My top 5 of the decade

2020 is here and the 2010s are over, so in this post, I´ll say which I consider being the 5 best movies of this decade, it´s just my opinion so they are not objectively the best movies of the decade, just my favorites. (They are all 10/10)

(this review contains SPOILERS of La La Land and Mommy)

5. Pride, Matthew Warchus, 2014.

This movie is about a group of gays and lesbians who create an association called LGSM (Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners) to start helping a miner town from Whales when they realize they all have the same enemy, Margaret Thatcher. Pride is a beautiful movie about acceptance and respect with lots of comedy, really good performances (everyone in this movie is brilliant) especially by George MacKay (who stars 1917), and Imelda Staunton.

4. Boyhood, Richard Linklater, 2014.

The production of this movie started in 2001 and ended in 2013, and the movie is basically Mason growing up, and we get to see every phase that he goes through, the movie starts when Mason is 6 and ends up with him in college. It´s a very beautiful and realistic movie about growing up, Patricia Arquette, who portraits Mason´s mother, does an amazing job with her performance, she even won an Oscar, and Ethan Hawke is also really good.

3. La La Land, Damien Chazelle, 2017.

I´m not a big fan of musicals but La La Land is an exception. This movie should have won the Best Picture Oscar, not Moonlight (which was also good, but La La Land was SO MUCH BETTER). Everything in this movie is perfect: the directing, the acting, the music, the cinematography, EVERYTHING. I can´t find any negative aspect and all I have for this movie is love. La La Land is a really moving film, always makes me sad when I watch it because the whole conclusion of the movie is that to achieve your aspirations you might have to give up somethings but you CAN achieve your aspirations and dreams, and I think that is really realistic, motivational and beautiful, because even though Mia and Sebastian don´t end up together they both achieve their dreams, and are happy.

2. Mommy, Xavier Dolan, 2014.

The first time I watched Mommy I spent the whole afternoon rewatching and rewatching the end scene, and a whole month listening to the soundtrack in a loop (especially "On ne change pas", which I know have an obsession for thanks to a scene in this marvelous movie). Mommy is a brilliant movie which tells the story of a woman who can´t keep up with his son´s ADHD, and how their lives will change (at least a bit) when they meet their neighbor Kyla, who is a very shy woman that starts helping Die (who is the mother of Steve, who is the main character) with Steve. The movie has some really powerful scenes especially the kitchen dance scene with "On ne change pas", which is probably my favorite scene in a movie ever, and obviously the end scene, which was both sad but still encouraging as you don´t really get to know if Steve dies when he jumps from the window or he reunites with Die, and all that scene with "Born To Die" by Lana del Rey in the background, Mommy definitely is a masterpiece.

1. Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig, 2018.

Along with Forrest Gump, Lady Bird is my favorite movie ever. Also, is a very special movie to me as it made my passion for movies start. Lady Bird is a movie about mother-daughter relationships and that weird period of time when you are not a child but neither an adult. The dialogues in this movie are probably the best and most realistic dialogues in a coming-of-age movie. The thing I like the most about Lady Bird is that is not a regular, basic and unoriginal coming-of-age movie (like most of the films in this genre) and that it doesn´t have the love story as the main plot, the main plot is how Lady Bird evolves and finds herself and who she wants to be. The movie talks about everything that concerns a regular teenager (love, friendship, sex, relationships, etc). Also, in the whole movie, there is not a scene in which you see the start of a conversation, all the conversations are already started and feel like someone just started recording some teens talking, which makes it really realistic. Lady Bird is amazing and everyone should watch it.