My Movies : This Decade! 🎥

I have always enjoyed making improbable lists. Especially those related to movies. It gives me a sense of satisfaction in many ways. The way I reflect "my cinema", the challenge of choosing one over many, which often leaves me surprised at my own choices and how the tiniest things have influenced my choice, which I might not have realized up until that moment. So, this time I'm going for a list of the movies which influenced me in the last decade. Rating the best is always relative. Each movie may influence different people in different ways. Hence, I will try to compile a list of movies which has influenced me, rather than trying to put on a list for the "best" in popular opinion. Also, to give myself a bit of breathing space, I have decided to bring the list to the top 3 from each year of last decade, barring the current year. 

Intrigued with the complexity of making such a list, here I welcome you to take a look at my favorite movies from the last decade. 

2010:

1. Incendies

Dir: Denis Villeneuve 

2. Shutter Island

Dir: Martin Scorsese

3. Inception

Dir: Christopher Nolan

Close ones: Black Swan, The Social Network, The  Illusionist, Biutiful.

2011:

1. The Tree of Life

Dir: Terrence Malick

2. The Girl with the dragon tattoo

Dir: David fincher

3. A Separation

Dir: Asghar Farhadi 

Close ones: Moneyball, The Artist, Take Shelter, Shame

2012:

1. Amour

Dir: Michael Haneke

2. Argo

Dir: Ben Affleck

3. Moonrise Kingdom

Dir: Wes Anderson

Close ones : Skyfall, Django Unchained, The Dark Knight Rises, Lincoln.

2013:

1. La Grande Bellezza

Dir: Paolo Sorrentino

2. Dallas Buyers Club

Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée

3. Gravity

Dir: Alfonso Cuaron

Close ones: The Great Gatsby, Her, 12 years a slave, Blue is the warmest color, Short term 12

2014:

1. Boyhood 

Dir: Richard Linklater

2. Interstellar

Dir: Christopher Nolan

3. Birdman

Dir: Alejandro Inarritu

Close ones: Gone girl, Force majeure, Whiplash, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

2015:

1. Spotlight

Dir: Tom McCarthy

2. Room

Dir: Lenny Abrahamson

3. The Martian

Dir: Ridley Scott

Close ones: Inside out, The Revenant, Carol, The Big Short.

2016:

1. Manchester by the sea

Dir: Kenneth Lonergan

2. Nocturnal animals

Dir: Tom Ford

3. American Honey

Dir: Andrea Arnold

Close ones: Moonlight, Silence, Hell or High water, Arrival.

2017:

1. Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Dir: Martin McDonagh

2. Blade runner 2049

Dir: Denis Villeneuve

3. Mother!

Dir: Darren Aronofsky

Close ones: Dunkirk, The Florida project, The Disaster Artist, A Ghost Story.

2018:

1. Roma

Dir: Alfonso Cuaron

2. Cold war

Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski

3. First Reformed

Dir: Paul Schrader

Close ones: Capernaum, The Rider, Lean on Pete, Hereditary.