Your Opinion SucksEmphasis on the word “favourite” there, as opposed to “best”; that implies something different entirely. Keep in mind that I’m really only writing up this list, rife with bias and instalments some readers may find… disagreeable, for blatant self indulgence and the entertainment of myself. Expect some weird choices!
2020 has been the most aggressively downbeat year of the 21st century so far (with the threat of the downfall of civilisation recycling itself almost every single month), and I’m in the mood for some positivity. I want to reminisce on the films of the last ten years, a full decade of blissful ignorance before life turned into a bad apocalyptic TV show, populated with deadly plagues, cartoonish governments, entire continents on fire and, in spite of all this, racism sticking around like a cancerous tumour that keeps growing back.
So here you are, my very biased and very personal picks from the 2010’s. Note: the order is alphabetical, with the word “the” uncounted, favouritism could not be organised, as trimming it all down to 30 – from the gargantuan list of films I wanted to include (with the same amount for the honourable mentions for Christ’s sake!); it seems I simply lack the brain power to do any more work. Does it really look like I know what I’m doing here?
The main list:
A Hidden Life
The American
Birdman
Blue Is The Warmest Colour
Blue Ruin
Django Unchained
Drive
Ex Machina
Florentina Hubaldo CTE
Foxcatcher
Inception
I, Olga Hepnarova
Last And First Men
Locke
Mad Max Fury Road: Black & Chrome Edition
Man Of Steel
Moonlight
Only God Forgives
Steve Jobs
Stranger By The Lake
The Tree Of Life
Under The Skin
Utoya: July 22
Voyage Of Time
Warrior
Whiplash
Zero Dark Thirty
7 Days
12 Years A Slave
127 Hours
And there you have it, hope it didn’t piss you off too badly. If you think there’s anything missing then perhaps you’ll find it in the honourable mentions; good luck.
Honourable mentions: A Ghost Story, A Most Wanted Man, An Elephant Sitting Still, Batman V Superman: Ultimate Edition, Biutiful, Blade Runner 2049, Captain Phillips, Carol, The Dark Knight Rises, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Dredd, Enemy, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Godzilla, Green Zone, Her, Ida, Inside Out, John Wick, John Wick 2 John Wick 3, Lincoln, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac, The Raid, The Raid 2: Berandal, Shame, Sicario, The Social Network, Son Of Saul, The Tribe, The VVitch, You Were Never Really Here
That was fun – The End!
Phil Hobden
