Another great decade of cinema is behind us, and it’s time to look back at the best the 2010’s had to offer! Which movies will be remembered far into the future? Which ones do I personally hold up as the best of the best? Here is the final installment of my list of the Best Films from 2010-2019!
The 2010’s were a great year for cinema, giving us countless memorable moments, characters, beginnings, middles, and endings. But what were the stand-out individual scenes from the entire decade? Which scenes enthralled me, excited me, tickled me, shook me, drew legitimate emotions out of me? Here are my picks for the Best Movie Scenes of the 2010’s!
As we draw near the end of the decade, I’ve been looking back at the past ten years of cinema and gathering my thoughts on each film released within each of them. In the leadup to my Best Films of the 2010’s list, I will also be sharing a Top 10 for every year this decade that I didn’t get a chance to before starting this blog. So here are my top 10 films of 2010!
As we draw near the end of the decade, I’ve been looking back at the past ten years of cinema and gathering my thoughts on each film released within each of them. In the leadup to my Best Films of the 2010’s list, I will also be sharing a Top 10 for every year this decade that I didn’t get a chance to before starting this blog. So here are my top 10 films of 2015!
High Flying Bird (2019) is the newest Netflix release from director Steven Soderbergh, which sees him teaming up with one of the co-writers of Moonlight, Tarell Alvin McCraney. It stars Andre Holland (also of Moonlight fame) and Zazie Beetz in a story about an ambitious sports agent who hatches a plan to elevate his client during an NBA lockout. Like Soderbergh’s previous film Unsane, this film is shot entirely on an iPhone 7, one of his most recent efforts to demonstrate the viability of modern technology and empower young filmmakers everywhere. Is this a bold, pioneering step forward for the industry, or just a gimmick?
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If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) is the much-anticipated new release from Barry Jenkins, the writer-director of 2016’s Oscar-winning Moonlight. Beale Street is something of a passion project of his; he temporarily set it aside to make Moonlight and has now fully realized the project on the big screen. It stars Kiki Layne and Stephan James as star-crossed lovers “Tish” and “Fonny” who face hardship as Fonny is falsely arrested for rape and Tish becomes pregnant with their child.
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Earlier this week, a Twitter thread posed a simple question to the world: What is your favorite film from each year of the past decade? I found the question a compelling one, not only to gauge what people think of cinema in general over the past 10 years but how people rank the various films within each year. I of course chimed into the debate, and wanted to share my thoughts on each year below.
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Let’s be honest: it’s been a poor couple of months for cinema. Summer blockbuster season has passed, and we’re now all waiting for awards season to begin so we can start to get some quality films in theaters again. So as we await the slow death of films like The Meg and The Predator and The Nun, let’s do something fun and take a look back at the past century and determine how the Academy winners have aged, from 2000 to 2018!
**(Now updated for 2018!)
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It’s a shame to me that 2016’s Moonlight will always be remembered as the film that “stole” Best Picture from La La Land, because it truly was the best film of that year (and one of the best films of the decade). Barry Jenkins’s direction, the gorgeous cinematography, and flawless acting add up to a stunning piece of art. But today we’re looking at the screenplay alone for its own merits and determining what makes it such a compelling work before any visual flair is added. Did social politics play a role in its big Oscar win? Maybe, maybe not. That doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a deserved win, because Barry Jenkins’ film is a masterpiece.
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