There was no question what movie would win the Best Animated Feature category at the 2018 Oscars. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.Ģ. He overcame a decade of roadblocks - recasting, location changes and creative resets (he explored the possibility of a 3D live-action version) - before achieving high-octane imaginative insanity. Its cinematic stats are jaw-dropping: Miller used 3,500 storyboards and took 480 hours of raw footage. The entire movie takes place over one absolutely bonkers chase sequence. In Miller's visionary post-apocalyptic Oz, they attempt to save "the wives," women selected for breeding, from the tyrannical Immortan Joe. Tom Hardy replaces Mel Gibson as the enigmatic Max, alongside the clear standout and heart of the film: Charlize Theron as the one-armed Imperator Furiosa. But listen, George Miller's fourth in the Mad Max series careens on as one of the best action movies of all time. We start at the top with a movie that did not win the Best Picture Oscar like many thought it would in 2016. Tom Hardy plays Max in Mad Max: Fury Road.
Here are our top 30 movies of the decade, ranked. You probably won't agree entirely with the results, but at the very least, on this one occasion, Boyhood beats Birdman. Simply look back at the last decade in movies and pluck out any gems you may have missed (you might surprise yourself).Īnd we can help you with this undertaking - an assembly of CNET staffers voted on the best movies of the 2010s, a time in cinema that provided big, bright and colorful spectacles, as well as smaller-scale indies that open windows into the lives of others and change us for the better.
If you've run out of new movies to watch during an evening in lockdown, there's an easy solution. This story is part of The 2010s: A Decade in Review, a series on the memes, people, products, movies and so much more that have influenced the 2010s.