A permanently incomplete list of my favorite movies of the 2010s

One last blast of list-o-mania (not to be confused with Lisztomania, the 1975 Ken Russell movie about Franz Liszt starring Roger Daltrey that I have not yet seen) for 2019. Since 2003, I've written down every movie I see on the big screen in a little notebook. For reasons of maintaining partial sanity, I do not do this for movies I see on Blu-ray, DVD, VHS, streaming services, TV, other electrical devices real or imaginary, corneal implants, hallucinations, or neighbors' open windows. So, here is a permanently incomplete list of my favorite movies of the recently deceased decade that I saw in a theater, which rules out all the stuff I watched at home and all the stuff I missed and all the stuff that never screened in Austin and all future 2010s favorites I may stumble upon in the years to come, and it rules out my favorite filmed "thing" of the entire 2010s, David Lynch and Mark Frost's return to Twin Peaks. (Pouring one out on the curb for other excluded faves Atlantics, Almayer's Folly, Butter on the Latch, and Trash Humpers.)

My harsh but fair criteria for any movie making the brutal final cull:
1) I had to see it in a theater
2) Images from it regularly haunt my waking dreams (yeah, the 2019 movies have an advantage here, but I've also had less time to live with them)
3) It plugged me back into my own life, which is constantly being numbed by stupid shit like jobs and traffic and the Internet

MY FAVORITE MOVIES OF THE 2010s

3 Faces (Jafar Panahi, 2018, US release 2019)
Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)
Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - The Restless One/Volume 2 - The Desolate One/Volume 3 - The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes, 2015)
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, 2018, US release 2019)
Bastards (Claire Denis, 2013)
Bernie (Richard Linklater, 2011)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski, 2013)
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011)
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz, 2011)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison, 2016)
The Dead Don't Die (Jim Jarmusch, 2019)
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra, 2016)
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater, 2016)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson, 2015)
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2016)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki, 2011)
High Life (Claire Denis, 2018, US release 2019)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014)
I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018)
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard, 2018, US release 2019)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019)
The Kid with a Bike (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2011)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011)
Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik, 2012)
Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018, US release 2019)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018)
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz, 2010)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)
Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)
The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
Madeline's Madeline (Josephine Decker, 2018)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, 2014)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
Melancholia (Lars Von Trier, 2011)
Milford Graves Full Mantis (Jake Meginsky & Neil Cloaca Young, 2018)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman, 2015)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismaki, 2017)
The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles, 2018)
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara, 2014, US release 2019)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012)
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies, 2016)
Rat Film (Theo Anthony, 2016)
Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016)
Sun Don't Shine (Amy Seimetz, 2012)
Sunset Song (Terence Davies, 2015)
Taxi (Jafar Panahi, 2015)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky, 2011)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie, 2019)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
The We and the I (Michel Gondry, 2011)
Wiener-Dog (Todd Solondz, 2016)
Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, 2010)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017)