After our Top 10 of the Year list was published last week, we turn out attention to the impending beginning of the new decade and, of course, we had to get our staff and online film critic friends to get their best of the last ten years together – and trust us when we all say it wasn’t easy. At all, and such was the variety of entries that it was so difficult to pick a winner – but we did!
NB: Some of the lists sent in were in 1-10 order whereas others were sent in no particular order. So Top 10 etc based on single votes for each film and collated below.
Top 10:
1. La La Land – 14
2. Inception – 12
3. Moonlight / Mad Max: Fury Road / Spider-Man: Into The Spider-verse – 11
4. The Social Network – 10
5. Boyhood / Whiplash – 9
6. Paddington 2 / Arrival / Under the Skin – 8
7. Drive / Get Out / Inside Llewyn Davis / Marriage Story – 7
8. The Wolf of Wall Street / Grand Budapest Hotel – 6
9. You Were Never Really Here / Hunt for the Wilderpeople / A Ghost Story / Interstellar / Roma / The Shape of Water – 5
10 . Blue Valentine / Phantom Thread / Carol / The Irishman / The Raid / Her – 4
Full Top 10’s of those who entered:
David Sztypuljak @daveszt
1. The Social Network
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. Marriage Story
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. The Martian
6. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. Toy Story 3
9. Manchester by the Sea
10. Lion
Jon Lyus @jonlyus
1. Never Let Me Go
2. Drive
3. Her
4. Melancholia
5. Under the Skin
6. Four Lions
7. Looper
8. Martha Marcy May Marlene
9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. Ruby Sparks
Linda Marric @Linda_Marric
1. Roma
2. The Skin I Live In
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. La La Land
5. Moonlight
6. Girlhood
7. Boyhood
8. Call Me By Your Name
9. Leave No Trace
10. You Were Never Really Here
Scott J. Davis @scottwritesfilm
1. Her
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. Paterson
4. La La Land
5. Moonlight
6. Birdman
7. Carol
8. A Ghost Story
9. Inception
10. A Most Violent Year
Stefan Pape @stefanpape
1. Shame
2. The Great Beauty
3. Nebraska
4. Call Me By Your Name
5. Moonlight
6. The Act of Killing
7. Whiplash
8. Four Lions
9. The Irishman
10. Untouchable (The Untouchables)
Amy West @TV_amyy
1. La La Land
2. Carol
3. Paddington
4. Bridesmaids
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6. The Conjuring
7. Black Swan
8. Frozen
9. Booksmart
10. The Great Gatsby
Kim Taylor-Foster @K_imbot
1. The House that Jack Built
2. Animal Kingdom
3. The Artist
4. Carol
5. Dunkirk
6. Roma
7. Phantom Thread
8. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
9. Black Panther
10. Your Name
Matthew Turner @FilmFan1971
1. Winter’s Bone
2. Boyhood
3. Carol
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. Lady Macbeth
6. Dogtooth
7. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
8. Paddington
9. Populaire
10. Avengers Assemble
Simon Brew @simonbrew
1. Geostorm
2. Something Else
Emlyn-Roberts Harry @EmlynRH
1. Cloud Atlas
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. The Handmaiden
4. Raw
5. The Raid
6. Moonlight
7. Paddington 2
8. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
9. Revenge
10. Toy Story 3
Clarisse Loughrey @clarisselou
1. Moonlight
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. You Were Never Really Here
5. Stoker
6. The Master
7. Boy
8. Lady Bird
9. Dogtooth
10. Under the Skin
Sarah Cook @CookieNScreen
1. Filth
2. The Voices
3. You Were Never Really Here
4. The World’s End
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
6. Birdman
7. Moonlight
8. Elle
9. Beasts of the Southern Wild
10. Stoker
Katie Smith-Wong @Guitargalchina
1. The Raid
2. Moonlight
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. The Handmaiden
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. 13 Assassins
8. Lady Macbeth
9. The Shape of Water
10. Ex Machina
Emily Murray @EmilyVMurray
1. La La Land
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Inception
4. Interstellar
5. Arrival
6. The Social Network
7. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
8. The Irishman
9. Birdman
10. Avengers: Endgame
Ross Miller @rosstmiller
1. The Tree of Life
2. Whiplash
3. Under the Skin
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Boyhood
6. La La Land
7. The Social Network
8. Hereditary
9. Before Midnight
10. Manchester by the Sea
Lou Thomas @London_Lou
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Under the Skin
3. Toni Erdmann
4. Cabin in the Woods
5. Get Out
6. Hell or High Water
7. It Follows
8. You Were Never Really Here
9. Phantom Thread
10. Roma
Amanda Keats @filmvsbook
1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Tyrannosaur
3. Loving Vincent
4. Roma
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
6. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
7. The 13th
8. Cabin in the Woods
9. You Were Never Really Here
10. Pride
Freda Cooper @FredaTalkingPix
1. Whiplash
2. A Ghost Story
3. Marriage Story
4. The Master
5. Roma
6. The Irishman
7. Inside Llewyn Davis
8. Blue Valentine
9. Gravity
10. Spotlight
A.J. Black @ajblackwriter
1. Under the Skin
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Inception
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Avengers Assemble
6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
7. Dunkirk
8. Jackie
9. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
10. Mary Poppins Returns
Tom Beasley @TomJBeasley
1. The Social Network
2. Get Out
3. Whiplash
4. Inside Out
5. Paddington 2
6. Gravity
7. Marriage Story
8. The Shape of Water
9. Sing Street
10. Logan
Sean Wilson @seano22
1. A Separation
2. We Need to Talk About Kevin
3. Under the Skin
4. Boyhood
5. The Social Network
6. Toy Story 3
7. Moonlight
8. Get Out
9. Leave No Trace
10. Inception
Christa Ktorides @Big_Pants
1. Inception
2. Drive
3. The Martian
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. Argo
7. ’71
8. True Grit
9. Dunkirk
10. Whiplash
Eammonn Jacobs @EammonJacobs
1. Arrival
2. The Social Network
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. Drive
5. Train To Busan
6. Tigers Are Not Afraid
7. The Shape Of Water
8. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
9. The Guest
10. The Babadook
Paul Devine @thepeoplesmovie
1. Under The Skin
2. Holy Motors
3. Blue Ruin
4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
5. It Follows
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. Train To Busan
8. Arrival
9. Son Of Saul
10. The Raid / The Raid 2
Alex Barrett @albaztks
1. The Turin Horse
2. Ida
3. Silence
4. Boyhood
5. Miss Julie
6. Blue Valentine
7. Birds of Passage
8. Museum Hours
9. La Sapienza
10. 1945
Rob Kodjer @WriteRobWrite19
1. Whiplash
2. The Shape of Water
3. Room
4. Her
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Nightcrawler
7. Marriage Story
8. Mother!
9. La La Land
10. Inception
Mark Harrison @MHarrison90
1. Captain America: The First Avenger
2. Drive
3. Get Out
4. Holy Motors
5. Hunt For The Wilderpeople
6. Inception
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Paddington 2
9. Searching
10. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Euan Franklin @euanfranklin
1. The Tree of Life
2. Midnight in Paris
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. Swiss Army Man
5. Midsommar
6. First Reformed
7. Mother!
8. Call Me By Your Name
9. The Act of Killing
10. Inception
Jason Palmer @Jason_EntFocus
1. The Artist
2. The Raid 2
3. Before Midnight
4. Blue is the Warmest Colour
5. Interstellar
6. La La Land
7. Hell or High Water
8. The Adjustment Bureau
9. The Town
10. TRON: Legacy
Chris Hunneysett @ChrisHunneysett
La La Land
Mad Max: Fury Road
Paddington 2
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Avengers Assemble
Moneyball
The Social Network
The Lego Movie
You Were Never Really Here
Luke Walpole @lukedwalpole
1. Spotlight
2. La La Land
3. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-verse
4. Lady Bird
5. The Social Network
6. 12 Years a Slave
7. Arrival
8. Moonlight
9. Interstellar
10. Paddington 2
Adam Lowes @adlow76
1. Aquarius
2. Killing Them Softly
3. The Great Beauty
4. Young Adult
5. Whiplash
6. Dogtooth
7. Boyhood
8. The Act of Killing
9. Drive
10. Her
Jody Clark @thelowdownreview
1. Inside Out
2. Whiplash
3. Edge of Tomorrow
4. Inception
5. The Wolf of Wall Street
6. The Artist
7. Ex Machina
8. Arrival
9. 12 Years a Slave
10. The King’s Speech
Cai Ross @CaiRoss21
1. The Great Beauty
2. Phantom Thread
3. Paddington 2
4. Get Out
5. The Wolf of Wall Street
6. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. Whiplash
9. Bridesmaids
10. The Witch
Elena Morgan @ElenaM52
1. Star Trek Beyond
2. The Martian
3. Miss Sloane
4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
5. Wonder Woman
6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
7. Fast Five
8. The Avengers
9. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
10. The Losers
Josh Rom @JoshRomOnAir
1. Frozen
2. Pitch Perfect
3. The Help
4. Hidden Figures
5. Skyfall
6. Room
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. La La Land
9. Darkest Hour
10. I, Tonya
Maria Lattila @marialattila
1. Cabin in the Woods
2. Drive
3. La La Land
4. Midsommar
5. Raw
6. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
7. Room
8. Moonlight
9. Blue Valentine
10. Get Out
Alex Leadbeater @ADLeadbeater
1. Inside Out
2. The Social Network
3. The Master
4. Boyhood
5. Inception
6. A Ghost Story
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. La La Land
9. Interstellar
10. Marriage Story
Daniel Sarath @danielsarath
1. The Wind Rises
2. The Tree Of Life
3. The Act Of Killing
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. Phantom Thread
6. The Wolf Of Wall Street
7. The Social Network
8. The Master
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel
10. Margaret
Sam Inglis @24FPSUK
1. The New Girlfriend
2. The Neon Demon
3. Jess + Moss
4. Stop the Pounding Heart
5. Love Like Poison
6. Girlhood
7. Hagazussa
8. In The House
9. Leave No Trace
10. Evolution
Tomos Edwards @PlainSimpleTom
1. Paddington 2
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
4. Inception
5. Song of the Sea
6. The Shape of Water
7. Lady Bird
8. Spotlight
9. A Ghost Story
10. Arrival
Anthony Antoniou @_AKA_
1. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2. Berberian Sound Studio
3. John Wick
4. Get Out
5. Out Cut of the Dead
6. Faces Places
7. The Lone Ranger
8. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
9. Big Hero 6
10. Killer Joe
Connor Lightbody @calbody
Before Midnight
Sing Street
It’s Only The End Of The World
Magic Mike XXL
20th Century Women
Blade Runner 2049
Blue Valentine
Incendies
Shoplifters
Boyhood
Adam Mulgrew @seensome
1. Moonlight
2. Boyhood
3. Interstellar
4. La La Land
5. Manchester by the Sea
6. Marriage Story
7. The Irishman
8. If Beale Street Could Talk
9. Brooklyn
10. The Rider
John Parker @j0hnparker
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. We Need to Talk About Kevin
3. A Ghost Story
4. The Babadook
5. The Hunt for the Wilderpeople
6. Under the Skin
7. Avengers: Endgame
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. A Separation
10. Silence
Paul Steward @grittster
1. Inception
2. Drive
3. Arrival
4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
5. Toy Story 3
6. Blade Runner 2049
7. Us
8. Joker
9. Paddington 2
10. About Time
Dallas King @ChampCelluloid
1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Black Swan
3. Mad Max Fury Road
4. Snowpiercer
5. Marriage Story
6. Under The Skin
7. Arrival
8. The Social Network
9. Hereditary
10. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
