Best Crime movies of 2010s that are award winners or nominees

Spotlight(2015)

Combined Rating:
95
Combined Critics Rating: 94

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.



American Hustle(2013)

Combined Rating:
94
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.



Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri(2017)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 92

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.



BlacKkKlansman(2018)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 90

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.



The Wolf of Wall Street(2013)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 83

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.



Promising Young Woman(2020)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.



The Hateful Eight(2015)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.



The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2011)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.



Joker(2019)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker.



Nocturnal Animals(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A wealthy art gallery owner receives a draft of her ex-husband's new novel, and once she starts reading it she just cannot put it down.



Big Eyes(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.



If Beale Street Could Talk(2018)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.