No. 1
The Social Network 2010
No. 1 - all three hosts landed here independently. A movie that predicts everything from Facebook's rise to the way we connect now.
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The Top 10 Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture
November 26, 2019/ 83 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins · Chris Ryan
Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and Chris Ryan each rank their ten best movies of the 2010s, and land, independently, on the same No. 1.
30 films across 3 segments.
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Amanda Dobbins's Top 10best to worst
No. 2
Lady Bird 2017
No. 2 - the best experience she had watching a movie all decade; a mother-daughter story that's both intensely specific to Greta Gerwig and pretty universal.
No. 3
Parasite 2019
No. 3 - kept off some lists for recency bias, but the movie she'll remember from this political moment, even though it's Korean, not American.
No. 4
Moneyball 2011
No. 4 - turns sports and spreadsheets, neither of which interest her, into a movie-star vehicle for Brad Pitt.
No. 5
Phantom Thread 2017
No. 5 - the decade's rare real love story, and Paul Thomas Anderson's tightest movie.
No. 7
Frances Ha 2013
No. 7 - Baumbach's most hopeful movie, released the year she was Frances's age and living in New York herself.
No. 8
Arrival 2016
No. 8 - a rewatch the night before recording moved her as much as her first three trips to the theater in 2016.
No. 9
Magic Mike 2012
No. 9 - anticipated a decade of movies that live as much online as in the theater. Also, Channing Tatum dances.
No. 10
Fast Five 2011
No. 10 - the gut-check pick: a dumb, amazing movie about dragging a safe through Rio.
Chris Ryan's Top 10best to worst
No. 1
The Social Network 2010
No. 1 - the movie of the decade, and nobody's really directed a better-looking one since.
No. 2
The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
No. 2 - he'd written it off back in 2013; a rewatch convinced him it explains America and how screwed everything got.
No. 4
Arrival 2016
No. 4 - the best of a stacked Denis Villeneuve decade that also included Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario, and Blade Runner 2049.
No. 5
Before Midnight 2013
No. 5 - the most co-authored entry in the trilogy: Jesse's kind of a dick in it, and nothing gets fully resolved.
No. 7
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
No. 7 - a real case for best-made movie of the decade, and proof sequels don't have to be bad.
No. 8
Minding the Gap 2018
No. 8 - a skateboarding documentary so intimate you feel like you know these people.
No. 9
The Master 2012
No. 9 - one of the most haunting movies he's ever seen; he caught it at a midnight screening the week it opened.
No. 10
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019
No. 10 - ranked low mostly because it's brand new; he expects it to climb on further watches.
Sean Fennessey's Top 10best to worst
No. 1
The Social Network 2010
No. 1 - not close. His pod, his call, and the movie all three hosts landed on without comparing notes.
No. 2
The Master 2012
No. 2 - the most mesmeric movie on the list; he still can't explain why it holds his attention.
No. 3
Inside Llewyn Davis 2013
No. 3 - the first Coen brothers movie since A Serious Man that belongs in their canon: a love letter to the ones who don't quite make it.
No. 4
Whiplash 2014
No. 4 - a cautionary tale for anyone too online and too obsessed with their own work, i.e. everyone.
No. 5
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019
No. 5 - his favorite director of the decade making his LA movie, in his safest place.
No. 6
Get Out 2017
No. 6 - a tightly orchestrated horror movie that went from theater to part of the culture's vocabulary almost overnight.
No. 7
Frances Ha 2013
No. 7 - also on Amanda's list; Baumbach and Gerwig's black-and-white ode to broke New York twenty-somethings.
No. 8
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
No. 8 - the critical-consensus pick for action filmmaking of the decade, one spot lower than on Chris's list.
No. 9
O.J.: Made in America 2016
No. 9 - the best movie about the arc of time he's seen: what happens to a person once they go inside the machine.
No. 10
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
No. 10 - the rare animated movie that actually pushes the medium forward.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Honorable mentions MoonlightCreedHaywireIt FollowsGreen RoomStories We TellIt's Such a Beautiful DayWonder Woman
Almost made the cut Edge of TomorrowZero Dark ThirtyThe Report
In passing Inherent ViceOnly God ForgivesPrisonersEnemySicarioSicario: Day of the SoldadoBlade Runner 2049Casino RoyaleDjango UnchainedThe Hateful EightInglourious BasterdsThe Big ShortBoyhoodZodiacThe Girl with the Dragon TattooTrue GritHail, Caesar!The Ballad of Buster ScruggsBefore SunriseBefore SunsetLa La LandFirst ManThe IrishmanMarriage Story
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