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Well by the same token there’s generally a lot of recency bias in online film conversations. All of the films I have seen on the list fit. Art forms can degrade or at least not progress enough to contribute to the “canon”.
What would you add from recent film?
From mainstream cinema the matrix and the dark night come to mind quickly.
Rolling Stone posted up the 50 best of the 2010s:
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-movies-decade-2010s-910770/moonlight-2016-910972/
Roger Ebert.com did a top 25 here:
https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-best-films-of-the-2010s