1) The Social Network (2010):
(Drama,Biography)
Runtime: 2 Hours
Meet Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) — just your run-of-the-mill dark, depressive Harvard student who’d end up founding a website he’d call Facebook, betraying his partner Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) and laying the foundation for the fountain of backbiting and misinformation we call the modern world. Blessed with the dream team of screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher (and a cast that includes Armie Hammer as both Winklevoss twins and Rooney Mara as the object of Zuckerberg’s fixation), this adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s book Accidental Billionaires is one deliciously re-watchable preview of the apocalypse, as entertaining and cheeky as it is troubling and startlingly prescient. From the moment that the glowering Zuckerberg figures out how to turn what we now call toxic masculinity into a billion-dollar industry, you can see how Fincher & co. are coldly dissecting the entire notion of smartest-guy-in-the-room entitlement. And in the harsh cold light of a decade later (post-Gamer Gate and Cambridge Analytica), what seemed merely ominous then is now what has likely driven our sense of civility and civilization to the brink.
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justine Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella
2) Dunkirk (2017):
(War,History,Drama)
Runtime: 1 Hour 47 Minutes
After his Dark Knight trilogy and several inner/outer space-traveling epics (Inception, Interstellar), Christopher Nolan turned to something closer to home. His astonishing war film about the 1940 Battle of Dunkirk — and the subsequent civilian rescue of British troops from a French beach — placed audiences directly into the action without much warning or explanation. This meticulously complex ticking clock of a film braids together one week, one day, and one hour timelines, expressing the both enormous scope of the event and the individual experiences within. It’s a movie that focuses on the different perspectives of combat by land, sea, and air, chronicling a nation’s fight to survive in all of its breathtaking in its beauty and terror.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard
From: 50 Best Movies of the 2010s
3) Black Panther (2018):
(Action,Adventure,Fantasy)
Runtime: 2 Hours 14 Minutes
For better or worse (Martin Scorsese would probably say worse), the 2010s were the decade of Marvel. The MCU entered our lexicon in a big way: 21 films released during the last ten years alone, amassing upward of $21 billion globally. Pop culture – its production, its marketing, its consumption – was changed forever, and even if the movies themselves weren’t always worthy of the footprint, at least Ryan Coogler’s was. Dense with creative production design and ‘Hamlet’-like intrigue, ‘Black Panther’ was the superhero movie ennobled. Wakanda forever.
Director: Ryan Coogler
Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman
Source: The best films of the 2010s: the 50 movies of the decade