A huge special over on Rogerebert.com: Each contributor sent in a list of our own Top 25 films of the 2010s. Editor Brian Tallerico then tallied up all of our different lists (I think there were something like 185 films mentioned, total), and came up with a collective Top 25. And then we each were assigned to write about one. I asked specifically for Wolf of Wall Street. Not just because I love the film so damn much, and it gets better with each viewing, but because I thought it would be cool to have a woman write on that so-called “misogynist” film. Wolf of Wall Street is #6 on the list. Here’s the entire series: Top 25 Films of the 2010s. I am still making my way through the work of my wonderful colleagues. So many good films! Here’s my piece on Wolf of Wall Street.
I’d love to hear what films you would have listed as your Top 25. Here was the list I sent in (not ranked):
This Is Not a Film – reviewed here
Inherent Vice – reviewed here
Melancholia – reviewed here
Only Lovers Left Alive – reviewed here
Wolf of Wall Street – review above
Silence – wrote about it briefly here
Cemetery of Splendour – reviewed here
A Separation – reviewed here
The Tree of Life – reviewed here
Phantom Thread – reviewed here
The Master – how have I not written about this masterpiece?
Get Out – wrote about it briefly here
Moonlight – wrote about it briefly here
Hidden Figures – review here
Under the Skin – reviewed here
Certified Copy – reviewed here
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – still percolating.
Roma – reviewed here
First Reformed – wrote about it here
Magic Mike XXL – haven’t written about it specifically and I don’t know how that is possible
Zero Dark Thirty – never wrote about it
The Other Side of the Wind – maybe it doesn’t count, I don’t know. Wrote about it here.
Personal Shopper – wrote about it here, and elsewhere
BlackKklansman – wrote about it here
In alphabetical order, my favorite films. I don’t have the breadth of you or the other Ebert folks. I’m just going with movies I loved and have (mostly) watched more than once.
20th Century Women
A Bigger Splash
Annihilation
Beast
Blade Runner: 2049
Collossal
Crimson Peak
Elle
Ex Machina
Hail, Ceasar!
Ida
John Wick
Lady Bird
La La Land
The Love Witch
Mad Max: Fury Road
Moonrise Kingdom
The Nice Guys
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Only Lovers Left Alive
Personal Shopper
Phantom Thread
Rust and Bone
Under the Skin
Wolf of Wall Street
Many of my favorites here too! Rust and Bone!
Hard to quibble with your list. The only dog biscuit in the bunch is “First Reformed” which struck me as “Winter Light” redux with global warming substituted for the Communist menace. Besides the worthies on your list, I was enthralled by Zama, Holy Motors, Hard to be a God, Maps to the Stars, The Assassin, Phoenix, The Handmaiden, Nocturama, Bernie, Columbus, Shadow, 24 Frames and one by Lanthimos, either The Lobster or The Favourite
Great write up on The Wolf of Wall Street.
I had to put 30 and even that made me leave some movies I love off the list. In no particular order:
Ex Machina
Blade Runner : 2049
The Master
Hell or High Water
Snowpiercer
Parasite
Spotlight
I Tonya
The Wolf of Wall Street
Carlos
Baby Driver
War Dogs
Boyhood
Maps To The Stars
The Hateful Eight
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Love & Mercy
99 Homes
Nightcrawler
Interstellar
Gone Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inside Llewyn Davis
Gravity
Captain Philips
This Is The End
Argo
Moneyball
The Ghost Writer
Todd – Hell or High Water – yes! Some great ones here – Nightcrawler – This Is the End – Love & Mercy – The Ghost Writer! I need to re-watch that one, I absolutely loved it, saw it in the theatre.
I love the Wolf of Wall Street too! One of the best cinema experiences I ever had. It was my second last day where I was living at the time, I had been cleaning my apartment furiously for the previous 12 hours in an effort to secure my deposit back and I took a break to see a movie and spend the last of a cinema voucher I had. It was a full house, great atmosphere, I was sitting right at the back, I had a bucket of popcorn and it was perfect. I was energised enough when I left to carry on scrubbing through the night.
I made a big list of my faves too but it was super long so I minused everything already mentioned and lo and behold there were 25 left!
The Social Network
Jane Eyre
Hanna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Young Adult
Prometheus
Anna Karenina
Lincoln
The Grandmaster
Dead Man Down
Pain and Gain
Frances Ha
The Guest
Spy
The Man from UNCLE
Star Wars the Force Awakens
Arrival
Manchester by the Sea
Jackie
Logan Lucky
The Death of Stalin
You Were Never Really Here
Sicario 2
As Astra
svg – Love your story of going to see Wolf of Wall Street! I am so glad I saw that one in a movie theatre, a packed movie theatre – it plays so GREAT for a crowd.
Thank you for reminding me of Jane Eyre – that just came up at dinner the other night. I love it so much.
Death of Stalin, Logan Lucky, Pain and Gain … terrific.
Thanks for your great writing that has led me down a delightful web worm hole tonight. It started with your reference to the painting by Goya in your Wall Street review. I have been in an unknown art world for hours after your spark. Thanks for a great Saturday night.
Donna – thank you! That Goya painting has haunted me ever since I first saw it, in a humanities class in high school. It should be rated-R, that painting.
There really were a lot of movies that came out this decade. It seems like there’s no consensus on what films will be candidates for the all-time canon. With monoculture fragmenting it’ll be interesting to see what films from the 10’s will stand the test of time. These are listed in order of preference though any of the first 5 could be number 1, and the flicks between 6 and 10 all being somewhat interchangeable, and so on and so on.
1 – The Great Beauty
2 – The Beach Bum
3 – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
4 – The Eyes Of My Mother
5 – Sicario
6 – The Witch
7 – The Florida Project
8 – Captain Fantastic
9 – Cold War
10 – Hereditary
11 – Frances Ha
12 – Tully
13 – Hunt For The Wilderpeople
14 – Prisoners
15 – Nocturnal Animals
16 – Son Of Saul
17 – Dunkirk
18 – Inherent Vice
19 – Midnight In Paris
20 – Fury
21 – Mom And Dad
22 – Nightcrawler
23 – Bridesmaids
24 – The Grand Budapest Hotel
25 – Mother!
26 – The Voices
27 – Brawl in Cell Block 99
28 – This Is The End
29 – Green Room
30 – Wonder Woman/Thor: Ragnarok (tie)
JMS – great list! I distrust consensus all around! It is my opinion that Groundhog Day is a modern-day It’s a Wonderful Life – with the same staying power as that earlier film – Consensus at the time didn’t gather together to nominate it a classic, or heap awards on its head – but it will be watched still when we are all dust. :)