Top five of the last ten years

[philamental]

As my ratings currently stand ...

The Dark Knight
Hot Fuzz
Mad Max: Fury Road
Zodiac

I then have four tied on the same rating for 5th spot

Grand Budapest Hotel
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
The Lego Movie
Ratatouille

Which I would probably rank in that order if pushed.

[karatoprak]

Having changed a bit from my actual film list:

The Turin Horse (2011)
The Great Beauty (2013)
Kış Uykusu (2014)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Dogtooth (2009)

[TheDenizen]

Inception
The Raid 2
Ai no Mukidashi (Love Exposure)
God Bless America
The Hateful Eight

[AFlickering]

documentaries:
1) into eternity
2) this is not a film
3) museum hours
4) the act of killing
5) at berkeley
6) my winnipeg

i'm great at counting

[astrakhan]

Based on my Criticker scores:
1. Polisse (2011)
2. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
3. Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)
4. The Secret of Kells (2009)
5. Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)

My list surprises me, they aren't the films I've thought about most, or revisited, but rather the ones that elicited the most gushing positive reactions from me upon viewing. Still, a fine set to be stuck on a desert island with.

[Okkervil]

There Will Be Blood
Ai no mukidashi
Okuribito
Take Shelter
The Grand Budapest Hotel

[lisa-]

1. melancholia
2. the turin horse
3. synecdoche new york
4. house of tolerance
5. imburnal

as for documentaries, or "documentaries":

1. berlin, berlin (2009)
2. encounters at the end of the world
2. it felt like a kiss
2. material (2009)
2. nostalgia for the light
2. the real life (2013)

yeah, that's a lot of ties. deal with it.

anyway, the most important things for me are the formal audiovisual aspects, affective power, and genuine creative intent. and by the latter i mean that if i feel that the director is "faking" it, for whatever inexplicable reason, then i will probably hate their movies.

[djross]

How might one go about seeing the films of Arnaud Gerber? Or Imburnal?

[lisa-]

berlin, berlin is available here: http://dafilms.com/director/8776-arnaud-gerber/

pretty sure i got the other gerber and imburnal from a private tracker...

[Anomaly]

I haven't seen all of the recent highly acclaimed films (especially those form Europe and Asia), so maybe a bit biased towards the first half of the decade:

There Will Be Blood (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Let the Right One In (2008)
The Tree of Life (2011)