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Never say that IndieWire’s **David Ehrlich** doesn’t go bold when so inspired. From another angle, he’s basically saying that **Paul Thomas Anderson**‘s *One Battle After Another*, which I haven’t seen and which may in fact be everything that Ehrlich says it is, is better, grander, deeper and more super-charged than the following 2010-and-later films….  **Roman Polanski**‘s *J’Accuse*, **Asghar Farhadi**‘s *A Separation*, **Bennett Miller**‘s *Moneyball*, **Kathryn Bigelow**‘s *Zero Dark Thirty*, **Steve McQueen**‘s *12 Years A Slave*, **Kenneth Lonergan**‘s *Manchester By The Sea*, **Luca Guadagnino**‘s *Call Me By Your Name*, **Ruben Ostlund**‘s *The Square*, **Paul Schrader**‘s *First Reformed*, **Kent Jones**‘ *Diane*, **David O. Russell**‘s *Silver Linings Playbook*, PLUS *The Irishman, Son of Saul, Leviathan, Joker, The Square, Moneyball, The Lighthouse, 12 Years A Slave, Dunkirk*. **Best of 2019**: *The Irishman, Joker, Les Miserables, The Lighthouse, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 1917, Marriage Story, Bombshell, Parasite, The Farewell* (10). **Best of 2018**: *Roma, Green Book, First Reformed, Cold War, Hereditary, Capernaum, Vice, Happy As Lazzaro, Filmworker, First Man, Widows, Sicario — Day of the Soldado*. (12). **Best of 2017**: *Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, Lady Bird, The Square, War For The Planet of the Apes, mother!, The Florida Project*. (7) **Best of 2016**: *Manchester By The Sea, A Bigger Splash, La La Land, The Witch, Eye in the Sky, The Confirmation, The Invitation*. (6) **Best of 2015**: *Spotlight, The Revenant; Mad Max: Fury Road; Beasts of No Nation; Love & Mercy, Son of Saul; Brooklyn; Carol, Everest, Ant-Man; The Big Short*. (10) **Best of 2014**: *Birdman, Citizen Four, Leviathan, Gone Girl, Boyhood, Locke, Wild Tales*. (7) **Best of 2013**: *The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years A Slave, Inside Llewyn Davis, Her, Dallas Buyers Club, Before Midnight, The Past, Frances Ha* (8). **Best of 2012**: *Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Linings Playbook, Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Barbara, The Grey, Moonrise Kingdom* (7). **Best of 2011** (ditto): *A Separation, Moneyball, Drive, Contagion, X-Men: First Class, Attack the Block* (6). **Best of 2010**: *The Social Network, The Fighter, Black Swan, Inside Job, Let Me In, A Prophet, Animal Kingdom, Rabbit Hole, The Tillman Story, Winter’s Bone* (10). Hey, maybe Ehrlich is 100% right\!