Top 10 of the 2010s

In a time of decade-ending reflection, Film Blerg writers took some time to consider what films of the last 10 years place in their respective top 10 lists. The term ‘top’ can be quite divisive. In our case, ‘top’ refers to a mixture of ‘best’ and ‘favourite’.

Our individual lists are below, but we’ve noted some interesting findings when we consider our lists together:

• Inside Out featured in the most lists (placed across 4 lists at #2, #6, #7, #7)
• 3 films appeared in three lists:
  • Whiplash (#1, #1, #3)
  • Call Me By Your Name (#1, #3, #5)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (#2, #10, #10)
• 7 films appeared in two lists
  • Arrival (#1, #3)
  • Get Out (#2, #3)
  • Boyhood (#2, #6)
  • Inception (#3, #4)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (#3, #4)
  • Eighth Grade (#4, #5)
  • Mommy (#4, #5)

Angus Tonkin:

1. Arrival
2. Dunkirk
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
4. Inception
5. Stories We Tell
6. Scott Pilgrim vs The World
7. Inside Out
8. Contagion
9. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
10. The Farewell

Ben Isbel:

1. The Red Turtle
2. Burning
3. Whiplash
4. Melancholia
5. Call Me by Your Name
6. A Ghost Story
7. Take Shelter
8. The Death of Stalin
9. Personal Shopper
10. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Claire Robson:

1. Whiplash
2. La La Land
3. Frozen
4. Eighth Grade
5. Gone Girl
6. A Quiet Place
7. The Edge of Seventeen
8. The Greatest Showman
9. It
10. Mad Max: Fury Road

Honourable mentions to Get Out and Amy.

Dan Santos:

1. Her
2. Inside Out
3. Arrival
4. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
5. Mommy
6. Moonlight
7. Roma
8. Columbus
9. Skyfall
10. The Other Guys

David Nagle:

1. Paddington 2
2. Blue Ruin
3. Call Me By Your Name
4. Drive
5. Eighth Grade
6. It Follows
7. The Nice Guys
8. The Lobster
9. The Tree of Life
10. Mad Max: Fury Road

James Madden

1. Bridesmaids
2. The Kids Are All Right
3. Get Out
4. Mommy
5. 20 Feet From Stardom
6. Boyhood
7. Shame
8. Margaret
9. Animal Kingdom
10. Zero Dark Thirty

Kendal Coombs:

1. Call Me By Your Name
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Booksmart
4. Searching For Sugarman
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
6. Inside Out
7. The Raid
8. Finisterrae
9. The Perks Of Being a Wallflower
10. The Merger

Kevin Hawkins:

1. Whiplash
2. Get Out
3. Inception
4. Fantastic Mr Fox
5. Ex Machina
6. Parasite
7. Inside Out
8. Midnight in Paris
9. Exit Through The Gift Shop
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel

Simon Storey:

1. OJ: Made in America
2. Boyhood
3. Loveless
4. Tinker Tailor Solider Spy
5. Son of Saul
6. Inside Llewyn Davis
7. Diary of a Teenage Girl
8. The Social Network
9. The Guard
10. Short Term 12