Films of the decade: from Animal Kingdom to La La Land and Get Out

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No capes, tights, Wookies and no sticky spidery emissions. The best films of the decade...

This list of the best movies of the last 10 years is of course wickedly personal. I apologise in advance. Some of your favourites may be on it, but it makes no attempt at consensus. No one will agree with all; some won't agree with any. I'll probably disagree with it by next week.

For one thing, it's devoid of superhero and Marvel blockbusters. No capes, tights, Wookies and no sticky spidery emissions. I'm with Martin Scorsese, who broke a Hollywood taboo in October when he said those movies are more like theme parks than cinema: "It isn't the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.

We live in dark times and cinema follows the zeitgest. That might explain why this list is so dark. There's almost no comedy, but forCinema doesn't always have to be as dark as life itself, but some of the best of it is., re-creating life and death in the gas chambers, is confronting and upsetting - but what else could it be? Movies should show us who we are and where we've come from. Films on a human scale have become harder to find in the past 30 years.

James Frecheville , Sullivan Stapleton, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Joel Edgerton and Ben Mendelsohn in Animal Kingdom.Kelly Reichardt arrived as a fresh, new female voice with this American epic, in which Michelle Williams is part of a wagon train lost on the trail to Oregon in 1845. It's elemental and dramatic, its characters as tough as its settings.

Spotlight, starring Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery and Brian d'Arcy James.A newspaper team uncovers the extent of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in the Boston Archdiocese. Tom McCarthy's film, based on fact, practised the virtues it preached: it was dogged, methodical and unimpeachably researched. An utterly enraging film for our times.

 

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Terrible list.

By ‘best’ you of course mean .... most woke? Lefties can’t do ‘best’ lists any more. They always have to compile lists that tick all the PC boxes

scott__day DarkGaiaStudios how does the age rate at rating?

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