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

Spy(2015)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.



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.



A Most Violent Year(2014)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 84

In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.



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.



Animal Kingdom(2010)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A seventeen year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.



Salt(2010)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.



Molly's Game(2017)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.



RED(2010)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.



J. Edgar(2011)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.



Richard Jewell(2019)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 80

American security guard Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists and the press who falsely reported that he was a terrorist.



War Dogs(2016)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.



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.



The Report(2019)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.



All the Money in the World(2017)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 81

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.



The Judge(2014)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family.



Motherless Brooklyn(2019)

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Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.



The Tourist(2010)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.



Loving Vincent(2017)

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Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 71

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.



Can You Ever Forgive Me?(2018)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 90

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. An adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer Lee Israel.




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