As we enter the final month of the 2010s decade, I thought I would take a look back at some of my favorites from the last 10 years. Here are my favorite movies, documentaries, TV shows, music albums, and books released in the last decade.
Movies
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2011)
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, 2019)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016)
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)
The Rider (Chloé Zhao, 2018)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2014)
The Lost City of Z (James Gray, 2016)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
Inside Out (Pete Doctor, 2015)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)
Columbus (Kogonada, 2017)
Documentaries
O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, 2018)
The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders, 2014)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2013)
Faces Places (Agnes Varda and JR, 2017)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville, 2018)
The Central Park Five (Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, 2012)
The Overnighters (Jesse Moss, 2014)
Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof, Charlie Siskel, 2013)
Television
Mad Men (AMC, 2010-2015)
Friday Night Lights (NBC, 2010-2011)
Breaking Bad (AMC, 2010-2013)
The Leftovers (HBO, 2014-2017)
Downton Abbey (PBS, 2011-2015)
The Crown (Netflix, 2016-present)
Parenthood (NBC, 2010-2015)
Black Mirror (Netflix, 2011-present))
The Great British Baking Show (Netflix, 2013-present)
The Vietnam War (PBS, 2017)
Albums
Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues (2011)
The War on Drugs, A Deeper Understanding (2017)
Arcade Fire, The Suburbs (2010)
Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell (2015)
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
The Antlers, Familiars (2014)
The National, High Violet (2010)
Frank Ocean, Channel Orange (2012)
Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011)
Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
John Van Deusen, (I Am) Origami Pt. 2: Every Power Wide Awake (2018)
The Walkmen, Heaven (2012)
Over the Rhine, Meet Me At the Edge of the World (2013)
Beach House, 7 (2018)
Sandra McCracken, Psalms (2015)
Chance the Rapper, Coloring Book (2016)
Panda Bear, Tomboy (2011)
Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience (2013)
Radiohead, The King of Limbs (2011)
M83, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (2011)
Books
Lila by Marilynne Robinson (2014)
The Social Animal by David Brooks (2011)
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat (2012)
The Skeletons in God’s Closet by Joshua Ryan Butler (2014)
From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity by Kyle Harper (2013)
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K.A. Smith (2016)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (2018)
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire by Alan Kreider (2016)
Death by Living: Life is Meant to be Spent by N.D. Wilson (2013)
Surprised by Oxford: A Memoir by Carolyn Weber (2013)
The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything by Fred Sanders (2010)
The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb: Searching for Jesus’ Path of Power in a Church that Has Abandoned It by Kyle Strobel and Jamin Goggin (2017)
The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller (2011)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)
After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters by N.T. Wright (2012)
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism by Camille Paglia (2017)
When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson (2012)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014)
Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren (2016)
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff (2013)