HFCS Members Present: 10 Years, 10 Films, The Decade’s Delights

It is here — the end of both a year and a decade. To mark this epic occasion, we ask each of our critics to look back at the past 10 years and pick out the film that, to them, is a particular year’s crown jewel. The cherry on that certain twelvemonth sundae. So on, so forth.

Without further ado, the Houston Film Critics Society’s Best of the Decade list.

TJ Callahan

2010 — Despicable Me
2011 — The Help
2012 — Life of Pi
2013 — Saving Mr. Banks
2014 — Whiplash
2015 — Room
2016 — (tie) Hell or High Water; Hidden Figures
2017 — Get Out
2018 — Green Book
2019 — Joker

Dustin Chase

2010 — Inception
2011 — Take Shelter
2012 — The Impossible
2013 — Gravity
2014 — Interstellar
2015 — Room
2016 — The Revenant
2017 — Lion
2018 — Call Me By Your Name
2019 — The Aeronauts

James Cole Clay

2010 — The Social Network
2011 — Drive
2012 — The Master
2013 — Inside Llewyn Davis
2014 — Boyhood
2015 — Carol
2016 — The Lobster
2017 — Call Me By Your Name
2018 — Burning
2019 — Uncut Gems

Donna Copeland

2010 — Black Swan
2011 —
Drive
2012 —
Beasts of the Southern Wild
2013 —
12 Years A Slave
2014 —
Boyhood
2015 —
Ex Machina
2016 —
Hell or High Water
2017 —
The Shape of Water
2018 —
Black Panther
2019 —
Motherless Brooklyn

Brooke Corso

2010 — Inglorious Basterds
2011 — Inception
2012 — The Tree of Life
2013 — The Wolf of Wall Street
2014 — Birdman
2015 — Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 — Moonlight
2017 — Phantom Thread
2018 — A Star is Born
2019 — Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood

Jason Escamilla

2010 — Toy Story 3
2011 — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
2012 — Wreck-It Ralph
2013 — Frozen
2014 — Big Hero 6
2015 — Room
2016 — 10 Cloverfield Lane
2017 — Coco
2018 — Hereditary
2019 — Knives Out

Larry Harrison

2010 — True Grit
2011 — War Horse
2012 — Django Unchained
2013 — August: Osage County
2014 — Birdman
2015 — The Revenant
2016 — La La Land
2017 — The Shape of Water
2018 — Green Book
2019 — Marriage Story

Hunter Lanier

2010 — The Fighter
2011 — Midnight in Paris
2012 — Django Unchained
2013 — The Great Beauty
2014 — A Most Violent Year
2015 — Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 — Silence
2017 — Brawl in Cell Block 99
2018 — The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2019 — The Irishman

Nguyen Le

2010 — Animal Kingdom
2011 — Attack the Block
2012 — A Royal Affair
2013 — The Place Beyond the Pines
2014 — Big Hero 6
2015 — Macbeth
2016 — Arrival
2017 — Get Out
2018 — Annihilation
2019 — Parasite

Travis Leamons

2010 — The Social Network
2011 — A Separation
2012 — Killing Them Softly
2013 — Inside Llewyn Davis
2014 — Nightcrawler
2015 — Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 — Moonlight
2017 — Columbus
2018 — Shoplifters
2019 — Waves

Craig Lindsey

2010 — Toy Story 3
2011 — Certified Copy
2012 — Moonrise Kingdom
2013 — The Great Beauty
2014 — Two Days, One Night
2015 — Chi-Raq
2016 — O.J.: Made in America
2017 — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 — If Beale Street Could Talk
2019 — The Farewell

Kiko Martinez

2010 — The Social Network
2011 — Moneyball
2012 — The Master
2013 — Inside Llewyn Davis
2014 — Boyhood
2015 — Spotlight
2016 — Manchester By the Sea
2017 — Phantom Thread
2018 — Vice
2019 — Marriage Story

Dave Morales

2010 — The Social Network
2011 — The Help
2012 — Moonrise Kingdom
2013 — Frozen
2014 — Whiplash
2015 — Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 — La La Land
2017 — Get Out
2018 — Black Panther
2019 — Avengers: Endgame

Kevin Ranson

2010 — The Social Network
2011 —
The Artist
2012 —
The Avengers
2013 —
her
2014 —
The Babadook
2015 —
Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 —
Arrival
2017 —
Get Out
2018 —
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2019 —
 Jojo Rabbit

James Roberts

2010 — Black Swan
2011 — Drive
2012 — Beasts of the Southern Wild
2013 — Before Midnight
2014 — Birdman
2015 — Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 — The Witch
2017 — Blade Runner 2049
2018 — The Favourite
2019 — Marriage Story

Adam Sanders

2010 — The Social Network
2011 — Midnight in Paris
2012 — Holy Motors
2013 — Inside Llewyn Davis
2014 — Nightcrawler
2015 — Inside Out
2016 — Embrace of the Serpent
2017 — Blade Runner 2049
2018 — Shoplifters
2019 — The Irishman

Chris Sawin

2010 — I Saw the Devil
2011 — Dragon
2012 — Holy Motors
2013 — Snowpiercer
2014 — What We Do in the Shadows
2015 — The Boy and the Beast
2016 — Swiss Army Man
2017 — Blade of the Immortal
2018 — Isle of Dogs
2019 — Weathering With You

Mark Schumann

2010 — The Social Network
2011 — The Tree of Life
2012 — Django Unchained
2013 — 12 Years A Slave
2014 — Boyhood
2015 — Carol
2016 — Moonlight
2017 — Lady Bird
2018 — Roma
2019 — Parasite

Joshua Starnes

2010 — Carlos
2011 — The Tree of Life
2012 — Zero Dark Thirty
2013 — The Unknown Known
2014 — Whiplash
2015 — The Big Short
2016 — O.J.: Made in America
2017 — Lady Bird
2018 — A Bread Factory
2019 — For Sama

Cody Villafana

2010 — 127 Hours
2011 — Moneyball
2012 — Zero Dark Thirty
2013 — Inside Llewyn Davis
2014 — Boyhood
2015 — Spotlight
2016 — Manchester By The Sea
2017 — Logan
2018 — Vice
2019 — Marriage Story

Lisa Wellington

2010 — The King's Speech
2011 — Take Shelter
2012 — Argo
2013 — 12 Years A Slave
2014 — The Imitation Game
2015 — The Martian
2016 — Hell or High Water
2017 — The Florida Project
2018 — Free Solo
2019 — Hotel Mumbai