The 2010s will go down in the entertainment history books as the decade when mainstream movies got unfathomably big and🅘 online streaming supplanted cable and home video. But with so many more movies released than ever before, what films actually slipped under the radar? Better yet, 🔜what 2010s movies have we collectively all forgotten about?

As tentpole franchises with budgets amounting to hundreds of millions apiece ๊choked out theaters, a number of smaller movies with comparatively leaner price tags made their way to various streaming and Video on Demand platforms. While some of these “smaller” movies still drew attention, not all of them kept a lasting place in the wider consciousness. Sometimes, it feels like these movies were wiped from memory, even when they’re still right there on your streaming queues. 

Despite whatever critical acclaim and box office revenue they might 🎀have generated, these are 34 of the greatest movies between 2010 and 2019 that yoಌu might have forgotten about until just now.

34. Sleight (2016)

Lurking beneath the dominance of superhero blockbusters in the late 2010s, director J.D. Dillard made his feature-directing debut with his microbudget genre-bender Sleight. Teenager Bo (Jacob Latimore) lives a double life as an L.A. street magician - dazzling pedestrians with his tricks of levitation - and a low-level drug dealer for a crime kingpin. Eventually things escalate, and Bo must use his magic tricks to fend off his bloodthirsty crime boss (Dulé Hill). A riveting picture that effortlessly blends crime/revenge stories with coming-of-age and superhero origin conventionꦿs, Sleight is a quality experience that is n🦩o illusion.

31. Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Written and directed by S. Craig Zahler in his feature debut, Bone Tomahawk stars Kurt Russell as an Old West sheriff who leads a rescue mission to help townsfolk being held hostage by cannibalistic Native Americans. Despite how much Zahler’s movie plays with dated tropes about inꦍdigenous Americans, Bone Tomahawk is an exceptional example of Western and horror genre hybrids. Its haunted and moody aꦿtmosphere compliments its characters’ desperation for answers in an increasingly hostile open wilderness. Russell is especially great here, along with a cast that includes Patrick Wilson, David Arquette, and Matthew Fox.

30. Water for Elephants (2011)

Released during the height of Robert Pattinson’s Twilight-era fame, Water for Elephants features Pattinson co-starring in a handsome yet woefully overlooked period romance with an enchanting, if admittedly mismatched Reese Witherspoon. Based on a 2006 novel, the movie tells of a young med school dropout (Pattinson) who hops aboard a circus train and becomes engrossed in the circus world, as well as falling for one of its🦄 beautiful performers (Witherspoon). Though Witherspoon and Pattinson lack the precise chemistry for Water for Elephant🐷s to quench thirst, it is still a sweet romantic gem to remedy all who are lovesick.

29. About Time (2013)

Rachel McAdams seems to have a thing for falling for men who control time. After starring in 2009’s The Time Traveler’s Wife but before appearing in 2016’s Doctor Strange, McAdams was the object of affection for Domnhall Gleason in 2013&rsqꦫuo;s About Time. The movie, from director Richard Curtis, follows a young man (Gleason) who travels in time to engineer his happily-ever-after with a beautiful woman (McAdams). While critics and audiences found About Time’s loosey-goosey grasp with time travel frust🅰rating, it still succeeds as both a delightful rom-com and a warning against playing with fate. 

28. Apostle (2018)

In this mesmerizing goth action-horror from Gareth Evans, Dan Stevens plays a man from 1905 trying to rescue his sister from the clutches of a mysterious Satanic cult. While Apostle first appears to be fashioned in the style of most auste🉐re folk and cult horror movies, like The Wicker Man, The Witch, and Midsommar, its later explosions of violence reminds you that Evans was also the mastermind behind some of the greatest martial arts movies of the 2010s: Thℱe Raid duology. Evans’ surreal mixture of the two flavors combines into a fine instance of cinematic cuisine, conjuring both scares in its horror and fist-pumping excitement with its gruesome action.

27. Joshy (2016)

An understated com🦂edy-drama meditating on grief and inexplicable heartbreak, Thomas Middleditch plays a lonely man haunted by the sudden suicide of his fiance (Alison Brie in a “cameo” appearance) on his birthday. Months later, on the weekend that would have been his bachelor party, Josh’s friends try their best to give their buddy a new lease on life. While𒉰 Jeff Baena’s Joshy has been mostly forgotten in the grand scheme, it is a tight movie about the blurry lines separating love and resentment, and is overstuffed with comedy talent including Adam Pally, Nick Kroll, Brett Gelman, Jenny Slate, Aubrey Plaza, Jake Johnson, and even Paul Reiser.

26. Hold the Dark (2018)

In this snow-frosted action-thriller from Jeremy Saulnier, Jeffrey Wright plays a wolf expert who is asked by an Alaskan woman (Riley Keough) to seek out the wolves supposedly responsible for the disappearance of her young son. Things get more complicated - and far deadlier - after the woman’s husband (Alexander Skarsgård), a soldier, returns home from Iraq. Originally set for release by A24, and indeed the m😼ovie fits that studio’s established house style, it wound up being exclusive to Netflix, which perhaps explains its muted reception among subscribers who didn’t stumble upoꦉn it due to algorithms. 

25. Columbus (2017)

From film essayist Kogonada, his minimalist feature directing debut charts two passing souls, played by John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson, who meet in Columbus, Indiana, a working class town infamous for its concentration of modern architectural wonders. Metജhodical and beguiling, and powered by a soothing score from Hammock, Kogonada conjures a rare cinematic experience that raises burning questions about identity, familial relationships, and what t♏o do when we stand at the crossroads of life. Kogonada’s film gets a helpful layup from the city of Columbus itself, its famous buildings elegantly framed inside Kogonada’s lenses to foster feelings of wonder and introspection like few movies do. 

24. Rush (2013)

It’s hard to deem Rush a “forgotten” movie, being a critically acclaimed dramatic tentpole release that did modestly well at the box office. But with other race-oriented movies overtaking its place on the winners’ podium - movies like Ford v Ferrari (2019) and Ferrari (2023) - Rush doesn’t feel so fast and furious anymore. Still, it’s a worthy picture detai🥀ling the real-life rivalry of Formula One drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, played by Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl respectively, whose professional animosities leave them inhaling each other’s smoke during the 1976 season. With breakneck racing sequences and an enthralling story about one upmanship, Rush can still get the adrenaline running.

23. Beginners (2010)

In a galaxy far away, Ewan McGregor is the great Jedi Obi-Wan. But in a world closer to our own, he’s Oliver, a graphics illustrator haunted by broken relationships. While Oliver comes to grips with the de🏅ath of his father (Christopher Plummer), who spent his remaining years out of the closet as an openly homosexual man, he meets and starts falling for a French actress (Mélanie Laurent), herself informed by her own personal is🐎sues. Heartfelt and tender, Beginners shows that it’s never too late for any of us to start all over.

22. As Above/So Below (2014)

At the tail end of found footage studio horror movies, brothers John Erick and Drew Dowdle collaborated on their impressively muscular supernatural flick As Above, So Below. Set in the sprawling Catacombs of Paris - you know, those creepy tunnels with all the human skulls - the movie follows a group of young adults, led by aspiring archaeologist Scarlett (Perdita Weeks), as their hunt for ancient relics awakens something evil. In its blend of Indiana Jones-style adventuring wit🐎h Satanic horror, As Above, So Below rises above low expectations to serve as one of the last times Hollywood-produced found footage horror films raised real scares.

21. Ode to Joy (2019)

Base♛d on a true story reported by This American Life, Jason Winer’s Ode to Joy stars Martin Freeman as Charlie, a man stricken with cataplexy, a rare condition that leads to fainting from feeling strong emotions - in this case, joy. Life for Charlie gets difficult when he meets a beautiful free-sဣpirited woman (Morena Baccarin). Although critics didn’t pass out from Ode to Joy, Freeman proves himself a capable leading man in a rom-com that makes us believe love is worth, quite literally, falling for.

20. Bunraku (2010)

A stylish under-the-radar action movie with an arresting color palette and a star-studded cast, Guy Moshe’s Bunraku (a title sourced from traditional Japanese puppet theater) tells of a cowboy without a gun (Josh Hartnett) and a samurai without a sword (Japanese rock star Gackt) who team up on a quest of revenge against a feared crime lord known as “The Woodcutter” (Ron Perlman). Woody Harrelson, Kevin McKidd, and Demi Moore round out the movie, playing equally colorful characters who are as exaggerated as the movie’s unusual mise-en-scène. While Bunraku is a multi-genre hybrid blending Westerns, samurai, and crime epics - and a healthy dosage of pulp aesthetics - it is still so 💃singularly original, a movie that stands on its own two feet.

19. The Belko Experiment (2016)

In this gory workplace satire from writer 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Gunn and director Greg McLean, an American office staff working abroad in Colombia are suddenly forced into a violent challenge where they must kill each other until the last one stands - or else, they will all die. Think Mike Judge’s Office Space crossed with Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale, and you’re just about there. While not as provocative or iඣnsightful as it probably should be, The Belko Experiment makes for one hell of a good time in how much it sprinkles real gooey blood over𝕴 our dead-end office jobs. John Gallagher Jr. leads an ensemble that also includes Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, Sean Gunn, David Dastmalchian, and Michael Rooker.