Zach’s Favorite Films of the 2010s

2019

  1. THE IRISHMAN (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  2. CATERINA (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  3. ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  4. FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  5. UNCUT GEMS (Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie, USA)
  6. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan/Uzbekistan)
  7. ABOUT ENDLESSNESS (Roy Andersson, France/Norway/Sweden)
  8. KNOT/NOT (Larry Gottheim, USA)
  9. VITALINA VARELA (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  10. VALLEY OF SOULS (Nicolás Rincón Gille, Colombia)
  11. GARDEN CITY BEAUTIFUL (Ben Balcomb, USA)
  12. 63 UP (Michael Apted, UK)
  13. SHAKTI (Martin Rejtman, Argentina)
  14. I WAS AT HOME, BUT... (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  15. BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, Brazil/France)
  16. PAIN AND GLORY (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  17. PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  18. AD ASTRA (James Gray, USA)
  19. FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  20. BIRD ISLAND (Maya Kosa and Sérgio da Costa, Switzerland)
  21. JOAN OF ARC (Bruno Dumont, France)
  22. VARDA BY AGNÈS (Agnès Varda, France)
  23. THE BEACH BUM (Harmony Korine, USA)
  24. SO PRETTY (Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli, USA)
  25. A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD (Marielle Heller, USA)
  26. CITYSCAPE (Michael Snow, Canada)
  27. JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM (Frank Beauvais, France)
  28. AVENGEMENT (Jesse V. Johnson, UK)
  29. THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (SINGLE CHANNEL) (Ja’Tovia Gary, USA)
  • DOCTOR SLEEP (Mike Flanagan, USA)
  • RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  • THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Matthew Rankin, Canada)
  • US (Jordan Peele, USA)

2018

  1. FIRST MAN (Damien Chazelle, USA)
  2. BELMONTE (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay)
  3. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. THE IMAGE BOOK (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland)
  5. STYX (Wolfgang Fischer, Germany)
  6. OUR TIME (Carlos Reygadas, USA)
  7. LOS REYES (Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut, Chile/Germany)
  8. THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  9. COVER GIRL (Sara Cwynar, USA)
  10. THE IMAGE YOU MISSED (Donal Foreman, Ireland/France/UK/USA)
  11. CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (Marielle Heller, USA)
  12. DEAD SOULS (Wang Bing, China)
  13. WEEKENDS (Trevor Jimenez, USA)
  14. 3 FACES (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  15. GREAT LIGHT (Tony Oswald, USA)
  16. ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico/USA)
  17. GENS DU LAC (Jean-Marie Straub, Switzerland)
  18. CLASSICAL PERIOD (Ted Fendt, USA)
  19. DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
  20. A STAR IS BORN (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  21. LEAVE NO TRACE (Debra Granik, USA)
  22. CHINESE PORTRAIT (Wang Xiaoshuai, China)
  23. SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman, USA)
  24. SHOOT THE MOON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES (Graham L. Carter, USA)
  25. PETERLOO (Mike Leigh, UK)
  26. UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (Stephen Susco, USA)
  27. YEN CHING (Yinan Wang, USA)
  28. ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  • “Steamed hams but it’s 42 times but at point when skinner says steamed hams”
  • AUGUST AT AKIKO’S (Christopher Makoto Yogi, USA)
  • INFINITE FOOTBALL (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  • I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS (Radu Jude, Romania/Czech Republic/Bulgaria/Germany/France)
  • SHADOW (Zhang Yimou, China)
  • RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, USA)
  • WELCOME TO MARWEN (Robert Zemeckis, USA)

2017

  1. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch, USA)
  2. THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. 24 FRAMES (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  4. WESTERN (Valeska Grisebach, Germany/Bulgaria)
  5. EX LIBRIS: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  6. EL MAR LA MAR (Joshua Bennetta and J.P. Sniadecki, USA)
  7. MARJORIE PRIME (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  8. DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne, USA)
  9. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  10. DRIFT (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  11. LET THE SUNSHINE IN (Claire Denis, France)
  12. SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick, USA)
  13. DISLOCATION BLUES (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  14. ISMAEL’S GHOSTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  15. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA (Stephen Nomura Schible, Japan/USA)
  16. TONSLER PARK (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  17. GOOD TIME (Benny and Josh Safdie, USA)
  18. THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin, Canada)
  19. CHANTS AND DANCES FOR HAND (Larry Gottheim, USA)
  20. ROSE GOLD (Sara Cwynar, USA)
  21. BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
  22. MRS. HYDE (Serge Bozon, France)
  23. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo, France/South Korea)
  24. GRAVEN IMAGE (Sierra Pettengill, USA)
  25. LATE AFTERNOON (Louise Bagnall, Ireland)
  26. THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/Germany)
  27. ZAMA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  • AVATAR FLIGHT OF PASSAGE (Walt Disney Imagineering, Lightstorm Entertainment and Weta Digtal, USA)
  • CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France)
  • PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams, Canada)

2016

  1. L’AVENIR (THINGS TO COME) (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  2. SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  3. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  5. THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams, Argentina/Brazil/Portugal)
  6. I’LL REMEMBER YOU AS YOU WERE, NOT AS WHAT YOU’LL BECOME (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  7. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  8. EARS, NOSE AND THROAT (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  9. SULLY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  10. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Raoul Peck, Belgium/France/USA)
  11. THE UNKNOWN GIRL (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  12. OJ: MADE IN AMERICA (Ezra Edelman, USA)
  13. MOANA (Ron Clements and John Musker, USA)
  14. CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  15. SHORT STAY (Ted Fendt, USA)
  16. MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  17. VISIONS OF AN ISLAND (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  18. THREE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong/China)
  19. 025 SUNSET RED (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
  20. A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies, UK)
  21. BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  22. HAIL, CAESAR! (Joel and Ethan Coen, USA)
  23. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater, USA)
  24. THE SALESMAN (Asghar Farhadi, Iran)
  25. THE SON OF JOSEPH (Eugene Green, France/Belgium)
  26. SILENCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  • MASTERMINDS (Jared Hess, USA)
  • ELLE (Paul Verhoeven, Belgium/France/Germany)
  • TWO LOTTERY TICKETS (Paul Negoescu, Romania)

2015

  1. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, Australia/USA)
  2. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. 88:88 (Isiah Medina, Canada)
  4. CAROL (Todd Haynes, UK/USA)
  5. RESULTS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  6. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  7. NO HOME MOVIE (Chantal Akerman, France/Belgium)
  8. MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  9. BLOOMIN MUD SHUFFLE (Frank V. Ross, USA)
  10. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  11. EXPERIMENTER (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  12. HOW HEAVY THIS HAMMER (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  13. FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah, USA)
  14. MAGIC MIKE XXL (Gregory Jacobs, USA)
  15. KNIGHT OF CUPS (Terrence Malick, USA)
  16. THE NIGHTMARE (Rodney Ascher, USA)
  17. SOMETHING HORIZONTAL (Blake Williams, USA)
  18. JÁAJI APPROX. (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  19. THE TREASURE (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  20. BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  21. THE GRIEF OF OTHERS (Patrick Wang, USA)
  22. BAD AT DANCING (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  23. THE WALK (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  24. GOING OUT (Ted Fendt, USA)
  25. THE WITNESS (James Solomon, USA)
  26. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—ROGUE NATION (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  27. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan/China/Hong Kong)
  28. MY GOLDEN DAYS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  29. CREED (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  • THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (Paul Tibbitt, USA)
  • SUNSET SONG (Terence Davies, UK)

2014

  1. HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  2. JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso, Denmark/Argentina/France/Mexico/Netherlands/USA)
  3. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. NATIONAL GALLERY (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  5. GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  6. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson, USA)
  7. THE MEND (John Magary, USA)
  8. BIRD PEOPLE (Pascale Ferran, France)
  9. THE IRON MINISTRY (J.P. Sniadecki, USA)
  10. APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT (Amanda Wilder, USA)
  11. TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Italy/Belgium/France)
  12. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (Dean DeBlois, USA)
  13. LI’L QUINQUIN (Bruno Dumont, France)
  14. TWO SHOTS FIRED (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  15. KOMMUNISTEN (Jean-Marie Straub, Switzerland/France)
  16. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  17. SOMETHING, ANYTHING (Paul Harrill, USA)
  18. HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (Benny and Josh Safdie, USA)
  19. THE LOOK OF SILENCE (Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/USA/et al)
  20. SABBATICAL (Brandon Colvin, USA)
  21. KUNĮKÁGA REMEMBERS THE RED BANKS, KUNĮKÁGA REMEMBERS THE WELCOME SONG (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  22. INTERSTELLAR (Christopher Nolan, UK/USA)
  23. AMERICAN SNIPER (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  • BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater, USA)
  • WILD (Jean-Marc Vallée, USA)
  • MR. TURNER (Mike Leigh, UK)
  • NON-STOP (Jaume Collet-Serra, France/UK/USA)
  • STILL ALICE (Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, USA)

2013

  1. GLISTENING THRILLS (Jodie Mack, USA)
  2. THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
  3. AT BERKELEY (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  4. COMPUTER CHESS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  5. NATURA OBSCURA (Paolo Gioli, Italy)
  6. MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, USA/Nepal)
  7. THE LAST OF THE UNJUST (Claude Lanzmann, Austria/France)
  8. THE IMMIGRANT (James Gray, USA)
  9. NOBODY'S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  10. THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (Ramon Zürcher, Germany)
  11. STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  12. OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  13. NEBRASKA (Alexander Payne, USA)
  14. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France)
  15. THE BLING RING (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  16. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater, USA)
  17. ABUSE OF WEAKNESS (Catherine Breillat, France/Germany/Belgium)
  18. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, USA/Switzerland/UK)
  19. A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhangke, China)
  20. THE MISSING PICTURE (Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France)
  21. THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Isao Takahata, Japan)
  22. GET A HORSE! (Lauren MacMullan, USA)
  • THE WORLD’S END (Edgar Wright, UK)
  • DUSTY STACKS OF MOM (Jodie Mack, USA)
  • CLOSED CURTAIN (Jafar Panahi, Iran)

2012

  1. LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, USA)
  2. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami, France/Japan)
  3. THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  4. FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  5. TABU (Miguel Gomes, Portugal/Germany/France/Brazil)
  6. AMOUR (Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany)
  7. A MONTH IN THAILAND (Paul Negoescu, Romania)
  8. LA MADRE (Jean-Marie Straub, Switzerland)
  9. WRECK IT RALPH (Rich Moore, USA)
  10. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson, USA)
  11. NEIGHBORING SOUNDS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  12. DRUG WAR (Johnnie To, Hong Kong/China)
  13. 56 UP (Michael Apted, UK)
  14. COSMOPOLIS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  15. THE MASTER (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  16. KEEP THE LIGHTS ON (Ira Sachs, USA)
  17. VIOLA (Matias Piñiero, Argentina/USA)
  18. BROKEN SPECS (Ted Fendt, USA)
  19. HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (David France, USA)
  20. ROOM 237 (Rodney Ascher, USA)
  • HOLY MOTORS (Leos Carax, France)
  • ZERO DARK THIRTY (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
  • PEOPLE’S PARK (J.P. Sniadecki, USA)
  • BRAVE (Debra Chapman and Mark Andrews, USA)

2011

  1. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  3. MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  4. A SEPARATION (Asghar Farhadi, Iran)
  5. THIS IS NOT A FILM (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  6. OLD DOG (Pema Tseden, China)
  7. ALMAYER’S FOLLY (Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France)
  8. WEEKEND (Andrew Haigh, UK)
  9. LIST (Hong Sang-soo, USA)
  10. THE MILL AND THE CROSS (Lech Majewski, Poland/Sweden)
  11. BERNIE (Richard Linklater, USA)
  12. THE DEEP BLUE SEA (Terence Davies, UK)
  13. MEANWHILE (Hal Hartley, USA)
  14. A DANGEROUS METHOD (David Cronenberg, Switzerland/Germany/UK/Canada)
  15. THE DESCENDANTS (Alexander Payne, USA)
  16. STREET (James Nares, USA)
  17. THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  18. GOODBYE, FIRST LOVE (Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany)
  19. PINA (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  20. TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Tomas Alfredson, France/Germany/UK)
  • ELENA (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia)
  • MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller, USA)
  • RANGO (Gore Verbinski, USA)
  • ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)

2010

  1. CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami, France/Italy/Iran)
  2. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY (Catherine Breillat, France)
  3. JACKASS 3D (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
  4. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/et al)
  5. AURORA (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  6. MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  7. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher, USA)
  8. HAHAHA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  10. OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  11. THE ARBOR (Clio Barnard, UK)
  12. CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (Werner Herzog, USA/UK/France/Germany)
  • PIRANHA 3D (Alexandre Aja, USA)