For the posts expanding on these choices:
#1-10 #11-20 #21-30 #31-40 #41-50
#51-60 #61-70 #71-80 #81-90 #91-100
See also: The Best Films of the 2010s (podcast episode)
1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
2. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)
–World of Tomorrow, Episode 2: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts (Don Hertzfeldt, 2017)
3. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
4. The Eagleman Stag (Michael Please, 2011)
5. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
6. At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman, 2013)
7. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
8. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
9. Southwest (Eduoardo Nunes, 2011)
10. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, and an anonymous co-director, 2012)
–The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2014)
11. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
12. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
13. The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes, 2011)
14. La Flor (Mariano Llinás, 2018)
15. Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)
16. The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit, 2016)
17. High Life (Claire Denis, 2018)
18. The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann, 2013)
19. The Green Fog (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, 2017)
20. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
21. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman, 2018)
22. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
23. Boy and the World (Alê Abreu, 2013)
24. Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017)
25. A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, 2019)
26. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, 2015)
27. Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (Yuasa Masaaki, 2017)
28. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
29. Monos (Alejandro Landes, 2019)
30. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán, 2010)
31. Faces Places (Agnès Varda and JR, 2017)
32. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2015)
33. Film socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard, 2010)
34. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
35. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
36. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)
37. Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)
38. Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015)
39. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013)
40. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
41. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
42. Starless Dreams (Mehrdad Oskouei, 2016)
43. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
44. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick, 2015)
45. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2018)
46. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)
47. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
48. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
49. Wolf Children (Hosoda Mamoru, 2012)
50. Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019)
51. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
52. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
53. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)
54. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)
55. Cloud Atlas (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer, 2012)
56. 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami, 2017)
57. The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev, 2011)
58. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (Chad Stahelski, 2019)
59. Inside Out (Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen, 2015)
60. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)
61. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
62. Jackie (Pablo Larraín, 2016)
63. Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman, 2014)
64. The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie, 2012)
65. Taxi (Jafar Panahi, 2015)
66. Oslo, August 31 (Joachim Trier, 2011)
67. Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight, 2016)
68. Atlantics (Mati Diop, 2019)
69. Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2015)
70. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011)
71. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014, USA)
72. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh, 2014)
73. The Girl Without Hands (Sébastien Laudenbach, 2016)
74. Coda (Alan Holly, 2013)
75. John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski, 2017)
76. You Were Never Really Here (Lynn Ramsay, 2017)
77. Neruda (Pablo Larraín, 2016)
78. Day & Night (Teddy Newton, 2010)
79. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
80. The Raid (Gareth Evans, 2011)
81. Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller, 2019)
82. Your Name. (Shinkai Makoto, 2016)
83. National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman, 2014)
84. No (Pablo Larraín, 2012)
85. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
86. Rhino Season (Bahman Ghobadi, 2012)
87. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013)
88. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
89. The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013)
90. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman, 2016)
91. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014)
92. Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2013)
93. The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014)
94. Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 2010)
95. The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
96. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Dean DeBlois, 2019)
97. The Wailing (Na Han-jin, 2016)
98. 45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015)
99. The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, 2013)
100. Atomic Blonde (David Leitch, 2017)