Top 100 of the Decade: 31-40

The 2010s have produced some great films, excellent actors, and exciting directors. As the decade comes to a close, I find it fitting to take a look back at the best movies that have come out in the past 10 years. The best part about lists such as this is it provides a baseline for you to start thinking about how your list would differ and might just inspire you to check some of the movies out that I mention you may have never seen.

Today's post will focus on films ranked 31 to 40.

40. Django Unchained

Fun revenge tale with the great writing of Tarantino.

39. Avengers: End Game

The perfect culmination to a series that began before the decade even began. Great individual story arcs for each character while also providing a satisfying conclusion for the group as a whole.

38. Ex Machina

A beautiful science fiction movie that asks and answers a lot of deep questions. Incredible special effects on a small budget.

37. 21 Jump Street

Encapsulates everything that went wrong this decade (the endless reboots) yet this one hit the nail right on the head. It rebooted a TV franchise by focusing on the absurdity of the situation and providing a commentary on what had become a stale genre.

36. The Cabin in the Woods
A great inversion of the classic horror story. The second half goes to places you would never expect.

35. The Dark Knight Rises
While the Joker took Batman to his mental limit, Bane pushed him to his physical breaking point - then forced him over the line. Maybe the best opening of any movie this decade along with all the great Chris Nolan practical effects.

34. Unsane
Intense beyond belief, I was engaged for the entire run time.

33. The VVitch
Very solid horror story. I am usually not a fan of period pieces but this one blew me away.

32. Get Out
Jordan Peele's jump from comedy to horror might be the most surprising development of the decade. Get Out was a stunning debut that hit on a lot of revenant social and horror themes.

31. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Brilliant finale that sticks the landing.

Top 100 of the Decade: 41-50

The 2010s have produced some great films, excellent actors, and exciting directors. As the decade comes to a close, I find it fitting to take a look back at the best movies that have come out in the past 10 years. The best part about lists such as this is it provides a baseline for you to start thinking about how your list would differ and might just inspire you to check some of the movies out that I mention you may have never seen.

Today's post will focus on films ranked 41 to 50.

50. Inside Llewyn Davis

Soulful and quietly beautiful. A fascinating look at music I did not know I was a fan of until watching this movie.

49. Nathan for You: Finding Frances

One of the best TV show's of the decade also happened to release one of the best movie's as well. 

48. The Other Guys

Gets funnier and more quotable with each rewatch. Takes the cop genre and turns it on its head.

47. Sicario

Violent and brutal look at the war on drugs and the different people involved at the various levels.

46. Before Midnight

A trilogy twenty years in the making looking at the lives of a man and woman forever intertwined no matter how hard they try not to be.

45. The Lobster

A darkly comedic movie that takes an elevated concept and manages to live up to expectations while also subverting them.

44. Baby Driver

Fun performances and engaging action sequences set to the beat of a different drum.

43. Dredd

Maybe the best use of slo-motion ever in a movie. I wish I could have seen it in all its 3D glory.

42. Spotlight

A great ensemble piece that shows the power of journalism through the language of film.

41. Dunkirk

The constant ticking in the background leads to a nerve racking experience bolstered by Nolan's masterful manipulation of time itself.

Stay tuned for 31-40.

Top 100 of the decade: 51-60

The 2010s have produced some great films, excellent actors, and exciting directors. As the decade comes to a close, I find it fitting to take a look back at the best movies that have come out in the past 10 years. The best part about lists such as this is it provides a baseline for you to start thinking about how your list would differ and might just inspire you to check some of the movies out that I mention you may have never seen.

Today's post will focus on films ranked 51 to 60.

60. The Wolf of Wall Street

One of the best directors working with one of the best actors leads to a three-hour epic looking at the extravagance of wealth.

59. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Tom Cruise climbing the side of a skyscraper may be the best thing action-wise I saw all decade. 

58. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Visually inventive and clever storytelling.

57. X-Men: First Class

A superhero movie that rewrites history.

56. 12 Years a Slave

Shows that evil can be a sum of a lot of peoples' apathy. Incredible determination and grit and a worthy best picture winner.

55. Source Code

A fun, science-fiction fest that takes the ground hog day model and puts a technological spin on it.

54. Birdman and 1917 (tied)

The "one-take" movies that showcase some incredibly athletic filmmaking.

53. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

A high school story that emotionally resonated with me. I love the homemade movies within the movie itself.

52. Coco

One of Pixar's most visually stunning movies to date and showcases a side of culture that I knew very little about going in.

51. Enemy

The director of the decade, Denis Villeneuve, shows an original idea with another master performance from Jake Gyllenhaal.

Stay tuned for movies 41-50 coming soon.

Top 100 of the decade: 61-70

The 2010s have produced some great films, excellent actors, and exciting directors. As the decade comes to a close, I find it fitting to take a look back at the best movies that have come out in the past 10 years. The best part about lists such as this is it provides a baseline for you to start thinking about how your list would differ and might just inspire you to check some of the movies out that I mention you may have never seen.

Today's post will focus on films ranked 61-70.

70. Pitch Perfect

Funny and charming movie. Nearly everyone who starred in this has gone on to become much bigger. I really love the songs.

69. Killing Them Softly

Stylish, funny and ultraviolet. This movie checks a lot of boxes for me.

68. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Crazy indie movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The ending will make you say I cannot believe they actually did it.

67. Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal finds the perfect way to creep under your skin and stay there for the entire runtime.

66. About Time

A sweet love story with a science fiction twist.

65. Logan

One of the more realistic superhero movies, this film showed that blockbusters with superheroes do not have to shy away from real world issues and blood.

64. The Hunger Games

A young adult adaptation that stands above its competitors.

63. End of Watch

A police drama that elevates itself based on the comradely of its two main stars.

62. Paterson

While movies tend to be big, Paterson shows the beauty in the minute and quiet details of life. A poem of a movie.

61. Neighbors

Enough to satisfy both frat bros and parents alike, Neighbors is hilarious at any age.

Stay tuned for numbers 51-60 coming soon.

Top 100 of the Decade: 71-80

The 2010s have produced some great films, excellent actors, and exciting directors. As the decade comes to a close, I find it fitting to take a look back at the best movies that have come out in the past 10 years. The best part about lists such as this is it provides a baseline for you to start thinking about how your list would differ and might just inspire you to check some of the movies out that I mention you may have never seen.

Today's post will focus on films ranked 71 to 80.

80. First Reformed

Ethan Hawke's priest has his world turned upside down by an environmental activist in this thought provoking look at religion, climate change, and our role within the current world.

79. mother!

A cabin in the woods story unlike anything I had ever seen before. An interesting biblical parable that takes unexpected turn after unexpected turn.

78. Support the Girls

Solid performances in an incredibly realistic look at the people we often tend to overlook.

77. Midnight in Paris

A fun romantic comedy with a twist. Every night Owen Wilson travels the streets of Paris and encounters great historical figures.

76. Split

Maybe the performance of the decade from James McAvoy. The Unbreakable sequel we did not deserve and great to see Shyamalan back after a pretty abysmal '00s. 

75. Vice

The king of physical transformations, Christian Bale, does it again, this time as Dick Cheney. A fascinating look at a time I lived through yet had little awareness of.

74. Green Room

Shocking bits of violence interspersed into one of the most tense nights of a young rock band's life.

73. Mistress America

Noah Baumbach's funniest movie as well as his best looking film. Takes everything that is classic Baumbach but Greta Gerwig helps to shave off some of his more nihilistic edges.

72. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

An anthology from the Coen Brothers telling stories from the Old West towards the end of the Civil War.

71. Blindspotting

Incredibly tense. Beautiful imagery. Intricate poetry through rap.

Stay tuned for the next ten in the series coming soon.