ICS's Best Films of the Decade (2010s)
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Of all the masterful films in the ICS Best of Decade list, two 2011 releases stood head and shoulders above the rest in the voters’ current mindset: Kenneth Lonergan’s uniquely structured Margaret and Terrence Malick’s metaphysical family drama The Tree of Life. Margaret tells the story of an awkward, passionate teenager whose feelings of guilt over a tragic bus accident propel her into moral dilemmas and a quest for justice, against the backdrop of post-9/11 New York as a metaphor for coming of age and the loss of childhood naivety. Upon its release Margaret was considered messy, sometimes brilliant, and controversial – and it has remained so, yet has only grown in stature. Conversely, Malick’s whispered evocation of nature vs. grace, The Tree of Life, was celebrated from the outset and has held up magnificently over time, the dynamics of a Texas family flowing into the natural world like a flight of birds.
While American filmmakers claimed the top two spots, the rest of our top 10 was dominated by international auteurs. Coming in third was French director Leos Carax’s surreal exploration of identity Holy Motors (ICS Best Picture for 2012), followed by Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian divorce drama A Separation (which had won ICS Best Picture for 2011 over both Malick and Lonergan). Todd Haynes’ period love story Carol, our 2015 Best Picture, ended up in 5th place for the decade, followed by Xavier Dolan’s deeply felt transgender romance Laurence Anyways, Lucrecia Martel’s colonialist satire Zama, Martin Scorsese’s haunting missionary saga Silence, the always-controversial Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s five-hour Sirkian melodrama Happy Hour.
The full ICS Best of the Decade list can be found below.
The list is 102 films because #59 Arabian Nights is considered as one entry by the ICS
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Bangkok Nites
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
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Les mains libres
2017, in 0 top lists -
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Amour fou
2014 — a.k.a. Amour Fou, in 0 top lists Check -
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Mes provinciales
2018 — a.k.a. A Paris Education, in 0 top lists -
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Arábia
2017 — a.k.a. Araby, in 1 top list -
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Cosmos
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
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La folie Almayer
2011 — a.k.a. Almayer's Folly, in 1 top list Check -
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Hele sa hiwagang hapis
2016 — a.k.a. A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, in 1 top list Check -
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In the Family
2011, in 2 top lists Check -
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Malgré la nuit
2015 — a.k.a. Despite the Night, in 0 top lists Check -
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Nocturama
2016, in 1 top list Check -
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Sangue do Meu Sangue
2011 — a.k.a. Blood of My Blood, in 1 top list Check -
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La bocca del lupo
2009 — a.k.a. The Mouth of the Wolf, in 2 top lists Check -
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Le livre d'image
2018 — a.k.a. The Image Book, in 3 top lists -
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
2017, in 0 top lists -
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Synonymes
2019 — a.k.a. Synonyms, in 2 top lists -
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Vitalina Varela
2019, in 5 top lists -
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As Mil e Uma Noites - Volume 2: O Desolado
2015 — a.k.a. Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One, in 1 top list Check -
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As Mil e Uma Noites - Volume 3: O Encantado
2015 — a.k.a. Arabian Nights: Volume 3 - The Enchanted One, in 1 top list Check -
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Eden
2014, in 2 top lists Check -
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Happî awâ
2015 — a.k.a. Happy Hour, in 5 top lists Check -
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No Home Movie
2015, in 4 top lists Check -
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Archipelago
2010, in 1 top list Check -
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As Mil e Uma Noites - Volume 1: O Inquieto
2015 — a.k.a. Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - The Restless One, in 1 top list Check -
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Faust
2011, in 4 top lists Check -
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How Do You Know
2010, in 0 top lists Check -
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Lazzaro felice
2018 — a.k.a. Happy as Lazzaro, in 4 top lists -
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L'image manquante
2013 — a.k.a. The Missing Picture, in 2 top lists Check -
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O Estranho Caso de Angélica
2010 — a.k.a. The Strange Case of Angelica, in 3 top lists Check -
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Diqiu zuihou de yewan
2018 — a.k.a. Long Day's Journey Into Night, in 3 top lists -
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Les garçons sauvages
2017 — a.k.a. The Wild Boys, in 1 top list -
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Jiao you
2013 — a.k.a. Stray Dogs, in 3 top lists Check -
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Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan
2013 — a.k.a. Norte, the End of History, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Rider
2017, in 4 top lists -
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Aquarius
2016, in 3 top lists Check -
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2016, in 1 top list Check -
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La flor
2018 — a.k.a. La Flor, in 5 top lists -
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L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)
2011 — a.k.a. House of Tolerance, in 2 top lists Check -
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L'inconnu du lac
2013 — a.k.a. Stranger by the Lake, in 6 top lists Check -
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Zama
2017, in 8 top lists Check -
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Da xiang xidi erzuo
2018 — a.k.a. An Elephant Sitting Still, in 3 top lists -
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If Beale Street Could Talk
2018, in 1 top list -
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Pariah
2011, in 7 top lists Check -
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Rak ti Khon Kaen
2015 — a.k.a. Cemetery of Splendor, in 4 top lists Check -
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Visages villages
2017 — a.k.a. Faces Places, in 4 top lists -
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Dolor y gloria
2019 — a.k.a. Pain and Glory, in 5 top lists -
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Laurence Anyways
2012, in 3 top lists Check -
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Leviathan
2012, in 5 top lists Check -
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Le quattro volte
2010 — a.k.a. The Four Times, in 4 top lists Check -
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Beoning
2018 — a.k.a. Burning, in 8 top lists
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