Cinema · 2010s Ranked
Best Films of the 2010s, Ranked by IQ Score
The streaming-era decade, and the decade Marvel, A24, and Netflix all became cultural forces. Ranked by IQ Score.
The 2010s in cinema is the decade three structural changes happened simultaneously: A24 emerged as the prestige-independent label, Netflix moved into theatrical-quality original production, and Marvel made superhero filmmaking the dominant commercial register. The rubric reads what each of those tracks actually produced, not the marketing.
Anchor picks: Parasite (2019) is the canonical decade-closer, Best Picture winner, first non-English-language film to win the category. Moonlight (2016), The Social Network (2010), Get Out (2017), and Phantom Thread (2017) are the Masterclass-tier American entries. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is the genre-elevating entry. Roma (2018) and The Master (2012) round out the decade's most-philosophically-committed work.
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