Saleem’s Top Best & Worst Movie List of the 2010s

Important Tips:

1. This article is specifically tailored to the 2010s era spotlighting the movies that stood out to me the most (for better or worst). If you'd like to check out a more broader timeline where I've listed virtually every movie that I've ever seen and rated to the best of my memory, you can find it on the Saleem's Movie Ratings blog. 

2. Every movie displayed on the "Top Best" lists in this article was rated no lower than an 8/10 on the aforementioned Movie Ratings blog. However, keep in mind that not that every single movie that I've ever given an 8/10 to will necessarily appear here unless, as stated before, that particular movie stood out to me personally. As for the "Top Worst" lists, these are movies that I felt were unquestionably bad obtaining a rating from 5/10 and below.

3. Movies listed under "Underrated Gems" are likely rated a 6/10 or higher. These are movies that I felt were either criminally overlooked or just simply not given the wider or long term acclaim that it deserved. As for the Disappointing Movies list, these are titles that may not all necessarily be "bad" per se as some of them can range anywhere from being terrible to highly entertaining. This specific category is simply meant for movies that didn't live up to a certain level of expectations or hope that I had going in.

[2010]

Top Best Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. The A-Team

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. The Town

2. Buried

3. 127 Hours

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Inception

2. Monsters

3. The Troll Hunter

-Horror

1. The Crazies

2. Paranormal Activity 2

-Comic Book

1. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World

1. The King’s Speech

2. The Social Network

-Drama|Romance

1. The King’s Speech

2. The Social Network

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. Get Him To The Greek

2. Machete

-Animation

1. Toy Story 3 

Top Worst Movies

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Skyline

2. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

3. The Last Airbender

-Horror

1. The Last Exorcism

2. Devil

3. The Final

-Video Game

1. Tekken

2. Resident Evil: Afterlife

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. Dinner with the Schmucks

Top Most Disappointing Movies

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Tron Legacy

2. Clash of the Titans

-Comic Book

1. Ironman 2

-Video Game

1. Prince of Persia

Top Underrated Gems

-Action|Adventure

1. The A-Team

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. The American

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Monsters

2. Troll Hunter

-Horror

1. Frozen

-Comic Book

1. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. Machette

2. Rubber

[2011]

Top Best Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. Drive

2. Fast Five

3. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Hugo

2. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

-Horror

1. Fright Night

2. Paranormal Activity 3

-Comic Book

1. X-Men: First Class

-Drama|Romance

1. Take Shelter

2. 50/50

Top Worst Movies

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Sucker Punch

2. The Darkest Hour

-Horror

1. Evil Things

2. Quarantine 2

-Comic Book

1. Green Lantern

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. Jack & Jill

Top Most Disappointing Movies 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Transformers: The Dark of the Moon

2. Sucker Punch

-Horror

1. The Thing

-Comic Book

1. Green Lantern

Top Underrated Gems

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Battle: Los Angeles

2. Super 8

3. Another Earth

-Horror

1. Insidious

2. Fright Night (2011)

-Drama|Romance

1. Everything Must Go

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. Your Highness

-Animation

1. Rango

[2012]

Top Best Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. Skyfall

2. The Raid Redemption 

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. Argo

2. The Grey

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Looper

2. Beasts of the Southern Wild

3. The Hobbit

4. Total Recall (2012)

5. Cloud Atlas

6. Dredd

-Horror

1. Cabin in the Woods

-Comic Book

1. The Avengers

2. The Dark Knight Rises

-Drama|Romance

1. The Impossible 

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. 21 Jump Street

2. Seven Psychopaths

-Western

1. Django Unchained 

Top Worst Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. Taken 2

-Horror

1. REC 3: Genesis

2. The Collection

-Comic Book

1. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

-Video Game

1. Resident Evil: Retribution - 3/10

2. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D - 3/10

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. The Three Stooges

Top Most Disappointing Movies 

-Action|Adventure

1. Bourne Legacy

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Prometheus

-Horror

1. REC 3: Genesis

-Comic Book

1. The Dark Knight Rises

Top Underrated Gems

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. The Grey 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Total Recall (2012)

2. Cloud Atlas

3. Dredd

-Horror

1. The Bay

2. Maniac (2012)

3. Excision

4. Cabin in the Woods

5. V/H/S

-Comic Book

1. Justice League: Doom

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. Seven Psychopaths

2. Casa De Mi Padre

[2013]

Top Best Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. Fast & Furious 6 

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. American Hustle 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Gravity

2. Star Trek: Into Darkness

3. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

-Horror

1. The Conjuring

2. Insidious: Chapter 2

3. Evil Dead

-Comic Book

1. Ironman 3

2. Man of Steel

3. Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. This Is The End

Top Worst Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. A Good Day to Die Hard 

-Horror

1. Texas Chainsaw 3D

2. Dark Skies

3. Curse of Chucky

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. The Wolf of Wall Street 

Top Most Disappointing Movies 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Pacific Rim

-Comic Book

1. Thor: The Dark World

2. The Wolverine

Top Underrated Gems

-Action|Adventure

1. G.I. Joe: Retaliation 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Oblivion 

-Horror

1. Evil Dead 

2. V/H/S 2

3. The Last Days on Mars 

4. Insidious: Chapter 2

5. World War Z

-Comic Book

1. The Wolverine

2. Thor: The Dark World

3. Ironman 3

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. Warm Bodies

2. This Is The End

3. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

[2014]

Top Best Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. The Raid 2: Berandal

2. John Wick

3. Exodus: Gods and Kings

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. Enemy

2. Nightcrawler

3. Gone Girl

4. The Guest

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Edge of Tomorrow

2. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

3. Snowpiercer

4. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

5. Interstellar

-Horror

1. Under the Skin

2. The Babadook

-Comic Book

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 

2. X-Men: Days of Future Past 

3. Guardians of the Galaxy

4. Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

5. Batman: Assault on Arkham

6. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For 

-Drama|Romance

1. Birdman

2. Chef

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel 

-Animation

1. Lego Movie

-War

1. American Sniper

2. '71

Top Worst Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. Lucy

2. Taken 3

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Transformers: Age of Extinction

-Horror

1. The Dammed

2. Leprechaun: Origins

3. Annabelle 

4. Extraterrestrial

5. Jessabelle 

6. As Above, So Below

7. V/H/S: Viral

8. The Pyramid

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. Inherent Vice

2. The Hungover Games

Top Most Disappointing Movies 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2. Transformers: Age of Extinction

-Horror

1. REC 4: Apocalypse

2. Annabelle 

3. V/H/S: Viral

4. Jessabelle

Top Underrated Gems

-Action|Adventure

1. '71

2. Exodus: Gods and Kings

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. The Guest 

2. Gone Girl 

3. Non Stop 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Godzilla (2014)

2. Snowpiercer

3. Hercules

4. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

5. Dracula: Untold

-Horror

1. Under the Skin

2. The Babadook

3. The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears

-Comic Book

1. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

2. Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

3. 300: Rise of an Empire

-Drama|Romance

1. Chef

2. Frank

-War

1. Fury

[2015]

Top Best Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. Mad Max: Fury Road

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. Sicario

2. Bridge of Spies

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Ex Machina

2. The Martian

3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

-Horror

1. It Follows

2. Area 51

-Comic Book

1. Avengers: Age of Ultron

2. Ant-Man

-Drama|Romance

1. Spotlight

-Animation

1. Inside Out

-Western

1. The Revenant

2. The Hateful Eight

Top Worst Movies

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Jupiter Ascending

2. Terminator: Genisys

3. Seventh Son

-Horror

1. The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death

2. Demonic

3. The Lazarus Effect

4. The Green Inferno

5. Sinister 2

6. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

-Comic Book

1. Fantastic Four

Top Most Disappointing Movies 

-Action|Adventure

1. Spectre

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Monsters: Dark Continent

2. Terminator: Genisys

-Horror

1. Crimson Peak

2. Insidious Chapter 3

3. The Green Inferno

-Comic Book

1. Fantastic Four 

2. Avengers: Age of Ultron 

Top Underrated Gems

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. Bridge of Spies

2. Black Mass

-Horror

1. Area 51

2. It Follows 

3. Bone Tomahawk 

4. Spring

5. Unfriended

  

-Comic Book

1. Ant-Man

-Drama|Romance

1. Spotlight 

[2016]

Top Best Movies

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. Imperium

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. The Jungle Book

2. Arrival

3. Passengers

4. A Monster Calls

5. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

-Horror

1. The Witch

2. The Autopsy of Jane Doe

-Comic Book

1. Deadpool

2. Captain America: Civil War

-Drama|Romance

1. Silence

-Animation

1. Kubo and the Two Strings

-War

1. Hacksaw Ridge

Top Worst Movies

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. Regression

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Independence Day: Resurgence

-Horror

1. The Boy

2. The Neon Demon

3. The Midnight Man

-Comic Book

1. Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (Theatrical Cut)

-Video Game

1. Assassin's Creed

-Animation

1. Sausage Party

Top Most Disappointing Movies 

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. Regression

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. 10 Cloverfield Lane

-Horror

1. Blair Witch

-Comic Book

1. Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (Theatrical Cut)

2. X-Men: Apocalypse

3. Suicide Squad

4. Doctor Strange

5. The Killing Joke

-Video Game

1. Assassin's Creed 

Top Underrated Gems

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. Imperium 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Shin Godzilla 

2. Passengers

3. A Monster Calls

-Horror

1. The Shallows

2. The Autopsy of Jane Doe 

3. Ouija: Origin of Evil

-Drama|Romance

1. Silence

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. The Nice Guys

-Animation

1. Kubo and the Two Strings

[2017]

Top Best Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. John Wick: Chapter 2 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. War for the Planet of the Apes

2. The Shape of Water

-Horror

1. Get Out

-Comic Book

1. The Lego Batman Movie 

2. Logan

3. Wonder Woman

4. Thor: Ragnarok

5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

-War

1. Dunkirk

Top Worst Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. Atomic Blonde

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. The Snowman 

2. Death Note

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Transformers: The Last Knight

2. Beyond Skyline

-Horror

1. XX 

2. The Void

3. Phoenix Forgotten 

4. Annabelle Creation

5. Jeepers Creepers 3

6. Leatherface

7. Mother!

8. Cult of Chucky

-Video Game

1. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. Killing Gunther

Top Most Disappointing Movies 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Ghost In The Shell

2. Kong: Skull Island

3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi 

4. Bright

5. Power Rangers

 

-Horror

1. The Void

2. XX

3. Jeepers Creepers 3

4. Veronica

-Comic Book

1. Justice League

Top Underrated Gems

-Action|Adventure

1. Baby Driver

2. The Villainess 

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. Wind River 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Blade Runner 2049

-Horror

1. Life

-Animation

1. Loving Vincent

-Western

1. Hostiles

[2018]

Top Best Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. Upgrade

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Annihilation

2. Bumblebee

-Horror

1. A Quiet Place

2. Hereditary

-Comic Book

1. Black Panther

2. Avengers: Infinity War

3. Deadpool 2

4. Aquaman 

5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Top Worst Movies

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. The Predator

-Horror

1. Still/Born

2. The Strangers: Prey At Night

3. Truth or Dare

4. Mandy

Top Most Disappointing Movies 

-Action|Adventure

1. Sicario: Day of the Sildado

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. The Cloverfield Paradox

2. The Predator

3. Pacific Rim: Uprising

-Horror

1. Halloween (2018)

2. The Nun

3. The Strangers: Prey At Night

-Comic Book

1. Venom

Top Underrated Gems

-Action|Adventure

1. Upgrade

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Annihilation

2. Anon

3. Solo: A Star Wars Story

[2019]

Top Best Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum

-Mystery|Crime|Thriller

1. Knives Out 

-Horror

1. The Lighthouse

2. Midsommar

-Comic Book

1. Avengers: Endgame

2. Joker

3. Spider-Man: Far From Home

-Comedy|Romantic-Comedy

1. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 

-Animation

1. Toy Story 4 

-War

1. 1917 

Top Worst Movies

-Action|Adventure

1. Polar

-Horror

1. Velvet Buzzsaw 

2. The Perfection 

3. The Curse of La Llorona

4. The Prodigy

-Comic Book

1. Hellboy

Top Most Disappointing Movies 

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. Godzilla: King of Monsters 

2. Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker 

-Horror

1. Annabelle Comes Home

-Comic Book

1. Hellboy 

2. Dark Phoenix

3. Captain Marvel

Top Underrated Gems

-Science-Fiction|Fantasy

1. I Am Mother

2. Alita: Battle Angel 

-Horror

1. Midsommar 

-Animation

1. Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus