Last Updated on 25 March 2024
I searched the Internet for lists of the best or greatest movies of the 2010s. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 46 lists. I took the 46 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. I ended up averaging the rankings each movie got (there were 411 that were on at least 2 lists) and dividing that average by a factor of the number of lists that movie was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.
The movies that were on the most lists (out of 46) were:
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – 38 lists
- Get Out (2017) – 36 lists
- The Social Network (2010) – 34 lists
- Moonlight (2016) – 32 lists
- Boyhood (2014) – 28 lists
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) – 28 lists
- The Master (2012) – 27 lists
- Parasite (2019) – 27 lists
- Inception (2010) – 27 lists
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) – 26 lists
- 12 Years a Slave (2013) – 25 lists
- The Tree of Life (2011) – 24 lists
- Lady Bird (2017) – 24 lists
- Whiplash (2014) – 23 lists
- Call Me by Your Name (2017) – 23 lists
- Roma (2018) – 23 lists
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- IMDb – 10,000+ votes
- Rate Your Music – 13 Jun 2023
- High On Films – 27 Apr 2023
- TheCinemaholic – 5 Jul 2022
- Close-up Culture – 2 May 2022
- ReelRundown – 11 Mar 2022
- Ranker.com – 8 Mar 2022 (4.4K voters)
- MovieWeb – 28 Oct 2021
- DigitalDreamDoor – 16 Sep 2021
- The Cinema Archives – 19 Jun 2021
- Epiloguers – 5 Jan 2021
- Alternate Ending – 3 Feb 2020
- ScreenRant – 18 Jan 2020
- Film Comment – 7 Jan 2020
- Kinoscope – 2 Jan 2020
- The Film Magazine – 1 Jan 2020
- FilmBunker – 1 Jan 2020
- OnStage Blog – 31 Dec 2019
- Consequence – 30 Dec 2019
- Talk Film Society – 30 Dec 2019
- Salt Lake Tribune – 29 Dec 2019
- Good Morning America – 27 Dec 2019
- Slant – 27 Dec 2019
- Mental Floss – 25 Dec 2019
- The Irish Times – 23 Dec 2019
- World of Reel – 23 Dec 2019
- Knight Crier – 22 Dec 2019
- Rolling Stone – 19 Dec 2019
- Town & Country – 18 Dec 2019
- Pike’s Peak Courier – 17 Dec 2019
- Vulture – 11 Dec 2019
- Cleveland.com – 10 Dec 2019
- TimeOut – 10 Dec 2019
- NME – 4 Dec 2019
- Redbook – 3 Dec 2019
- The Playlist – 2 Dec 2019
- YearEndLists (from The New Yorker) – 26 Nov 2019
- Insider – 24 Nov 2019
- Films Fatale – 16 Nov 2019
- Paste Magazine – 14 Nov 2019
- StudioBinder – 13 Nov 2019
- Film School Rejects – 12 Nov 2019
- Roger Ebert – 4 Nov 2019
- IndieWire – 22 Jul 2019
- ShortList – 8 Nov 2017
- TopTens – no date