Whenever I think about the 2010s, the first thing that comes to mind is how that decade made going to the movies extremely exciting. There were bigger franchises and bigger budget films. But the ones that stayed with me were not always the biggest or the most popular ones.
It was mostly a sharp script, or a great performance taking the edge. I love a movie that is entertaining and makes you glued to your seats for hours, and therefore, sometimes it was just that rare feeling of looking up at the end and realizing the time had gone by much faster than expected. Out of everything that came out during that decade, these ten are the ones I still find the most entertaining.
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‘The Nice Guys’ (2016)
The Nice Guys follows Holland March (Ryan Gosling), a private investigator who gets involved in a missing persons case tied to Amelia (Margaret Qualley). During the investigation, he crosses paths with Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe), whose methods differ sharply from March’s approach. Although their partnership starts with conflict, they eventually continue to work together after realizing that the situation surrounding Amelia connects to a larger series of events involving hidden information and multiple individuals searching for the same answers.
As the investigation develops, March and Healy move through different locations while finding links between people who are trying to hide what happened. Each discovery pushes them deeper into situations that become increasingly dangerous and difficult to control. At the same time, the contrast between their personalities continues to change how they respond to problems, which influences the progression of the story as well.
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‘Baby Driver’ (2017)
In Baby Driver, Baby (Ansel Elgort) works as a getaway driver for criminal operations that are organized by Doc (Kevin Spacey). To maintain focus and rhythm, he relies heavily on music during his work, using it as both a tool and a shield. Although he performs his role effectively, Baby longs to leave this environment behind and begin a quieter life. His situation begins to change after meeting Debora (Lily James), whose presence strengthens his desire to separate himself from the operations he continues participating in.
As Baby attempts to distance himself from these activities, he becomes increasingly trapped by obligations connected to Doc and the people working around him. With each operation, new risks arise that make leaving more difficult. Meanwhile, tensions within the group continue to grow as trust weakens between different people. Still, Baby keeps moving forward while searching for a way to escape the conditions that are somehow controlling his life.
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‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (2014)
In the story of The Grand Budapest Hotel, Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) works as the concierge of a famous hotel known for its structure and reputation. His routines depend on maintaining order within the hotel while also carefully managing the relationships with guests. After the death of Madame D. (Tilda Swinton), Gustave becomes involved in a dispute surrounding her will, especially after he unexpectedly inherits a valuable painting. This immediately creates conflict with members of her family who believe the inheritance should belong to them instead.
As the situation develops, Gustave and Zero (Tony Revolori) attempt to protect themselves while moving through different locations connected to the conflict. Each event changes the direction of the story while also maintaining the relationship between Gustave and Zero as the central part of the narrative.
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‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ (2018)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout begins with Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) as he receives a mission that involves stolen plutonium that could be used to carry out large-scale attacks. When the operation fails to proceed as planned, Ethan must continue to track those who are responsible while also managing the increasing pressure from intelligence organizations questioning his decisions. Alongside Luther (Ving Rhames) and Benji (Simon Pegg), he follows leads across different countries while attempting to prevent further escalation.
While continuing the mission, Ethan encounters different situations where personal loyalty and operational responsibility begin to conflict with one another. The presence of August Walker (Henry Cavill) further complicates the situation, as uncertainty grows related to their different objectives for the operation.
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road begins with Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) who is being captured by Immortan Joe’s men and taken back to the Citadel. At the same time, Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) drives one of Joe’s war rigs out into the desert. Very quickly, Joe realizes she has taken his five wives with her. That decision sets the entire film in motion. Furiosa is not heading out on a routine supply run. She is trying to get those women away from the man who has kept them imprisoned.
Max gets dragged into that chase almost by accident when he is strapped to Nux’s (Nicholas Hoult) car as a living blood bag. Once the storm passes and the convoy breaks apart, Max ends up with Furiosa and the others. She wants to reach the Green Place, the home she remembers from childhood. When they finally find it, it no longer exists. Instead of running farther into the desert, they turn around and drive back toward the Citadel, knowing Joe and his army will be waiting for them there.
5
‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ (2018)
Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is trying to settle into a new boarding school when he is bitten by a radioactive spider in an abandoned subway tunnel. Soon after that, he sees Spider-Man fighting the Kingpin’s machine beneath the city. During that fight, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) dies, and Miles is left holding a small device that Spider-Man wanted destroyed. He has powers now, though he has no idea how to use them, and he suddenly finds himself carrying a job he does not understand.
Things change when Miles meets another Peter Parker (Jake Johnson), older, tired, and from another universe. Then more Spider-People start arriving because Kingpin’s machine has pulled them into Miles’ world. Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), Spider-Man Noir (Nicolas Cage), Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn), and Spider-Ham (John Mulaney) are all trying to get home before the machine tears them apart. For most of the film, Miles is the one person nobody fully trusts. That only changes when he finally understands how to use his own powers and returns alone to help shut the machine down.
4
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ (2019)
Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a television actor in 1969 Los Angeles who has started losing the kind of roles that once made him popular. His closest companion is Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), his longtime stunt double, driver, and friend. Rick spends his days worrying that his career is slipping away while Cliff moves through the city more quietly, fixing antennas, driving around town, and picking Rick up when things go badly.
One of the film’s most important threads follows Rick during a day on the set of Lancer. He forgets his lines, panics in his trailer, and convinces himself he is falling apart. Then he walks back onto the set and suddenly delivers a scene that wins the respect of the people around him.
3
‘The Social Network’ (2010)
The Social Network starts after Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is dumped by Erica Albright (Rooney Mara). Angry and drunk, he goes back to his dorm room at Harvard and creates Facemash, a website that compares photos of female students. The site crashes parts of the university network and gets him into trouble, though it also brings him to the attention of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Armie Hammer) and Divya Narendra (Max Minghella), who want him to help build a social networking site for Harvard students.
Instead, Mark begins building TheFacebook with Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), who puts in the early money. The site spreads quickly beyond Harvard, and Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) soon enters the picture. Sean pushes Mark to think much bigger, while Eduardo starts getting pushed out of decisions he thought were shared. The film moves back and forth between the growth of Facebook and later legal depositions. By then, the story is about how Mark and Eduardo ended up on opposite sides of the table.
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‘Inception’ (2010)
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) makes a living by entering other people’s dreams and stealing information from inside their minds. At the beginning of Inception, he fails a job involving Saito (Ken Watanabe), though Saito gives him another offer. Instead of stealing an idea, Cobb must plant one. The target is Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy), whose father is dying. Saito wants Fischer to break up his father’s energy empire after inheriting it.
To do that, Cobb puts together a team. Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) handles planning, Ariadne (Elliot Page) designs the dream spaces, Eames (Tom Hardy) impersonates people inside the dreams, and Yusuf (Dileep Rao) provides the sedative strong enough to hold several dream layers at once. Their plan begins on a long flight where Fischer is put to sleep. Inside the dream, the team moves through a rainy city, then a hotel, then a snow fortress. At the same time, Cobb keeps being interrupted by memories of Mal (Marion Cotillard), his wife, who keeps appearing inside the dream and damaging the mission.
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‘Parasite’ (2019)
The Kim family lives in a small semi-basement apartment in Seoul. Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho), Chung-sook (Jang Hye-jin), Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik), and Ki-jung (Park So-dam) are struggling to make money when Ki-woo gets an opportunity to tutor the teenage daughter of the wealthy Park family. He forges university credentials and enters the house pretending to be a student from a better background than his own.
Once inside, the rest of the family slowly follows. Ki-jung gets hired as an art tutor for the Parks’ young son. Then they create a situation that gets the family driver fired, and Ki-taek takes his place. After that, they convince Mrs. Park to dismiss the longtime housekeeper, Moon-gwang (Lee Jung-eun), and Chung-sook is hired. For a while, the Kims believe they have pulled it off. Then Moon-gwang returns one rainy night and reveals that her husband has been secretly living in a hidden bunker beneath the house. From that moment, the story becomes much more dangerous for everyone involved.
Parasite
- Release Date
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May 30, 2019
- Runtime
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133 minutes
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Lee Sun-kyun
Park Dong-ik
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