In January 2015 British newspaper The Guardian published a list of the 50 best films of the decade so far, which were chosen by critic and writer, Peter Bradshaw. Bradshaw’s list is supposed to consider what trends are emerging in cinema. The films appear to be listed in no particular order.
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- The Headless Woman
(dir. Lucrecia Martel)
- Lourdes
(dir. Jessica Hausner)
- Samson & Delilah
(dir. Warwick Thornton)
- Kick-Ass
(dir. Matthew Vaughn)
- Dogtooth
(dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Four Lions
(dir. Chris Morris)
- Toy Story 3
(dir. Lee Unkrich)
- The Maid
(dir. Sebastián Silva)
- Enter The Void
(dir. Gaspar Noé)
- Exhibition
(dir. Joanna Hogg)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Animal Kingdom
(dir. David Michôd)
- How I Ended This Summer
(dir. Aleksey Popogrebskiy)
- Le Quattro Volte
(dir. Michelangelo Frammartino)
- Bridesmaids
(dir. Paul Feig)
- A Separation
(dir. Asghar Farhadi)
- The Tree of Life (dir. Terrence Malick)
- Kill List
(dir. Ben Wheatley)
- Poetry
(dir. Lee Chang-dong)
- Wuthering Heights
(dir. Andrea Arnold)
- Margaret
(dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
- Dreams of a Life
(dir. Carol Morley)
- The Artist
(dir. Michel Hazanavicius)
- Amour
(dir. Michael Haneke)
- The Master
(dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Leviathan
(dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
(dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
- This Is Not a Film
(dir. Jafar Panahi)
- Ted
(dir. Seth MacFarlane)
- The Great Beauty
(dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
- The Act of Killing
(dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)
- Only God Forgives (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
- I Wish (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
- The Selfish Giant (dir. Clio Barnard)
- Blue Jasmine (dir. Woody Allen)
- Blue Is the Warmest Colour (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche)
- Winter of Discontent (dir. Ibrahim el-Batout)
- Django Unchained (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
- Frozen (dirs. Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee)
- 12 Years a Slave (dir. Steve McQueen)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (dir. Wes Anderson)
- Under the Skin (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
- A Touch of Sin (dir. Jia Zhang-ke)
- Boyhood (dir. Richard Linklater)
- Norte, the End of History (dir. Lav Diaz)
- Ida (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski)
- Mr Turner (dir. Mike Leigh)
- Birdman (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- Citizenfour (dir. Laura Poitras)
- The Headless Woman
(dir. Lucrecia Martel)
(dir. Jessica Hausner)
(dir. Warwick Thornton)
(dir. Matthew Vaughn)
(dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
(dir. Chris Morris)
(dir. Lee Unkrich)
(dir. Sebastián Silva)
(dir. Gaspar Noé)
(dir. Joanna Hogg)
(dir. David Michôd)
(dir. Aleksey Popogrebskiy)
(dir. Michelangelo Frammartino)
(dir. Paul Feig)
(dir. Asghar Farhadi)
(dir. Ben Wheatley)
(dir. Lee Chang-dong)
(dir. Andrea Arnold)
(dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
(dir. Carol Morley)
(dir. Michel Hazanavicius)
(dir. Michael Haneke)
(dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
(dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev)
(dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
(dir. Jafar Panahi)
(dir. Seth MacFarlane)
(dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
(dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)Bradshaw has been chief film critic at The Guardian since 1999, and is a contributing editor at Esquire. He is a regular guest reviewer on the Film… programme broadcast on BBC One and has been shortlisted four times at the British Press Awards in the Critic Of The Year category, in 2001, 2007, 2013 and 2014, gaining “Highly Commended” on this last occasion.