Crowdsourcing UP's Favorite Movies (NOW ACCEPTING RANKINGS VIA PM: the 2010s)

Wiping out the original meat of the OP in hopes that it will reduce confusion.

We are compiling consensus community rankings of various decades of movies history (potentially moving on to an all-time ranking at some point).

Nothing complicated is happening here. There are two phases to ranking a decade:

  1. The brainstorming phase: just name as many movies as you feel should be considered for ranking when the voting starts. No wrong answers. Participating in this phase is not a requirement for voting. It is, however, a good idea to participate if you particularly want to ensure that specific movies from that decade are considered by the community when we start voting.
  2. The ranking phase: participants will PM me their top 20 list from the decade we’re working on. In order. All films from this decade are eligible whether they came up during the brainstorming phase or not. 1st place votes count more than 2nd place votes, which count more than 3rd place votes, etc. Don’t worry too much about this part; I’ll do the tabulating.

After these phases are complete: sit back, relax, and enjoy the reveal.

CURRENT PHASE: Now accepting rankings for the 2010s. PM your rankings directly to me. No changes to your submission after you’ve sent. Deadline for submission is 3/8/26 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

Master list to draw from:
12 Years a Slave
13 Assassins
13th
1917
42
63 Up
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
A Separation
A Star is Born
About Time
Ad Astra
Alan Partridge
American Hustle
Anomalisa
Argo
Arrival
Ash is Purest White
Avatar
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Infinity
Bad Education
Before Midnight
Birdman
Black Panther
Black Swan
Blackfish
Blackhat
Blade Runner 2049
Blue is the Warmest Color
Blue Ruin
Blue Valentine
Bone Tomahawk
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Bridesmaids
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Burning
Captain America - the Winter Soldier
Captain America the First Avenger
Captain America: Civil War
Captain Phillips
Carol
Certain Women
Certified Copy
Cloud Atlas
Coco
Coherence
Cold War
Crazy Rich Asians
Creed
Dallas Buyers Club
Deadpool
Django Unchained
Dragged Across Concrete
Drive
Drug War
Dunkirk
Easy a
Edge of Tomorrow
Elite Squad: the Enemy Within
Everybody Wants Some
Ex Libris: the New York Public Library
Ex Machina
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Filth
First Reformed
First Cow
Four Lions
Frances Ha
Free Solo
Frozen
Get out
Godzilla (2014)
Gone Girl
Good Time
Gravity
Green Book
Green Room
Guardians of the Galaxy
Halloween (2018)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Her
Hidden Figures
Hell or High Water
Holy Motors
Hostiles
House of Tolerance
I Am Not Your Negro
I Tonya
In Jackson Heights
Incendies
Inception
Incredibles 2
Inherent Vice
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside out
Interstellar
It Follows
It’s Such a Beautiful Day
Jojo Rabbit
Jodorowsky’s Dune
John Wick
Killing Them Softly
Knives out
La La Land
La Flor
Lady Bird
Leviathan (2014)
Lincoln
Little Women
Logan
Looper
M:I - Fallout
Mad Max: Fury Road
Manchester by the Sea
Maps to the Stars
Margin Call
Marriage Story
Melancholia
Mia Madre
Midnight in Paris
Midsommar
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Moana
Moneyball
Moonrise Kingdom
Nebraska
Never Look Away
Nightcrawler
Nocturnal Animals
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Only Lovers Left Alive
Oslo August 31
Paddington
Parasite
Phantom Thread
Phoenix
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Predestination
Prisoners
Right Now Wrong then
Rocketman
Rogue One
Roma
Room
Shutter Island
Sicario
Silence
Skyfall
Son of Saul
Spider-man: into the Spider-verse
Spider-man: into the Spiderverse
Spotlight
Spring Breakers
Star Trek into Darkness
Star Wars Rogue One
Star Wars the Force Awakens
Star Wars the Last Jedi
Star Wars the Rise of Skywalker
Still Alice
Stories We Tell
Submarine
Sully
Swiss Army Man
Take Shelter
Tangled
The Act of Killing
The Artist
The Big Short
The Big Sick
The Dark Knight Rises
The Descendants
The Dog
The Favourite
The Fighter
The Florida Project
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Handmaiden
The Hateful Eight
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
The Hunt
The Imitation Game
The Irishman
Joker
The Lighthouse
The Martian
The Nightingale
The Other Side of the Wind
The Place Beyond the Pines
The Purge
The Shape of Water
The Social Network
The Town
The Wolf of Wall Street
The House That Jack Built
The Lost City of Z
The Master
The Visit
The Wailing
The Wind Rises
Thor: Ragnarok
Three Identical Strangers
Tickled
Toy Story 3
Train to Busan
True Grit
Uncut Gems
Under the Silver Lake
Under the Skin
Unfriended : Dark Web
Universal Soldier : Day of Reckoning
Us
Vice
Victoria
We Need to Talk About Kevin
What We Do in the Shadows
Whiplash
Wind River
Winter Sleep
Wonder Woman
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
World War Z
Wreck-it-ralph
Yesterday
Your Name
Zero Dark Thirty
Zootopia

Completed Rankings:
‎Unstuck Politics Top 21 of the 1990s • Letterboxd

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I’ll start (again, mine are in no ranked order whatsoever and this will surely not reflect an order of my ranking):

Se7en
Before Sunrise
Dazed and Confused
A Few Good Men
The Shawshank Redemption
Notting Hill
The Insider
The Silence of the Lambs
Titanic
The Big Lebowski
Jackie Brown
Goodfellas
Legends of the Fall
Pulp Fiction
Jurassic Park
Fargo
Casino
Malcolm X
Reservoir Dogs
Thelma & Louise
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Remains of the Day
Meet Joe Black
Schindler’s List
Heat

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Cronenberg had a hall of fame run in the 90s; Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly, Crash and eXistenZ all home runs, each better then the last.

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Just putting stuff I don’t see on LKJ’s list that I think are at least worthy of consideration:

Saving Private Ryan
Apollo 13
Forrest Gump
The Matrix
Fight Club
LA Confidential
Trainspotting
Terminator 2
American History X
The Lion King
Clueless
Groundhog Day
Office Space
The Usual Suspects
Toy Story
Princess Mononoke
Run Lola Run
Unforgiven

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Miller’s Crossing
Swingers
Good Will Hunting
Jerry Maguire
Scream
The Rock
Con Air

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L.A. Story
Misery
Thelma and Louise
The Usual Suspects
L.A. Confidential
Pump Up the Volume
Quick Change
The Paper
Philadelphia
The Shawshank Redemption
Good Will Hunting
A Few Good Men
Saving Private Ryan
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Notting Hill
Pretty Woman
Rushmore
Election
Braveheart
Schindler’s List
The Silence of the Lambs
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Unforgiven
Quiz Show
Rounders
Fight Club
Se7en
Boyz N the Hood
The Truman Show
Toy Story
Jerry Maguire
A League of Their Own
That Thing You Do!
Can’t Hardly Wait
10 Things I Hate About You

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Maybe a little off-topic because it’s not one of my favorites and I don’t think it’s one of the best movies of the 90s, but I stumbled across this trailer the other day and I couldn’t think of a movie that LOOKS more 90s than this

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Note: people shouldn’t worry too much about whether a movie has been posted before they mention it (potentially again). I can put together a master list and nuke duplicates before posting it.

Just looked through the International/foreign language Oscar nominees to see if I’d missed anything, and I haven’t seen a single one. (Compared with 9 already in the 2020s)

Is world cinema actually better now, or just more accessible? I’m assuming it’s the latter.

I haven’t seen most of the 90s nominees either, so I can’t make a value judgment. I still have too many blind spots. But I would also guess it’s mostly an availability thing, because I don’t particularly like the foreign films of today better than I like a long list of pre-90s foreign films.

The Academy also isn’t the greatest barometer, and especially weren’t in the past. Wong Kar-wai isn’t showing up anywhere in that list, and lots of people absolutely love, e.g., Chungking Express (1994).

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whoops i cant read

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Straight Story

Lost Highway

Funny Games (1997)

Hate (La Haine)

Breaking the Waves

The Celebration (Festen)

Black Cat, White Cat

Delicatessen

Life is Beautiful

Insomnia

Fucking Amal

Lovers of the polar circle (Los amantes del CĂ­rculo Polar)

Open your eyes (Abre los ojos)

Underground

Most of these are international films of the 90s that are worthy of consideration.

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It shames me that I’ve only seen two of those.

Some are weird, others disturbing, some graphic, others intense or romantic but they’re all worth watching. I don’t know how easy you can stream them.

I’ve somehow watched more movies than LKJ on a list? Clocked in at 7.

Cool concept, will post later. Just watched pulp fiction again - still great.

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Magnolia

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Searching for Bobby Fischer

Office Space

My Cousin Vinny

Scream

The Sixth Sense

Beauty and the Beast

Tombstone

Titanic

Dazed and Confused

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The Sixth Sense
Mission: Impossible
Austin Powers
Arlington Road
Primal Fear
As Good as It Gets

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