Star. As an adult, she joins a group of resistance fighters, who aim to steal its blueprints.
Room (2015)
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Synopsis: After years of being held captive in an isolated shed by a kidnapper, Joy (Brie Larson) and her little son, Jack (Jacob Tremblay), manage to escape the confinement and gain their freedom.
Shoplifters (2018)
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Synopsis: On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders is united by fierce loyalty and a penchant for petty theft. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
Short Term 12 (2013)
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Synopsis: Calm and competent, Grace (Brie Larson) is a young counsellor at a California care unit for at-risk teens. However, her cool facade begins to crack in the pressure cooker atmosphere as she and some of the unruly residents are reminded of past and present abuses.
Sing Street (2016)
Director: John Carney.
Synopsis: With the recession hitting people hard in Dublin during the 80s, Conor is moved from his private school to a tough inner-city alternative. As he tries to adjust to a new way of life, he decides to start his own band.
Skyfall (2012)
Director: Sam Mendes
Synopsis: An ex-MI6 agent steals a hard drive with top secret information to carry out a vendetta on Bond's overseer, M. Bond must face his past in a bid to try and save M.
Song of the Sea (2014)
Director: Tomm Moore
Synopsis: An Irish youth (David Rawle) discovers that his mute sister is a selkie who must find her voice and free supernatural creatures from the spell of a Celtic goddess (Fionnula Flanagan).
Source Code (2011)
Director: Duncan Jones
Synopsis: Army pilot Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal), recruited for a top-secret operation, finds himself in the body of an unknown man. Soon, he is on a mysterious trail to track down the bomber of the Chicago commuter train.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
Synopsis: After gaining superpowers from a spider bite, Miles Morales protects the city as Spider-Man. Soon, he meets alternate versions of himself and gets embroiled in an epic battle to save the multiverse.
Spotlight (2015)
Director: Tom McCarthy
Synopsis: Martin Baron joins the Boston Globe as an editor and pushes four journalists, Michael, Walter, Sacha and Matt, to pursue a story about the child molestation charges against the local church.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Director: J.J. Abrams
Synopsis: A new order threatens to destroy the New Republic. Finn, Rey and Poe, backed by the Resistance and the Republic, must find a way to stop them and find Luke, the last surviving Jedi.
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Director: Isao Takahata
Synopsis: A tiny nymph found inside a bamboo stalk grows into a beautiful and desirable young woman, who orders her suitors to prove their love by completing a series of near-impossible tasks.
Tangled (2010)
Director: Byron Howard and Nathan Greno
Synopsis: Rapunzel, an innocent, young girl, is locked up by her overly protective mother. Her wish to escape into the world outside finally comes true when she meets a thief, Flynn.
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Director: James Marsh
Synopsis: Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), an excellent astrophysics student working on his research, learns that he suffers from motor neurone disease and has around two years to live.
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Director: Taika Waititi
Synopsis: Deprived of his mighty hammer Mjolnir, Thor must escape the other side of the universe to save his home, Asgard, from Hela, the goddess of death.
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Director: Lee Unkrich
Synopsis: Before Andy leaves for college, his toys are mistakenly delivered to a day care centre. Woody convinces the other toys that they were not dumped and leads them on an expedition back home.
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Director: Matt Reeves
Synopsis: When a rogue army of humans kills Caesar's wife and son, he sets out to exact revenge. But his quest for retribution reveals his darker instincts even as he makes a startling discovery.
What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
Director: Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
Synopsis: Vampire housemates (Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh) try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer) some of the perks of being undead.
Whiplash (2014)
Director: Damien Chazelle
Synopsis: Andrew (Miles Teller) enrols in a music conservatory to become a drummer. But he is mentored by Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), whose unconventional training methods push him beyond the boundaries of reason and sensibility.
Wonder Woman (2017)
Director: Patty Jenkins
Synopsis: Princess Diana (Gal Gadot) of an all-female Amazonian race rescues US pilot Steve (Chris Pine). Upon learning of a war, she ventures into the world of men to stop Ares, the god of war, from destroying mankind.
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Synopsis: During the Cold War, fellow mutants Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) join forces with other mutants to save humanity from a nuclear attack and a possible world war.
Your Name (2016)
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Synopsis: Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. But things become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.
Zootopia (2016)
Director: Byron Howard and Rich Moore
Synopsis: Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde team up to uncover the mystery behind fourteen missing predators. They end up finding out that the conspiracy is larger than it seems.
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