As of this month, I have been reviewing films here at the Shattered Lens for 3 years. In honor of that anniversary, I thought I’d post my picks for the 50 best films that have been released in the U.S. since 2010.
Without further ado, here’s the list!
- Black Swan (directed by Darren Aronofsky)
- Exit Through The Gift Shop (directed by Banksy)
- Hanna (directed by Joe Wright)
- Fish Tank (directed by Andrea Arnold)
- Higher Ground (directed by Vera Farmiga)
- Shame (directed by Steve McQueen)
- Anna Karenina (directed by Joe Wright)
- The Cabin In The Woods (directed by Drew Goddard)
- 127 Hours (directed by Danny Boyle)
- Somewhere (directed by Sofia Coppola)
- Life of Pi (directed by Ang Lee)
- Hugo (directed by Martin Scorsese)
- Inception (directed by Christopher Nolan)
- Animal Kingdom (directed by David Michod)
- Winter’s Bone (directed by Debra Granik)
- The Artist (directed by Michel Hazanavicius)
- The Guard (directed by John Michael McDonagh)
- Bernie (directed by Richard Linklater)
- The King’s Speech (directed by Tom Hooper)
- Bridesmaids (directed by Paul Feig)
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (directed by Thomas Alfredson)
- Django Unchained (directed by Quentin Tarantino)
- Never Let Me Go (directed by Mark Romanek)
- Toy Story 3 (directed by Lee Unkrich)
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (directed by Niels Arden Oplev)
- Young Adult (directed by Jason Reitman)
- Sucker Punch (directed by Zack Snyder)
- The Master (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Incendies (directed by Denis Villeneuve)
- Melancholia (directed by Lars Von Trier)
- Super (directed by James Gunn)
- Silver Linings Playbook (directed by David O. Russell)
- Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (directed by Edgar Wright)
- The Last Exorcism (directed by Daniel Stamm)
- Skyfall (directed by Sam Mendes)
- Easy A (directed by Will Gluck)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2 (directed by David Yates)
- The Avengers (directed by Joss Whedon)
- How To Train Your Dragon (directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBois)
- Win Win (directed by Thomas McCarthy)
- Les Miserables (directed by Tom Hooper)
- Take This Waltz (directed by Sarah Polley)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (directed by Werner Herzog)
- Rust and Bone (directed by Jacques Audiard)
- Cosmopolis (directed by David Cronenberg)
- Ruby Sparks (directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valarie Faris)
- Brave (directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman)
- Martha Marcy May Marlene (directed by Sean Durkin)
- Jane Eyre (directed by Cary Fukunaga)
- Damsels in Distress (directed by Whit Stillman)