Criterion Collection by Decade (2010s), a list by Adam McGready

6.9

/18/

70

/1/

A film buff does his generational autobiography by relating the problems of maturity in contemporary cinema to the character of Antoine Doinel. When he learns that the actor who played him is coming to visit his city, he makes a drastic decision.

74

6.9

/8928/

66

/204/

68

/165/

3.8

/17635/

86

/95/

64

/183/

81

/26/

3.5

In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels and the army struggling for control, French peacekeeping forces move out, warning the remaining white residents that they’re on their own. But Maria refuses to be driven off the land, even as tragedy looms.

61

6.4

/8219/

58

/182/

59

/143/

3.3

/9114/

68

/105/

48

/359/

69

/30/

2.5

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.

65

6.2

/15243/

63

/382/

56

/167/

3.1

/19184/

79

/97/

54

/408/

72

/30/

3.0

age 16+

After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.

77

7.2

/28642/

72

/622/

69

/432/

4.1

/65470/

89

/136/

70

/498/

82

/23/

3.5

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

74

56

7.1

/1384/

74

/57/

64

/24/

3.7

/2350/

91

/35/

72

/36/

76

/11/

From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.

81

7.2

/25130/

72

/481/

70

/461/

3.9

/31130/

99

/98/

75

/324/

82

/26/

4.0

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation.

45

?

3.9

/757/

60

/69/

38

/24/

Two gangsters, fighting for influence in the city, decide to get suitcases filled with money and drugs. Meanwhile, another criminal group has the same purpose.

70

6.8

/2103/

66

/51/

66

/43/

3.5

/1093/

84

/69/

72

/41/

73

/24/

2.5

A seventeen-year-old boy and his younger sister’s dreams and aspirations are put on hold when their father is accused of murder.

81

7.6

/16607/

75

/318/

73

/270/

4.0

/20838/

95

/107/

81

/397/

83

/32/

3.5

Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.

80

7.4

/29392/

73

/457/

71

/443/

3.9

/22001/

96

/133/

77

/405/

87

/33/

3.5

age 16+

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.

77

7.4

/101272/

75

/2955/

73

/1770/

4.0

/597933/

92

/192/

78

/1004/

82

/35/

2.5

age 16+

An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

77

7.6

/171878/

72

/5451/

70

/4776/

3.2

/340880/

88

/204/

84

/1012/

90

/58/

3.0

age 18+

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

83

7.7

/104960/

75

/2427/

75

/3250/

4.1

/147823/

91

/135/

81

/657/

86

/34/

4.0

age 17+

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

73

7.0

/13701/

69

/354/

68

/265/

3.8

/31036/

83

/99/

61

/111/

76

/31/

3.5

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.

64

6.0

/1174/

60

/57/

59

/25/

2.9

/2452/

82

/33/

56

/5/

67

/17/

3.0

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.

76

7.3

/52034/

69

/1309/

69

/989/

3.9

/53395/

96

/182/

77

/412/

89

/38/

2.5

Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.

82

7.8

/380324/

77

/10221/

76

/6173/

4.0

/996490/

93

/270/

86

/6758/

84

/43/

3.5

age 14+

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

44

23

4.7

/596/

58

/34/

51

/20/

2.6

/2100/

29

/14/

42

/7/

34

/5/

age 8+

In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy. Artist Takashi Murakami ‘s debut film is an amazing epic story that is an X-Ray of children’s hopes and fears with the artist’s unmistakable visual style.

82

7.4

/170804/

73

/4508/

71

/2847/

4.0

/362701/

92

/293/

74

/2187/

93

/53/

4.0

age 16+

In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

82

7.3

/21752/

71

/713/

68

/461/

4.0

/46653/

98

/131/

78

/275/

89

/30/

4.0

German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelganger.

74

6.7

/32376/

65

/996/

65

/787/

3.7

/48042/

91

/176/

65

/347/

80

/42/

3.5

age 16+

A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.

77

61

7.4

/2639/

79

/93/

71

/68/

3.9

/3776/

98

/60/

67

/15/

75

/17/

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema.

85

7.9

/379873/

75

/10243/

74

/5396/

3.8

/596359/

97

/331/

80

/5046/

100

/50/

4.0

age 15+

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

75

7.0

/2716/

75

/114/

65

/54/

3.6

/6393/

95

/88/

64

/46/

84

/20/

3.0

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.

82

7.5

/3596/

75

/189/

67

/87/

4.1

/18373/

100

/105/

69

/20/

89

/21/

4.0

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.

85

7.9

/183652/

76

/5143/

75

/2605/

4.0

/498950/

98

/202/

82

/1652/

94

/41/

4.0

age 16+

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

79

7.1

/36415/

66

/1238/

65

/775/

3.9

/38370/

97

/208/

67

/389/

94

/36/

4.0

age 15+

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

75

7.2

/17842/

72

/498/

68

/503/

3.6

/20077/

88

/130/

81

/63/

76

/29/

3.0

age 17+

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.

71

6.4

/17088/

63

/712/

60

/371/

3.8

/52421/

92

/196/

51

/169/

82

/38/

3.5

age 14+

Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

77

7.2

/7610/

74

/339/

69

/210/

3.8

/34150/

90

/80/

75

/13/

75

/17/

3.5

An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.

68

6.2

/10958/

62

/619/

61

/277/

3.3

/46912/

89

/81/

71

/42/

72

/19/

2.5

Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

70

6.1

/45475/

61

/2537/

59

/1280/

3.4

/99712/

81

/273/

53

/297/

77

/38/

4.0

age 17+

Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.

62

10

6.6

/187/

59

/12/

56

/10/

3.4

/398/

Newly restored and assembled by the International Olympic Committee - the earliest comprehensive moving-image record of the modern Olympic Games that survives today.

?

6.1

/61/

55

/2/

52

/6/

A documentary covering the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

61

?

5.5

/132/

68

/9/

59

/8/

3.1

/231/

age 12+

The Official Film of the XXXth Olympic Games to be held in London, following the stories of twelve first-time Olympians from around the world.

78

7.8

/67805/

79

/2948/

77

/1491/

4.0

/84731/

92

/184/

85

/275/

78

/31/

2.5

age 15+

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

78

7.2

/14701/

70

/362/

69

/343/

3.8

/19454/

92

/108/

75

/30/

84

/23/

3.5

A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

79

7.5

/13717/

72

/209/

70

/200/

3.9

/9556/

91

/107/

81

/89/

79

/33/

3.5

Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to best.

80

7.3

/15373/

68

/423/

67

/291/

3.7

/13348/

94

/138/

82

/38/

84

/30/

4.0

After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.

76

6.8

/191182/

66

/3972/

67

/3260/

3.8

/268759/

86

/293/

60

/6428/

85

/50/

4.0

age 14+

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

74

6.8

/2490/

71

/96/

66

/55/

3.8

/8835/

92

/53/

50

/5/

4.0

A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.

66

6.0

/8321/

57

/237/

51

/215/

3.3

/19889/

87

/142/

33

/49/

79

/33/

4.0

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

83

7.5

/64908/

73

/2038/

74

/1546/

4.0

/170566/

92

/254/

82

/174/

90

/45/

4.0

age 16+

A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

84

7.6

/177189/

75

/5481/

76

/4046/

4.1

/451881/

96

/408/

72

/1120/

96

/50/

4.0

age 16+

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

86

8.1

/953475/

80

/29129/

80

/15636/

4.2

/2728073/

92

/313/

87

/5569/

88

/48/

4.0

age 16+

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

75

6.8

/33158/

68

/1416/

66

/759/

3.6

/75134/

94

/220/

71

/155/

80

/41/