Best Movies of the Decade (2010-19)

Part 1: Highest-scoring movies of the 2010s
(aka Films that critics loved at the time of their release)

This section will be updated periodically throughout the end of the year.
Last update: December 29

These films have the highest Metascores out of all new movies released from 2010-19. Movies must have reviews from at least 15 critics to qualify for inclusion.

Movie Score Stream 1 Boyhood (2014) 100    2 Moonlight (2016) 99    3 Roma (2018) 96    4 Manchester by the Sea (2016) 96    5 12 Years a Slave (2013) 96    6 Gravity (2013) 96    7 Parasite (2019) 96    8 Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) 95    9 Carol (2015) 95    10 The Social Network (2010) 95    11 I Am Not Your Negro (2016) 95    12 Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 95    13 A Separation (2011) 95    14 Before Midnight (2013) 94    15 Dunkirk (2017) 94    16 45 Years (2015) 94    17 Mr. Turner (2014) 94    18 The Irishman (2019) 94    19 Amazing Grace (2018) 94    20 Inside Out (2015) 94    21 Lady Bird (2017) 94    22 Carlos (2010) 94    23 Faces Places (2017) 94    24 Amour (2012) 94    25 Call Me by Your Name (2017) 93    26 Marriage Story (2019) 93    27 Shoplifters (2018) 93    28 Toni Erdmann (2016) 93    29 Spotlight (2015) 93    30 La La Land (2016) 93    31 Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 93    32 The Florida Project (2017) 92    33 Timbuktu (2015) 92    34 The Souvenir (2019) 92    35 Leviathan (2014) 92    36 Toy Story 3 (2010) 92    37 The Look of Silence (2015) 92    38 Tower (2016) 92    39 The Rider (2018) 92    40 Little Women (2019) 91    41 Stories We Tell (2013) 91    42 Son of Saul (2015) 91    43 Jafar Panahi's Taxi (2015) 91    44 Ida (2014) 91    45 They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) 91    46 EX LIBRIS: The New York Public Library (2017) 91    47 Nostalgia for the Light (2011) 91      The Gatekeepers (2013) 91    49 The Favourite (2018) 90    50 Burning (2018) 90

Movies released between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2019 with 15 or more reviews in Metacritic's database were eligible for inclusion. The Metascore is a weighted average of scores from top professional critics, on a scale from 0 (bad) to 100 (good). Titles are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding.

Part 2: Best-of-the-decade top ten lists
(aka Films that critics still love now)

This section will be updated as new lists are published throughout the end of the year.
Last update: December 30

While the list above reflects how critics felt about each movie at the time of its release, opinions can change over time. So, to get a better read on the current consensus, we have also aggregated best-of-the-decade lists published by a variety of film and entertainment publications in late 2019. Individual lists are displayed at the bottom of the page, but in the table below, the most frequently mentioned titles are ranked according to our points system (which gives bonus points for being ranked at the top of a list):

• 3 points for each 1st place ranking
• 2 points for each 2nd place ranking
• 1 point for being ranked 3rd - 10th, or for being included on an unranked list of 10 or fewer titles
• 0.5 points for being included on an unranked list of 11-20 titles
• No points for films included on unranked lists of more than 20 titles (or for films ranked worse than 20th)

Individual top ten lists

Below are the 74 individual top ten lists used to calculate the standings above. Some publications may list titles without ranking them; such lists are displayed below, without numbers, in alphabetical order. Some publications may publish multiple lists by genre, but we are only including one list (the most generalized one) from each source.

More best of the decade coverage

View our lists of the best TV shows of the 2010s and the best albums of the 2010s.

What about your list?

What are your favorite movies of the decade? Give us your list in the comments section below.