THE DECADE Andy Lea picks his top movies from the last years in cinema...

LYNNE Ramsay’s brutally beautiful crime thriller was one of those rare productions where everything came together.

Joaquin Phoenix’s jittery performance as a haunted hitman chimed beautifully with Thomas Townend’s amazing cinematography.

GARY Oldman bagged his first Oscar for Darkest Hour last year, but he was even better in John le Carré’s thriller.

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Thomas Alfredson distilled its huge cast and twisty, time-jumping plot into a riveting and refreshingly grown-up spy drama.

FOR decades, female comics had to settle for playing the adorable kook in cheesy rom-coms.

But Paul Feig let Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy off the leash for this comedy classic.

In the aeroplane scene the stars act as a tag team, body slamming us with zingy improvised lines and perfectly honed physical comedy.

AFTER finally putting Ben Affleck’s dour Batman out of his misery, DC Comics went back to the drawing board with a gritty origins story for his nemesis. Joaquin Phoenix is astonishing as a stand-up comic losing his mind in a crime-ridden Gotham City.

MARTIN Scorsese ended the decade in style with his epic The Irishman.

But his most entertaining film of the 2010s was this outrageous assault on the senses. Leonardo DiCaprio forces us to sympathise with the devil with a fab turn as Wall Street swindler Jordan Belfort.

“We don’t need another hero,” sang Tina Turner in Beyond Thunderdome, Mel Gibson’s final Mad Max flick. But Tom Hardy shoved those words down her throat with a charismatic turn in this heart-pounding reboot.